Anyone who suffer with avolition able to travel? How do you do it?
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I suffer with avolition.
What do you mean by travel? Like going on vacation?
yeah like going on vacation
I don’t go on vacation. But I’d like to.
I’d like to go to a hotel by the sea and just sit and watch the water.
But anything more exciting than that , I wouldn’t be able to do.
@bobbilly loves to travel but I don’t know if he suffers from avolition.
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I am able to do it. I traveled this past June and July. I had a friend visit from out of town last weekend. I’m going away next week, then again in December. Then another friend visiting in January.
I love planning trips. It gives me a lift, gives me something positive to focus on. I don’t know if there’s anything special I do to get myself going. Just bootstrap it when I need to.
Is avolition stopping you from going on vacation?
So you suffer from avolition?
No, just the fear of not being able to cope.
So you have avolition but avolition is not stopping you from travel but is the fear of not being able to cope that is causing you to not travel? Are you afraid of the positive symptoms flaring up while you travel?
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Yes. Some days it’s worse than others. Today is bad. I’ve avoided doing anything I had to do. But I had an appointment today, and I have to go to my sister’s house for something later. If I have to do something, I just don’t think. I stand up, I go through the motions. I tell myself I will feel bad whether I sit and do nothing, or get up and do something, so I might as well get up. It doesn’t always work, but if its something I’m committed to with someone else, I force myself. I stuff the bad feelings down. I won’t flake on someone else. I refuse to do that.
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Was it hard to plan you first trip because of avolition or you’ve always enjoyed planning trips?
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I love planning trips. Gives me a little bit of freedom from the avolition.
did you enjoyed your trips? did avolition make you stay in your hotel or something?
My trip in July was hard. It was very hard to get up, get dressed, get out. But I had plans. So I just did it. It physically hurt.
It was the first time I got to see my friends (who live in LA and NYC) in years, because I moved and the Covid hit. I wasn’t going to waste it.
Haven’t traveled in years. But years ago when I was ill I went to Reno with my dad a few times to gamble. The casinos were packed. I did alright but a couple mornings I stayed inside the hotel room for longer than usual because my symptoms were acting up and I felt weird. That was 4 years after I was diagnosed.
About 12 years after I was diagnosed my whole family and my step family flew to Las Vegas and met up for Christmas. That was fun, I had no problems that time, I did everything everybody else did and went everywhere everybody else did.
In 1993 I flew coast to coast to Virginia to visit my step sister for vacation. Again, no problems, we went on a tour of a battleship and went to an amusement park and we had a barbecue and I went out one night with just my step sister and her friend to shoot pool in a bar. I haven’t really traveled since then unless you call driving over 200 miles to visit my dad in Sacramento traveling.
So you suffer avolition? How bad is your avolition?
So you just went along and no motivation problems?
I take lions mane for that. It helps
What does lion’s mane do to you? gives you more motivation?
Oh sorry, I’m motivated enough to do many things.
so you don’t have avolition?