I’m schizophrenic and the gameplay of the video brought me to tears, not for the maze thing and chess board, that’s a little over the top for me. But the disorientation, subtle hallucinations, characters own dialogue, and not being able to stay on task and then forgetting where you are, that was painfully accurate to me. Mark still managed to make it funny and make me smile, thanks for making me feel better guy.
Have you ever tried psilocybin? It supposed to help you face your fears and push them out so you are no longer afraid. Works great for PTSD, I wonder if it would work for schizophrenia? Just dont take too much or you'll hit ego-death and if you aren't ready for that, then you could have a bad time as your mind Is telling you that everything you believe is bullshit. I just know the voices and night terrors from my wartime PTSD dont happen anymore ever since I took a few grams of magic mushrooms. I fought my demons and now I'm no longer haunted by them. In fact, I use them to give me strength to move past difficult times. Gives me solace knowing that nothing can scare me now. I also smoke Jays too. That helps with the anxiety, for me at least. My anxiety is not out of fear anymore, it's usually comes out of excitement and adrenaline when I feel my life is in danger. I find it fun now, but it does get my heart racing pretty good when I think I get to fight. Wired thing is, I didnt have PTSD when I was at war. Its weird how that works. When you come home and it all hits you at once because now you have time to relax, and when you relax, you remember. That's when it happens. That's when the ghosts come to haunt.
VictorKoala101 i took shrooms earlier this year actually, and felt absolutely wonderful actually. Cried for no reason all day the day after. I alone weed as well. I enjoyed both. One thing I didn’t enjoy was LSD, I call it a hell drug but, that’s a me thing
@@TheScorpionjoker oh dude I love Acid. Only had one bad trip, but I needed that. Cried like a bitch and felt so good afterwards. Never felt more connected with the world and I was intuitive as fuck. Freaked my wife out so much that she thought i could see the future. Nah, i was just able to put the pieces together, even if the pieces weren't in play yet. I can still do that now. Its weird sometimes. The vibes I got from everything was amazing and I can still see bright colors around the edges of objects and sense when someone is near by. Acid opens up my eyes but shrooms make me face my fears and allow me to connect with people better. I just found out it's legal to grow shrooms so I'm gonna start that up. For myself and brave friends of course. I dont deal. That's still illegal to sell. Do you feel like you had a breakthrough with the shrooms?
Those cat pictures in the beginning were painted by an artist who is slowly progressing into schizophrenia so you can see his depictions of his cat become distorted as the disorder takes hold.
V10L3NT N0M4D It’s probably one of the most realistic games Mark has ever played, because I’ve known people who’ve become schizophrenic, and they’ve said the auditory hallucinations are like what’s depicted in the game. Very disturbing. Can’t imagine having to live with that.
They actually included the main character trying to trigger the dive reflex in the schizophrenia simulator at about 23:43 It's basically sticking your face in a bowl of cold water for around twenty seconds. The bowl has to be lower than your heart so your brain thinks you are moving downwards. It tricks your brain into thinking that you are swimming, so it slows down your heart rate and focuses your mind on survival. Repeating this a couple times until I'm comfortable works wonders for dealing with anxiety attacks. Anyone else have coping mechanisms that work for them? I'd love to hear them!
What always calms me down when I start going into a panick attack, or when I always start to go into a anxiety attack, is watching stuff that makes me laugh and makes me happy, like Markiplier's videos he always cheers me up
As a nurse we had the option to go through a simulation like the 3rd game, but it was VR and they made it worse by doing stuff like brushing against you and spritzing water in your face and making you smell certain scents. I was basically in the fetal position by the end of it. Mental illness is no joke. 😔
It’s honestly heartbreaking. My personality disorder drains me and makes my life a living hell because of the things going on in my brain and I can’t imagine living with disorders like Schizophrenia. Or any psychedelic like disorder.
Yeah, I think mental illnesses and disabilities need more recognition and more awareness and education about them. It’s horrible that on social medias like tik tok some mental illnesses have become like a trend, people faking disorders like DID and Tourette’s left and right
@@dynosaurrrr I don't know why but those depression ads make me so mad. Like they treat depression like it's just an annoying setback, rather than an actual depressive mental issue that some people are unlucky enough to be born with or gain.
*THIS IS A SERIOUS WARNING FOR ANYONE WHO HAS ANY FORM OF EPILEPSY!!! DO NOT WATCH THE THIRD GAME AS IT MAY TRIGGER A SEIZURE* I have chronic epilepsy and I fell and aura coming on during the video so I felt the need to warn others in the comment section about this. Please take this into consideration and be safe.
you might want to put light sensitive epilepsy as there are some of us that have epilepsy but don't have episodes from flashing lights. just a thought :)
Thank you very much. I suspected as much, and I wish let's players would leave trigger warnings, because epilepsy is serious, and we can't know it's going to be a problem until it happens. Industries/developers need to be more responsible about this, too.
don't get me wrong, but most times people dont put it in because they dont suffer from it themself, its not because they want you to suffer, we just tend to forget that some people can't handle it, and since we dont deal with it on a dialy basic we sadly push away the thoughts about you. so don't blame him for it, everyone does it sadly :/
The last game actually made me feel so sad. My mum suffers with Schizophrenia, so this is extremely helpful in understanding how much she is actually going through. It makes me wish there was more I could do, but I don't know what. Still, I do understand a little more now, so I guess that's good.
While I don't suffer from schizophrenia I do suffer from other mental disorders, so I can say with some certainty that you just being there and doing your best understanding and loving her regardless of what she's going through speaks volumes to her. It's a big help. I wish you and your mother the best 💜
This is lAte but I’m actually really glad you played the third game. My older brother has serious schizophrenia and he has really strong medication and without it he hallucinates seriously. He breaks down in public a lot and his husband can hardly do much but hold him close. I feel like this is really raising awareness that schizophrenia isn’t just something that makes someone a weirdo. It makes someone highly dysfunctional. I’m really glad you played this Mark. Edit:: omg y’all are so sweet 😭 my brother thanks you all for such love and support 💞
"That's so uncomfortable.. It's just that kind of unsettling that just puts you off. Everything seems wrong." And thus did you understand what living with mental illness is like.
Elevator Eleven it’s horrifying because during the summer I started having problems like that, like I would be standing there and feel off, like I wasn’t really standing there, like I wasn’t a part of this world or something, almost dizzy but not... just off, and it terrified me. I realized I have anxiety and knowing that has helped me a lot with many things. But jeez it was a scary summer. Atypical migranes make you feel that way too, like your floating and you can’t see right it’s horrible. Luckily it’s all just anxiety
Keagan Kalbfleisch Yeah I had no idea what was going on for a year or two with my panic attacks and my whole family thought that I had diabetes or hypoglycemia but knowing now that they were just panic attacks helped a lot. Now whenever I feels anxious I just take a deep breath and pray. It really helps and my relationship with God has grown stronger every day. So I guess good can come out of bad.
I'm glad this game was made because I never understood what it was like to be trapped in your mind like that. It's horrifying. My heart goes out to you
As someone who lives with schizophrenia I always get really worried about gamed or things that say they are a "schizophrenia simulator" but this was actually pretty good. Hearing, seeing, feeling, and sometimes smelling things that aren't there. Sometimes it's easy to tell what's real and what isn't and sometimes it's really not. Getting so dizzy and disoriented. And the fact that most of the time medication does either nothing at all or makes it worse. Feeling anxious and paranoid that everyone hates you or that there's someone close to you that wants to hurt you. Feeling like you're constantly being watched and followed by someone or something. The line between reality and what's in our mind is so thin.
The cat painting at the start of the Schizophrenia simulator was by an artist called Louis Wain, who’s paintings if cats became stranger as he fell into Schizophrenia. Just thought I’d share that random bit of information.
Finally, a comment with his name. These kids have gotten so used to intentionally forgetting artists' names so they can take credit that they don't even retain the names of established professional artists
As a person with schizophrenia it was really interesting to see him play third game! I'll add updates again: (Also hi guys, im 15 now! :D) The symptoms i described in the replies are a bit off, since i was confusing them with the other things i have. some of the main symptoms/general effects it has on me, is definitely constant paranoia, and it effects who i've been able to trust as well. My own home doesn't actually feel like my home because of it. And for people saying I don't have it cause I wouldn't know: people with schizophrenia can be aware it's schizophrenia. But not 100%. In my case, whenever I 'know' I'm hallucinating, it feels more like I'm trying to _convince_ myself it's a hallucination. and it has been getting worse, and harder to tell myself it's fake. The other day I was in the shower, and I felt a presence behind me, before feeling taps on my shoulder. I _knew_ I was alone because I would have heard my loud ass door open, but it still made me burst into tears basically immediately because I didn't believe I was alone, it was just the logical answer that I most likely was.
If you don't mind my asking, how realistic is this game to your experiences? I'm sure not ever person with schizophrenia has the identical experience but just want to hear your view.
