Can you keep conversation going beyod 2 mins

i run out of gas when talking

…poverty of speech/thought

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I run out of gas after about 20 minutes.

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20 mins is good

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Kind of. Most of my interactions are less than 20 minutes.

But at say an extended family gathering with my brother and his in-laws etc. then I get “found out” lol.

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I can chat forever.

But it used to be super easy,

Now it takes some effort and is exhausting.

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I can kind of carry on a conversation for a few minutes if I really try but usually I don’t have a lot to talk about.

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I run out like in 30 seconds seriously

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im similar…but i do have two conversational openers to ask people…do they follow soccer…or do they have any holidays planned

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I could talk underwater. I find no problems with chatting for however long.

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As long as the other person is saying something I can respond to I’m ok. I’m not good at initiating conversation .

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my daughter says, Mom, you change too fast, I can’t keep up.

yeah.

I have difficulties socialising.

It depends on the person though.

Some people I feel more comfortable around and some people I can not stand being around and that doesn’t necessarily mean I don’t like them .i can love someone but not be able to stand being around them.

I was invited to a family dinner today but had to say no thank you.
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Too many people were going to be there and many of them think they are superior to me and expect me to salute them or something which is against my beliefs and on top of that last time I went there I went mute and uncomfortable and my body started twitching because I felt so awkward.

I could not feel relaxed and happy but instead suffered being with family :open_mouth:.

I actually can suffer being around my own parents :open_mouth:but they have always hated me although I believe they love me a bit too.:open_mouth::stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

It doesn’t matter if they are strangers or I know them.

I can feel more comfortable around some strangers than I do my own family.

I hate that I can and have gone mute.
It is such a awful feeling and the other people/person is expecting you to speak and you can’t get any words to come out.

Sometimes it’s just blank but mostly I feel really uncomfortable and awkward etc

There’s a woman at one of my volunteer positions who wants power over me and suppresses me or tries to.
I feel really uncomfortable around her and that it’s not ok for her to boss me about and ask me to do things I can’t do.

Most of the others I volunteer with are more confident in who they are or don’t feel the need to treat me that way.they treat me as their equal and with respect and are patient and kind to me not like this awful pregnant woman all powercrazed.
Hope I don’t have to quit because of her and how she treats me.

I managed to hold a conversation for at least ten minutes last week with a woman I volunteer with and it was so lovely.i was so happy about it.and also with another and a couple others.it made me so happy to be able to have a chat.even if it was short.

Also I’m not so educated and don’t keep up with the news so I have difficulties with those types of conversations too.
Keep it simple with me perhaps.:slightly_smiling_face:

Although some of the woman I volunteer with spoke politics and I could keep up with their way of talking.i didn’t talk like they but I did ask one question and could understand what they were saying.

I love :two_hearts: those woman I volunteer work with.
We could probably not be friends but I love meeting them once a week but now I can’t find parking so holly knows if I can keep going.

How did I ever have friends?

How do I go with my own family not very well.
I’m awkward with my bro n sis who also want power over me and like I’m everyones bi tch in restraint or a lead or something n I don’t want to be so humiliated ha ha ha ha but the animals are treated badly doesn’t make the abuser superior.

I can switch off often too when I just can’t follow or understand what they are saying.

I can get so exhausted from being with people and I do avoid it but am understanding towards myself and say no to dinners and other social events and leave if I don’t feel well such as last week I left one of my volunteer positions because this pregnant woman was being awful to me and it made me feel awful so I left .

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good comment, honey. I read some of it.

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Ha ha ha ha ha

A bit long …

:slightly_smiling_face::two_hearts:

I can have a long conversation, but I’m much more of a listener. INFP personality.

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I’m good for about 15-20 minutes and then I draw a blank. I really hate it because before I got schizophrenia I could talk up a storm

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No, I suck at making conversation, especially with strangers. I tend to live in my own world though, which can suck when I want to join the regular one. I also lack a sense of humor quite often and have tended to be in some darkness.

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I end up oversharing.

I am the master of conversation :sunglasses:

I think that maybe the point is not counting the minutes of our conversations (as I did when I had real problems with negative symptoms), but to have conversations where we don’t ever consider looking at the clock. When we reach it, we’re happier.

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