wont admit he’s a little scared to read that article due to his own insecurities of cognitive decline
Yeah I think it’s starting to happen. For instance… Gee I forgot what I was going to say. Seriously that’s scary.
It’s only been 2 and a half years and I have been experiencing a sharp decline.
That’s scary given that we don’t have anything that improves cognition on the market given that nobody give a flying **** about our destiny for 70+ years
I think cognitive decline could happen because of many reasons. One may be that the brain is like a muscle and is plastic. With Psychosis, or Schizophrenia, one is not engaged all the time, cannot concentrate for sustained periods, etc. Those parts of the brain which aren’t being used, because of the disease, deteriorate.
If the right medications are found, and once the symptoms reverse, cognitive reversal may take place.
I think cognition worsens because of the symptoms.
Either you are not in psychosis because of APs and your brain shrinks over time. Or you don’t take APs and delusional thought takes you down the rabbit hole where you lose contact w reality and thus cognitive function declines. How can you win…
I think it’s important to stay busy. Keep the mind occupied. I’ve noticed in psych wards that patients either watch TV all day or stay in their rooms sleeping. Of course cognitive function will start to fall.
Overall, they found that cognitive function declined in all but two of these areas – verbal knowledge and abstraction-executive function – by as much as 30 percent in those with a diagnosed psychotic disorder, with the most significant reduction generally seen among those with affective psychoses. However, most of the declines documented by the researchers were “modest,” Kotov said.
“Plenty of patients did better than average and some definitely improved,” he added. “Unfortunately, there is no established treatment for cognitive limitations, but healthy lifestyle – especially, physical activity – and active social life – avoiding loneliness and isolation – are the best” ways to reduce individual risk for them, both in those with and without psychotic disorders.
Who cares, just more crap to pile on the thousand problems I got already. Pretty soon God is going to say, “Hey, there’s no more room on his shoulders to bear any more sh*t, just leave him alone.”
Guess I gotta start being like Kevin now.
Me mechanic, not speak english, but he know what me mean when me say, car no go, and we best friends, so me think, why waste time, say lot word, when few word do trick
Huh… this explains it.
As with all these things not everyone with psychosis will experience such a steep cognitive decline .
I’ve undoubtedly had areas where my cognition is far from the best stretching back to childhood. Certainly quite a few years before reaching my teens , and the onset of mental illness symptoms . For me it is non-verbal ,spatial, executive functioning and processing speed. The last one is task dependent .
It’s hard to tell whether I 've just experienced the cognitive decline that’s standard for my age, or a decline that goes beyond that .
I have the spiky profile typical of many on the autism spectrum . I’ll freely admit I worry about developing dementia . Ironically anxiety can have a negative effect on cognition , as can depression .
It’s good that the cognitive problems associated with psychosis are taken more seriously nowadays . That wasn’t the case back in 1975 when I was first hospitalised .
My psychiatrist feels that my cognitive issues are caused by my anxiety.
There’s no mention if medication has any effect… oh jeez lets see… being on one or more of the most powerful medications that exists for decades, could this possibly have any effect on the brain?
Well in that case why don’t you take a little anti-anxiety medication maybe? Maybe some anti-decogntive medication? I’m sure that’l fix your brain right up! Even though we have no idea what where doing, it’s like throwing a wrench in a dish washer to fix it!
My psychiatrist feels that many of my symptoms are due to my anxiety.
This is kind of insulting.
I don’t believe that my cognitive decline is caused by my anxiety.
I feel it’s more complicated than this.
I don’t get what this thread is about.
Just re-read the article d = 0.31 so it’s neither small nor medium. It means that you are 0.3 standard worse over span of 20 years e.g. by age of 50. Not so bad actually. And agrees with what @firemonkey trying to say here.
TL; DR: As far as I understood in twenty years you are 0.3 standard deviations behind the normal aging
Bad news but bearable again
But I definitely will go after sodium benzoate after this (I’m 30 now) and will continue to hope that they will invent something when I’m going to be aged 50.