When do you start to notice the first signs of your disease? Did you go to the doctor or did your disease get gradually worse until you had to?
Friend told me she thought I needed help when I involved her during an episode of mine. I was horrified that she thought I was crazy. I didnât get help for it until like 3-4 years later when I had stewed over it quite a bit and finally accepted that I probably had psychosis.
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In kindergarten and then again when I was in the 4th grade. Then it didnât seem to be an issue until adolescence when I received my first counseling. Not a full blown psychosis until I failed in grad school.
did your counselor miss diagnose you or did you not realize the complexity of your symptoms when you first received counseling?
My counselor was the local family physician who was also friends of the family. This pretty much doomed any efforts made for my progress. At the same time he misdiagnosed and mismedicated a thyroid condition that I didnât have. I do recommend that you never try to socialize with professionals. It messes everything up.
When did you start to realize that you were psychotic if you dont mind me asking?
I donât think a person in psychosis realizes theyâre psychotic at the time. When we get over a psychosis, it is usually forgotten as it is too painful to think about. I do get occasional, painful flashbacks, but thatâs all.
I first noticed signs something was wrong when I was 13. I had years of untreated anxiety attacks and voices until I had a breakdown at 18. A few months after that when in hospital the second time I was diagnosed with sz. That was 14 years ago. Since then my illness has been on and off but always lurking in the background.
Company I did work for made me go see their Doctor, which ended me in hospital. at the time I thought they set the ward up just for me and it was a trick, but went along with it, took about a 2 years after that and a rough road to figure it out
I had sudden onset. My âprodromalâ phase was very fast. In late May of 2015 I began to âknowâ I was being watched in a big way. Like âreality showâ watched. Then in early June, I began to know people were communicating with my brain. On June 15 I knew that my brain was being controlled and I was being monitored and watched as well. I had a major psychotic episode (brain control) and ended up in the hospital for the first time. I have been medicated and going to therapy since then. I have delusional disorder.
I knew I was different my entire life, but I never suspected I had psychosis. I just thought I had really bad OCD. I started hearing voices at 14, but both of my brothers also heard voices, so I thought it was totally normal. I didnât figure it out until I was 24. I was in the middle of a two-year-long psychotic break, and my friend, who was studying psychology at the time, told me I should get tested for schizophrenia. So I did, and the rest is history!
Different stories here with some common elements. About my story, itâs similar to some of you, I have had this illness since I was 7, I always knew I was different from the others but never suspected sz until I was 19 and went to see a pdoc, but I wasnât honest with him and he diagnosed me with âdepressionâ.
I was depressed even as a young kid but it was my senior year of high school when I was 17 or 18 that I really began to realize things were going wrong for me. I was becoming manic for the first time, becoming very reckless and eventually would start hearing voices. It was quite a turbulent time for me.
Back in April 1998 in America when I was in one office and I started hearing voices âYou are with the devilâ, I knew I had psz.
In 1999 I had all kinds of voices, Bill Clinton said âyou are lowâ âput that pen downâ and so on, once I went to one bookstore in America and I purchased Quran and then voices said âyou are stupidâ, things like that, my situation was very difficult then, I was just a legal alien in America, very difficult it was. Could not tell anybody.