Childhood Schizophrenia: What Are the First Signs? | Child Mind Institute

[@vince3333]

as a child i always said i had a ‘big imagination’ but now i’m older and my ‘imagination’ has worsened but im thinking it’s more than that

[@hackthis1767]

So its the Endinger ganglion and gamma motor neurons that are reacting to acetyl chloride hormones in the dopamine nicotine receptor this is due to joule produced from radio communications that are absorbed by a transition metal called aluminum from Al+2 O +2 carcinogenic this is what causes anxiety in the cns people who dont smoke Cigs are not dispersing heat from the aluminum that is naturally pulled towards the surface of the skin like a heat spreader also depends on weins equation the relativity of size fro mass density and volume and thermal physics of the wavelength of signal associated to it ramen spectroscopy which house the ultrasound that causes this when it reacts to sodium in the pancreas the thing you should ask is can i turn 2 bit into bytes and piggyback off of the vagus nerves to take a shortcut to the broca and apex of the left ear ?

[@ThumbsOnly]

@@hackthis1767 wth r u even talking about

[@jeffmarcuse6450]

When you're too intelligent and also sensitized to external sensations, your genius can border on insanity.

[@keisanzio5773]

jesus, get a diagnosis if you think that. stop talking to idiots on the internet

[@Reluctant_Rooster]

​@@jeffmarcuse6450haha nice.. what a good comment

[@marypasquesi6467]

My 12 year old sister started developing schizophrenic episodes when she was turned 11 around the time the pandemic started. she heard voices in her head, saw shadows at night, and attempted to starve herself to death as a result. It’s heartbreaking to watch. Took her to a therapist for a month and it was not helpful at all. Our family didn’t take it seriously and we stopped seeking treatment. She has occasional psychosis and heavy bipolar episodes frequently. We have a very stressful childhood full of moving and fighting in the house. She was exposed to violence at a young age. My advice would be to give your child as normal of an experience as possible and LOTS OF LOVE!!! Keep them healthy and moving their body. My sister had absent parents, no passions or interests, overexposure to the ipad, and was not properly taken care of. Upbringing is everything. Protect kids before it’s too late

[@islandhonduras8950]

My son is the same age.. experiencing the same thing and it was during the pandemic aswell.. I feel like I lost my son😞

[@KGQUEENKG]

@@islandhonduras8950 prayers 🙏🏽💖

[@violetdusk1968]

@@R4inbowvix3n_ I would say go back to the doctor and be 100% honest about your symptoms. If you have it and left untreated you can become a danger to yourself or others.

[@amandaplunkett4206]

@@islandhonduras8950 oh no. See I’m very scared because I’m now being evaluated for schizophrenic and I’m terrified that my two children may genetically inherit this shit. I’m so trying to seek treatment now to save me and my family. I am praying to be a better person

[@mrs.rivera3645]

@@islandhonduras8950I feel the same way about my daughter. I’m praying your son gets better.

[@psychosislove]

I am diagnosed schizoaffective, but the depression was from nurture, while my hallucinations and delusions were there since my very first memory. I had this one constant, positive voice, who told me not to tell anyone because no one would understand. Every time I tried to talk about my unusual ways of thinking and what not, no one listened because I was a child, and seemed to just simply have an over active imagination. I was bullied because of my delusions and weird ways of acting that other kids even knew weren't normal. But even my own parents told me to stop lying. It wasn't until I became suicidal at age 10 that they realized something was wrong, and my parents brought to a therapist who told them I only had depression. Never once talked to my parents about the voices. One day, around age 13, I had a huge fight with my Mom and the voices got louder and aggressive. I remember I ran to my room, slammed the door, and screamed over an over, "Make the voices stop!" My Mom then began to believe me. It took longer for my Dad to believe me. I eventually got some good care here and there, but ultimately my entire teen hood was full of medication trial and error and various therapist to therapist trips to find the right person for me to open up to. Around age 14 I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after finally being given an evaluation, but my parents still didn't understand what that meant. I can't tell you have many times I tried to die because even my own teachers either ignored me or bullied me, too. It wasn't until I turned 18 when I finally found the right medication. I was off of it for a few weeks, lost in delusions and hallucinations. I didn't want to take this next new med because all they did was make me worse. The only positive, constant voice I had made me take the new meds while I was on my way to the kitchen to kill myself with a knife. I am now 32 and still on that medication, stable and in control most of the time. My Mom understands me so much better now, but Dad, as much as he loves me, still to this day doesn't actually understand what I am going through mentally, but he tries. Both of my parents believe me now and I am married an amazing man who also has a mental illness. He and I balance each other out. I don't have a single memory of being alone in my head. I still hear that one voice, whom I named Una. And I have many positive voices that have taken it upon themselves to help me in all of my most difficult situations in different ways. My psychiatrist said as long as they are not harming me, and as I long as I get along with them, there is nothing to worry about. I am living such a better life now, but it would have been nice to have parents and adults believe me from the beginning. Maybe then I wouldn't have been suicidal.

