I’m really rooting for you @aziz everyday!!!
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You can play cod, it’s good. this game is difficult for me, you must have quick reactions. But I like to think about poker moves.
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I see. Well…I get you. It’s frustrating to not be able to work when you really want to. I admire that you really wish you could work, that you want to contribute. I would have a hard time too if work was out of the question. Luckily I have a temping job once in a while.
I really hope that you get better. Changing a AP can be like stepping into a new world, so keep your hopes up.
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Schizophrenia is a Ruthless monster that takes everything you ever loved and cared about and changes it to ■■■■
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You know how I quit drinking? I made a decision to be sober. And I’ve been talking to other people with the same goals in weekly meetings while doing one of the original CBT programs (12 Steps) ever since. It has kept my nose out of the sauce for 28 years and counting.
The talking you so readily discount is one of the cheapest and most effective treatments available for those with mental struggles. Shared recovery is amazing.
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Thanks @Mr_Hope
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So is a million other things in life too.
I bet when someone is getting their head cut off by ISIS, they’re not thinking they need to move to a better neighborhood because their car got broken into twice in the last three months and the dog needs spaying.
I doubt ISIS is worried about their feelings or violating their rights. Horrible stuff happens randomly to all kinds of people. And no one cares.
Just count your blessings and maybe make a couple changes that will improve your lot in life.
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Don’t give up @Aziz… you can still go back and study something else. There is still good stuff and still hope.
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I think there’s a small chance I have sz. I’m afraid to come off my meds to test out that. My pdoc gave me the approval to do so.
Nvt I do have psychotic disorder at least and I understand the struggles of aps.
It is really difficult 
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In particular
Me personally I hate the increased risk to CVD
As well as the so called delusions
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I think the bigger struggle is the permanent damage that psychosis causes in the brain.
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Why what are the consequences of that permanent damage In the brain frm psychosis
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I had negative and cognitive symptomes years before my first psychosis. I wasn’t even on antipsychotics. After stopping my meds and relapsing after 1-2y my diagnosis changed from psychosis to sz 6 years after my 1st psychosis diagnosis.
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Decreased functionality, decreased intelligence and decreased quality of life. Negative symptoms as well.
My negative symptoms started many years before my first psychosis. They just got worse with time and stabilizing now.
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I think given enough time when I came off meds in 2018 I woulda been OK. But
I relapsed.
So what I’m trying to say is that I haven’t noticed any effects of the psychosis damaging my brain. Only the aps seem to have side effects
From my personal experience
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It might not be a loss of intelligence so much as a loss of organizing ability, or a loss of the ability to concentrate. I think these things are not considered intelligence per se. They’re related, but they’re not the same. There was a book written some twenty odd years ago called “Emotional Intelligence”. In that book the author says it is not so much IQ as due diligence, emotional stability, altruism, and things like that that are the determiners of success. One time I came across an sz with an IQ of 158 who was totally dysfunctional.
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I guess my sz is more severe.
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Exactly, my psychiatrist said that sz reduces concentration and memory. These are parts of intelligence.
Bcz of his negative symptoms. He’s lucky to not have cognitive symptoms.
Emotional IQ is just one part of intelligence. There is many parts, concentration, attention, language, math, problem solving, memory, etc
I don’t think emotions are even measured as a part of intelligence, but they are better determiners of success. It takes some degree of concentration to take an IQ test, but I don’t think concentration is measured as a part of intelligence. I guess concentration would have some effect on your score, but I don’t think there is a part of an IQ tests that solely measures your ability to concentrate.
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