Hello,
is there anyone with simple schizophrenia? The doctors diagnosed me with anxiety and depression, but I’m not sure. The problem is that I feel very empty. I feel like I live only in my head and not in reality. Old memories, songs, various phrases that I’ve heard somewhere flash in my head. I feel like I’m losing myself. My memory is terrible I can barely remember what it was like in the morning. Life is just going next to me, I won’t come involved in it. I only do things that I have to do, otherwise I don’t like anything. I communicate poorly with people, I think I stop talking. Please write if anyone has the same. Thank you very much . PS: I don’t speak much English, so I write using a compiler. I’m sorry for mistakes.
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Negative symptoms of depression can be very similar to negative symptoms of sz. Did antidepressants help you? Even psychiatrists can have a hard time differentiating these negative symptoms.
antidepressants didn’t help much after 3 years i dropped them off and nothing changed at all.
That’s not unusual if you suffer from persistent anxiety and depression.
Do you feel sad and depressed? Any suicidal thoughts? If you don’t have these then you probably have negative symptoms of sz and not depression.
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Sounds like dissociation. Pretty common with severe depression and anxiety.
hard to say how i feel. it’s like when I feel empty, just nothing. But it’s true that I’m annoyed easily and I can laugh, but that’s not what it used to be
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yes, I agree, but there are not very anxious thoughts in my head. It’s like when I’m dreaming nonstop and I can’t stop dreaming.
but I don’t feel disconnected in any way, it’s like I’m in the inner world rather than in reality and I can’t get out of it. It’s interesting that the neighborhood doesn’t know much, even though I’m really out
Is it even still diagnosed? I thought it got dropped as a Dx.
Welcome to the forum!
It can be hard to settle on a diagnosis since the symptoms of different conditions overlap. It sounds a lot like depression, probably severe from what you say. I don’t know what else you may have going on but i would continue to work with your doctor to get the treatment you need.
yes, I have been diagnosed with anxiety and depression for 5 years, but it occurs to me that it is getting worse. So far, I work normally, I go to work, etc., but always once a year there comes an episode in which it gets worse and then it doesn’t come back like, that was before that episode. I don’t know what to do anymore. I wonder if anyone has the same thing. Thank you very much and sorry for the mistakes, I write everything via the google translator
Maybe you have treatment resistant depression dince antidrpressants didn’t work, its like sz negative symptoms. Its really up to your psychiatrist to diagnose and treat you.
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No, I mean simple schizophrenia isn’t a diagnosis that is given out anymore. I thought they dropped it from the manuals.
But if you’re still able to hold a job, I doubt it’s sz.
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But I don’t feel sad … on the contrary, I’m still trying to have hope that it will be good … I’m running out of strength. I’ve told all this to meme doctors, but he’s still worth the depression and anxiety, but I don’t feel like it’s. the only thing I have anxious of is aware of this strange state.
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in the eu, this diagnosis still works
You’re not alone, some members here only have negative symptoms probably from sz as they don’t have a depression diagnosis. There is no meds for negative symptoms of sz anyways. Antipsychotics are for positive symptoms of sz.
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Oh then tell that to yoyr Dr about simple schizophrenia. But know that there is no meds.
so it’s actually not worth saying about it when treatment is not possible. Maybe it’s better not to know anything in this case :-D. Thanks
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Well there is meds in development for negative symptoms of sz like KarXT.