Is this caused by poverment of thought or just simple cognitive problems?
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Low processing speed âŚdue to cognitive symptomsâŚ
What exactly are you having trouble with?
Focus? Getting bored? Not being able to understand the plot?
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I can only watch movies for 20 minutes at a time. Then I pause the movie and take a break and then come back to watch another 20 minutes etc.
For me itâs a concentration problem.
This means I can never go to the cinema again.
Not being able to understand the plot
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Hmm that sounds like a cognitive problem. Have you always been like this? Or it only happened after you got sick?
Happened after i got sick, before i was able to watch series like house of card or sherlock
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I am sorry to hear that⌠what meds are you on?
There are no good treatments for cognition yetâŚ
Aripiprazol 10 mg
I also take abilify 10mg, and effexor 75mg. Fortunately I donât have cognitive problems.
How long since your last psychotic break? Maybe your problem is temporary.
I have had it for 7 months now but it isnt getting better by day
But cant it be caused by poverment of thought? Because my memory before the psychosis was terrible i kept forgetting what i watched, but i could understand the plot. And before the psychosis i had the opposite of poverment of thought. So im thinking that might be the cause.
I also have poverty of thought. I think very few things while I am awake. But when I sleep I have complex dreams. Do you have dreams?
Anyway, poverty of thought doesnât stop me from understanding movies!
I have trouble with lots of simple activities now as well, and I think itâs because of my inability to maintain focus.
Yes i have dreams crazy dreams.
So its a cognitive problem not a negative one?
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Yes, I think in your case itâs a cognitive symptomâŚ
But which part of the cognition can it be then?
I couldnât understand most plots either when my negatives were bad. For me it was because I couldnât concentrate well. I would be fine the first 5 minutes. Eventually there would be so many holes in my memory of the movie that Iâd give up and just pay attention to whatever caught my interest.
This has some strategies
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From the article. I havenât looked up the book yet.
Cognitive rebuilding: Athletic model for brain training
When Lisa Halpern came home from her psychiatric hospitalization in June 1999, she and her mother developed a 3-month progressive brain rehabilitation program modeled after Ms. Halpernâs earlier athletic training. By September 1999, Ms. Halpern was able to begin graduate studies at Harvard University. In addition to following these regimens, she was on clozapine treatment.
Progressive brain training Daily regimen
Step 1 Check-off chart reminds Lisa to take medications, wash dishes, pay monthly bills
Step 2 Mother reads aloud short passages from Lisaâs favorite childhood books, gradually increasing time spent reading as Lisaâs attention and wakeful periods increase
Step 3 Lisa begins reading on her own, starting with a favorite childhood book with large print and few pages; she colors in coloring books and creates figures from colored dough, which incites creativity
Step 4 She and her mother play simple card games, such as âGo Fish,â which strengthen her related thinking and memory; Lisa does word searches and other puzzles from childrenâs magazines
Step 5 Lisa begins to memorize passages from authors such as Shakespeare and Eleanor Roosevelt, as well as college basketball rankings
Step 6 Lisa pushes herself to learn new skills, such as sign language and sailing, which necessitate coordinating brain and body
Source: Adapted from Halpern L. Brain training: an athletic model for brain rehabilitation. Psych Serv 2006;57(4):459-60