How do you know its negative symptoms and not depression

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I can’t differentiate between the two as I’m always low energy and feeling bad. How do you know which one it is! What do you do to feel better?

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Ask yourself if you are feeling sad? If you are, then you are depressed. If not, then you might be experiencing negative symptoms.

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Its not easy but your psychiatrist should know. Mine said I am not depressed so he never prescribed me antidepressants. I have bad negative symptoms.

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My pdoc told me that to qualify for depression there has to be a sad mood present.

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Yea I am not sad but mad lol

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mad meaning angry? crazy? or both? lol

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Lol not crazy, I meant angry at my negative symptoms bcz I cant do much about it.

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I don’t know for sure but I think mine are negative symptoms for 2 reasons.

1.Antidepressants don’t seem to help
2.They have stayed with me a long time and never seem to let up. I would think that you would have gaps in depression.

I’m still not 100% positive I don’t have depression though.

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@Bowens , some forms of depression are so severe that antidepressants alone don’t help. They require additional medications to overcome.

Depression can stay with a person pretty constantly.

Question: Are you sad?

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Yeah, that’s the part I’m not sure of. I don’t know. Sometimes I feel like I’d just as soon not be around but I dunno if I’m really “sad” or not.

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I’m mostly just “blah”.

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I have the same problem I can’t say I’m sad since I barely cry but I’m feeling hopeless most of the times

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I would think that if you were sad, you would know it. Depression is a very strongly felt mood of sadness/despair.

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Yeah, then I would probably say “no”. I think it is negatives for me.

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Hopelessness is a pretty big symptom of depression.

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Not all depressed patients feel ‘sad’
Many feel despair or hopeless.

Some may feel numb or blah most of the time.

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A feeling of being overwhelmed easily is also a sign of depression.

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I have diagnosed major depression aside from the schizophrenia. I do have some negative symptoms as well, but i have very low mood and energy. I see a psychologist for the mood, and it has improved. So that cements for me that i have two separate disorders.

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I would think if the negs correllate with the pos, then its negative symptoms or vice versa. Depression would be separate from the pos. People could have both as well, so I dont think its all clear cut.