I feel like ever since my onset, fiction doesn’t really interest me anymore, at least, not like it used to interest me. I feel like my creativity is taken up by this illness and is only used for my positive symptoms. I also feel myself being dull imagination wise. I used to have a fluid imagination, and then, shortly after my onset, it stopped and is only used to distress me. What was once a gift, turned into an inexplicable horror.
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i never liked fiction movies and stuff. but i have a great imagination.
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Not my imagination so much, but in refererence to the interest you mentioned, it has lessened my ability to enjoy some things as much. It used to be much worse though. I believe I have improved over time.
I’m also not sure it was all sz directly. Some of it could have been meds or like a sort of PTSD from extreme delusional situations, that it took me some time to get over.
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Lost mine, got it back with hard work.
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My imagination has always been over active.
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@shutterbug, what techniques did you use to get it back?
I set time aside every day and tried to create things I did before I was ill. The creativity slowly came back, but I had to push myself.
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That’s a good idea. My motivation lacks right now, but it won’t forever and I know I can get it back, and then it’ll be a test to see if I can do things that I enjoyed again. I’m hoping that this will improve with age, but if not, then I will have more time to practice. As of the moment, I want to get back to learning Greek, and also writing.
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The meds take away my creativity and my passion for music.
I still enjoy music but it’s very different from before.
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No, it went into overdrive. But indeed it is focused on horror. I’ve been joking with someone that I should write horror novels. My mind makes these stories up all the time.
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I would gladly change my imagination for the ability to focus. I wish I could live more in reality.
My imagination has a life of its own.
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Definitely my creative spirit has definitely diminished.
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I still have my imagination. I watched Dune 2 last week and was all into the SciFi storyline.
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used to be able to meditate and visualise, but not anymore
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Medication is the only thing holding my imagination back. I’ve gotta have a good imagination with the ■■■■ I experienced while psychotic, that’s for sure.
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Yeah, but the more i problem solve. The less issue i have with imagination
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My nightmares took on a whole new dimension of vivid intensity with this disorder
I have more imagination now than ever, but mostly for scary things
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The “typical” antipsychotics immediately and completely destroy my creativity. I can write on Geodon and Seroquel, though. You might try Geodon. A lot of people swear by it.
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I actually just added Geodon to the mix of my augmentation last week. So far, so well.
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Are you taking other antipsychotics along with the Geodon?
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