#blunted affect

[schizopositivity]

could you share any more under-talked about symptoms of schizophrenia, like executive dysfunction?

I've actually been meaning to make a post like this but keep forgetting (lol that's a symptom). As a disclaimer, not everyone with schizophrenia has every one of these symptoms, and people can have a lot of these symptoms and not have schizophrenia (if they don't have the psychotic symptoms). Not all of these symptoms are seen as diagnostic criteria, some have just been observed to be very common in people with schizophrenia. (I'm excluding hallucinations and delusions because they are more well known)

• Paranoia: a pattern of behavior where a person feels distrustful and suspicious of other people and acts accordingly. This can go hand in hand with hallucinations and delusions.

• Disorganized thoughts: this can mean a lot of things. It can be not having a linear train of thought, having incoherent thoughts, thought blocking, general disorganized thoughts. (It can be hard to define because it is often hard to describe for the person experiencing it).

• Disorganized speech: this is often a result of the disorganized thoughts. This can include loose associations like rapidly shifting between topics with no connections between the topics. Perseveration, which is repeating the same things over and over again. Made up words that only have meaning to the speaker. Use of rhyming words without meaning. Word salad, which is when cognitive disorganization is severe, it can be nearly impossible to understand what the person is saying, but the person speaking doesn't know they aren't making sense.

• Trouble concentrating: lack of concentration, switching from topic to topic, not being able to focus on one thing. (This is pretty self explanatory).

• Movement disorders: catatonia can be repetitive non goal directed movements. It can also be complete or partial immobility, mutism, vacant staring, and rigidity. Although not a symptom, tardive dyskinesia can occur in schizophrenia as a result of antipsychotics medication.

• Anhedonia: a loss of pleasure in activities that the person once enjoyed. Or the inability to feel pleasure at all.

• Atypical or non-existent emotional expression: Flat or blunted affect is an inability to show emotions characterized by a lack of facial expression, a monotone voice, and no hand gestures. On the other hand people can also have inappropriate affect, where the emotional expression doesn't align with typical reactions or even the person's own feelings.

• Alogia: when someone speaks less, says fewer words or only speaks in response to others. This can be a result of disorganized thoughts.

• Social withdrawal: avoiding people and activities that someone once enjoyed. Not actively being present during social situations. Can progress to total isolation.

• Avolition: a severe lack of initiative to accomplish purposeful tasks. This is a big reason some people with schizophrenia can't work/go to school, can't do chores, and can't keep up with their basic hygiene. Even if the person wants to do these tasks, it may be extremely difficult or impossible for them to get themselves to start or complete the task due to the lack of motivation.

• Executive dysfunction: a behavioral symptom that disrupts a person's ability to manage their own thoughts, emotions and actions. This can include focussing too much on one thing, being easily distracted, spacing out, struggling to switch between tasks, problems with impulse control and trouble starting difficult or boring tasks. Several schizophrenia symptoms fit into the umbrella of executive dysfunction, so when researching you will either see the specific ones listed out, or just simply described as executive dysfunction.

• Alexithymia: significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, and describing one's own emotions.

• Poor memory: this can include working memory deficits like trouble planning, organizing, and carrying out daily chores such as running errands, because it requires mentally formulating a “to do” list organized by time and location. Many people with schizophrenia also report trouble with their episodic memory, which means they have trouble recollecting things in the context of their place and time. (A lot of sources say "trouble with memory" is a symptom but they don't specify).

• Trouble with decision making: people with schizophrenia have been shown to have trouble with decision making due to a decline in the understanding and reasoning aspects of it.

• Sensory processing deficits: this has been widely reported in schizophrenia, and include impairments in visual processing, auditory processing, olfactory and sensorimotor systems. This can lead to having strong positive or negative reactions to sensory information.

• Sleep troubles: though disturbed sleep isn't included in the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia, it is still a significant problem that up to 80% of people with the condition experience. People with schizophrenia may have various sleep problems, including insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, and trouble with consistent sleep routines.

• Anosognosia: also called "lack of insight," is a symptom that impairs a person's ability to understand and perceive their illness. This is a big reason people with schizophrenia may refuse to get, or stay with treatment.

