Psychotic system culture is...
Having a week long cycle of negative/cognitive symptoms and being unable to speak for three days straight
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Psychotic system culture is...
Having a week long cycle of negative/cognitive symptoms and being unable to speak for three days straight
introduction!
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I wonder if one day people I meet irl will stop thinking I'm just "shy" and/or discreet. The only thing they get right is that I'm quiet and don't really talk to others.
I swear if someone read all my school reports (or whatever it's called in English) they will notice absolutely all my teachers I've ever had considered me "discreet" and that I should maybe open up more.
I think some also find me rude/cold but most of the time it's only when I'm being blunt, or when I glare at people trying to talk to me / at people that are speaking about me. My glares aren't always on purpose, sometimes others misinterpret my usual blank glances (probably because my eyebrows are somewhat thick so they think I'm frowning while I'm not?).
hey b0x!
what made your handler decide to try aac? i know they’ve told me before but i don’t quite remember how it got into it.
i hope something good happens to you today!
- @chrome-barkz-aac
Text Reads
I have alogia because schizophrenia
Learn AAC to help
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Explanation
Handler has been losing its ability to speak since a little over a year ago, when it was first developing schizophrenia. It has multiple problems with speech, including poverty of speech, disorganized speech, and disjointed speech. It can't remember how it was introduced to AAC, but it had independently been working on it for a year now, to its speech therapist's pleasant surprise.
living everyday life while masking the aplatonic afamilial low/no empathy flat affect alogia combo is lethal
Hi, please advise:
I'm an NPD/BPD/SZPD-haver (medicated and in treatment since 2011) who is best friends with someone who is suspected to have ASPD, NPD and HPD tendencies. Her symptoms are so severe that they damage her relationships. Following one or two sessions with a counselor who noted that she has these tendencies, she is not in treatment because she doesn't think anything is wrong. That, I can't change, so I am just trying to be a supportive friend while maintaining my own boundaries.
There is something specific that sticks out to me and that is her language abnormalities. Olivia issues a lot of contradicting statements, omits important details in conversations, and seems to have grown up using a dictionary that the rest of us did not have – but expects everyone to know exactly what she means when she speaks. More on that and other behaviors/thoughts below the cut.
I am wondering how to kindly point out when she isn't making sense and that I think she needs professional help. It is impossible to offend her, so I'm not worried about hurting her feelings, but I want to be constructive and clear.
Additional details:
Managed shower. Even washed hair. 5 minutes to spare. Go me.
Yesterday avolition so bad eating lunch took almost 3 hours. Dad made lunch for but just the eating part so hard. Force fork to mouth, chew food, swallow, repeat. Again. Again. So hard. 2+ hours to eat bowl spaghetti. Hate this.
Sometimes helpful another person there. A comes in few mintues. She brings dinner. While she is here will help make eating easier. So that's good. Good. Hate this.
hey what is the term for trouble word finding?? its some kind of subset of alogia? or aphasia? but i cant remember what the term is...