Whats worse generally? Negative or positive symptoms?

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Whats worse generally? Negative or positive symptoms?

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I read that negative symptoms contribute more to life quality.

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Oh my positives are definitely worse. The voices are mean 24/8. The visual hallucinations awful.

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Even if negatives meant staying in bed 24/7?

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I pretty much do, but the voices had me contemplating suicide.

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My negatives so far is worse for me as I prefer QOL. On the other hand, my positives aren’t that bad.

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I understand, for me my negative symptoms make me think about suicide sometimes. I have been in bed 24/7 for years and gained 175lb. I am stuck in bed like 90% of the time. Sometimes I wish I had manageable positive symptoms and less negative symptoms, at least being able to get out of my house.

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I would say negative symptoms because there is not much you can do to help them. :whale::whale::whale:

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I think both are terrible, if at the same level. But generally speaking, whichever one is strongest at the moment world be the worse one.

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There both bad but negatives are more disabling for me. I was fairly functional psychotic until i was totally gone

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Positive symptoms. When they’re bad I can’t tell what’s real or function. I still function with the negs, just not as fast as I’d like.

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I can handle the positives, and maintain control. The negatives have complete control over me. The negatives are worse.

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Delusions. I know that’s only one symptom, but it’s the one that changes you into someone who is unrecognizable to your family.

I can handle my hallucinations, I’ve had practice with that. I had no such control over anything when I was delusional.

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The same for me. I have no positives now on meds but my negative symptoms are like a wall of titanium impossible improve. Honestly it feels like permanent brain damage, irreversible.

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Positives are worse in my opinion. They had me on the way to the east coast by foot to be homeless there, trying to find a way to get to Mecca.

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I think my negatives are slowly killing me, they plagued me with metabolic and physical diseases, increased heart attack risk, etc from gaining 175lb of fat, etc

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I guess I should be thankful that I am not catatonic anymore or in the hospital forever.

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I still have all of my positives, but I handle them well. What scares me are the negatives. Even if I got on meds and hypothetically they got rid of my positives, I’d still be left with all the negatives.

Meaning… I’ll never be a risk analyst again, or make close to what I used to make. All I have effort for is nothing. I have no motivation to even ensure I have money at all. I don’t care to strive for anything. I can barely even make myself shower now that I have running water again (I didn’t for a while). It’s a constant struggle just to take care of myself in the most basic of ways, and there’s literally nothing I, or even a psychiatrist can do about it.

I prefer QOL too. Hearing angry voices 24/7 is nothing compared to not being able to get out of bed.

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Meds likely worsen negatives for most people. If you can manage without meds, thats better. And yes meds don’t help negatives at all.

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I can’t get disability without them. That’s my dilemma. I’ll be going on them some point in the near future out of this necessity. Negatives will be worse, and I’ll prolly gain a lot of weight and all kinds of other things, but I gotta. The negatives also make meds a necessity, no matter how antipsychiatry I am at heart. I can’t work.

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