#answered #mental illness #nd #schizophrenia #neurodivergent #schizophrenic #psychosis #actuallyschizophrenic #mental health awareness #pseriouslypsychotic #executive dysfunction #paranoia #word salad #avolition #disorganized thoughts #catatonia #concentration issues #anhedonia #flat affect #blunted affect #inappropriate affect #alogia #social withdrawal #isolation #alexithymia #memory issues #sensory issues #insomnia #excessive daytime sleepiness #anosognosia

[thesufferbug]

Hi, if you experience flat or blunted affects for that matter. Please know that your F/Os still love you for you, they understand it's not as easy for you to show or communicate your emotions but know that they still love and care for you dearly and they know that you do too for them.

*blunted affect is essentially a lesser or partial form of flat affect.

#flat affect #self ship #selfship #self shipping #selfshipper #selfshipping #f/o positivity #f/o imagine #f/o #fo imagines #romantic fictional other #familial fictional other #familial selfship #blunted affect #bland affect #self indulgent

[defectivegembrain]

shoutout to anyone whose face/voice/body doesn't necessarily match their feelings in a way others can understand

others not seeing your feelings doesn't make them any less real

it doesn't make you any less human, doesn't make you scary or robotic or put you in the "uncanny valley"

if you can force your outside to match your inner feelings sometimes that doesn't mean you're faking them, and it doesn't make the times you can't do it any less real

if you can't do it at all or you choose not to, that doesn't say anything bad about you either

#actuallyautistic #flat affect #blunted affect #positivity post #im tagging this actuallyautistic because that's my experience with it #but i know it applies to others like schizophrenic people for example #if you relate it's for you

[just-a-queer-fanboy]

"How to fix blunted affect" "is flat affect fixable?" "How to cure autism blunted affect" I! JUST! WANT! TO BE! UNDERSTOOD!!!!!!!!! I DONT WANT TO BE FIXED!!!!! I WANT TO BE RESPECTED WHETHER I HAVE A MONOTONE OR NOT!!!!!!!!!!! I AM A PERSON! I DONT WANT TO SOUND LIKE AN INFOMERCIAL! I DONT WANT TO SOUND LIKE A 1950S SITCOM ACTOR! CAN I JUST BE ALLOWED TO HAVE A MONOTONE AND NOBODY FLIP THEIR SHIT OVER IT!!!!

God! I've explained to my family so many times that I only really show emotion when it's in extremes and I have the energy to. I don't WANT to have a constant customer service voice. I don't WANT to have to put on a fucking TV persona to be respected.

They all claim they want me to feel safe to unmask around them, but the second I do apparently I'm being rude and need to learn etiquette and all this bullshit. I have a monotone most of the time. Get the fuck over it.

#caps lock cw #blunted affect #flat affect #monotone #actually autistic #actually depressed

[envieluvvicixe]

relevation with blunted effect of yesterday; i seem really really uncanny when i cry because my face has a hard time morphing into the emotions anymore ??? i ran into the bathroom to distract myself and to calm down after i made a relevation of being a bad friend again bc i have social issues and caught a glimps of myself in the mirror.

snksank–

#blunted affect #neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #flat affect #social issues #socially inept #. rose thorn directory #. brain directory

[confretti]

The clouds would be contained

The weather would stay the same

Predictably being what was needed

No matter how much I begged and pleaded

The storms would pass

Without a scratch

No soul would ever feel it

Then one day it rained

On a scheduled sunny day

Full force was on display

Irresponsible rage

My unfettered decay

Only to be swept away

#original poem #poem #poetry #confretti #blunt affect #blunted affect

[kerem-elmas]

Blunted affect-Beynin Kendini Duygulara Kapatma Durumu

Blunted affect-Beynin Kendini Duygulara Kapatma Durumu

Blunted affect diye psikolojik rahatsızlık var. İnsanlar olarak yaşam boyu pek çok duyguyla baş etmeye çalışıyoruz. Zaman zaman yorulup “Keşke hiçbir şey hissetmeseydim.” dediğimiz olmuştur. Gerçekten de duyguları hissetmeden yaşayan kişiler var. Ancak bu durum bir seçim değil, bir rahatsızlık. Bir tür beyin anomalisi. Çoğunlukla yaşanılan büyük duygusal travmalar bu durumu tetikliyor.…

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#aşk #beyin #blunted affect #cennet #duygu #kapatma #kin #nefret #psikolojik #Sevgi

[aropride]

autism and/or schizospec and/or aspd and/or other reduced affect havers gang rise UP!!! we should all hold hands and frolic in a field together like this -> 🌻🌱😐🤝😐🤝😐🌷🌾

#text #reduced/constricted/blunt/flat affect ganggg yay!! #it can be caused by other stuff but thosr r the big three iirc #maybe also ptsd? not sure abt that tho

[sage-nebula]

I think this should put the theory that she's secretly evil to rest. She may have a blunt and direct approach to things, and may have difficulties emoting—

—doesn't mean she's evil. In fact, I'd go so far as to venture that she's autistic.

