In August 2013 I moved to the city I live in now. Shortly after I moved here I became very depressed for some unknown reason after being happy my whole life. I had just turned 23 in April that year. I didn’t know what was wrong.
I stopped shaving, showering, putting on deodorant and changing my clothes every day. Later on I developed some delusions and paranoia and got diagnosed with schizophrenia in September 2015.
Ever since I got depressed in August 2013 showering has been very hard for me. I think the longest I went without showering was for about two months last summer and I would’ve kept going without showering but my stepmom told my dad I stunk and he told me so I showered.
I showered on Friday and might not shower again until Monday.
In my case it’s because I have too many things I need to do in my day and I resent the time showering takes. However, I force myself to do it as am not a fan of being sticky or smelly.
For whatever reason, it becomes this enormous endeavor. That seems negative but then when I do it I often find that it’s very therapeutic. I enjoy it even
Personally, I love showering! But a lot of sz have so much avolition that they can’t look after themselves.
It could be the meds decreasing the reward motivation dopamine drug that normal people have or it could be a sz trait.
The depression that is also caused by the lack of dopamine or a terrible life and reality may also be to blame.
Learn to love yourself first and then life will improve because you start to care about yourself.
To learn to love yourself follow AI’s plan:
Self-love is an important aspect of mental health and well-being, and it can be particularly beneficial for individuals with schizophrenia. Here are some strategies that might help:
I pretty much shower every few days. I hate having to take my clothes off and getting wet and the whole dang process! But it has gotten much better since I cut all my hair off, cuz I really hated washing my hair and waiting for it to dry.
I’m not even a good water drinker and get dehydrated super easy.
Counting glasses of water is the only way I can keep on track.
Showers have been difficult for me, but I’ve found a few things make it much easier.
Having a clean bathroom makes it much more inviting.
Also having nice bath supplies does too.
To force myself into the shower, I wash my PJs and bedsheets.
I know I won’t put my dirty body on them, so it makes me shower.
Getting my hair wet is to this very day super difficult.
Dealing with this as long as I have and using my own advice, I still stand in front of the water for about two minutes, naked, contemplating how horrible the water will be on my hair.
And I have hair to my waist so it takes a few minutes to wash.
I’ve read that before. I want to shower every Monday, Wednesday and Friday but have only managed to shower once or twice a week. Usually on Mondays and Thursdays because I have group on those days so I don’t want to stink.
The fact that you can force yourself to do it on the days you have to just proves that you can do one more day a week to achieve the shower schedule you’d like.
You can totally make yourself.
Another thing that helps me is putting something on my body I have to wash off.
Not something gross.
Like hair oils that can only be on your scalp for ten minutes or less.
Or aromatherapy oils for your skin that also have to be washed off in about ten minutes.
I don’t think that specific photo is from a movie. I just pulled a pic from a google search. I think it may have been confused with something else? I could be wrong though.
