#psychosis negative symptoms

[psychotic-system-culture-is]

Psychotic System Culture is...

Having trouble do college assignment because brain turn ?? have scramble brain. Disjoint thoughts, word salad?

Psychosis inconvenient for education...

[thecouncilofidiots]

Asking...

Should make side-blog for Council AAC?

For when thought not work, grammar not work

Maybe show Council works? Council make communication cards idea, process of emoji makes?

[thecouncil-aac]

Is any other psychosis friend have word scramble more when not brain good?

Or is autism?

Council not sure, is not anxiety select mute because is not only speech lose, is thought scramble mess

Maybe psychosis disjoint thought episode, but usual have no reason, not when sad

Maybe is coincidence?

[thecouncil-aac]

😔

Cognitive decline is fucking terrifying

And there's nothing we can really do about it

We're working on incorporating AAC into our life to compensate for the communication difficulties, but that doesn't help with our disjointed/disorganized thoughts and ability to think and reason and...

And we're scared to find out how far it'll go, especially because we don't know what's causing our psychosis...

Man, how come no one's doing anything about the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia... its all just: psychosis, psychosis, psychosis. I want to function thank you. Psychosis for me is not the worst part (probably because of my antipsychotics) but yeah I want the equivalent of adhd medication but for the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia.

[schizopositivity]

Friendly reminder that antipsychotics don't cure schizophrenia. They don't even treat schizophrenia fully. They only treat the psychotic symptoms aka the positive symptoms. (And lots of people on antipsychotics don't have all their psychotic symptoms disappear, sometimes it only helps a little bit). Meanwhile our negative and cognitive symptoms cannot be treated fully (or at all depending on the person) with medication, and they greatly affect our lives and tend to get more severe as we age. So please don't assume that a schizophrenic person on antipsychotics is basically not mentally ill anymore cause there's a shit ton more we have to deal with on a daily basis, even if our psychosis is treated and no longer affecting us.

[psychotic-tbh]

Do any other social folks on the schizophrenia spectrum also feel like they don’t know how to “people” after an episode?

It’s so strange to look back on how social I was when my symptoms were less severe and how (almost) outgoing I was

Now I’m not even sure how to talk to close friends and am just awkward. I lost my conversation skills :(

[clinically-kitty]

Ppl who have issues with hygiene ily. Ppl who cant brush theyre teeth regularly. Ppl who dont shower for months. Ppl who wear the same clothes for days.

If all u can do is brush or shower once every few weeks or months ily. If all you can do is change into a different pair of pajama pants today ily. Or if you cant do any of it ily.

Ik ppl will be like “its not healthy to spread positivity now my teeth are rotting bc I didnt care” which I understand to some extent for some ppl but no amount of scaring me about how my teeth health will suffer is going to make me do it more, my brain quite literally can’t foresee the positive outcomes and will refuse to make it a daily habit no matter how much its barked at me over and over.

Sometimes its not something that can be helped. And its not bc I dont care or i like being disgusting or dont understand the risks I literally just cant.

[alixisherebutringagain]

I feel so much emotions sometimes, I wonder if people within the schizo-spec relate to it.

Like it's. Huge.

The biggest emotions, moving, crashing down on me, but they have no name. I can't know, for the love of God, what they are. They're just here and crushing me and overwhelming me. Making me paralysed and stuck and wrong.

And some other times, generally when I'm supposed to feel joy, pure joy, content, happiness, euphoria, whatever you wanna call it, I feel nothing and really want to be alone at home rather than surrounded by those people, even if i know them.

I'm realising that often, I fake happiness because I'm supposed to be happy, but really, i feel neutral or even annoyed.

For example, I was at my first ever pride. It was big, colourful, loud, people smiling and laughing and dancing and singing, my friends deeply enjoying themselves...

But honestly. I would have rather been home, doing my usual stuff.

I love my friends, I love my job, I love my coworkers, I even love people, but I like being alone better. I like being in my own little calm corner. Or not calm. But my corner.

Sorry for the rant. DAE within schizo-spec relate ?

[thepsychotic]

My thoughts are so scrambled and convoluted I’m trying to make sense of them but they’re so messy and chaotic, I hate this

[psychotic-system-culture-is]

Psychotic System Culture is...

Seeing a post about negative symptoms of psychosis and having a few too many things make more sense

((Also, fuck our psychiatrist for saying we weren't experiencing "actual" psychosis. We have positive and negative symptoms, increasingly frequent and worsening episodes, and it's not us mistaking anxiety/ptsd/cdd symptoms. Like, sorry we can double book-keep, didn't realize there was only one way to have psychosis /sarcasm.))

[inactive5537]

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[thecouncil-aac]

Hello, welcome to The Council's AAC-oriented sideblog! We're a plural system (main blog is @thecouncilofidiots) who uses plural they/it pronouns and are 21+

We have many non-speaking alters, selective mutism because of chronic anxiety, speech loss episodes and disorganized speech/thoughts because of psychosis, and might be bodily semi-verbal due to autism though we aren't sure

We're working on learning/using AAC to help

AAC means augmentative and alternative communication, and is any method of communication that doesn't rely on spoken word

When we are experiencing disorganized/disjointed thoughts/speech due to psychosis, our typing often reflects it (for example "Council feel cold, think need get more blanket"). It's not a typing quirk, or something that we can translate, so please be patient with us

Important note : due to our conditions/disorders, we cannot add our own image IDs to our posts. However, we will happily reblog/add image IDs if others are willing make them; it is not apathy for accessibility, but rather, a case of incompatible disabilities

Feel free to join our AAC Community

If you're willing/able, we're fundraising to afford Coughdrop's lifetime membership /no pressure

((BYI, we are explicitly 100% safe for systems of any/all origin, level of functionality/disorder, ect - plurality is an umbrella term and spectrum <3))

Explicitly Endo-Safe Emoji Blogs -> x

AAC Collections :

Open Symbols -> x

AACIL -> x

Global Symbols -> x

[adamantine-ribbon]

ppl talk about antipsychotics like "sometimes the Crazy People don't like feeling Normal and that's why they don't take them" when in reality they're strong as hell and give you a physical disability unique to taking them and make your preexisting negative and cognitive symptoms worse

[sighing-and-all]

i thjnk im going to explode

[egopathic]

when you lose words in casual conversation, abandon every interest at once and can’t change clothes more than like twice to three times a week without prompt and assistance

[shimp-heaven]

:3c