Dopamine increases in adulthood. Dopamine was originally low had negative symptoms up until I started getting sz symptoms. Negative symptoms improved 19y.o. but sz started. Diagnosed 21y.o. put on abilify for 8yrs, negative symptoms got worse. Dopamine fluctuates.
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That explains a lot if not just your own theory.
I had negatives my whole life, then psychosis around 17 and suddenly became better at school.
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Maybe thats why sz happens mostly 18-25y.o.
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My negative symptoms only improve when i am psychotic, i was psychotic 3yrs before diagnosis but managed to work and go to university full time. I think it was my dopamine peak
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Maybe its a coincindence dopamine incresed 18-21y.o. in my case, I guess it can happen at any age
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Seriously i couldnt study or do homework then i had psychosis a solipsim event and i got Bs and As
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Its kinda nice to understand but at the same time my life is fd and has been hard
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Maybe new mechanisms meds can help
Rexulti is pretty good. 2 mg is controlling symptoms so far
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My dr prescribed it to me but i didnt pick it up from pharmacy. I was scared it would give me addictions like abilify as they have same mechanism of action. Rexulti is an improved and newer version of abilify, its developed by same company as abilify
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Its only been 2.5 months ive been on it. It is actually quite different from abilify, more like an atypical antipsychotic.
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I dont really understand neurochemistry obviously.
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idk if this is true for me or opposite…its hard to tell when im in psychosis so im not sure but i think it could be sorta for me. i think it either gets better or worse. idk last time i was planning to flea (so maybe a bit of psychosis) i bought a used car which required speaking and leaving the house and stuff so maybe negs improved or the fear was enough to motivate me
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When i was off meds psychotic for 2yrs i travelled to germany and lived on my own going to university studying german. I made study buddies there. Idk if they felt i had psychosis as i hide my symptoms well
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when i think back to psychosis in my 20s i def had a lot less negative syptoms than now but idk if theys just cause theyre worse or if my psychosis is less severe now. in some ways its more severe in some ways its less. its weird
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I wasnt neurotypical, i think, but never had positives or negatives. I got in worse trouble after trauma and childbirth at 28. Then after meds. I had no negatives off meds. Now I have.
I do notice negatives are less when I’m psychotic. Not that that’s useful.
I think the course is different in women. Estrogen protects against psychosis, they say.
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Didnt work for me. I feel so brain damaged a d have really bad negative symptoms
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I’m sorry. I too have negatives now.
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