SZ and Personality

SZ completely changed my personality.

I was energetic, very smart, polite, not impulsive, patient, pleasant and social.

Now I am completely the opposite of all these.
No one can stand me now, not even my family.

SZ changes personality by altering frontal lobes.

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SZ taught me patience and empathy

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It’s only like that if you allow it. If anything sz made me stronger. I don’t allow it to define who I am, I take control instead of allowing it to control me.

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I will change my Latuda to Risperdal+Sarcosine, they are both good for the prominent negative symptoms that I have.

Maybe I will be able to work at my mother’s accounting office after that.

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Sounds like a good plan!

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I feel like sz made me a worse person, too. Certain delusions and paranoid thought patterns have made me less pleasant to be around.

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I’ve gotten better. Less paranoia and racing thoughts. It was tiring having a brain that went constantly a hundred miles an hour. I had some intelligence but I was a dope. My paranoia made it impossible to make things like romantic connections.

Yes. I feel dumbed down on the meds but gawd. It’s like chalk and cheese. I much prefer me now. Medicated and content to a large extent.

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@Aziz…im the same too.

Sza changed me too.

I was very quiet, virtuous, secretive, bulimic, sensual, music and dance loving, introverted and shy.

Now, I’m just virtuous and introverted, loud, open, not bulimic, non sensual, don’t care for music and dance anymore, no longer shy.

Schizophrenia has humbled me to some degree. Here i was at the Hospital with my pie-in-the-sky delusions, surrounded by anorexic women and young people who never had a chance.

I’ve become more thoughtful and empathetic because of this affliction.

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I often have difficulty being social. Some might say I’ve had some sort of personality disorder.

Oh, I definitely turned worse with this illness… I deal everyday now with anger, irritability, bitterness etc… I was showing it before, now I just hide it, which is a bit of an inside killer too, but I prefer not to show it anymore, yeap… I even once had the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, but I know, that its quite common the degradation of personality too in sz, maybe more in the negative ones too :confused:
You are not alone, don’t feel bad on this, I try too :slight_smile: .

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One positive thing of SZ is that I am not scared of death anymore. Everyone’s panicking about corona, not me.

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How did u defeat ur fear of death? (via sz)

Before SZ, I was scared of loosing my life, now I don’t have a life so it doesn’t matter. Also, I tell myself I am going to heaven anyways if I die.

Having SZ is god’s fault.

Schizophrenia has changed my personality for better. But not only schizophrenia. My experiences through the years have changed me too.

Me too @Aziz. 15151515

Sz has also changed my personality. I went from An INTJ to an INFP according to the Myers-Briggs classification.

I’m more laid back at times.

Some of the Aps i’ve tried really changed me and I said and did things I really regret.
But sz hasn’t changed me, I was kinda schizoid before and after.