What are the Symptoms of Schizophrenia?
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2024
- There are three main categories of symptoms of schizophrenia. They include positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive symptoms. In this video, we go over what these groups of symptoms entail.
Time Stamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:37 - Positive symptoms
04:35 - Negative symptoms
09:38 - Cognitive symptoms
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currently in hospital for schizophrenia. your channel makes me feel less alone. sending love Lauren
Bit random but ... Take care, I hope you'll be okay. :)
Feel better Chloe! 💗
I remember my first time having a episode and ending up in the psych ward... hopefully your first time or this time is going well for you :)
Hope you feel better soon :) x
Get better soon!
I’m gonna be starting a new over night shift in a casino. I’ve been diagnosed with schizophrenia for 3-4 years now . I stopped working because I’d get mad or upset cause I’d feel people were watching or talking about me . I really need the money so I’m standing up for myself and trying again .
Why tout dont seek disabilities ?
You can definently work,start again and what ever you want to do,you can...
Good luck with the new job! Be proud of yourself for trying again.
This is why we need a living wage in society and also why Mental Health funding needs to focus of re-education and employment. It is absolutely necessary that people with Schizoaffective Disorder are able to work in a supportive environment.
@@jacquelineleitch7050 and be able to get health insurance.
Slow thinking in conversation: When you think of something to add to the conversation, but it's already moved on to a different topic.
This also happens with people speaking a second language....so don't feel badly about it!!
I know no ones life is “perfect”, but I’ve been watching your channel since the very first video and the happiness that has seemed to slowly wash over you as your family has grown is really beautiful. You’re a totally different woman and I’m really happy for you!!
She is so smart and a strong woman for sure!
My son was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at 15. Five years later and he is struggling hard at the moment. Thank you for your channel and the Hope you bring to me. So much love sent your way. ❤
Has he tried abilify? They have a shot now to just once a month
@@kristymarie6065 that's exactly what he is takes. Once a month shot. It's taken a lot of different ones before this one was tried. It has been a lifesaver. It's the use of (heavy use of marijuana) and meth that has thrown him off this time. It takes months for his poor brain to recoup. He's currently psychotic after being out of the hospital since Monday.
Oh, my goodness! A lot of these symptoms are EXTREMELY similar for people with ADHD! I had no idea the overlap was so great.
Positive ones too?
@@sher618 You know, I'm sorry to say I can't find any positives. My experience with ADHD has been really bad.
@@erinrobinson6436 i meant, hallycinations and paranoia, are they similar to ADHD?
@@sher618 Ah, positive symptoms, I see what you mean. No, I don't have those, only the deficits or negatives.
Also when my form of schizophrenia took hold at university, certain cognitive exercises which I found easy to do in high school, became opaque to me. In math and physics for example, in high school I knew math and physics vectors backward and forward. But at university, the concept of vectors became impossible for me to grasp or recall. The weird aspect of this was that I had memories of knowing how to manipulate vectors, but not the memories or recall to actually do vector math. I remember breaking down in tears and frustration, pounding my head almost yelling "What is going on?! I used to know this! Why can't I do it now?"
This was over 30 years ago -- mental health awareness wasn't as prominent as it is today, and even less so for schizophrenia. At the time, I didn't know what was happening. It sort of felt like that short story "Flowers for Algernon" where the researcher knows he's losing cognitive ability. The difference being I didn't know why it was happening to me. But now I know.
I am also diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and I have a lot of problem in doing anything remotely related to studies . I suffer a lot due to my voices and my tendencies of inattention . Is there any way you could suggest by your experience to try being fine with them
How do you compensate for this now?
You are brave & beautiful for explaining this. I didn't understand this being a little girl 25 years ago. I thought it was so foreign when my mom was diagnosed. Thanks for standing up!
Hope things get better for you
Seeing someone verbalize their symptoms is so beautiful for me. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia 3 years ago after a drug induced psychosis. Seeing your strength gives me the hope that one day I can overcome these symptoms and go back to being the best me that I know Im capable of. Thank you so much !
you were diagnosed with schizophrenia after getting some drug??
which drug?
Do you realize that you discuss your serious cognitive symptoms in a way that is more organized and articulate than most people, not suffering from any impairment, ever could?
Ditto!!!
I noticed that, too! I don't have schizophrenia, but I have had associations with those who do. Before I actually knew what it was, I used to think about how fascinating it was and how they connected things to meet together. My stepfather and a boyfriend I had were, I was in my teens then. A few years back, I was in a drug rehab that had clients with schizophrenia. I learned a lot by asking questions. Like the previous post, it says how articulate you are on talking about it!