[@gatacelta]

Incredibly insightful and so so helpful in my particular case of caing for a friend going through similar. After years of attempting to figure out what all this madness is, I see we are just at the onset of understanding it. Please keep sharing your story wherever you feel safe to do so. Lots of us who need to hear it. Thank you.

[@cindyeisenberg8367]

I have been schizoaffective since I was 3 years old. Only, I didn’t know that. I couldn’t make friends because I was paranoid that my life was harder then anyone else’s, and the reason everyone made fun of me was because everyone hated me because I was fat. But, I made myself the butt of everyone’s jokes because I always had melt downs. Also, I was always negative. Anyone that would listen, I would complain to and it was incessant. I was always depressed. Only, that felt normal to me. Even when nobody was laughing at me, I would get defensive and have meltdowns. Any time something would go wrong I always blamed myself for it. Sometimes I wish that I was dead. Anytime, I got a defective toy, like I did before Christmas break when I was in 2nd grade, I would carry on. To the point that the class and teacher were upset with me. I used to do that with everything. I even developed day dream characters to escape from my depression and always feeling that the world hated me and that I wasn’t meant for the world and would always be an outcast. I couldn’t control my appetite. I suffered from severe anxiety. I also was afraid of everyone and that if I didn’t stop being me, my family would hate me just like the kids and my sister who liked to bullying me did. I had trouble with mathematics and spatial relations. I would bump into a tablet and knock off one of my mother’s antiques. She would because upset at me, even though it was an accident. But, if I wasn’t running away from my sister it never would have happened. I would have a meltdown when ever I was scared that I made my parents hate me when ever I was disciplined. But, usually I would carry anything out of proportion. My parents had it hard with me. Any time I was asked to read something or do my homework, I would have a gigantic blow out and be inconsolable for hours. You couldn’t reason with me. I developed tics and had a short stint with stool incontinence as a 9 year old. I was bullied for my lack of normal behavior. Finally, when I was 13 I started doing things so that I would end up in the hospital emergency room. Finally when I was 14 years old, I figured out how to cut myself and needed stitches ending up with serious scars. I developed bulimia anorexia nervosa off and on. I was hospitalized with depression and given neuroleptics like Thorazine, which zonked me out, because there were no other medications then. Once I was taken off of them, I was back to being depressed. I thought that I was failing school when I was making straight A’s. I managed to get my associates degree and get a decent job. But, I also had some very depressed state and got fat. Then, I was manic and lost all of the weight and bought everything I could get my hands on. My high stress job made me suicidal. I was diagnosed with bipolar II, bipolar 1 and was hospitalized. I was also hospitalized with akethesia and severe depression due to a medication reaction. I finally was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, because of hearing voices and being angry all of the time because of my paranoia. Now, I only hear voices when I am stressed out. But, I have mostly olfactory hallucinations smelling thing that aren’t there. I sometimes have paralyzing anxiety and wake up anxious every morning. I am always paranoid. But, I try to deal with it, because it makes everyone angry with me. Even though they understand that I have a disorder. As far as my parents were concerned. They were excellent parents, always trying to get me help from when I was 3 years old, until I could take care of myself. They learned to get me a tutor, when I needed it. They tried to help me, by learning about my condition, and coming to the doctor, even when I was in my 40’s. They only, reacted the way they did, because nobody in my generation could get the help they needed. Also, I wouldn’t have gotten an education if it wasn’t for their push. My sister loves me. But, she had been hurt having to grow up in the crazy house with me. Now she has 4 children. One of them is autistic and on disability. He lives with her and is exhibiting a lot of anger.

[@actung4044]

This is great advice for me just in case I conceive a child with schizophrenia

[@luke-db2es]

wow, absolute power move.

[@cakedup757]

My mom doesn’t believe me nor wants to believe me because her mother was schizophrenic and abused my mother horrible so the idea of a daughter with this disorder makes her very upset but I need help.

[@Hannah-rt6uj]

@@cakedup757 wishing you the best!! I hope you can talk to a doctor soon

[@beckacheckaenterprises7294]

@@cakedup757 hope you’re ok x

[@Gmrgrl-mb5np]

@@cakedup757 I am so sorry. I have a schizophrenic mother and knowing it’s genetic I do worry about any of my kids having it. I do have PTSD from my childhood and I hope that I can try to be there for her and I can get her help.

