What do you think, does SZ make you lazy? I think it probably does, either that or the meds. I’m lazy
because everything is pointless. It may be partly my personality, it may be the disease, or the meds.
Thanks.
I think it’s part of the illness. It makes it very hard to feel enjoyment and therefore makes life exhausting. I push myself in spite of that but it’s hard
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I don’t think the sz makes me lazy, I think the meds do. Because I’ve always had sz and I’ve only been lazy since I’ve been started on anti-psychotics. I think it’s a primary reason so many of us are always running around wanting to go off our meds. But after a few times of doing that you realize your worse off without the meds. So who cares if the dishes pile up, no one is going to die, right?
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I feel as though I became a lot more lazy on medication, and also that after stopping for a while now, the laziness does still linger.
However, if I think about it, I have always had problems finding motivation for things that did not interest me. It is tempting to think that meds were used to make me unproductive, and then follow that idea into other worrying thoughts, but really it’s probably just true that having emotional and psychological problems generally makes it tough to get motivated about things that seem hopeless or unimportant.
I would say that the thoughts and feelings caused by schizophrenia can definitely make someone become very lazy and/or depressed in life. I think it’s a big problem for a lot of people.
I find it difficult to concentrate. Like I’ve stripped my mental gears and can’t get a grip on thinking. That’s not really lazy as much as it is unable.
I think, in a way, it does. It steals my motivation which makes me stop doing things, and that makes me seem lazy. I am not trying to be, and I’m not happy when I get that way, but I’m that way nonetheless.
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I’m guessing it is a combination of the illness and the medication not doing enough to fix the problem. Medication can only do so much. Only gets rid of positive symptoms. Does nothing to fix a faulty glutamate system. Yes I’m not as productive as I was before this illness.
Yes it does. I blame the meds too but I can only do and handle so much anymore due to cognitive decline. I get burned out and tired quick.
It could be both the meds and to some degree it’s the disorder.
I am zapped of my motivation and drive.
I definitely feel lazier and less motivated since I developed schizophrenia. I’m not sure how much of it is the meds and how much can be chalked up to negative symptoms.
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It’s a combination of negative symptoms and sedation from the meds.
Negatives can really bite and lack of motivation, feeling apathetic…that is the realms of the negatives.
Try walking 30 minutes briskly at least three days a week. You could be surprised. I started with a fitness tracker. I do 20,000 steps a day. I used to just sit on my ass and watch the world go by!
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I don’t have problem with my meds. This illness and negative symptoms are responsible
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I made a similar thread, the consensus was that both sz and meds make you less motivated therefore lazier but there were a few exceptions.
I certainly feel lazy but I think it’s the illness doing it. I’ve had avolition for years
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SZ can lead one to develop poor habits. One can work to develop good habits and stay busy in spite of the illness.
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Yes laziness and depression run with the illness. I feel extremely lazy and depressed these days. I don’t remember it being so bad before… Even now I am on a nice holiday with my gf and I don’t feel happy or motivated… It is mostly from the illness and not from the meds in my case I believe
You know im not really sure… i didnt start getting lazy until i started the med. But at the same time one of the research docs i see said its apart of the illness. I never been off meds to find out if its the meds causing my lack of motivation and joy
I want to blame the illness as much as the meds, it is really trying sometimes to feel like things are so much effort to do but being called lazy isn’t quite right of a term.
Lazy implies you don’t want to do things, I feel a lot like I have trouble doing things and want to do them but have trouble or am too worn out.
I say its both meds and the illness. When i went off Clozapine, I came to life again until depression set back in without meds. @brandotron is right that laziness implies you don’t want to work or do stuff, most of us want to be productive but have trouble doing so.
I used to skate the whole day before I was diagnosed and first time in the hospital. I even stopped playing games to just have enough money for skateboarding. After that I just layed in my bed for four years, then I picked up a bad habit(smoking), now I go between sitting(smoking,youtube,forum,television) and laying in bed. Even the time before I started skateboarding again, I could fill the whole day with playing games. I always had trouble with my mind before I was diagnosed. And before my psychosis I could drag myself to my beloved gaming.
I know this sounds stupid, it´s just gaming and a waste, but did not felt like that to me. Now skateboarding and gaming is really bad for my mind. I bought a game this week, God of War, never played so much since a long time. I just got it the second day, but I already played two hours in two days. But I guess like my lazyness goes, I will not be able to play through it. I just waste my time, but I am not ready for things.
Most things get in my mind to do for a while, but then I do not do them. It is just for some secounds with some motivation in my mind. And my body is so weak from laying in bed, eating bad and smoking, that I am totally demotivated or set off in myself for anything. The biggest problem is the lack of kicking myself in the ass when somethings comes up to me clearly. You know delusions and stuff like that does make a lot of things unclear.