Dealing With Schizophrenia – Five Tips How Not To Feel Extinguished With A Post Psychotic Depression

There is a phenomenon that occurs immediately after a psychosis disorder, you feel like being extinguished. You don’t feel any emotion; you act as a robot or a zombie, and suffer from luck of any normal motivation to do stuff. This phenomenon is what experts call – a Post Psychotic Depression. Here are five tips how to overcome this kind of depression as fast as possible:

1) Having a steady commitment
In order to not remain in bed at the mornings as usually happens when you suffer from any kind of depression, you need to have a steady commitment that will force you to get up in the morning and begin your agenda. It can be any kind of obligation such as – a volunteering obligation, a job, a class or else.

2)  Sleep only at nights
As a part of your day routine, you should go to bed only in normal times. Those times are usually during the evening. It causes you to go to sleep only when you are tired, at the end of the day, and therefore not to suffer from insomnia.

3) Do exercise
Beside of all the good things that exercise is doing to our body, it also takes care to make us tired at the end of the day, and therefore our sleep is deeper and better than it was without it, what causes you to wake up in the morning easily and full of essential.

4) Reducing your drugs down to a minimum
After sometime, you should consul with your psychiatrist doctor in order to reduce the amount of you psychiatric drugs down to a minimum. Don’t stop taking your drugs, but do act to reduce it until you and your doctor think that you have reached to a minimum amount that minimize your side affects from one side, and keep you balanced on the other hand.

5) Being busy
Do everything you can in order to keep yourself busy during your day. In this way times fly and you don’t feel like going to sleep as a reaction to your boredom. Being busy can also gives you the feeling of anticipation to the next day.

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