I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
You’re exceptionally well-spoken. I’m a former psychiatric RN & I find you a very, very good teacher on a patient or family member. I hope you continue your videos.
@@terywetherlow7970 Agree Tery,...the video was smooth, well organized, direct, very well explained @notliketheothers! Living similar my whole life. Thank you for your accurate descriptions, for those of us that can't explain our cognitive issues well. ❤
A cousin of mine is navigating schizophrenia and she had some rough years (hospitalized for 2-3 months at a time) but is now able to live independently. She also found a job. Social services had been useless in her job search, they consistently sent her to job interviews that were totally unsuitable. For example, a receptionist in a fast-paced business environment that required multi-tasking (phones, greeting people, computer work, etc.) She would shutdown/disconnect and be unable to function and get fired. Her new job is being an assistant to older people, which she really enjoys. Finding the right medication, and adhering to the treatment plan, was been another challenge. She has a minimum of medication now. How family has responded (or not) to the situation is a whole other story. Some still don't accept the diagnosis and feel she has behavioral issues, is 'lazy' and not motivated' or is 'just fine'. Unlike the stereotype of all schizophrenics being violent, she is quiet and has never been harmful to herself or others. My cousin is funny, insightful and a nice person. She has friends and enjoys going places. To know and accept her as she is, has deepened our connection.
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
My nephew was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. He had not been in treatment for several years. He died of a self inflicted gunshot wound in 2021.😢
I wish my mom would've held on a little longer. She also had schizoaffective; I've spent the years and tears curious about what she was experiencing. She had no memory from her psychosis episodes (lucky! Lol) so that's not much help. Wish I had understood her illness more. I would've spent more one-on-one time with her, but I was young, frightened, overwhelmed being her caretaker, and it felt like she was a stranger sometimes. It's was heartbreaking and honestly awkward at times. Thanks for sharing!
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
I have schizoaffective disorder. I take Trazodone to fall asleep and sometimes it doesn't work. Like you I stay up all night laying in bed and just roaming through RUclips
The world needs more education on mental illness. People hear schizophrenia and they think the worst. Also, our mental hospitals are so incredibly cold. I know their purpose is to just get them stable... My son (he'll be 18 this Sat) was diagnosed at 17 with bipolar schizoafffective disorder 5 Mos ago. I'm trying to learn as much as I can to help him. Your videos help- thank you! People ask me if I believe him when he tells me he sees and hears people. Yes. Yes I do. He's finally on a good med regimen but he's soo anxious that he will see/hear things again 😢
Hey yes he probably does see and hear things I have. The first time it happened I stayed all night in the bathroom having a conversation with who I thought were angels. I had no idea I had schizophrenia.
@@donnabolt5847 no mostly I stay at home. I know my wife and daughters love me. Mostly I focus on not getting stressed out about anything no drama whatsoever. It brings on episodes.
My depression was like a foul taste in my mouth that o couldn’t brush/floss/rinse out. The negative thoughts were horrible. It was finally figured out that my thyroid levels dropped to low normal. My GP thank God too the chance to prescribe thyroid meds that helped, that and a good psychologist to talk out past issues.
I'm similar, i have schizophrenia, it started as depression at 13 then at 15 I started to lose motivation and interest in things and not wanting to talk, so bad I dropped out of school at 15 but it felt very different to the depression
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
For me the start was simply noticing the most random and seemingly inconsequential things, then putting them together. At that point I would have never guessed this is a psychotic symptom, because it was so harmless and I thought psychotic symptoms were more obvious than that. Then people started commenting on weird things about me, like my flat affect and the way I walked, etc, which made me paranoid. They’d ask, “are you ok?” all the time, which was weird because I felt amazing, like I was filled with electricity.
@@Brujo2016 I’ll just make up an example. I would notice 2 orange vehicles drove past me at 3:00, 3x2 is 6, that meant I needed to be careful of people who might betray me. That’s a pretty simple example, but others were more complex and had to do with other random things that happened per day. These thoughts would happen within a few seconds.
I was diagnosed four years ago as having schizoaffective disorder after being examined by a psychiatrist and a psychologist. I have had the illness since about age 12, with many related disorders. Schizoaffective is not always a psychosis; I have always been able to work at professions, attend college, drive and many do other needed tasks. But the effects have severely hampered me. I am often unable to read other people's intentions and social cues. I have long found my inner world more exciting and satisfactory than the real world. I have often been a fountain of creativity, writing, editing and organizing for a living, but also on most of my off time (by choice, not workload). I sometimes had "magical thinking" beliefs that I could influence far away events in which I had no personal involvement. On the magical thinking, and the work immersion, I have made great progress in the last dozen years. (Of course, the irony is that these days everyone's a writer, editor and content creator around the clock!)
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
I’ve just been diagnosed with schizophrenia last may 2022 ,I feel a huge relief as I thought I was beyond help , how you have described being alright round people is exactly how I am , I can’t live independently as my mind goes to a level of craziness, my grandchildren live with me now and it’s given me a reason for living , thank you for this clip , it does prove we aren’t alone ( slight pun ) lol
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
🙏 Thank You So Much for Acknowledging & for Sharing as many didn't know they have Autism Spectrum , Post Traumatic Syndrome or Schizophrenia or other psycho-emotional imbalances ... Using Common Sense & Life Experiences >>> We manifest the thoughts or things we do or eat ... So Practicing Good Healthy Food Intakes , Soft Exercises , Positive Actions , Adequate Sleep & Getting Closer to Angelic & Godly Frequencies would manifest these Positive Vibrations that leaving us very little opportunity to be associated with lower frequencies of the demonic & ego-delusional high-low flux of emotions ... We are our own Master of our Destiny ... We can take back our lives ... We Can Do This without Drugs nor Alcohol! ... 🙏🕯🌷🌿🌍💜🕊
Thank you very much for such an interesting and educational video!! We definitely need more education about mental illness, and especially about early signs of psychosis. Maybe you know the work of psychiatrists Josef Parnas or Henri Grivois? They have a very interesting approach of these early symptoms and psychotic experiences
I note your prolific gesticulations with hands and arms. It almost resembles a flailing set of actions. Very informative. My stepsister was severely bi-polar, her daughter schizophrenic.
I think my girlfriend has schizophrenia. I'm not sure how to help her. She is hearing voices, feels like someone is touching her, she can hardly sleep some nights. She believes that it's spiritual in nature and doesn't believe it's a mental health issue. I'm so worried about her, I just want her to have her life back.
