@Bowens @Aziz @anon54988740 @anon61987434 @anon84377678 @TheCanuk @Clint @InnerCircle @anon68444330 could you please create the poll with the options: yes, no and a little?
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- Yes
- No
- A little
0 voters
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For me its not constant. Some times are much worse than others. Some days are much better than others.
The best thing for me was to stop beating myself up about it and accept it. It just created more stress and anxiety feeling bad for not doing things.
Tomorrows always round the bend. There’s always time to do more.
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Yes, mine have improved a lot.
I didn’t have any for some time.
Now i have sometimes, but mild
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Yes they have drastically improved. I started an AD. That helped. But also had to motivate myself to start doing t things
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Negative symptoms improved a bit through supplements like sarcosine and exercise. Coping with them greatly improved by therapy.
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Excuse me for asking. Negative symptoms is side effects from medication, and positive symptoms is from the mental disease? Is this correct? I asked this before, but I may have got it mixed up.
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There is 2 types of negative symptoms. Primary, illness induced and secondary, med induced.
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No.
Positive symptoms are things we have in ADDITION that “normal” people don’t have (hallucinations, paranoia, delusions)
Negative symptoms are things we are MISSING that “normal” people do have
(low motivation, not wanting to get dressed etc)
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Thanks. That’s very clarifying.
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In the months leading up to my diagnosis I was only working a little. Once I was medicated, I was working a normal amount for me. I considered the working a little as a negative symptom for me.
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I have anhedonia, avolition, suffer low moods, voices, paranoia and beliefs the pdoc doesn’t like me to have. I try to get through one day at a time my diagnosis is schizophrenia, eupd, agoraphobia social anxiety and suicdality but ive gradually got worse to this it took years to get to this. I don’t know if i can get better i just have to keep going an not give up but its hard, every day is hard.
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6 psychotic episodes and I never got negatives somehow.
I did have dissociation/derealization though
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i got a little improvement with ginseng, i had a lot of anxiety during use but it stopped working after only 2 months of use, healthy eating also helps me a little
Thanks everyone for the reply 
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Yes, I have. I am socializing more. I work every day. Exercise for an hour. Keep clean. I don’t think I have negatives anymore.
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My negs come and go but even when I have very few negs I find it hard to move and I feel disconnected from my body. I feel like I’m paralysed or something. Maybe that’s what they call akinesia or bradykinesia? I’m not sure.
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I think my negative symptoms (amotivation, asociality, nonconcern about hygiene, not wanting to dress or undress, etc…) were secondary (due to Risperdal Consta depot dosage) and all my other AP’s.
When my Consta dosage decreased, I started exercising more, doing more housework, volunteering to go out more and do more activities.
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For me they wax and wane, having an incompetent psychiatrist is a part of it. Some medications at super high doses “I won’t name which ones” can cause issues with negative symptoms, or worse, depression, which can combine with negative symptoms and make everything worse.
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I get bad symptoms then kinda improve.
I still can’t find a job or read
I usually get symptoms after having a good time every often
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