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[dami79]

Hi. I take 100mg amisulpiride. I have a total lack of motivation. I am also obese. I can not bring myself to any changes in my lifestyle. I can not lose weight, quit smoking, start exercising, I've tried different things: sarcosine, ECA stack, wellbutrin, noopept, piracetam, choline, etc.. Amisupliride is for me the perfect cure for schizophrenia, but ... What else can I try to re-energize myself and regain motivation and consequences?

[TheBatman]

How bad do you wanna lose weight? Do you think if you lost weight it would help you be happier?

Nobody can really help you unless you tell us more about your lifestyle and what changes you want to see. I mean you are just talking about symptoms here and if the goal is losing weight, simply taking supplements or drugs aren't gonna help you very much.

What does your diet look like?

And i'm not gonna color coat it, the only way to make significant changes to your body is to exercise and diet rigorously. What helps me is instead of saying I "can't" do something I try to replace it with "how can I?" like seriously say it out loud - I bet you can come up with a few different ways off the top of your head.

Trust me you CAN accomplish all of those and it might require you to go through hell and back, but you CAN its just a matter of how you plan on doing it! It's gonna require a change of attitude though.

[Turnbuckle]

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[jadamgo]

The core of this problem is the motivational deficit related to schizophrenia. The evidence strongly supports using CBT-P to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia that aren't adequately treated by antipsychotics. This especially applies to the negative symptoms, like motivational deficit. So I really suggest looking for someone who provides CBT-P.

On the pharmaceutical side, you might look into the CILTEP stack, oxiracetam, pramiracetam, modafinil... If nothing else works, there's always tranylcypromine, but you'd need to carefully document the psychotic symptoms to make sure it didn't aggravate them.

[dami79]

Any book or online resourses about CBT-P?

[jadamgo]

http://www.psychosis...a/downloads.cfm
http://recoveryfroms...hosis-handouts/