[@drawwithangel2.0]

When I was 6 I started seeing “shadow ppl” my mom said we’re just special bc she saw similar things- she was also schizophrenic. I started smelling a rotten smell that effected the food I ate but no one else smelled or tasted it. Now I’m hearing voices I was told I got diagnosed around the age of 10 and I’m still coping with this information

[@Benjamin_Counter]

You will be ok bro 👍❤️

[@maxaffe3195]

i am so sorry

[@PorkChop71912]

Many of nights as a child were terrifying. From as young as I can remember I very often had dreams of murders taking place, and I was seeing it though the eyes of the killers. I would wake up terrified, and I would come up with a dumbed down story to tell my mother because I couldn't tell her what was really going on. I'm middle aged now, and those dreams still occur, but only on rare occasions, and now I know how to deal with them better.

[@MrToxic750]

Hope is not by going on a killing spree

[@Zachjk123]

@@MrToxic750 not sure who’s making that claim but yeah you’re correct i guess lmao

[@phil4863]

Could be a demon try going to church

[@LivingDead53]

My sister managed to survive me. Yeah... My healthcare was shitty when I had it and often didn't work in my state. I don't know how to fix it, but I think they should do a psych evaluation with every IEP and offer support to the family.

[@hackthis1767]

So its the Endinger ganglion and gamma motor neurons that are reacting to acetyl chloride hormones in the dopamine nicotine receptor this is due to joule produced from radio communications that are absorbed by a transition metal called aluminum from Al+2 O +2 carcinogenic this is what causes anxiety in the cns people who dont smoke Cigs are not dispersing heat from the aluminum that is naturally pulled towards the surface of the skin like a heat spreader also depends on weins equation the relativity of size fro mass density and volume and thermal physics of the wavelength of signal associated to it ramen spectroscopy which house the ultrasound that causes this when it reacts to sodium in the pancreas the thing you should ask is can i turn 2 bit into bytes and piggyback off of the vagus nerves to take a shortcut to the broca and apex of the left ear ?

[@carliebeau5329]

ask Jesus to take it all and heal you

[@horanghaeforever]

@@carliebeau5329 that does not work as someone who used to spend years of their childhood praying for it to go away

[@sclark223]

A sweet young woman I know, was recently diagnosed. I met her when she was 11, and she had a number of anxieties, irregular sleep, ritualistic behaviors, etc (and also enormous creativity and genius). I remember wondering if she were on the autism spectrum, and also wondering based on stories of her younger years, when she had shown terror in certain settings and around certain people, whether she had ever experienced assault when she was too little to understand what was happening. How does a clinician determine that it is in fact schizophrenia, and not another explanation, including a response to outside factors that may have been lifelong too? What are some factors to distinguish?

[@backtonad]

when she started talking about hallucinations, i looked at my door and got a bit scared

[@funnyguppy6163]

Same but the voices would not stop

[@jamnikel8344]

legitimate or not, i still fear what the truth in explaining the relations of her words, and the reoccurring issues i still have.

[@jiminie8261]

Are you okay

[@orbismworldbuilding8428]

You might just be neurodivergent in some other way, for example ADHD, Bipolar or Autism

[@user-jd6cd1gg2y]

I’m learning this because my parents won’t teach me. My parents are against diagnosis and therapists and say mental illness isn’t real so I have to learn myself even if they don’t like it

[@MrToxic750]

Sorry to hear that kiddo keep doing your research

[@user-jd6cd1gg2y]

@@MrToxic750 thank you, and I will be doing more research:))

[@astralcamisado648]

That sounds rough. While my Dad did believe in mental illnesses, he was very anti-medication and still held a lot of ableist views. My childhood and teens were very difficult for me. Even if you have to wait until you grow up like I did because of your parents attitudes, one day you'll be able to access the support you need even if right now things are difficult.

[@lobotomyforeplay]

Your username gorl 💀

[@enoch4499]

It could not have been more obvious from as early as age 4 what was happening to me yet it took til my mid 20's to get any real help.

[@horanghaeforever]

it was very noticeable at 3 for me and instead of getting help it turned into neglect and abuse bc it was mistaken as "child behavior" and even tho nothing changed as i got older no one around me got me help and just tried forcing the behavior to stop making it worse. I'd go in and out of knowing i need help and forgetting theres anything wrong bc that was a delusion, thinking i was normal, so i asked for help often but never got it. after time i stopped asking for help vocally and it turned to other ways of asking for help. to all in all not showing anything around my family. amd it'd only show when it was bad. me hiding things from my family got to the point they thought things changed and when it came back bc it was too hard for me to hold back theyd get concerned bc now im a teen. which i did the same thing then too, hid it from them. and then it recently got bad again and they got concerned again and now after actually letting myself be clear how much im struggling no matter how crazy i may seem or how disorganized it is they have gotten me therapy. although its originally was for anxiety and depression, bc thats all my family thinks is wrong, me and my therapist both know thats not why im there so hopefully i will be able to get diagnosed with the things ive been struggling with over time and get help ive needed. i am currently 17 and finally have hope for my future and well being bc honestly didnt forsee me being here today and i haven't been able to for see a reliable future for me knowing my mental and physical problems.