That is definitely schizophrenia (my son has the same). There are treatments and medications that can help.her a lot... my son is now 26 and doing well, just graduated from university But he is still hearing voices...
There are spiritual theories that resemble Schizophrenia, like Kundalini Awakenings and Ascension Symptoms....the Spiritual perspective puts a different cause to the symptoms, such as a spiritual cleansing of the psyche and energy field, as opposed to a disorder ( it's and evolutionary perspective). You probably have already asked her why she believes it's spiritual....I was a mental health therapist for a decade and have gone through a Kundalini Awakening myself. I resonate with the Spiritual perspective, but I believe people should go to therapy and take medication if they need to. I wish both of you the best.
@@Kristen-ek9rzI showed ALL of symptoms back in 2020 , due to Molly but it helped tap me back into my emotions. "Drugs" are demonized so that it can be seen as a threat when all of these have been here since the beginning of time... so you're telling me this government that is known for experimenting on people & getting them hopped up on "meds" vs actual ways of eating healthy to idkkkk maybe make our gut healthier so we could think better?? "Mental illness" is a cover up for the truth.... & U ALL have been brainwashed to believe so ... if u believe anything that we are currently living in you're the one that's insane.... nobody can pay bills or eat, & everybody wants to get on homeless people for asking people for CHANGE!!! Don't bash our people when the government purposely made it this way!!!! & it's already been proven that the CIA distributed drugs for profit & to get people into prison for slavery work... all of this is propaganda to deter you from the truth "all knowing" & DONT u DARE call me crazy when u believe a government who bombed a black community because they had their own developmentment & community... you all should be ashamed, to tell people what to do instead of questioning why & HOW we are emotional about everything OH I KNOWWWW we live in a lie of a reality let that sink in.... I am very well & awake also very sane.... intelligence is deemed crazy so that sheep will go into the slaughter house & behave... id stay very clearrrrr of this propaganda.... believe the people not the terrorists who claim we are free.......
an old friend from high school has schizophrenia and when he talks to any of us he was close to it will eventually trigger an episode that always has led to him breaking from reality in a big way. it was step by step over some years we all learned how it is with him and that it is always best to not communicate with him. he has been stable, medicated and able to cope before when it has happened with a just few phone calls so it's for the best especially for him.
@@julianadamico4702 yeah thats part of it. once we had found out he was trying to get on the same meds as another close friend, whom is not schizophrenic or anything close. it was only they had one med in common and had been getting in contact again so we all decided it best to stay out of contact.
@@julianadamico4702how the f you take meds wrong my man ? Seriously snorting and crushed you mean ?Like ok some of those meds make you hmm not worse but I can definitely don't care about what normal humans care about if given the opportunity like an example a dog lunged at me and I wanted too kick it across the street I did not without that med?Maybe .
You're not alone. My name is Keith Thompson from Atlanta Georgia USA 🇺🇸. I diagnosed of Schizoaffective Disorder w/ bipolar type , Mild intellectual disabilities.... Me and you have a same things.
For me it started with thinking people were talking shit about me when walking past them. For instance, walking past cafes or constructions workers on a site. I would also see shadow people. But I had been dealing with anxiety and depression for years prior to this, so I have no idea when the prodromal symptoms started. Anyway, hope you're doing okay.
My nephew recently presented with psychosis and visual and auditory hallucinations he is 19 and I will be caring for him I’m doing research to better understand his diagnosis so that I can be the best support system for him if you have any tips for caregivers and family members on how to address auditory and visual hallucinations that would be amazing! Thank you for your transparency
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
I am a social work masters student. Thank you so much for sharing! It helps me to understand, think of ways to help, research them, too, hearing what helped you!
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
We are going through a lot..... But I believe depression is one of those things that a lot of us are handling. It's not easy though but you can not all be happy without feeling sadness. It's natural.
This was so helpful. Thank you for posting this. I was diagnosed with this disorder at the age of 23. I am wondering if my daughter might be presenting symptoms as well. I had forgotten the beginning of my illness. Thanks again.
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
Their beaming sounds from a satellite into your head, use Scalar waves and brain waves to active and move certain nerves on your body. They went to school for this
I am experiencing this rn but my diagnosis is schizoaffective. I’m worried because I seem to be needing so much sleep and am sleeping quite a lot. Otherwise I feel everything you just talked about and need to talk to the dr.
People here in India aren't aware of this disease much, they see me as a crazy perosn but i do everyday task without any issues.. running my buisness maintaining my House taking care of my mother etc . Sometimes it gets hard because recently i got some bad anxiety issue with other complications such as sexual disfunction. I seriously dont know what else i can do & what'll happen in the future 😢
All of current conditions spoken of these days, didn't seem to exist previously. Bpd is one my eldest daughter was supposedly diagnosed w. 10 ish years ago. She's 41 now. Sometimes she'll say she doesn't have bpd anymore. (Untreated of course). I question now whether all therapy she's had in past as an adult really even occurred. No coping skills on any level. It has fractured our family....
@@terywetherlow7970 These conditions have always existed, we just have categorized them and understand them better. I’m sorry your daughter and family are going through a lot. I’m sending prayers. ❤
Ok-I’m mostly through this video and am thinking-this -right here. I need to know how to get started to feel again. How do I go to my doc and say-hey, you know that depression we’ve been treating for years? I think it’s more. I feel like they would wonder why I would even be looking into it. I have huge trust issues and it’s gotten to the point of not leaving the house (again).
I'm so sorry you're experiencing this. I would be really honest with your doctor. If you aren't, you may never really know. There are treatments for prodromal and early stage psychosis and for people who are at high risk, so there are options out there if that is what you are dealing with. I know how terrifying it can be to say something, but, if you don't, there's a chance that things will only get worse.
@@mariaalma8419 I went finally. I told my doc most of the truth. She changed my meds from Paxil to lexapro-and gave me a list of doctors. She said she thinks I’m resentful of my husband (which I know there is resentment) and said I have generalized anxiety disorder. I am a self pay on a tight budget-so there won’t be a trip to a psychologist anytime soon. :(
Thank you for beeing so open. I have a bf who shows signs of this and also bipolar. It's getting worse and he don't do anything and don't care much about his appearance ore hygiene. His mood can flip like a clock and then it's like he dissociate himself I can't speak with him and also he can say hurtful things and come back and be normal again. His mom is very sick for years and she has symptoms of raging out of nowhere from the little things that most people don't react too. She's also acting like a little girl sometimes she's 54,and don't do much cooking home, grossery shopping etc. Sometimes when she visit she can sit in the sofa with here phone and just say nothing. I also witness she has manic episodes and then she seem posetiv, wants to talk, get up and do things. Also here sound of voice is different I notice that. She also calls here mom every single day witch I find very dissturbing. It's like she needs to have constant control ore she flips out. Can anyone see the same as I do? I don't know if it's BPD, bipolar ore schizophrenia. It's extremely hard to live with and exhaust me mentally. It's even harder when he won't go to the doctor he always deny things when I try to explain to him.
