Been lurking for a long time, afraid to ask this question, but... how does it start?

2011:

I started hearing voices saying stuff like "this dude is crazy" (lol). I heard chicks say stuff like "you're such a man." After a while, I hear voices which seem to originate from people on and around my college campus. It's mostly about sex and girls instructing me to stare at their asses. I don't.

I drop my on-campus classes and stop hanging out with my friends because their presence induces panic attacks.

Aggrssive voices start focusing on my insecurities and are dicks in general. I can't buy a shotgun to blow my brains out because my ID is expired (only place I tried said that...)

I see a camera in my bedroom. Haven't had visual hallucinations since then.

Mid - late 2011 and 2012:

Seems like aggressive voice is trying to control my mind to make me a Christian, more sexually oriented, and more masculine (I live in a small town in the south). Fight every day with it. Fight it aloud sometimes.

Aggressive voice tries to push objectively incorrect and illogical beliefs on me. At this point, I speak aloud to it a lot to maintain cognitive control. The crazier I seem to people, the smarter I am.

2013:

More of the same. Aggressive tells me it won't let me get a job unless I start valuing masculinity.

Get arrested a few times for obstruction and other stuff because I am a known atheist and a cop who dislikes me just wants to arrest me (by his own admission), I argue with cops about a bunch of shit, and because they want my mom to stop calling them to involve them in things they don't want to be involved in (their words).

Last time I get arrested, cops quote my private facebook posts, bitch to me about taxes, and call me a socialist (lolwtfff).

Start thinking the local power structure enforces a specific flawed ideaology and imprisons or dissuades nonconforming thinkers.

Give no fucks about anything, read, and write.

2014:

Fight more, but quietly. Spend most of the year sad and suicidal due to cognitive decline.

Somehow have sex. Voices fanatic about making me want to get laid don't go away, nor does the masculinity shit.

2015:

I'm more intelligent than ever. The voices are usually negligible. I am usually not deluded. No one bothers me.

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