[@Seattlefan77]

Lol I used to think my mother was going to eat me as a child. To the point that I was terrified of going to sleep. Also would see people running out of the closet when she'd wake me up at night to use the bathroom. I was messed up as a kid

[@thedraco3130]

That's wild brother

[@user-kz4eb5ku1n]

lmao i used to think that everyone was an alien and they were trying to make me think that everything was fine when they were going to secretly murder me. i used to think that people could read my mind, i still do sometimes. my paranoia and schiz was bad, but God helped me so much. now its almost gone

[@AnaHernandez-of2sf]

My stepson has undiagnosed schizophrenia..He cannot have a normal conversation with anyone. He talks to himself and people with names who aren't there. He laughs uncontrollably at his hallucinations or gets extremely fixated on his delusional, extremely confused and anxious, violent and aggressive. He regularly assaults his teachers at school, his classmates and his mother and is constantly destroying things at home especially with knives ( He's obsessed with knives). He's on the iPad at his mother's 24/7 and barely eats or sleeps. He started high school this year and is already struggling at school.His mother is in complete denial and has him on antipsychotics for Autism, but the meds have only made him worse and more hallucinating and violent.

[@exile3965]

I was always scared to sleep alone when I was younger like around age 4-10 because I would just get super paranoid. I don’t know if that has anything to do with it though. When I was 13 I started smoking weed everyday and I’m 14 now and trying to stop but I’ve been having visual hallucinations and I’m really scared that I did something I can’t reverse. It’s all my fault.

[@2-dcat28]

Hey, I may not know you or have experienced the things you have, but I can assure that it will be ok. I also used to be scared of sleeping alone because I felt that there was something in my room that I couldn't see if I was alone. Sometimes I still feel it. Just because you smoked weed at 13 doesn't mean you are a bad person. You still have lots of time to develop, and changes to the brain caused by drugs can still be reversed. whatever your situation is, you shouldn't blame yourself for everything. The best thing I can recommend is to reach out to someone, be it a parent, a teacher, or a good friend that you trust. Also, breaking a habit is hard, but it is possible. Peace ✌

[@cindyeisenberg8367]

I was irritable, depressed and anxious all of the time. I slept poorly being up most of the night. It was terrible. I had my first hallucinations at work when I was in my 30’s. Because of my behavior I lost my job. I have had a hard time my whole life and while growing up. I suffer from schizoaffective disorder. But, have never heard of that affecting children. Yet, my parents were bringing me to doctors as early as 3 years old when I regressed after my sister was born, but was unable to get back to baseline. I had problems with cutting myself and nothing helped the pain. I was hospitalized with depression. But, back in the dark ages, when I was young there were not good medications to help with the symptoms. I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Then, schizoaffective disorder. Because, I have the symptoms of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. Also, I have had trouble with reasoning and learning, despite having an above normal intelligence test. I had a lot of problems growing up. Some of the symptoms are worse, now.

[@exile3965]

What was the first hallucination that happened?

[@cindyeisenberg8367]

@@exile3965 They we’re in my 30’s during a very stressful time in my life. I was constantly being called, when nobody was there. Like in an empty apartment or hallway. Now, I have also started hearing screaming or dog yelping, while nobody is there or in the corner of my eyes in my peripheral vision a bird is in my apartment, when I don’t have birds. Or, someone walking by outside. But, they couldn’t have. Because there’s no walkway upstairs. I constantly smell weird odors that aren’t there. The odors come and go very often. I take my medicines. So, I hope that the hallucinations don’t get any worse. Because once the olfactory hallucinations were so bad, that my food tasted bad and I couldn’t eat it.

[@patrick_McD]

@@cindyeisenberg8367I read something about the keto diet and ketosis being very good for limiting hallucinations.

[@alisha0122]

I’ve had schizophrenia since I was 6. And bipolar, and ADD. On several medications for 16 years starting at 6 years old. I’m 22 and I have to fight everyday. It sucks.

[@HarveyFoFi]

I wonder how much is that is paranormal? We used to lived at a haunted house. I would feel the former owner of the house that just died, but my mom didn't believe me. She finally believe me when I stayed over my cousin's. She heard steps, & noises. We moved after that. Even the next door neighbor, that had a 20 year old, like the movie "My left foot" saw the owner walking in the back yard. Since I was a kid, I had hundreds of paranormal experiences, including a premonitions of the 9/11 WTC attacks the afternoon before. I saw NYC, & both tower covered in smoke. I was standing in between the towers.

