Do you feel that your cognitive issues and negative symptoms are primarily due to your psych med use, like APs or due to your SZ/SZA/bipolar disorder?
For me I believe that chronic med use have caused me cognitive issues and negative symptoms
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Although chronic med use have ravaged my brain over the years, I do believe that the disorder itself also causes problems with cognition and motivation
I think that since our meds lower dopamine in our brain which happen to be the pleasure center of the brain it would affect our enjoyment in things.
Yes, dopamine plays a big role with pleasure and motivation
From someone that doesnt take aps on a regular basis, I still have cognitive issue and negative symptom issues. So ill go with ‘its the disorder’
I have no cognitive nor negatives now
I do think meds can make negatives worse, but they don’t cause them nor will quitting make them go away.
Wow although I am pro meds I can also tell that others are very much pro med also
It depends on which med you are taking and what it does to you too I guess. Going on Latuda and seroquel felt like a vacation compared to zyprexa. Unfortunately I got chestpain from Latuda, and seroquel didn’t help me sleep, so the vacation is over for now.
I was off meds for 2 years and my negative symptoms didn’t get any better, in fact they got worse. Same with my cognitive symptoms.
There’s been a lot of research onthis. The meds just exacerbate what the disease causes.
I had full blown sza for 4 years before going on antipsychotics and had cognitives and negatives the whole time so illness
My negatives are worse off my meds
If only they taught schizophrenics to eat healthy, prescribe low med doses , and advice them to only take meds as needed , and actually made quality medication instead of cheap generics perhaps there would limited or virtually no mental illness.
I was working 12 hr shifts and was basically normal off meds so i say its the meds that cause it
I have tons of energy off meds. On them I kinda just sit around doing nothing. I think Depakote is the culprit. Geodon doesn’t sedate me and Seroquel only sedates me during sleeping hours.
I had issues before I got sick. When I was off meds. So it is more likely due to illness. Motivation or cognitive issues didn’t stay linear on meds either. There were days I felt more fatigued.
Hate to break it to ya but i do all of the above and still the illness continues on.
i think it’s both the meds and the illness.
How about both?