Did I have a psychotic break during high school?

This lasted about 7 years, thereabouts, so I will be summarising the events as much as much as possible. And these will be in a random order as I have no idea where one started and the other ended.

Year 7 (age 10-11) to second year of college (age 17-18). I am now 22 and now, even though I have occasional paranoia and other things, I see it as a paranoid delusion and wish it away, it took more than 7 years to recognise a hallucination and a delusion and paranoia.

I began to get obsessed with doctor who, and this escalated. I began to believe, becoming deluded, that I was being contacted through the TV, and through the stars, and through the radio, etc, by Rose. For those who don't know what happened, she basically got trapped in a pareallel universe and after a while she began to contact the Doctor through different means, and I thought she was contacting me for some reason. I heard voices (her voice), saw her, everything.

Then I developed another delusion, where I vehemently, whole-heartedly, believed my school was run by an alien race in skin suits. I put A LOT of effort into forcing them to reveal themselves, instead of doing school work because that was unimportant at the time. I thought they had a secret room in the newest part of the school (the reason for a new building being added to a very old school) and, I believed illogically, that the the secret room was behind a disabled toilet, but the only was it could be accessed was through a hidden button behind a light switch, which then morphed into 3 students, hidden, being teenage spies. It turns it that I thought they had a secret lift down, that went under the school, the same place where I thought the alien base was located.

Then it changed to me believing I was a vampire. I have, and have had for most of my life due to a lot of childhood nosebleeds developing my phobia, a phobia of blood. However, my obsession with vampires forced this phobia away and I began to get obsessed with blood, drinking my own blood because I was a "good" vampire, believed I had fangs, believed I had super speed, and tested it, causing a lot of people to laugh... I injured myself a lot with this delusion.

I then became obsessed with Spider-Man. I became convinced that I was stolen from New York as a child and got raised here as a normal child. I loved my parents and grandparents (I obviously still do), but the part of me that loved them fought with the part of me that hated them at the time. I would see things in the mirror, like different coloured eyes, I thought I had spider senses, etc, you get the idea. It ended up causing injuries. I nearly broke my back at one point..I even planned to move to New York to find them and live up to "my farther's" name and become spider-man. This one lasted a few years, I even began to study highly advanced genetics and biology to try and insert animal DNA into my own, and I thought I understood it then, but obviously I was delusional.

This is the worst one.
I believed I had a brain tumour. It lasted about 6 years (while all the other delusions and paranoia and hallucinations happened) all because I got an ear infection once. I felt dizzy and had seen a programme my grandparents were watching about this girl with a brain tumour and that kick-started it, and the belief grew. As the years went by, and I still hadn't died or beocme seriously ill, I rationalised it as God helping me (I have no religion) but then I got ill with a cold, the symptoms came back and, I whole-heartedly believed I would die in the nighttime. I fully accepted death and expected not to wake up...
It went on for so long, I have always been a minor hypochondriac, almost all of my life, and despite not passing any subjects in school and failing college after going for 3 years, I know enough about medical and psychological illnesses to half recite a medical dictionary. But, at the time obviously, my thoughts were all over the place and my brain "told me" to think the worst.

There have been a lot more, and they even happened, to the extent I listed above, before the age of 10 (I think they began around age 6).
For some strange reason, while I've always been known as the weirdo, getting bullied a lot and stuff, none of the teachers, none of my friends (I only had 1 friend back in high school, as I was very socially withdrawn), nor my parents or grandparents noticed any signs of possible psychosis, they just thought I was "shy". How can that be possible?

Thanks. Sorry if I've written a lot, I just wanted to get some of it off my chest.
Peace ☮️

Oh, and PS. I also struggle with periods of hypomania followed by mild dreprssion. During high school I had severe depression, which, if I'd have gone to see a specialist, would have been diagnosed as clinical depression. But I have spent most of my life in a constant paradoxically "mixed" emotional state, and struggled to describe my emotions as a child due to being always mixed. I began to have depression in high school (and obviously the other problems didn't help at all) but now have begun to very occasionally, and very fleetingly, experience hypomania.

-- Sun Oct 01, 2017 6:59 pm --

I would have put a lot more information, but didn't want to write too much in 1 post.

I just kind of wanted to know. Everyone I know thinks I have a problem, and sounds like schizophrenia, when I finally told them. Not to say I do, of course, I could always have something like brief psychotic disorder.

It wouldn't be a "break" if it lasted that long. We're not allowed to diagnose here, but you sound a lot like me. I went through a good portion of that stuff as a child, and I started seeing a psychiatrist at the age of 19, and am still seeing him at the age of 24. Even if you did get over this, I'd still see at least a family care doctor about it.

Thanks. How long did it take for you to realize something might be wrong?
And I've been thinking about going to see a doctor for a while now, but kind of feel hesitant.

Well, I describe psychosis as like temporarily inhabiting a dream-world, in the sense that it a) feels like a dream, and b) is accompanied by a fantastical story that would only really make sense in a dream.

Your fantasy-proneness does sound like it fits the criteria. That's just my understanding though.

so are you able to tell yourself that's delusional and kind of live with that?
if so does it works or there's still some distrust and paranoia and fantasy in the background of your mind?

Yeah, I can talk myself out of a delusion now but I still have paranoia occasionally (it gets worse with stress) but manage to talk myself out of it. As far as I know, I no longer hallucinate (at least as much as I did), except "normal" hallucinations, like hypnagogia, etc.

-- Sun Oct 15, 2017 10:22 pm --

Yeah, I can talk myself out of a delusion now but I still have paranoia occasionally (it gets worse with stress) but manage to talk myself out of it. As far as I know, I no longer hallucinate (at least as much as I did), except "normal" hallucinations, like hypnagogia, etc.