How many of these negative symptoms affect you?

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Here’s a list of 6 negative symptoms:

  1. restricted affect (referring to observed behaviours rather than to the patient’s subjective experience)
  2. diminished emotional range (i.e., reduced range of the patient’s subjective emotional experience)
  3. poverty of speech
  4. curbing of interests
  5. diminished sense of purpose
  6. diminished social drive

I think I’ve been affected by all of these during the past several months. Hard to say quite when they began. I don’t believe I have any positive symptoms.

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2

I get numbers 4,5 & 6 real bad.

3

All of em!
Prob #3 is more often when i am acutely ill
dONT UNDERSTAND #1

4

I feel none of them except perhaps the 6 but that is due more to medication than anything else.

5

I had all of them, but psychotherapy helped me a lot.

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6

Apathy
Reductions in speech
Social withdrawal
Impaired attention
Lethargy
Diminished sense of purpose

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4, 5, and 6!!! I’m Sza-Depressive

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My main negative symptoms are emotional blunting, so like I don’t feel positive feelings very strongly, they are weak. I also have anhedonia, inability to focus, and lack of motivation. (Forget the word for that) My thoughts get scrambled and bizarre when I am doing very poorly as well, and my memory too.

Poverty of speech I haven’t dealt with in years but I have dealt with it before.

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I have diminished social drive.
idk re. all the others.

10

My main negative symptom is avolition, though that seems tied in with my cognitive symptoms to some degree. I have pretty poor executive functioning - difficulty prioritizing, difficulty making and executing plans, difficulty making decisions.

My co-person asked me to take the recycling out a few weeks ago - it’s in three tall bins that have to be emptied into a larger outdoor bin. I couldn’t figure out how to do it - should I put it in bags? Should I just carry the bins out one at a time? Would they be heavy? Was it possible to just dump them like that?

I spent a week fretting about it and finally she did it herself. I know it can’t be that hard, but it’s like my brain freezes up, unable to formulate the most basic of plans.

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1 and 4 but avolition or lack motivation is my strongest. Working through it though one step at a time

12

I usually have lack of motivation but the meds are helping a lot.

13

I have all the symptom. …i am retiring my life…