#sth #idw sonic #lanolin the sheep #like sure her wooden affect could be bc of the trauma #but when combined with her blunt speech and frustrations with treating symptoms instead of the root cause #i prefer to think of her as autistic as well as traumatized #love this autistic sheep 💜

[bunabi]

While I could be wrong, I read the staff announcement as meaning, tu/mblr will ("try to") stop third party AI scraping, except their partners: who are permitted to do so from blogs that don't opt out. If that helps.

That's why I'm waiting to see if they put out more information but honestly no it doesn't help :(

This isn't protection, this isn't prevention, this is the equivalent of putting a DNI banner on a post

This relies on trust, honor, and good faith to work; its doomed to fail from jump just like every other site that's implemented the same thing

This feels — to me — like a rushjob for plausible deniability

If they really cared so much about users they would divest from this nonsense because throwing folks to the wolves with a toy knife <<<<< keeping them out of the World Famous Human-Eating Wolf Enclosure to start with

#not mad at you just mad at the situation 😭 sorry im so heatedddd but its sooo grating #between this and the layoffs creative fields have become so precarious its a joke #a project im so so thrilled to be part of has been affected by all this and it sucks #replies #sorry to wolves for the slander youre great ilu #honestly not even a blunt knife lemme change that

[toonagi]

another sketch page because i like making them lol. unagi time

#i wanted to draw unagi making facial expressions that aren't just. garfield face #he emotes a lot i just tend to default to either drawing him a) tired or b) as a smug bastard #since he's my fursona um. you might be able to tell which of my traits i accidentally projected onto him #(infodumping infodumping infodumping) #man drawing him like this really makes me realize. this fuckin loser baby is a lot like me irl huh. like more than i thought #(<- crybaby impulsive infodumper with blunt affect) #interstellar is a really good movie by the way. if you're. for some reason looking for movie recommendations in furry art tags #oh i should probably mention. the gun in the doodle on the right is a splattershot jr lol #god i am. so normal about things. and also him #furry #furry art #furry oc #digital art #anthro #anthro art #artists on tumblr #fursona #toonagi art #art #sketch #sketch page #doodles

[schizopositivity]

Why it's hard for schizophrenic people to get treatment and diagnosis for physical health problems:

• Having "schizophrenic" in our charts makes a lot of medical professionals automatically not believe us. Especially if it is a problem that they can't instantly see themselves. They may think we are either delusional or having some kind of tactile hallucinations. They could see it more as a "psychiatric problem" rather than the physical medical problem that it is.

• If you have flat or blunted affect, they may not believe you, especially if you are describing pain. They have the expectations that you would be screaming, crying, grimacing, etc. When you are straight faced and monotone and say "I am in extreme pain right now" they will likely not believe you. And this paired with medical professionals views of chronic pain just makes them not believe you even more.

• Alexithymia makes describing your symptoms very hard, and even harder to describe how the symptoms affect you. The medical professional goes off of what you tell them, if you are vague or don't have the words, they will not understand you or not believe what you are describing. Either way that will hinder your road to treatment and diagnosis.

• Having memory problems, or trouble keeping track of things can also hinder your care. If you can't remember, or even remember to write down how often a symptom occurs, how long it lasts, how it felt in the moment, and how it impacted your life at the time, they may once again not believe you. Diagnosis often requires some sort of timeline or prevalence of symptoms, and not keeping track of that could keep you from diagnosis.

• They may avoid prescribing pain killers (even if you need it) because the fact that schizophrenic people are more likely to abuse drugs than the general population. And while that fact is true, it doesn't mean that someone in extreme pain does not deserve the right to pain killers just as much as anyone else who needs them.

