I’ve noticed my grammar has suffered since getting schizophrenia, and even more so after ECT. Is this normal?
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Practice makes perfect, as they say. The longer you are out of school and typing informally on the internet, the more likely your grammer is likely to slip a bit, IMO.
I am getting increasingly bad at punctuation. Also words I dont use a lot tend to get harder to spell.
But I don’t know. Maybe some of yours is related to schizophrenia. I guess it could be a memory issue. I dont know.
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We used to have a function on this forum that would tell you when you spelled a word wrong so you could correct it. It does not appear to be here any longer. At least for me.
Im hooked on phonics
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lol! I had hooked on phonics when I was a kid.
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I think education looses it’s affect after so many years.
Just a guess lol. It’s not related to schizophrenia, lots of people make basic mistakes with the language who are not diagnosed with anything.
After school my spelling was fine. It wasn’t till schizophrenia and ECT where my grammar started suffering
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Try marrying an English teacher.
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I paid Grammarly to help. It wasn’t mine but at least I had a bot looking at it.
Hmm that is interesting. I guess I never noticed, you seem to spell pretty well. I hope it’s not too much of a problem, sorry if I offended you making a joke out of it. I tutor English for a living with ESL kids and our biggest problem is detecting and dissuading kids from using AI. There’s a couple who are obviously using it, but most of them are okay.
I definitely lost some of my math ability to the disorder but I like to think I’m still aces in English for the most part. It’s what I studied in college.
No I didn’t take offense no worries lol
It probably was ECT. That is known to screw up some things in your brain
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Only when I watch Frasier. 
I can’t say one way or the other what it does, but seeing it in movies like A Beautiful Mind scared me away from trying it.
You’re knocked out and you don’t feel it luckily. I had ect about 30 times and never felt any pain.
I’m just angry that it screwed up my memory and grammar.
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Ironic. It just made me laugh.
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I guess it affects my grammar and writing skills. I have to proof read all my papers for school like 6 times and still find mistakes even after I’ve reread it 6 times. I get good grades for the most part, but I always have remarks about formatting and minor mistakes.
- When was the committee for good grammar formed?
- How do you get to be on the committee?
Unless it’s total word salad/very badly written then less than perfect grammar, as voted on by the committee for good grammar, shouldn’t be problematic.
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i don’t know if it is an SZ thing or just me as a person, but i do have strange grammar and pronunciation of words. i can type pretty okay and i’m a writer so HOPEFULLY my English is good, lol, but i definitely have deteriorated skills in talking outloud.
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