Get the book”I’m not sick, I don’t need help” by Xavier Amador, the author is a psychologist and his brother had schizophrenia, he developed a technique to help family members help their loved ones
My first signs of my schizophrenia was derealization and hallucinations like at first id believe i saw ghosts and the derealization was so intense i felt like I weren't real then boom full blown pyschosis so glad im medicated
Sleep problems are an early sign of a lot of mental difficulties. I know that first-hand. But I don't think it's necessarily an early sign of mental illness if a person feels lethargic when other people aren't around. That seems to be how most people are. Of course, there are degrees of everything; highs may be higher and lows lower.
Hi, thanks for your video. My friend’s 17 year old son committed suicide in January. He showed no signs prior. But… his grandmother has schizophrenia. We are struggling to find answers… I am curious about your family history. Does anyone else in your family have this disorder? Do you have any other insight into early signs you or others may have experienced? ❤
That's what I thought. By watching themselves people tend to lose control, and convince themselves that they need to wear a psychiatric label on them. I met two people like that, one into a permanent depression "that I have accepted" and one who felt very relieved to be named an Asperger and refuses any contact with someone who is not Asperger.
Well, I was more or less fine in the last 5 years, but recently I am developing what I would say apathy, a mild disinterest in my life and joy. But I think it's mild. Before that I had psychotic depression. I will go next week to a spiritual advisor, I will tell all my shit to her, and it comes out of me :)
I think our beautiful presenter just isn't recognized for how brilliant she is. Also, I don't understand what's so wrong about "ideations". If Einstein didn't have his ideation about relativity when he was sort of day dreaming on the way home from work one day... our world would be very much in the dark. Too often we are crushed on when we are little sprouts, and accidentally too of course. Just get right up and be beautiful. You're NOT ALONE! If I may humbly suggest, have a read at the gospel of John. It is incredibly intelligent, beautiful and deeply truthful, spiritually.
My son is 29 diagnosed with schzophrenia He has been living in a boarding home since july with other 7 mentally ill men he is also using poppy seeds or tylenol 1 or beer when he has money Please tell me if I made a mistake and it will worsen his situation Shall I bring him home ? I asked him to leave because it was not easy to live with him dory house dirty toilet unwilling or unfeeling like doing anything it just a month since he comes home to eat or shower and it’s fine with me but otherwise he does same thing as he did at home pretty much walking all day long on the streets
You didn't make a mistake. Try hard to not worsen Your Own situation, your peace of mind, not having to worry excessively about him. You can do this by trying very hard to not lose his trust in you, by him not becoming suspicious of you and his perceived (whatever you have done to him). If you lose his trust you've lost him. This is my own experience with a twin brother.
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
So was that dissociation of some sort? I’m trying to find what that symptom is classified as. Not Delusion. Not Mania. Not Hallucinations. Is it a type of Disorganization of Speech and Thinking? It would have to be the thoughts.
Do you have loss of sensation throughout your body? I feel like I am disconnected from my body I touch my face for example and I hardly feel it I find that this is the worst
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Don't label yourself, life goes up and down, a little psilocybin could re-set your emotions, stuff buried comes to the surface and you get a different outlook and then you think why was I thinking about that in my life. Lysergic is more intense and let's you see your life as it is and except it, both good and bad
Da li mi razvijamo tu bolest u sebi? Ne svidja mi se odnos pacijent - doktor, jer ih se ne dotiče što smo bolesni, već samo prepišu lek. Slabo se bave preventivom. I nikom nije stalo do toga kroz šta sve prolazimo i šta se sa nama dešava. Teške su tablete koje pijemo. Majke mi nema ni brata💝
I know this is a superficial thing to say, but a lot of people with schizo mental illnesses have such pretty, dreamy eyes. maybe because their imaginations are more active? idk but I've noticed that.
It varies from child to child, but for me, I would cry frequently and not know why. I had a lot of fake injuries because I was trying to cover up the fact that I didn't know why I was crying because I didn't think that was acceptable. People constantly asked me if I was okay because I just looked sad I guess. I was also extremely sensitive and insecure. In preschool and kindergarten especially I felt fundamentally different than the other kids and like I didn't belong, so I had a really hard time socializing. It was very easy for me to get anxious and panicky too. I felt like everything was spinning wildly out of control even when everything was fine. I also felt a great deal of guilt and like everything bad was my fault. Though I didn't share these thoughts with anyone, there were times where I considered walking into traffic or jumping off of high things. I just didn't want to exist. I think a lot of it was passed off as me being dramatic or overly sensitive and clingy. The best advice I can give is that if something looks like a cry for attention, check in with your kid. It's not always for no reason.
I wonder if some of those feelings are just a part of life and everyone goes thru certain sadness, happiness, failures, success, and such but for some they want to be in a hospital.
Immediately improve your life by letting go of any thought that is causing an undesirable emotion in you. Imagine a butterfly landing on your hand. Gently raise your arm and allow the unbeneficial thought to release. Then, be appreciative in the knowing that you know the secret to betternment. Relax and take some deep breaths. There is nothing wrong with you. Peace is the way to more peace.✌
I wish I had those symptoms. Mine are the opposite. I can't even work. I can't function. Were you diagnosed with it because it MUST be diagnosed by a professional and we cannot self diagnose from my understanding? I was on January 20th, 2023 (my birthday and not long ago) after a year of therapy after being diagnosed with BPD and CPTSD. I was told to stay clear of others who aren't officially diagnosed and aren't in recovery like me because they aren't the ones we should be learning from. You didn't even tell what type. That is what makes me think you self diagnosed. I am bipolar type. There's 2 types.