Thank you for this opportunity to learn more!!!!❤❤❤❤
My brilliant, beautiful, errant, difficult friend of 50 years has had schizophrenia all of her life, but l chose to believe it was a dazzling eccentricity, not schizophrenia, until now. And now that l have the understanding to better help her, she has been missing for 7 years - and her 92 year old lawyer mother won't divulge anything, and has told me she doesn't care. What a colossal waste of a life, and l mourn her so much. I wish l had had your insights decades ago.
Well, it’s true! I had schizo-affective disorder when I was younger before I ever took medication, but from what I have heard and understood is that giving pharmaceuticals to children is inappropriate and can actually do harm. As I listened to all of the symptoms explained I kept nodding and remembering from my childhood experiences all of the associated difficulties that can and do arise when I was young, but with that being said as the years went on have to say the medicine has help, but what has also helped is understanding how to transform adverse conditions into a path that brings peace, clarity, compassion and even wisdom, and I feel a greater inclusiveness to everyone else. My Buddhist faith, and no disrespect to other faiths, but my faith and spiritual friends have helped me navigate this crazy freaking world that can be so brutal that it’s hard to function from day to day. When I had my breakdown and the inception of the administration of medicine it was still very hard, but I couldn’t kill myself, I couldn’t end it. I was still young and couldn’t bear leaving it all behind, because that would be selfish! Thank you for this video and may all of the suffering know it can and does get better!
i am definitely struggling with cognitive symptoms at the moment starting a new job where i have to learn new things. it's so frustrating it makes me want to just break down and cry
Thank you for telling me what happened to my sister Saba
Oh god I've always been *horrible* at just not noticing I need to clean or take care of hygiene or self care. I found that scheduling things strictly, knowing I have to clean everything a certain day whether I think it is dirty or not helps me not piss off people I'm living with...
And keeping up with a conversation, not absorbing information people tell you... relate...
Would you consider showing us an un edited video ? I would be intrested to see how the flow goes.
Your channel is so real so helpful and si needed. I am not personally dealing with Schizophrenia but trying to support a homeless person who is . Thank youa million times for your honesty and sharing.
Very engaging and articulate, as always.
I'm sure your videos have done many people a lot of good.
When you're having trouble keeping up with a conversation, would you prefer that the people you're talking with check in with you, try to go at your pace, or just keep going?
I just want to say, not only are you well-educated and articulate in your delivery, but just an all - around amazing human. Thank you for what you're doing for the Mental Health Community 💚
I love what you are doing to educate us about mental illness and I admire your spirit and wish you well. Thank you.
I have a lot of the negative and cognitive symptoms, but I am not sure that I have schizophrenia. All my life I have struggled with depression, but it has never quite explained all my symptoms.
You break things down so well.
I thank you because I just keep hating on myself for feeling too stupid to function like others
Thank you 💯
Liked, comment for the algorithm. You content is fantastic, thank you.
Excellent video!
Thank you Lauren😙🙋🙏
I know this isn't the standard, but I find it more helpful to call them additive, subtractive and cognitive symptoms, rather than positive and negative
Love you, love you, love you! I have shared this out. Please keep doing these! You are helping so many with this and their loved ones!
Thank you for the reminders! Your channel is great and extremely helpful!
Thanks for sharing your history,
you are awsome!
you're such a phenomenal educator!!!!!
Very informative. Thank you 🙏
thank youuuu
Hi Lauren! Congrats on the new baby.
thank you so much for you work. you have helped me a lot.
You’re looking amazing Lauren. I hope that you and your little family are doing really well. Motherhood appears to be making you blossom. 🌸
youre a really blessing for me, THANKS
thank you for all the videos that you do. it gives us hope and better insight to how this illness affects people
Thank you for your candor and honesty. This video was very informative!
Lauren, you are so amazing and inspiring. Thank you for the work you do.
I can't wait to see the next video. They help me a lot to understand why I am the way I am. When it comes to negative symptoms I am experiencing social withdrawal, which I find really annoying. By following your story, I feel like there's hope to overcome these obstacles!
Congratulations also on your family, it is really nice to see that you found your personal luck :) 💕
I really enjoy watching your videos,learnt so much your very knowledgeable.
You’re such a good speaker. I wish I were half as well articulated as you!
This is one of your best videos so far. It explains so much about me. I experience several symptoms in all three categories pretty much on a daily basis. I posted a link to this video on my Facebook so that my friends and family can hopefully understand me a little better. Thank you so much for this, Lauren. Have a great day!
