negative symptoms and depression are very similiar from outside. what is the main diffirence?
Ive definitely had both and its very hard to tell but usually when depressed i have a very numb emotionless aside from sad feeling and also suicidal thoughts seem to go with it for me.
mine experience
depression: feeling sad
negative symptoms: cant feel anything, feeling flat
For me negative symptoms I feel like doing nothing, everything is pointless, just stare at the wall for ages, sit still and not move much, no vocal inflection.
Or I want to do something but it’s very hard to get moving.
More of a lack of mood element
Depression probably also goes under the everything is pointless feel like doing nothing.
But I’ll also get very negative and pessimistic and also suicidal thoughts/imagery.
That’s about the best I can differentiate it
I had negative symptoms without depression, i think that the difference, when i had it i was very blunted emotionally where as depression you get very sad and down, i felt nothing
Negative symptoms is more feeling numb and flat and blunted in life for me.
Depression is sadness hopelessness for me.
Both of them can affect activity levels in me.
That makes some sense. I wonder about how much negative symptoms apply to me. My stepdaughter has said in the past I’m emotionally flat . My pdoc said that can happen with the APs.
neg. sx. – no: responses, motivation,“get up and go”, pleasure sensatation, thoughts/words, appearing flat
depr: sadness, emptiness, weary, worrying, guilty, meditating, glass half empty, no pleasure
im not emotionally flat but i feel flat and i have serious demotivation
exactly same…
People tell me they can’t read my emotions at all but I definitely feel them so is that flat affect? I just have trouble expressing them. They’re all buried deep within me.
As people above said.
In depression i have too many feelings - sadness, guilt, selfloathing, suicidal feelings, despair, hopelessness.
With negative symptoms (only on meds) i have too little feelings - no drive, no joy, no sadness, no motivation, no love, indifference, just no response to things.
I think the main difference is awareness.
When I’m depressed I’m aware that I’m depressed, but when I have negative symptoms I’m not aware that I have negative symptoms.
Negative symptoms and depression have the exact same symptoms. The only difference is that with depression, you have a sad mood associated with it. With negative symptoms, there is no sad mood present. That’s the way my last pdoc explained it to me.
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