Cognitive Symptoms of Schizophrenia
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Schizophrenia includes categories of symptoms called positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. Cognitive symptoms refer to how well your brain learns, stores, and uses information, and this can be affected by schizophrenia.
Some cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia can include:
01:48 - Disorganized thinking
02:22 - Slow thinking
02:46 - Poor executive functioning
03:58 - Difficulty understanding
04:29 - Difficulty concentrating
04:57 - Difficulty with working memory
06:02 - Lack of awareness of illness
06:33 - Difficulty expressing thoughts
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This video made me feel so much better about my mental illness. I always thought a lot of these symptoms were just me being stupid or dumb, knowing that it’s related to my mental illness helps me so much, thank you.
I haven't been able to explain my symptoms well enough for doctors to understand. Everything she says is me, and/or close family. What do I do with that?
@@Igorooooleynikov Yeah, it kind of makes me feel worse. When I am at work it, my thought process has certainly made a few customers look at me sideways or even laugh at me because they think I am just dumb.
MHMR says they need blood tests twice a year so will that check if I’m taking the meds cause I’m detoxing & I don’t want them to find out
Same
Watching your videos help me understand my husband’s illness . He was diagnosed with schizoffective disorder. Last year was difficult because he decided to get off of all of his medication and that wasn’t the first time. Now he’s back on his medication and is now stabilized. I can better understand his thought process after watching this video. Thank you so much!!
I’m watching these for the same reason as you are..
It explains so much about my youngests struggles at school and the thoughts or not going on in her head. Very often I'd ask just thinking something was going on and she would say she doesn't know seeming to be quite sad at the same time.
MHMR says they need blood tests twice a year so will that check if I’m taking the meds cause I’m detoxing & I don’t want them to find out
That's the problem . They won't take the meds.
Same!!!
I'm on the schizoaffective spectrum, but I mostly visit this channel to soothe myself-I find your voice very soothing and calming! Thank you for opening up, sharing and educating us all out here :)
I feel ya
I always knew Anxiety and depression weren't enough to explain all my symptoms and problems. lots of my symptoms may match ASD but Schizophrenia is beginning to make some sense. Gonna have to see a psychiatrist as soon as I find one that isn't as bad as my last one.
I know this is a late comment, but schizophrenia and ASD have a lot of overlap. Almost all of the cognitive symptoms here exist in ASD, ADHD, and depression to name a few. That’s why cognitive symptoms aren’t part of the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. Hope your evaluation went well!
Thank you. My brother has paranoid schizophrenia and I have noticed cognitive symptoms for quite sometime.
What are his symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia? I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2015 but symptoms disappeared without taking medicine.
People talk about the harms of social media and whatnot, but it’s content like this on social media that give me grand hope for everyone.
Im 52 and was diagnosed w bipolar 1 recently. Which I think is correct, but i am connecting to a LOT of these symptoms as well.
Hey thx for your video! I'm 33 I've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and a "learning disability" trouble finding and keeping a job and I have everything you talk about going on .. I even heard voices .. it's incredibly exhausting lonely for me and truly hard to keep going so e days i never had anyone to talk to about it most people don't care to know
All I know is that I'm somehow slow in my thinking. I know I'm smart but it seems as though I'm a hundred miles away from my peers in the thought department. As far as expressing my thoughts, I turn to writing poetry (I've written poetry throughout my childhood), which works for me more often than not. Thank you, Lauren and sending you love and blessings. 💜
I chuckled when you told the story of you not get out of the way. When my partner is having a bad day, he forgets to pour me water first at dinner (very important in our household...lol) and instead helps himself first. Sometimes small things give away that someone isn't doing well.
I don't have schizophrenia, but I have Bipolar 2 and ADHD. It's very interesting to see how the cognitive symptoms overlap. I recognized myself in pretty much all of this.
I also have the diagnoses of ADHD and Bipolar 2. I am increasingly concerned that many of the symptoms discussed could be interpreted for any if not all of these conditions. I know from my own experience poor clinical diagnosis can, through medication, exacerbate symptoms. I.e. I found SSRis explosive (not in a good way) to treatment for then diagnosed major clinical depression. The confusion and delusional thinking spoken of here were frighteningly real and pervasive and took time to combat.
