# Causes of sz/sza **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [October 17, 2026, 12:08pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513 "2026-10-17T12:08:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![San-Pierre](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/san-pierre/32/8100_2.png) [@San-Pierre](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/San-Pierre)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 12:08pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/1 "2026-10-17T12:08:50Z")
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**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/2 "2026-10-17T14:06:27Z")
Good information to know. Thanks for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85e7bf/32.png) [@walter](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/walter)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/3 "2026-10-17T14:53:54Z")
I had experienced 4 certain birth complications, oxygen deprivation. ---
**Author:** ![Jabrown1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/jabrown1/32/15923_2.png) [@Jabrown1](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Jabrown1)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/4 "2026-10-17T15:01:15Z")
3,5 and 6. ---
**Author:** ![POET](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/poet/32/485_2.png) [@POET](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/POET)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/5 "2026-10-17T21:04:16Z")
i dont know for sure but when i look at my baby pictures, i look oxygen deprived… ive always thought that. ---
**Author:** ![Mountain](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/mountain/32/1728_2.png) [@Mountain](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Mountain)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/6 "2026-10-17T21:30:00Z")
I really dont know what it could be. My doctor said it could be a genetic susceptibility as listed above, but I was going through a lot. I suddenly had second thoughts on my identity, and that turned into a lot of overthinking and development of delusions and strange beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![greeneyedtreefrog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/greeneyedtreefrog/32/15823_2.png) [@greeneyedtreefrog](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/greeneyedtreefrog)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/7 "2026-10-17T21:33:45Z")
There are other things too, like toxoplasmosis gondii, brain inflammation, damage to frontal lobe, lack of mylenation and synaptic pruning. ---
**Author:** ![greenlife231](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/greenlife231/32/257_2.png) [@greenlife231](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/greenlife231)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 2:18am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/8 "2026-10-18T02:18:00Z")
I have two Sz friends whose Sz symptoms were triggered by weight loss drugs. ---
**Author:** ![walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85e7bf/32.png) [@walter](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/walter)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/9 "2026-10-18T04:21:57Z")
My grandmother told me that after I was born, I couldn’t cry and the nurse or doctors clapped on my back to stimulate me to cry. I think now, maybe that was the cause of me oxygen deprivation. ---
**Author:** ![bobbilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bobbilly](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/bobbilly)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 5:58am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/10 "2026-10-18T05:58:10Z")
I think mine is 6 because of all the ketamine I consumed in India when I was 23. I seen the Buddha in a khole very vividly and since then my delusions and psychosis has very much been religious based, Buddhist philosophy grandiose ideations. But I have a sister with treatment resistant schizophrenia, who’s never done drugs. So it might be hereditary? ---
**Author:** ![firemonkey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/firemonkey/32/1229_2.png) [@firemonkey](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/firemonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 7:43am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/causes-of-sz-sza/9513/11 "2026-10-18T07:43:02Z")
5- 10 years at boarding school as an undiagnosed autistic child and teenager.