I have very strong anhedonia, complete loss of sex drive, genital numbness(can feel pain but no pleasure) and feel like I can say words but not feel them, and extremely hard to create conversation and no pleasure from social situations. I’ve never been on meds for schizophrenia, 12 years unmedicated.are these negative symptoms normal?
3 Likes
Thats means u dont have a positive symptoms right like me right… how old are u and where r u from …!!!
1 Like
Sounds typical to me, but if you’re worried you should talk to your doctor.
2 Likes
No I did have positive symptoms seven years ago for five years, no hallucinations just intense delusions but now just negatives. I’m 26 and from Indiana.
Hey! I grew up in Indiana. North of Kokomo. Then I moved and went to Ball State.
I grew up in near gary so not too far from kokomo,thankfully live in nicer part of the state now tho.
1 Like
I would bring these sexual symptoms up with my gp…
1 Like
i had somewhat similar experience. i’m not myself yet but hopefully i will get there.
and i have to say that after a “pause” in positive symptoms for about 5 years, they came back for third episode when i lost everything.
but i’m medicated now and feel much better despite negatives and cognitives. i don’t suffer anymore!
what i want to say is that probably those remaining symptoms would be less severe if i had started therapy earlier. i will never know…
you also might want to go to see pdoc. they can help.
Weird. I tried posting. But my mouse started bugging out. I guess the post is gone…
1 Like
I have severe negative symptoms. lack of motivation, anhedonia, lethargy, apathy etc. they ruin my life.
2 Likes
I hate the NS. i dont know how much i can hold on like this. this is pure HELL!
They all sound like negative symptoms, you seem to suffer from emotional blunting and anhedonia. These types of symptoms rarely get better over time.
I know they’re caused by severe lack of dopamine in specific brain areas just like our positive symptoms are too much dopamine in other specific areas. As my positive symptoms went away my negatives got way worse so horrible oviously there was major dopamine drop in my brain.doctors won’t prescribe meds for negative symptoms and expect me to live with it. How am I supposed to live the rest of my life with no sex love good food or any enjoyment? I’ve been forced to use amphetamines to deal with the negative symptoms but they’re destroying my heart. I just want safer meds that will make it easier like levodopa or cabergoline but I feel like I know more than my pdocs.
2 Likes
This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.