Most people here suffer from apathy,avolition,so what's your interest?

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I think most people with schizophrenia suffer from some degree of apathy and avolition,so what are you interested in doing?Sex count too,lol

For me,I like to post things online,only on forum,can’t get used to facebook cause I don’t really like people who know me on real life see what I post.I also like to exercise too,especially my workout and playing football,both of it I enjoy v.much,workout gives me healthy body and football gives me much enjoyment.

What’s your interest that keeps your apathy,abolition on bay?

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Mtn biking in the mountains

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nba basketball, soccer, reading the internet, games…

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Writing, open windows

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I like kicking ass and taking names.

Uh, but yeah, I like school, I actually enjoy it, I just hate driving to class and not being allowed to go pee or smoke a cigarette for over an hour, I like to pee while smoking a cigarette in my backyard, such freedom, America.

I am pretty into bodybuilding, especially my chest, back and arms. I used to be a competitive powerlifter in the lightest weight class so being bigger is a boost to my ego. I was athletic looking but not very huge when I was powerlifting. now I’m 5ft7 180lbs, used to be 167lbs.

I like socializing. I need to be around friends and family. Im extroverted.

I do some creative writing, I storm up ideas and then write a chapter. I dont really talk about it, its a little secret that Im 180 pages into a book that I plan on being about 300 pages.

I like anime. I have two friends who like it as much as I do. I like the more violent and dark ones, not the stupid happy ones, no, there is a whole genre of dark anime called seinen that is for young adults, like people in their 20’s.

I like getting on here and spouting off loads of crap. I like hearing about other people’s experiences with schizophrenia.

I like music. I like bars, I like Guinness. I like bullshitting with my friends over some drinks. I also like more serious conversations. I’ve been told that I am easy to talk to but that my eye contact is a little scary.

I like brooding, which means pacing around smoking a cigarette on my back porch.

I have low negative symptoms, at my worst I just stayed at home and was asocial save for one drinking buddy. Wait, that’s still pretty bad. I was exercising a lot and doing well in school at the time, however. I had great hygiene, still do. I shower every night before going to bed, I also shower after working out. I get my mom to buzz my hair really close every two weeks, and I shave just about every night. I floss and use a q-tip in my ears, brush my teeth, ect.

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Great for you,it seems your doing really well…

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I like any sports that i can do alone without team mates like kickboxing and surfing. i used to smoke weed but i think is making my negative symptoms worse. when im by my self sometimes it helps me with the voice but when i smoke and i have to socialize or go to a social environment i become paranoid and i think everyone is looking at me, talking about and someone is going to hurt me. i miss smoking becuase i could kind of free my mind while i smoke and i just can stare at a view for some time without any voice or thought.

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also im 19 and i never had sex before lol i feel uncomfortable around girls and more getting naked and being touched but i always dream about it and think about through out the day does anyone feel the same way? is this a symptom from schzo or smothin else?

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Oh boy. I used to be you!

Ok, so I was molested by a woman, that was what made me afraid of girls and eventually I became sexually frustrated by 18 and it was hell. My onset happened at 18 1/2.

You need to quit smoking pot. Im a psychology major and I’ve taken some neuroscience classes, and let me tell you, pot is not good for us. You said it makes you paranoid- just dont do it, it makes me more in touch with my animalistic impulses and makes me observe them rationally, it brings them out, but it also makes me hallucinate like hell and lose control of what I am thinking at times.

If you dream about sex, your brain wants you to go out there and have sex. It’s normal, people our age do it, (I’m a 21 year old male) and it’s healthy, unless you have religious concerns, I advise just having the experience. There are all sorts of ways to find people, there are apps for your phone, even. Dating websites often have what people are looking for listed, and casual sex is an option. People have casual sex. It’s no big deal. Now, do keep in mind, romantic sex can cause you to fall in love and then have an episode if things go south. As for feeling uncomfortable around girls, so was I, I was afraid of them, now that’s sort of gone, just not a thing anymore. Now I feel like I deserve sex, which is a whole different problem.