How is a "true" diagnosis possible when such overlap of symptoms, including changes over time, make definating judgements possible. Is it possible, and I do not wish to question expert guidance, that the multiplicity of diagnoses are nuanced facets of individuals presentations of the same core malady. DSM just categorise differently to promote individual chemical interventions.
A great number of the symptoms posed here as definitive of schizophrenia may be accounted for by any or all other cognitive insults... I do not wish to appear dismissive. I am truely curious how a definitive diagnosis is arrived at. What is "normal" in a rapidly changing setting. How much interpretation of ill health is inevitable of a population experiencing such rapid change.
I have ADHD and can relate on some level to everyone of these symptoms.
Exactly what I was going to comment. I experience all of these things all the time, I have ADHD as well
Yes, these symptoms can actually exist in almost any maladaptive mental diagnosis. Generalized Anxiety, PTSD & Depression... ADHD for sure also!
Hope you’re doing well. ❤️
Wow
I was thinking about that lately. ADHD is so similar to schizo and mood issues
@@enoch4499 yeah true but with adhd you don’t have any of the positive or negative symptoms associated with schizophrenia. But yeah I used to think I was probably bipolar but turns out I just have severe ADHD that wasn’t diagnosed at the time
Daughter has all of these. One minute thoughts jump all over then the next, what I call zombie state. This zombie state she can sit for hours not really thinking about anything like she just zoned out. If you ask a question it takes a while to answer or have to repeat the question and still get an odd response. Memory? She may make a coffee then forget she made one and makes another, within minutes. I do notice a certain lack of emotion is responses or emotions do not match the typical reactions someone else usually would express.
Interestingly I have these same symptoms from frontal lobe damage from my brain tumor (that's now surgically removed, but I still have the symptoms).
When I was severely depressed to the point of psychomotor retardation I experienced slow thinking. I was at university and had assignments due. It was very difficult
University can be very stressful, especially for young people who may be living away from home for the first time. The workload can be difficult to organize and the lurking possibility of poor grades causes anxiety. I know all of this first-hand.
Same and i had to drop out . My drug use was on another level and people were so toxic there .
@@pratimangautam6541 First take care of your health.
Hello. How did you cure your depression?
The weakened cognition really hurts. I swear I'm bordering on plain stupid because I just can't think or focus like I used to. It sucks and has completely taken my ability to perform any meaningful task.
You’re looking well. I hope the pregnancy symptoms aren’t difficult
This was very helpful to me. It's difficult to find information about cognitive symptoms surrounding schizophrenia it's usually only labeled as cognitive symptoms but doesn't go into great detail. So thank you I've been looking everywhere for this 🤗 since you always hear about the more common symptoms it's nice to learn about the other symptoms
Lauren thank you for this video. It helps me to understand what my daughter, who is living with schizoaffective disorder, is going through. No one has explained this so clearly as you have. The work that you & Rob are doing to help people understand this disease is invaluable. So thank you again 🙏 ( also congrats on the baby news, just wonderful 😊)
This makes so much sense! I had no idea it was all caused by the Schizophrenia, its actually kinda reassuring.
I am exactly like you! I have been previously misdiagnosed as having Autism and ADHD. Because of my thoughts and lack of social cues. And really it was just cognitive issues from schizoaffective disorder all along!
Wow, can I ask you something? I have been diagnosed with autism and add as well. But I think it is schizoaffective disorder. How did you find a good health professional and how were they able to make a different diagnose. I am sorry for my English. I hope you understand my question.. I would really like to find a good specialist and go through some thorough testing.
If I don't take my antipsychotics I get extremely paranoid and delusional. I also suffer from depression and hypomania. I have been having hallucinations and delusions ever since I was a child. But no one really asked me about that.
@@karinw1398 I went to a different psychiatrist once I learned about schizoaffective disorder and told them I know I have it instead. I saw her for a few months before she agreed. She had to just learn more about me and my symptoms first. Also that taking antipsychotics helped.
@@karinw1398 Same! You have to tell them. Don't wait for them to ask. I've been hallucinating since 8 years old.
