thats what i try to do right now. to change my thinking but i am not sure if it will help lol :).
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So long as you’re taking a theraputic dose of your meds, then a bit of positive thinking isn’t going to hurt.
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Psychological issues can get better with positive thinking. Psychiatric issues on the other hand are not so influenced by your mindset.
yeah but when you have psychiatric condition maybe its always combined with psychological problems isn’t it? My doc keeps saying only this to me - to be more positive.
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I have been working on changing my thoughts for over a year now. I find that i get less negative intrusive thoughts. I also have way better self esteem.
Positive thinking is an important piece in the puzzle of recovery, but it isn’t the whole picture.
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With Schizophrenia you can’t just think your way out of it.
We need meds primarily to function.
But thinking more positively can help.
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@Anna1 that’s my take.
I don’t think we can function just with thoughts.
No. However we can at least be in a good mood, and that’s already much.
I manage to avoid bad thoughts, despite my situation being very bad.
And that’s very good.
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This has been proven. I could not control the racing thoughts but now a lot better clear thinking to adjust my mindset. Hope you are doing well
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I believe so, to a degree. It helps.
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Having a more positive thought process can help a lot when trying to live with and cope with your symptoms, but it will not take your symptoms away or decrease their severity. Only meds will do that. But I know you’ve had rotten luck with meds 
I used to get very negative when I was dealing with philosophical issues. I still can occasionally. There is a quote by Nietzsche about that: “If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Hey @crimby you claimed that you were being sexually harassed.
What’s up with that?
Are you doing all right?
If I honestly told you what was really going on you would say I needed to change my med’s. It’s almost like something from the twilight zone.
Yeap, we need meds of course. But i was asking if positive thinking can get us out where the meds dont do nothing.
The other thing is thst i wonder if meds dont just maintain me in a zombie state… they help me to less suffer but lately i ask myself if they didnt kill my emotions?.. how is it for you? Aps are known to kill emotions dont they? Maybe i suffer less on them but what if they kill my desire to live and feel? Sometimes its too comfortable to be alone at my house…
my mother in law for the longest time thought that just a different mind set would cure my sza. my father in law thinks it can be cured by working
Your inlaws, I’m sorry to say, seem like a very callous and ignorant bunch. What else can I say… prolly a whole lot but I’ll control myself
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Thoughts alone cannot cure you but in my experience thoughts are everything that control your mind. If you don’t harbor the ability to feel guilt no voice is going to make you feel guilty. When I realized that the voices were not real I gained the upper hand in battling them, though I could not make them go silent. The relationship with your voices I believe is in your control. Whether they are loud or soft is up to the medication
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I have no voices or hallucinations @Moonwalker. I am desperate,sometimes angry and have a loads of fears… what i am afraid now is that meds will kill my emotions. I say that those meds are strange…
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as far as I know flatness of emotion is part of sz symptoms not of the drugs. there are drugs that mute emotions like the lithium and invega I’m on , but I find it a pleasant change, nothing to be afraid of