Does anyone else have problems with food when their SZ symptoms act up?

Oh you haven’t heard me yet :wink:

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my symptoms cause me grief in the sense I am forced to chamge my complete diet…a bit like serving Lent…cant buy what I like

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When I get really bad, which is when I become psychotic, which usually happens due to a change is meds (like when I tried skipping a dose of my Xanax for two days), I don’t want to eat.

When I was diagnosed, I had practically zero body fat, and it was mentioned by the shrink who was evaluating me. Having a six pack and ribs showing and being very schizophrenic was odd to him, but he made sense of it by assuming that I was overtraining and not eating enough.

I would do stuff like drink two pints of coffee (no nutritional value) and then run several miles and then eat a chicken breast and a slice of bread. Or I would eat a chicken breast and a slice of bread with cheese on it and then go lift weights for two hours.

I looked like a pro athlete. It was sick because I was in that shape because of agitation and paranoid ideation. Little background- I am a trained fighter. That fact took it to a lethality concern. For example, I got super drunk on antidepressants before I was diagnosed and I became belligerent and they had seven cops surround me in the kitchen.

So yeah, I had an issue with not eating enough, but I supplemented whey protein.