Find a book. Read one line of it. Put the book down. A little while later, do the same thing. When I’m like this, my therapist tells me I have to pick something and white knuckle my way through it. Pick one tiny little thing.
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I cant even try, on Abilify I was able to try eventhough I failed each time.
I don’t have patience.
I mean when you switch to clozapine. Of course it seems Risperdal makes your quality of life worse so switching is good
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What if it doesn’t work? Anyways it wont give me back my old presz self.
Ok. I will now be harsh: do you really want to get better? If so, you can’t count on the meds to do all of it. You’re going to need to move in some tiny direction, and it’s going to hurt, and feel awful and insurmountable. Pick one tiny little thing. You don’t need patience to read one line. You do it on this forum all the time. Pick one little thing. Do one tiny little thing different than you have been. You can do this. I know you can.
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I complained about this to my therapist, who happens to be a neuropsychologist. He said we can start working on training new neural pathways in my brain to get me back to making all sorts of art, which is my previous self. He said it won’t feel the same. And I am devastated by that. But I’m going to do it anyway. I still think I have something to offer the world. I hope you can find something in yourself that you would like to give to the world, too.
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Ask @anon4362788 about that, I can’t even try on this med, on Abilify I was able to try at least. If I read one line by one line I will forget what I just read. Bad memory bad concentration.
Who cares. Not the point. Keep doing it and create a new neural pathway that gets you reading again.
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Have you ever done guided cbt sessions or anything with a therapist? That’s what you need to do regardless if the med helps.
If you think I feel like working or doing a fun activity like biking I generally don’t feel like doing anything at all. I just do it out or forced habits and the enjoyment might happen it might not.
I could just as easily sleep for 15 hours every day. Then get up eat something and go back to sleep.
Which I’ve done for periods of time when I had lots of money and no responsibilities.
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I hated therapy, she kept pressuring me into doing stuff I can’t do, she gave up on me and said I am a hopeless case basically. On Abilify I didn’t even need a therapist and I was better going to the gym and hanging out with friends daily. I couldn’t read books or work though.
I know I’ve said it before but have you tried any micro activity strategy. Like what panda mentioned. What she said is what you gotta try.
Like heck just listen to a podcast for 1 minute. That’s a win. Then work up to 2 minutes.
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I think CBT is a great suggestion.
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When my parents bought a new stationnary bike I used it for a few minutes then gave up. I buy things then lose interest fast in them and stop using them.
Did you get on the bike the next day for a few minutes? And the next?
The therapists will probably get mad and yell at me like my last therapist. She blamed me for my negative symptoms and said I want to stay in bed by choice and that its not the meds or the sz.
I wish but I lost inerest after 2-3 times, I think its called anhedonia and avolition.
Nobody here is saying you’re doing it by choice. but what we are saying is that you do have to make a choice – do you want to get better? If you do, then you’re going to have to do some behavioral work along with your meds. One tiny bit at a time.
White knuckle it. Do it even without the interest.
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Yeah that happens to tons of people. You gotta pick something else to try.