Has anyone felt like they lost some personality and intelligence due to schizophrenia? I certainly have.
My personality really changed when I went catatonic for awhile, then my negative symptoms also changed it in much the same way. I used to be a funny, happy kid with many interests. Now, though, I have become somber, less talkative by a whole lot, and scared. It was pretty noticeable at school when all my friends asked if I was taking drugs because I was so different from what I used to be. I practically lost my personality, ripped away by schizophrenia.
And as for intelligence, I was barely able to finish school because of my lack of credits to graduate, and I just feel slowed down. My concentration and focus has been abolished, and my memory is super, super poor compared to what I use to have. For example, I’m really interested in economics, history, and politics and often read many books and articles about those subjects. So I was reading Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, which is a pretty simple explanation about economics, and I for the life of me can’t seem to learn very much. I have to reread pages twice before I can graspe the subject matter, which was something that I used to be good at.
I was wondering if others had similar experiences with this. I remember I used to want to be a attorney, but now I don’t know if I could survive community college. This has really been bothering me lately.
I am the same way, my university grades went from 90+% to 50%, I still graduated but can’t do a master due to low grades now. I also have catatonia, luckily antipsychotics stops it for me.
I wanted to transfer to medschool as my grades in first semester allowed it but I needed at least 2 semesters with labs 85+% and sz hit me end of 1st semester.
I tell myself even thought sz suppressed my personality, at least I don’t have a bad personality. I see many ppl with no mental illness who have very bad and antisocial/psychopathic personalites. I feel better than them even if I have sz.
Were all human, even when people have little intelligence or personality, or a awful dx given. We all dont need to movie actors or famous surgeons, though it seems we all want to be. I mean do it if its doable, if its not its not
My grades were never the best, but they were fine enough. I hardly ever got a D and a F, but at the end they were common. I don’t think I was misdiagnosed at all. If anything, this could just be a phase.