Maybe you’re not diagnosed with schizophrenia or maybe you are and just don’t have them.
- Yes
- No
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I voted no. After three years, i feel normal again
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I thought I had negative symptoms but now I am being tested for Autism.
This confuses me to no end.
Doctors and mental health services only seem to care about psychosis
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i am positive all the time
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Myne went when a few years after my voices went away.
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I’ve been living with negative symptoms for two years now, but it has decreased a great deal with medication and therapy. It was really severe at first with poverty of thought, lack of emotion, and lack of basically everything thing that made me who I am. It was horrible and greatly distressing for the little bit of emotion that I had. Now I’m doing much better. I can talk again, feel emotion, express my hobbies, and feel like me once again. Now, I still have some symptoms like lack of motivation and some of the others I had but not as severe. I can say that with my antidepressants, it has greatly improved my ability to function.
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Anhedonia comes and goes but I have more positive symptoms like intrusive thoughts. But I got used to feeling like a zombie.
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I have negative symptoms, cognitive issues for over 16 years now with no positive symptoms. It not come suddenly instead a slow and steady decline.
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How, did they go away? you seem like in a good mood. i want to be the same…
I really don’t know. It just happened.
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Thanks, then there is hope
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Yes, of course. Some years ago my negatives were severe and I was desperate
I have severe cognitive issues. I was unable to perform at work. We had to memorize so much information to do our jobs. I fell behind. My boss to his credit tried to work with me. They were very good to me. But I couldn’t do the work, not for lack of trying. I would go home to my parents and agonize about it. Finally I had to stop working.
Edit: I have paucity of thought too or I used to. When planning for a social situation, I used to research and memorize things I could talk about with that person and save it in Notes. I called it my talking points memo. I frequently ran out of things to say and would refer to my phone for more. It wasn’t like this when I was young. I need much longer time to put my thoughts together.
On a zoom meeting last week I embarrassed myself trying to make a toast. I couldn’t think of a single word. It was mortifying.
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I have negative symptoms: avolition, apathy, social isolation, and lack of emotion. I also have cognitive symptoms that I have mostly treated with nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, study and meditation.
The sza has lowered my IQ by about 10 points since college and my memory is just terrible now. But, due to my interventions listed above, my IQ is no longer in the subnormal range.
Omega 3 and green tea helps with cognition and negative symptoms.
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It has been over a year since i was last in hospital, and have now been stabilised with the medication. However, i still do have negative symptoms.
I struggle with avolition every day. It really takes a lot for me to get up and go. Usually when i make a commitment to do one thing, something else suffers. I can’t do too many things at the same time. I have some apathy. I really do not put much effort into my appearance. I have some anhedonia at times, but this at least has reduced. I do not socially isolate myself at the moment, but that is because i’m forcing myself to be more sociable. However, when it comes to cognition, i have some issues there too. Difficulty processing too much information, i tend to forget half of it and then have to ask for it to be repeated. Sometimes i have trouble concentrating, especially if there are a couple of things competing for my attention. My speak is also sometimes affected. I say things that i don’t mean, and i don’t always recognise when i say something inappropriate. Still, i try to keep on the positive. I do as much as i can, and just work with it.
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