Do negative symptoms improve over time? Please share your experience.
For me they’re getting worse at this moment in time, struggling to get out of bed, not washing and barely eating. Just keep knocking myself out with kratom and phenergan/trazadone but then I’m plagued with voices and night terrors. I’m quite close to spending christmas in hospital I think. I am about 1 year into the illness.
they come and go,
antidepressants helped me a bit,
improved my mood and energy, focus, motivation.
i used to just spend all day in bed, staring at the walls,
not sleeping or eating.
it’s getting better now.
i hope things get better for you, i wish i had something helpful to offer.
try the simple things, enough sleep, healthy food, excercise. supplements. find small things to focus on that make you happy and present in the moment.
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Mine are better because of supplements and Vraylar, but my positives are worse now. I don’t brush my teeth or shower much or work or go to school, but I have more energy and less depression I think. I believe my DP/DR was from something besides schizophrenia so I don’t count that as a positive symptom. It has gone away by like 98%.
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Do meds help you at all? Do you want to go into the hospital?
May I ask how you’re spending that energy you have now?
I vaguely remember you considering getting back to school (math or computer science).
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Ya. Depakote didn’t go well for me. Helped me drive without anxiety but made me really tired and a little less motivated.
They come and go and sometimes are a steady drubbing that seems to last a lifetime.
If I’m dx’d as sz or sza then I would say yes for me. If I have bipolar and ocd, then I can’t say. I hope your negative symptoms improve.
I was on high doses of atypical antipsychotics and antidepressants for 3 years after my first break/hospitalization. I had every single negative symptom and could not feel pleasure at all. It got better and worse, up and down during this time.
I was on 7 different atypical antipsychotics for various periods during this time.
I took 5 different antidepressant medications.
On some regimens, I was able to take online courses, though moving from one to another often meant trade offs, and eventually I could not handle school anymore due to amotivation.
I could not, and still can not, go out and be around people often.
Toward the end of last year, I began to taper down off of aripiprazole monotherapy with my doctor’s guidance. I tapered for 4 months until completely stopping.
I no longer suffered from negatice symptoms, but had significant issues with memory which remain to this day. I no longer suffer from negative symptoms in the same way I did, but other issues have arisen which make my life complicated, and school or work are too hard for me to do right now.
I am paranoid, but can function around others to some degree.
There are more cognitive issues than there used to be. My short term memory is very poor.
I cannot remember anything I do. My room is cluttered and I cannot read more than a page of a book or understand a tv show.
I’m still trying to figure issues out with my doctor. I am early in the course of my illness. I still take up to 200mg quetiapine as needed. This is the only atypical antipsychotic. Otherwise, I take various supplements and anxiolytic medications to function.
L-theanine, GABA, lorazepam, hydroxyzine and others.
I really don’t know if they are helping me or not. I don’t want to go into hospital again.
My negative symptoms come and go. Hoping the avolition which crushed me will lighten up. Got to get up and go even when I want to sleep. It’s an effort but I try. I want to paint and look after my husband better. I can’t afford to be depressed and demotivated!
Is there a way to avoid the hospital? Can you make an appointment with your psychiatrist or therapist?
Yeah I’ll see if I can speak to someone on Monday.
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