What Schizophrenia Feels Like (Illustrated by AI)
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- We asked a bunch of people living with schizophrenia to describe what schizophrenia feels like to them, and used these as prompts to create visual representations of these descriptions with AI (Midjourney). Thank you to everyone who shared their experiences with us!
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all of these depictions are normal for non schizo people too. you are watched every second of every day the difference between paraniod and not paraniod is they say "who cares, if they are watching". instead of being "ohh they are after me, just say fuck it. who cares, whoopty doo."
@soon Do you know?
Life, you never know the minute it ends suddenly, and you can`t get it back.
If only you could read the bible, then you would know perfectly, under who`s power you and I live in this fallen world.
If only you`d know, if only you´d bother to seek, the truth out, while still breathing on this earth.
Do you know what it feel like, to be forgiven all your sins you`ve ever done?
Do you know what it feel like, to feel the love of GOD in you life?
But soul, you don`t know it?. Do you?
You naively believing all these lies, which this world has to give.
(Bible + searching about freemasonry + my playlists).
Why does my schizophrenia make me think I am the moshiach and that I must build the third Jewish temple ? I go to the psychologist but he just gives me meds and still no luck I love Hashem but I want to leave earth
I am a perfectly healthy person, I can't decipher these images, but looking at them I have very strange emotions, these images purposely serve to trigger these emotions to bring us closer to what a schizophrenic feels?
I am so impressed by all your videos, Lauren. I must confess that words like "psychosis" and "schizophrenia" etc. in the past sent shivers through me as I thought they were part of an uncurable/untreatable illness of a mad person (this is most likely because I am a senior citizen, so out of the "old school," if you will). But you have educated me quite a lot--you express yourself so well and I feel I have a much more accurate (and compassionate) view of these mental disorders. Thank you.
this comment sends love through me :)
Living with schizophrenia is trippy, and takes your mind to dark places. But that's understood, and what people need to understand is we like who we are. We might not like everything we experience, but there's nothing wrong with us just because we experience reality differently. Now that I'm well, and not experiencing psychosis, I treasure how I'm different. And I wish that for anyone.
@NCR_666Please reach out to someone today
@NACHO CANCER ROSE It is hard. But things can change.
@NACHO CANCER ROSE this is how I feel
@NACHO CANCER ROSE I want to tell you that things will get better but as a person that has never suffered with this, I don't know and I don't want to lie because it won't help you. But I hope that you will be OK. I really do. I'm so sorry that you have to live with this pain.
@NACHO CANCER ROSE I felt like that once too. But please know that your future can be different from your past. I found helping others with mental illness very healing. I pray you find that thing for you that will pull you out of the darkness one small step at a time 💚
I've been living with schizophrenia for the last 25 years just want to let you know you put a smile on my face of optimism rather than one of cynicism you're a very brave young woman❤
Do you take any medication?
@@ZYNinaGazi risperidone 2 mg daily
@@Kevin-ef4cc Thank you .
My ex boyfriend has schizophrenia and even when we were just friends I always asked him what he felt , saw, heard and thought both in bad and good days . I wanted to understand better so I could help him . Luckily he was open about it and never seemed umconfortable answering me and explaning to me .
This videos and your experience are very important and interesting
For me having schizoaffective disorder feels like being always disconnected and living in a parallel universe. I'm always questioning what is real and what is my illness.
Are you actually diagnosed? bc that’s how I feel too
I feel exactly like that. I would love to connect
Sometimes I feel like I have one foot in everyday normal reality and one foot in an alternative world.
Wow. There is a lot of debate going on in the writing community about whether AI generated images should be accepted for things like book covers. I generally try to stay out of the debate. But I never thought that AI could be used to try and better describe what someone dealing with schizophrenia goes through. You’ve opened my eyes to a whole new way of thinking about this technology, and for this I am grateful.
