Sounds like you’re in denial
Jk
Make any explanations short and sweet. Don’t start using medical jargon in explaining what you have. This will only confuse the other person. Instead, break down any good descriptions you may find into plain English by replacing higher vocabulary terms with lower ones that will make sense to whomever you tell. If you aren’t good at explaining things, don’t feel obliged to do so.
Ask your counselor, psychiatrist or whoever helps you manage illness. for an easy-to-access and simple resource that you could refer your friends and family to. They will still get the message, but you won’t be the one explaining anything
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Is part of my survival guide for mental illness. Which I wrote one very manic night supporting someone.
I stopped trying to explain negative symptoms and just blame it on my meds. Seems easier than trying to educate the ignorant. Frustrating tho at times, hiding positive symptoms and lying about negative ones. All while struggling with cognitive symptoms. Its a tough road and very few understand.
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I often do the same thing. Seems like it’s easier for people to understand that meds make you tired etc. than that the illness does it. I wonder why that is.
They just don’t understand the whole aspect of the negative symptoms. Cant wrap their heads around it. Meds are more commonly known to have side effects than an illness. Most just don’t care to know unless it effects them personally. They just chaulk it up to laziness. And it bugs me because i hate being thought of as lazy.
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My negativ symptoms are very difficult to recognize; alogia and concrete thinking. Its hard to represent the absence of something to someone so it goes unnoticed. The truth of the matter is that we really struggle, well, at leadt some of us do.
https://www.verywell.com/understanding-avolition-379999
one of my main negative symptoms