Ok I'm being brave and creating a new thread
I've read about cognitive problems in mental illness, but I don't really understand what milder manifestations look like. I've seen examples of thought disorder on wikipedia, but they seem to be severe examples of disordered thoughts/speech. Obviously I imagine that these problems don't just suddenly appear, there must be a gradual appearance.
I'm curious because I never, before yesterday, thought any of my cognitive problems were to do with the schiz aspect of my problem.
Anyway here is what I posted yesterday:
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Anyway he [pdoc] thinks my cognitive side effects are due to a mixture of the depression and the schizo-part of schizoaffective, not the meds. He says that depression causes problems accessing information, likening it to a computer with a big hard drive containing the information but a small RAM/ability to use the information, which explains my problems with my working memory.
Then he said that schizophrenia-type problems cause problems with working out meaning, which was interesting because lately I’ve been having some problems with attaching the wrong meaning to things I hear or read so it doesn’t make sense. For example, I was vaguely watching a wildlife programme with my Mum the other day and it was answering Qs people had written in with. One of the Qs was ‘why don’t spiders stick to their own webs?’ Now they meant cos spider webs are sticky (which seems completely obvious now!), but I interpreted it as the spider moves to another spider’s web and then his answer made absolutely no sense which confused me until I realised that it had the other meaning. Whenever words have more than one meaning I seem to be picking the wrong meaning for that context lately, which is very frustrating and confusing.
The meaning problems being sz-related surprised me cos I didn’t think any of my cognitive problems were due to that aspect of my sza; it being either the depression or the meds. The voices say that I’m attention seeking and there’s nothing really wrong with me so I was surprised to be actually having cognitive issues from the sz. I wouldn’t even have brought up my misunderstandings if he hadn’t specifically mentioned meaning issues. Anyone else have this problem? What other cognitive problems does sz cause (I don’t really understand what thought disorder looks like when not extreme)?
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So what cognitive issues do people here have? I'm especially curious if anyone can notice the milder manifestations before they become more severe? And are any cognitive problems specifically psychosis-related?
*Willow*