The cats are artworks made by an artist who had schizophrenia and each one of those artworks are showing how he sees cats as his schizophrenia gets worse. To see them better look up cat artwork by a schizophrenic artist
Fun fact: those cats on the screen on the menu of the schizophrenia simulation game are actual paintings done by an artist who suffered psychosis and schizophrenia. His name was Louis Wain
@@BeastRedAsh yeah, her death had an ill affect on his mental health and made it deteriorate more. Though there's some debate over whether his work is a good example of his mental decline over time or not since he frequently used lots of patterns and colors in his work already. There's a couple though that are pretty, uh, intriguing
I’m in college abnormal psych, and one of the first things we learned about treating schizophrenia is DONT GIVE THEM DOPAMINE. While it’s great for other mental disorders, dopamine is usually terrible for schizophrenics and worsens their hallucinations (which are usually auditory so I’m not sure why there are so many visual ones in this game)
@@cupcakemastrz3082 Since you do have a form of qualification, are the auditory hallucinations always voices? I hear sirens, music, old video game sound effects, and as I pay more attention, they slowly distort. I know tinnitus causes the other ones, but those 4 always perplex me. If you know anything about that, it would be nice, but either way, it's not too much of a problem.
That last one made me have really bad anxiety. I don't have Schizophrenia but as soon as the piano started playing I thought I was gonna have a panic attack. That is a super effective simulation.
Same I thought I was the only one. I have anxiety to begin with but while I was watching this is was worse and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. The simulation feels so real and I wasn’t even the one playing it lol
Same here!! My anxiety attacks are normally coupled with minor hallucinations and paranoid delusions and it definitely reminded me of the worst of them...
Schizophrenia is absolutely terrible and terrifying. You hear voices and sometimes music, like in the game, you see things, people, etc. Your vision is sometimes blurred or you get tunnel vision and it feels like you're about to pass out, go blind, or fall over. There was one incident I had that was the least scary episode, it was kind of funny (although, at the time I was have a panic attack) I was home alone and I was in the living room going through some games or something and I heard the old TV from the 90s that was in the back of the house turn on. I could hear the high pitched white noise and it got louder and louder. After a minute of freaking out, I heard the Harry Potter theme play and I hummed along for a second and walked to the back to turn the TV off which was never on. I still find it funny that the Harry Potter theme 'played'
I was ready to be annoyed about the third game as I suffered through psychosis and see a lot of poor representations of it. This was not one of those. I saw many examples of psychosis that I could relate to directly. I think that the most important thing for people to know about psychosis is that we aren't crazy. We really are experiencing these things. It doesn't matter that it isn't 'real'. In that moment it is real. If any person were to experience the things I experienced they too would be struggling to set apart reality from psychosis. I suffered all day every day for 2 years. Thankfully that was 6 ago. I haven't experienced any symptoms (other than depression and anxiety) in 4 years. If anyone else is suffering and is reading this comment I want you to know that if you reach out for support it can get so much better. I used to be too ill to leave the house. Now I work as a volunteer peer support worker in the mental health services.
@@assbedazzled Psychosis is essentially the term used for experiencing something that isn't really happening. it is one of key 'features' of schizophrenia. I primarily experienced auditory hallucinations in the form of hearing voices. For me I felt like I was telepathically connected to everyone around me and sometimes beyond. If I was talking to someone in real life I would be having a separate conversation with them through 'telepathy'. Sometimes I would be sustaining what felt like hundreds of connections at the same time. Make no mistake I experienced this as sounds and not as inner consciousness. I had a few distinct visual hallucinations but they were pretty boring really. People sitting in seats who weren't there. Cars on the street that weren't there. There were more general visual hallucinations though. The contrast, brightness and colour intensity of the world was heavily linked to my mood. When I was low the world seemed almost grey scale. I also saw everything as if it was really distant or far too close. Psychosis isn't limited to hallucinations though. It may manifest as false memories, paranoia, false beliefs, not recognising familiar people or places, misreading situations or emotions. It's worth noting that these things are experienced by ALL people at some point in their life in some way. The difference between a manifestation of psychosis in someone who is unwell and someone who is well is in two important areas. The first is persistence of the psychosis. If the psychosis (eg hallucinations or delusions) is continuing over an extended period of time then there may be an underlying condition. The second key difference is if it is causing difficulty to the persons ability to live within society. Many people are able to have symptoms of psychosis without it getting in the way of their life. If it's not persistent and it's not getting in the way of your daily living then it isn't an illness. It may be worth notifying someone if you are having false experiences though as it could become a problem in the future. I'd gladly share more info about it as I literally talk about this as my job so if you have more questions feel free to ask.
My sister experiences drug induced psychosis. She was hospitalized after being seen walking back and forth across a busy street. They had to handcuff her to the bed and have a guard at her door. They called my mom because she is her emergency contact. Mom said my sister was very disoriented and conviced the nurses were going to kill her. She looked at my mom and said "you have black eyes like me. We're demonized". I talked to my sister on the phone and I couldn't stop crying and she became convinced that I was also in the hospital and they were going to kill me too.
Mason Hayes said it well in another comment "Schizophrenia is absolutely terrible and terrifying," but I'd like to add my own input on schizophrenia. The simulator is pretty accurate to my personal experience, at least. The general look of things, being blurry or fuzzy, and distant, especially. I do get vertigo a lot & struggle with wearing shoes because the height difference makes it worse. Things looking far away is Very disorienting. I don't get the 3rd person/out of body experience, but I do feel like I'm looking in from another world. It's like I'm looking through someone else's eyes, but their eyes are Slightly fogged up glass, and it's like I'm sitting in another room looking through that glass. I have trouble processing things. Words often have no meaning to me; they're just abstract noise. Sometimes, no matter how bright it is, it seems dark. This varies. Usually I'm ok in the sunlight, but there are days when even seems like a moonlit night to me. Edit: I forgot to mention mirrors. I dislike mirrors. One reason because 9.8 times out of 10 I don't know the girl in the mirror. even though I have the knowledge that that face is mine, it doesn't feel like it is. It feels like it's the girls whose eyes I'm looking through. It feels like I've stolen her life. The other is because it scares me. Especially if I look into the eyes, she will become evil. I'll fear that she leaves the mirror and follows me. I'll be expecting her when I turn the corner. As for hallucinations, they switch a lot, but I almost never experience them as more than one sense at a time. It will often be mainly audio for a period of time, almost entirely go away, and then come back as visual, turning into more audio without the lapse, and repeating. There is only one time I remember ever experiencing 3 senses at once. I saw a panther, I heard it growl, and I felt it touch my leg, all at once. That. Was. Horrifying. My hallucinations usually aren't disturbing though, and in fact, the audio ones are sometimes very positive and helpful (reminding me to brush my teeth, telling me that whatever I can do is good enough, as long as I do what I can). The visual ones are usually animals that are inaccurate sizes, except panthers; for some reason, panthers are actually the correct size. The bugs fly by and disappear. They all startle me, make me jump even, but don't truly scare me. The only times audio ones have been mean or commanding, I've been able to stop them. In particular, the one time they wanted to harm my mother, I went to the living room and waited for her to leave to work, and told her to have a good day and stay safe. She knew I was acting weird, didn't know why, but it worked. the most common (nearly nonstop) audio I have is something like 24:52. I have the volume quite low, so I couldn't hear what was being said in the game. It just sounded like murmuring. I usually hear what sounds like a TV in another room. Sometimes it sounds like actual people talking in another room. I also hear everyday noises, like dishes clanking or the toilet seat being put down, when I'm alone. The flash of...people...at 26:53 reminded me of something I used to experience (I was way more stressed, and stress makes everything worse). I saw...what I thought was another world...I saw it other places, but really focused in on it at crosswalks...It could be an empty crosswalk and I would see people, but not people. They were shadows, shaped like people, with texture like people, holding phones and walking, and talking, and existing like real people. In small groups, I still get that, but in crowds, these days I'm too busy melting down because the noise is overwhelming. By far the worst hallucination I have is whispering. It sounds like a cafeteria if everyone were whispering. A few words or sentences come through, but it's mostly endless, maddening noise. Actually maddening too. That one makes me angry, makes me want to both curl up in a ball and cry and lash out at anyone and anything around me. I get mean when that one happens. Because of it, I now have a phobia of whispering (hearing anyone do that triggers it, probably worsened by my fear of it, but...yeah). Ok, so aside from the whispering thing, my hallucinations are tolerable (not everyone's are, and I SO hope that anyone who needs help will find it). Paranoia, however, is not. The only persistent paranoid feeling of mine so far is to do with food. Even watching someone else make the food doesn't get rid of it, but depending on who it is, makes me able to eat it. I mainly have issues with any dish that has meat, or tastes funny, because I feel like I'm being tricked into eating fish. I even will think there's poison in my food, but that doesn't bother me as badly as the fish thing. That one makes me entirely unable to eat many things. I'll try to eat it, and gag. Paranoia, for me, is getting worse, slowly but surely. It's there more often, it's stronger when it is. Initially it was just in psychotic breaks. Now it's not. During one psychotic break, I was terrified