[@towerofresonance4877]

I'm not going to self diagnose, but I went too many Many psychologists since the 1980s. First it was ADHD. At age 12, I started to manifest adult versions of myself to cope with extreme anxiety and repetitive voices. No age 38, I am on thiothixene 40mg a day. It's tiring. But i cant let them put their hands on my shoulders and tell me to eat their apple.

[@rp9851]

My son was in third grade he started being by himself. Wearing his hoodie over his head. Walking alone on the play ground. Always was told my son had the worst ADD they, (the testing personal) had ever seen.

[@crystalflores5428]

Interesting. My kid has had a very vivid imagination for as long as she could talk, which is a little limited even now. She has this play world when she's lonely or scared, in which she retreats and plays. She has several friends there. I always thought it was just a imagination... now I'm a little worried it may be something else.

[@sinisterquestionmarkinacti2801]

It could be autism maybe?

[@raziellovenhoven7166]

It just seems like your child might be ok but have her checked out by professional just in case. I suffered from Child Schizophrenia and it is terrifying, not anything like you mention, although I am not expert. My parents thought it was just me being a child but it affected most of life although I excelled at school and other things as well. She might just be introverted and have a wild vivid imagination. I knew the difference between something I imagined and what I believe I was really seeing. It could be something else as Asrii mentioned or just your child being a child, best to just have it checked.

[@shepherdstar14]

Crystal Flores I also had this "world and friends" when I was growing up, even well into being a teenager, I think we think it helps us cope with being lonely or people not understanding us fully, or just that we cannot explain in the way we wish we could to make them understand.

[@Reluctant_Rooster]

Probably like cartoon characters bits and pieces of information one learns see throughout day play in the mind if you don't have a good routine enough sleep it gets jumbles nowadays I doub anyone's around their child long enough all the time to see exactly where things r instroduced you lose that opportunity the moment you overload starting at childcare

[@Reluctant_Rooster]

​@@shepherdstar14100million percent it all stem U lies from honestly low key neglect

[@bigstepper5100]

Was in the shower and heard something like a knock and I saw a shadow put I don’t know if I was paranoid from the knock or if it is early stage

[@norak9518]

my parents always called me schizophrenic and without no clear diagnosis, ive always been smart and happy and i dont know why they would say that. my doctors didnt diagnose me but my parents have got me convinced that im mentally ill. their also kinda verbally abusive so i dont know who to believe.

[@MrToxic750]

Go get an actual diagnosis, they calling you that might be part of the abuse

[@oppressednolonger1497]

try to recieve a clinical diagnosis. do your parents care about one anothers or yours, siblings well beings otherwise?

[@charmaine7301]

It's a form of abuse...don't give in...pls inform your teachers or a therapist

[@r4h4al]

Very true, can relate as I had schizophrenia at 17.

[@lilac6411]

Did it go away?

[@r4h4al]

@@lilac6411 Yes.

[@ahmedaraale4996]

@@r4h4al how long it took you to recover

[@r4h4al]

@@ahmedaraale4996 Between 4 and 5 years.

[@lttrhd]

@@r4h4al What did you do to recover?

[@rlpp9721]

What happens to children with schizophrenia when they become adults, and how does it affect them in terms of brain development? Do children with schizophrenia grow up normally, or will they have developmental delays or imparements of some kind as adults? This is something i am really curious about as little to no research has been done on the topic, and what schizophrenia can do to a young developing brain. The human brain as they say is not fully formed until the age of 25, possibly even 30 depening on the person. As for schizophrenia, what exactly will happen to these children when their brains are fully mature? Will they have symptoms later in life, and experience any kind of moter delays, or devopmental delays that may impact them in any way? Or will the symptoms that they had as kids improve with age, and they no longer experience symptoms as adults? What exactly does schizophrenia do to a child, and like various other disorders, can it impact brain development or do these children develop normally in adulthood? If anybody has any answers i would like to hear it.

[@rogeliolombera3344]

I had schizophrenia as a child and the symptoms did improve as I aged but I still have issues with anxiety , speech and minimal delusions. Usually when I smoked weed it reminded me of my child schizophrenia symptoms so that’s why I decided to quit .

[@larathexplorer611]

I have issues with speech , flat emotions, and sometimes severe lack of motivation to move. It was more of, I was educated and gradually (now) I work on awareness. Even writing I experience disorganized thoughts.

