Cognitive symptoms psychosis

Hi, I received a diagnosis of cannabis-induced psychosis, and I can confirm that it is correct because suspending the use of the same I felt significant improvements, such as taking it, I fell back.

My case had a form of paranoid delirium, therefore associated to illusions, distortions of reality and perception. But I will not go into this, know that treatment with antipsychotics has favored the removal of these symptoms, defined positive symptoms, and about the big picture I was able to process much of the disorder and associated discomfort through a constant comparison and introspection .

The treatment lasted eight months, however, has had many negative consequences, including the side effects of antipsychotics, some symptoms created exclusively by drugs and not from the disorder, and especially the aggravation of the negative and cognitive symptoms. Negative symptoms such as apathy and social withdrawal were amplified by the drugs and therefore I decided to discontinue drug therapy with the disappointment of my psychiatrist.

In 8 months I have not noticed a single improvement in the perception, because I tend to misrepresent the experiences, I attribute a distorted and inadequate meaning, very complicated to make, but I mean this with illusions, and cognitive symptoms have not improved.

To date illusions occupy a very small part, the real obstacle is cognitive dysfunction, including handling and thinking difficulty (mind blank), difficulty of understanding and learning, concentration and attention.

These symptoms do not abandon me, and it’s very important for me to return to the quality of my previous life.

Every specialist I met has no theory to explain this, if not the result of psychosis, and then treated with antipsychotics, but ■■■■ them were just to aggravate my condition cognitive.

What can I do to restore my cognitive symptoms, I hope to enjoy the experience of someone here on the forum, thank you very much.

It could be because of your psychosis. I’ve had a couple. And I have not been able to go back to my previous life. I feel like a retard. Can’t watch tv or read newspapers because of lack of concentration and memory loss. I had my first psychotic episode in 2010.

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I hope not and that there is a solution!

The longer I’ve been stable… it feels the more my brain has been healing. I’ve been stable through meds and therapy. I’ve been able to concentrate a little more… and stay on topic a little better.

I still have brain erase now and then, I do hear myself jump topics… but with work and practice I think I’ve been getting better.

But I do realize meds is not the choice of everyone…

There are a lot of web sites on Mindfulness and Cognitive Improvement and types of therapy and cognitive improvement. Exercise… memory work, CBT work…

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/schizophrenia/cognitive-rehabilitation-schizophrenia

http://www.nami.org/FirstEpisode/CET.pdf

There looks like lots of info on this topic. I hope some ideas come your way.

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What supplements have helped you in particular? I’ve tried several, Alcar, Omega 3, Green Tea, phosphatidylserine, DMAE, teanine, taurine, N-acetyl tyrosine, and more. No results, can anyone suggest something?

For me personally - remaining on the right dose of antipsychotics, helps me with cognition.
When I was on a low dose of Risperdal, my memory was being affected - I was forgetting if I was feeding the dog!
Raising my meds helped me cognitively

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I consulted the forum longecity and discussing my problem with a user recommended me a stack:
DHA
CDP-Choline
Uridine
Furthermore, this integration has been used in a study to test the effects on Alzheimer which demonstrated the validity of this treatment. Soon I’ll do an experiment than a month to check their effects on cognition. I hope it can give positive results.

There is no research that I’m aware of that shows that any of these supplements you’ve listed would be helpful in schizophrenia or psychosis. I would save your money and put them into something that has some evidence behind them.

And avoid the forum Longecity - nobody there has much knowledge or experience with schizophrenia or psychosis.

What do you recommend? In your experience what you promote?

See our list of treatments here:

http://schizophrenia.com/sztreat.html

Here in the forum there are some treatments that the page that you linked are not present, according to your experience what do you suggest?

I can’t suggest anything myself since I haven’t tried any of them - you’ll have to read the reviews and evidence and make a choice for yourself.

I wanted to know based on what your experience was useful to you?
Pregnenolone? Glycine or what?

Hi - I don’t have schizophrenia myself. But if I did - I’d probably start with the Pregnenolone for a month or two, then try L-Lysine.