of my cats, and my mom. I swore they were some sort of tiger-dog mechanical thing. Way bigger than they actually are, just disguised. Physically impossible. I swore my mom wasn't actually my mom, but some scientist disguised as her to trick me into comfort. I swore they were controlled by her, that they wouldn't hurt her, but at her signal, would hurt me. Recently, not during a psychotic break, but outside of a meeting I went to with mom (I had stepped out because I was hallucinating a lot inside), I felt, very strongly, like there was someone behind me with a knife, raised and ready to strike. Consciously, I Knew that wasn't the case. If it actually were, chances are I wouldn't notice anything. I had gone outside to try something my therapist suggested, which is giving the hallucinations a time frame to do whatever. Instead, I told myself "Ok. I Know there's no one there. It's illogical. If there really were someone there, I probably wouldn't feel it. So. 2 minutes. I am going to give it 2 minutes before I turn around. And there will be nothing there. I Know that. So, for 2 minutes, I'm going to look out at the yard, and resist the urge to check my back." 2 minutes was pushing it a little bit. I should've done 1 and a half (the last 15 seconds or so I was Completely panicking). But, I made it. When time was up, I took a deep breath, turned around slowly, and looked. And there was nothing. No one. Just air. That gave me confidence, too. It felt much better in the end than giving in to the paranoia and constantly looking around scaredly. Back to the general disorientation, it has a lot to do with paranoia too. I often think something has moved when nothing has. Often, things Do Look like they're moving, to me. Even the walls can bend, but they aren't, right? It's extremely difficult to decorate, because almost anything will scare me one day or another. Grey animals make me paranoid (which sucks, because not only are they beautiful, but they have their own personalities too and I wish I could get to know them). Bright red just scares me. Dark colors distort easier. Paintings with any sort of face, human or not, are absolute no-nos. Images with many dots, ones that are blurred, abstract one, or ones with random color splotches as a background, are not ok. I avoid horror things, especially images, because I don't want to fuel my imagination with scary things to hallucinate later. I hesitate to even play videos with horror games in another tab, just to listen to (only way I ever 'watch' them), because I'm worried about whispering, things being described too well, etc. But, I am glad to have done that with this one, and when Mark talked about that schizophrenia simulation, I decided to actually watch that part. Also edit: 32:05 Personally, dreaming is often better. Nightmares suck, and nightmares where I'm Schizophrenic in them too are possibly worse than reality. But overall, dreaming, and daydreaming, is my safe haven. I don't...quite...lucid dream...but something like it? I know I'm dreaming, but don't want to change anything. I know what's going on around, everything. I know how many will play out because they're recurring settings, or even stories. I rarely want to change anything. The only times I do are when they're nightmares, and I've learned to just wake myself up from those, by changing the dream as much as I can, or by hurling my car off a cliff (I Desperately wanted to avoid the 2 areas that were coming up next). My favorites are the ones where I fly. It just feels...so incredible, so relaxing, so peaceful.
This is literally the only long comment i fully read in my entire life, you are an amazing person. from what i learned you "love to fly" so take skydiving into consideration or better discuss that with your family. if i was there beside you i would talk to you a lot, encourage you anyway i can, take you to places you like and try my best for you wearing the shoes part is a cute thing if that makes you feel better. i don't care if you were a boy or a girl i would do it anyway as nobody deserves living like that i just want to tell you that you or anyone who has Schizophrenia are amazing and strong people, never give up
this is so helpful and i really admire someone who shares their experience like that, often times we can say something bad or stupid because of misinformation, and understanding and seeing how people interact with certain health issues can guide us through a situation that might happen in the future. Thank you :)
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and struggles with Schizophrenia. People don’t truly understand how difficult it can be unless they hear it from real people. I myself have been guilty of that. Books can only tell us so much but to actually hear it come from a real person who experiences it everyday really puts it into perspective on how awful it can be. Again, thank you for sharing and you have an amazing day you beautiful person.
@@soitrash Mm...Well, my mom suspected it most of my life, since she saw symptoms early, heard my conversations with my 'imaginary friends' and thought they were too real, and since it runs in the family (both my mother & her father...mom is not paranoid schizophrenic, though grandpa was (I never met him since he left her early in life). But, it didn't get bad until middle school. I don't remember much from that time, but have journals and notes talking about the voices. From them, it's clear that they were scary then, that they bothered me. But, no one would diagnose me, because they said I was 'doing too well in school' or 'too smart' (which is complete bs btw). I actually stopped having positive symptoms at all for a year or so, when high school started. It was only after those came back, and I actually talked about it (found the right person) that I was diagnosed...I didn't realize that's what it is until it came back after that year though.
I've got Schizoaffective disorder and honestly, that game was pretty accurate to what I go through. My hallucinations are different, but everyone has different ones. The looping thoughts are much faster in real life and often overlap the same message over and over, faster than you can think.
Omg same! I jumped in my chair impaled my head through the ceiling now im laughing with the smiley man in my attic and things wont stop sucking my feet n it tickles lol 😂
“That’s what I was suppose to see before, but then I didn’t because I...uh didn’t.” Sounds like what I would put for an “explain your answer” question.
I know its 2 years later but watching the schizophrenia game.. I'm not schizophrenic but I have had auditory hallucinations before and the point where he starts hearing random things and freaking out was very accurate for me
As someone who grew up with a schizophrenic dad I’m hoping that the schizophrenia simulator will bring awareness. For some of those who don’t know, schizophrenia’s stigma is that they’re crazy and will hurt anyone. That’s when the dopamine levels are too high. On the other hand, when the dopamine levels are too low a person will have Parkinson’s disease and the stigma on that is that it’s a sad disease. I wish people didn’t view schizophrenic as someone who will hurt you no matter what and have all these bad views. It’s hard to grow up watching the one you love most suffer with it, but having a healthy support system can help them tremendously.
@@kittencookiecronch4493 well it is I think more of a natural instinct thing. Like animals avoid any contact with an ill conspecific. It is just the "to survive" aspect which cause this misrepresentation of any physical or psychological illness. Like everything which doesn't fit into the norm is avoided. It is to a greater or lesser extent a disgusting way of sustaining the own species.
Man, I was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 10. It was scary, living with all these voices in my head, I still deal with that problem to this day but it doesn't scare me now.
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When experiencing a form of psychosis like schizophrenia the voices and hallucinations are NOT distinguishable from reality, you don’t process it as “voices in my head” you try to ask questions to yourself like “where is that coming from” IF you even have the mental strength to ask yourself anything let alone form a cohesive thought. The “voices” don’t tend to string together actual sentences or make sense. It’s like suddenly having a second conscience or something, and those two every other second realize they’re not alone, panic and battle for individuality by spilling whatever they can as fast as possible.
I'm surprised that the old man didn't catch a marlin. Also not-so-fun fact: Symptoms of schizophrenia don't only include hallucinations but an undying sense of paranoia. I laughed when Mark said, "I think there's someone here." The simulation did what it wanted, I see.
@@dma93-ch Well... I don't know the whole story, that's all. Because a certain person thinks people are out to get them doesn't mean that they have schizophrenia. So I'm saying "no" because that doesn't correspond to what I said. I'm not saying "no" to their reality. For instance... if someone says that they have obsessive habits that doesn't mean that they're automatically someone with OCD. I mean, maybe I misunderstood. It's just that premature diagnosis is a severe problem. Correlation doesn't always equal causation. If RH were to tell me that her mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia I'd take back my comment willingly. Of course, that person doesn't have to because it's not really my business. Call it a little lapse in judgment. I was hoping that RH would explain further even though they don't have to. Which is okay. Instead, I get someone unrelated to the matter who doesn't understand context because they were outside the conversation completely. So how about this? Calm the fuck down. I made a mistake. You win. Sorry.
The first game reminded me of that episode of Courage The Cowardly Dog where courage and Eustace went to a burger restaurant and the guy was turning people into food or something (I am to lazy to look it up and honestly its a fuzzy memory)
No, Courage misunderstood the situation and THOUGHT people were being made into burgers when the pig man was actually crafting lifelike, edible statues out of beef. He was just a passionate artist. It's one of the few times it ends well for Mr. Baggs.
That episode was a one-time-case where it acutally _was_ a figment of Courage's paranoia; the pigman's wife was making edible sculptures out of hambuger, and the man that got "eaten" owned an art gallery and wanted to put her work on display.
The first step to handling it is acknowledging that you have it and taking medicine for it. My mom started taking medicine for hers (she has paranoia schizophrenia) and it really helps a lot so stay strong dude!
@@its_bree8917 it's a Neurological condition, it varies greatly but with grand maul seizures you shake and stop breathing it can be potentially life threatening.
Absolutely true. I have severe schizophrenia, and am not on medication due to wanting to handle it naturally through perseverance. This route is quite difficult and highly don't recommend it, but I am much better with my daily routines and how I live. I have an amazing boyfriend who helps me cope with it and I am doing much better now that I have ways of handling my thoughts and hallucinations.
The whole point of the Schizophrenia Simulator is that you can't "win" against the disorder. Bleak? Yes; unfair? Absolutely. But it's the sad reality of schizophrenia.
