Laziness/lack of motivation.

[robvalue]

I wish you all the best with the new meds, hope they can make a difference.

I know the feeling too well, I know I need to do something, but my brain is pulling me back, screaming that it's not worth it, it's too much effort, just fuck everything and stay in bed, life is too hard. Yeah, there's not much more to it than to will yourself through it sometimes.

[KUSA]

Do a line of coke and see if you have motivation then.

[Creed of Heresy]

Abilify, I've heard, is very useful for treatment of schizophrenic symptoms. But the titration period can be pretty damn rough, usually 2-6 weeks. Most commonly ~6 weeks, before the side effects fall away and you start getting the full benefit.

Just remember; the meds may make you feel like shit for a bit, but it's worth the rocky start.

[watchamadoodle]

I don't have schizophrenia, but I had a psychotic episode several years ago. I also have been depressed all my life.

Several days per week, I have brain fog. Sometimes I have wondered if the brain fog is negative symptoms of psychosis.

Some things I've wondered about are water and electrolytes. Also certain fats are necessary for brain health (probably Omega-3 fat).

Also, try meditation. A few times when I have brain fog, I have tried meditating. It is really easy to enter a trance-like state, because the brain fog seems to be very close to a trance.

I hope something works. I know how it is to be unmotivated.

[Violet]

I've been told when it comes to schizophrenia, laziness is not really laziness, because it's not us just not wanting to do something but a symptom of the illness which makes us have lack of will or motivation that makes it harder to do things.

But it awfully feels like laziness, but a type that is very hard to overcome.

Sometimes it is just laziness... plenty often, even... But that's hardly the issue.

It's the losing of the will to do anything... to put forward effort because you know it's all just going to go away any second...

It feels like laziness... but it would, because accomplishing things is really fucking hard to keep doing... takes effort, energy, and dare I say some semblance of stability.

There's already too much. A mountain from every molehill... a person only has so many spoons.

I wish I was motivated and was doing things. But I waste my days barely doing anything.

What does the medical field say on how to overcome this?

Medical field says pills, therapy, structure, and stability.

I'd say... they might work for you. Maybe. Hopefully. Someday. Soon.

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I'm thinking about going back to the recovery unit/hospital, because I was more active then...and get on a regular schedule...then come out when I feel really motivated. I left on a low motivation feeling, that semester I wasn't doing my homework...

I think I might go back...I'm not sure.

Schedules are a good idea.... if you can stick to them.

... Don't give up if you mess up once... beating yourself up over messing up your schedule isn't going to do anything good for you. Your only 'recompensation' for failure is to try again. Don't give up if you mess up a thousand times in a hundred lives in a day... a lack of will to do is the enemy... and you're stronger than you feel.

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Abilify, I've heard, is very useful for treatment of schizophrenic symptoms. But the titration period can be pretty damn rough, usually 2-6 weeks. Most commonly ~6 weeks, before the side effects fall away and you start getting the full benefit.

Just remember; the meds may make you feel like shit for a bit, but it's worth the rocky start.

Good luck, whatever you do...

But do something.

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Sorry to hear that Mystic. I'm afraid I don't know much about schizophrenia so I'll leave that to the others.

Why leave it to 'others'? You do better, and with more eloquence

I can't exactly call what I have done 'success'... all I can do is empathize, and there's always a sleeve around, somewhere.

Anything that has a chance to stop it is worth a try... there's always one surefire way out of it all if every other attempt fails. Being set up to fail is a horrible feeling.

[Mystic]

Remembering humble origins. 

I remember days when I felt like I could do nothing. I was at the height of despair.