Does sz medicine make you slow or just sz?

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I take latuda 40mg every night and I have just started my new job. I have 2 complaints from my boss that I’m working too slow. I’m like what the ■■■■ us the problem? I work like a government mule and yet you give me all these ■■■■■■■ hours to work. Obviously I’m doing a good job. I know my dad said medicine makes me slow because he takes symbrax and it’s know to make him slow. Or it could be my cognitive problems maybe. I don’t know. What do you guys think it is? Sz or meds?

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For me I think it’s 80% the illness and 20% the a/p.

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its Latuda, I’m on the exact same dose as you. But theres really nothing out there that won’t have the same effect so…

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I think it’s mostly the illness. I take 80mg Latuda and 12mg Trilafon as my antipsychotics but I’ve been ‘slow’ well before I started the medication. And understanding new information is a problem, too. I just feel like my brain is slowed down thanks to my illness.

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I agree with what you’re saying. I finally got some sleep last night so things are going well this morning. Yesterday morning it felt like someone drained my head of it’s blood and I hadn’t hardly slept at all.

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Yeah I go slow at work it’s not your illness probably just lack of motivation but also its not In my interest to punch my ■■■■ out because I’m ill

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I was watching myself talk in a window the other day and I noticed that my movements were slow and I looked really relaxed but stiff. Its the meds I move at half speed now

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I believe that SZ is sometimes slow-motion while Bi-Polar is on the opposite end of the Schizoaffective spectrum, sometimes representing “racing thoughts” or extremely fast turbo warped speed. :slight_smile:

I’m usually slow but there are instances when I can go very fast, maybe with activities that don’t require a lot of thought OR require no thought.

The meds I take don’t affect this different-speeds dynamic, in my case. Meds are just there to help me concentrate a little better.

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Meds. They also can make you stiff and moving jerky. When I was in hostpital and day hospital lot of people got like that.

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I don’t think it slowed me down, it sped everything up. I was insanely restless and jittery like I’d had 10 energy drinks. Couldn’t focus on anything for more than a few minutes.

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Sz makes me work too fast. The antipsychotics make me normal speed. They relax and slow me down.

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Me too. But this medicatin speed is just slow. I’m wishing for a happy middle