I am better now I find but I see what ive really missed. ive always had those kind of blanks where I couldn’t understand television or what the others were saying to me. so maybe it will take years my recovery but I am getting old so I am worried for my future.
who here had problems with reasoning, logic or even imagination? did it come back slowly to you or it came back faster once you were on meds? grrh… tired of all this but I am trying to keep my braina ctive with everything possible…
i think i lost my ability to read and learn for good
(still have big hopes that nootropics will help me in this regard)
in other departments yes it gets better with meds and socialization
ok I see @kuckuckuc. but I still cant figure if I am really dumb or Ill figure to feel fine even with what I have already… but its a fact that my brain was really really inactive for 10 years, something like that… its scary for me tbh… on me, nootropics dont work on anything…
i was isolated and inactive for 15 years so i kind of can get a sense of what you are going through right now
iv been afraid to communicate with people even virtualy
at one moment i was really a “men without qualities” dumb incapable without skills or memories
but after being for a while on a nice combo of meds and when i finally started to go out things began to improve
day by day
oh and psychotherapy helped me big time
so i think there is no reason to put yourself down or be scared
brain is capable of renewing - neurogenesis and synaptogenesis are happening as we speak (ok as we type)
but it takes time and effort
learn as much as you can entertain your brain as much as you can do new things and above all socialize
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15 years isolated? what was precisely your situation, you say true? me I spent 6 years just with a tv and the internet and smoking weed. and after that, I knew 7 years of psychiatry, just switching meds and ive decided to hang myself on Zyprexa now. they succeded to get me out of my bed but the damages are here I guess. I have one friend who is ill also and she doesn’t understand how could ive spent so many years without going out…
maybe it will be a tough fight and sometimes I am just tired of this seek of happiness and health…
well it started even before psychosis for me
i guess it was prodromal schizo and i ended up not going out with my friends anymore
than trigger happened and my slow sinking into illness began and i lost all my friends
i guess they werent some friends to begin with
all this was in high school
just recently i started going out first alone then with friends and cousins
well first i started communicating via internet you know facebook forums those sort of things
im at a beginning but i feel gratefull for having this new chance
yes there are damages for sure
but brain can rewire itself if you continue to seek happines and health
thats my view but like i said im at the beginning still