A big thank you to all the professionals that have treated me. The meds really do work. Currently not experiencing symptoms as far as I am aware. This really does sound debilitating.
Can't imagine what would have happened if I existed in a time before the modern advances in Medicine made this treatment possible. They might have still tried to exorcize me, or use bloodletting to let the disease out.
Can I ask which ones have worked for you?
@@JAYCEE-xm5dd Sure. Mainly Risperidone, and Pacitane. Have been on those or a combination of those for about a decade. So the condition is chronic, but they have definitely helped manage the symptoms.
The whole idea of feeling watched is interesting to me. I wonder if some of it comes from just the fact that you know you are experiencing a different reality than most others are, which makes you (i should say those with schiozaffective disorder or schizophrenia) feel self-conscious in a way others don't. And then that experience of self-consciousness is projected out onto others, and manifests as the feeling of being watched. I have this illness in my close family members, and also worked for several years with others with these disorders, and found that--as you said--to be a very common experience. It's amazing how isolating it seems to be to just experience "reality" differently than most of the population, even though according to eastern philosophy, none of us experience reality accurately, and we are all--to one degree or another--delusional about reality. And if that's true, it's amazing how powerful the experience of living in the hump of the bell curve--or NOT--can be in determining quality of life. We humans are social creatures, and so comparing our experiences to the experiences of other humans is embedded in our nature, for better and worse :/ Thank you for these articulate insights into your experiences.
You are extremely articulate yourself Madeline! Thank you for making that comment! ❣💜💙
@@cattymajiv :) Happy to be on here.
Looking at these actually made me very emotional. My expartner struggled with these issues and I felt powerless to help because I simply did not understand their struggles. The picture of the woman enveloped in yarn is how I would see them often and all i wanted to do was help them but i couldn't in my ignorance 5:56. I wish i had seen your videos and joined these support groups when we were still together. My biggest regret is not reaching out for support. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences.
Sou daqui do brasil, gostei do seu canal e ainda bem que tem legenda pra acompanhar😊! Faz uma parte dois por favor!
I'm from Brazil, I liked your channel and I'm glad there are subtitles to accompany it😊! Please do a part two!
Once again, you have done an outstanding job of describing to "head outsiders" the best possible simulation of your lived experience. Thank you so much for your openness & vulnerability! 💗
Mushrooms containing psilocybin saved my life. They aided my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quit illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would’ve become medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive schizophrenia.
The Trips I've been having really helped me a lot. I’m now able to meditate and I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well
@Annabella Butler I was having this constant, unbearable anxiety due to work stress. Not until I came across dradolfpetter a very intelligent mycologist. He saved my life honestly
@@glenn9196 I feel the same way too. I put too much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety levels. I am also glad to be a part of this community.
@@dilara4130 Does he ship?
@@dilara4130 How do I get to reach him?
This was great. Thank you Lauren. The images depict how I feel when I have delusional thoughts. That I am in a different world, confused and alone.
I love your education and sharing your and others experiences of others with schizophrenia. Im spending time with someone who has ut and youve made me more understanding, compassionate and informed. Thank you. The visual imagery really helps me understand and is mind blowing.
My brother volunteers on a local farm. I think he feels so comfortable with animals b/c they don't care or know if he or anyone has a mental illness or not; it's freeing for him in that sense, I think. I think it's a place he feels safe.
Basically the mental illness construct ceases to exist. The only one reinforcing it is oneself.
And no animals are not conscious of a humans disorder even though they can acutely perceive based on created instinct.
Thanks!
This channel and videos like this are a very good resource - and specially the variety. I can imagine if I needed reassurance or help with psychosis that it is exactly the sort of resource that I would seek out. Get well soon and thank you.
My close family member has schizophrenia and it is hell for him and all of us. I appreciate this. Although it likely doesn’t depict the depths of suffering, it’s a beautiful way to try to portray the ideas to others without traumatizing anyone. If I were an artist and able to depict the suffering of my family member and those around him 24/7, it would not be pretty. It’s soul wrenching. Still very nicely done.
