I don’t know why but each day I’m more hopeless…
Sarcosine doesn’t work for me… and I’m each day more apathetic and less social… My memory and capacity for express myself are bad too.
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Our world changes rapidly, today no treatments but perhaps in 30 years there will be 
At least we live in a period when science and technology flourish. We do have reasons to stay optimistic, unlike people from two generations ago…
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People in the past were also optimistic…
@Andrey I think that the faster society progresses the better,
I think society has to change,
I think Israel should take charge and not wait and just copy the model of other countries.
Rapid development of artificial superintelligence I believe may solve loads of problems and ours as well,
with IQ 10000 it will be very easy to find treatments and understand how the brain works.
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but maybe it will be just for prevent and not for cure. Also in 30 years I will have 51 
I am not thinking in any cure in this life. I dont care that i have negative symptoms. I think its part of me cannot deal with my thoughts. I think i need to push myself harder and harder and not pity of myself.
I pretend i dont have them. And live like i am healthy
I am miserable
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Lol what about min 101. Isnt that going to be the gamechanger?
Negative and cognitive symptoms are real bullcrap. I had them really.bad for the first year of my illness. Then they went away with a med change, but alogia remained.
Do you recommend me to try low dose amisulpride @eduvigis?
My primary complaints are very poor sleep quality, severe cognitive symptoms
and intrusive thoughts.
I would also be glad to prevent relapse of psychosis.
All this without serious side effects.
What do you think?
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@patient are you on medication now?
I don’t know. Amisulpride causes less weight gain I think. It doesn’t cause a lot of sedation (if I remember correctly), maybe you would be better off on a Seroquel. Like 200mg at bedtime. It is good for attention and better than average for negative and cognitive symptoms in general. It is not as intense an anticholinergic as Olanzapine and Clozapine. It binds dopamine loosely meaning it should lose effect quickly. A dose of 50mg Seroquel knocks most people the ■■■■ out.
There are meds like memantine that seems to work with negative symptoms. I’m taking memantine in fact. I’m feeling better, but I don’t know if it’s because of my effort or because memantine is working. Anyway, negative symptoms shouldn’t stop your life.
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How is your alogia @brugluiz? Has it gotten better over time? Has the memantine improved it?
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I’m in the tenth day of memantine. I feel more comfortable in social environments and I had some chats with my friends (I think my alogia got better - around 10% better).
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I read that Memantine impairs cognition in the first week or so, after that it makes it better. What dose are you taking it at?
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Not sure what you’re referring to here? I’ve got a pacemaker in my chest that keeps me going. I’d be dead without it. My head meds keep me level enough to work for a living and help support my family. We are going out shopping for a holiday trailer next month. Science has been good to me so far.
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I’m still taking 5mg. Today I’ll take 10mg.
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And you’re full-on whackdoodle. Please keep your ■■■■ away from me – I’m healthy and staying that way.
Yes im on abilify 10 mg
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I think your best chances right now for improving your negative and cognitive symptoms isn’t waiting for a new wonder drug to come along, but doing what you can do right now, without drugs. I had bad negative and cognitive symptoms, even after my positives were all gone. I couldn’t read more than a few pages, and it was completely exhausting. I struggled a lot with doing even simple, basic chores. I had very bad hygiene. The list goes on. 90% of the time, I was sitting on the couch doing nothing. But it’s not a death sentence. It took me years to get where I am, but now people mostly don’t notice that anything is different with me. I’m not fully recovered, but life is a hell of a lot better. People have to stop thinking that negative and cognitive symptoms can only get better with drugs. It’s just not true, and you’re not going to get better if you believe that you can’t.
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