You've summed it up
What I like most about your videos are how relatable you make them. It’s so easy to see video’s of the extremes of these symptoms like the ones of people with word salad or who are catatonic, or who have no affect whatsoever, or who are so far gone and lost that full blown psychosis seems to be their permanent state of life. And though this is sometimes a reality, seeing your story makes the connection easier between the extremes and what the threshold is for less extreme circumstances.
I hope you and your family are doing great ❤
Fabulous info. ThinkingPsych
You have grown alot in the last year. I watched one of your videos from a year ago and I see you are much more grounded now. Not sure if I worded it correctly.
Thank you for posting. I totally identified with everything you said. I listen to you and I don't feel so alone 😊😊😊
I love to hear your saying. Thanks. My 😊
The color palette of this video is soothing....
You are so amazing and brave. I admire your courage to face your illness, and your passion to help others, and spread awareness. You are wonderful.
Your videos are so well done even if there’s a lot of editing :)
Thank you for this video.
It all sounds so familiar , to me.
I feel terrible. It seems that life circumstances just make it worse for me.
Sometimes.
G-d bless you. I like the way you presented yourself!
It seems like a certain set of these symptoms are going to be really problematic for the sufferer, while another would also have quite an impact on people around you. That’s why I think videos like this are so useful, maybe there is not a lot a loved one can always do, but at least some understanding can make it easier for everybody to get along.
Sending this to my mum so she can understand a little better. Thank you.
Well done for being so brave to talk so candidly about yourself. I have seen how people struggle with schizophrenia first hand and you have given a clear insight into their, and your thought processes. I stand in admiration of you
idk how you do it so well on camera but i give you props i cant hold my self together as well as you do on camera on my youtube channel
Great video! You did not mention any catatonic, sensory or social symptoms, I’d love to see those also be talked about.
Thanks for making this! It gives me more patience with my husband. Please do more videos on how to handle it being the spouse.
It's brave to explain everything here and you've done a good job! I think people in general talk too much and it becomes too much information to process anyway. Places like Japan where people keep to themselves might be a good way to have a quiet time for yourself 😊
Your speech is very effective. I like it. It’s like a jolt of lightning. It catches my attention. Thanks a lot for all the information.
Lauren I'm listening to your videos and I think they are very helpful. although you've covered the subject extensively which I'm thankful to you for again, is it possible to cover a more therapy oriented solutions ?
i like your hair veru much, it suits you so well 💖
Love u Lauren.
Great!!!
Thank you for making this very clear, on what schizophrenia is, and the symptoms.
Some of the ethnic movies I watch with my husband is very inaccurate depiction of this illness. (India, multiple languages and cultures within the country.)
Even getting it from Europe, they get so much wrong about mental health.
Thanks dear for sharing . God bless you . Being a clinical psychologist , I wish to work & support for schizophrenia more ... Stay safe & take care
Hi Lauren,am happy you looking good,my comment will go with negative symptom,since I started doing exercise like push up while holding my breath I concentrate the whole day,I think we people with schizophrenia need to start campaigning and make the world understand that with our treatment we are better people
Over the course of my illness I've struggled with executive dysfunction and I tend to be really harsh on myself for it and call myself lazy, but the validation that it's a legitimate thing helps. Like something can drop on the floor and a neurotypical person will just pick it up, but that thought doesn't really connect in my head.
Thank you for sharing some of your own personal experiences and challenges with your mental illness. You are helping others. My question and i hope it does not offend you is does schizoaffective disorder bi polar type make close physical intimacy a challenge sometimes or not at all?
So are doing a great job explaining and illustrating what the current medical science consensus designates as Schizophrenia. It will surely help a lot of people.
Thanks a lot for your courage and excellent work! 😍
Since my young adulthood, for my part, in addition to psychiatry and psychology, the great psychology of spirituality masters like Eckhart Tolle, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and to a lesser extent (but significantly nevertheless) Angelica Crystal Powers (pseudonym), among a few others, have helped me a lot by their insights and wisdom.
All the best to you! 💙
I do suffer from Paranoid Personality Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. On one hand, I do like the fact that Trinitas has one of the best (available to everyone) mental health care programs. On the other hand, I hate the fact that they rejected me from their DBT (Dialectic Behavioral Therapy program). I did CBT a couple years ago, and I will try to sign up again once it becomes an in-person program, again.
What’s the different between paranoid personality disorder and schizophrenia?
Negative or cognitive symptoms sometimes simply are side effects of sedating medication on antipsychotics. I know this for sure, because formerly I sometimes stopped medication at once, and then these symptoms disappeared within next day. Probably there also are persons in which these really are symptoms of disease itselfes, but additionally it often can arise from medication.
