Hello, everyone. This is my first post on this forum and I wanted to say this seems like a really cool forum. It reminds me of Reddit. Anyway, onto the topic and if anyone has any questions for me, feel free to ask.
Do you ever deal with boredom from your sz symptoms? For me, I experience a sense of boredom as a positive symptom that sometimes comes while doing things like watching netflix shows, gaming. Lately, it has become really bothersome for me and I notice it gets this way when I’m waiting to try a new treatment that could potentially cause a breakthrough for me (I’m meeting with my pdoc next month to switch to Latuda from Abilify). My question is: do you have experience with any such feelings of boredom and how do you cope with them or cope with general feelings of boredom. Also, are there things you used to be able to do that you can no longer do because of sz and do you feel bored as a result of this and how do you cope?
Yes, a lot. But I try to keep myself busy with watching movies, shows, tv, youtube, music, vaping, gaming, cooking, etc What do you mean with boredom being a positive symptom? I think boredom is a sz negative symptom.
The way I look at it a feeling of boredom should be a positive symptom as it is an irregular symptom that is present but absent in most people. I could be wrong though.
Welcome dude. I once heard boredom described as “the desire for desires”. Not sure how to cope with it…I remember I used to feel really bored or like…uncomfortable whatever I was doing when I was on invega. It’s much better now that I’m on Abilify. Hope your doing well. Blessings!
Yes, I feel bored. That’s why I sleep so much. Games, movies and doing sh-it doesn’t give me any pleasure. It’s because of meds, they cut dopamine in the brain. Without dopamine one doesn’t have fun.
Have you tried all atypical antipsychotics? You may find different effects with different aps. I feel you on this though, I try to sleep in as much as possible but the hallucinations wake me up.
Check the wiki page on atypical antipsychotics, sorry I can’t send links because I’m a new user.
Scroll down to comparison table of adverse effects. It’ll show all the atypical aps I was talking about but I’m pretty sure there’s more than that even. My plan is to keep trying a new atyipical ap until I find one that stabilizes my negative symptoms. If I can find one that stabilizes my negative and positive symptoms then even better.
I do 24/7. Feel like I’m dragging a grand piano behind me most days.
I lost my joy and it pissed me off. I went and got it back. Turns out that you can train yourself to feel positive emotions again as much as we did pre-illness. Maybe even more so.
