If someone asked me what does it feel like. I would have to say dementia. But it could be brain injury from psychosis with medication. Ugh. What is this. Do I have dementia. What should I do guys,? I’m always saying I have brain damage. I’m sure I do but this feels awful
You should ask your family dr if you can see a neurologist. That way, the neurologist can evaluate you properly and let you know if you really need to be concerned or not.
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How do you describe this ‘dementia or something’? Sounds bad.
It’s not like my mom. In the last week I’ve seen my mom get worse from dementia. She seems confused. I just have a dementia feeling. Like a sick brain injury feeling. I know that I have a little brain damage as I can’t form complete comprehensive ideas and express them sometimes. I have to strain to understand people’s speech through the cognitive stuff. And sometimes when people say stuff they know about a,T4 slip of something it just like duh. I don’t know and I can’t respond. Kind of due to the dementia feeling. Would all this cognitive hardship just be considered dementia. Sometimes I feel like I’m getting better some mornings but usually I’m pretty sick in the head. Or I’m just living with some dementia it’s definitely corruption. I am on invega and taking abilify right now so my brain is just numb
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I will go see a neurologist. Thanks for the tip
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Maybe it is cognitive symptoms from medication instead of dementia.
Idk though.
I feel my Processing speed is slower on abilify.
I ask people to re explain things.
And I just feel less ‘awake’
Hopefully things improve for you when you are just on one medication if that time arrives.
Invega sounds scary haha.
Abilify is too, I think it’s tough to find a perfect AP 
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I’m sorry to hear about your mom
I do have problems. Just abilify hopefully will lighten the load. I have to wait just over a month for the switch now. And my sister is in my way. I’m just doing laundry in my building right now. It’s seems just like a slight dementia feeling now. Sometimes I am capable sometimes not. But it’s not confusion like my mom. You know it could be medication. It could be. Thanks slothy. It feels bad kinda like heavy medication in a way
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I can relate to the feeling of having dementia. I feel like my brain is just ruined. The cognitive and memory problems are too much. I suffer every day… I was in MRI but it came out normal. So that means all my problems are completely psychological. I don’t know is that even more depressing or not. If I had some physiological problems in my brain, it might be easier. I would know why. Or I don’t know… I just feel like my brain gets worse every year.
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Your cognitive and memory problems are psychological? I can’t imagine that. Mine seem very real. I feel it and I see in in my mind and I come up with explanations to describe it. But that’s very interesting. I need an MRI. I’m gonna call my GP and get an appointment with a neurologist. What haven’t I already done this. Ahhhhhhh. Rrrrrrr
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Maybe if they are psychological. That’s better than you actually having damage
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I was in MRI and it came out clean. A neurologist checked the results and there was nothing in my brain.
So it must be psychological? I don’t know! My cognitive and memory problems are very real and they affect me and my life every day. I have adhd but my medication is so low it does me nothing. I’ve talked about my problems to my psychiatrist and all he came up with was increasing my antipsychotic medication 
I feel that my nurse and doctor underestimate my problems. I am tired of complaining about this to them.
All I feel is that my brain is wrong somehow, but the MRI came out clean. I don’t know what that means
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An MRI scan would usually pick up eg a tumour or a bleed i imagine, not neurological conditions like schizophrenia. There isn’t a scan for any neurological conditions
I’ve addressed this before.
I have cycles of very forgetful behavior. It got so bad that I asled to be checked for dementia. My doctor said to talk to my pdoc first,then we would go from there.
Sz and sza can affect cognitives so badly it mimics dementia.
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Okay. So it might be that the sz is the reason for my problems. I was in psychosis a long time before I was admitted to hospital, it might be harmful for brain? I just wish there would be some help for my issues. But I suppose I just need to live with it.
Thanks @anon29983254 and @anon4362788 for help
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You can help by using your brain more. There are brain training game apps, I rhink @shutterbug knows some good ones
Read read read. Even if you can’t concentrate on a book, seek out interesting articles online. Iflscience.com is great for tight, interesting articles to expand your knowledge.
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Fresh air and supplements. Must stay social. But give your brain time of ease from the damage when socializing. We can heal this. Never give up. It’ll take a while but it will smooth out eventually I think. try 5 mushroom blend.
I feel sad that I can’t read anymore. It’s been a dramatic change… after hospital, when I got my antipsychotic medication, I haven’t read almost at all. Before I read a lot. My favourite author was Kafka, I read “difficult” literature, classics, poetry and I loved to read. It was one of my fav hobbies. Now I get frustrated after a page. I’m back in art school now, and I hope it will help me and give my brain something to work with. Use my brain more.
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Yeah I don’t even watch TV. I’m reduced to listening to music and trying to focus on reading on my phone like @anon4362788 said. Try to do more of what you can. Art classes that’s a good one. I like that. I’m struggling to hold on to my girlfriend my brain is so bad. Any worse and I would lose her. I did and I got her back because I inmooved ever so slightly. Keep going. It will get easier. I’m making a switch though. Crap. But I have to
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I have improved. I’m sure you have too. We have the survival instinct. The intelligence that tells us what to do. Streamline that as much as you can. Can you tell how bad I used to be? That what I held on to. And here I am now. I still have bad cognition. But I’m not consumed by constant torture. I deal with it. Shows I’ve improved
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