Well, in my boat it sucks because my family is extremely smart, my dad is a PHD ---- and I can barely understand mathematics anymore with my schizophrenia
However
Being so psychologically impaired and still able to function normally makes me a genius
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Is your attention span low on risperidone? I couldnāt focus as well on risperidone. It was also hard to sit still. Are you able to watch tv?
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My attention span suck, has always been like that since sz. I can sit still or lay down in my bed still so its not akathisia. I used to watch a bit of tv but not lately.
It sounds like you were more functional on abilify and latuda maybe there is another med or med combo that can give you improved functioning. Thatās like 50% of the meds you tried that you were more functional on.
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If you try clozapine maybe there is a chance that it may not cause much more weight gain. And there is also geodon, asenapine, vraylar.
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I am going to ask for Vraylar this 6 June. I have an apt with my family Dr.
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My break made me aware of so many things . It is a blessing and a curse. I could be stuck in a catatonic state. But im functioning and I am doing things i held myself back from doing for so many years. Um to me this has helped meā¦i was so against the medsā¦ and i went into psychosis 3 times because of it and after the last one I decided to give the meds a proper chanceā¦ I am a honors studentā¦ like I would never have thought I could beā¦ Iām learning how to driveā¦ I saw my favorite band last weekā¦ I mean sza sucks and I canāt trust anyone or my mind most daysā¦ but I have a chance to become something so I am taking that chance.
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Your improvement is very noticeable.
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Thank you @anon82948922
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Well if i didnt have mental illness id certainly have more drive to learn more. But i think i still have general intelligence. And an above average sense of common sense lol
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And that is how we get to the places in life we want to be 
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I was top 10% for and higher for my trip through school till I hit senior. Still. I had some problems in hindsight and that hormone bath hit me bad. Went to lowās or 3ās out of 7 for some subjects but still did enough to matriculate to Universityā¦
Went downhill there and got kicked out after a year and a half for low grade point averageā¦just went to work in menial work till I went psychotic years laterā¦
So. It was always there. I thought too much ie racing thoughts and it gave me anxiety even as a childā¦so the cognitive decline was indicitive for sure and all its says is paranoid sz.
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My sza came from a overload of information in d mind
Since 2010 I decluttered my mind, released it all out
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Think schizophrenia vary from person to person, both in symptoms and severity. Treatment response too.
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I used to be an intern architect before I got szā¦smart as everā¦can barely read nowā¦took a big hitā¦sz is like a forest fire, the longer you are delusional, the bigger the fire and more damage you haveā¦stay on your meds @anon85745701 you need themā¦donāt quit without consult from your pdoc.
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I used to be very smart.
Iām dumber now, and lost
my poetry talent
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I had this. Switching meds helped a lot
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Hope you get your driving license!
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For me the **** hit the cognitive fanbelt long before any sign of MI. I was outperforming those that later got scholarships to public school. Then I got mumps. I was 9. From that point onwards more and more boys overtook me performance wise. I found out many years later my lq from pre teen testing was in the 99.9+ percentile.
The situation hasnā t changed. Theoretically I have a damn good brain , but l suck when it comes to applying it to real life problems/tasks.
Adaptive functioning < IQ is not unusual with ASD. Iāve not come across much about it re sz/sz-a.
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