Early symptoms/signs

I was just curious as to what others have experienced with regards to early symptoms/signs of schizophrenia/psychosis. Just curious. I've googled a bit on the topic, but it would be insightful to hear real stories.

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I went fully psychotic with constant voices literally overnight this is called acute onset but some people have a much less dramatic start. Searching for prodrome might be helpful. There are also specific indexes called sips and sops that sort of measure possible onset psychologists are the only ones I know who use these. Not all people get full blown psychosis or schizophrenia though. You might want to check out brief psychotic disorder that can last a very short time like a day and you return to full functionality. Usually that type of psychosis is stress based as in unusual stress like somebody close to you died or you got fired or even promoted to a harder job but it doesn't have to be. Have you been sleeping well...lack of sleep can also be triggering if you have the tendency.

Here's a link to schizophrenia symptoms.
Schizophrenia Symptoms - Psych Central

Here's a link to a quiz you can take if you have concerns about having schizophrenia. It's not to be use to diagnose yourself. If there are concerns I would speak to a doctor.
Schizophrenia Screening Test - Psych Central

heres my experience. my first one made me go nuts..i mean like i have no clue how i got out of it. im thankful that i didnt get hurt or hurt anybody...the voice in my head sounds like some ppl i know. like friends and family. its usually a male. i stopped hearing voices for awhile which allowed me to grasp back the reality. but i got curious...i started to concentrate on hearing voices again and i hear them sometimes...they are really low. if i ignore it. it soft and not too negative but if i start talking to it. it gets really loud.

Thank you for sharing this experience. That sounds so tough for you, but it seems kind of interesting and "cool" that you can almost "control" it more or less.

I'm so sorry you have experienced this. I can imagine how scary that first one must have been.

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mine started very gradually in childhood and then was brought out by an extremely stressful situation in which i was visually and auditory hallucinating. things in childhood were like showering with my clothes on because i thought there were cameras in my shower.

I was born with mine I think.. I can remember at an early age
seeing weird things.I used to think my stuffed animals were really
moving there heads turns out it was a hallucination and they got
worse over time. Sometimes I misread things like if someone said
Hello how are you,I might misread it as Hello why are you?
it gets annoying,and I have hallucinations of bugs being everywhere
My first symptoms ever was Seeing bugs,and misreading things really.
It was hard when the teacher made me read aloud in kindergarten they
thought I was just being funny. then came the full body hallucinations
People starting popping up where they shouldn't be...Sometimes I have
creepy ones about old people trying to grab me they always have distorted
faces..People think I am a loony because I will hunch down and look around
and jump back. They just don't see what I see or understand.

hello~ i dunno wht you typed into the search engine but try putting into a different phrases...i searched the term "psychosis experience shared" and i was able to get to a site where ppl shared very specific details about their experience. very personal. im sorry i dunno wht it was called or i would give you the link...so yeah try to phrase it differently!

oh hey~!! i just found the website....search on google, "experience project" and when u get there search psychosis for shared stuff! i hope this helps! it helped me

I had bad social withdrawal for years before the acute phase of the psychosis started. I had some symptoms of schizotypal personality like magical thinking, I believed wholeheartedly in the supernatural and had occasional visual hallucinations (seeing ghosts or having visions, which I thought was normal for people with "psychic abilities". I recently found out that even most professional psychics claim to get feelings or have internal imagery rather than actually seeing things in front of them as I did...)
Then the voices started and I got very flattened affect. That lasted for about two years with mild delusions and severe paranoia. I should have told someone about the voices, but I thought that people could tell what I was thinking/experiencing and just didn't intervene because they didn't care. I'm still trying to accept the fact that maybe people genuinely didn't realize something was going on... But at the very least I know they thought I was "odd" or "off"...
Then in February of last year I became acutely psychotic, severely delusional and somewhat disorganized. I only get disorganized speech when things get really bad. It's been coming and going since then as I switch from med to med looking for something that actually works without having unbearable side effects...