at around age 14, i began having delusions and paranoid beliefs such as my phone being hacked/tapped, someone was out to get me, someone was stalking me, and there was cameras and microphones in my house. although some factors could have contributed to this (such as true crime documentaries, etc.) the behavior and delusions were so extreme that i wholeheartedly believed that my delusions were true with no backing evidence. my behavior was very alarming and unusual as well, such as checking every nook and cranny in my house for cameras, eating in the dark on the floor cause that way “the person who was stalking me” would not be able to see me, staying up at night to look out the window and see if someone was out there, and sometimes in public if someone stared “weird” at me or for too long i would begin suspecting malice from them. needless to say, i was not okay. i went to a therapist and a psychiatrist and my psychiatrist prescribed me antipsychotics used to treat schizophrenia. however, i never took them for more than a week because i had bad side effects from them. i just did therapy. eventually through just therapy (and more work from myself than my therapist) the delusions and paranoid behaviors completely went away. im 19 now and have not experienced anything like that anymore. it lasted for one year only. as sudden as it came, as suddenly it left. which is why im wondering: did i have schizophrenia? is it possible to be “cured” from it in such a short period of time? i do not have any delusions as far as im aware of and im perfectly “normal” besides some anxiety. and if i didn’t schizophrenia, then what the hell was that?