[@user-bn4de4gi5p]

Seriously??? U can't undo schizophrenia.. when u grow up... lol

[@psychosislove]

As an adult who grew up schizophrenic from my first memory, I don't live a normal life, nor have I ever lived a normal life. I can seem normal to outsiders, but that is only because of my treatment and medication. My symptoms are the same, NEARLY (not all) every schizophrenic symptom there is I have. I can control myself far much better than I could as a child, but also, as a child I was not treated properly. I have had so many traumatic experiences growing up with schizophrenia and they have never left me. I have learned what works for me, but if I miss one dosage, I relapse. Because of these experiences and still dealing with all of the symptoms, I am not a normal person and I do not live a normal life. I have episodes in public that are humiliating and a whole plethora of issues due to my diagnosis. But! I am happy, I do have positive voices that help me cope with the life I was given. And I am stronger for it. And I have my husband by my side who has made dealing with the trauma so much easier than I ever could before he came into my life. I hope this answers some of your questions.

[@jessicaschorel8896]

​@@larathexplorer611could you explain disorganised thoughts for me?

[@faithdavies3975]

I think I hear my parents or people I know calling me or talking a lot when they are not. I am 16. Is that a sign? My dad also has bpd and schizophrenia.

[@slykill07]

It is common to mistakenly hear someone call your name sometimes; however, if you continue to hear speech/conversation afterwards I would consider that a delusion. However, hearing a fully-fledged conversation in a silent room -- with or without noticing -- is slightly unusual. Regardless, if you're questioning it, I would absolutely recommend to ask your parents to have a chance to talk to a psychiatrist. There is no shame in that; in fact, it's one of the most respectable things you can do in the situation.

[@biba3957]

What is the situation in this case pls reply

[@patsyhodge9071]

When I was young child around 4 or 5 i think, this very weird thing would happen to me at night just as I was laying in my bed. It was a like a large sphere of very tiny lights attached to gossamer perhaps, and like the colours and patterns of what you would see in a kalaidoscope, but very very tiny and lovely, that would come down gently over me in my bed. Dome shaped. It was like a glittery fairy blanket you could say.I would see it coming from across the room, not frightingly exactly but very frecking odd. It shook me enough to hide under the blankets, I always kinda forgot about in the morning and told no one. I was an extremely shy, reserved and quiet child. I couldnt even raise my eyes let alone talk to adults. Animals were my joy and interest. Anyway getting back to this odd happening I had never heard another soul speak of this and had forgotten it until..................one day it was bought up in a psyc class. I sat frozen in my chair entralled. Apparently a very few schizophrenics recalled very similiar expereiences when they were small children too. Omg I nearly peed myself thinking I was going to be a schizophrenic too. Anyway Im not but, perhaps there is someone who has more information about this strange phenomon. I wasnt dreaming, I was awake. TIA. edit to add I never heard voices or things that werent there,

[@keshakee1000]

How long was you with schizophrenia before it went away

[@violetdusk1968]

Sounds similar to fever dreams. I think you can have them when you are awake as well.

[@jessicaschorel8896]

My daughter has been seeing what you have described very very similar!

[@Dragon34th]

Yeah sometimes a child has difficulty to but before you panic & start looking for a big diagnostic, maybe switch off the internet & video game consoles :)

[@SettG4]

Yes surely that would cure the child from being schizophrenic

[@stefyguereschi]

THANK EXPLANATION

[@kmydesire12]

My son is autistic and he has been very paranoid, sleep disturbances. Easily agitated and angry saying mean and horrible things

[@patsyhodge9071]

Commit him to a care home.

[@trashaccount4019]

@@patsyhodge9071 don’t give advice to strangers on the internet like this. There are case managers and professionals out there.

[@trashaccount4019]

Do you have a local autism advocacy center?

[@orbismworldbuilding8428]

As an autistic person it sounds like his environment isn't quite right for him and he needs some changes to make thibgs better. Autistic people tend to dislike change and unexplained phenomenon and actions, unexplained rules and so on. Explanation and understanding even about things that you wouldn't think need explained, is very good for us. Second, if his environment is noisy- visually or physically. We are sensitive to lights and sounds, clutter we didn't make and bright colors at times. How loud a sound is, or how high pitched it is (we can hear higher pitches and quieter volumes than non autistic people) can be annoying and extremely difficult. Because our experience of the world differently, we have a harder time explaining or communicating, even understanding our own feelings. Try and listen to him about what changes he would make around the house and ways things should go. If he doesn't know what you mean, be more specific, go over every area of life and area of the house with him. He might not know exactly what he needs to be comfortable right away, so be patient, be ready for it to change a lot and don't be upset if he think something is still wrong. Fixing your life and environment is hard for autistic people, and is probably even harder with 2 people who have very different minds. Remember though, he is just as confused and upset at your actions as you are towards his, and direct, honest communication about that that doesn't shame him is a good way to start working on that. I hope this works, and pray your relationship is intact and continues to get better. Reply if you got this message

[@NinatimCentofanti]

Did a dr ever figure out what’s going on? Currently going thru this with my son who is also on the spectrum

[@carolzamora8638]

Can this be brought on by abuse as of beatings when he was a very loving and gentle person.

