Negative symptoms! I never bath unless my brothers drag me into the shower every 8-10 days.
My psy say I have apathy and avolition.
Also I never got in trouble with ppl, my family or the police until I had SZ. Meds improved this a bit but not 100%.
I have apathy just like criminals. Apathy can make me do things against the rules. I was responsible before my SZ but not now.
You’re just blaming everything on schizophrenia and you’ll never get well with that attitude.
You’re 100% responsible for your actions,
Stop using our illness as a scapegoat,
It makes us all look bad.
Why I wasn’t blaming anything before my SZ. Its the negative symptoms that made me like that.
This is just an excuse.
I suffer with Apathy also and have always followed society’s rules.
Why do criminals suffer from apathy then?
Your schizophrenia does not control you. And if you think it does, then you will not get better.
Apathy made me Anti-Social.
Not every apathetic person is going to be a criminal.
I have negative symptoms. Badly. I don’t shower enough or clean my house enough. You know what’s responsible?
Me.
I’m responsible for not going ahead and fighting through the haze and tiredness and unmotivated mood.
You have choices at each moment of the day. You are responsible for the choices you make, not a disease. You know what is causing it and you can choose what to do.
From wikipedia Apathy:
An apathetic individual has an absence of interest in or concern about emotional, social, spiritual, philosophical, or physical life and the world.
The apathetic may lack a sense of purpose, worth, or meaning in their life. An apathetic person may also exhibit insensibility or sluggishness.
I have a video about a criminal with SZ. He says he doesn’t feel remorse. Psychiatrists said its from his apathy. He committed suicide after killing his pregnant gf.
I am much better than him though. I don’t know why slightly SZs hide these facts and the fact that SZ can make you a criminal sometimes. Why they fear and hide it?
I never said it can’t. I said you have choices and are responsible for your choices.
I have a lot to say,
But nothing is going to help you if you don’t change your attitude.
It’s sad because you likely won’t and will just continue to be a victim of this illness forever.
In my thread about politics every one said that normal ppl commit as much crimes as SZs. I showed them studies proving them wrong and they said they hide it because its bad for the image of schizophrenia.
I am of the opinion that some can be violent when not medicated properly. But, it’s still a choice.
I can’t follow social cues, understand emotions, understand humor or make jokes. Negative symptoms made me asocial because of severe apathy. Only if there was a med that restores normal emotions…
Your meds don’t restore emotions. You are given meds, that raise your chemical imbalances so that you are able to control your emotions on your own. In essence you are given the tools to become a rational, clearheaded being.
What you do with those tools is up to you. I hear so many people say that they want a med that fixes all their problems. NO. you are given the opportunity to improve your mental stability. But you have to put in the effort to make yourself a better person on your own.
Why my psychiatrist wrote SZ with negative symptoms, apathy and avolition in my diagnosis and work report? He told me there is no meds yet for those. He told me the whole SZ story since antipsychotics came out in 1950. He said doctors noted that not all SZs treated with meds functioned in society.
They suffered from negative symptoms and then the negative symptoms category was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders later. Its that book that all psychiatrists use to diagnose mental illnesses.
Some were able to live with their families without work, money, friends and or a gf; without a life essentially like me. Some were were only able to live in mental hospital but they went into the streets because long hospital stays were stopped.
My psychiatrist knows what he’s talking about and prescribed me Wellbutrin because it helped some with negative symptoms but it only made me worse, sleep 24/7. He said he has no other option because Abilify is the best cor negative symptoms and it improved my negative symptoms I had friends BUT I developped serious side effects.
Negative symptoms are real, ppl don’t want to believe in them because they don’t have it and because there is no meds yet for them.
“Negative symptoms. This refers to reduced or lack of ability to function normally. For example, the person may neglect personal hygiene or appear to lack emotion (doesn’t make eye contact, doesn’t change facial expressions or speaks in a monotone). Also, the person may lose interest in everyday activities, socially withdraw or lack the ability to experience pleasure.”
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354443
Wellbutrin is not an antipsychotic. It is an antidpressant that is used to treat bipolar, and depression. It is sometimes used in conjunction with an ap, but it itself is not an ap.
