who had an improvement while on aps? i suffer from hypobulia and i dont like abilify. i am a mess right now,i dont feel the med to kicks in… i am just suffering plus i have blurred vision with nauseas right now. it sucks,i was euphoric in the begining of the haldol, i liked that…
From just what I’ve heard…APs can be really fickle…for some people they’ll help manage every symptom…for some they take them but still hear voices…some people don’t have their negative symptoms affected at all…but it can also depend on what medication you’re on. Maybe tell your pdoc you’re not happy about how it’s working with your negative symptoms?
If you’re talking about negative side effects though, always be straight with your doctor about how bad things are…some medications aren’t for everyone. I had a horrible reaction to lexapro for example, talked about it with my pdoc and I hadn’t been on it that long so I just dropped it and didn’t have to do anything special.
I have seen improvement over time.I take 6mg Invega and 400mg Solian.
At first i had low motivation,alogia,flat emotion.Now i am better in all these areas.I don’t see negative symptoms anymore…maybe a little boredom sometimes and i don’t speak too much but i never was.
I am 2 years and 10 months on recovery since my last episode.
glad for you darkside… i talk but its painfull for me to talk. theres some paranoia still here plus the flat emotion probably. and when you re not emotional,probably its hard to talk 
if the haldol doesnt work,my pdoc wants to put me on invega for the second time. it sound like a good ap,kiss
I think for me it was some deep negatives… and some over medication of Seroquel…
I look back on myself a few years ago… and it felt catatonic…
Flat… motionless… barely talking… barely moving… things happened around me… but I was apart from everything… nothing hit the feelers… I felt nothing.
the meds got changed… Latuda got added… the Prozac got cut out completely… the Seroquel got cut back beyond half…
I started to feel again. It took some time and therapy to get back in touch with feeling and starting to relearn the emotions… relearn how to interact…
I hope things go better for you soon
you re kind surprised,thanks. how much time it took? i wasnt really fine today. i was irritable,angry, hysterical… it fall on my mom in fact and one friend,ill also… i ve realised that i am quite inadquate. i cant think a lot,my mom told me that i am stupid :D. i dont feel much things if its not my nerves and my anger… 16th day on haldol,probably its not enough still. if i can handle this ap probably my recovery will take months,isn’t it? 
now i am du genre a pace in the house. kiss
No… your recovering… and recovering from the flat negatives is no easy thing.
Be patient with yourself.
There was a time where I let my anger and rage fly… because at least it was feeling something. I hate the anger now… there are others things that have come back…
Also… for me… since this head circus numbed me down… a lot of subtle emotions quit registering… so if it wasn’t huge and dramatic… I didn’t feel anything any more…
Anger had to get to rage… didn’t feel irritation or annoyance any more.
Happiness had to get to out of my head euphoric before I could recognize something was going on…
Contentment was erased… too subtle… so nothing was good enough.
It took about a year after I was getting on my feet to get the subtle flavors back. Plus… when I can understand I’m getting annoyed… or irritated… I can walk it off… communicate that now… before I have a T.V. throwing… chair breaking fit.
16 day’s is still pretty new. I’m glad your able to take Haldol. After that… there might be some med tinkering… I know it’s tedious… I know it’s frustrating… I used to hate it and feel like a lab rat…
Try to be patient… talk to your doc… write down and keep track of how your feeling… once it all comes into place… you start to heal… days get better.
thanks surprised. and what of all this people who are talking to themselves outside? they dont take meds or what? whatever… the illness is hard to treat for everyone i suppose
I sometimes slip and answer myself… or try to get my head circus to shut up. It’s just a bad day… and I find I do better when I don’t dwell on that sort of glitch.
When I was younger I was very anti-med… I was also living in my own world… no touch with life outside my head.
so you think i can recover in emotions also? i couldnt fell in love already,i was just obsessing about guys :/. but probably loving is such an art…
I think emotions can recover. I bet love will come back to you.
I sort of see love as another subtle one. I’ve falling in deep euphoric consuming crush with people when I was in a delusional manic high… but that’s not love… at all.