# Has schizophrenia changed your communication style? **URL:** \ **Category:** Diagnosed Sz or Sza\ **Created:** [October 1, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158 "2026-10-01T17:27:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BringMeCoffee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/bringmecoffee/32/16891_2.png) [@BringMeCoffee](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/BringMeCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/1 "2026-10-01T17:27:54Z")
It definitely changed mine. I still make friends, just not as many as I did before the illness. Some conversations are honestly boring to me, and I don’t always enjoy very close communication. Basically… sometimes I don’t even notice what has changed in me, but my circle of friends is definitely much smaller. ---
**Author:** ![ekoms](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/ekoms/32/186_2.png) [@ekoms](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/ekoms)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 5:42pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/2 "2026-10-01T17:42:51Z")
I am not very creative with my speech. When I talk to my mom she is the one leading the way for the conversation. We often talk about the same things day in day out. I have poverty of speech I think! 😅 ---
**Author:** ![Milk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/milk/32/12267_2.png) [@Milk](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Milk)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 5:54pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/3 "2026-10-01T17:54:29Z")
Actually,I like how schizophrenia changed my social life… I know it looks strange,but I’m not impulsive as I was … Also,I got quit with all friends,and some family.It came with some price,but I care more for my privacy and wellbeing .. Also pray when I can. It comes with years of internal pain,but at least no one "close to me"hurting me . ---
**Author:** ![POET](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/poet/32/485_2.png) [@POET](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/POET)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/4 "2026-10-01T19:29:01Z")
i think i have some ptsd from my episodes which makes me want to go out less, so overall im less social because of sz lol ---
**Author:** ![DarkStar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/darkstar/32/17376_2.png) [@DarkStar](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/DarkStar)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/5 "2026-10-01T19:43:43Z")
Same for me…I think the sz and bullying at work definitely changed me. Ptsd and rejection sensitivity … I was far more social before sz even tho I was still a little less social than normals. ---
**Author:** ![Mountain](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/mountain/32/1728_2.png) [@Mountain](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Mountain)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/6 "2026-10-01T19:51:25Z")
Yeah i think it has changed me but at the same time I feel like it might be the impact ot trauma from psychosis that has caused me to be in my own head most often of times. ---
**Author:** ![Lilyofthevalley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/lilyofthevalley/32/52_2.png) [@Lilyofthevalley](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Lilyofthevalley)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/7 "2026-10-01T19:55:16Z")
I can think much easier than I can speak. When I go to say what I’m thinking I get all tongue tied and forget what my thoughts were. But I think it’s from my antipsychotics I’m on. I need them and will always take them but they make communicating verbally more difficult ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Hope](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/mr_hope/32/7092_2.png) [@Mr\_Hope](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Mr_Hope)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/8 "2026-10-01T22:44:01Z")
Before sz I was like: “how are you sir..nice weather we have today, wouldn’t you say?” ☀ Now I’m like: “what up homes? You better chill bro!..winter coming, ya know.” ⛄ ---
**Author:** ![WONDERER](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/wonderer/32/69_2.png) [@WONDERER](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/WONDERER)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/9 "2026-10-01T22:52:24Z")
I am very self conscious. So, I second guess everything I wanna say. But I may have always been like that. ---
**Author:** ![MIDO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@MIDO](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/MIDO)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/10 "2026-10-02T04:45:02Z")
i suffer from social withdrawl and alogia ---
**Author:** ![kali](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/kali/32/12634_2.png) [@kali](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/kali)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 7:14am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/11 "2026-10-02T07:14:49Z")
Pretty substantial negatives so I talk and even communicate pretty minimally if compared to the mythical normies. ---
**Author:** ![Joker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/joker/32/13470_2.png) [@Joker](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Joker)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 7:40am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/has-schizophrenia-changed-your-communication-style/9158/12 "2026-10-02T07:40:37Z")
My friendship groups were always small Not had one for over a decade now I am content with it now Honestly I’d struggle to share my life with a group again