I have been giving it a lot of thought and I really do believe that my negative symptoms are coming from depression and some Schizophrenia - both.
It’s still so difficult to tell where my lack of drive, pleasure is coming from.
I have a hard time telling when I am mildly depressed.
I think that my severe depression has lifted some.
Regardless I am going to talk to my doctor about how best treat my Negative Symptoms - I feel like a Vegetable.
I can’t take antidepressants.
I’m not sure if I’m depressed if it’s the sza mood swings or if the negative symptoms. Last time I brought it up to my pdoc he said I didn’t seem depressed, but I feel depressed.
I have baseline negative symptoms that are pretty stable. Sometimes they get accentuated but that’s usually just the first days following something very draining like visiting my family. My depressions are normally not triggered by anything specific so it is usually easy for me to tell when I’m depressed and when I’m just extra tired. They feel similar though. The main difference is as others have mentioned that depression makes you feel bad. Another difference is that I am able to do a lot more when depressed than when I have intensified negative symptoms.
I feel I should also mention that I mistook negative symptoms for depression for more than two years. My mood was cycling on top of that so it just seemed to me like constant depression that sometimes got worse.
I don’t feel depressed. But just blank and empty. In space. Feeling immobile. And lack of desire to do anything
That’s a good description. I want to get things done but have almost no desire to actually start doing things.
I still experience joy and satisfaction. But I miscalculate the difficulty of the simplest tasks or thinking it won’t be worth it.
Example - sitting on the couch thinking maybe I should play a video game. But Im not sure it’s worth turning the machine on to play or maybe the game is too much to think about. So I’ll just stare at the wall.
Or even getting myself to make a coffee even though I know it could probably help.
Just avolition with everything.
Same here, I have lots of Avolition, with or without depression, but its worse when I am depressed.