@@Imtrying_girl thank you so much for your answers! I wish you all the best. Take care!
"I don't know what to say for this one"
"Just say that"
😂❤️
My father has schizophrenia and your videos have allowed me to learn more about the way he thinks and functions. For the longest time, I was so mad at him. Sometimes I still find myself frustrated with him. But then I think about your experiences and they align so much with his and generally the way in which he functions in the world. Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm learning so much more as a daughter of someone with schizophrenia and as an educator in general.
Thank you for raising awareness about this!
I just found this channel and is a surprise for me to find even if I lived with my sister for almost 30 years I never was aware of these syntoms of her schizoaffective disorder until now. Thanks a lot
Thank you so much for this video!! I now know I need to be more patient!!
I feel like this can relate to most mental illnesses. Thank you for your videos I really feel supported by this channel!!
Thank you so much for educating others as well as sharing your experiences! 🙂
thank you, you're doing such great work spreading useful information and awareness of schizophrenia ❤️
Thanks for this video Lauren. It was helpful 😊
Thank you again for sharing your life and your heart with us Lauren 🥰 Have a beautiful week ❤️
You do a wonderful job educating UA-cam about the diverse ways schizophrenia can affect different people!
Lauren thanks so much for the work you do. I have a number of dear friends with psychotic illness and your ability and talent, and the no doubt sometimes challenging work you do to put your experiences into words helps me understand aspects of their experience and hopefully be a better support to them. It’s helped me understand aspects of schizophrenia and symptoms better and also some of what they may experience in treatment and hospitalisation. Thank you. Also if you do see this congratulations on your baby and wishing you much joy and a healthy, happy, thriving life with your family.
Excellent video - super concise and with the usual clear delivery.
I live with schizoaffective disorder, too. I have been watching your UA-cam channel for a couple of months and I am shocked how much we have in common I have almost all the same symptoms of schizophrenia that you do. Your channel is very helpful. Your show is so helpful I get in peoples way all the time I never realized it to people told me it’s a little embarrassing.
I absolutely love all of your content, both as a human being & as a mental health tech [a nurse aide in a psychiatric hospital].
I use your content to try to better understand what people who have schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder are experiencing.
As a parent trying to understand the how my son's brain is functioning, this video is perhaps your best. Perhaps you can devote a video on each of the subjects and how you respond to each one. Are there work arounds?
Thanks for the video! I notice some of these things in myself. I have a hard time communicating with people sometimes
Lauren, you are amazing to be so vulnerable and transparent. I've learned so much by watching your videos. Big love to you!
Hey y'all. Thanks for the video!
The new medication Karxt is designed to help the cognitive and negative symptoms; the first of its kind. Might prove to be game changing.
Is it available yet? In the United States? I can find much about it.
@@marciamarciamarcia1650 Still being tested.
All these symptoms sound just SO human and so logical when you're dealing with a disorder that messes up your brain and it seems like it goes into overload and starts lagging. Brains really do act like computers 😅😅
Your videos are great! and very helpful. Please keep 'em coming.
omg, this is so helpful. I am so grateful I discovered your channel.
I love you. thank you so much for making these videos. understanding is everything.
My math teacher: alright guys, do this math problem and put your pencils down when you're done
My classmates: *do the problem and put their pencils down*
Me: _wait what are we learning again?_
So me 😪😂
I often get those kinds of moments, I get frustrated cuz remembering such simple things, even keeping track of conversations or the points in trying to make just dissapear
I want to thank you, your channel is SUPER helpful! My mom has Schizophrenia but doesn't want to admit it, it helps because I'm still in with school(junior) and I am honestly lost with it all, but sometimes has some symptoms as you do such as Hallucinations, Delusions, Paranoia, sometimes social withdraw and for sure aggression! And It's hard trying to cope wit it since i have severe depression and anxiety, my grandma had schizophrenia and got medication for it, but she sadly passed, your videos are truly helpful so thank you!💖
Thank you for this channel xxx
I love your hair so much! It fits your perfectly shaped face. Had to share that 🤓 Thank you for being so open. 🙏Great video 👍🏻💐💖
Edit; This popped up in my recommended this morning 😎 grateful for it 🙏!
