No you’re ok firemonkey it wasnt directed at you.
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Dementia praecox also assumed that the cognitive disturbances are degenerative, like traditional dementias (progressive and irreversible damage to the brain). Alcohol-related dementia generally isn’t degenerative after the patients stop drinking, so I suppose you could compare that to schizophrenia, although the cognitive disturbance in alcohol-related dementia can be a lot more severe. Schizophrenia is not degenerative, although a subgroup of patients do experience some cognitive decline after illness onset.
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i know what you mean but i think dementia is prob a lot worse still… especially since things go downhill then very rapidly. I think the cognitive problems with sz stagnate a bit more than if you would have dementia for real.
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My last pdoc actually diagnosed me with cognitive impairment due to sza disorder.
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Do dementia meds restore working memory deficits in sz?
I’m on invega and invega made me very “intellectually disabled” risperidone is pretty much the same thing. I suggest trying Geodon as I heard some people regain some intelligence on that med…
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When i used to smoke weed, i had to go home so as i walk pass my home my street just didnt look the same as i didnt recognize my building, it took 1 min or so for me to come back to normal ( still high ), my sight came back. Very unusual, just happen once. Later i got hit by schizophrenia maybe a year after that event.
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I think weed made my sz appear earlier.
You know its strange for me, because i stopped weed for a couple of months as i was done with it then i got schizophrenia. In my first episode experience i didnt even wanted to go toilet because i was paranoid about someone watching me, i wasnt constipated but it started to build up so one day it was just enough is enough, so i put my shame aside and use the toilet. You know when you stool, its weird when you think someone is watching or even know if they watching.
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I had sz symptoms years before my diagnosis but I was successfully fighting them. Everytime I thought I beat those symptoms they came back stronger after a few years until I exploded in full psychosis and suicide at 21-22y.o. Since I was 12y.o. I knew something was wrong in me, I thought about mental illness but refused the idea.
At 18y.o. I researched my symptoms and found sz, I refused the idea of having sz as it was a horrible illness, it meant that I am crazy/demented and violent. But now sz explains everything, my violence, paranoia, delusions, grandiosity, negative and cognitive symptoms etc Meds made negative and cognitive symptoms worse than without meds but got rid of the worse, positive symptoms and violence/irritability.
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It was shrooms for me. Psychotic break. Then it just never stopped.
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Schizophrenia definitely impairs your ability to think clearly. I find it is a constant distraction. Sometimes quite a bit, other times merely background noise. It can’t be helpful, no matter which way you slice it
It has made me more aware of myself though, if you know what I mean. More keenly aware of what I need and what is important to me
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I thought I was being followed years before my diagnosis since I was very young but it didn’t bother me at first, with time it got worse and worse.
Schizophrenia hit me hard too, in the first month of my symptoms i was violent against friends, then everything fell apart people stop calling me, that was back then because nobody knew what it was, when i got diagnose Schiz, some people went to school to a degree where they understood for the first time what schizophrenia is, and now some work at the hospital, nursing in psych ward or anything related to it. Its good career. But as for me, i am way behind in any career, in fact i have no career but still happy that i can go out, for me happiness is freedom.
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My condition was indistinguishable from dementia in the first two years. I had bad memory problems, lost my car in the parking lots many times. I got confused and forgot where I was some times as well. I also lived in an alternate fantasy world with the voices in my head. I thought it was permanent.
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Same for me, I lost myself many times. I would take the metro and many buses until I was lost and far away. I would drive very far and get lost, sometimes my phones battery died and had to ask ppl directions. I was talking to strangers in streets random and sometimes illogical things. I told a random girl that I am a priest but in my head I was Jesus. Twice I had a deadly accident as I was driving at 200kmh in snow.
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My Mom died from advanced dementia.
Dementia is usually more debilitating than having a psychotic disorder like schizophrenia or schizoaffective.
At least hers was.
With schizophrenia ones condition can improve over time but with dementia things get worse over time.
There is no improving.
Dementia is a degenerative disease unlike schizophrenia.
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Yea thats true and what I had in my mind. Dementia gets worse while sz improves with meds.
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Atleast schizophrenic can live in a fantasy world for a while before getting caught, i cant imagine of how dementia can be dealt with.
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Yea, I got caught and treated by my psychiatrist lol
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