"Professionals were obsessed with finding a trauma that could have caused my symptoms."
I was 19 when I first went to a doctor, but that was for my bulimia and to be honest I was totally dismissed and invalidated by said...
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Anonymous
- May 14, 2023
- 3 min
"I was told I was too smart to have schizophrenia."
I started noticing I was a bit different around the age of nine, which marked the start of my childhood onset schizophrenia. The things I...
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Anonymous
- Apr 22, 2023
- 6 min
"I spend a lot of time tortured by my own thoughts- the paranoia brings out the worst in me."
I was diagnosed with Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) several years ago after knowing for a while that I probably had it. My symptoms...
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Anonymous
- Apr 18, 2023
- 5 min
"Mania is the worst- I have delusions of being God, or being able to speak to the dead."
I began to distance myself from a lot of kids my age when I was around eight years old because I was way more sensitive to emotional...
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Anonymous
- Mar 18, 2023
- 5 min
"People with personality disorders have the same capacity to be good people as anyone else."
My symptoms of Schizotypal Personality Disorder are mainly along the lines of magical thinking, strange ideas of reference, odd beliefs,...
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Anonymous
- Dec 28, 2022
- 3 min
"I would see demons everywhere I went and voices would tell me what to do."
I’ve been dealing with depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation since I was 11 years old, maybe earlier. Those gradually got worse...
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Anonymous
- Nov 16, 2022
- 9 min
"I am not one of those people who think that my schizoaffective disorder is a gift or super power."
My symptoms of OCPD include fixations on lists, organization and schedules and other methods of controlling my environment. In my head,...
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Anonymous
- Oct 30, 2022
- 6 min
"I love to tell stories, and my experiences are a hell of a story to tell."
Although I've never been formally diagnosed, I consider myself someone who would fit under the category of ‘schizotypy’. I don't have...
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Anonymous
- Jul 13, 2022
- 4 min
"Mental illness changed me for the worse, whereas my queerness brought me happiness and joy."
I have schizophrenia, and have had symptoms starting when I was 14. Almost immediately I realised they weren't normal as others couldn't...
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Anonymous
- Jun 11, 2022
- 3 min
"I walked for two and a half hours, crying and feeling like life was over."
This is my story with DID/OSDD. It all started at around my 10th birthday. I don't really remember much but I know that at about this...
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Anonymous
- Jun 3, 2022
- 2 min
"I'm confused most of the time with STPD. I get obsessed with thinking my perception is wrong."
I've been very interested in psychology for a long time, and want to be a psychologist when I'm older. Personality Disorders are...
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Anonymous
- May 10, 2022
- 2 min
"People have told their friends not to date me because I have schizophrenia."
My diagnosis is of schizophrenia. I struggle with hallucinations and delusions and also negative symptoms like lack of motivation, not...
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Anonymous
- Mar 20, 2022
- 2 min
"I also suffer from delusions that are powerful and prominent."
I’ve been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar, which ultimately led me to be diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. My symptoms...
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Anonymous
- Feb 28, 2022
- 5 min
"I didn’t know who schizophrenia affected, but it definitely wasn’t people like me."
Up until last year I’d never heard of the prodromal phase of schizophrenia. In fact I knew almost nothing of schizophrenia at all and I...
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Anonymous
- Feb 22, 2022
- 7 min
"I now see that schizoaffective disorder had completely distorted his perceptions of reality."
This is a story of schizoaffective disorder, but it isn’t my story. The person whose story it is is no longer here to be able to tell it...
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Anonymous
- Jan 2, 2022
- 4 min
"I was once plagued by a pair of brown trousers following me around."
If you’re one of the many people who experience psychosis or ‘psychotic-like’ symptoms, or know someone who does, then what follows here...
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