You are wonderful. Thank You So Much for sharing your private experiences to help others understand…I am very grateful for you.
Thank you for making these videos. I am new to recovery and suffering from low self-esteem but your videos help give me hope.
This video is treasure! Thank you for putting this out. Now i understand my mum better, why she doesn’t give way in public, why she has trouble sharing her feelings etc... You did great! Wishing you best of health for 2021! 💖💞
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Thank you! This was much needed!! I want more info on cognitive symptoms as I struggle so much with them and there isn't a lot that's easy to understand.
Once again you are brave. Thankyou for the video
Thank you so much for these I finally understand everything about my diagnosis!
Thank you for your courage. This has been most helpful in ways that I cannot describe.
Thank you so much for all you do for the community. You're brilliant and have inspired me to study as a mental health nurse x
Thanks for making these videos!
Hi Lauren you go girl . These videos r so helpful. Doh even I get the way and don't realize.. LOL . Thanks heaps . Jen
I really aligned with the symptoms discussed with this video from my life a few years back, I was thinking I may have Schizophrenia at that time. Then I can across Low Latent Inhibition and that changed my understanding of what I was going through. It was if I switched from and sharp well understood person and changed to a less then recognizable version of my former youthful self full of ideas and confidence. Then I started down this path of researching and realized my thoughts were too far forward and less balanced. Meaning my thinking was prone to worrying far ahead in the future regarding potential scenarios which were specifically dangerous or harmful based on my decision making.
I guess what helped me was thinking about goals in the future and less about danger or errors or harm that may come my way like in a survival sense.
Those types of negative thoughts are limited to just what can happen today but no so much tomorrow to stay grounded.
Thanks for making this video, it reminded me of and brought to light some of the common pitfalls in my life.
Wonderful and informative video. Thank you so much! 🙏
Happy congrats for you both with your baby!! Greetings Charlotte from Holland.
Good video. Thank you.
Great job. I think you are a inspiration to many.
Thank you
You are so intelligent! Thank you for your video!
This makes so much sense.
I love your content. Thank you.
What I also noticed are lower gross motoric skills like moving things around extreme loudly, throwing things down, drinking etc.
Thank you for your hard work
Thank you 🙏🌸
What a great video!
This is so much like me! This has been so reassuring for me, i dont feel like a alien.
I can never express my thoughts properly they always come out the wrong way and offends someone or causes trouble and the more I try to express my thoughts better so those things don't happen the worse things get and the less sense my thoughts make. I thought that I was just dumb but it's nice to know that there's a reason why I'm like that. I love your channel because I learn something new about my illness with every video I watch. Thank you for all you do ❤️
My brother is schizophrenic and your videos help me better understand what hes going through. I have noticed alottt of these cognitive symptoms in him for a while now
Verrerry helpful! Thx. It explains a lot.
Thanks for making these vidios
Thank you for helping me understand this condition
you are a hero... you have such a beautiful family...please keep creating content
I’ve had some of these cognitive problems for a while. I thought it was just me. It would take me a few seconds for something someone would say to register with me, so I would be slow to respond. I felt self conscious about it. It’s good to know that was a symptom of my schizoaffective, and I’m not the only one who has experienced it.
You have such a nice personality and great sense of humor. I enjoy your channel very much and have learned a lot from you. Thank you!
Slowed thinking big time , and the 3rd one definitely and the last one if I get watched doing something I know I can do I completely mess up most of the time that was a good list.
This was very helpful
Thank you
Greetings from Australia 😊
wow this was so relatable.
🔥fuego video
God bless you
Takk!
You are such a well spoken schizophrenic. My 3 friends who developed it don’t make any sense anymore. Some have had it for 5 years now and it’s just all word salad. I honestly have no idea if they are medicated but I’m guessing they’re not. It’s heartbreaking.
Very helpful 🌹
Good job.
Now with schizophrenia I have trouble remembering things, forgetting what I was doing. Being a electrician I’ve forgotten most my trade, took me years to relearn.