[@openmindead1610]

Instead of saying that the child is mainly “distracted by hallucinations “, you can just leave it at distracted. Seeing as schizophrenia is a syndrome, it’s experienced on a spectrum, so not every child will experience hallucinations. For example, when I was a child I would experience distracting maladaptive daydreaming, not hallucinations. And I would daydream catatonically; laying or sitting in the same position for hours.

[@crystalcollins3741]

I am afraid to dead taken 100 pill and start hear voice everyday I fleeing bad person

[@SettG4]

What the fuck?

[@qbeenzotherside]

The School part is cause thier memory is going bad I have childhood schizophrenia I know I am a genius

[@Copilot1204]

Did it go away I think I might have had it since a young kid

[@qbeenzotherside]

@@Copilot1204 yes age 10 then came back at 17 for a week then fully at age 20

[@yessight6952]

So im 11 (parent allows me to have a KZbin account and comment on videos). Anyways when I was born my biological mom had schizophrenia and died drugs and I’m pretty sure slept w ppl for drugs and that’s how me and my 16 year old bio sister were born and why we have different bio dads. Anyways, so my older bio sister got tossed around different foster homes before getting adopted as this was my bio moms first child and she didn’t understand that she wasn’t in the right mind to take care of her. Anyways then she got adopted by her forever parents. However, two months after I was born I got adopted by the same forever parents as my bio sister. This meant I got adopted quicker than she did when she was born. Anyways just recently my mom told me more information (how she had schizophrenia and slept w ppl for drugs) as I was younger and would get scarred by some of those things. Anyways this meant even if I took ONE drug, it would get activated (although I think it already is just from my bio mom) which is why I’m NEVER allowed to have drugs. Well, I have adhd (i know for a facts it is because my mom did drugs when I was born) and I talk to myself, whenever I cry I see little blurry things in my head, I hallucinate sometime and see fuzziness. And I am the only one who talks to myself. Another thing I do is I will put in my head “if I don’t do bla bla bla *important person in my life* will die” and stuff like that. I don’t even do it, it just happens. And one time when I was younger I looked out my window and made myself see one set of green eyes staring at me. I will eventually tell my parents about these things but I don’t know how.

[@jessicaschorel8896]

The comment about if you don't do certain things you will die sounds like OCD. I'm so sorry about your story. Wish you all the best

[@carliebeau5329]

my first experience with insomnia. the real kind the kind were you can't function. started at 19. I had an asshole friend tell me if I didn't sleep I would have a heart attack and that kick up the panic and anxiety. I broke. thought I would surely die. didn't know who to turn to. were to go. what to belive. lost my mind. 😮. that person was a fucking jerk off.

[@gamingwithptah2813]

wow i knew i had it bro damn

[@igbeizp8632]

i hear voices and one time, not long ago i saw this shadowy thing when i was sleeping when i went to get a drink of water then i took a drink of water and rushed back to sleep. my mom just says its "anxiety" but the voices are telling me to kill myself and that ima bad person and stuff like that. they tell me to hurt myself and i sort of like the pain now its addicting. idk what to do rn bc my mom thinks its just anxiety and says i definitely dont have schizophrenia.

[@MrToxic750]

Don't be afraid to tell her or an adult you trust what's going on. Trust me they'll hear you out. Keep going champ

[@trashaccount4019]

Do you have another person you trust that you can tell?

[@trashaccount4019]

Also: you can say to your mom that it could be both, and that there is no harm in asking a doctor or other professional

[@piezdabacon839]

Bad parentinggģg

[@Dablooner]

They told me I was worthless I say it walk but she didn't see it

[@exile3965]

You not worthless. You have a purpose you were born for a reason. Do what you love to do if you have hobbies and try to profit off of them. Or find new hobbies.

[@sauroman1]

Sounds like PTSD from domestic or school abuse

[@josan9483]

I have childhood schizophrenia, I hate it

[@jeffmarcuse6450]

I assume rich people are hacking me and watching but don't know if it's all the time & could just be crazy... Plus I see faces of demons in nature.

[@exile3965]

You could try becoming rich. That was half a joke half serious but fr I hope your doing ok.

