Mine started a long time ago. Difficult to remember because I was in my early teens. I had mental illness before the psychotic break. I had depression for a long, long time. My psychosis started after I got severely bullied to the point of having a breakdown. I would see the bullies and hear the bullies call me names and cuss at me at home after I got home from school. That was me hallucinating for the first time. Then it got worse. I got paranoid that the bullies were going to set my house on fire and I saw flames everywhere. I was deep into psychosis that I couldn't tell what was real and the unreal. Sometimes when I "saw" something they were really there and other times it was just a hallucination. That is the same today, sometimes they are actually there and I try to confirm the sounds or visuals with my parents and if they saw it great that means I not nuts but if they don't watch out! I also thought the bullies were going to kill me so I had nightmares. I know it almost sounds like PTSD. The docs didn't consider that because I had nearly all the symptoms of schizophrenia. It got worse as I got older. Right now (actually for nearly 6 months... starting the beginning of this year) it is my most severe psychosis according to doctors. Especially my new psychiatrist. I don't think I'm psychotic at all. But everyone else thinks so. During parts of the day I am incoherent. But that is due to stress in my mind, not psychosis. Also I see things and hear things that I believe are there. My mission is real. Everyone else thinks its a delusion. The shower talks to me but its not the shower itself its a speaker placed by the government to talk to me, scare me sometimes other times make me laugh. When I took a shower last, it said "tiny little lizards are coming!" I thought it was funny rather than scary for some reason. There have been increased government patrols over our house using helicopters with the search light on.