I never realized until about 4 or 5 weeks ago how severe the apathy can be. I have been laying around frequently and have almost no motivation to do anything. But I still go to work and take care of my needs. It is depressing and for a while I was getting suicidal over it. My mother and my social worker made draconian efforts to help me and they made me feel better. Several friends are helping me. My doctor started me on low dose Wellbutrin. I am also on Zyprexa and Remeron.
I have been following this symptom on this site for some time. Someone wrote that they were able to get over it.
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I understand that I too lay on my bed constantly drinking coffee. I’m sorry you are going through this, I could only sympathize with you because i don’t have a solution. Personally I don’t think I have this but now that I see it on other people i’m starting to think I have it.
I’m definitely apathetic and have always been but I need to be a lot more proactive with my life.
I know days when you just have to put one foot in front of the other to get through the day. What I’ve discovered is that changing something in your routine can awaken some new energy. For instance, I have discovered benefits to showering at night instead of in the morning. It’s one less thing I have to do right when I get up.
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I’m having problems with apathy too. I’m watching The Green Book and it seems so… meaningful. I feel my life could be more meaningful too. Right now it is one big mass of day treatment classes, support groups, and friendships with the mentally ill. I wish I could do more cool, normal people stuff.
I’m like you. My apathy is very severe. I still go to work and handle that pretty well. But once I’m home,in the evening and weekends. I have very little motivation to do anything.
I have been struggling with this. I don’t understand how or why I can work, but suck so badly at life from a home perspective. It honestly hardly seems worth it anymore.
Thank you all for you comments, advice, and empathy. I will be busy today attending a mentally illness support group and tomorrow going to my mother’s for dinner. But I intend to return to this discussion later. I have found a short term solution, as you can see (scheduling things to do).
Next weekend may be hard again because of having Labor Day off.
I have hope and faith that this will get better. This is based on religion for me.
I apologizing for not commenting on the suffering of others as described. We all have it bad in quite similar ways. We all need some solution.
i used to be very apathy as well… its a common thing (from what i heard from my cell member) among schizophrenia patients, its something we would come across and fight. But its possible to be wanting to do things, sometime it may be because of our environmental factor, sometimes its our experiences, but it’s possible to break out of it ^^. Bless you guys =D have a great day ahead ^^
maybe the psychic pain of sz is doing it to us. judy
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