Do you get moments were you can’t really speak or it feels really really hard to do you just use nonverbal cues to talk to others? It’s been happening to me more and more, I also have an ASD diagnosis , it happened at work today because it was so chaotic
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It’s getting harder and harder for me to talk because I feel like I’ve run out of things to talk about. I say yeah, oh and ok a lot now.
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That’s what I do talking to my brother now. I noticed it the other day.
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First time I was hospitalised was because i couldn’t answer questions and was mute.
I felt overwhelmed etc and couldn’t speak.
Second time I was hospitalised was also because I went mute and couldn’t answer questions.
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I’ve been having a lot of positive symptoms these past couple weeks, I wonder if things are just progressing, I see my dr in a week
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Hope you will feel better soon.
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Ive had mild catatonic behaviors but that might be different
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I can have days when I don’t want to talk much. I’ve never gone totally non-verbal though.
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I clam up around people, Im always quiet I don’t know why.
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Yes. I often go completely mute in psychosis. I also…after trauma, I had much difficulty of finding words for what happened. I wasn’t 100% non-verbal. But I could not talk about what happened.
I have found it terrifying how people respond when you are non-verbal. It makes me feel for the poor people who are like that 100% of the time. They don’t come out of it, and can tell those ■■■■■■■■ who were making nasty jokes over their head, or treating them badly: ey, I heard you.
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Its always for me. Gets harder to talk every year. I say maybe 25 to 50 words a day
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I think it’s just better when I don’t talk. Less opportunity to be scolded or chasticized.
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Yes for me there is a big disconnect between my mouth and my brain.
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i go nonverbal when i get really stressed. Like i had to go get a new ID card a few years ago and i couldn’t speak anymore but the person helping understood and he was really nice to me. My mum was there with me to help me though.
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It’s really awkward but so far everyone’s been understanding.
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I don’t think that’s autism I think I’ve experienced similar things on the line in kitchens where there’s breakdown in communication or in thought because of how fast paced things are going
I mean, it may be, i just think its possible thst its a neurotypical problem as well
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Ive been mute for a time too even…
Now, my talking still comes with effort and sometimes with anhedonia…
Does somebody know, in the end, this is a negative symptom of the sz or what exactly?
I try to get better in my sz now, i talk more now but its still with efforts, so its strange…
My mom even used to say, that i’ll never talk much, cause i was a silent kid too, but hell no, i wont listen to her now, i want my fluidity on that too… 
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It’s an autism and sz thing
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Yeah maybe I only thought it was normal or normative because of my experience but maybe it’s because of schizophrenia I don’t know I hate working on the line by the way it’s so difficult
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i usually dont talk so much and i suffer from verbal fluency deficit since i was born its obviously not normal and due to my mental illness (schizophrenia)and lately it get even worse by saying wrong words and make mistakes while talking due to NAC intake.
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