I’m swapped medication recently and I’ve just lost interest in everything. I want play video games or watch tv but I can’t get anything out of the experience.
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I’ve managed to improve my negs only very modestly through the years. Exercise, supplements, better diet get the credit. They would still be mostly disabling if I hadn’t learned helpful techniques for getting moving and then staying moving through therapy.
What’s really depressing to me right now is that I was allowed to go off APs and I expected that to improve the negatives some. I can’t detect any change. I guess they’re intrinsic to my illness.
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Mine have become much better but I’ve had to motivate myself with hobbies. Also having a child has helped as I just can’t let them get the better of me. I HAVE to get up and make a meal. I HAVE to clean.
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For a while now my negative symptoms have gotten better as my depressive symptoms improved.
I attribute the improvements to Lamictal
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So, are you fully recovered now or are you still symptomatic?
I am happy that you are off medications.
I’m still symptomatic, but I was nearly as symptomatic on APs. I’m managing. I’m functional and I’m mostly enjoying my life when I don’t have idiots crashing into it. This is probably as good as it will get.
Unless a meteor kills all the idiots. That would be sublime.
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When I was symptomatic (voices), I couldn’t disregard them. They tended to overwhelm me. I currently have no symptoms and almost no side effects from the medications I take. I am very functional but less social.
It is hard to cope with the voices. You must be a pretty strong person to be able to function despite the voices.
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Not once you really start to understand they are just noise and the only power they have is what you give them. So I don’t give them any.
It’s not a matter of being strong, it’s being stubborn as hell. I’m not letting a few malfunctioning grey cells steal my quality of life from me.
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I love my medication and it saddens me that it causes high prolactin levels. My negative symptoms are so much better.
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Mine get better when I’m manic or hypomanic and when I’m depressed I’m completely crippled by them. I’ll sit on the couch for days without getting up more than a few times mindlessly scrolling the internet for any dopamine I can get.
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Mostly my negatives aren’t better but when my depression lifts then so do the negatives for a while but they keep on returning
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That’s been the largest part of my strategy for dealing with the negs as well.
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I like the others say, I too just work through mine. Having five kids is a huge motivator though. I have to get up for them. But I also have hobbies that I love to do. It all helps me not be a lump at the end of the day. Doesn’t mean it’s not hard, though. Some days I’m just surviving.
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