Hi there! I was professionally diagnosed with depressive-type schizoaffective disorder in August of 2008 after originally being diagnosed with schizophrenia earlier that month, and I also wish these were my full symptoms! The symptoms I talk about in this video are the symptoms I experienced in my prodrome. About 24 seconds into the video, I explain that the prodrome is the precursor to a true psychotic break, so they are not the symptoms of psychosis, but I guess you could say the pre-psychosis symptoms. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough about that in the video. Not everyone will have a prodrome, but many do, and if caught in or near the prodrome, it can make a huge positive difference in outcome. My point with this video is that they are very subtle. My full symptoms include visual, auditory, and tactile hallucinations; delusions; negative symptoms like alogia and flat affect; and a ton of disorganized symptoms. All of these can be extremely disabling for me, though my treatment works fairly well for me, so I do not have symptoms all of the time anymore. I think you will find that most people will not say what type of schizoaffective disorder they have on social media. Honestly, most people, even those who have it, seem to think that bipolar type is the only type, so I'm glad you have that information! You may also find that lots of people with schizoaffective disorder say that what they have is schizophrenia. I will take note of your comment though and maybe work on incorporating depressive-type into the way I talk about my illness more online. I haven't until now because one is not necessarily more severe than the other, so I found it didn't make a big difference in the way I talk about it. I hope this helps, but if you have more questions about my symptoms, feel free to ask or check out my blog :)
@@notliketheothers There's probably more awareness now. I was diagnosed with it back in the '90s and that didn't come up at all. But, from what I recall, it was clearly the bipolar type as I would get manic episodes as well. But, the whole thing is pretty muddy, as I've got autism and migraines and OCD, which makes it a bit unclear as to the extent to which I was having hallucinations due to schizoaffective disorder versus Alice in Wonderland Syndrome or migraines. I do somewhat question the validity of the diagnosis though as it's been gone for well over a decade without any medication and it seemed to go pretty quickly when I acknowledged that the paranoia was probably well justified based on past personal trauma and most of the rest of it did have other reasonable explanations.
Thanks for the video. I am possibly Schizoaffective bipolar/depression type. I reached out to a psychiatrist a few months ago and got very angry when she said this might be what’s going on. I have a new Physciatrist and he and my dbt therapist believe what’s important is treating the depression. Your description of Schizoaffective symptoms has made me wonder if this actually is what’s going on with my mind. Presently very triggered by a visit with a parent and feeling too much right now. Maybe I should call my Physciatrist 🙃🤔🫣
I disagree that empty is a feeling. Empty is being devoid of all feelings. It’s not feeling anything at all…. Or at least that’s how I would explain it
You are not like the others, but maybe you are better off. Perhaps you are better than the others in a peculiar way. When your mind moves into an observer mode, somewhat detached, you might notice some sensory augmentation. As if your whole being is expanding outward. Schizophrenia survived evolution, natural selection of the fittest, for a reason. In some cases, Schizophrenia is beneficial, in terms of unique skills that exceed human capacity. It is up to you, to recognise your special innate skills, bestowed on you, by Schizophrenia. Please, embrace your Schizophrenia as a gift. It is in you. Please find it, cultivating it, to serve you.
Confused speech. Too much self analysis is in itself not only a mental disorder, but also a source of mental disorder. And I will stop watching such videos.
1:09 "Even empty is a feeling." Beautifully said.
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
You’re exceptionally well-spoken. I’m a former psychiatric RN & I find you a very, very good teacher on a patient or family member. I hope you continue your videos.
Thank you so much!
@@notliketheothers I agree. You have the "way" soothing.....
I agree wholeheartedly, thank you! I am a social work student, thank you! ❤️🙏🏻🕊✌🏻
@@terywetherlow7970 Agree Tery,...the video was smooth, well organized, direct, very well explained @notliketheothers! Living similar my whole life. Thank you for your accurate descriptions, for those of us that can't explain our cognitive issues well. ❤
Love all of this ❤ I agree with every encouraging comment and I appreciate the positive vibes
A cousin of mine is navigating schizophrenia and she had some rough years (hospitalized for 2-3 months at a time) but is now able to live independently. She also found a job. Social services had been useless in her job search, they consistently sent her to job interviews that were totally unsuitable. For example, a receptionist in a fast-paced business environment that required multi-tasking (phones, greeting people, computer work, etc.) She would shutdown/disconnect and be unable to function and get fired. Her new job is being an assistant to older people, which she really enjoys.
Finding the right medication, and adhering to the treatment plan, was been another challenge. She has a minimum of medication now. How family has responded (or not) to the situation is a whole other story. Some still don't accept the diagnosis and feel she has behavioral issues, is 'lazy' and not motivated' or is 'just fine'.
Unlike the stereotype of all schizophrenics being violent, she is quiet and has never been harmful to herself or others. My cousin is funny, insightful and a nice person. She has friends and enjoys going places. To know and accept her as she is, has deepened our connection.
Some schizophrenic's are aggressive and border on being violent, but most of those types are men..
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
My nephew was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. He had not been in treatment for several years. He died of a self inflicted gunshot wound in 2021.😢
I'm so sorry I have Schizoaffective and I really do feel for you. I tell my family about my diagnosis incase I do need help but most are supportive
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I’m so sorry for your loss.🌹
I'm sorry for your loss
😢😢 sending prayers
I wish my mom would've held on a little longer. She also had schizoaffective; I've spent the years and tears curious about what she was experiencing. She had no memory from her psychosis episodes (lucky! Lol) so that's not much help.
Wish I had understood her illness more. I would've spent more one-on-one time with her, but I was young, frightened, overwhelmed being her caretaker, and it felt like she was a stranger sometimes. It's was heartbreaking and honestly awkward at times.
Thanks for sharing!
I'm sure you did the best you could. It's too easy looking back and wishing you had done more.
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
It was depression. Completely diffferent than what I’ve experienced with my friend who does have actual schitz.
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
hearing where your past self was,
i’m proud and happy for you that you are here and trying to thrive with life despite this
Thank you so much!
I have schizoaffective disorder. I take Trazodone to fall asleep and sometimes it doesn't work. Like you I stay up all night laying in bed and just roaming through RUclips
The world needs more education on mental illness. People hear schizophrenia and they think the worst. Also, our mental hospitals are so incredibly cold. I know their purpose is to just get them stable...
My son (he'll be 18 this Sat) was diagnosed at 17 with bipolar schizoafffective disorder 5 Mos ago.
I'm trying to learn as much as I can to help him. Your videos help- thank you!
People ask me if I believe him when he tells me he sees and hears people.
Yes. Yes I do.
He's finally on a good med regimen but he's soo anxious that he will see/hear things again 😢
I hope he gets stronger and doesn't have new episodes. I wish you grace and strength as his mother and advocate.
Hey yes he probably does see and hear things I have. The first time it happened I stayed all night in the bathroom having a conversation with who I thought were angels. I had no idea I had schizophrenia.
