Do not think I will ever get over this problem fully. I think the real answer is because my brain is firing so many problems at me with delusions etc that I don’t get time for it. Also, I think it is a negative symptoms thing with alogia that my mind is just not fruitful anymore. Do any of you get affected by this, I think it can give people a negative opinion of me?
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I don’t talk much. It’s an effort.
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I don’t talk much at all. I’ve gotten a little better over the years but it’s still very difficult for me to start and hold conversations with people. I’m painfully shy.
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I go through cycles with it. When i’m depressed, I don’t talk much at all. I don’t even want to be around anyone. When I am manic I talk all the time. I am the most clever person in the world. When i’m in the middle I talk sometimes and don’t other times. So it really depends on my mood.
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I like to talk, but if I am with people that I don’t know so much, then it is for me more difficult to talk.
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For me it’s getting worse year by year lol. I speak only basic things and on phone even less
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I have moments, like one time at a funeral and all of my old friends were there that I just started acting like anybody else, normally get a few beers down me I will be a bit more chatty too. I think as my mental health has improved a lot I have been a bit more chatty but I got asked at work the other day that I dont talk much and I think they are starting to realise I am not quite normal social.
When things start getting bad, I don’t talk much. It’s genuinely difficult for me to form words and know what to say. I think it was the result of all the noise in my head. Since the noise has calmed down, I have been talking more.
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I don’t talk much. Unless my stepfamily are here or the depot nurse is here or my dad phones there is no conversation.
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I have social anxiety myself …its a tough one…I get help here on this site though
When I am psychotic I usually go mute but I can go mute other times too if I feel overwhelmed or a lot of things going on around me stimula etc
I have social difficulties too.
It can feel so intense inside me but I think it is someone else I am feeling then and one of my male friends in spirit does not like children.
I hate going mute .
Specially if I want to talk at least the basics to get left alone and not be taken to hospital.
Sometimes I can speak a little but with difficulties and a touch of intense hysteria inside of me.
Well I often dont have anybody to talk to.
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I don’t talk much, I feel like I don’t have much of merit to say. When I am hearing voices I go totally mute or ask weird, awkward questions to distract myself. I often feel in a group that I am always on the outside and prefer one to one interactions.
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I talk when I’m happy. If I’m quiet I’m either bored or upset. Keeping to myself didn’t get me much over the years so I try to socialize a lot more when I have the option to.
I’m sparing with how often I speak, since I’m usually too lost within my own mind to even be aware of what’s happening in conversations half the time. however, once I do begin to speak, I tend to be very verbose and ramble on and on for a bit before becoming lost in my head once more. luckily for me people tend to find it pretty charming haha, I’m known to be a bit poetic with my words and to give good advice to others.
I talk too much. I am from a family of talkers and years ago as a child I reached a point where it was be quiet or talk. I chose talk. I’ve gained from that.
It’s an art. It’s something you can learn and it’s really good if you can do it so don’t give up. It is about practice and it is about social and verbal clues. Most talk is about listening. It’s about knowing when to respond to people.
It is worthy of trying so keep doing that! Don’t give up because it’s like these boards. People will listen and respond and we are social animals.
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I don’t talk much I’m too awkwardly shy usually. If I know someone well which is not many people then I talk a bit more but it’s still not so so much necessarily.
I socialise when im comfortable but im rarely comfortable… if i know them it’s okay but if they’re now i hardly say a thing
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They call me the silent salesman at work. Between co-workers, I hardly have much to say. But between the lines (when at work), you can’t shut me up. Alter ego it has become.
It must be alogia. I started off mute. I will talk as little a possible. There is a Freudian dilemma between my talkative mother and my reticent, reserved and thoughtful father. I MUST have absolute silence around me, but there is no such thing, so I suffer. Too much going on at any one time to put into words, so, nothing.
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