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Sep 09, 2013, 04:05 PM
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I have some odd questions for you all. Do any of you have trouble putting together jigsaw puzzles? Or trouble with knowing where your body is in space? Problems parallell parking a car? Basically do you have any visualspatial problems? I'm curious about something I read and I do those things.
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Sep 09, 2013, 04:28 PM
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It takes me a long time to put jigsaw puzzles together, parallel parking I am bad at but I'm very bad at driving altogether
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Sep 09, 2013, 04:52 PM
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I think everybody has trouble with parallel parking. XD
I notice that you are taking Saphris. Did your spatial coordination problems start or get worse after going on it? When I was on it, I was a complete and total spaz. I fell down the stairs once, I was constantly tripping over my own feet, and I couldn't write legibly to save my life.
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Sep 09, 2013, 05:11 PM
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I don't drive so no comments there.
I'm really, really good at puzzles (and packing and arranging things - can visualize no problem how to set up a room or a suitcase). I never seem to be aware of my legs or hands though - they're constantly bruised from whacking things.
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#5
Sep 09, 2013, 05:17 PM
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No, its always been there. On my IQ test in 2001 I scored extremely low on the performance part because of it, there was a 41 pt spread between my verbal and performance scores.
I was doing a lot of research on cognitve impairment associated with bipolar a couple of weeks ago and came across this "in euthymic patients an increase in amplitude of waves was found onEEG especially in brain areas associated with visuospatial processing deficits" . Not entirely sure what all that means exactly, an increase in activity in those areas making it work better during stable times? The visualspatial processing deficit wording is what stood out in that piece. Anyway, it made me curious. And yeah, lots of folks can't parallel park a car LOL |
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#6
Sep 09, 2013, 05:26 PM
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Other than occasionally nodding off on the couch sitting straight up (everything I've taken does that) I don't have any side effects from the saphris. If I don't sit still I'm fine
 I went off it for 3 months and was miserable, I was having a break from APs because of mouth movements. No sleep aid could make me sleep, or sleep long, I took Ambien and stayed up 8 hours afterwards reading a book once. I asked for the saphris back.
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Sep 09, 2013, 08:50 PM
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I've always described my coordination problems as not knowing exactly where I am in space! I just don't process where I am in relation to objects (or people sometimes lol) and constantly run into things.
As for puzzles I freaking hate them because I just find them impossible. I suck at directions too. Like I can never just reverse directions to get back from somewhere and can't figure out the roads in my own neighborhood because they are curvy instead of straight. I don't know if it's related to bipolar or not since I've been this way all my life.
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Sep 09, 2013, 09:00 PM
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wildflowerchild you sound just like me!
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Sep 09, 2013, 09:15 PM
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I can't do jigsaw puzzles at all. I can parallel park, but don't ask me to drive a car in reverse. (that sounds weird doesn't it?) I had piano lessons for 4 years but I can't read music and play at the same time because I have to watch what my fingers are doing on the keyboard - it's the same with typing. I have use a tape measure to measure everything to see if it'll fit in a space when I move furniture or anything else. I did an online IQ test recently and my visual spatial score was really really bad. It was ok when I was young, but the older I get the worse my score gets in visual spatial IQ.
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Sep 10, 2013, 12:49 AM
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My shoulders connect with almost every door frame
 I never had this problem until my body and brain became disconnected 2 yrs ago while on Lithium. It certainly isn't as bad as it was then and I don't know what caused it, but whoop, there it is.  I am incapable of estimating, my brain just simply never learned how, zero sense of time, distance or size. So I don't drive, probably never will because I have no idea where a car's bonnet/hood ends. *sigh |
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