Thank you for being so brave and for being do courgeous and willing to share your experience and understanding and knowledge about whay it is like to live with schizophrenia. Your kindness and love are helping so many people. You help not only those who suffer with this illness but also those who dont tounderstand that we are. not monsters.
One thing I like about the table conversation photo is that a lot of the people around him are not doing anything specific, they are just existing and freely expressing themselves. Sometimes it feels like it’s not safe to move without some type of serious reaction or like your every move is inhuman so you just freeze. I, at least, catch myself watching other people acting like people and being amazed by it while also not being able to imagine that for myself.
Thank you 🥺 I was thinking on how to show people what it’s like to be me. What an amazing idea!
Yet again an another amazing video Lauren. Your skillls seem to be expoentually rising.
During psychosis its a feeling of the world fragmenting around me, like time perception breaking up with terrifying thoughts. Its like my mind is playing a story that overlays what I see, but the shifting perception is awful. Wouldn't wish it on anyone
What can others do or say to help?
They tend to make it worse as I'm terrified during the experience. Thanks
Recently had an acute psychotic episodes and it was a complete different nightmarish reality I was in. Blooming scary af
You are really spot on that my prompt is about the more positive aspects of a psychotic experience. World of wonder which is where I often felt, wide-eyed, stumbling into previously unknown territory. ... 8:45 Thank you for this video!
Mid journey and ai as a whole is so impressive and it’s representation of mental disorders seems so good that I am not even ready,like I mean ai is so advanced and it can blow your mind sometimes.
Hi dear you are beautiful I just came across your channel I am very impressed with your bravery, my son was diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was 20 years old. He’s now 27. He has a 10 year old son. He has not done well if he been hospitalized how do anybody experience he’s in clozapine nothing has worked He has a Lotta laughs and spells very loudly and talks a lot to himself and even taking his medication. I am trying. I am hoping to try the vitamins that you recommend to see if it makes a difference. I actually spoke to his psychiatrist today he had an appointment about them start taking the vitamins. You recommended to the vitamin B, the folic acid and vitamin D and and she agreed to see if it would help make a difference in his life. Thank you very much continue to stay strong focus and I’ll be keep you in my prayers and continue to watch your channel. Thank you. I’m watching from Brampton Ontario.
We live in one-way distorted glass hallways. We see everyone and everything differently. Everyone sees us, and through the glass normally.
Everyone is so close yet so far.
As someone who can relate quite a lot to this I find comments like, "skewed version of reality" and "the reality 'you know' other people are experiencing" to be incredibly subjective. The 'norm' set out in conventional medicine, psychology and psychiatry does not exist, all humans have their own versions of reality to one degree or another, does not take much observation of human beings to see this. It is only that people with certain 'mental health' issues are just experiencing maybe extreme versions of certain parts of the human experience spectrum which can be crippling and disabling. It is also likely that a large part of this is due to certain parts of the brain not coping under certain circumstances, over firing in some regions and under firing in others, this is my experience can be remedied.
Lauren, would you like me to subtitle your video into Spanish to reach more public? I am from Venezuela and I follow your content.
The best way I could describe what it feels like for me, it feels like I am in a constant dream. I don't recognize my own hometown, things seem out of place, and it somehow looks different and I feel completely lost. I also see something that looks like a mixture of smoke and liquid over the ground. (This is part of what it feels like when I'm in an episode). There's more to it but that is the usual, and more consistent part at least.
I want everything to go back to regular so bad so I can just chill peacefully
Thank you for your videos! I am diagnosed with DID, so it's very different, but I love learning more about your experiences, struggles, and wins. ❤
I've been diagnosed with DID as well... Stay strong and just keep your chin up ☺️
@@shannonnicollechannel5884 I always was under the impression that DID is a myth.