[@Pain-95]

When i was a kid I would see big house size balls made of meat and fat and big steal nails coming out of them they would rolled over my body and those same steel rods would come out of my hands I would scream it was painful and my mother would hold my hands there is nothing try to calm me dawn and i would not sleep becuz i was scared i will wake up blind or dead or someone is going to die tonight if I slept. And there is an apocalyptic zombie dream which would i see in my dream once i woke up it will continue next day from where it was left. I haven’t seen this dream for 10 year until last year now i am 23 and last year I had pneumonia and I saw that dream continued where I left 10 years ago and I woke up with hallucination alot of buzzy sound mixed 8 9 sounds and my legs were in sucha pain when I took off my blanket the steal rods were in and out of my lower part and was blood everywhere and a big planet was on the top of our house and the top part of our house was crushed i wanted to scream for help but there ware ppl inside my brain they were suppressing me and then a person came helped me stand up took me to the bathroom gave 1000usd to me and left when I was in the bathroom i forgot everything and came out everything was normal and i slept when i wake up the second time then I remembered what happened I thought it was real but there was no 1000usd in my pocket lmao.

[@IndigoCat17]

Oh Great Another Skeptic!!!

[@kevvvasquez2359]

My sons teacher thought he had this just because he would behave in her class so then he had an evaluation and confirmed that he doesnt have it but he has adhd

[@ahmadnellem5124]

jocelyn flores

[@ghirardellichocolate201]

Purple Snickers if you have severely damaged veins. #Postures matter

[@luv2knit38]

What does that remark mean!?

[@oppressednolonger1497]

its sometimes called word salad. a persons thoughts become very very disorganised and they have trouble making lucid statements.

[@iraisteran6554]

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[@SonySlasher2468]

Can Amphetamine pills cause schizophrenia?

[@trashaccount4019]

From my understanding, it won’t cause schizophrenia but can 1. Cause psychosis/delusions or 2. Bring out / worsen schizophrenia that was already there

[@SonySlasher2468]

@@trashaccount4019 So in other words if I had symptoms similar to Schizophrenia after taking amphetamines I'm already a schizophrenic but not diagnosed?

[@trashaccount4019]

@@SonySlasher2468 not necessarily, it could also be amphetamine-induced psychosis with hallucinations.

[@trashaccount4019]

@@SonySlasher2468 hallucinations do not equal schizophrenia.

[@siiroblank2854]

I'm probably the youngest person with schizo, first symptom was at 10 yo...

[@apbk2288]

Omg bet u do go watch anime

[@ChickenMayoSanga]

@@apbk2288 nap

[@lukeychristinesmith6218]

This helps clear the voices: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4iynIipfsdoitU

[@ruready2343]

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[@dmtdreamz7706]

I want schizophrenia. If you have something that you really want in your life, spend lots of time thinking about it. The more you think the more ideas will pop up the more creative your gonna start to get. Your subconscious mind doesn't care if your vision is crazy. It doesnt care if you dont know how to do it. When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower. A different psychedelic from a different planet every nanosecond. All sorts of dreams are possible. The human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail. Synthesize "experience," to literally create experience, and control it, in the laboratory of our minds. A vision is a very emotional image, the most powerful image that you can come up with for yourself at this time. This vision will become like a hallucination in other peoples mind and this could be the cause of them creating extraordinary things.

[@armpit.6952]

why do you want to experience going through pyschosis and depressive episodes and shizofrenia and shite

[@dmtdreamz7706]

@@armpit.6952 Here is the cheat code. If i can literally just sit around basking in my own happiness and love and self-satisfaction then that short-circuits all of life. That's the genius of this method. That's its power. You think this is a bug. This is not a bug. This is a feature. This is exactly what you want. You want to short circuit that because you see then it frees you up.

[@armpit.6952]

@@dmtdreamz7706 what does that got to do with wanting Schizofrenia again?

[@dmtdreamz7706]

@@armpit.6952 Like you start to experience orgasmic levels of ecstasy. Imagine the best orgasm you've ever had and then multiply it by a thousand. You realize that caring about anything at all is completely idiotic. From the highest perspective if you realize that everything is love then that's it. Anything that happens is absolute love and nothing could be better. Everything is absolutely perfect.

[@armpit.6952]

@@dmtdreamz7706 r u trolling meh wut r u on abt

[@roxies1615]

This is very vague and horrible because all the things she is describing is part of a child's normal development

[@judedadlez104]

omg this cameraman is the worst

[@ShadowSmoke]

schizophrenia is a yeast infection in the throat and sinus caused by the candida fungus.

[@aubrey5577]

stupid

[@orbismworldbuilding8428]

No. It has a genetic and neurological background that is well studied and well observed. There is also a potential environmental thing from trauma and upbringing, though personally i'm mildly skeptical of it being traumagenic.

[@sandy.w.22]

it is terrible that many people confuse schizophrenia with autism. The difference is big.