@asabovesobelow5683 thank you for sharing your story! Are you getting the love and support you need?
@@donnabolt5847 no mostly I stay at home. I know my wife and daughters love me. Mostly I focus on not getting stressed out about anything no drama whatsoever. It brings on episodes.
Hug! 🙏🏻❤️❤️
My depression was like a foul taste in my mouth that o couldn’t brush/floss/rinse out. The negative thoughts were horrible. It was finally figured out that my thyroid levels dropped to low normal. My GP thank God too the chance to prescribe thyroid meds that helped, that and a good psychologist to talk out past issues.
I'm similar, i have schizophrenia, it started as depression at 13 then at 15 I started to lose motivation and interest in things and not wanting to talk, so bad I dropped out of school at 15 but it felt very different to the depression
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
For me the start was simply noticing the most random and seemingly inconsequential things, then putting them together. At that point I would have never guessed this is a psychotic symptom, because it was so harmless and I thought psychotic symptoms were more obvious than that. Then people started commenting on weird things about me, like my flat affect and the way I walked, etc, which made me paranoid. They’d ask, “are you ok?” all the time, which was weird because I felt amazing, like I was filled with electricity.
God bless us all
What kind of things were you noticing for example?
@@dennisperkins4784 Amen to ur comment.❤
@@Brujo2016 I’ll just make up an example. I would notice 2 orange vehicles drove past me at 3:00, 3x2 is 6, that meant I needed to be careful of people who might betray me. That’s a pretty simple example, but others were more complex and had to do with other random things that happened per day. These thoughts would happen within a few seconds.
Sounds similar to my experience, but for some reason I'm taken much to seriously 😑
I was diagnosed four years ago as having schizoaffective disorder after being examined by a psychiatrist and a psychologist. I have had the illness since about age 12, with many related disorders. Schizoaffective is not always a psychosis; I have always been able to work at professions, attend college, drive and many do other needed tasks. But the effects have severely hampered me. I am often unable to read other people's intentions and social cues. I have long found my inner world more exciting and satisfactory than the real world. I have often been a fountain of creativity, writing, editing and organizing for a living, but also on most of my off time (by choice, not workload). I sometimes had "magical thinking" beliefs that I could influence far away events in which I had no personal involvement.
On the magical thinking, and the work immersion, I have made great progress in the last dozen years. (Of course, the irony is that these days everyone's a writer, editor and content creator around the clock!)
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
Yeah that was compassionate. Thanks for bring it up.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. xx
All I want to say is this - You're so beautiful and so precious! Keep sharing your bright thoughts! God bless you!
Owwww, what a smart, interesting, comunicative and beautiful woman!
TKS for sharing your experience, and helping other people
I’ve just been diagnosed with schizophrenia last may 2022 ,I feel a huge relief as I thought I was beyond help , how you have described being alright round people is exactly how I am , I can’t live independently as my mind goes to a level of craziness, my grandchildren live with me now and it’s given me a reason for living , thank you for this clip , it does prove we aren’t alone ( slight pun ) lol
Julie ......how is alone a slight pun ?
@@julianadamico4702 we are never alone my vocabulary got the pun thing wrong, as we hear voices as clear as someone sat beside us
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
🙏 Thank You So Much for Acknowledging & for Sharing as many didn't know they have Autism Spectrum , Post Traumatic Syndrome or Schizophrenia or other psycho-emotional imbalances ... Using Common Sense & Life Experiences >>> We manifest the thoughts or things we do or eat ... So Practicing Good Healthy Food Intakes , Soft Exercises , Positive Actions , Adequate Sleep & Getting Closer to Angelic & Godly Frequencies would manifest these Positive Vibrations that leaving us very little opportunity to be associated with lower frequencies of the demonic & ego-delusional high-low flux of emotions ... We are our own Master of our Destiny ... We can take back our lives ... We Can Do This without Drugs nor Alcohol! ... 🙏🕯🌷🌿🌍💜🕊
Thank you very much for such an interesting and educational video!! We definitely need more education about mental illness, and especially about early signs of psychosis.
Maybe you know the work of psychiatrists Josef Parnas or Henri Grivois? They have a very interesting approach of these early symptoms and psychotic experiences
I note your prolific gesticulations with hands and arms. It almost resembles a flailing set of actions. Very informative. My stepsister was severely bi-polar, her daughter schizophrenic.
Such a lovely complexion.
I think my girlfriend has schizophrenia. I'm not sure how to help her. She is hearing voices, feels like someone is touching her, she can hardly sleep some nights. She believes that it's spiritual in nature and doesn't believe it's a mental health issue. I'm so worried about her, I just want her to have her life back.
You need to tell her parents.
That is definitely schizophrenia (my son has the same). There are treatments and medications that can help.her a lot... my son is now 26 and doing well, just graduated from university
But he is still hearing voices...
There are spiritual theories that resemble Schizophrenia, like Kundalini Awakenings and Ascension Symptoms....the Spiritual perspective puts a different cause to the symptoms, such as a spiritual cleansing of the psyche and energy field, as opposed to a disorder ( it's and evolutionary perspective). You probably have already asked her why she believes it's spiritual....I was a mental health therapist for a decade and have gone through a Kundalini Awakening myself. I resonate with the Spiritual perspective, but I believe people should go to therapy and take medication if they need to. I wish both of you the best.
@@Kristen-ek9rzI showed ALL of symptoms back in 2020 , due to Molly but it helped tap me back into my emotions. "Drugs" are demonized so that it can be seen as a threat when all of these have been here since the beginning of time... so you're telling me this government that is known for experimenting on people & getting them hopped up on "meds" vs actual ways of eating healthy to idkkkk maybe make our gut healthier so we could think better?? "Mental illness" is a cover up for the truth.... & U ALL have been brainwashed to believe so ... if u believe anything that we are currently living in you're the one that's insane.... nobody can pay bills or eat, & everybody wants to get on homeless people for asking people for CHANGE!!! Don't bash our people when the government purposely made it this way!!!! & it's already been proven that the CIA distributed drugs for profit & to get people into prison for slavery work... all of this is propaganda to deter you from the truth "all knowing" & DONT u DARE call me crazy when u believe a government who bombed a black community because they had their own developmentment & community... you all should be ashamed, to tell people what to do instead of questioning why & HOW we are emotional about everything OH I KNOWWWW we live in a lie of a reality let that sink in.... I am very well & awake also very sane.... intelligence is deemed crazy so that sheep will go into the slaughter house & behave... id stay very clearrrrr of this propaganda.... believe the people not the terrorists who claim we are free.......
