I have almost nothing to say throughout the day, is this a negative symptom?
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Yes. Could also be the result of mildly disorganized thinking. There’s also the fact that when you get out of the habit of talking, talking becomes difficult. I discovered this last bit when I got back into amateur podcasting (which I recommend to anyone who needs practice flapping their gums!).
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I am the same. That’s why I like the internet, as it gives me time to think out what I want to say properly. I get misunderstood quite a lot by people face-to-face, and I have a really short attention span and sometimes cannot remember what someone has just said to me sometimes. I guess that must be the result of the isolation I have experienced that has eroded my social skills.
Not sure if you experience this also, but I think connecting with people and being on the same wave length can be very difficult at times and very awkward.
My voice has weakened somewhat. Not enough practice I suppose. Combined with a little bit of disorganised thinking too doesn’t help.
I have always written better then I talk… for me… it is when I’m in a negative swing… because when I’m manic… or starting to have more agitation… I’m a chatter box.
Between the thought blocking… or brain wipe… it’s hard to talk.
the disorganization… the topic jumping… the thoughts in my head all mashing together when I feel like I’m on the spot in a human conversation…
here I can write it out a few times and then hit the button when I’m happy with how it looks.
Good luck and keep working on it.
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I sometimes fumble my words.
The other 99% of the time I keep talking and talking and talking.
I used to hardly speak, then I got on meds and made an effort to recover. I only spoke socially if I was drunk back then. Other than that I communicated as little as possible.
I have trouble talking too. I can’t think of anything to say. It’s frustrating, but I’ve learned to like being alone.
Yup. There have been times where I speak maybe less than 100 words all day. Not lately, also like SurprisedJ, I find it much easier to write. As for what I do about it sometimes cactustomato. I read the news, and speak about a topic that may have a tinge of humor. For example, “You know what I read recently? Some study showed that cats may have some link to people who develop schizophrenia.” Usually science news or technological news is less controversial. Also a more casual (often boring topic but if you feel like speaking it doesn’t hurt,) topic is the weather.
I’ve always had trouble talking, but now I hardly ever say anything unless it has to do with my future in school or getting a job, or a lack thereof. I pretty much stopped talking that much once I developed schizophrenia. If I did talk, it was pretty much verbatim whatever the voices wanted me to say, or whatever the voices said, but only if it was nice for the most part. I definitely had my moments though. Now that I’m meds I feel tired all of the time, and have almost nothing to say. Even my dreams are lacking a lot of words. I go to forums because I feel lonely, even though I see my family everyday. We don’t talk that much. We talk at least once a week though, but not for very long. Just a little bit here and there.
I’ve always been an introvert. I write more than I speak. I’ll bring up something like what the weather is like today. After that, conversation feels forced to me and I hate small talk.
You mean right now?yeah but im heavily medicated
Getting better at it
My words tend to get jumbled together, or get lost in a sentence and have to back-track, or if possible just forget about it and move on.I get embarrassed when this happens…it’s why I hate speaking. This is why I like writing and internet communications I can speak more without the confusion. People wonder why I’m so quiet most of the time, this is why…I don’t want to embarrass myself in front of others so if possible I just stay quiet. Though it may make me come across as distant and sometimes cold.
i have no problem talking, just ask me. My problem is shutting up-I don’t do it enough.
It’s only been in the last-? 10 years that I went from painfully shy and quiet, even at the mental hospital, the head nurse told another nurse that I’m always mute when I come in (inpatient).
Now I talk to anyone about anything, anywhere or time If they stand in front of me long enough.