I've never taken antipsychotics before but I definitely struggle with these symptoms, especially the cognitive ones. It's extremely frustrating because I know I'm not stupid but sometimes I feel so deng slow and it's hard to explain this to people. I've had supervisors accuse me of playing dumb to avoid participating because he said I did really well with whatever we were doing and asked what I did and what my thought process was and I couldn't remember any of the 2 minute exercise we just did, kept egging me about it and making jokes like "well did u just black out or what" kinda e.e The keeping up with conversations bit is another hard one to explain to people too. Sometimes it's like my brain just shuts down my ex would yell at me for it and say things like "what u mean I can't talk? Is that what you're saying you don't know how to talk?" Which made the issue significantly worse. That's why sitting in isolation sounds so appealing so often because everything's just too much sometimes
This matches me so much and yet I was diagnosed only once with schizoafektive disorder and then changed to depression plus bipolar and now my new doctor is in complete denial of even rethinking the old diagnosis.
Have you ever done a video on the elderly person who has Schizophrenia? and or How about what is life like when you are stable and getting healthy ,
Also even people who are "healthy " we have moods and bad days aren't we all similar in some respect. again Thank you for all your education .
jesus i have this problem to i cant clean sometimes and it will literally make me cry because i just want to clean
Great great lady you are 👍
Great video? I’ve been following your channel for such along time your videos are always fresh & informative? I also suffer with your condition? I’ve not seen a doctor or admitted to hospital for 22 years now i take my pills everyday and i’m also a RUclipsr my channels about living off grid in a wooden cabin with my dogs in a remote area of Scotland uk. If you have the time would post more videos of your now expanded family you have an amazing channel? Take care ian….
You've taught me so much watching your videos! Do people with schizophrenia always have these three symptoms?
Don't have schizophrenia but still interesting to follow your experience.
Thank you for sharing this video. I do not have schizophrenia but I do have generalized anxiety disorder and depression and I can relate to so many of the cognitive symptoms you outlined, especially disorganized thinking and slow thinking. I have always felt different in social settings or when trying to articulate my thoughts. I have also always felt different in the way that I learn or articulate/show what I have learned.
🐉Was diagnosed with Schizoaffective Bipolar type until a later DID diagnosis. Then was changed to Schizoaffective Depressed type, turned out no bipolar, just Alters with different baselines so that that it seemed like bipolar when it wasn't.
there should be a heart react button for this video
Thanks again for sharing all of this, Lauren
You just described my entire (ADHD) life! I can never finish a thought or sentence before my brain has raced off ahead of me and left the words in the dust.
Me too. Relatable
My 2nd husband was bipolar and schizophrenic. He would sometimes go off his meds and end up in the hospital. When we were married, he did that and overdosed.
This is so brave
I only experience the negative symptoms on my medication. I have some lack of motivation. A little flat on emotion. But I feel better on Welbutrin. My articulation in communication I think is ok but could use some work.
I've been in the hospital with severe depression & a lot of these symptoms apply, except hearing voices or seeing things like holograms.
sometimes those with severe depression can have psychotic symptoms as well
@@duckthetunafish1000 nah rather some of these symptoms aren't exclusive to schizophrenia. A ton of schizophrenia symptoms can be seen in neurotypical people, or those with other disorders.
I can relate
i went from depression diagnosis as a teen to bipolar 1 to schtizoeffective from brain damage as a result of ms. i do at times just feel dumb with cognitive...
It's important to recognise that current and previous language, culture and religion can significantly influence content of positive symptoms. Religious delusions of people that change from one culture, especially highly religiously involved and move into another country often increase in symbolism. All positive symptoms are influenced by the knowledge and conscious and unconscious memory one has - for this reason too being kind to yourself, working in therapy on your fears and traumas+ surrounding yourself with good experiences , sounds, views and positive people is so incredobly important.
Even consuming darkly themed media can negatively influence symptom's content. This is also one of the reasons why positive symptoms can be very debilitating for people with significant trauma, experiencing or having experienced homelessness and addiction.
If I make my speech plain I can talk easier. In my case, I could not face reality and indulged in my own world, until I realized facing reality was easier and my own thoughts brought me pain. I still lack discipline but it's not possible to make me work, my crazy mind is too weak. I think schizophrenia is a bad case of time distortion. Reading books that have a linear time line can teach you to think logically. The word REASON is the most important word I know.
its interesting, i have some problems that have arisen but its not common.
ur being to real girl stoppp shdkjfhj 😭😭😭 lately ive been having a lot of auditory hallucinations, and even one tactile hallucination, where i was in bed and felt my dogs nose rub against my thigh, but she was in my brothers room.
Can you make a video about how to deal with negative symptoms?