I keep feeling like i have to complain about negative symptoms but this only make me look and feel bad. It doesn’t help. My friends want my old self back by stopping my meds. They don’t understand that sz requires meds and that its serious. They said meds made me worse and always tired and no emotions.
I feel that sz made me grumpy, in a bad mood and irritable most of the time.
IDK. Lots of people complain on this site. Maybe try to focus not on never complaining but try to find something positive to post about as well. I still complain on this site once in awhile myself.
Focusing only on the negative is probably not healthy for you mentally. I’m sure that there are some positive things in your life.
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I just called my friend and he said he’s talking to a women. I hope he will call me after that as he said to wait. I don’t have any close women friends lol I had women friends in university back in 2019 we studied together but I finished university in 2019. I hangout with my friends in the summer and sometimes their women friends talk to me but they’re not really my friends.
There is a women my parents know who asked me to come to her place have a coffee but I felt too stressed and said no thanks. She is 34y.o. I am 31y.o. I try to avoid her now when she visits us as I get stressed.
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I’ve been complaining to my docs about negative symptoms and they keep avoiding it like the plague… they move to self care. Integrating me back into society through brute force. Same with cognitive decline. I bring it up over and over - and no answers. They say maybe its cause of this or that. Its none of those things.
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Yea mine at first tried Wellbutrin which kinda helped but it worsened my positive symptoms a bit and had insomnia. Someone here told me these side effects went away after a while so maybe I should retry it. Also pdoc talked about sz history and how when antipsychotics were invented some patients had their sz symptoms fixed but they were too dysfunctional to be in a society or to be independant.
Its how they discovered negative symptoms. He also said that negative symptoms are caused by a lack of dopamine in certain brain parts that are not associated with positive symptoms. I asked him if there are meds for this he said no, no current meds can target specific brain regions and also such meds need to block dopamine in regions where its high and boost it where its low. He said partial agonists like Abilify are close to this mechanism but not really as they still reduce the action of dopamine.
He said be happy that you don’t also have positive symptoms. Idk if I should believe him, afaik dopamine is still a sz theory.
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Sorry for long post, I made an error, I meant its my pdoc who was talking to me about history of sz and antipsychotics.
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At least your pdoc addressed it. Sounds like they are throwing meds at you to see if anything sticks for negs, and nothing has sticked.
My pdoc said, well you do take benzos, and that can cause memory problems. NO. I am not having benzo related cognitive problems cause of a PRN. I know its from SZ. It’s like just speak the truth and address it. There is no treatment for negs and cogs.
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My negative symptoms were better on Abilify but I was still not able to hold a job for more than a month, not even part time.
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Also lowering my AP dose does improve negative symptoms by a bit but then my positive symptoms get worse. I am stuck.
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I just can’t be normal and functional at the same time. Even on Abilify my family say I was crazy almost psychotic on it.
@Bowens I feel that my negative symptoms are getting worse with time. I have been showering less and socially isolating never getting outside. Also used to enjoy participating in the say anything thread when Lifer was here. I miss his posts. Idk if its the winter making my negative symptoms worse. Is it possible?
I’ve mentioned this before and I think you have kind of dismissed it, but I think that if you continue to let your negatives completely rule you, you are only likely to get worse. You may just be sinking deeper into the habits that your negatives are causing. You are getting used to not showering and socially isolating.
I’m not perfect in this regard either. I know that negatives suck but I think that you have to push yourself to do something once in awhile just to maintain your current level of functionability. Otherwise you will just sink deeper and deeper. I don’t do all that much myself but I have, for example, done work on my moms office and stuff, including some electrical work recently. It didn’t fix me or anything but it was doing something to keep myself motivated/going.
Maybe plan to do some activity and stick to it. Anything is better than nothing.
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Hopefully in the summer lol I will tell my friends to pick me up like last summer.
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