when you were in your teens did you ever think you would go mad later on?
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No I didn’t know what SZ even was until I was an adult. My grandma had it that’s all I knew.
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me 2, it hit me like a ton of bricks at the time in 2000,
i was reckless with drugs in my teens which triggered it
I also had a lot of sorrow at times
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No, I was interested in psychology, I subscribed to Psychology Today magazine and read a couple of books on madness including the book about Kurt Vonneguts son getting schizophrenia and found it fascinating but I never expected it to happen to me even though I later realized in I was in my prodromal stage back then.
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I didn’t understand what schizophrenia was until I got it. I had a friend who said he had schizophrenia but he may of just been joking
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I always knew I would excel with my desires with life. My father always said never be overcome by anything. Now it’s like I will allow or make others go mad. I will not allow myself to go mad.
Yes I feared it
Yep I knew it but didnt know exactly what and when it happened i was completely onboard with it.
No, i used to put on that song ‘they’re coming to take me away’ and dance a silly dance.
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Did not do so well before the illness, but it was still a surprise to realize things turned out the way they did in the end.
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Yes. And i want my mind back. Good luck on that one.
Didnt know anything about mental illness apart from anxiety and depression because my dad had those. When i was a teen i was dx with personality problem , but i never understood? No the first i discovered what sz was when i had acute psychosis and locked up, then dx at 32 yo, . I still am not sure i have it it could be paranoid personality?
I was already really struggling with mental issues as a teen so yes, I thought I might go mad. As a teen I was convinced I might be able to start fires like the girl in the Fire starter movie. I also thought I could control things with my mind. Plus I self harmed etc. I was a mess.