subject: Early Symptoms of Schizophrenia: A Look Back [print this page] All in all, these changes in my personality and behavior would not amount to a diagnosis, even if there had been some sort of early intervention; they were nonspecific changes that could signify many things (or nothing at all). Only in looking back can I properly say they were part of my prodrome. To conclude then, I can best describe my prodromal experience by noting that I didn't want to do anything anymore. I just quietly and subtly dropped out of life.