Thank you! Someone understands. I have this disorder and just like it's reality there is no hope. Even my antipsychotics and therapy sessions offer little to no relief, there is no guarantees and there is no known cure for the interactive living nightmare that is schizophrenia. Sometimes death is more preferable, but i hang on for the sake of my family. Markiplier god love him, needs to understand the message to the game he's playing, when you have schizophrenia you don't win. Wining isn't an option when you're living in horror.
@@ExhumedFromBed when my mother had an episode and I had to pin her down was the last straw so I had her sectioned Then she had a great granddaughter and realized she needed help Hate to think what would've happened if I wasn't there, hope you have a loving family around you
To be clear the game does have a second ending. It isn't very comforting, but Mark thought you couldn't open the safe, but indeed you can. It isn't a futile effort for the sake of being accurate.
Yeah, I was kind of upset when he said that, too. Then again, most people aren't aware of the reality behind most mental disorders. That's why people try to make simulations like this in the first place. To spread awareness. Of course, Mark still thinks this is a game and as a gamer was probably upset that he couldn't "win." Because you can't. Sometimes you just have to learn to cope. That was, I hope, what the simulation was trying to pull off.
I have been living with schizoaffective disorder (a type of schizophrenia) since I was 12 years old and am 34 now and I must say. This is a fairly good idea of what its like. Random voices, anxiety, paranoia, disorientation, and the attempt to get passed it with the help of doctors and pills. I am pretty sure Mark actually started feeling the overwhelming reality that is non-reality
not a disorder that is a mortal saying pills help in this world but once your dead you will really see it is not fake saying it is a disorder is like saying when your drinking you got no control of your body after so long that is not true drinking brings who you really are out
You know, I never really understood what schizophrenia was about when I was growing up, even when I looked up definitions and symptoms in books. That third game really made it clear what schizophrenics suffer through. My heart goes out to all those who suffer from it.
That game only shows 1% of what schizphrenia is like. there's videos attempting to portray what schizophrenics go through day to day. But it's good to see you have more insight into what it's like
Shame, the 2nd game had loads of depth yet no one talks about it. The Saltwater fish gets less and less tastier as you eat better fish. So do the others when you eat even better fish. It's not long when you can't sate that hunger of yours and start feeding on yourself. That flesh cube. It also could represent the ocean in our time. Pollution causes loads of fishes to die and soon the human race was engulfed in water because of Global Warming, and all that remains is, Flesh cubes and dead fishes.
My dad is schizophrenic and has a personality disorder, it's difficult for him and me to deal with. I myself have ptsd and depression from the abuse from my mother (no longer see her). Life is tough but I know it isn't always like this so I keep moving on taking everything thrown at me head on. *thanks for reading have a day/night*
I know how you feel man, my mom is schizophrenic and I'm only 13, but I'm already showing signs of schizophrenia. My close friend is also schizophrenic, and seeing a game represent it so well is actually touching.
Its a bit exaggerated but the paranoia, the anxiety, the hallucinations all take a toll on you in general. I have schizophrenia and It may not be as intense as this, but it gets pretty serious pretty fast if you dont try to ground yourself. Being alone definitely doesnt help because you have very few things to focus on, and for me personally it heavily affects my perception of time making memories seem closer together than they are. The voices and hallucinations are different in severity and type for everyone, my hallucinations ranging from just seeing things out of the corner of my eye, to entities that linger and move around when things are really bad. I have more visual than auditory hallucinations so things at night/in the dark are especially bad. The last game does a good job at setting in the anxiety and intensity of how things can escalate. Nightmares definitely feel more intense and dreams can be indistinguishable from reality unless its not in first person or the dream is just weird enough you know it couldn't possibly have happened. Alot of people instead of being diagnosed with schizophrenia are diagnosed with some kind of paranoia, anxiety, psychosis or even a stress disorder. Lots of different things can cause hallucinations but schizophrenia could come from anything, or a combination of things eventually leading to schizophrenia like trama. Im not a doctor or anything but i do try to study psychology in my free time to understand all of my illnesses and help people around me understand things as well.alot of this is just my experience and what ive seen in other people.
This is very interesting, I was wondering how someone with Schizophrenia would view this game. Just how much of it is true and just how much is interesting game mechanic. Like you said it's different for everyone, from what I learned that people usualy have auditory over visual halucintions and I knew it vaires between people. In the end I was curious on how close this was to real scizophrenia.
Both my mother and I have schizophrenia and it presents differently in both of us, for my mother she has very bad hallucinations, audio, visual, and even physical. Without her medication she cannot function at all. Wheras mine is less...intense. The paranoia and audio hallucinations are there, and they get pretty bad, they're nowhere near as bad as my mother's. It differs between individuals that's for sure.
it is not to bad as long as they accept them if they say hurt there self or what ever then yea i can see it as a problem but if they dont do nothing it is fine or they could help i like mine but they just talk alot but not in my head they talk through me usually they sometimes just take over my body and i run faster or they have convorsations with other people even when i am asleep overall i like them but thats all i am going to say . have fun :)
Personally I have schizophrenia and it's not fun whatsoever it's hard for me just multiple voices yelling into my ears or what I think is and have a panic attack from them and also visuals are scary as fuck especially if they get too close or touch me I'll legit scream or try to at least
It makes you mad. That's the point. Sometimes treatments don't work. Sometimes people are stuck forever with disorders they didn't ask for. It makes you mad because sometimes things don't wrap up with a nice bow and a happy ending where you find peace with your disorders. Sometimes, they make you mad.
The third one hit home. My cousin has schizophrenia. Shes a sweetheart and shes strong. Her medicine does help a great deal. With the amount of times she has been put in the hospital...im glad she knows what she has and how lucky we are to have her still
The schizophrenia game really gives an insight to what living with mental illness is like. Hearing or seeing things that aren't really there is terrifying even if you know it's not really there
The last game simulator of schizophrenia just made me sad to understand somewhat of how it is, they should make one for depression so I can show my mom and tell he “this is me 24/7”
You can’t visualize depression, it’s a feeling deep in you. It’s a deep sadness that plagues you for so long. The only way you could make a game like that is too make a sweet happy character but then break everything around her and make everything fall apart.
This really makes me sad. Watching the schizophrenia simulation. I know someone from my childhood who was abused and ended up developing schizophrenia. People now treat him like shit because of it. I always want to stick up for him. His parents hate him, people throw rocks at him. He is prone to violent outburses but I feel that we need to be kind to people regardless of their mental illness. These people don't know his background and I do. When I think about him I cry because I want to help but I am not sure how. People when you see someone openly suffering mentally please don't treat them like shit. These people see and hear crazy things. They are human as well and deserve love. We help people like that by accepting their illness as it being an illness of the brain and not an illness of their character.
If you still have some kind of contact with him, I'd say talk to him and tell him that you support him. Sometimes all people need is a friend or just the knowledge that someone cares. But that's only if you feel safe contacting him. Be safe and supportive! You're a good person
Thank you. I try my best to not stigmatize mental illness. It truly is something that can happen to anyone. I suffer from anixety/depression due to a violent childhood. I always was a strong young girl and I never thought mental illness would affect me - but this past year...Was absolutely awful. I just want people to understand that individuals whom suffer from mental illness did not choose to be this way, they ended up developing it. Anyone can. I do not wish it on anyone. My little brother is now suffering from BPD (borderline personality disorder). He keeps sending messages to my family and myself about hating us, and calling us ugly names. Don't get me wrong I did get angry and tell him off...but that was my first reaction, but even when I did I still told him I love him and hope he speaks to someone. I just find it hard to see him go through this. My baby brother. It hurts my soul. I practically raised him. I just don't want to see him kill himself, but there isn't anything I can do -my therapist told me. She stated that the only thing I can do is have the crisis intervention unit check on him weekly, due to the fact that I am not equipped to help him. But my brain and heart tells me I should be able to. We should always be able to, we should be able to do more than just tell them to get help. I hate mental health, I wish it never was a problem for anyone. The mind is sensitive and I just want everyone to know, that I might not be able to help you but I am a great listener, just sometimes talking to someone about it helps. Don't ever let someone tell you you are crazy because you are not. You are you and you are beautiful as you are. I wish everyone well. PMA everyone.
Viva la dirt league! I love those guys, but I have a question, can you help me? My sheep have run amuck and I need a brave adventurer like you to go and get them!
I loved that Schizophrenia Simulator game, I actually know someone who may have it, and from what she describes to me the game is pretty accurate. Voices, hallucinations, often saying negative things. Vertigo, dizziness, memory problems, scattered thoughts, and a complete disconnection from reality at times. That and frequent nightmares with morbid themes. The game was made really well, gave me a headache but I’m pretty sure that was the point.
Man I never thought about schizophrenia but now seeing this game, if its anything even remotely close to this I don't think I would be able to deal with it.
CosmoQueen2900 actually, its is his right to say such things. Because according to many records, schizophrenia isn't as bad as described. There are few who have terrible cases of it, but many do not experience as many things as listed. As someone who has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic (which also runs in my family), I believe there is nothing wrong with what he said, whatsoever.
