What I hate the most about my sz is increased irritability and aggressivity. Anything that improves my negative and cognitive symptoms makes me more aggressive eventhough not really worsen positive symptoms, ADs and stimulants. I feel like I have the worst type of sz.
Anyone here got more impulsive, irritable or aggressive since sz?
I started to get really angry when I first got schizophrenia symptoms because I developed post traumatic stress around the same time. After many long years it went away. It went away this year actually and started in 2013.
I was the same person after getting SZ that I was before, except my impulse control disappears when I’m off my meds. That’s not a good thing. It took many years of AA and therapy to make me the kind of person who is more tolerable when the impulse control slips.
I get irritable easily, but I think I’ve always been that way. If I don’t isolate, I get extremely stressed, and it can lead to aggression. I need a lot of space. People stress me out, and I feel suffocated by interaction.
Yes I did have that… I came down a bit on abilify, much less anger. The anger was exhausting as I was yelling and screaming pretty much all day long, and now I find the result of that: exhausted. The PTSD from it might be causal or a result, hence it is why I need to recuperate slowly, but I like to do things often and can really push myself, but the psych told me I shouldn’t. I take that advice, but I find it difficult to sit still and take things slowly… feels like my life ends when i do.
Sleeping more hours worked for me. I just turned off the alarm, and wake up when my body says it wants to wake up. Removing this pressure helped me tremendously. It is ok to recuperate, mental health comes first.
Similar to one of my friends that I left, he also smashed a bottle of vodka on someone’s head when we were in a nightclub. The guy was bleeding, ambulance and police came but I left before that, i left that friend alone and never spoke to him again. I think he’s a sociopath. Anyways I don’t get easily violent like him and in my case it was mostly when ppl were calling me crazy or calling out my delusions when I was off meds.