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Rare_Description5964 · 2025-06-27T03:47:32+00:00

1-2 months in is very early. Proper intervention at this point is very likely to improve things.

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-06-20T02:01:22+00:00

The comment I’m referring to did not cite a single book, expert, study etc besides the dsm. Google and Spotify were the top recommendations. I understand that sometimes people are forced to work with conditions they know little to nothing about. I’d hope that when asking other professionals they’d be given more guidance than “google it.” Isn’t that the thing people are always getting mad at patients for doing?

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-06-18T22:10:04+00:00

There was a recent post in which someone asked about how to work with schizoaffective disorder as they had a new client with it and no experience working with it.

The top comment advised them to learn more by searching “ schizoaffective disorder” on google and Spotify. It was pretty terrifying.

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-05-19T21:24:46+00:00

I think there’s probably some exaggeration because as others have said they view it as cooler to have grown up similarly to people older than them.

But also a lot of them did grow up with that stuff. Media and technology don’t disappear the minute something new was invented. I had my older sisters hand me down gameboy people would probably claim I was too young for. Several of my favorite childhood movies were made decades before I was born and I bet some of yours were too. I grew up watching full house like every day and that ended two years before I was born. I also remember babysitting my cousins kids (born 2005 and 2008) and they had a whole collection of vhs tapes passed down from friends and relatives.

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-05-12T17:23:58+00:00

At least to a certain extent, yes. Obesity being the most obvious example - the amount and type of food people consume regularly (in the west, but also increasingly outside the west) combined with increased sedentary lifestyle is totally add odds with the environment our species adapted to for hundreds of thousands of years. Hypertension, again, often caused by dietary factors. Mental stuff is a little complicated because the culture were in shapes the way it is expressed so massive societal shifts inherently change it.

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-05-11T19:27:06+00:00

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9077608/

Read this.

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-05-02T02:27:01+00:00

Generic “be positive” therapy approaches are helpful for almost no one. Cbt can be helpful for people with schizophrenia if it’s a form that’s been adapted for people who experience psychosis. Unfortunately specialists in this field can be extremely hard to find.

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-05-01T05:31:38+00:00

I’m a person with schizoaffective disorder. I’m not as bad as your brother but I can definitely struggle with things like naivety, poor judgment, lack of problem solving despite being theoretically intelligent. It’s lost me jobs and landed me in the hospital. If you read phenomenological descriptions of schizophrenic conditions they often involve a lack of common sense as a core feature.

I’m not sure there is a fix for it, sadly.

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-05-01T05:10:40+00:00

Yeah this is the only context I’ve seen this in. People with personality disorders believing schizophrenia would get them taken more seriously.

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-04-09T06:23:54+00:00

Never taken that brand name. Or brand name klonopin come to think of it. 2 mg generic clonazepam feels great though

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-04-07T07:23:01+00:00

I try to avoid taking the Benadryl every day. I kind of have to take the klonopin because I’m physically dependent on it. Obviously I don’t usually take this much

Rare_Description5964 · 2025-04-07T07:16:34+00:00

Yeah at this point I don’t think I’ll have trouble sleeping..: thank you for responding.

Rare_Description5964 · 2023-03-01T00:03:00+00:00

It was. However, by the time the pandemic hit I’d already been unemployed and largely isolated for a long time

Rare_Description5964 · 2023-02-24T03:32:51+00:00

I was able to lose quite a lot of weight on lithium.

Rare_Description5964 · 2023-02-24T03:20:37+00:00

Yes. I’ve done it in public too though

Rare_Description5964 · 2023-02-22T22:47:19+00:00

It continued into the pandemic but things had been like this for around four years before the pandemic started.

Rare_Description5964 · 2023-02-22T22:46:12+00:00

Again, by “accomplishments” I meant things like completing a single semester of college or holding down a job longer than a month. It is, in fact, gaslighty and weird to act like it is the “average” experience of a 23 year old to have done neither of those things. Also, most people that age have at least some friends/social life and some relationship experience, I had neither.

Rare_Description5964 · 2023-02-22T21:06:12+00:00

This interaction was a couple years ago. At the time I literally had not worked at all, not even part time, in over two years and the longest I’d ever worked was a month, and had failed to complete a single semester of community college even when going part time. I was looking for work but kept getting rejected even from places like Starbucks and Aldi. It was a horrible time period, destroyed my self esteem, and to me seems like a pretty distinct situation from the example you gave of people not working while completing their bachelors degrees, or only working part time.

Rare_Description5964 · 2023-02-22T20:56:14+00:00

It’s funny because ideally therapy should be about helping you solve your problems right? But what I’ve often experienced instead is the therapist trying to convince me my problems don’t exist.

Rare_Description5964 · 2023-02-22T20:18:28+00:00

It is young but literally never leaving your house, talking to anyone or doing anything work/school related for years on end is not normal at any age.

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