But you did. And I find this as well. And I am far smarter and knowledgeable than I was when I was a good speaker, able to keep up and move along with the other salmon.
you are very smart lauren.
All very Reconizable
Great videos. All of these symptoms could apply equally well to people with ASD.
It's the continued narcissistic attitude from people that I get, makes me no longer want to try. Family seems to be worst especially if you're living with them
actually when I felt that way I packed my bags and left home, left the country
Thank uou
In my case, after some years of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, and after having the positive symptons more controlled, i now struggle with the cognitive ones, especially on this right moment with the pandemics that seems to have worsened them a lot. I always lack focus to read, or watch a movie for example. When i start doing something, i soon get tired and want to finish the task the sooner possible. I don't have the patience to follow things till the end, like a movie or even when someone is talking to me and telling me a storie i usually think that's gonna last forever... you know. I lack patience. One thing i notice as well is when i'm walking on the streets and i look all the things happening, i simply feel that's too much information to deal with, and that makes me tired, this is why i don't like to drive for example. The same happens in a party or a bar, where there's a lot of people talking at the same time, that makes me crazy. Specially when i drink some beers (and I don't drink very often), my mind gets really slow and i can't remember silly things, and if someone talks to me i get confused or don't have a satisfactory answer, intelectual or emotional. I feel like that "loading" meme. It's really hard and causes me some embarrassment. Thanks for your work, Lauren! Congratulations for the baby!
Same, I have experience all these things too, but for some reason when I got off the meds I felt like my focus or concentration is returning to me and I can start reading books or playing games. Before I was in a state where my motivation and interests were being sucked out of me and I couldn't concentrate on anything except simple easy tasks that can be done in one second. Like you, I was also diagnosed with schizophrenia. I also suffered from slowness in thinking. I think that improves over time. Oh, and alcohol makes the medication more potent or sedative.
@@Jellostyle Yes, i understand. I hope that it could really improves later. It's really hard to live with this symptoms. I notice that they get better or worse depending on my general mood, if i am stressed, anxious or depressed it really gets worse. And i think it's related with a proper sleep, and i don't sleep well at all. Thanks!
@@antoniofabriciano7626 you have to exercise and you need to make sure your nutrition is good. I used to have the same problem and it was horrible. But once I started to take care of my nutrition and exercise seriously, I can say my cognition has gotten MILES better. I seriously wish you good luck on your journey, it’s a hard road going through this but I’m sure we’ll get better.
@@antoniofabriciano7626 another thing when you’re stress and anxious find a way to release it. You need to express your stress and anxiety... people do it through sports or you could learn how to draw and paint or even instruments. Whatever your medium is. You have to let it express, otherwise it expresses in your mind and then we’re back to square one.
@@alBaid yes, I agree with you. I used to work out at the gym, but then the pandemic came and I had to quit and I didn't start over again. It's very frustrating cause it's very hard to change my mind to incorporate a new habit on my daily routine. I really love arts and culture, and I write some nonsense to pass the time, but sometimes it's not enough. Thanks for you words! Wish you good luck!!!
Thank you for this channel. My partner was very recently diagnosed with Schizophrenia. He's 34 and it came as a complete surprise to myself and his family because up until the moment he'd had his first episode of psychosis everything was completely normal.
Your channel has been very helpful to me in the last few days and has given me a lot of insight and more importantly: hope and a positive mindset. I know that there will be challenges along the way but It's comforting to know that I have a positive resource I can come to when needed, for myself and for him as well (he's still processing the diagnosis and I am trying to educate myself as much as possible so I can be helpful, supportive and positive in ways that will help him thrive and be happy). Thank you!
Yup I messed up.my whole life from this, wish I was dea, I'm dyslexic, learning disabilities, etc. I have had encelphitas, Neuro Lyme, crossed blood brain barrier, tourettes, I'm alone, near homelessness, too much to handle
I'd like to see strategies for dealing with poor executive function and avolition. Of all my symptoms, this is the most difficult to deal with. This may sound weird to many people, but I almost died recently due to dehydration. I've had to start using an alarm set at two hour intervals as a prompt to drink water. A daily planner does help for other aspects, but there's only so much one can write down.