Do you feel exhausted when you do an intellectual activity?

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If I am not on a efficient antipsychotic like it is the case actually, I can’t do any intellectual activity because after some minutes, I feel totally exhausted and completely tired.

It’s as if my brain was to fast so when I do an intellectual activity, it gets tired really quickly. If I take an efficient antipsychotic, it slow down my brain so I can do anything.

Do you feel the same?

I have the intention of talking about that to my psychiatrist this week but I don’t know if she will take me seriously… She may think this is impossible.

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Yes. I am so used to interference that it requires me quite a force to keep the mind moving.

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My dysfunction is the opposite of what you describe, my brain seems to always be going too slowly with long pauses in between short bouts of activity. I like to refer to what I experience as poverty of thought.

I also have a very short attention span meaning I get tired of activities very quickly. Unfortunately I think I have the fatal combination. Even writing these four sentences to respond to your question, I feel like I’m wading through quicksand. And that’s the short reason why I don’t respond to questions on this website.

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The typical antipsychotics kill my imagination and destroy any intellectual ability that I have. Even when I am on an atypical antipsychotic my interest in intellectual things depends largely on my mood.

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intellectual activity generally energizes me. but getting myself to do anything is another story.

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Provigil is a treatment for lack of get up and go.

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I get tired if there is too much social activity. Today I went to see my two niece’s and nephew ages 10 years, 4 years, and 6 months and my sister has four dogs, one cat in a big house but they were all crowded around us while we were sitting on the floor.

I told my sister there is way tooooo much stimulus going on here. I was so tired when I left I was yawning on the drive home.

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Yes and physical activity is not better. I become very ‘stoned’, so much stoned that even If I went to the disco I would not feel any social anxiety because I would be in another dimension.

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Playing dumb exhausts me.

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I did. It got better with daily practice.

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Depends on the type of intellectual activity. Personally I can do web programming for hours, but focused practise at the piano I can only take for 30 minutes, then it starts to feel like nails on a chalkboard.

Maybe there’s other intellectual activities that are more in line with how you already function.

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