Positive symptoms tend to include the same stuff every time, hallucinations and delusions. But what negative symptoms include can be so diverse from person to person.
Mine are related to motivation and concentration. Basically I get terrible avolition and it is like I lack the willpower to do anything at all, even fun things I normally enjoy, this leads me to just sleep all day. I think avolition is the most difficult symptom for someone who has not experienced it to understand (my mom is totally baffled by it), and is what causes non-mentally ill people to just see someone as lazy when in reality it is like your willpower has been drained completely from you, like you are out of fuel.
Concentration wise it can get really bad, sometimes even to where I can only pay attention for 5 minutes at a time. This means I can’t usually do things like focus in class, watch TV shows/movies in one go, or focus on something like a videogame.
I am lucky in that medication is helping with these symptoms. What is your experience with negative symptoms?
Summary: My negative symptoms are avolition and lack of concentration, what are yours and how do you deal with them?
I have almost all the negative symptoms …i am.a poor guy…positive are managable…fed up with negative symptoms…anna sup.??? What are u upto…???
My negative symptoms are alogia, avolition, poor concentration and social withdrawal.
Memantine helps with alogia and social withdrawal. For avolition and poor concentration I deal with some effort. I’m not quite sure of that, but I think memantine helps me with avolition and poor concentration as well.
Lack of motivation, anhedonia, lack of concentration, social withdrawal, forgetfulness (how interesting that I forgot to include this before the edit). I also have depression.
I feel pretty empty most of the time and my psychologist doesn’t seem to understand.
And what diagnosis has he given to you? If a PDOC doesn’t understand you, change him/her for orher PDOC. It’s about your well-being and you deserve the best.
I’ve changed two or three times, I’m only a year more or less with this PDOC, he understand me I think but he doesn’t want label me… Because he say now in the DSM there are not typus of schizophrenia, and are needed clear positive symptoms that I don’t have… So maybe if I appear with a study for schizophrenia he would don’t take it seriously… I don’t know I will try… Also here in my country I see all pdocs so autoritaries.
I’ve just been studying frantically for my exam tomorrow morning. I feel decently prepared now. I’m sorry your negative symptoms are so bad. Mine feel awful but I’m glad I don’t have more.
I think there are some things that are simply impossible for someone who hasn’t experienced them to understand. I hope when I am a psych nurse practitioner I can be of greater help to my patients because I will understand what they are dealing with.
If you have symptoms similar to negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, you probably have something. But if it’s hypochondria, it’s better to seek professional help of psychologists. I hope you find out what’s happening to you. Best wishes.
They call hypochondria health anxiety now and treat it like other anxiety disorders.
Since your doctor won’t be worrying about triggering a psychotic episode, some of the treatments for major depressive disorder might help the negative symptoms, many overlap.
