Does anyone else feel like their personality left when you became schizophrenic?
i feel like in some ways it did tha tbut at the same time…it adds more to me. the meds might be hwat makes me feel like i have no personality . i know my soul is strong though
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Same for me as @arrgghh, a little bit yes and a little bit no.
I’m still as nice as I always was but I feel like there’s some depth missing.
I believe that it sure changed my personality. But after years of schizophrenia I am getting mine back.
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Its called negative symptoms. Its unpleasant to admit it but sz limit ur emotional capacity. I know I lost my personality to it… Its only been a year but only a small fraction of us manage to recover and be high functioning. Sz reorganizes the brain, this obviously leads to the personality changes you have mentioned:
http://www.schizophrenia.com/disease.htm
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Yes! Any time I try to talk to people I just sit there unable to think of anything to say. My mind has kind of turned inward, seeking satisfaction from the inner universe of the trillions of nerve synapse in the brain.
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My personality is definitely in there somewhere-a very strong, friendly one, but I am largely without outward manifestations of it. You need other people in order to express yourself.
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My personality 100% left me when I got schizophrenia…fortunately it’s come back quite some now though.
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Lmao I’m the same way I have a hard time thinking of things to say or talk about, my personality took a huge hit after I got schizophrenia
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My last diagnosis was Schizoaffective
My current diagnosis is Bipolar type 1 with psychotic features.
I am having some identity issues lately.
I woke up this morning and thought to myself - Who am I?
Having trouble identifying yourself is commonly seen with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar, but is also very common with having a personality disorder.
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i think it was buried but i have been slowly digging it out in my own way with meds (although meds can hinder that) i think i have found the right combo and if i am lucky enough then maybe i could actually be free from this sick disease.
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Being wrapped up in my delusion affected my personality a little bit. I don’t have the negative symptoms mostly associated with SZ but I was so distracted with my delusion and thinking it’s real that it shut me down a little bit. I knew no one else believed me so I just kin of held back and was reserved.
Totally, glad I was a jackass, or else I would miss me.
Definitely. I was a go getter. Non-stop intense workouts. Full of humor. I aced my last two years of college and struggled but ultimately graduated from the rigors of Law School. I would have study sessions that lasted 5 hours. Once pulled an all nighter on writing assignment as a 1L (freshman law student). I was very feminine. Nails always down. Pedicures a must. Manicures with my tween daughter. Loved my life as a single mother. Opened my own law practice. Started to succeed with my small immaculate law office with ornate files. Never missed a deadline. Kept my malpractice liability insurance policy in good standing. Never made mistakes. NOW. I can’t think straight. I can’t remember what day it is. I can’t work. Tortured by a demon voice that never leaves me. I want to die sometimes. 12 hospitalizations in 6 years.Can barely sit through an hour of therapy. Voice always tortures me in the shower. I am on two full doses of two SSRIs. 225mg Effexor, 300mg Wellbutrin more and more…it never ends. I don’t recognize my new personality. I feel so depressed and my life is an epic mess. I hate it!
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Does that Effexor and Wellbutrin help? Which AP are you on?