@@barneyronnie not at all! It is a very real and diagnosable condition. I was diagnosed by an expert with 20 years of experience in the field. I'm glad you're here and I hope you're open to learning the truth!
@@shannonnicollechannel5884 same to you! I found trauma therapy very effective!
Thank you your work is upmost important. We have very few people to help us understand this illness. Thank you
really exciting to see the different images and their representations that was come up with this AI, cool video Lauren
We use Ai as well it’s a great way to share what it feels like to have a mental health disorder. We have DID and we use Ai as well like Ai to show what it feels like having dissociative disorder. Great video and powerful content ❤
I have a fee mental illnesses but the description, “in them but not from them” hits home for my dissociative disorders.
My first impression, I notice a sadness in your eyes. As though you are enduring a weighted down or burdened state of mind. It reminds me of myself.
Some of the imagery reminds me of Dali, de Chirico and Zap Comix. There was a demo of a simulation of schizophrenia on a Chicago Med episode that I found quite illustrative. The VR presented both visual and auditory hallucinations. Scary.
Met this beautiful girl. She told me she was schizophrenic. I think people like this are special. I'm going to be a counselor or psychologist some day. She is a very interesting person and there is never a full word she says . One hell of an artist though. Painted the bedroom based off her experience and I was blown away. Dirty dirty room but the paint was wild.
Again you bravely show what the illness is like for you. Bravo!
I can only relate to negative symptoms like detachment. It is quite painful, but nobody understands.
You mentioned The Spectrum. I'm at the lower end - Schizoid PD with BPD.
If I was to represent what schizophrenia is it would be to set up an experiment to play loud conversations all day and have people attempt to learn and negotiate while having zero ability to have any silent zone whatsoever. Even when not psychotic, this is the what is going around in the brain even if seemingly silent at that time.
Sporadic meditation that can’t be done either ritualistically or obsessively is a good behavioural practice in that it teaches the brain to find a calmer safe place to allow for thoughts to exist and find one to follow and then relax and then another and that you can focus on the r breath and exercises with the breath to help negotiate a slow and linear process of thought. It’s like going over a sequence in music that is a problem to the larger work. For me that is exactly what it is. When I can learn to find a linear form, my brain calms and I have access again to the larger intellectual well rather than being caught in shallow pools of obsessive thoughts.
The AI representations were interesting but I grew up in the 60s and 70s and they remind me exactly of the posters conveying LSD trips. The thing with technology is that no matter what we create it’s difficult and beyond anything we have done yet because it has merely sped us up what we do already - - to actually create new or better awareness. It was interesting to look at as art. I didn’t relate to it as psychosis necessarily, as the artistic construct didn’t have intellectual dimension.
Thank you so much lauren you are amazing
Having Anxiety myself I can relate to some of these depictions. I suppose that there is a certain amount of overlap in symptoms. Although they are not the same. But the "eye" is very relatable.
You do such am amazing way to explain what it feels like. I often think about what you have said on your videos. I feel that most people have some kind of mental illness. Love to you❤
This is absolutely fascinating!
i do not have this illness buti i am very interested in all topics related to brain, especially those about altering perceptiom of “reality” .. what i found extremely interesting is that shizophrenia affects basically same neurotransmitters than psychedelic drugs .. it’s a kinda does same thing to brain (at least in term of perceptiom of reality) like psychedelics .. with psychedelics you can have bad trip (which is really not dissimiliar to psychotic event in schizophrenia) but you can also have good trip which helps peple a lot in their spiritual life and in their perceptiom of realit (especially with dmt pr ayahuasca).
Wondering - if principle is same - if there isn’t some technique which would actually make possible for peoplw auffering with schzophreni to turn their psychotic phasss into “good trip”.. we still doesn’t know a lot about brain ..
Just wish you feel well as much as possible !
