Psychosis make us stupid?

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once someone said to me that psychosis inflamed the brain and killing brain cells. I don’t know. Does anyone feel more stupid than before? I do. I think that I become more stupid even after I learned myself a new language the past two years and more but I am…dumber…

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I do, my grades went down in university after my psychosis no matter how much more I studied. My psychiatrist said that psychosis can reduce working memory and concentration. Now I stay in bed all day everyday, never get out of the house except for Dr appointment. I lost my emotions, motivation/energy, pleasure, etc Its called negative symptoms.

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I feel like I have to relearn to think more. For a long time I’ve been thinking less, using less brain activity. I think it’s the antipsychotics effects directly and indirectly.

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Definitely, yes. I don’t know if it’s the psychosis. Maybe.

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Psychosis makes my brain numb so yes I do feel more stupid.

My brain is slow. I am slow when I’m using my Android phone or pc. Other people are so fast on their devices. I googled something for old folks in their 70’s today. The old lady saw my search results and tap on the correct company before I could even see it.

I’m 53 but people in their 70’s brain function is much faster than mine.

My concentration and memory is a frustration.

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oh you got the negatives all the way in. harsh indeed! I think that there is some kind of a treatment for negatives too. you should check it. ask your doc.
and I hoped that no one feels dumber like me, that it is just my imagination…guise not…

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sad. did you try memory games or training? I heard that if you learn something new every few years, your brain keeps its strength

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losing the brain is the most frightening shikkk in the world

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I am not sure if psychosis causes permanent brain damage but maybe its just chemical and that negative symptoms can be fixed with future better meds.

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When I was young I use to do crossword puzzles. I played some memory games as well. Wish I could play Soduko.

My brain just don’t want to cooperate. It is even effort for me to participate on this forum.

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I’m definitely not as mentally sharp as I used to be. But I’m wiser than I used to be.

But being stupid is something else I think.

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I use to study maths and physics

After Sz it’s not the same - I can no longer appreciate the beauty in maths and physics

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Neurofeedback can supposedly help cognition. I’ve tried it for negative symptoms and I’m having a great improvement

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It’s hard to tell what years of severe mental illness/psych meds may have done. I probably had what the Americans call a learning disability prior to severe mental illness developing . Like a lot of you there was a decline in academic performance as the SMI developed.

I spent over 20 years with little intellectual stimulation until I went online. A recipe for brain rot?! I have good verbal intelligence (good enough to have joined several high IQ societies), but my practical intelligence/adaptive functioning lags significantly behind .

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I don’t think I got dumber because of psychosis. I’m pretty sure the antipsychotics blocked some of my smarts

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You can lose brain cells doing a lot of different things.

It’s the cognitive issues that comes from schizophrenia that ■■■■■ us.

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some say that continuous psychosis can do harm. from my experience, antipsychotic drugs are more harmful to the brain due to a reduction of the thinking processes. I mean, when I had them, I have almost no thoughts at all. now, I am not a doctor, but if I can’t think, my brain will deteriorate (no work no muscle) that is my logic

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but do you think that it is the fault of the psychosis or the meds?

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cool! do you feel that you are thinking an processing good as the old you?