I have to say, I suffer from schizophrenia and I must say that the last game is very accurate. The voices are accurate, the delusional state and the paranoia that I live with everyday. Not knowing what is real and fake is accurate. Of course every person that has schizophrenia is different but this is vey close.
I hope Mark sees just how special, incredible, hopeful, kind, strong, and diverse his audience is. Really, ya'll are the best!! I suffer from PTSD, Chronic Anxiety, and Moderate Depression, and I'm honestly so lucky... I hope no one takes what they have for granted, because there are people who are in so much pain and confusion and fear that I wouldn't wish upon anyone. *Keep being the happy, lovely people that you are, folks!! I love you all!!!!!*
PTSD, anxiety and depression here as well. Now I smile when people think I'm weird for being so jumpy and always looking behind me! I couldn't imagine living with schizophrenia (it runs in the family, so I got lucky), the anxiety is enough for me.
Broooo we have basically the exact same conditions more or less, I have very mild PTSD severe anxiety and clinical depression so if you ever need someone to talk to I’m here!
My mother has schizophrenia, specifically bipolar schizophrenia. She refused to take medication until this January. My mother said many things I didn't understand, or said that I said things that I didn't. She would get up randomly at night and wake me up, or randomly leave. My mother is a single parent, so she'd go searching for my father often. Though I do not have schizophrenia, this is how I'd imagine her to have felt, or is feeling. My mother would be insanely stressed, and would do things because of her having to provide for her children while disabled. She's getting her disability papers in a few months now that she's less stressed I feel as if she's finally getting to know me.
How old are you? It makes me very worried that a parent, can potentially harm their child. Not saying that she would though. Just a concerned passerby.
Eeh, my mother is bipolar... She didn't talk a lot of nonsense, but my childhood was pretty similar, only with coherent communication. xD She didn't go on meds until i was a grown man, and thanks to those meds, she's no longer impulsive, has paid off her debt, and is working towards a better life. Unfortunately, those meds are a little late... I've grown up already, so i'm permanently damaged by my childhood. xD
My husband has it and he's been on meds and in therapy for years. It's helping him soooo much!! He has to deal with constant voices in his head like in the game. It's awful to deal with but I'm glad he's getting the help he needs
Karl I don't want to put my last name I appreciate your concern! Though that is not something I'd announce on a public server, I can reassure you that before her medication, she has been monitored by doctors. I did not live with her until she started taking medication, and would visit with professionals. To this day, several months after medication, she's still being monitored and is doing just fine. 😊
25:33 No, nobody is there. In Schizophrenia Simulator, the voices the character is hearing is in their head. The character has hallucinations/delusions, some which can be seen, some which can be heard, and all in their head. This is what they are taking medicine for. I read a bit about Schizophrenia a while back (as a (beginner) writer, I like to know about these things so I can write them as accurately as possible (and try to understand them)), but that's about all I can remember. I hope that made sense. I'm not the best at explaining things.
the medicine is dopamine supplements, they help with anxiety and stress from the hallucinations and delusions but don’t actually change how or when they the hallucinations are triggered.
Hey mark I have schizophrenia to since I was 13 and I am almost 20. I would like to say that it is different for everyone. Some see things, some hear things or both. For some like myself it maybe hard to tell the difference from what is real and what is not but thanks to hard work, some thiripy, coping skill and some strong medications I am doing better then ever on plus with you making me laugh and smile I know I can get though anything
Gallifreyan_Hunter oh it fine but I use to have a hard time tell what I was seeing and hearing where actually happening in real life. Just like it the game where the player heated different voices I did too the would call my name and whisper things about me. Most of the time it was during school of just before I fall asleep plus alway seeing a figure of someone and feeling as if someone is following you I still can’t sleep to this day
@@rosehannar2344 I hope you continue to get better and better! I have insomnia and it sucks not being able to sleep properly without pills, I can't imagine how it would be when you're feeling and hearing stuff too! I once tried a sleeping pill that made me feel that someone was watching me sleep and he/she/it would come up to me and breathe in my ear but when I turned around to see who that was, there was nobody there... I was sweating from the anxiety it gave me..! Anyways I feel you and I wish the best to you 💗
Noe Dactyl thank you so much that really means a lot because I don’t open up about this to other people I don’t know only my close friends and family plus Thiripist know but I feel that one makes chanel we are a close family so thanks so much I wish the Same to you. I do take very strong pills but I am leveled now so I am incontrol for the most part
ExtramundaneLove thank you so much for caring and I am so happy to I am so much then I was when I was little so thanks I didn’t even know that anyone would say anything or reply to my comment this means so much
so the thing about schizophrenia is that it's an incurable life long illness that gets worse as you age. the treatment options are effective but keeping patients on their medication is very difficult. so mark feeling stressed and frustrated is very attune to how someone experiencing schizophrenia would likely feel, both with the psychotic symptoms and the changes in personality. the audio being almost entirely irrelevant to the visual aspects of the game is a good example of how distracting hearing voices can be. the humanoid creatures walking towards you is scary and uncomfortable because that's how you feel when you see visual hallucinations. the field of view in the game is probably in relation to visual hallucinations as well because, as the game said, you can feel dizzy from your visual world changing rapidly and also medication side effects. of course there are other aspects of schizophrenia that the final game doesn't touch on (mainly because it would be hard to do such i presume) but i think mark's anguish in losing the game is parallel to how a person with schizophrenia might feel after suffering with the illness for years. there is no cure; there is no resolution. it's very disheartening, but also very honest.
I disagree. The idea that schizophrenia is inherently degenerative has been completely overturned. Recovery is a path so whilst there is no 'cure' maintenance of mental health is not only possible but probable in cases where treatment is available and there is a stable support network in place. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2011. I now go by the diagnosis of 'past experience of psychosis' and work as a peer support worker within the mental health services. I haven't experienced psychosis in 4 years whilst I used to experience it all day every day. I recognise that your aim was probably to inform people of the severity of the condition but I would ask you to look towards modern studies on the matter as there is so much hope for those diagnosed these days.
Glad someone made that third game and that you decided to play it. I have schizophrenia, but I don't have it too badly. I was diagnosed when I was 12 with it (22 now), and the medications I was given seemed to make it worse. Initially I was only hearing whispers and seeing shadows and lights, but once I started on my meds, the whispers became voices telling me that no one loved me and that no one would miss me if I was gone. Shadows got worse as well going from standing in a doorway or darting around a corner to seeing them bomb rushing me when I turned around. Dreams also started to become horrifying to the point I was staying awake till 3 in the morning just to avoid sleeping. I consulted my doctor 4 years ago about wanting to stop taking them, and he agreed as long as I did more checkups with him. First year off meds they got worse, but they've progressively gotten better the last few years. Voice are now just faint whispers again, and the shadows and lights are less often. I feel I'm one of the lucky ones to be able to recover from it on my own and to still be a relatively functional adult. It's still a bit hard for me to socialize, and I'm still a bit jumpy when people sneak up on me unintentionally. Thank you for playing this.
the schizophrenia one I can relate to sadly. It took a really long time to stay as stable as I am today. I am lucky that I got to have the chance to get help before I had to call a hospital my home. This disorder and so many more is no joke. People who dont understand how bad it can be. When a few of my friends thought it was cool I can see things. They dont realize how it can get worse and how things can look so real. I dont have my own car and license because of my hallucinations. There needs to be more people willing to help, more doctors wanting to listen, doctors explaining medications of what they are usually used for instead of taking a shot in the dark. That game makes me think what it was like before I stood up and admitted I needed. Saying that you need the help and willing to do whatever is the bravest thing anyone who needs help. You have to start somewhere and you have to stick to your guns till the end of time. It took me 6 maybe 7 years to get to the point were I am stable. Its not easy and it is not a fast process you need patience with yourself to get the help you need.
Yasha Higarashi I’m sorry I hate to ask but I’m genuinely curious: is 33:04 accurate? Because to me that was honestly the scariest moment and I’m wondering if some poor schizophrenic soul has ever actually had to experience that...
I had a health teacher who knew a kid was schizophrenic but still yelled at him for disrupting class when he loudly told the voices to stop. Definitely wasn't an appropriate response to the kid when they knew what the kid's issue was.
