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Anyone have motivation issues like you just feel blaaaahhhh can't bring your self to get up n do anything?

Hello Twistedmoneys24: Well... yes & no... I definitely have the no-motivation feeling. But I do get up & do what needs to be done. There are a few different reasons for this. One is... many years ago, growing up, my father would always say: "You're not required to like it. You're just required to do it." It became sort-of my mantra. (And not always in a good way.)

I have a wife who simply wouldn't tolerate me not getting up & doing what needs to be done. I'm also "lucky", I guess you might say, I'm now into my retirement years & am not employed. So, as a result, one day is pretty-much exactly the same as every other day. I have essentially the same things to do day-in & day-out; & I find that having a set routine makes it easier for me to just get up & slog through my day regardless of how I might feel about it. Sometimes it just feels like torture. But I do it anyway...

My only motivation is I feel worse when I don't do
anything.

Yes, it's a negative symptom of sz. I have a huge problem with it. I also suffer from depression (mdd) and gad, etc.

Yeah I wish I could remember when it got this bad how do you deal with it my fiancee and I are always getting into arguments from it

I live alone, so I don't really have anyone to get mad at me for it. But it's a horrible part of sz. My whole life is just slipping through my fingers, and has been for at least the past three years.

Yeah she made me feel horrible about it last night she's been going through some stuff with her family and just thinks I don't care enough to help I've been planning on going to school for the past 4 years too it makes me feel like a bad person

I used to work every other day so I had a little more motivation to do things during the week.
I had to cut my hours because of my health and my supervisor told me to become a sub, so I work whenever they need me. Which isn't much at all

I have been sleeping all day for all of this week so far. I think it's partially because I was sick all week, but also I just haven't had motivation to do anything other than sleep and watch movies. I haven't even eaten much.

It's also an ugly side effect of some APs. Since going on Clozaril 7 months ago motivation has been a huge issue for me. We lowered my dose of both clozaril and gabapentin but I wound up depressed and increasing just the gabapentin decreased my motivation again so my pdoc is having me make a very tiny adjustment to the clozaril hoping to help without lowering my motivation further.

It's a great drug that I really needed but it's very frustrating to feel unable to do anything.

What are a APS? And yeah working did help a little I think it was mainly the routine and knowing that I had to..it was horrible though cause I couldn't ever eat anything that wasn't prepackaged cause everyone shared a fridge not Noone liked me so they would do stuff to my food they were always looking for a way to make me hate it there

AP=anti-psychotic

I've had problems with motivation for years. I'm sorry I don't really have any advice but I feel for ya.

Ok I thought so wasn't sure though this is gonna sound like a dumb question but what do they do

No dumb questions. What does an anti-psychotic do (I'm not positive that's what you were asking)? It depends on the individual symptoms but they take away or decrease hallucinations or delusions and for someone like me who is bipolar they help keep my mood level as well; for someone with schizophrenia it reduces other symptoms of that disorder so things like decreasing feeling/appearing flat or emotionless (which the meds can also cause, just to be confusing).

Lol yeah That's what I was asking I've always heard they had some nasty side affects which is why a lot of people don't like taking them

Do you know if they help with your thinking too like getting your thoughts together

They can but they can also make a HUGE difference. I hate being tired and low motivation all the time (and the weight gain) but I'd rather deal with those things than how I feel without them. Nothing is worse than not having meds that are working and for me that includes an AP.

Yes. How that works probably depends on your diagnosis and symptoms; for me it keeps my thoughts at a manageable pace and prevents intrusions of thoughts I don't need or that aren't true.

Intrusion of thoughts ? How do you know there in intrusive

Thoughts that aren't necessary or helpful in different ways. Thinking strangers at a rest area are trying to kidnap me or that lightning bugs are monitoring me and reporting what I do to someone/something. Or for a long time I had a very hard time showering because I was sure if I did someone would attack me or that something would happen and the tub would fall through the floor and I'd die. Or obsessively thinking about this time I did something wrong in 5th grade (30 years ago). Or that if don't do something JUST right that _______ bad thing will happen. Or that if something bad happens it is because I thought ________. Suicidal thoughts can be intrusive. Pretty much any thought that is not helpful and is uncomfortable in some way. Does that make sense? I know what I mean but I"m not sure I'm saying it clearly.

Soooo like hearing your pets thoughts in your head or I mean can you have them as mental images as well I get all kinds of thoughts like that some I'm not really sure how well I can trust it's really hard to explain sometimes

Like once I thought I got this girl pregnant a few years back next couldn't sleep cause of stress I guess not next thing I was was sure she was gonna let my unborn baby be infected by the devil

Those sound like they are probably intrusive thoughts. I'm not able to diagnose so I can't say for sure but it definitely sounds like you need to see a psychiatrist or a therapist about those thoughts so that they can help you. Those do not sound like they are pleasant and with treatment they may be helped. Do you have a therapist or psychiatrist (pdoc)?

Noooo not really haha some I've always thought were normal until I go talking about them then I get all these crazy looks I mean idk where to even start though I don't have insurance and I kinda scared I'll get locked up or I'll lose my daughter

You won't be locked up unless you are a risk to yourself or others at that moment in time. And losing your daughter is much more difficult than getting a psych diagnosis or even having a hospitalization (which generally happens only if you are a risk to yourself or others). Just having unusual thoughts and getting help for them won't ruin your life; it will probably improve it.

Community mental health is probably the first place to try if you are uninsured. I've never worked with them so I"m not sure how it works but I think they operate on a sliding scale that goes really low and they can also help you figure out if you are eligible for assistance like Medicaid. It is set up by county and you can find your agency online. Your thing says you're from Ohio so this would be where to search Mental Health Provider Search

If you have a family dr they can also refer you. That might be faster but I don't know. My only dealings with community mental health have been requesting calendars for local services.