I get really bad anhedonia and I have extremely poor motivation at times. Does anyone else get really bad anhedonia?
yes my emotions don’t show they aren’t even there also i don’t focus i have missed like 10 assignments a row i feel like don’t exist in real world anymore i guess these are negative symptoms also yes anhedonia possibly from depression maybe manic type who knows
I had more problems with the negative symptoms then the positive ones.
The lack of emotions… the no motivation… the feeling heavy… unable to really get my head together to move…
couldn’t keep my concentration enough to talk too often… having my brain wipe clean as I was trying to get up and even do something simple…
I gave up on life in the middle of the negative swing. It was meds and therapy that helped. But it took a while to dig myself out of that wax build-up.
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What meds were you on that helped?
Pretty much. I’ve done audio engineering professionally before on a temporary basis where I made like $150 for maybe 8 hours work tops overall and my boss was highly satisfied and usually impressed with my work. Last job I had I worked at minimum wage nearly full time so I wouldn’t have made that until like 4 times that amount of time and it was around dangerous machinery that on more than one occasion I did things like I stuck my arm into a machine to fix the mistakes it made when my arm could’ve been snapped like a twig if I did it at the wrong time. Why? I just don’t care at all.
I get flat affect/restricted affect, lack of motivation, avolition .
The negatives are more debilitating than the positives were
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I don’t get the anhedonia so much, but poor motivation is a real killer for me. I take it to the extreme.
The Latuda helped me a lot… plus my other meds like the Seroquel got cut back.
Also I had some help relearning how to get back into the pace of life.
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