I saw many of these in my 23 year old daughter who was recently diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar. Thank you for this video.❤
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I been feeling this melancholy blah for a couple months I don’t have schizophrenia but you totally described my being as of late
I'm so sorry you've been feeling that way! It can be such a heavy feeling. I hope you find relief soon!
Have you checked for underlying medical b6 d3 vitamins minerals (amino acids Julia Ross) linked to apathetic state. Best to you
Blah can be a natural state with the disarray of the World lately....
Considering the State of the World, I am amazed we haven't all gone completely mad, Angie.
@@terywetherlow7970 this is so true....
Love your videos my mother has got schizophrenia and finding it hard to cope with
Seems like a lot of MOMS have schizophrenia!
an old friend from high school has schizophrenia and when he talks to any of us he was close to it will eventually trigger an episode that always has led to him breaking from reality in a big way. it was step by step over some years we all learned how it is with him and that it is always best to not communicate with him. he has been stable, medicated and able to cope before when it has happened with a just few phone calls so it's for the best especially for him.
Vince ,it sounds like he's not taking his meds ..or not taking them the right way..
@@julianadamico4702 yeah thats part of it. once we had found out he was trying to get on the same meds as another close friend, whom is not schizophrenic or anything close. it was only they had one med in common and had been getting in contact again so we all decided it best to stay out of contact.
@@julianadamico4702how the f you take meds wrong my man ? Seriously snorting and crushed you mean ?Like ok some of those meds make you hmm not worse but I can definitely don't care about what normal humans care about if given the opportunity like an example a dog lunged at me and I wanted too kick it across the street I did not without that med?Maybe .
You're not alone. My name is Keith Thompson from Atlanta Georgia USA 🇺🇸. I diagnosed of Schizoaffective Disorder w/ bipolar type , Mild intellectual disabilities.... Me and you have a same things.
Thank you ♥️
Same I from India I got schizophrenia with bipolar dis order for past 6 years but now I'm ok with meds
For me it started with thinking people were talking shit about me when walking past them. For instance, walking past cafes or constructions workers on a site. I would also see shadow people. But I had been dealing with anxiety and depression for years prior to this, so I have no idea when the prodromal symptoms started. Anyway, hope you're doing okay.
My nephew recently presented with psychosis and visual and auditory hallucinations he is 19 and I will be caring for him I’m doing research to better understand his diagnosis so that I can be the best support system for him if you have any tips for caregivers and family members on how to address auditory and visual hallucinations that would be amazing! Thank you for your transparency
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
Read “I’m not sick I don’t need help “ by Xavier amador
Me in almost the exact same experience , depression for yrs and then so so so different. Finally diagnosed correctly schizo affective disorder.
I am a social work masters student. Thank you so much for sharing! It helps me to understand, think of ways to help, research them, too, hearing what helped you!
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
Thank you for sharing❤️
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We are going through a lot..... But I believe depression is one of those things that a lot of us are handling. It's not easy though but you can not all be happy without feeling sadness. It's natural.
This was so helpful. Thank you for posting this. I was diagnosed with this disorder at the age of 23. I am wondering if my daughter might be presenting symptoms as well. I had forgotten the beginning of my illness. Thanks again.
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
Their beaming sounds from a satellite into your head, use Scalar waves and brain waves to active and move certain nerves on your body. They went to school for this
Reaching out. That’s 4:51 👍🏼 great.
I am experiencing this rn but my diagnosis is schizoaffective. I’m worried because I seem to be needing so much sleep and am sleeping quite a lot. Otherwise I feel everything you just talked about and need to talk to the dr.
People here in India aren't aware of this disease much, they see me as a crazy perosn but i do everyday task without any issues.. running my buisness maintaining my House taking care of my mother etc . Sometimes it gets hard because recently i got some bad anxiety issue with other complications such as sexual disfunction. I seriously dont know what else i can do & what'll happen in the future 😢
I hang onto God a lot. He always get's me thru.
@@terywetherlow7970 That's what I do aswell
All of current conditions spoken of these days, didn't seem to exist previously. Bpd is one my eldest daughter was supposedly diagnosed w. 10 ish years ago. She's 41 now. Sometimes she'll say she doesn't have bpd anymore. (Untreated of course). I question now whether all therapy she's had in past as an adult really even occurred. No coping skills on any level. It has fractured our family....
@@terywetherlow7970 These conditions have always existed, we just have categorized them and understand them better. I’m sorry your daughter and family are going through a lot. I’m sending prayers. ❤
Ok-I’m mostly through this video and am thinking-this -right here. I need to know how to get started to feel again. How do I go to my doc and say-hey, you know that depression we’ve been treating for years? I think it’s more. I feel like they would wonder why I would even be looking into it. I have huge trust issues and it’s gotten to the point of not leaving the house (again).
I'm so sorry you're experiencing this. I would be really honest with your doctor. If you aren't, you may never really know. There are treatments for prodromal and early stage psychosis and for people who are at high risk, so there are options out there if that is what you are dealing with. I know how terrifying it can be to say something, but, if you don't, there's a chance that things will only get worse.
Sounds familiar 😕
All they offer are antidepressants. Those don't help me at all.
@@mariaalma8419 I went finally. I told my doc most of the truth. She changed my meds from Paxil to lexapro-and gave me a list of doctors. She said she thinks I’m resentful of my husband (which I know there is resentment) and said I have generalized anxiety disorder. I am a self pay on a tight budget-so there won’t be a trip to a psychologist anytime soon. :(
Darling person. There IS light at the end of the tunnel. Please keep trying. I care about you.
This sounds a lot like what im experiencing.....ive been dealing depression for a very long time and ive been experiencing these symptoms. Thank you
I also have Schizo affective disorder type 3.
Thank you for beeing so open. I have a bf who shows signs of this and also bipolar. It's getting worse and he don't do anything and don't care much about his appearance ore hygiene. His mood can flip like a clock and then it's like he dissociate himself I can't speak with him and also he can say hurtful things and come back and be normal again. His mom is very sick for years and she has symptoms of raging out of nowhere from the little things that most people don't react too. She's also acting like a little girl sometimes she's 54,and don't do much cooking home, grossery shopping etc. Sometimes when she visit she can sit in the sofa with here phone and just say nothing. I also witness she has manic episodes and then she seem posetiv, wants to talk, get up and do things. Also here sound of voice is different I notice that. She also calls here mom every single day witch I find very dissturbing. It's like she needs to have constant control ore she flips out. Can anyone see the same as I do? I don't know if it's BPD, bipolar ore schizophrenia. It's extremely hard to live with and exhaust me mentally. It's even harder when he won't go to the doctor he always deny things when I try to explain to him.
