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Old Aug 13, 2014, 04:19 PM
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Good day all, I pray that you guys are doing well. I started this thread because I wanted to share an experience I had as a child and see if anyone else could relate. You see when I was pretty young, say around 10 or so, somewhere in that area, I would have these intense headaches. It was initially suspected they were migraines as they ran in the family, but they weren't migraines as I didn't have associated symptoms like sensitivity to light or noise or other symptoms that fit migraines and doctors ruled that out. The search for a cause of the pain continued, I even had an MRI done on my head, but we never found any physical cause of the headaches. Eventually as I turned into an adolescent, they just disappeared. I've been thinking about my experience lately though, as maybe this was some sign that something was going wrong at an early age that led to my severe depression and psychosis. I was just curious if anyone else shared a similar experience, I know there is no for sure way to tell who will develop a mental illness but maybe there may be atleast some warning signs that can help doctors catch an illness before it does it's damage if you get what I mean. Any responses would be appreciated.
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Old Aug 13, 2014, 04:37 PM
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I never had that but I did have a weird post viral illness that messed up my cerebellum so I couldn't walk for a month. It's possible that anything neurological could add to the pile of things that cause psychotic illness....
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Old Aug 13, 2014, 04:40 PM
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I didn't have that, but I did start seeing visually hallucinating when I was 3.
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Old Aug 13, 2014, 06:53 PM
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i have had severe migraines since i was 9 years old. was on prescription painkillers at 9. ive had psychosis since i was 9 too
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Good day all, I pray that you guys are doing well. I started this thread because I wanted to share an experience I had as a child and see if anyone else could relate. You see when I was pretty young, say around 10 or so, somewhere in that area, I would have these intense headaches. It was initially suspected they were migraines as they ran in the family, but they weren't migraines as I didn't have associated symptoms like sensitivity to light or noise or other symptoms that fit migraines and doctors ruled that out. The search for a cause of the pain continued, I even had an MRI done on my head, but we never found any physical cause of the headaches. Eventually as I turned into an adolescent, they just disappeared. I've been thinking about my experience lately though, as maybe this was some sign that something was going wrong at an early age that led to my severe depression and psychosis. I was just curious if anyone else shared a similar experience, I know there is no for sure way to tell who will develop a mental illness but maybe there may be atleast some warning signs that can help doctors catch an illness before it does it's damage if you get what I mean. Any responses would be appreciated.
Hi , i showed signs of schizophrenia , from as young as i remember , 5+ , and i never got headaches. My problem was general disorganised thinking , ruminating as well as oppositional thought processes and i would call myself names , essentially i would repeat a negative term or inappropriate terms over and over again. So my thoughts were schiz and ocd related from the get go. Psychosis when it fully developed hit me hard with general auditory processing problems , but what signalled it really was a colapse into severe tactile , somatic and olfactory symptoms. Essentially my physical body turned against me.
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Old Aug 15, 2014, 12:13 PM
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I was premature & born at 27 weeks... apparently oxygen deprivation during/after birth is thought to be a factor in developing schizophrenia later in life.

Also, I distinctly remember being afraid of walking outside at night to our woodshed because I thought I might get abducted by aliens. For quite a while past the age that such things are normal. I also went through a phase of believing in stuff like 'psi balls' as an young adolescent. I guess you could say I was predisposed to superstitions & the like.

I still get paranoid walking alone in a dark places, although not of aliens.
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Old Aug 15, 2014, 08:28 PM
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Thank you for the responses everyone, I really do appreciate them. Maybe one day modern medicine can come up with a method to detect who is more susceptible to developing mental illness and maybe even a method to help prevent the full development of the mental illness. I find that alot of modern scientists and doctors are discovering new ways to help patients with coping and getting their life back on track "after the fact" I guess you could say which is great, but I think that it would be really grand if there was more development of techniques to prevent the development of mental illness aswell, if only it were possible. These are but my conjectures though. Lawscot raised an interesting point, there too were complications with my birth due to (I forget the name of the condition) but basically it's when the mother has the Rhesus factor and the baby doesn't and the mothers antibodies attack the baby's blood cells and slowly kill it. Thankfully though, modern medicine has come pretty far so all it took was some shots and I was safe.
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