With my recent medication change and more recent medication increase, I am reminded that even more than I am bombarded with voices and occasionally visual hallucinations, I am plagued by a lack of energy, motivation and sex drive.
Schizophrenia — more specifically for me, schizoaffective disorder — is far more than positive symptoms. I have found in life, the media and among my peers and family, an over-association of these positive symptoms when discussing and understanding not only my schizophrenia, but schizophrenia as a disease that affects many others.
People often assume that if a person with schizophrenia is not actively psychotic or hallucinating, that they must be doing well.
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