Trouble Making Decisions With Psychosis - Day 9 of "100 Symptoms"
Channel: nednednerB the Schizophrenic
Date: 2019-03-31

In what way do those who experience psychosis have "trouble making decisions"? To me this includes rational discrimination, risk taking, and self care. 

It's called poor "executive function". Those functional aspects of personality and behaviour, being executed by the intention and intellect. Otherwise known as making decisions and carrying out intentional actions. There are simple decisions, with minor consequences, like which food gets chosen at a restaurant, and also much more important decisions related to immediate personal health and safety: 

Decisions like when to cross the road (Or walk down the middle of it! As I once did when acutely psychotic in 2015). There are other decisions like helping strangers, which I'm drawn to do by my ethics, but which can rapidly drain the bank and hurt me. I don't mention it in the video, but it's also easier to be manipulated by abusive individuals when psychotic. It's hard to make safe decisions.

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I have schizophrenia every day. Even though I was diagnosed in early 2000s, I experience and manage symptoms daily.

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Mental health issues affect millions of people. We are each unique, while we also share behaviour and perceptions that medical and psychiatric science usefully categorizes. Schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, and bipolar disorder are some of those categories.

Seemingly countless symptoms, or really, are they countless? I will now start recording and publishing one hundred days of brief videos touching on a specific symptom in my own lived experience.

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