It’s not a symptom, believe me on that. It’s normal. 19 and no sexual experience = sexually frustrated in my opinion. I mean I have been there.

Private message me if you want to talk more. I would be glad to share what I can.

But do keep in mind that I am an atheist and I have only one rule about sex- I have to have verbal consent. Other than that I am bisexual and have slept with men and women, done just about everything short of BDSM. BDSM is ■■■■■■ up in my opinion. I mean rough is one thing, what looks like straight up abuse is another. I think girls who like BDSM are…im not a girl, I dunno, but guys who are into it are sick in the head somehow…yeah, sick in the head, I know all about that. It’s just not cool. It’s ridiculous to need to hurt someone to get off. Ridiculous in a bad way.

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I read and write. I wrote a short story over the long weekend. I work out ever so little, and I spend time on the internet.

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Meds would cause avolition in me…happened the very few times I took them.

I do all sorts of things, creative things… build stuff, work on house, (I tiled a hall floor yesterday) and in yard, gardening, landscaping, building rock walls, planting trees, building ponds. Reading, researching various topics, writing, poetry/songs, swimming, hiking, drawing (not as often as I used to), having animals, watching animals in nature, stargazing…which reminds me, our telescope better be here today !

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You do a lot of stuff,you have a active lifestyle

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Thanks for seeing it that way…most of it I do right at home too…I used to travel a lot more, now I mainly stay within 50 miles of home when I go out…for many years I would travel (usually drive, sometimes bus but rarely, and flew a few times) hundreds or thousands of miles several times a year. So I got to see a lot of places, at least in North America.

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I love to read, it distracts me from the apathy :blush:

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It’s good to drive travel around and go to places,but I think we had to take good car while driving on road,make sure we know the route well,so that accident could be prevented…I went to a sports complex and wasn’t sure of the route and was thinking while driving,almost bang into another car,luckly there was enough time to react and no accident happen,now I know how to go to the place already…

I might be traveling to play football in another places I never went before,so I hope I can use the GPS and go there safetly…

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I enjoy surfing and swimming. It helps me calm my mind.

I feel the past few years my reading level has improved. I have been enjoying reading again.

Through my job, I’ve grown a fondness for gardening. Now I want to learn more.

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theatre at the minute
has been running
yoga
studying
that kind of thing

I’ve not been able to be much of an athlete i wish i knew why
at the moment it’s because of intensive short term stress of ‘writing work’ with a facilitated theatre company
extreme long term stress with a very suicidal and very alcoholic sister
Christmas and the resulting diet, (ketogenic)

Feeling like a real looser because i can’t manage my housework for the last few months and have decided to get cleaners in because my mum is 72 now and exhausted from taking care of my sister.

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School is my main interest. It keeps me (over) occupied. It has goals for me–to get into a good grad school. On my breaks, I mostly just veg. I am going over to a friend’s house again this weekend. But, in general, I do not do a whole lot on my breaks. Over summer break, last year, I tried to get back into gardening a bit, but I did not do a whole lot. I also cook a bit. I made a cheesecake for Christmas dinner this year. It was delicious. For this summer break, I am thinking about interning at a place where former prisoners and those with major mental illness go to try to reintegrate back into society–get a job, a place to live, etc. Sort of ironic for me, since I have my own struggles, but I am a psychology major, and do hope to be able to counsel people some day.

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I never had GPS…am good with maps. Many places I’ve driven I have not been to before. I learned to drive in older larger vehicles… a large 1950s pickup, manual transmission, a large Ford pickup and a 6 speed dump truck. So smaller cars are easy!
I hate city driving but having spent 7 years in a large city driving in my 20s, I think I got my training in.
I used to deliberately take roads I’d never been on before just to see new sights.
Always be aware of your surroundings and try to think and see ahead…although one time I took my eyes off road for just a second to look at someone and the person in the back seat yelled there was a Moose in the road…LOL…I didn’t hit it, just stopped and watched it
(This isn’t same Moose, but was just like this scene, almost exact)

http://www.alaska-in-pictures.com/data/media/1/moose-cow_1583.jpg

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