I really struggle with my hobbies and interests. I don’t work so I’m home all day. I like video games, guitar, and painting. But I just never feel like doing anything. I think “*•I should play video games”. But then I think “I have to turn the tv on, it will make noise, and I have to turn the Xbox on” and I don’t do it. Do you reason yourself out of things? Is that why people like us have trouble doing stuff? Do we just convince ourselves it’s too much brain activity?
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Im like this most of the time. I pretty much need something with as few steps as possible or i dont get into it.
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It’s rough. I hate it. I recognize it’s going on but I can’t do anything about it.
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Ive bought new game consoles and they just sat collecting dust. I setup my computer to play games but i never play them.
The easiest thing for me is turn on the roku tv and click prime video or youtube.
Or i just go for a walk
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Bing Al The cause of negative symptoms is not clear. While some studies say these deficits run in families, there is no known genetic association for negative symptoms or deficit schizophrenia. Negative symptoms can be primary symptoms, which are intrinsic to the underlying pathophysiology of schizophrenia, or secondary symptoms that are related to psychiatric or medical comorbidities, adverse effects of treatment, or environmental factors¹²³.
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For me, I feel it’s comeing from meds. Like I had my delusions before meds but I was doing my stuff. After meds I kept switching like you mentioned.
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I wander if is meds or imbalance in the brain.
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I think it’s due to meds in some ppl, due to disease in others, and due to both in other ppl.
For me, it’s due to meds.
Wen I come off meds, I feel better… Until I get ill.
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That interesting 
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It’s semi-hard….
It’s hard for me to remember to brush my teeth…
Besides that- I don’t really have much time for hobbies with baby human around
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Well sz or bp have an unbalanced chemical brain to start with. But meds masks those unbalanced chemicals with a cocktail and pretend they stabilise it. It is just a fog over a wild forest. Forest is still wild.
Normies have a trimed garden.
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I just don’t want to do anything. I don’t feel entertained.
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I guess when drugs come out that don’t block dopamine, but regulate we will see how much people negative symptoms are effected by it.
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Everything is difficult. It’s definitely gotten worse since my diagnosis. Back then I felt alive. Now I feel like a ghost haunting the halls. No real purpose, no one sees me, and I don’t leave my designated space. I’m trying more than I used to. I attribute that to a combination of determination and aripiprazole.
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I have described it as it feels like life is an uphill battle. Every basic task can be so difficult, some days more than others though there are some tasks I always struggle with. It is very frustrating to me because I can’t always accomplish what I want to.
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Wow this is exactly how I feel/felt too.
I don’t struggle like that too much. I do struggle finding interest in productive hobbies. Like I should read more and get out more, but what I really like to do most the time is social media like youtube or here, or look up watches or knife stuff. This is partly because I have more money than I did and can actually afford some of this stuff, but I’ve always struggled sticking to my more productive aspirations.
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Sounds like everyone kinda feels the same. I think it’s due to my meds. I was very busy before meds. After meds it’s like my brain just shut down.
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Life is miserable without meds but even though I hate the negative symptoms from meds I’ll keep taking them.
I dont take any aps right now and im still dysfunctional in this manner.
I think maybe aps could exasperate what negative symptoms are already there.
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