A lot of people this day and age like to say they have certain mental illnesses or disorders, even if they've never been professionally diagnosed. So I know a lot of people will think I'm a liar when I say I do have schizophrenia. I was diagnosed at the age of fifteen, and I'm what my doctor likes to call "functionally schizophrenic". I am allowed to have a job, but am unable to legally get a driver's license or live alone, because I could be a danger to myself or others. I would like to say, Mark, that I think that last game was fairly accurate. While I don't often find myself seeing a "whole new reality", like when the character was in the maze, I do often find myself in places without knowing how I got there. I have experienced the "I didn't close/open that door!" types of panic, when in fact I did open or shut the door, but have no memory of doing so. The voices in the game, in my experience, are inaccurate at times but more accurate in others. I've never really heard super clear voices, and it is never just one voice at a time for me. They have been very loud and very quiet, and while sometimes I can make out what they say, most times it sounds like I'm in a crowded cafeteria with a pair of headphones on. There are seemingly hundreds of voices, all overlapping, and I can never make out more than a word here and there. So I never know for sure what they're saying. I do have visual hallucinations, and they aren't always horrific I guess? While I have seen some pretty horrible things, there are a lot of times where I see regular people. Like when I'm in the car, I'll scream for whoever to stop, because there's a person crossing the street and we aren't slowing down. Whoever is driving usually will have to pull over and calm me down, and explain to me that there is no person, even if I can still see them. I've seen people who aren't real walking down the road, in my room, outside my window, at work. I've had full blown conversations with somebody who isn't even real at work before, thinking its a customer, and my supervisor will have to pull me aside and tell me there's nobody there. We've had real customers leave the store before because of it because they find it "disturbing". I also see insects, animals, objects, wounds, and "monsters". I am also one of an ever smaller percentage of schizophrenics that have textile hallucinations, which is feeling things that aren't real. I've felt things brushing against me, something touching me, things pulling on my arms or legs or hair. I've felt pain when there was no reason to feel pain. I know what a broken bone feels like without ever having to actually break a bone. And I think the disorienting prospective is very very fitting. I have vertigo as a result of my schizophrenia, and my depth perception is pretty awful sometimes. It does vary though, sometimes its not so bad. I am literally always dizzy though. And to answer your questions about dreams, I don't ever really dream. Dreaming is extremely rare for me, but when I do they are vastly fucked up. I also know I'm only one person, and that everybody with my same illness can have vastly different symptoms. So while I think the game is pretty accurate for me, it could be totally off for somebody else.
That's definitely something I can't imagine living with. I personally don't have schizophrenia, nor do I know anyone that does, but that sounds pretty rough to live with. Is there anything you do to help alleviate the symptoms or is it something you just have to learn to live with?
maliciousIntent wow I’m so sorry that you have to experience that every day. I do believe every word you said. I have not been diagnosed with schizophrenia and I would not say I think I might have it but I do get awful nightmares and that’s because of the side affects of my medication. I take medication for my many mental illnesses and it works but also comes with horrific side affects - hallucinations, fucked up nightmares, loss of sleep. So my point is that I respect you to be able to go to work with such bad symptoms when I struggle to function with just side affects of a controlled drug.
Hey, Mark! I can see why you feel frustrated at the end, but it makes sense when you think about it: sometimes, the demons win. Sometimes they don't. My uncle is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and there are times when his demons win. My heart goes out to those who suffer or have loved ones who suffer with schizophrenia
That last game is a good simulation of Schizophrenia. But, something everyone needs to know is that "seeing" things isn't just hallucinations, it could also be delusional imagination along with fears and the things people describe what they "see" could just be an analogy and not an actual thing. And I'm not saying that people don't hallucinate, just that schizophrenia is different for each person. And, yes, having schizophrenia can cause serious horrible nightmares. Everytime I see one of these schizophrenia games it reminds me to get doctors appointments to get back to the medicine that I had, it helped but it was canceled because I couldn't pay for therapy anymore.
The schizophrenia one I really related to... Just as the game makes you feel, I've been there, where everything around me just doesn't feel right. Hearing voices was every now and then, but I ALWAYS saw things, like formless figures on the walls, colors changing, things running at me from afar. It's terrifying, because no matter what you do you can't run away from your own mind.
I’m schizophrenic and the gameplay of the video brought me to tears, not for the maze thing and chess board, that’s a little over the top for me. But the disorientation, subtle hallucinations, characters own dialogue, and not being able to stay on task and then forgetting where you are, that was painfully accurate to me.
Mark still managed to make it funny and make me smile, thanks for making me feel better guy.
Maze and chessboard represent the nightmare - so it is not over the top.
Raullock _ I didn’t mean it in a negative way.
Have you ever tried psilocybin? It supposed to help you face your fears and push them out so you are no longer afraid. Works great for PTSD, I wonder if it would work for schizophrenia? Just dont take too much or you'll hit ego-death and if you aren't ready for that, then you could have a bad time as your mind Is telling you that everything you believe is bullshit. I just know the voices and night terrors from my wartime PTSD dont happen anymore ever since I took a few grams of magic mushrooms. I fought my demons and now I'm no longer haunted by them. In fact, I use them to give me strength to move past difficult times. Gives me solace knowing that nothing can scare me now. I also smoke Jays too. That helps with the anxiety, for me at least. My anxiety is not out of fear anymore, it's usually comes out of excitement and adrenaline when I feel my life is in danger. I find it fun now, but it does get my heart racing pretty good when I think I get to fight. Wired thing is, I didnt have PTSD when I was at war. Its weird how that works. When you come home and it all hits you at once because now you have time to relax, and when you relax, you remember. That's when it happens. That's when the ghosts come to haunt.
VictorKoala101 i took shrooms earlier this year actually, and felt absolutely wonderful actually. Cried for no reason all day the day after. I alone weed as well. I enjoyed both. One thing I didn’t enjoy was LSD, I call it a hell drug but, that’s a me thing
@@TheScorpionjoker oh dude I love Acid. Only had one bad trip, but I needed that. Cried like a bitch and felt so good afterwards. Never felt more connected with the world and I was intuitive as fuck. Freaked my wife out so much that she thought i could see the future. Nah, i was just able to put the pieces together, even if the pieces weren't in play yet. I can still do that now. Its weird sometimes. The vibes I got from everything was amazing and I can still see bright colors around the edges of objects and sense when someone is near by. Acid opens up my eyes but shrooms make me face my fears and allow me to connect with people better. I just found out it's legal to grow shrooms so I'm gonna start that up. For myself and brave friends of course. I dont deal. That's still illegal to sell. Do you feel like you had a breakthrough with the shrooms?
Those cat pictures in the beginning were painted by an artist who is slowly progressing into schizophrenia so you can see his depictions of his cat become distorted as the disorder takes hold.
I noticed that actually.
Underrated
That's disputed actually, it's quite possible that Louis Wain (the artist) had Aspergers instead of schizophrenia
V10L3NT N0M4D It’s probably one of the most realistic games Mark has ever played, because I’ve known people who’ve become schizophrenic, and they’ve said the auditory hallucinations are like what’s depicted in the game. Very disturbing. Can’t imagine having to live with that.
Cat pictures?? I um am blind asf and don't see those so where the frickity frack is those
They actually included the main character trying to trigger the dive reflex in the schizophrenia simulator at about 23:43
It's basically sticking your face in a bowl of cold water for around twenty seconds. The bowl has to be lower than your heart so your brain thinks you are moving downwards. It tricks your brain into thinking that you are swimming, so it slows down your heart rate and focuses your mind on survival. Repeating this a couple times until I'm comfortable works wonders for dealing with anxiety attacks. Anyone else have coping mechanisms that work for them? I'd love to hear them!
I do paired muscle relaxation. The DBT tool kit is full of handy things. ❤️❤️❤️
How interesting! I’d love to learn more about schizophrenia, it sounds devastating yet intriguing. I hope you are doing well!
I might just try this in the future. Thank you for the information!
thanks for the info. I have some anxiety problems.
What always calms me down when I start going into a panick attack, or when I always start to go into a anxiety attack, is watching stuff that makes me laugh and makes me happy, like Markiplier's videos he always cheers me up
As a nurse we had the option to go through a simulation like the 3rd game, but it was VR and they made it worse by doing stuff like brushing against you and spritzing water in your face and making you smell certain scents. I was basically in the fetal position by the end of it. Mental illness is no joke. 😔
That sounds terrifying
I mtab if love to experience that to see what ppl with that illness see but it's just truly horrible
It’s honestly heartbreaking. My personality disorder drains me and makes my life a living hell because of the things going on in my brain and I can’t imagine living with disorders like Schizophrenia. Or any psychedelic like disorder.
Yeah, I think mental illnesses and disabilities need more recognition and more awareness and education about them. It’s horrible that on social medias like tik tok some mental illnesses have become like a trend, people faking disorders like DID and Tourette’s left and right
If i knew how to do coding, i could've done the same but more or less about severe autism
@@dynosaurrrr I don't know why but those depression ads make me so mad. Like they treat depression like it's just an annoying setback, rather than an actual depressive mental issue that some people are unlucky enough to be born with or gain.
"A butcher, a fisherman, and a schizophrenic walk into a bar..."
.... That sound like a set up to a joke with a really unpleasant punchline.
a butcher, a fisherman, and a schizophrenic walk into a bar... the schizo stands up again in the empty room.
@@MrRyanroberson1 Hey, I was right, that was unpleasant!
Yeah
@@MrRyanroberson1 I-
“Ouch”
*THIS IS A SERIOUS WARNING FOR ANYONE WHO HAS ANY FORM OF EPILEPSY!!! DO NOT WATCH THE THIRD GAME AS IT MAY TRIGGER A SEIZURE*
I have chronic epilepsy and I fell and aura coming on during the video so I felt the need to warn others in the comment section about this. Please take this into consideration and be safe.
