how many of you...

...have your symptoms triggered by stress?

how many is it just there and triggered by other things?

My symptoms are definitely triggered by stress, If i am anxious i am far more likely to hear voices.

also the voices can be triggered by my environment, for example by something I've seen on the TV, or heard on the radio,

i think its fairly common that symptoms will be triggered by stress.

Jools

thank you
i figured many would.
i just didnt know.
i mean i know some people have done drugs idk if it effected anything
etc
etc
but mine are stress triggered mostly.
thank you for the response.
i appreciate it.

For me, I guess sometimes it has to do with stress. If my brain shuts down and can't focus, it goes off track and I find myself back in that daze.
But most of the time, it's triggered by memories. Like if a breeze rushes past me, it'll trigger some sort of memory of the exact way the wind hit me, or some weird thing. Sometimes it's scents that'll trigger it, but they're not real memories - they're like made up. I don't know what they are but it feels so real and I can clearly remember but I can't usually visualize when that type of thing triggers the symptoms.
Other times it's triggered by my usableness to deal with emotions. With aspd, I'm unable to feel true remorse, I guess, and have a difficult time relating to others and turn to anger and agitation. That, like I said before, leads to my brain shutting down and triggering the hallucinations, dreamy state, and off-feeling.

Coincidences. If I become upset (either angry or sad). Going to a place I'm not at very often or somewhere I don't want to go. Darkness. Sounds on t.v. or in music that sound simialr to what I sometimes hear. Then it'll make me paranoid and it spirals from there.

Hello. I am new to the forum. Yeah my symptoms can be triggered by stress or even by dwelling on things that have gone wrong for me in the past.

I was in hospital for a couple of months last year as I stopped taking my medication which didn't help either.

When I get stressed I start to hear voices more consistantly, I hear one usually, with out stress. with stress it jumps to three.

Stress and anxiety are my two biggest triggers. Other than that I usually do quite well with the medication I have been given.

I don't experience schizophrenia, however stress is probably the number one trigger of my symptoms. I do get paranoid, and it ties in with my OCD symptoms. If I'm going through a very busy, hectic week or if something upsets me, I start assuming that everything I do bothers people and isn't good enough for them. I then jump to the conclusion that people are aggravated with me and think I'm annoying, a pest, a bad friend.....etc. I assume that they must be talking about me behind my back and I must have done something horrible to push them away. It doesn't take long before I relax and then look back on those moments, and realize how much I exaggerated. It's not even that I care what people think of me, rather I can't handle the feeling that I've stepped on someone's toes and caused them grief. Anyone else experience this?

Personally, for me, I don't feel much of a difference or increase with my symptoms when I am stressed,
I mostly feel like my symptoms increase with anxiety, but stress, not so much.