I’m sick of being told this. I don’t mention my diagnosis often irl, but sometimes I try to explain to people why I am the way I am, and this gets thrown in my face. Especially when it comes to negative symptoms.
Sure, I’m a bit lazy, but I’m not JUST lazy. I alse have lack of energy, lack of motivation, lethargy, ambivalence, and so on.
I wish I could make normies understand what it is like to struggle with these things without sounding like I’m just using my illness as an excuse.
This has happened to me. Once I went full on off the rails, and my so called “friends” said just because you’re schizophrenic doesn’t mean I have to be subjected to you bullsh@# religious rants. I hated them and what they were saying so I secluded myself and they abandoned me after, thinking I was doing all this on purpose calling me a liar and crazy, which hurt. Good riddance in my opinion. I’m also struggling with negative symptoms and it’s hard to function on the same level of normies.
What you’re saying is exactly what i feel sometimes 
i doubt myself sometimes because my diagnosis is non-specific. I think i play the victim sometimes but sometimes i think i don’t have fault i don’t know the difference between normal and not normal. Lazy or negative symptoms. It’s a struggle…
There’s a difference between an excuse and a reason. I’m disabled for a good reason. If I put an earpiece on a healthy person’s ear and talked at them all day while they were working their job, it’d have a big impact. That’s what it’s like for me to work a job. Also like you said the negatives make it hard to do things like laundry and exercise and even cooking sometimes. We should be commended for making it work at the same level that is effortless for normies… that’s our goal… my goal at least. Being as high functioning as a normal person would be Herculean for me. Others just take it for granted.
I posted a thread similar to this in an sz group on facebook, and one person keeps commenting that she doesn’t see negative symptoms as problems, and she just takes a nap and then she’s able to clean her flat.
That I shouldn’t see the things as hindrances.
I can’t help but feel she might not know how bad negatives can be for some people.
No she doesn’t know how bad it can be. She’s only mildly effected. We are worse and then there are people worse than us. I wish everyone could be more understanding. But I guess it’s hard for people to be empathetic.
I quickly excise overly religious people from my life, period. I don’t care why they’re that way, I just need them gone for my own peace of mind.
I was sick. I didn’t know what I was saying half the time. I mean I believed I was a prophet of Zeus. I couldn’t reason. So, I mean I was not ok. I’m an atheist now, but it took a while to be able to reason and come out of these delusions. I believe it’s called religious insanity. I now try to stay as far away from religious people when I can. I just can’t fall ill again and turn to these delusions again.
So do you think I am being hard on myself when I tell myself this?
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