# What caused your schizophrenia? **URL:** \ **Category:** Diagnosed Sz or Sza\ **Created:** [December 23, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756 "2025-12-23T14:19:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ducky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/ducky/32/16791_2.png) [@Ducky](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Ducky)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/1 "2025-12-23T14:19:33Z")
Do you buy into the whole brain structure or bad gene theory? Or do you think it was more than 1 thing? ---
**Author:** ![everhopeful](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/everhopeful/32/605_2.png) [@everhopeful](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/everhopeful)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/2 "2025-12-23T14:20:10Z")
My childhood caused my schizophrenia ---
**Author:** ![Mars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/mars/32/4869_2.png) [@Mars](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/3 "2025-12-23T14:20:23Z")
Genetics, runs in the family. ---
**Author:** ![Om\_Sadasiva](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/om_sadasiva/32/179_2.png) [@Om\_Sadasiva](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Om_Sadasiva)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/4 "2025-12-23T14:24:03Z")
I have an uncle with sz. I don’t know if we have a schizo ancestor. Childhood trauma maybe ---
**Author:** ![Vinegar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/vinegar/32/178_2.png) [@Vinegar](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Vinegar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/5 "2025-12-23T14:24:21Z")
My father’s mother had it so it’s partially genetic and then my father abused me as a child and teen so I think that triggered the symptoms to manifest. ---
**Author:** ![Speedy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/speedy/32/145_2.png) [@Speedy](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Speedy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/6 "2025-12-23T14:29:17Z")
Trauma for me! ---
**Author:** ![Daydreamer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/daydreamer/32/3042_2.png) [@Daydreamer](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Daydreamer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/7 "2025-12-23T14:35:00Z")
I started off ok but the illness developed but it has improved a lot through management so its not all bad, my P/doc is telling me he thinks I was misdiagnosed and that I actually have a personality disorder. but this doesn’t seem right to me but I’m just going to have to roll with it, I was fully symptomatic for a long time until a better med helped me function better. ---
**Author:** ![bluebutterfly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/bluebutterfly/32/476_2.png) [@bluebutterfly](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/bluebutterfly)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/8 "2025-12-23T14:39:17Z")
A combination of genes, a bad childhood, and a terrible bad trip on mushrooms where i was a victim of an armed robbery. I loathe hallucinogens for the same reason - even they are very popular today. My nephew was hospitalised, had ECT, a bad psychosis due to a LSD trip. I hope he is not scared for life like me ---
**Author:** ![Schizbro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/schizbro/32/16560_2.png) [@Schizbro](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Schizbro)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/9 "2025-12-23T14:40:10Z")
Born with it in combination with difficult childhood and using weed in adolescence ---
**Author:** ![Om\_Sadasiva](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/om_sadasiva/32/179_2.png) [@Om\_Sadasiva](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Om_Sadasiva)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/10 "2025-12-23T14:41:37Z")
Well I was always schizotypal. It developed into sz ---
**Author:** ![shutterbug](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/shutterbug/32/900_2.png) [@shutterbug](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/shutterbug)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/11 "2025-12-23T14:58:16Z")
Being overly well-endowed. (Look, I’m trying to change the stigma around the illness, okay?) ---
**Author:** ![anon27913786](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/74df32/32.png) [@anon27913786](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/anon27913786)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/12 "2025-12-23T14:59:28Z")
Probably genetic for me ---
**Author:** ![Mataheru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Mataheru](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Mataheru)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/13 "2025-12-23T15:04:27Z")
I had an episode 3 weeks ago that lasted 8 days. I got out without meds. I always thought that my rough upbringing resulted in having had a short psychotic break. This one got triggered because I and go to school for peer support which made me realise I was sexually abused as a child. If anyone wondering I am on a low dose of antipsychotic’s now just for some light demping effects ---
**Author:** ![anon91889455](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@anon91889455](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/anon91889455)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/14 "2025-12-23T18:23:23Z")
College stress and police killings. I’m black so it made my paranoia worse. Edit: or maybe rather the videos and images that surfaced. ---
**Author:** ![Rainstorm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/rainstorm/32/242_2.png) [@Rainstorm](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Rainstorm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/15 "2025-12-23T19:59:34Z")
Probably drugs ---
**Author:** ![TheCanuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/thecanuk/32/9_2.png) [@TheCanuk](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/TheCanuk)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/16 "2025-12-23T20:51:24Z")
I think smoking weed caused my sz. ---
**Author:** ![cigarino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/cigarino/32/61_2.png) [@cigarino](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/cigarino)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/17 "2025-12-23T21:17:23Z")
genetic predisposition combined with external stress factors + conditioning and excessive weed use at a young age ---
**Author:** ![KingD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/kingd/32/9943_2.png) [@KingD](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/KingD)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/18 "2025-12-23T21:17:50Z")
The trauma of isolation and violence ---
**Author:** ![Banjo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/banjo/32/15059_2.png) [@Banjo](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Banjo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/19 "2025-12-23T21:36:24Z")
Various ACEs perhaps (adverse childhood experiences). Androgenic steroid use. Nootropic use. Family history of mental illness. ---
**Author:** ![2Waynez](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/2waynez/32/176_2.png) [@2Waynez](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/2Waynez)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/what-caused-your-schizophrenia/756/20 "2025-12-23T22:33:02Z")
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