Feeling mentally blocked

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I need some help - I am feeling mentally blocked and disabled

I was diagnosed with Sz in 2015 - I had the following symptoms:

  • Thinking I was fighting negative energies and demons
  • Thinking my thoughts could influence people on TV
  • Thinking ordinary people were sent by others to harm me, so following them

I was injected with powerful APs - all my positives stopped

I am taking Olanzapine 20mg daily

The issue is I feel mentally blocked - all the positive symptoms stopped - when I had positives life felt so colourful and vibrant - I felt a very positive energy

Now all of that has been taken away, and I feel like just a body with no emotion or energy

I stay in bed all day - I have no motivation to do anything - people keep saying you need to keep busy but I just don’t have the will to do anything

Anyone else experienced something similar?

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The same thing happened to me on zyprexa. I wasn’t as psychotic byt i laid in bed all day just watching tv.

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At least you have the energy to watch TV - I don’t even have this

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Sorry man… maybe you can talk to your doc about ADs or differences meds?

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Yeah ever since i got medicated and came out of the hospital, Ive just felt not as enthusiastic about stuff as compared to prior. I feel like i enjoy music though. Maybe not to the same level but its there to some extent. But i get you, feeling stuff is muted still

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I’m on olanzapine 20mg. I don’t do much, I just lie on the couch most of the time.

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Yeah this didnt start until last year however i was unmedicated. I went from feeling happy an energized everyday to feeling depressed and super unmotivated. Nothing entertains me now and now i have severe thought block so i cant even think to myself.i started taking AD and it only has me feeling about 7% of my old self.

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I felt this way in recovery especially after psychotic breaks. it took a while before my brain worked. I struggled with interest and motivation on my last med though and it sucked. Idk maybe that’ll get better too. I’d say drink some coffee or an energy drink.

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It’s good to see you @ajassat.

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I think it’s called avolition and apathy. I have it pretty bad myself.
Im on Paliperidone and risperidone.

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That’s the problem I have. I have to take such a high dose to eliminate symptoms that I cannot function. I had to learn to co-exist with a certain level of positive symptoms while taking enough meds to maintain my insight and recognize they are not real. Vraylar in my case. I suggest talking to your doctor about CBT and DBT. These are therapies that helped me lower my dose.

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Seems like I’m not the only one experiencing this

I concur with others - I feel a thought block - I don’t have the usual train of thought - there are no thoughts at all - just emptiness

It feels like someone drilled a hole into my brain and everything just emptied from it

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APs are like throwing cold water on fire. A little flame is necessary to function properly. I can’t think taking APs I have taken. And I can’t stop thinking or fall asleep stay asleep without them.

I relate with sense of positive energy. Feeling of full of life. APs take them away along with symptoms.

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I’m in the same pojition. Always sleeping, no talking with ppl. Only short conversation because I don’t have concentration to follow long comunications.
I take 5 mg haldol in morning, 5 mg haldol in the evening and 5 mg ariprizol in 12 o clock.
Everybody advice me to keep trying to do anything but I don’t have temper.
I smoke to much cigarettes. Only for that I’m going outside. And I’m going outside only to visit doctors or mine sister.
It’s like nightmare.
Today I was at one man he is working with quantum medicine and he told me that I must find motivation for living and doing something. Like it’s easy.

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Definitely feel you man. Its like i cant even remember how to be the person i was my whole life. My aunt that i live with tries everything to motivate me and tells me i have to stay busy and i know shes right but its like it doesn’t apply to me, my mind literally makes it so i cant do anything no matter how small it is. Its like im not even a person anymore

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