I’ve described it as being a passenger in a vehicle that does not have a steering wheel as it speeds in reverse out of control and changing directions rapidly. You can’t get out of the car either.
Did you suffer really bad from it?
@@yeh2319 Medication solves a lot of problems, the trick is finding the right medication. It offers a lot of perspective, and looking back, I think others suffered more so than myself.
Hi I have schizoaffective depressive type among other things. I think your videos are great.
This makes me feel like I am not allone and others share similar experiences. I think this might be a good video to show to/ discuss with a partner or family member who wants to know what I experience.
Thank you so much Lauren 🙏🏻
Wow! These pictures are amazing!
Good job! You inspired me and helped give me the confidence to create my own videos. I liked the black and white picture with the woman having scattered thoughts, but I thought the first video could help represent the Truman Show Delusion or the idea some people get that they're God watching over people.
It is like being here but not here, like nothing is really real with extreme intrusive thoughts mixed in. The feeling of being disconnected with something in side projecting it's image all over the place mixed in with confusion as to what you see or hear.
Did you suffer really bad from it?
@yeh2319 yes it is horrifying
@@christopherleubner6633 Thank you for the answer. I hope you now do well.
Thank you so much. This is so incredibly fascinating. I wish I had something to offer you beautiful human beings who such cruelty at the hands of your own mind. I wish I could just save the world and make this disease disappear. So please keep doing, what you’re doing to make the world a better place.
Hi Lauren and Rob,
Merci! Sujet intéressant, captivant.
I like that Lauren looks at peace in this piece.
It’s recent. You may have missed that one with Dr Palmer.
ruclips.net/video/3g4ghKDsVX8/видео.html
Good week!
Your illness doesn’t define you. No one’s illness defines us. I would like to see Christopher Grant. I am sure that he is a good artist. I have more than one disability. In my family, we have depression and dyslexia. It doesn’t stop me from authoring books. Thank you for sharing your experience. This talk about schizophrenia means so much to me. When I am depressed, I have auditory hallucinations. Myself, I get statements that go off the topic. People don’t want to listen to me. I see them as full of nonsense too. But I proved many people wrong about my intelligence. I am a fiction storyteller. And I am working on book two and three. My friends have schizophrenia as a diagnosis. One is in college. The other one works full time. My diagnosis used to be schizophrenia, but it was changed to bipolar one disorder. It was probably because I was having crying spells in the hospital. Everything is better. Except for yesterday, I was crying in the morning for no reason. I looked in the mirror to see a depressed human being. And when I am depressed, I cry hard. Also, I have been told that I have empathy which I believe is the good part of my disability. I think that you have lots of empathy too.
I had a neighbor who had schizophrenia. I spoke to him once when he was having an episode. I saw him a few days later and he apologized for his behavior, saying that he sometimes dreams while being awake. I was amazed, because that’s the way he sounded. My dreams jump around, the focal point ever changing. His explanation made sense.
Thank you for sharing.
Some, if not most of what is mentioned here and from others, sounds very much like when I've been on ayahuasca and psilocybin mushrooms. But would be debilitating to have these experiences and not be able to regulate or minimize at will.
I have to say, some of these pictures Made my head hurt, but cause It feels like what happens to me like i can relate to it.. I used to draw on a diary, what It feels like to me to have schizophrenia, and what my thoughts and voices said to me, even in my dreams, they were really bad days, now im medicated and I feel a lot better now. Thank you for making these videos ❤😊
Thank you for all this information to help all understand
There are no two Schizophrenics who share the exact same symptoms.
Schizophrenia probably doesn't exist you may be delusional
I asked my friend (hes has your malady) WHY he would STOP taking his meds IF he KNEW he would bring on an episode. He said when taking his meds he "felt" NOTHING! There needs to be BETTER MEDS! He said he felt "DEAD" while on his meds. I FEAR the PD will eventually be EXECUTED by them. He STOLE a local KCPD's weapon out of his dwelling (10-15yewars ago) and was ALMOST killed. Thank GOD the deputy KNEW him and just went and got it back. But, that is NOT the usual ending when a weapon is involved.
