I’ve just noticed I used to be pretty good at basketball, then I got on antipsychotic meds and was bad, much worse than before, when I went off the meds after that I was crazy but good at basketball and other sports again, then back on and crap at it again. It seems like I have a hard time trying hard if that makes sense. No motivation. Im gonna try antidepressant does it help with this?
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It slows your brain,you think better but your slower in speeds.I play soccer and was slower because of meds
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No. I still play competitive cricket and I’m 49. Meds help my concentration for sure. I still open the batting in the lowest grade. I face your fastest bowlers. Yeah sure I don’t see as many down the grades but every now and then you run into someone with a bit of speed.
As to ambition. I’m very happy with my lot. I don’t have to work and sure I don’t have a lot of money but I have enough that I can save up for nice things when I need them.
So. It’s harder. You need to work harder for sure but it’s doable.
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Maybe your right. I was also skinnier. I just find I don’t care as much about stuff. Cricket sounds fun.
I decided to go on an anti depressant. I was in a really bad place. I think it was work and this illness mixed together that was making me really low and I needed something to help me before I crashed.
I take Sertraline, and it seems to have also helped me with my anxiety and I am popping less benzos these days.
As for the AP. I have been through 6 of them to find just 2/3 over that time that don’t make me feel like ■■■■. They do exist, you just need to try some others and you might be surprised.
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Hmmm …
Anti depressants help with motivation, I can tell you that much.
As for ambition, I’m not really sure what fuels that. Not even sure if its ignited by serotonin or dopamine to be honest.
Competitive nature ? I hope you mean that in healthy form and not in a selfish way.
But yeah, anti depressants help with motivation, so I think maybe that’s a step forward to ambition.
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I’ve never been very ambitious or competitive . Have the meds increased that ? I couldn’t say for certain .
I agree antidepressant helps with motivation.when your depress you just don’t feel like doing anything productive,antidepressant lift your mood,hence you start getting things done
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666 or 151515? My teacher told me to always be 2 
I am on antipsychotic,always wanted to give up because of the suffer over benefit it gives.Still holding on though…
I don’t want to stop my meds I just wanted to clarify my excuse for why I keep losing at sports lol. Thank you all for your input. And @anon57786250 I don’t think having competitive nature makes one selfish, but that’s just my opinion. I AM an artist so to be honest I have been accused of being selfish by others in the past, just goes with the territory of promoting one’s self I think, but now in sports I feel unselfish to a fault. I can’t let the world walk all over me while I just let everyone else have all the fun or score the points, I have to get out there and play! In the end the world is hyper competitive and it’s there are few loyal folks in my experience. People are generally self concerned and only interested in you if you help them.
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The meds slowed me down considerably. Especially Risperdal Consta injections. I was the star performer at my first piano recital only three months after starting piano lessons. After I started Risperdal injections, I couldn’t play a note and had to stop doing recitals entirely. Now, fourteen years later, I’m still playing catch up.
I find that the drugs stop me from feeling the “rhythm of things”. So, I find dancing harder, and I no longer get the same pleasure in listening to music.
Also, motivation is far lower on drugs than pre psychosis, so yes, this is a problem for me too.
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That happened to me with piano. Before my AP injections, I was the star performer at my studios recital. Two years later, on Risperdal Consta injections, I was the worst.
but are u on other Aps now? maybe ur ability to play the piano is related with the decline of cogintive ability that is related with the illness itself?and why would u take an Ap at first?
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I believe the decline in my piano performance ability was due to the Risperdal injections because it happened overnight after starting them.
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I only felt like this on certain AP’s. The one I’m currently on makes me feel nauseous a lot, which decreases my energy a bit. But the past AP’s I’ve been on, I’ve rarely had a problem with motivation.
All the AP’s weaken me physically, but the atypical AP’s condition my mind just about right. At least Geodon and Seroquel do. All the typical AP’s dull my mind so much. Life is very dull and uninteresting.
Obesity has psychological effects like lack of self-esteem, ambition, volition, etc…Obesity is a side effect of AP, so in my case I can say that AP modify my psychology in a more docile, less competitive way. That’s okay for others who don’t have a competitor.
I’ve never been competitive in a me vs someone else way . My greatest competitor has always been myself , and then only from time to time .
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