Get the book”I’m not sick, I don’t need help” by Xavier Amador, the author is a psychologist and his brother had schizophrenia, he developed a technique to help family members help their loved ones
lack of sleeping produce schizophrenia also in great measure.. example my son Jeffrey
Great video!
Thank you!
@@notliketheothers Your welcome! ❤
Interesting! And what happened next??
Yes everything makes sense.
I went into a severe depression then the delusions started. But some of what I saw was real. What about spiritual experiences.
yes, spiritual awakenings are real....
Very good and beautiful
My first signs of my schizophrenia was derealization and hallucinations like at first id believe i saw ghosts and the derealization was so intense i felt like I weren't real then boom full blown pyschosis so glad im medicated
Sleep problems are an early sign of a lot of mental difficulties. I know that first-hand. But I don't think it's necessarily an early sign of mental illness if a person feels lethargic when other people aren't around. That seems to be how most people are. Of course, there are degrees of everything; highs may be higher and lows lower.
I love sleeping....I have such ordinary but, soothing dreams.
@@terywetherlow7970 I don't remember my pleasant dreams, but I know when I've had one.
NOT being able to sleep is a potential, common, early sign of mental illness. Especially not even feeling the NEED TO SLEEP.
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Hi, thanks for your video. My friend’s 17 year old son committed suicide in January. He showed no signs prior. But… his grandmother has schizophrenia. We are struggling to find answers… I am curious about your family history. Does anyone else in your family have this disorder? Do you have any other insight into early signs you or others may have experienced? ❤
Withdrawal from people, feeling like everyone is against you, socially awkward
@@sundayc6439oof .... everything I've done since birth.....
This is a fine example of what happens when a society overdoses on ‘therapy’ and self analysis and over thinks everything.
That's what I thought.
By watching themselves people tend to lose control, and convince themselves that they need to wear a psychiatric label on them. I met two people like that, one into a permanent depression "that I have accepted" and one who felt very relieved to be named an Asperger and refuses any contact with someone who is not Asperger.
I am very impressed how you express yourself. The meds you take must be working well.
Took me a couple of decades for me to figure this out. Kind of sucks because my life could have been so different.
I have it too
For me it was around 7 i got my first Hallucinations
You are very beautiful!
So I feel this often.. throughout the years now more often for longer periods of time.. I don’t know how to explain this to a doctor. :/
Well, I was more or less fine in the last 5 years, but recently I am developing what I would say apathy, a mild disinterest in my life and joy. But I think it's mild.
Before that I had psychotic depression.
I will go next week to a spiritual advisor, I will tell all my shit to her, and it comes out of me :)
"A Spiritual Advisor"? Don't be surprised if that doesn't do much for ya. Treating mental illness is not their strong suit!
@@jeffjones3040 Maybe they take your soul. ;)
You are describing me, I just thought it was my depression. What can I do?
I think our beautiful presenter just isn't recognized for how brilliant she is.
Also, I don't understand what's so wrong about "ideations".
If Einstein didn't have his ideation about relativity when he was sort of day dreaming on the way home from work one day... our world would be very much in the dark.
Too often we are crushed on when we are little sprouts, and accidentally too of course.
Just get right up and be beautiful. You're NOT ALONE!
If I may humbly suggest, have a read at the gospel of John. It is incredibly intelligent, beautiful and deeply truthful, spiritually.
for how long did you not sleep? and how long was the prodrome?
CPTSD
My son is 29 diagnosed with schzophrenia
He has been living in a boarding home since july with other 7 mentally ill men
he is also using poppy seeds or tylenol 1 or beer when he has money
Please tell me if I made a mistake and it will worsen his situation
Shall I bring him home ?
I asked him to leave because it was not easy to live with him
dory house
dirty toilet
unwilling or unfeeling like doing anything
it just a month since he comes home to eat or shower and it’s fine with me but otherwise he does same thing as he did at home pretty much walking all day long on the streets
You didn't make a mistake. Try hard to not worsen Your Own situation, your peace of mind, not having to worry excessively about him. You can do this by trying very hard to not lose his trust in you, by him not becoming suspicious of you and his perceived (whatever you have done to him). If you lose his trust you've lost him. This is my own experience with a twin brother.
You made the right choice!!
Dr. Jerry Marzinsky brought me here 👍🏻
I tested positive for HSV after having a horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcoming experience gave me the glimmer of hope I needed to hear. I am glad that there are people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now l'm enjoying my life the way I am supposed to. it is a blessing i came across you DR OBALAR channel..
So was that dissociation of some sort? I’m trying to find what that symptom is classified as. Not Delusion. Not Mania. Not Hallucinations. Is it a type of Disorganization of Speech and Thinking? It would have to be the thoughts.
They were negative symptoms
Do you have loss of sensation throughout your body?
I feel like I am disconnected from my body
I touch my face for example and I hardly feel it
I find that this is the worst
That sounds like dissociation to me. I had that for a few years.
A SAPIENT|STRESS RELATED DISORDER HAS THE PERSON RISE SLOWLY|STRESS DISORDER, THE STRESS DISORDER WOULD REGARD THE TELEVISION|STRESS AND TELEVISION|DISORDER. SHE MORE NORMAL THEN SHE MAY KNOW. ANIMALS|ANXIETY THEY HAVE IT WRONG.
Don't label yourself, life goes up and down, a little psilocybin could re-set your emotions, stuff buried comes to the surface and you get a different outlook and then you think why was I thinking about that in my life.
Lysergic is more intense and let's you see your life as it is and except it, both good and bad
I have the same thing...experienced the same thing...thank you for sharing.
You are bueatiful and smart,you can have a great life,Im confident Jesus is the way
Explain, please
Da li mi razvijamo tu bolest u sebi? Ne svidja mi se odnos pacijent - doktor, jer ih se ne dotiče što smo bolesni, već samo prepišu lek. Slabo se bave preventivom. I nikom nije stalo do toga kroz šta sve prolazimo i šta se sa nama dešava. Teške su tablete koje pijemo. Majke mi nema ni brata💝
U bolnici Sokolac su jednu djevojku zavezali. Zar ne mogu biti humaniji.? Gore je hrana užasna... A primaju doktori platu...
