I wrote my internship report and now I’m reading it again but I can’t understand what I’ve wrote. It is just too hard to concentrate on the meaning of the words. What should I do about it? Did this happen to anyone and how did you deal with that?
It happened to me during a psychotic episode. Suddenly I wasn’t able to make sense of written text. Do you have other symptoms?
I don’t think it’s psychosis 
I think it’s the meds that are making me dumb 
Unless you have severe negative symptoms from meds I don’t see how meds would reduce your intelligence.
Besides its worse being unmedicated than medicated. In other words generally we’re dumber without meds.
Dopamine helps you concentrate. Thereby, I would assume, that with dopamine blocked it would be harder to concentrate.
Also psychosis itself can cause cognitive symptoms regardless of medication.
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I don’t think dopamine is entirely blocked I take olanzapine. I think olanzapine only regulates the excess dopamine. So why would it impact my reading. I don’t think it is the cause but at the same time I don’t know why I am this way. I can only think it’s the schizophrenia 
If you want to try I would try one of the partial dopamine blockers like Abilify, Rexulti or Vraylar. I had less cognitive symptoms on Abilify. All other antipsychotics block dopamine in all the brain.
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By partial blockers it means they raise dopamine where its low and lower dopamine where its high.
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