Thankyou so much for creating this. So many insights for the human race , schizoaffective and CPTSD here...great to see these AI creations.. Healing and Light💫💥🙏🧚♀️🧚🧚♂️🧜
I want to say that for me psychosis feels 90% of the time alone amazing, almost euphoric, I almost miss it sometimes when I'm not psychotic for a long time since I spend most of my time alone. Then there are the times with other people or that 10% alone where it ranges from bad to "I can't fucking believe I am capable of experiencing something so unbearable". I experienced paranoid periods as well, those were shit through and through but somebody has to say that certain moments feel great. The occasional grandiose delusion doesn't feel bad at all either, it makes you feel purposeful, and that's the allure. I remember watching some clips from Dragonball and enjoying them vividly in a way I hadn't since I was a kid during a psychotic episode. In general when you feel safe psychosis feels good, addicting even. That's just my experience though.
I always thought the blue spots on the wall behind you were carelessly left up picture sticky blu tack. But now I see they may be blue flowers.
Appreciate your work
Grateful for you both
Team Lauren
I've loved your channel for years. Started watching when I was married to someone with schizoaffective disorder. She had a psychotic break in 2020, went to the mental hospital, and never came back.
Have you read Brain Energy by Chris Palmer? And a follow up question: have you tried a low carbohydrate or carnivore diet to alleviate symptoms?
Some of the images are so relatable it's actually scary.
I find it fascinating that schizophrenic paranoia looks similar in multiple ways that one feels surveillance through their own mind. I wonder why this is a commonality
could you ask someone (professional) about loud auditory hallucinations in dreams? (Hypnagogic / waking up from an auditory hallucination)
Like waking up from hearing a loud scream
Can it predict a disposition for the spectrum?
Hypnopompic and Hypnogogic hallucinations clinically are not part of the spectrum. They would be more like sleep paralysis .
Schizophrenia Spectrum is judged in awake state only when agency is known to be disrupted.
(There may be bits of agency with lucid dreaming in REM but you consciously choose to entrance yourself before sleep.)
Only psychosis and hypno-hallucinations similarity is "false perception".
There also according to one psychologist not psychosis as the experiences dont "seem to be genuinely [happening] outside of the person."
Lots of this is subjective anyhow and some do get classified psychosis when they say they have a "voice in there head" which in wakefulness could be mistaken for narcolepsy or seizure.
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Hallucinations also may happen in bed without sleep paralysis. These are called hypnagogic hallucinations if they happen as you fall asleep. They're called hypnopompic hallucinations if they happen upon waking.
Hypnagogia: transition period between wakefulness and sleep.
Hypnopompic hallucinations are relatively common, occurring in over 12% of people. They aren't as common as hypnagogic hallucinations, however.
The diner description reminds me of what I observe in my brother when he's around our noisy, extroverted family :/ It breaks my heart...
Is there a way I can view the pictures that you have in the video? There are some that I absolutely love and I would really like to be able to show them to my therapist and maybe some other people that know about what I'm doing with.
The barrier between sound and thoughts is broken! This describes my mind but I am autistic and suffer with sound triggered tics.
This would be cool, if you could add your actual meaning and depiction to it so that it could be used as some sort of understanding through meaning making. I love the concept of "exo" communication as a pun on excommunication. It can feel that way sometimes with mental health as to be banished from the community of "normal" people in society and forced to live in another world hence the exo part (as in exoplanet). It can sometimes feel like living on the outside of community looking in as a person living with a mental health condition.
Thank you. This was fascinating.
