[euranon96]

Do you know what is considered as "latent schizophrenia"? Is it like in your 40's or 30's or just couple years after the mean?

[mystified5016]

Schizophrenia is pretty interesting this way. It's rare for it to show up outside of a certain age range, somewhere around 20 to 35 iirc.

It's strongly correlated to genetics, and most people are totally asymptomatic, no idea they have it until one day they do.

The story of sudden-onset schizophrenia inducing a psychosis making the patient unwilling to consider treatment is depressingly common.

[ryanjshaw]

> It's strongly correlated to genetics, and most people are totally asymptomatic, no idea they have it until one day they do.

Depending on whose stats you go with, you can also argue that most people with schizophrenia never know they have it due to anosognosia.

[lucidrains]

if you are a man and make it past age of 29 without starting to hear voices, you can breathe a sigh of relief (I did)

[heavyset_go]

Unfortunately, this is just statistics. There are cases that lie outside of that age range. I know of two cases, personally.

Things like stress, drugs, childbirth, significant life changes, etc can trigger psychosis and latent schizophrenia at any age, it's just statistically more likely to happen during adolescence and the period right after.

Another way to look at this is that adolescence is when someone experiences new stresses, significant life changes, drug experimentation, etc, which can be triggers for schizophrenia especially during age-correlated prodromal phases.

[thrwwXZTYE]

I kinda heard lots of whispers when I was very young (like 6-7) and now I'm 40 and haven't had any such problems.

I blamed it on the drugs I got prescripted for sleeping (I had bad allergy and was scratching myself to the point of bleeding during sleep so I got some "pacifying" drugs).

[overu589]

I started hearing the voices well after 30. First it began with gang stalking, and by coincidence I am from the “home town” of Americas thought control elite. I was “recruited” (press ganged) and it is only a determination not to accept a word these say that keeps me unconcerned with the collapse of the lie that is modernity in my life.

[kadushka]

Were you afraid you had it at 29?

[amarait]

We dont even know what constitutes a mental voice. Hell, a huge percentage of people cant hear their own voices in their heads