My only advice is to go outside and walk around somewhere that isnt your home. You won’t want to do it I know but it will help you if you can. Maybe try and arrange a meeting with someone, or just go and visit something somewhere slightly further than you would go normally.
Exercise can also really help but again is really hard to tell yourself to do.
I’ve definitely been there a lot.
What also helped me was trying to just say “today didn’t work, lets hope tomorrow is better” and don’t beat yourself up about it. I think when you get upset that you can’t do what you want it just makes you more depressed, which makes you more likely to feel like you don’t want to do anything and its a spiral. So forgive yourself, and try again tomorrow!
What has helped most for me is to get myself down to the bare minimum level of meds I can function on and maintain insight. This means I have to deal with positives 24/7, but at least I don’t have heavy meds making my negatives worse and blunting me cognitively and emotionally. I use therapy (CBT mainly) to deal with positives.
I totally agree with you shuttetbug that thats the way to go. Ive no self help groups or countselours to go to so it would get pretty hard for me to survive with hallucinations. Besides since starting Seroquel 11 years ago I can no longer get drunk. Just another advantage of taking much antipsychotics.
Ive lowered my antipsychotic drug Seroqpuel with 25 % one week ago. I hope that that will improve my global state state some how.
Let me end this session with saying that taking Seroquel for alcohol and nerves is a picnick compared to Anti buse I was on for 10 years.
But you are right that voice hearing is a luxery that belongs to people with strong support.
