Yea my pdr told me sz causes cognitive problems like in concentration, memory, etc. Sucks and is true. I dont think there a treatment, I think its from defective genes and a defective brain so its too late to treat even if possible.
Feels pretty close to intellectual disability actually.
Yes
Don’t think I realised at any age until reading this article and I’ll be 47 this year
I tried everything like colleges and universities and jobs
Always dreaming
But I’d have social and cognitive deficits though not to my knowledge and not understand why and get stressed and ended up in hospital after a short time
Over and over
I am diagnosed with a ID, plus this SZA BP.
It’s an old but still informative article. A pdoc and I follow each other on Twitter. He says my difficulties are local rather than global.
Can you explain that the local rather then global, sorry?
The first of the three= global =deficits in all/many areas.
The second = local
I’m lost at that. Would not having any control over my money mean I lack cognitive ability?
It might mean you have problems with impulse control.
One such problem is impulse control. You may recall that people with ID have trouble connecting cause and effect. This in turn causes problems with impulse control. For instance, suppose a child sees yummy, hot cookies coming out of the oven. The child wants to grab one immediately. If not controlled, this impulse will cause a nasty burn. Experience is usually a great teacher. So, most children only make this impulsive mistake once or twice. They form a connection between the hot cookie (cause) and the burn (effect). They learn to control the impulse to grab a cookie right out of the oven. However, this is not so easily learned by people with ID. This poor impulse control leads to many unpleasant consequences.
I do have limited frustration control.
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