I know this is a superficial thing to say, but a lot of people with schizo mental illnesses have such pretty, dreamy eyes. maybe because their imaginations are more active? idk but I've noticed that.
What symptoms of depression does a 4 or 5 year old present with? I want to know what to look for.
It varies from child to child, but for me, I would cry frequently and not know why. I had a lot of fake injuries because I was trying to cover up the fact that I didn't know why I was crying because I didn't think that was acceptable. People constantly asked me if I was okay because I just looked sad I guess. I was also extremely sensitive and insecure. In preschool and kindergarten especially I felt fundamentally different than the other kids and like I didn't belong, so I had a really hard time socializing. It was very easy for me to get anxious and panicky too. I felt like everything was spinning wildly out of control even when everything was fine. I also felt a great deal of guilt and like everything bad was my fault. Though I didn't share these thoughts with anyone, there were times where I considered walking into traffic or jumping off of high things. I just didn't want to exist. I think a lot of it was passed off as me being dramatic or overly sensitive and clingy. The best advice I can give is that if something looks like a cry for attention, check in with your kid. It's not always for no reason.
@@notliketheothers Thank you for your detailed response. ❤️
I wonder if some of those feelings are just a part of life and everyone goes thru certain sadness, happiness, failures, success, and such but for some they want to be in a hospital.
Immediately improve your life by letting go of any thought that is causing an undesirable emotion in you. Imagine a butterfly landing on your hand. Gently raise your arm and allow the unbeneficial thought to release. Then, be appreciative in the knowing that you know the secret to betternment. Relax and take some deep breaths. There is nothing wrong with you. Peace is the way to more peace.✌
wow the eyes are terrifying
What does getting help look like is important and missing in this videos
very true - what getting help looks like definitely is important! I will make sure to address this in future videos.
Did you ever have tactical hallucinations?
Robert Marley -- I've had tactile hallucinations. For awhile I felt like termites were in my backbone, and they were gnawing on my vertebrate.
@@RaysDad smart move creating an account for filtering comments! Supportive and protective parent! Good work
Suicidal ideation at age 4? Thats an interesting memory
By the alphabet ppl logic, this child should get assisted euthanasia covered by insurance.
I wish I had those symptoms. Mine are the opposite. I can't even work. I can't function. Were you diagnosed with it because it MUST be diagnosed by a professional and we cannot self diagnose from my understanding? I was on January 20th, 2023 (my birthday and not long ago) after a year of therapy after being diagnosed with BPD and CPTSD. I was told to stay clear of others who aren't officially diagnosed and aren't in recovery like me because they aren't the ones we should be learning from. You didn't even tell what type. That is what makes me think you self diagnosed. I am bipolar type. There's 2 types.
Hi there!
I was professionally diagnosed with depressive-type schizoaffective disorder in August of 2008 after originally being diagnosed with schizophrenia earlier that month, and I also wish these were my full symptoms! The symptoms I talk about in this video are the symptoms I experienced in my prodrome. About 24 seconds into the video, I explain that the prodrome is the precursor to a true psychotic break, so they are not the symptoms of psychosis, but I guess you could say the pre-psychosis symptoms. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough about that in the video. Not everyone will have a prodrome, but many do, and if caught in or near the prodrome, it can make a huge positive difference in outcome. My point with this video is that they are very subtle.
My full symptoms include visual, auditory, and tactile hallucinations; delusions; negative symptoms like alogia and flat affect; and a ton of disorganized symptoms. All of these can be extremely disabling for me, though my treatment works fairly well for me, so I do not have symptoms all of the time anymore.
I think you will find that most people will not say what type of schizoaffective disorder they have on social media. Honestly, most people, even those who have it, seem to think that bipolar type is the only type, so I'm glad you have that information! You may also find that lots of people with schizoaffective disorder say that what they have is schizophrenia. I will take note of your comment though and maybe work on incorporating depressive-type into the way I talk about my illness more online. I haven't until now because one is not necessarily more severe than the other, so I found it didn't make a big difference in the way I talk about it.
I hope this helps, but if you have more questions about my symptoms, feel free to ask or check out my blog :)
@@notliketheothers There's probably more awareness now. I was diagnosed with it back in the '90s and that didn't come up at all. But, from what I recall, it was clearly the bipolar type as I would get manic episodes as well.
But, the whole thing is pretty muddy, as I've got autism and migraines and OCD, which makes it a bit unclear as to the extent to which I was having hallucinations due to schizoaffective disorder versus Alice in Wonderland Syndrome or migraines.
I do somewhat question the validity of the diagnosis though as it's been gone for well over a decade without any medication and it seemed to go pretty quickly when I acknowledged that the paranoia was probably well justified based on past personal trauma and most of the rest of it did have other reasonable explanations.
What’s this women’s name
Katie Sanford from the addition info section.
Who are these people putting this stuff out there this is dangerous to be saying and making people think that they've got it...
That’s not a symptom
This sounds like depression tho.
Thanks for the video.
I am possibly Schizoaffective bipolar/depression type.
I reached out to a psychiatrist a few months ago and got very angry when she said this might be what’s going on.
I have a new Physciatrist and he and my dbt therapist believe what’s important is treating the depression.
Your description of Schizoaffective symptoms has made me wonder if this actually is what’s going on with my mind.
Presently very triggered by a visit with a parent and feeling too much right now.
Maybe I should call my Physciatrist 🙃🤔🫣
No matter what it is, I hope things get better ❤️
Llll
I disagree that empty is a feeling. Empty is being devoid of all feelings. It’s not feeling anything at all…. Or at least that’s how I would explain it
Empty is absolutely a feeling.
You are not like the others, but maybe you are better off. Perhaps you are better than the others in a peculiar way.
When your mind moves into an observer mode, somewhat detached, you might notice some sensory augmentation. As if your whole being is expanding outward.
Schizophrenia survived evolution, natural selection of the fittest, for a reason. In some cases, Schizophrenia is beneficial, in terms of unique skills that exceed human capacity. It is up to you, to recognise your special innate skills, bestowed on you, by Schizophrenia.
Please, embrace your Schizophrenia as a gift. It is in you. Please find it, cultivating it, to serve you.
no, no mental illness is a gift. mental illnesses are hell. i hate this.
Do you really have a mental problems? Or did they make you feel that way...I ask because you more sane than most doctors
No
Just a question I'd ask you. Do you believe in the climate change scenario? When you've answered, I'll ask further.
Confused speech.
Too much self analysis is in itself not only a mental disorder, but also a source of mental disorder.
And I will stop watching such videos.