I feel slow as molasses right now. Basically what surprisedj used to describe as this slowed waxy state.
My thinking is very slow, my movements are slow , walking slow , I even drive too slow right now, just the whole world slowed down.
During these times it feels like my iq has dropped like 30 points.
What sucks is there’s nothing I can do to get out of it I just have to endure it till it passes.
I hope it goes away soon!
Thanks me too:+1:
Is it because you’re bipolar sza? Or depression sza?
bipolar sza, i feel ive crashed from the hypomania. i just feel very weird. drove home from the store, voices were saying 'you think we were just gonna go away and never come back? well your wrong its about to get a lot worse" , got home and just sat in my car didnt move for like 5 mins then i felt like if i dont try to move im not gonna move for the night.
i dunno man its just odd stuff.
now im just in my room i think things should be ok.
my pdoc says im too high function for sza.
well when im doing well of course im high functioning. but when im like this im non functioning.
cuz her sza patients are generally in the ward or end up in jail or something she said.
Hopefully you get better. I had something similar but maybe more extreme while off meds, catatonia. I freeze completely without eye movements for several minutes, I feel like my heart and emotions stop, complete emptyness. My parents hit and yell at me I didn’t respond. I was out of reality.
yeah thats actually what happened in my car. i didnt move for 5 mins just saw water droplets from the rain going down the window
that happened to me infront of my gf once, but that was when i was taking welbutrin. thats stuff was really no good for me.
Yea man I felt really dead during that time. Like near death experience.
i wish docs had an answer for why stuff like that happens
Maybe let your Dr know. Sorry I just know about APs, not mood stabilizers.
yeah she knows all my symptom profile. I do have risperidone as a prn if i need it. and i have lamictal.
if i have to blame something its because of covid. I couldnt get my rtms treatments for like 6 months, and rtms had totally stabilized me. i got a few treatments a month ago, and there a bit slow to get me back in.
such a pain to know something that worked and not have access to it.
I asked my pdr about rtms, he said its not for sz, its for depression. So you have depression I guess?
well of course i get depression, i have bipolar man. i go up and down.
sza is like an umbrella term for predominantly psychosis oriented with mood issues.
since im very high functioning, im on the bipolar with psychosis label.
the labels are interesting. its like if i had actually seen a pdoc when i was in psychosis with no insight for most of the year they probably would of slapped that sz label on me.
this interesting article about the diagnosis in general.
same goes for the umbrella dx of bipolar.
its really differents states of overall functioning, because the symptoms completely overlap other diagnosis.
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