Is it possible to have avolition all the time? I just read the definition of it after reading another post and the definition seems to be what I have been complaining to my psychiatrist about for months. Also, if I do have it is there anyway to combat that? Is there any medicine for it? I have absolutely no motivation. Its hard for me to do the simplest of things…like taking a shower or brushing my teeth. Cleaning my room…might as well forget about it. I do want to be successful in life I just dont have the drive to do anything about it.
I blame my avolition to mild depression because I still do hygiene and stuff but not much else. working on staying busy for myself. I hope you get to feeling more motivated.
adderal lol. Thatd probably perk you up. They probably wont prescribe and stimulants to anyone with a sz mind. Its one of the things I things originally set my mind up for psychosis, I was doing a lot of things wrong back then. Nothing different then my friends were doing or anything.
Talk to your doctor. They might be able to help. It could be a med reduction, which is risky. I dont know how bad your sz is. But it could help.
Keep us posted.
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@BryanAshley I have been amazed by your posts by the way. I haven’t seen one bad post from you. good work !!
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My sz is pretty well under control. I dont hear voices anymore and I am not as paranoid as I once was. I use to be terrified to leave the house if people were outside. It still bothers me to leave the house when people are outside but not like it was. I can leave if I want to. I dont know if my doctor would be willing to lower my dose. I asked her before and she said no. I would like to see how I would do off the medicine now but I cant quit on my own the withdraws are to bad.
dude, don’t stop your meds !! perhaps a different combo of meds is in order?
Jukes right, if your used to being on meds I definitely wouldn’t stop. You manage to quell your pot habit? That was you right? I guarantee youll be a lot less paranoid if you cut that out of your life.
ya im still not smoking. In fact I attended a meeting tonight at marijuana anonymous. It helps
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I know I shouldnt stop my meds but I cant help but wonder what I would be like off the meds
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I would consider telling your pdoc you want a new AP.
Thats excellent man. It took me a couple years to really get comfortable in my own skin after I quit smoking. Gotta seek and hold onto the mindset that is not paranoid or anxious. Make it your home. Sorry about the avolition. Negative symptoms seem to be a whole nother issue next to positive symptoms.
Im kind of scared to do that this is the first Ap that didnt give me bad side effects. Im on geodon now but both abilify and saphris gave me bad side affects
I think avolition might be due, sometimes, to being told constantly that you are delusional. This may lead to thinking, “what’s the point, if I’m wrong?” So, stopping caring whether or not others think you’re delusional, and ask yourself, am I delusional? Well, I don’t know if this is the case with you. However, it has helped me deal with avolition.
Build objectivity within yourself. Yes, it is good to not be a danger to yourself or others. As long as you have that taken care of, what’s the harm in exercising your own freedom to come up with your own beliefs? Note, also, that as long as your beliefs correspond to at least one eminent subculture, then they aren’t delusions according to DSM standards. So, perhaps find people who think like you, who get together in groups. Acedemia has all sorts of different paradigms. As do many different spiritualities. The list is nearly endless.
Beware of others taking advantage of you though. They may see that you are different and exploit that. There are many who call themselves spiritual who just use it as a ploy to manipulate others.
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stay on your meds.
I dont take any meds and I still get heavy avolition . so i think its just part of the sz spectrum
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I hate the negative symptoms!!!
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Give me the negatives rather than depression anyday.
negatives are a catch 22 though, if you have the negatives for long enough it can just be depressing because the negatives wont lift.
they both suck big time
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I also have avolition all the time. I do end up brushing my teeth some nights but if I don’t go out I don’t even bother to dress, and the house is dirty and chores go unattended. Its very hard to get out of bed. I’m wondering if it is the negative symptoms or depression, it sucks big time! I’m thinking of asking my pdoc for antidepressants because I’ve been complaining about it for a long time and my meds haven’t done anything for it. And if I go off my meds it gets even worse, so I know the meds are helping a tiny bit, but not enough.
I remember another thread about avoliton you either created or posted in. I said that Bupropion helped my motivation issues a lot, did you try it? You said in that thread that you’ll ask him/her about it. It has been a great antidepressant for me also in addition to the motivation boost. SSRIs don’t boost motivation like Wellbutrin does. I recently quit Sarcosine to see if maybe it wasn’t working anymore and my motivation is worse, but not nearly as bad as when I was on no Sarcosine and no Bupropion. Don’t quit your meds, the vast majority of the times it won’t end well.
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I took your advice from that post too and I started Wellbutrin about two months ago. I still have problems being motivated to do stuff. Though I dont think that medicine is hurting anything by me taking it…so I will continue. I hope maybe after some more time that it will kick in and I will be like I was before I got sick. I use to get up first thing and take a shower and get ready for the day. Now I just sit in my room on the computer all day and do hardly anything for my hygiene or on cleaning the house. I dont know what it is but when I got sick it just sucked the life out of me. Even though now Im doing better, its still hard for me.