(sorry for posting so much and being new ive never found a psych forum i could be open in)
does anyone else have cognitive impairments and ever since i got sick and put on antipsychotics
(very early on in the beginning starts of my “illness”) ive had marked cognitive impairments …especially lately
I had em worse when I was off meds. Meds have improved my cognitive abilities. Growing up it was one of the early signs I was schizo, my cognitive ability wasting a way. But since I’ve stopped drinking and started taking meds I’ve become pretty good cognitively I think.
I used to to have very heavy cognigitive impairment on clozaril but my current drug has no side effect all which is paliperidone.but i just dont want to read or intellectually active anymore but if i want i can on this drug
cognitive is a big issue with me - worse through the years and all the meds I have tried and failed.
In hindsight, my first year away from home at prep school showed marked cognitive impairments. I couldn’t keep up with the math class, got bumped out of an advanced English class to a less talented group, couldn’t understand chemistry or physics at all. I got into Harvard, but I did a mediocre job there and dropped out after two years.
If anything, the AP helps me focus and think more clearly than without, but it slows everything down.
when i was in highschool (excluding my senior year) i was really into academics and i was so good in school and all of it went to ■■■■ now especially since ive been graduated i cant even understand what someone says to me if its too complicated.
im sorry we all have to deal with this
My brain almost stopped to work after diagnosed. I keep to take meds and be sober. I also workout.Then it started to work, even a little better than before.
Yeah I have had cognitive impairments. I can’t think straight. Information confuses me.
I used to have the same. I was on high dose of meds for sometime, in addition untreated psychosis itself for a long time caused it I think. I have been on the low dose for the last 5years and I feel my cognitive abilities came back to normal in the last few yrs… give yourself time and look after yourself: min. alcohol, good min. 7hrs sleep, good diet, exercise, min stress. Wish you all the best and don’t give up. Cheers
@Sheryl i totally understand. information is confusing
I decreased the seroquel from 800 to 400-600 and that seems to have helped the cognitive impairment. I still have major difficulties with abstract thinking and verbal fluency. I have marked alogia. I think the alogia indicates that something is wrong cognitively even if i feel like im at 90% of my pre sz intelligence.
Stress makes it worse. Also sleep deprivation.
I was a robot on Fluanxol, then I got Abilify and my brain started to function somewhat again.
But I have had serious problems after psychotic episodes. It takes some time to “come back”. But I don’t think you will get back to what we had pre illness.
I think psychosis leads to brain damage right? I think thats what they say.
I don’t know if there is permanent brain damage after a psychotic episode, but it sure feels like it.
Lucky us our brain can re-learn stuff that have gone missing in a psychotic break. It takes time, but nothing is impossible.
it feels like my brain is withering away
My executive functioning is still horrible. It was less horrible on sarcosine, but it’s still a thing I deal with on a daily basis. Here’s what that is:
The executive function (EF) is a set of abilities, which allows us to invoke voluntary control of our behavioral responses. These functions enable human beings to develop and carry out plans, make up analogies, obey social rules, solve problems, adapt to unexpected circumstances, do many tasks simultaneously, and locate episodes in time and place. EF includes divided attention and sustained attention, working memory (WM), set-shifting, flexibility, planning, and the regulation of goal directed behavior and can be defined as a brain function underlying the human faculty to act or think not only in reaction to external events but also in relation with internal goals and states.
from:
Executive Functioning in Schizophrenia - PMC
Taking sarcosine for this, but I ran out. 
Feeling the return of my worst negative symptom!!
Also, small talk is difficult, as is displaying interpersonal body language. I act, but I’m not as good as normals at this stuff, so people can usually spot that I’m “shy or quiet” and ask about why!!
yeah my executive functioning is pretty poor. i didnt believe it until this pdoc told me “are you functioning at the level that someone else your age would normally be functioning at?” i cant even do the steps to get into bed so i just sleep on the coucch usually.
small talk for me is difficult but my bpd wants to get right to the point and be open about thing and wanting the attention back… navigating relationships sucks