I struggle a lot with verbal communication. I feel like I can’t even have conversations with people anymore, though I have struggled my whole life with communication. My thoughts are more fragmentary since psychosis, and my life has become very dull since a lost interest in pretty much everything. I have one friend who still hangs out with me. I pretty much just let him talk the whole time. Do you talk much or have problems expressing yourself?
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These are all common symptoms associated with schizophrenia. The term for thought/speech issues is Alogia and the loss of enjoyment from things is called Anhedonia. I have Anhedonia as well, but not so much the speech issues.
Edit: Although, I will admit that I don’t talk a whole lot when we have company or whatever, so maybe I do have those issues too to some degree. I dunno, I have never been a huge talker even before sz though, so it may not be that.
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I try to talk and make conversation, but my sentences are choppy. I pause often, mid sentence, sometimes even twice in the same sentence. Hubby says it’s hard to understand me. He wasn’t being rude, he was just letting me know.
I have schizoaffective bipolar type. I was also diagnosed with auditory processing disorder, meaning it’s difficult to process, in my brain, what people are saying to me. I also have trouble filtering out background noise, also because of the auditory processing disorder.
IDK if my schizoaffective caused the auditory processing disorder.
But anyway, conversation is very difficult for me, for multiple reasons.
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