(It’s just over 4 minutes long)
Do you think this psychiatrist is spot on?
I watched this ages ago. When I was combing the internet for some way of improving.
I think it’s pretty accurate, but my hallucinations and delusions were kind of different.
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This is an amazing video - i had not ever (25 yrs late) been told or researched that Sz have difficulty with attention, processing and memory
i thought that was me being lazy, having risk for Altzheimers, wrote off my husband to the extent that I didn’t respect him - not knowing there was a reason i can’t listen.
i feel like a fool - treating myself so harshly even as an adult - i thought it was teenager twenties thirties kind of thing -
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that’s called the cognitive effects.
It amazes me how little we sz are told. How can you have insight when you are not even told what the conditions of sz are?
I chatted to a lady in a mental hospital and she thought sz was multiple personality disorder until I informed her differently…
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I got an ADHD diagnose in 2003. I became psychotic 2008. Mom does not think my ADHD diagnose is accurate.
is that different from negative symptoms?
thx for this info!
no wonder we get touchy when people say "its all about you isn’t it?’
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there are positive/negative and cognitive symptoms.
The positive are the hallucinations whether they be visual, aural or physical.
The negative are anhedonia (the lack of pleasure in anything), tiredness, lethargy, lack of motivation. The motivation to shower or wash or socialise.
The cognitive are the mental inabilities that you described. The lack of ability to multitask and function normally as attention is sporadic and ineffectual. To not be able to work for example because of this.
I don’t think this has so much to do with cognitive symptoms, unless your husband says so much at once that you struggle with maintaining attention. But if that is the case, the problem could also be on his end. Us people with schizophrenia can listen and concentrate when it matters, but we struggle with concentrating for prolonged periods and with attending to lots of information at once. And we struggle with memory, which of course in some situations can lead to misunderstandings and arguments (but we can learn things and remember information, we just have to try harder than others sometimes).
okay - explain what i said:
not being able to have attention all the time,
not remembering or processing
this
thinking the reason for the above was the there was something wrong with me internally
and that the reason must be lack of some kind of caring
also with my mum or anyone else
Did you mean ‘listen’ as in paying attention to what he says, or maybe ‘listen’ as in getting better attention, memory, etc. because he says so? Maybe I misunderstood you. Sorry.
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No, don’t worry, its fine
Im sure i will listen more now that i know to try to concentrate
lack of attention i think
Yes I think it is accurate. He could have also mentioned that symptoms can be elevated by certain things like stress, lack of sleep, new environments.
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Problems switching tasks was really hard for me but believe it or not antidepressants made that go away.