UnformidableWolf thank you so very much thank you 🙏
you might want to put light sensitive epilepsy as there are some of us that have epilepsy but don't have episodes from flashing lights. just a thought :)
Thank you very much. I suspected as much, and I wish let's players would leave trigger warnings, because epilepsy is serious, and we can't know it's going to be a problem until it happens. Industries/developers need to be more responsible about this, too.
Responsible, i like you.
don't get me wrong, but most times people dont put it in because they dont suffer from it themself, its not because they want you to suffer, we just tend to forget that some people can't handle it, and since we dont deal with it on a dialy basic we sadly push away the thoughts about you. so don't blame him for it, everyone does it sadly :/
"Why is the guy red in the middle!?"
Mark, the SUN is SETTING.
GothFox 120 well, he also kept eating demon fish, I assumed it was his health lowering 💀
.....
that Makes sense
I thought it looked like a sunset too
The last game actually made me feel so sad. My mum suffers with Schizophrenia, so this is extremely helpful in understanding how much she is actually going through. It makes me wish there was more I could do, but I don't know what. Still, I do understand a little more now, so I guess that's good.
understanding is a big help to her. i send u both all my love
same here. my friend suffers with schizophrenia, but i've never really understood just how terrifying it could be until i watched the last game.
While I don't suffer from schizophrenia I do suffer from other mental disorders, so I can say with some certainty that you just being there and doing your best understanding and loving her regardless of what she's going through speaks volumes to her. It's a big help. I wish you and your mother the best 💜
"WHY WOULD I EAT THAT?! i’m gonna eat that, bUT WHY?!"
IDK u tell me
Because why not (I'm joking)
Logic
This is lAte but I’m actually really glad you played the third game. My older brother has serious schizophrenia and he has really strong medication and without it he hallucinates seriously. He breaks down in public a lot and his husband can hardly do much but hold him close. I feel like this is really raising awareness that schizophrenia isn’t just something that makes someone a weirdo. It makes someone highly dysfunctional. I’m really glad you played this Mark.
Edit:: omg y’all are so sweet 😭 my brother thanks you all for such love and support 💞
Hollie-marie -
I’m happy his husband tries to help him.
Best of wishes to you all💕💕
That's sweet about his husband. I hope they're going strong.
I wish your brother luck.
@@brandi-jn1vb Why are you sorry for him being LGBTQ+?
Can I pass on a virtual hug to your brother? cause I feel for y'all
Mark: Imma paint some happy little *DEMONS*
Bob ross: Well everybody needs a friend *Paints another happy little demon*
Isabella Lmao 😭💜 idk weather to laugh or cry because that’s totally something Bob Ross would have done
Everyone needs a friend
i just remembered him giving a tree a friend and teared up a bit ahhhh
I don't wanna ruin the 666 likes 😭🤣
and then beats the devil out of the brush
Everyone: Talking about the 1st & 3rd game
Me: Looking for someone talking about the 2nd game
Man I haven't found a single comment about it the game is so weird
Redsnapper that lost its head description was "It's head whispers to me" 15:28
DIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
za warudo
DIO... ily
Me: horror games don't scare me anymore
Also Me: gets scared by a cow man
I legit screamed at that part. I've never screamed like that at any of these xD
"Cow man mooing, yeah bro"
I know russian and I screamed - БЛЯТЬ! So yeah... unexpected one XD
I frickin jumped to the ceiling that scared me so BAD!
I think I peed myself too 😂😭😨
"That's so uncomfortable.. It's just that kind of unsettling that just puts you off. Everything seems wrong."
And thus did you understand what living with mental illness is like.
Elevator Eleven it’s horrifying because during the summer I started having problems like that, like I would be standing there and feel off, like I wasn’t really standing there, like I wasn’t a part of this world or something, almost dizzy but not... just off, and it terrified me. I realized I have anxiety and knowing that has helped me a lot with many things. But jeez it was a scary summer. Atypical migranes make you feel that way too, like your floating and you can’t see right it’s horrible. Luckily it’s all just anxiety
Keagan Kalbfleisch Yeah I had no idea what was going on for a year or two with my panic attacks and my whole family thought that I had diabetes or hypoglycemia but knowing now that they were just panic attacks helped a lot. Now whenever I feels anxious I just take a deep breath and pray. It really helps and my relationship with God has grown stronger every day. So I guess good can come out of bad.
Keagan Kalbfleisch it’s your equilibrium and it’s been messed with
@@kileycarpenter4530I'm glad to hear that, hope you're doing fine!
TheAlphamorph Thanks!
*so does nobody have an explanation for the second one?*
I got nothing
I don't know and I'm scared
fish
I heard that its built on the fear of being on the open ocean alone
It gave me rusty lake vibes
I'm glad this game was made because I never understood what it was like to be trapped in your mind like that. It's horrifying. My heart goes out to you
As someone who lives with schizophrenia I always get really worried about gamed or things that say they are a "schizophrenia simulator" but this was actually pretty good. Hearing, seeing, feeling, and sometimes smelling things that aren't there. Sometimes it's easy to tell what's real and what isn't and sometimes it's really not. Getting so dizzy and disoriented. And the fact that most of the time medication does either nothing at all or makes it worse. Feeling anxious and paranoid that everyone hates you or that there's someone close to you that wants to hurt you. Feeling like you're constantly being watched and followed by someone or something. The line between reality and what's in our mind is so thin.
Kitten Allen oh so thats my prroblem. I was told I was being stupid and paranoid
i have it aswell. this is incorrect and exaggerated
@@deso4262 it's a game its going to be exaggerated for the sake of entertainment that doesn't make it incorrect
@caitlinswiencki I'm fine it's something you learn to cope with like everything else
Kitten Allen so much respect for dealing with that!
I am Embarrassed to say I dropped my phone when the first cow guy jumped Markiplier
viktoria k yo same but honestly I just about had a heart attack when the first cow appeared. 😂
Who knew cows could be spooky. Heckin spooked.
You think dropping is bad I Kobe'd my phone into the wall
I have a cowbell on my front pourch and the wind rattled it right after the first cow....had me shitting in my pants XD
Same.
The cat painting at the start of the Schizophrenia simulator was by an artist called Louis Wain, who’s paintings if cats became stranger as he fell into Schizophrenia. Just thought I’d share that random bit of information.
Oh, didn't know that, thanks for the info.
Banana ranama that’s actually super interesting, thank you!
Wow
that was supposed to be a painting of a cat?
Finally, a comment with his name.
These kids have gotten so used to intentionally forgetting artists' names so they can take credit that they don't even retain the names of established professional artists
As a person with schizophrenia it was really interesting to see him play third game!
I'll add updates again: (Also hi guys, im 15 now! :D) The symptoms i described in the replies are a bit off, since i was confusing them with the other things i have. some of the main symptoms/general effects it has on me, is definitely constant paranoia, and it effects who i've been able to trust as well. My own home doesn't actually feel like my home because of it. And for people saying I don't have it cause I wouldn't know: people with schizophrenia can be aware it's schizophrenia. But not 100%. In my case, whenever I 'know' I'm hallucinating, it feels more like I'm trying to _convince_ myself it's a hallucination. and it has been getting worse, and harder to tell myself it's fake. The other day I was in the shower, and I felt a presence behind me, before feeling taps on my shoulder. I _knew_ I was alone because I would have heard my loud ass door open, but it still made me burst into tears basically immediately because I didn't believe I was alone, it was just the logical answer that I most likely was.
Glad to have a voice that’s from the POV of the other end!
If you don't mind my asking, how realistic is this game to your experiences?
I'm sure not ever person with schizophrenia has the identical experience but just want to hear your view.
I'm curious too ^
^^ I too am interested to know haha
same^
Kinda ironic that the scariest game out of it means it's "only a simulation and not a horror game" real life problems sure are the scariest
Exactly my thoughts
The best comment I have read yet.
tsuna sawada pfp spotted, w comment
I Have Schizophrenia And This Is Actually Almost Accurate-
It’s actually seriously terrifying.
How do you know you really typed this and how do you know i typed this get out of the world theres a pattern to the universe find it and escape
Listen Here Pal 😂
@@claytonlavigne5395 you know i had to do it to em
Israel Barrera
You’re making me question reality come on XD
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The cats are artworks made by an artist who had schizophrenia and each one of those artworks are showing how he sees cats as his schizophrenia gets worse. To see them better look up cat artwork by a schizophrenic artist
and it's from Louis Wain ^^ (one of my favorite artists)
As soon as you said "we are here" my door bell rang...Chinese food delivery guy hahahahha
Hahaha *Fake laugh and smile*
@@blackandwhitetwins9982 unnecessary but alright I guess
Fun fact: those cats on the screen on the menu of the schizophrenia simulation game are actual paintings done by an artist who suffered psychosis and schizophrenia. His name was Louis Wain
Yeah, that was a nice reference. I believe, the story was the his wife died, or something like that, so his schizophrenia progressed.
