How to deal with avolition?

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I have no motivation to do anything. I dont enjoying things anymore. I just want to do something and feel joy

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I would rather hear voices telling me to kill myself 20 times every day than not feel anything at all. I wish I could stop taking my meds but Im in a supported housing type of thing and they supervise that I take my meds.

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Do you take an antidepressant?

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I have problems with avolition, no motivation and severe apathy. My doctor told me that I need to start walking and start going to events where people are, I don’t want to. Im stuck.

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I just went for a walk. Now what? I â– â– â– â– â– â– â–  hate this

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Yeah and AP (clozapine)

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I too have avolition lost sense of pleasure, happiness and usefulness of doing anything… it’s like something inside me switched off completely and I am doing tasks because I have to and lost major insight of it… living on the edge always…

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I would give anything to feel something again. This is torture

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It sounds simple yet difficult to feel happiness or some sort of contentness. I believe it is because some part of brain is majorly screwed up.

Me too willing to do anything to bring back that feeling.

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Don’t create barriers for yourself, do nothing motivation will come to you. Relax and enjoy doing nothing

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I make myself a schedule and I make sure I do the things that are on it, even if only a little bit. I had in my schedule to walk to the pond and get sunset pics last night. I was not feeling great so I rode my scooter to the pond, locked it and walked around on foot there. I did not get as much exercise as I had planned, but it got me away from my laptop and I did get pics and walk around a bit.

The more you do this the easier it gets over time.

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I understand the no motivation feeling. I struggle with that so much too.

I really like @shutterbug idea. Thank you so much ozymandias! I have a planner that I have not used in a long time and now I’m inspired to schedule my days again! I think this might help me.

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schedules never worked for me, i like living more free relaxed life, careless of outcome and believieng in my self my abilities, being natural. my schedule is only to go to work…but everyone is different

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I use a spotting attributed to Dr Abraham Low: “Move the muscles and the mind will follow.” We can program our brain to follow simple commands.

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