Light form of Schizophrenia perhaps?

I was about 10.

I just moved into a new place, I didn't like the idea of moving into a new place. My room was on the 2nd floor in the corner where it was the coldest and shadiest place, sense the sun doesn't hit that half of the house, it's understandable. Only a few weeks in, I started to wake up in the middle of the night with splitting headaches, and I would hear harsh whispers in my head, then it would increase to loud harsh talking and then high pitch screaming. All the words were jumbled up and there would be a manifold of voices. I thought I was being possessed. I didn't tell anyone because I knew everyone would think I was crazy.
It wouldn't happen daily, but it would happen about 4 times a month. I would go into my mom's bedroom in the middle of the night sobbing from the headaches and screaming, and she would comfort me until I fell asleep. I saw my mother as the protector from the ghosts I thought were tormenting me. My mother didn't know what to think of it, and kind of left me to deal with it, sense I wouldn't want to get into great detail, and I don't think she really wanted to think her eldest daughter to be insane.

When I was about 12, I started to sleepwalk.
I was trying to battle the screams and shouting now, I would imagine myself at war with evil spirits trying to take my soul. I would be half awake when I would sleepwalk, and I would have an immense want for water, I would always be thirsty while I was sleep walking and hearing the voices. I was always looking for something, but I never knew what. I slightly remember walking into my mothers room and telling her that we had to go into the living room and look for her 3 rings (She didn't loose any rings) she was used to me being like that by then and she said that she would look for them if I went to sleep. My headache went away just as she said that and I went to sleep.
Dreams:
I started to dread the night, I would have nightmares every night, tears on my face when I woke up, and I would feel pain in my dreams, but I didn't have any scratches on my arms or any other form of self injury. I would dream about demons or possessed dolls trying to take my soul and I could never run fast enough, they would impale my chest and I would feel very strong vibrations to the point of almost hurting. I would wake up and the vibrations would slowly fade, and I was completely awake. Other times I would be doing whatever in my dreams and I would wake up slowly,I would still see things from my dream. Like for example I had a dream that I was hanging from a tree and tarantulas fell from it and fell all over me. I woke up face first in my pillow and when I lifted up my head there were about 8 tarantulas crawling on my pillow, but I waited about 4 seconds and they faded into nothingness.
Now
I'm 16 and a half now, my birthday is on January 17th. I've stopped having any kind of voices and pains and nightmares. Now I have boring dreams and I've never been through trauma. Except when I had a seizure at age 6. I was dehydrated and I only stayed in the hospital over night. I've stopped believing in ghosts and sense then I've had nothing happen unordinary. The last time that a voice has ever been in my head was last year. I woke up normally but it was around 4am. It was very quite then I heard a very loud eagle cry and then it faded into a woman screaming, and then faded away. I actually felt a vibration in my head when it happened. Anyways, that's all stopped now. And I just ran into a clip about Schizophrenia. And it hit me just like that, that I might have gone through a light case of it, I don't know what happened for it to stop but I know that it's not coming back. I did however go through a very dark time of depression. I'm pretty much out of it now, but sometimes I get a very deep pain in my chest and become depressed. I think that is just because of insecurities and teenage hormones and self esteem issues to be honest. but anyways I was just wondering if it could possibly be a form of Schiz. or if I was just a little too imaginative. Not diagnoses, just opinions.

It's good that you're symptom-free now. You certainly describe the symptoms of psychosis. Apparently the last auditory hallucination you had was a year ago, and then only for that one time. The diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia is rather complex, but here's a link that might help: http://behavenet.com/schizophrenia

I want to thank you for posting your symptoms and describing them so well, it helps people like me who are in the psychiatric field, but have never been psychotic. I must admit, it does sound truly distressing. We don't know what causes schizophrenia, and we don't have a cure for it, and it is degenerative over time. So if you do not have the symptoms of psychosis, do not be swayed by a romantic notion of mental illness (Like in the movie, Girl Interupted). Most schizophrenics don't do well in life at all. They often end up in longterm care facilities, nursing homes, jail, or die by suicide. So if you are mentally healthy, be glad for it, be positive about it, and try to stay that way as much as it is in your power to do so.

Good luck to you in the future.

Edward G wrote:It's good that you're symptom-free now. You certainly describe the symptoms of psychosis. Apparently the last auditory hallucination you had was a year ago, and then only for that one time. The diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia is rather complex, but here's a link that might help: http://behavenet.com/schizophrenia

I want to thank you for posting your symptoms and describing them so well, it helps people like me who are in the psychiatric field, but have never been psychotic. I must admit, it does sound truly distressing. We don't know what causes schizophrenia, and we don't have a cure for it, and it is degenerative over time. So if you do not have the symptoms of psychosis, do not be swayed by a romantic notion of mental illness (Like in the movie, Girl Interupted). Most schizophrenics don't do well in life at all. They often end up in longterm care facilities, nursing homes, jail, or die by suicide. So if you are mentally healthy, be glad for it, be positive about it, and try to stay that way as much as it is in your power to do so.

Good luck to you in the future.

Yea I no longer have any symptoms. I used to have suicidal thoughts. I was pretty close a couple times. Anyways, everything is fine now and thanks.

actually you descriptions are quite intense... i was diagnosed with a number of things... and my symptoms were never that bad at least the screaming voices... though i gather everybody is different... i guess we all have our fair share

though personally for me i think this is risky... you say you don't exhibit any symptoms anymore but is that due to medication... or did it just recede on its own because as Edward said, schizophrenia as a disease is degenerative over time, and it might crucial that you let you mom know of what you think of having schizophrenia.

as i think there might be a chance of you having a relapse later on in life... so it might be crucial to monitor your situation even though you seem to be out of it...

Frokly wrote:actually you descriptions are quite intense... i was diagnosed with a number of things... and my symptoms were never that bad at least the screaming voices... though i gather everybody is different... i guess we all have our fair share

though personally for me i think this is risky... you say you don't exhibit any symptoms anymore but is that due to medication... or did it just recede on its own because as Edward said, schizophrenia as a disease is degenerative over time, and it might crucial that you let you mom know of what you think of having schizophrenia.

as i think there might be a chance of you having a relapse later on in life... so it might be crucial to monitor your situation even though you seem to be out of it...

I don't take medication, I'm actually pretty against taking drugs even if it is medicine.