Hi, I would like to know how you explain your Negatives to a normie, that’s just sounds like laziness?
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It’s like your brain is engorged with inflammation and it causes you to think too much, and you can’t push out of that tendency easily enough to physically do things.
Yeah. That is a tough one. 
My brain is eating itself alive 
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I think a lot of it stems to low attention span for me. Hence lack of concentration, lack of social interaction irl.
Also, like my energy has been disconnected from the whole world. To an extent.
It doesn’t flow as smoothly with the energy of the world as it used to.
That spontaneousity has been numbed.
And that enthusiasm has been numbed the one that is actualised. Not the one in the mind as much. Or perhaps yes I need to think about that.
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I’m due for my brisk morning walk and I just CAN’T get myself to do it. 
There is this mental resistance to do it and it is extremely strong. Idk how else to put it
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I just say I had a big breakdown that lasted a couple years, and my mind just doesn’t focus anymore like it did before the break. It’s getting better slowly but it probably won’t ever be the same. If they saw me when I was psychotic they’d understand. Turns out half the people understand and the other half just think I should be less “lazy.”
Honestly these days I just tell them I hear voices often and I’m on disability because the voices prevent me from working. That makes sense to most people, though I don’t tell many people that, I just pretend I’m fine.
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you should go on a morning walk and post pictures from it for all of us. well be your motivation 
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Tell them about how you watch different channels or programmes in TV. If some boring programme come how you respond to it? Yes instantly change it with remote. But if forced to watch it how it feel like. Negative symptoms are like this. Day to day activities become boring and those who are suffering from it either skip it, delay it or forced to do it with no pleasure or disgust or other emotions. A better definition for negative symptom is affective flattening or blunted affect.
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I would probably say that Schizophrenia has both positive and negative symptoms. The positive symptoms is what everyone knows Sz to be about - hallucinations, delusions, etc. However, the negative symptoms are less known, and as a result are misinterpreted as being lazy. I would also direct their attention to something medically written, so they can see for themselves how Sz affects people.
Aw thanks man.
But I just really can’t…
Lol
Sigh.
I will try again next week.how does that sound?
Hope yours well
Explaining neg symptoms is hard. I usually liken it to depression, everyone knows what depression is, and they share a lot of symptoms. Anhedonia, apathy, etc
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I don’t bother to explain,they will think it’s laziness
A for effort butterfly, Ill keep my fingers crossed lol
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Yea it’s so difficult lol.
Idk if I will next week either. Kinda given up on it. But we’ll see.
Thnks thoh
Exactly my strategy, explain and show, and when i’m having a job interview or something like that, i tell them i was away from job, this and that period, due to a depression and stress.
I mean - you can explain negatives for close relationships, but it’s difficult to someone you are not close to, a stranger.
Like walking through mud in fog
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