Would lots of stress, pressure, and anxiety from school finals and school in general be a trigger? I have read that there are triggers that sort of "activate" psychosis. I am really curious about it as I have been experiencing early symptoms (a lot now)

I know I have been experiencing early symptoms because I have done research out of desperately wanting to know what was going on with me (I also did multiple online screenings with consistent results$

[Sometimes psychotic]

Originally Posted by amazingblob

Would lots of stress, pressure, and anxiety from school finals and school in general be a trigger? I have read that there are triggers that sort of "activate" psychosis. I am really curious about it as I have been experiencing early symptoms (a lot now)

Yes stress is typically a trigger for the first break but there is nothing about that for later breaks. While school can be enough often it's a death of someone you love, some sort of abuse , drug use ie pot etc but at the same time there seems to be an age range where people develop the disorder so in some cases it is thought to be developmental. So the only one of these you can really control aside from drug use is stress...it helps to get therapy to deal with this. Stay away from anything mind altering like caffeine alcohol ADHD meds pot some antidepressants like Wellbutrin etc. you'll probably start an AP when you seethe pdoc...that should help with the symptoms...

[ZehR]

Sleep deprivation

Coincidences fueling paranoia

[punkybrewster6k]

Stress in any form and lack of sleep.
These are what send Bean over the edge.

punky