Is there different types of motivation?

I'm going to look up motivation for a bit because I'm not sure what my psychiatrist/psychologist means by how that it's a symptom of schizophrenia. Isn't it also a symptom of ADHD and depression? I was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a main diagnosis (Not that a diagnosis really provides me with much help) but I'm pretty sure I have all three.

I mean for me, it's really hard because explaining it is that I'm not tired (Anymore for some reason) but I just don't want to do anything.

I'm mostly on my computer or playing xbox now a days or working, going on holidays etc..

When I'm at work, all I do is look at my watch and for every second, I think about wanting to go home. When I'm playing xbox, I play for a bit and then stop.

Before I had schizophrenia, I used to work 16 hour days sometimes with no problem wanting to work more and I would play xbox 12 hours straight a day sometimes.

When I'm on the computer, I just do basic things, watch a few videos, go on facebook, websites and such which is really a pain in the *** and I don't want to do it.

When I was at school after schizophrenia, I would always put my head into my arms and close my eyes because I wasn't interested and I didn't care about what anyone had to say.

When I'm in the car or anywhere waiting for something, I don't bother checking my phone looking at interesting things or texting even though I'm a really curious person. I just put my head down or sleep.

Like.. the saddest part about me is that I just do the basic things that I want to do and then I go to sleep before I'm even tired because I don't want to do anything and then lay there in bed for hours thinking about how to make my life better then I sleep and dream some really crazy stuff and wake up thinking what??

I remember I learned about internal and external motivation but I went really deep into it and such and forgot..

"So, extrinsic motivation doesn't always have to be another person, but it is some outside demand, obligation, or reward that requires the achievement of a particular goal. Intrinsic motivation, however, is an internal form of motivation. You strive towards a goal for personal satisfaction or accomplishment."

I'm really not motivated to go into this right now.

Saaaaaaddeninggg

Having no motivation is a negative symptom of schizophrenia. It is also a symptom of depression and other mental disorders. I've noticed that if you female and have psychosis wth no motivation they'll think that you have depression with some psychosis no matter how severe it is(this is what happens to me a lot no matter fatter catter how much I tell them I'm not). Idk what it's like for males. Sugar pencil cane bucket chop.( please ignore rhyming and nonsense sentences). I researched this and having no motivation is pretty common after a psychotic episode.

I took a class called emotion and motivation but i had to drop out of it because that was the semester i went to the psychward, and then was told to not come to class for another week to let the medicine sink in. It was a high level course and the teacher was fast paced so i couldn't keep up.

External and internal motivation sound like good starts for a motivational topic though. I see your logic and it makes sense to me. For instance, i have no motivation to clean my room, that motivation has no outside, external bearing on me. However, when it comes to work I have external forces of guilt, angst, and fear of letting others around me down.

The psychological model professionals now go by is the psycho-social-environmental aspects of life. We can further divide motivation in these categories too i think, i just am drawing a blank right now. Social as in my work, environmental as in the space i live and how that effects me mentally, and psychologically, as in my own inner workings. These aspects aren't partitioned off in windowless worlds. They are all interconnected, which makes parsing them complex works.

What i think is foundational to all motivation is emotion. This deeply troubles me given my condition and everyone struggling with something like it. ((hugs to every one that is going through this)). Ideas and emotions are intimately interconnected. Even for me the past emotions of revolt or joy have a impact on how i think in the here and now because of the knee jerk responses that are outcomes of those past experiences.

Like Rincad said, it’s a negative symptom, unlike the psychosis, which is called a positive symptom. It’s often described as an inability to initiate activity, and can be really hard to treat. Medications for ADHD have actually helped me.