mushybrain

mushybrain

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Does anyone here struggle with the negative symptoms of schizophrenia? This includes avolition, alogia, anhedonia, and asociality. My main problem is alogia (not having anything to say and speaking only when prompted.) I have no spontaneous thoughts, instead I have snippets of songs looping in my head 24/7. I've been struggling with this for over year following a manic episode. I want to ctb but I don't feel as if I have the executive functioning skills to do so. Anyone in a similar boat?
 
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loyalskateboard

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May 4, 2023
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I don't have schizophrenia however I do struggle with some of those symptoms. Actually, my symptoms were so similar I was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia several years ago. Abolition, flat affect, anhedonia (at times), asociality. Yep. I feel isolated from society, also I have agoraphobia. Well, I was told that a few days ago. I also had it as a kid/teen. My executive functioning is fucked and I relate to it making ctb plans difficult. I don't have your thought process though, I'm always thinking in my brain. But I do somewhat understand how difficult it is. I can't imagine how much harder it is with actual schizophrenia. I have to ask though, you mentioned having a manic episode. Would that not mean you have schizoaffective disorder vs schizophrenia? Sending hugs :hug:
 
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suicidalloser

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I have schizo too, i'm often called that by others outside this forum, and I'm always suicidal; as part of my plethora of reasons.
 
mushybrain

mushybrain

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Apr 29, 2023
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I don't have schizophrenia however I do struggle with some of those symptoms. Actually, my symptoms were so similar I was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia several years ago. Abolition, flat affect, anhedonia (at times), asociality. Yep. I feel isolated from society, also I have agoraphobia. Well, I was told that a few days ago. I also had it as a kid/teen. My executive functioning is fucked and I relate to it making ctb plans difficult. I don't have your thought process though, I'm always thinking in my brain. But I do somewhat understand how difficult it is. I can't imagine how much harder it is with actual schizophrenia. I have to ask though, you mentioned having a manic episode. Would that not mean you have schizoaffective disorder vs schizophrenia? Sending hugs :hug:
Im so sorry you're going through some of the same stuff. Shit truly sucks. And yes I have a Schizoaffective diagnosis.
 
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Sep 11, 2023
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I totally relate with what you are saying. Alogia is the worst thing ever. This is a nightmare and I know nothing will help this shitty brain of mine. I plan on ctb as soon as possible because of this.
 
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Jun 12, 2023
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I'm bipolar 1 but I struggle with a lot of these symptoms. I didn't know there was a word for alogia until now but that's definitely something I've been struggling with. I can't make conversation because I never have anything to say or ask. I also struggle with asociality now and don't feel the desire to be around people, even though i used to be with friends pretty often. I just feel like a shell of a person in comparison to others and it sucks.
 
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Apr 27, 2023
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Does anyone here struggle with the negative symptoms of schizophrenia? This includes avolition, alogia, anhedonia, and asociality. My main problem is alogia (not having anything to say and speaking only when prompted.) I have no spontaneous thoughts, instead I have snippets of songs looping in my head 24/7. I've been struggling with this for over year following a manic episode. I want to ctb but I don't feel as if I have the executive functioning skills to do so. Anyone in a similar boat?
I have schizophrenia too. I struggle mostly with cognitive decline, the other symptoms are manageable(rarely but they are). Alogia is very pronounced in me. I am like a damn NPC in real life. Not talking unless asked or when I truly need something(emergencies only)
 
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Aug 25, 2023
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Does anyone here struggle with the negative symptoms of schizophrenia? This includes avolition, alogia, anhedonia, and asociality. My main problem is alogia (not having anything to say and speaking only when prompted.) I have no spontaneous thoughts, instead I have snippets of songs looping in my head 24/7. I've been struggling with this for over year following a manic episode. I want to ctb but I don't feel as if I have the executive functioning skills to do so. Anyone in a similar bo
Yeah I kind of have the same thing
I don't have schizophrenia. I only had ocd and Outta nowhere I had a psychosis episode
After that episode of psychosis
I am suffering from the same symptoms
Can't fucking talk
Have songs looping my mind without any thoughts. I am stuck in another psychosis which leaves me functionaly impaired ,quite complicated, unlike the psychosis from schizo. I am aware that I am in a psychosis but I am not able to do anything idek too complicated.
 
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Oct 23, 2023
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Alogia, there you go,
That's how I learned about the definition, thanks to this forum.
The worst part about it in my current situation is that my long lasting manic episode took me to a foreign country, where I followed my mania to do weirdest stuff (luckily, none of them traumatizing, and even fun), but I also spent all my money, got robbed and poisoned along the way. My survival instincts took me to become a language teacher, where mania helped me perform very well until the cognitive decline started, eventually showing more and more negative symptoms of schizoaffective disorder, which I'm probably having, there just isn't medical insurance for me to get diagnosed rn, but many years ago I got diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and I think it needs to be reviewed.

I started suffering from depression, plus the negative symptoms make it extremely hard and stressful to do teaching, as you can imagine, which adds to the stress and it all spirals further.

Either it's alogia or melancholy, something in that direction. I just constantly am waiting for a prompt or an impulse to do sth. Sad part is that my students are struggling from it too now, if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't care a bit, but overcoming it easily when the energy level is so low already, is a big struggle.
 
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tinyghost

tinyghost

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Sep 13, 2023
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schizophrenia & bipolar. i've definitely had a sharp decline in my cognitive function since being hospitalized and diagnosed earlier this year. antipsychotics help with positive symptoms & mania but dont do much for negative symptoms in my experience and cant antidepressants because they cause mania and psychosis. its like being trapped in your own skin where nothing is right, nothing feels good. you cant get up, you cant speak, literally cant function. and the worst part is how its the "lesser of two evils" and im told that this is just what is have to deal with to not be in permanent psychosis
 
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Oct 25, 2023
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I have paranoid schizophrenia and I had these symptoms my first year after my first manic episode,it got better after the because I got my medication changed to one that actually worked for me,my internal monologue returned and I could form coherent thoughts again,hopefully you can get betteršŸ«‚
 

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