• Being part of a disenfranchised group while also being schizophrenic can have compounding affects on your physical health treatment. Being low-income, being a person of color, being assigned female at birth, being transgender, being intersex, any other disenfranchised group or any combination of these will impact how you are treated by the healthcare system.

• Fear of medical professionals, or fear of Dr.s offices can impact the quality of your visit. You may feel too frightened to tell them how you really feel, you may just completely avoid going into the building at all. This can happen to anyone but is especially common for schizophrenic people due to our paranoia, inability to advocate for ourselves, lack of self esteem, historical medical abuse or personal experiences with medical abuse. Plus we can have doubts about the quality of our care because of any of the other reasons listed above.

And all this occurs while we as schizophrenic people, are at higher risks of several physical health problems (you can read about it here):

#i will make a part 2 on how i personally deal with these issues #this itself is just to raise awareness #schizophrenia #tw medical abuse #schizophrenia stigma #sanism #flat affect #blunted affect #memory problems #memory issues #alexithymia #medical abuse #medical neglect #tw healthcare #tw drs #tw painkillers #tw medication #tw drug abuse

[roarinsaurus]

i get people are recognizing the nuance of the shuro/laios confrontation but some people are like "just some mismatched communications styles <3 no one is evil" (and i mean no one is EVIL) and it's true, that IS what happened. but holy shit he told him "i've secretly HATED you and EVERY little thing you do makes it unbearable to be around you" TO HIS FACE is still fucking SHIT. i know he's from a different social world but if you can acknowledge that nuance, you can acknowledge that that's an explanation and not an excuse to wave off how damaging that is

#jay chatter #idk i think i have to remember this is. fictional guys and not one-to-one to similar situations ive been in #like. its harder to separate 'cultural differences' and 'if feel entitled to you reading my mind' in real life than in fiction #whatever kui is doing is more intricate and nuanced than whatever irl bullying ive been through #laios ABSOLUTELY crossed some lines and toshiro has grown up with very subtle social communication + i'm sure being a minority in the regio #affects not speaking out against shitty questions and comments #but the “and you talk too much and you're blunt and” piiiisses me off also he didn't KNOW

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

Tom’s oblivious irony in trying to groom Greg into independence while actually being horribly codependent with him lol

#when you try to keep your power dynamic but utterly fail because you crave affection lol #he wants to feel needed #shiv made him feel lesser and she refused most affection #greg isn’t as emotionally blunted as the roy sibs and at bare minimum accepts hugs #tom wants to be needed so bad #it’s not even a student/teacher or leader/follower thing now they’re just so dependent on each other it’s embarrassing #succ #tom wambsgans #greg hirsch #succession #tomgreg

[matt-murdick]

Finn & Sage (TVD) + textposts

8 / ?

#sage absolutely owns a strap #the mikaelsons siblings asking why Finn is so judgemental #and they mention his disapproval of their disregarding of human lives with the face he pulls if Elijah’s enjoying some blue cheese #as if that’s on the same level #I mean yeah he’s a judgemental bitch but he holds himself and everyone else to the same standards #he’s sometimes blinded by trust/affection but he does condemn Esther like he condemned himself when she gives in to vampirism #also they locked him in his personal hell and abandoned him bc they thought he was a party pooper #(so he’s allowed to lose his mind. as a treat.) #which I always took as his moral standards and damning opinions of vampirism made being a vampire even more difficult #I mean I love the guy but if he had been able to chill out once he might’ve been easier to deal with #give that man a blunt #let him clean ur dirty laundry in a haze rather than dragging it about every morning #tumblr text post #sage tvd #finn mikaelson #tvd #tvdu #the vampire diaries #incorrect quotes #tvd incorrect quotes #to incorrect quotes #sinn memes

[eclown4hire]

arakoga 4 the soul

#enstars #ensemble stars #arakoga #arashi narukami #koga oogami #my art #I THINK THEY ARE CUTE #guys . guys see the vision with me please. #overly affectionate gf with her punk rock bf who has a sweet side (and is also a bit of a tsundere) #i think koga would be like “yeah you're the most beautiful girl ive ever seen” in that blunt #Koga Way #please see my vision #arashi peppering him with kisses and he squirms and whines but he doesnt pull away (because he likes the affection and his gf) #i have to fuckcgkign. #feed myself AROUND HERE!