Brief history of my diagnoses that led to schizophrenia(Not meds cuz that was a mess)

- Age 0-12 Undiagnosed: Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) and ADHD.
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- Age 12-16 Undiagnosed: Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD).
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-Age 16 (2012): "Diagnosed" by psychologist in ER: PDD-NOS, OCD and Psychosis
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- Age 16 (2012): Diagnosed by psychiatrist and new psychologist (Previous psychologist wouldn't take anyone under 18): “Schizotypal Personality disorder” (Possible PDD-NOS) and “OCD” (Possible PDD-NOS) causing severe depression.
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- Age 18 (2014): Diagnosed: Schizophrenia, PDD-NOS (The intake psych ward psychiatrist wrote it down on my second admission after the third good psychedelic trip) and Depression.
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- Soon after Schizophrenia diagnosis at age 18 (2014): Substance Use Disorder and went back to original psychologist.
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- Age 20 (Summer of 2016): Stumbled upon 4-AcO-DMT (A psychedelic) during drug experimentation where 3 “good trips” cured most of AvPD.
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- Age 20 (Day after Christmas 2016): Still had AvPD (Psychiatrist asked me why I didn't want to talk to anyone yet still went outside to smoke) but once released, I took 4-AcO-DMT again and had a “Super Bad Trip”.
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- Age 20 (2017): Severe depression (Went to psych ward), still dealing with AvPD but both started to fade away within that three months of opening myself up socially (When my psychiatrist changed my meds and from what I learned from the psychedelic trips) - Started to suffer from Hallucinatory Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD) causing derealization and depersonalization (Dissociation).
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- Age 21 (2017): Started to completely lift out of depression, AvPD was gone which manifested in psychosis from not understanding the life trip and psychedelic trips that I went through and moved away from isolation.
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- Age 21-22 (2017-2018): Made lots of friends, amazing life but still dealing with slight psychosis, depression and OCD symptoms and then the dissociation started causing severe panic attacks that lasted 3 hours at most at a time unless I either went to sleep or took 1-3 Ativan (Where one Ativan is how I got myself to sleep).
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- Age 23 (Start of 2019): Dissociative panic attacks started fading and then used low doses of ketamine (A dissociative) to treat depression - Altered to more pleasant dissociation from ketamine. Last severe dissociative panic attack was on last low dose of ketamine (When I ran out). Didn’t need Ativan anymore.
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- Age 23 (End of 2019): No symptoms of psychosis, depression, dissociation but slight OCD (Which I try to ignore).
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- Age 24 (2020): ???????

Thanks for the breakdown of your history. Very interesting. Hope that you have a good 2020.