My psychiatrist said I have a condition which causes me mental distress like depression,psychosis.etc. I feel unmotivated most of the time and if i’m not doing anything interesting I feel really just like being there and not actual joy, if this it’s going on too much I get gloomy. So I get so confused since I see many users here who struggle a lot with negative symptoms so I don’t think it could be that but I sometimes wonder if I just have a mild case, or am I just depressed all the time and have no idea?
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I was misdiagnosed with depression when I was about 20. So it appears that even psychiatrists can’t tell the difference.
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I’m not sure if they can be separated so easily.
For me…my own depression makes me feel: i hate myself, i did everything wrong in all my life, and I want to die, and all is hopeless. It is a very strong feeling.
AP related negative symptoms make me feel: meh. I sit here and do nothing and stare, and that is fine. I do not feel up, or down. All is grey. And I don’t feel like standing up now, for anything really.
Maybe depression can do the latter too…but for me, this is the difference.
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This basically describes me before and after I got medicated, it’s so strange that the dose of my risperidone is really small and I still feel like this though. But I read the symptoms online of both and they are so similar, I don’t know why i’m paying attention to this so much suddenly damn reddit.
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Sorry i don’t understand are you saying antipsychotics cause negative symptoms? @anon23801855 its just i have negatives regardless of taking ap and ap help so much
I believe negative is just the title, description of symptoms that deplete your wellbeing so when you are sza /sz the low motivation or anhedonia or low mood symptoms are under the title of negatives. You can be diagnosed with depression separately or in comorbidly dx it depends how severe the depression is for you to be dx separately
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My psychiatrist told me the difference is if u care. If u lose interest in video games for example and u care that u lost interest, she says thats depression. She says if u dont care that u lost interest that’s negative symptoms.
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Interesting way to describe it thanks
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This is a good answer, I get angry at myself because I don’t have the same passion I did before for stuff I like. Feels like my brain is just a piece of meat on a freezer.
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I am happy AP help you. Both schizophrenia and antipsychotics can cause negative symptoms (and I had iron deficiency which made me feel a bit similar too, because i was so tired and lethargic). So it’s often not really clear what is what. I have a diagnosis of PTSD with psychosis.
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Right yep you have ptsd and psychosis
Ive been off meds in the past so i know its not the meds causing my negatives its the sz
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Depression and negative symptoms of schizophrenia can have some similarities but they are different. Depression is a mood disorder that can cause feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in activities1. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia refer to a lack of normal behaviors found in healthy individuals such as lack of motivation, social withdrawal, and difficulty experiencing pleasure12.
It can be difficult to distinguish between negative symptoms of schizophrenia and depression because they can look and feel similar1. However, some experts suggest that depressive symptoms should be included in schizophrenia criteria1.
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Answered by the Bing AI.
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