is making me look bad. Its gotten so bad recently that just getting up to put some dishes away is like training for a marathon. I have zero motivation and zero energy.
Is this a medication thing or more of a sz neg thing? and what are your experiences/fixes?
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I have the same and wonder this too. Followingā¦
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What gets me to do my chores is by reminding myself how good I feel afterwards.
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I had negative symptoms even before meds. I just force myself to do the things I need to do each day.
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Try one of these in the morning. It seems to act like a coffee jolt for me that lasts all day long.
If ever i have to do something, I take one.
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For me itās a medication thing but some people have it cause of sz, havenāt found a fix for it yet
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Iām better since I started exercising again.
Not great but better than I was.
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Avolition was my first symptom. It probably will be my last one. I use a spotting from Dr. Low: āMove the muscles and the mind will follow.ā
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Avolition is very serious, thankfully my has gotten better since i lost some weight. But i still have some avolition left, i may drink a lot of coffee to try to compensate for my relatively low energy.
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Mine tends to come in waves. Ill be sitting on the couch for months on end, not doing a damn thing, then suddenly hit with some motivation for a few weeks and have to clean up my disaster of a home. I had it really bad for a long time though and im embarassed of the condition my house was in, but im slowly stepping up my game and my house is actuallly pretty good now.
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I have avolition, specially when it comes to doing what is most important in my life.
I suggest creating some āsub tasksā as part of the main task which is being impacted by avolition and then do some/all of those āsub tasksā before confronting the main taskā¦in a way give the mind what it wants (little bit) and do the ātasksā that need to be done. You may tell the mind āokay Iāll not do this āsub taskāā so the mind will be āhappyā and you strike a kind of deal with avolitionā¦
I find this approach helpful, letās say I decide on reading a book, as soon as I make the decision avolition kicks in, then I tell the mind āokay Iāll not read the preface/introductionā or āIāll start at page 11ā. Then slowly come back to the āsub tasksā which were set aside.
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Iām no longer on APs and my negs are unchanged, soā¦ Iāve just had to develop habits that have helped me push past them. I started out with doing small things every day and then added to them. The habit to stay busy with something has become so ingrained now that I fairly go up a wall if Iām sick with a flu or such and really canāt do anything.
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