Which is worse for you?

DX'd - Other
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  • Negative Symptoms
    or
  • Positive Symptoms

Currently for me it is negative symptoms. What about you?

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Positive symptoms definitely. I don’t really have any negative symptoms, just voices and telepathy seemingly coming from other people.

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Right now, Negatives most definately.

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Last night I had a really bad bout of “flat affect”

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Mine is lack of motivation, lack of concentration, and I have a constant flat affect.

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Yeah I guess I have a lot of that flat effect going on. It doesn’t really bother me though.

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positives here voices so bad at the moment. 20 characters

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Haha isn’t that the problem though? It is for me. I just have no filter on what I say when I’m like that. I got into a slight argument last night because of it. Someone said I was using it as an excuse for my behavior when I needed to take responsibility for ■■■■■■■ with someones head. But the thing is, my tone didn’t change the whole convo. I was just like “i feel nothing towards this. you’ve caught me at a bad time. Tomorrow I will feel differently.”

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No delusions weird thoughts,No hallucinations/loud thoughts, paranoia there but not severe v lack of drive/goals/initiative/motivation .
As much as a non schizophrenic person can have positive or negative symptoms I would definitely say negative.

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I had ect today so hopefully the negative symptoms will go away

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Hope it works well for you!

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i guess I am going to call it negative symptoms - lack of motivation and drive is pretty bad, I really have to push myself and some days I just can’t do it

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im gonna say both DX

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I have problems with motivation but I wonder how much is negative symptoms and how much is just laziness on my part. I’m not saying anyone is lazy, I’m talking just about myself. I find it hard to separate the two because I feel I should do more.

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Both is bad,I think positive symptoms is worse for me,i will be talking nonsense when i had positive symptoms,its scary and i dont want it to be happening again

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Positive symptoms. Voices are bad. I can hardly concentrate on reading or can’t fall asleep without medicine because of the constant talking and whispering.

I listen to Mozart while reading. It works somewhat. Atleast it is easier to read.

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I’d have to say neither are an issue these days. I don’t have negative symptoms, and my meds wipe out the positives. I realize my post doesn’t answer OP’s question very well, but this is just based on my set of symptoms.

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Negative symptoms. I’m paralyzed with inactivity. My positive symptoms have been in remission for a while.

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This is going to sound dumb but what are positive and negative symptoms. My pdoc has never used those words with me.

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The negative symptoms are worse because they can’t be tamed by meds.

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