Can anyone suggest how I can improve myself?

Can anyone suggest techniques to improve my cognitive ability?

• I am 45 Male.I have undifferentiated schizophrenia. I am under med. I have a poor cognitive ability. Can anyone suggest techniques to improve my cognitive ability?

• Answer:

  You can tell your doctor that you are concerned about this, and would like to try lowering the dose of your medication. The problem is that if you go off these medications, you can get psychosis worse than ever, due to drug withdrawal (a lot of the time it is not the schizophrenia symptoms coming back, but drug withdrawal that is causing psychosis). So you are kind of between a rock and a hard place, but if you can slooooowly, very slowwwwly lower your dosage, with your doctor's advice, you will probably find out you are thinking sharper. If your doctor won't cooperate, get a family member or social worker to help you. exercise is important for thinking well, and most people who are good thinkers read a lot. but I think your brain is messed up from the schizophrenia and the pills both. Again, you have to make sure you have your family and doctor on board if you are going to screw with your meds - if you just go off them, you'll get psychosis and maybe get an involuntary commitment which would suck. all the best to you.