My schizophrenic brother got baptized and we always knew before his first episode he was always off in another place avoiding all. He was ADD ADHD before he was schizophrenic. But it wasn’t until my dad took him to church he got baptized and started to think my dads a cultist deepstate mason in the kkk. And that our past neighbor died in a plane crash my dad was involved in. He smeared my dad to the church so bad the counselors had no choice to report my dad I guess. But we knew he was off. He is still untreated to this day he never misses church. I can’t connect with my brother I never had.
Thank You❤
I have paid on Patreon to be able to access the peer support on discord but don’t know how or what to do next. Is there a link to go to the discord group? Do I need to download something?
Hello and thank you so much for doing these videos. Is this an app that one can download? I would love for my son, he is schizophrenic, to be able to enter his prompts and have illustrations made. He is always saying if only we (his family) had an idea of what goes on in his mind.
I feel like I'm living on a reality TV show and have to constantly put on an act. Like iv been playing a character for 6 years. The whole thing is very taxing mentally and physically.
My daughter has schizoaffective she hasn’t accepted her illness and goes off and on meds.. it hurts to watch her hear/see things and I understand meds can make her feel like she’s in a fog 😞😞😞😞
I'm not able to understand what LWwS is trying to say. She says "..there is just something different about the reality you are experiencing from the reality you know that other people are experiencing." How does she, or anyone, know what reality other people are experiencing? Personally I just don't know what reality other people are experience. I only know what I am experiencing. I have no way of knowing what other people are experiencing. I can't think of any way to find out. I wouldn't even know what questions to ask a person, in order to find out what reality they are experiencing. I would _like_ to know what other people are experiencing, but I do not and I tend to think that finding out is something that is simply not possible. I can guess, or surmise, some of what other people are experiencing, a small portion of what they might be experiencing, based on what I know has happened to them, and how I have seen them react, but those are only guesses, based upon comparing how I would feel in a similar situation, and there is no way I know of to know for sure what someone else experiences.
As an artist this is the only kind of usage of AI-art I will support 😄😄
How could you depict different narratives weaving into the reality you're currently experiencing when you feel psychosis coming back, and the confusion of the unrealness?
I didn't get this and I've had schizo affective disorder bi polar type for three decades.
I have paranoid schizophrenia and I didn’t get it either
I have just had a panic attack because I was trying to control an episode of derealization. I thought I was okay. I have been okay for a month now. I was,I mean. I am afraid and tired. I have never gone to the psychiatrist, my mother thinks that I just have some traumas and that I don’t need a psychiatrist , she thinks that I just need to go to the psychologist. The neurologist disagrees with my mother, but it is useless. I feel empty now and I’m afraid of getting out of my bed, I am afraid that something can touch me. Every noise is louder now. I feel safe watching the video
I love that my yarn one made the cut
A good book on this subject is "Madness and Modernity" by Louis Sass.
Loved it 🥰
Ive considered verbal to physical being a form of internl struggles and a outlook of false proportions when educating topics
So what if i have that but medication dont work on me i tried everything. Believe me. Im going to ect theraphy tomorrow super nervoous
I feel like everything and nothing going on all at once. Everything feels smeared in thoughts. Also great agitation.
If one of the prompt were manageable paranoid schizophrenia then I would get this
Oh dear GOD.Please help them all❤
Thanks Lauren!
Schizophrenia is genetic in my family and a close relative has been exhibiting symptoms for a year or more. It intensified a lot in the past few months. She refuses to seek or accept help. She's a senior so she has been raised with mental illnesses being stigmatized and people who have them being dismissed as "crazy" as if it's their own fault. Things have escalated to the point where she's living on the streets because she believes her neighbors are sending harmful waves/vibrations into her apartment. (It's been checked by several people several times and it's not actually happening.) What can I do to help? She also believes I intend to harm her and ever since I gently suggested that she should get evaluated my a mental health professional, she cut me out of her life. I'm really upset and worried, and want more than anything to get her help, but have no idea how to.
Hi mam I have been suffering from some serious mental disorder but unable to diagnose it wanted to have a conversation with you
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