Do you do things slower or faster than the average person? Do you even know?
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I believe I’m slower now than I was before it takes twice as long to do things than other people.
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Slower after the illness. I was like a robot with laser focus before the illness.
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I do things slower. I think it’s because of sedating effects of medication.
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I rush a lot of things. I should be slow and thinking what I’m doing, but I often do not get the thought before I start doing something. But I move way slower as before my illness.
I’m definitely slower. Especially when it comes to cognitive tasks, like desicion-making or thinking about things, or proecessing conversational pieces.
I’ve even been told I walk slow.
Only thing I do fast is typing and reading.
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I either rush or do nothing
do you eat fast too?
my mom eats slow. I think that’s why she’s so thin.
Yeah, I eat fast too
Slower than I used to be and it drives me nuts.
I’ve been very slow all of my life. Even before the illness and before the meds.
I eat really fast. And really don’t chew a lot. I do that really badly when I eat at my fathers place.
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I’m very slow. I blame my schizoaffective because of cognitive symptoms.
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I feel slower as well due to the meds. It’s better than being psychotic I guess.
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Slower, though my thoughts are faster now, but not in an intelligent, flowing fashion. Just a random garbage generating fashion.
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Last week my pdoc was going over my case with the new pdoc. He told him I was slow. I’m really not aware of this, other than I have trouble thinking of responses to things.
One of my psychiatrists took me off antipsychotics for 4 months because I was having trouble swallowing my food, essentially diagnosing me with Drug Induced Parkinsonism (DIP).
One of the three main symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease is bradykinesia. " Bradykinesia refers to slowness of movement." The other two are rigidity and tremor.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bradykinesia+definition
So, can DIP have bradykinesia as a symptom also? Yes. Actually more so than Parkinson’s Disease itself.
“Drug-Induced Parkinsonism”
“DIP is generally characterized clinically as bilateral and symmetric parkinsonism, with more prominent bradykinesia and rigidity than in patients with PD.”
So, in other words, my antipsychotics make me move more slowly. If they start writing me up or something at work for moving too slowly, I may just have to tell them that it may be my Parkinsonism.
“This slowness of movement is most obvious when a person with Parkinson’s is starting or performing activities that require several successive steps.”
I really like your profile pic, name and tagline. Sorry for going off-topic, but I just had to say that!
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Slower moving and slower thinking for me.
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I rarely get out of first gear. I’m slower by a large margin from pre psychosis and meds.