I know. He prescribed it to me WITH Latuda.
He said it helps with negative symptoms because negative symptoms resemble depression.
No one has said negative symptoms arenât real. In fact I admitted I have serious negatives. But I still manage to do some things. I force myself to. I literally donât want to do a thing but sit around when I let the negatives win. And I do, a lot.
Thereâs a big difference between having something and letting it have you. You can choose to fight or choose not to. Thatâs on you.
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I donât even have the will to fight. I have tried for more than 15 years and always failed. I quit 15 different jobs.
Better to try and fail then never try at all. No one said you have to work. Just take baby steps. Shower once a week. Make a meal once a week. Take a walk. Anything.
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All I can do is sleep, eat, vape and play video games 2 times a week. I can only focus on one easy first person shooter game. I canât focus on any other game. My psy asked me if I can focus on playing video games I told him only one game.
I have a fear of going outside and of ppl.
Oh yeah I can also listen to music.
And make excuses. Youâre really good at that.
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What I gain from lying and making excuses? I am not stupid ok.
If you put as much effort into doing one thing as you do in typing posts on why you canât I guarantee youâd get 1 thing done.
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If you think that all you need is the right medication to take care of all your emotions and feelings, then it will take a lot longer to get better. If you are aware of the fact that you donât want to take a shower, then why donât you get up, and go take a shower? You seem very aware of what your abilities are, despite the fact that you choose not to do anything about it.
You sound an awful like one of my children. They can play video games, but they canât take a shower or do their chores. You gotta make yourself take care of yourself, or it wonât happen. I have schizophrenia, and negative symptoms up the wazoo. Iâve had both negative and positive. But at the end of the day, when I realize that I donât want to take a shower, itâs not because I have apathy, itâs because I donât want to be bothered. You gotta find something in your life to drive you, otherwise you will just end up spinning your wheels and getting nowhere in life.
I was in the middle of college when I was diagnosed. I was becoming very depressed, didnât want to do anything, etc. I had to take a year off. Once I got on meds, I didnât want to be a college drop out, so I went back to school, finished my degree, got a full time job and then lived on my own before getting married. Was my life very difficult? Absolutely. Did I just want to sit around at my parentâs house eating chips all day? Absolutely. But I wanted to better myself, despite what I was going through. I got through it all. And it was tough!!!
This is what Iâm trying to tell you.The medication will help your chemical imbalance, but you still got to give life 100% effort, or you will be stuck in a life not going anywhere or doing anything. You donât have to accomplish everything in life, I just suggest that you create a list of all the things you want to do in your life, and make steps to achieve what you want. You can do it. Life is always going to be hard, especially with a mental illness, but itâs not impossible to be happy in the end.
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I quit 15 different jobs after 1-2 weeks. My grades at university dropped from 90+% to 54%. I still got my physiotherapy degree because passage grade is 50% but I wanted to get in medicine like most of my friends that deleted and blocked me because I wrote non sense word salad on FB. One of my friends that left me is a brain surgeon and my best friend that I knew since I was 10 is a cardiologist. He ditched me bcz of my SZ. Another is a pediatrician and another is a dentist.
Its unfair that I was smarter with higher grades than most of my friends and I ended up kinda homeless. I know SZ is ranked the #2 most disabling disease worldwide after full paralysis but I still canât believe how much it damaged me. It only left me with a soul. Might as well take this useless soul too.
How is 50% a passing grade in anything?
At my university you can pass with 50% but you need higher for master and phd.
I was in a 3 year major 90 credits, I finished, I can post my grades if you want.
I donât want you to post your grades,
Thatâs private.
I just canât believe you got a pass at 50%.
I already posted them in another thread. I had many As in physiology, anatomy, pathophysiology, neuroscience and psychology.
My intelligence is all wasted bcz I canât use it in real life, I canât connect it to reality because of my SZ.
Youâre a grown man whose brothers have to drag him into the shower once every two weeks to stop you from stinking up the place.
Stop making excuses.
You can make a weekly schedule and write showers in it three times.
It has helped me a lot to know that on mondays, wednesdays and fridays I HAVE to shower, and that if I donât, others will feel bad because of my smell.
I have negatives too, and for years I refused to take any responsibility for my inaction.
I finally did, and guess what? Once you get used to it, it ainât so bad. You just gotta stop whining and go do it.
Youâre a grown man acting like a spoiled child.
Get it together!
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My parents tell me that I am living to eat and I am not eating to live. They say all I do is eat and go to the bathroom. Also that I only have a hole up there and a hole down there, no brain!
I donât care about ppl. I fear them and I fear going outside my home.