I haven’t really grown after psychosis. I went to school and worked after my second last psychosis, but I don’t feel growth took place. Seems the article writer identifies with it through being in academics, which maybe is an area where one can feel growth.
I know when you struggle and suffer usually the first thing I was doing was comparing my life to others. Either saying others aren’t suffering as me or others are suffering worse than me. Then I came to a conclusion to stop comparing my life with others and I made some growth when I did this. I became able to enjoy the present day. Instead of always either worrying about the future or complaining about the past.I realize right now is Yesterdays future which I was worrying about. And I was never enjoying the present day. I had to overcome some fear just enjoy the moment in the present day. Instead of always just focusing once again on the future or the past. I believe I had some form of PTSD and was traumatized by my psychotic feelings. And I have overcome the fear of my psychotic feelings and any more psychotic episodes to come in my life. On this forum I have grown more socially than when I had come back to this forum about two years ago. I always think I was emotionally at the age when my first schizophrenic episode occurred in my life. Which was around the age of 20. And at that age I was emotionally and psychologically like a 12 or 13-year-old I would say. So interacting with others here has helped me grow emotionally and psychologically from How I really was like a 12 or 13-year-old still. And now emotionally And psychologically I would say I have progressed to be around the age of a 19 or 20 year old. I am in my 50s now. And I believe I have started growing psychologically and emotionally very quickly and still have some things to go through in life. I still live with both of my biological parents. I have not worked a job since I was in the age of about 19. And all the jobs I worked back then we’re minimum wage jobs like stocking and dishwashing and restaurant work. Who keeps pushing me is my father. He is trying to show me how to take care of life if there comes a time we’re he or my mother aren’t around anymore. I also have a sister who lives 20 minutes away from me. My father is showing me how to manage all his estate and he’s trying to buy houses to rent out. Trying to find a way for me to become dependent on myself and even was pushing me to find somebody and become married. I was in a stagnant state for years where I didn’t make any growth. And I don’t know the med change help me. And this forum is helping. And now I am in a state of growth instead of stagnation. And I look forward to the future in growing more and experiencing more in life.
My last psychosis kind of crushed me. hoping i can climb my way out of the aftermath again. Cognitive functions pretty shot this round.
I remember you still mountain bike. And when I take my mountain bike out and ride up hills and pedal hard it’s the best thing for my cognition besides supplements or things like that. And I had to completely stop all the supplements I was taking for mental cognition. All I gotta do is put on some nice tires and take my mountain bike out to the park across the street and climb some hills and my brain gets circulating and moving. I know it doesn’t last long for me. But I really do miss it. Since I stop the supplements my cognition is holding up pretty good. I have my mountain bike on a stand in the basement and I pedal it but it’s nothing like taking it out pedaling up some steep hills.
Does exercise create new neurons in the brain?
Exercise is known to have numerous neuroprotective and cognitive benefits, especially pertaining to memory and learning related processes. One potential link connecting them is exercise-mediated hippocampal neurogenesis, in which new neurons are generated and incorporated into hippocampal circuits
I sometimes think of all the difficult (euphemism) situations that I’ve experienced in my life and it depresses me, but I have to realize that I have survived them all and I’m stronger for it. Difficult situations, at least for me, are necessary to substantially grow as a person.
Of course it’s nice when things are easy, and I can still grow as a person by reading or being nice to people, etc., but when my mother died I really grew as a person.
The research paper says that butterflies that do not struggle to break out of the cocoon cannot fly. Maybe that’s the same for the human condition.