Cognitive Impairment in an Episode of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder

In 2013, my third and longest episode of psychosis began with suspicious thoughts and paranoid delusions.In 2017, we moved to Bangalore, a new location that helped reduce the level of delusions.However, I began to experience severe symptoms of cognitive impairment, which were truly debilitating to my functioning as a normal human being.Cognitive Impairment, in my view, was the single biggest contributing factor to my inability to do a job or function normally in day-to-day life.This symptom was the one, among others, in which one loses one's confidence to function normally because of an underlying intellectual impairment.The resultant personality is a tentative, hesitant, low energy, scared, and much slower one bearing no resemblance to the one before the illness took root.My symptoms: