Does anyone else get those days where they just don’t know what to think? Utterly confused.
I cant even follow certain people in conversations, either that or my ability to comprehend comes and goes.
I think hope is gone for me. Its been gone for a while now.
Definitely get those days.
But you seem well written and are able to articulate on this forum completely well. Maybe it’s easier to process. I think schizophrenia really messes with our ability to process stimuli, and slowing things down a bit in written form helps a lot.
I also think you are too hard on yourself.
please tell your pdoc that you feel this way and maybe he can help you find better meds where you don’t feel that way anymore? sorry.
Yes! In the beginning of my illness I was able to talk to my family with ease, now 10 years later it’s like information overload. I get hopeless too, but their presence lift my spirits and I don’t let it deter me from talking to them even though my short term memory stops me from from following things. I can go on this forum and communicate easier because we talk back in forth in like 3-4 sentences
With the medications and the shock of sz I tend to become a mental loafer myself. I try to do wordpuzzles, avoid tv and do something more demanding on my brain.
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Hope is not gone for you. I can relate. It happens to me, too. It’s why I can’t work. Can you plan for those days on your good days? Like make meals on better days so there’s leftovers on hard days? Connect with friends and family on good days and be more of a companion on harder days?
hopefully you’ll find more clarity somehow, I like Chill Out music on You Tube
sometimes when listening to NPR, I totally did not follow what they just reported
but I’m online at the same time.
I have problems concentrating and getting my mind together. It can be difficult to organize and express what i’m thinking. I am better at writing than speaking though.
Hope is never gone. But I understand. I often feel that way. Just keep plugging on. Talk to your pdoc when you can. Until then hang onto the people and things that matter to you most.
Can you find something to do that will get your hope back? Maybe a volunteer job, maybe start exercising, maybe helping your family out in some way? Maybe get a few bucks and give it out to homeless people? If you can find some way to help another person it will make you feel good. I have hopeless times too. But I’m lucky because 90% of the time that I feel hopeless, I go to bed and I wake up and feel much better and hopeful. A good nights sleep works wonders. A long term solution to get hope would be joining some kind of day program that is not stressful or joining a support group.
And by the way, I haven’t done your title for a couple years. It’s been a long dry spell in the 77nick77 household.
This used to be happen when i was before medicine. İ used to couldn t watch movies. Can not keep up conversations etc. These proplems fixed after treatment.
I think you’re onto something there about helping people. I really can honestly say i dont like 90%+ of people, so an activity that i can fo by myself would be ideal for me. However my pdoc said im too self absorbed and that i should focus on others not myself. Starting to think theres something to that…i would actually love to do something to help the homeless people in my town. I think the amount of good one can do has no limits in that area. I dont help them now even in simple ways because if social intelligence had a rating similar to IQ, my social intelligence would be -9001. So i feel like id get slaughtered if they tried to talk to me or better yet take advantage of me because i am quite the sucker.
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