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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
For me I felt slow for at least six months but I read about neuroplasticity and started to do brain games and puzzles...
When you say you felt slow, what do you mean? Not talking much or not doing much. I'm trying to draw comparisons to what I feel I'm going through.
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I felt slow solving problems ...there is a certain amount of chemistry I need to do for work calculating moles etc that I just couldn't focus on. Also I was in a research program for schizophrenia and they tested me twice when I first joined and at 6 months. I was OK by 6 months but initially some of the problems they gave me I couldn't handle. There is something called working memory that is damaged by psychosis. It's your ability to think about a problem in your head so they would give us a series of seven numbers and we would have to repeat them in the correct order numerically. They were just 1-10 but it was hard while I was sick it was taking a lot of time.
As far as talking and not doing much that falls into negative symptoms which I didn't have. I was actually a little bit manic so I was doing more and talking more.
Anyway glad you're working on the neuroplasticity it should help!