@@BeastRedAsh yeah, her death had an ill affect on his mental health and made it deteriorate more. Though there's some debate over whether his work is a good example of his mental decline over time or not since he frequently used lots of patterns and colors in his work already. There's a couple though that are pretty, uh, intriguing
I don't feel like RELAXING! I gonna paint some happy little DEMONS!
--Markiplier Quote of the Day
Oh??? *Bob Ross reference??*
Nothing has scared me as bad as that first cow man in quite a while, and that upsets me
Rikusgirl001 Exactly every other time it came after him it wasn’t scary at all but when it came on first I so scared
OMG SAME
a H me too
Same😅
I was eating chips and salsa and I jumped so I high I spilled it everywhere xD
“Dopamine supplements”
Everybody else: “hrmph”
The doctors and nerds: “NONONONONONONONONONO”
yes. no wonder this person is getting worse so fast
@@dopesickdog i mean...i won't say you're wrong, but i also won't say you're right...because dopamine is only a small part in a much bigger picture.
Are dopamine supplements bad news?
I’m in college abnormal psych, and one of the first things we learned about treating schizophrenia is DONT GIVE THEM DOPAMINE. While it’s great for other mental disorders, dopamine is usually terrible for schizophrenics and worsens their hallucinations (which are usually auditory so I’m not sure why there are so many visual ones in this game)
@@cupcakemastrz3082 Since you do have a form of qualification, are the auditory hallucinations always voices? I hear sirens, music, old video game sound effects, and as I pay more attention, they slowly distort. I know tinnitus causes the other ones, but those 4 always perplex me. If you know anything about that, it would be nice, but either way, it's not too much of a problem.
That last one made me have really bad anxiety. I don't have Schizophrenia but as soon as the piano started playing I thought I was gonna have a panic attack. That is a super effective simulation.
Same I thought I was the only one. I have anxiety to begin with but while I was watching this is was worse and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. The simulation feels so real and I wasn’t even the one playing it lol
@@kiana.yasmin same! I have hella bad anxiety
Elaina Griffith oof I feel the struggle
Same here!! My anxiety attacks are normally coupled with minor hallucinations and paranoid delusions and it definitely reminded me of the worst of them...
Oh girl same, Idk why I kept watching because I know I get triggered with this stuff but I kept watching oops.
Schizophrenia is absolutely terrible and terrifying. You hear voices and sometimes music, like in the game, you see things, people, etc. Your vision is sometimes blurred or you get tunnel vision and it feels like you're about to pass out, go blind, or fall over. There was one incident I had that was the least scary episode, it was kind of funny (although, at the time I was have a panic attack) I was home alone and I was in the living room going through some games or something and I heard the old TV from the 90s that was in the back of the house turn on. I could hear the high pitched white noise and it got louder and louder. After a minute of freaking out, I heard the Harry Potter theme play and I hummed along for a second and walked to the back to turn the TV off which was never on. I still find it funny that the Harry Potter theme 'played'
Mason Hayes I in no ways mean to be insensitive, but the Harry Potter theme to those kinds of trippy things is legit XD
@@junco88 Oh no, it's all right! I find it pretty funny now that I look back on it XD
You're (not really) a wizard Harry!
Oh wow. So is it always ongoing, or is it just every now and then?
Thanks now i know
I was ready to be annoyed about the third game as I suffered through psychosis and see a lot of poor representations of it. This was not one of those. I saw many examples of psychosis that I could relate to directly. I think that the most important thing for people to know about psychosis is that we aren't crazy. We really are experiencing these things. It doesn't matter that it isn't 'real'. In that moment it is real. If any person were to experience the things I experienced they too would be struggling to set apart reality from psychosis. I suffered all day every day for 2 years. Thankfully that was 6 ago. I haven't experienced any symptoms (other than depression and anxiety) in 4 years. If anyone else is suffering and is reading this comment I want you to know that if you reach out for support it can get so much better. I used to be too ill to leave the house. Now I work as a volunteer peer support worker in the mental health services.
@@assbedazzled
Psychosis is essentially the term used for experiencing something that isn't really happening. it is one of key 'features' of schizophrenia.
I primarily experienced auditory hallucinations in the form of hearing voices. For me I felt like I was telepathically connected to everyone around me and sometimes beyond. If I was talking to someone in real life I would be having a separate conversation with them through 'telepathy'. Sometimes I would be sustaining what felt like hundreds of connections at the same time. Make no mistake I experienced this as sounds and not as inner consciousness.
I had a few distinct visual hallucinations but they were pretty boring really. People sitting in seats who weren't there. Cars on the street that weren't there. There were more general visual hallucinations though. The contrast, brightness and colour intensity of the world was heavily linked to my mood. When I was low the world seemed almost grey scale. I also saw everything as if it was really distant or far too close.
Psychosis isn't limited to hallucinations though. It may manifest as false memories, paranoia, false beliefs, not recognising familiar people or places, misreading situations or emotions.
It's worth noting that these things are experienced by ALL people at some point in their life in some way. The difference between a manifestation of psychosis in someone who is unwell and someone who is well is in two important areas. The first is persistence of the psychosis. If the psychosis (eg hallucinations or delusions) is continuing over an extended period of time then there may be an underlying condition. The second key difference is if it is causing difficulty to the persons ability to live within society. Many people are able to have symptoms of psychosis without it getting in the way of their life.
If it's not persistent and it's not getting in the way of your daily living then it isn't an illness. It may be worth notifying someone if you are having false experiences though as it could become a problem in the future.
I'd gladly share more info about it as I literally talk about this as my job so if you have more questions feel free to ask.
My sister experiences drug induced psychosis. She was hospitalized after being seen walking back and forth across a busy street. They had to handcuff her to the bed and have a guard at her door. They called my mom because she is her emergency contact. Mom said my sister was very disoriented and conviced the nurses were going to kill her. She looked at my mom and said "you have black eyes like me. We're demonized". I talked to my sister on the phone and I couldn't stop crying and she became convinced that I was also in the hospital and they were going to kill me too.
Took the words right out of my mouth, and as a person who deals with psychosis on the daily i thank you for saying this.
Thank you for sharing.
I'm glad that it's better! :) I hope you get relief from your depression and anxiety too.
I jumped SO hard at the first cow it got my heart rate up 💀
Same
I spilled my coffee-
damn game didn't have any warnings or anything
The third game appears to be inspired by the famous artist Luis Wane, who painted lots of cats. And had awful schizophrenia later in his life.
Louis Wain? (i just realized one of his works is my pfp lol)
I thought he suffered from mental deterioration due to toxoplasma gondii, but schizophrenia makes sense as a compounded issue.
That's a really good insight.
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👔 Once a cow always a cow
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Indeed
Once a furry always a furry
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U deserve a sub
Lol (Ps I Love your icon)
Mason Hayes said it well in another comment "Schizophrenia is absolutely terrible and terrifying," but I'd like to add my own input on schizophrenia.
The simulator is pretty accurate to my personal experience, at least. The general look of things, being blurry or fuzzy, and distant, especially. I do get vertigo a lot & struggle with wearing shoes because the height difference makes it worse. Things looking far away is Very disorienting. I don't get the 3rd person/out of body experience, but I do feel like I'm looking in from another world. It's like I'm looking through someone else's eyes, but their eyes are Slightly fogged up glass, and it's like I'm sitting in another room looking through that glass. I have trouble processing things. Words often have no meaning to me; they're just abstract noise. Sometimes, no matter how bright it is, it seems dark. This varies. Usually I'm ok in the sunlight, but there are days when even seems like a moonlit night to me. Edit: I forgot to mention mirrors. I dislike mirrors. One reason because 9.8 times out of 10 I don't know the girl in the mirror. even though I have the knowledge that that face is mine, it doesn't feel like it is. It feels like it's the girls whose eyes I'm looking through. It feels like I've stolen her life. The other is because it scares me. Especially if I look into the eyes, she will become evil. I'll fear that she leaves the mirror and follows me. I'll be expecting her when I turn the corner.
As for hallucinations, they switch a lot, but I almost never experience them as more than one sense at a time. It will often be mainly audio for a period of time, almost entirely go away, and then come back as visual, turning into more audio without the lapse, and repeating. There is only one time I remember ever experiencing 3 senses at once. I saw a panther, I heard it growl, and I felt it touch my leg, all at once. That. Was. Horrifying. My hallucinations usually aren't disturbing though, and in fact, the audio ones are sometimes very positive and helpful (reminding me to brush my teeth, telling me that whatever I can do is good enough, as long as I do what I can). The visual ones are usually animals that are inaccurate sizes, except panthers; for some reason, panthers are actually the correct size. The bugs fly by and disappear. They all startle me, make me jump even, but don't truly scare me. The only times audio ones have been mean or commanding, I've been able to stop them. In particular, the one time they wanted to harm my mother, I went to the living room and waited for her to leave to work, and told her to have a good day and stay safe. She knew I was acting weird, didn't know why, but it worked. the most common (nearly nonstop) audio I have is something like 24:52. I have the volume quite low, so I couldn't hear what was being said in the game. It just sounded like murmuring. I usually hear what sounds like a TV in another room. Sometimes it sounds like actual people talking in another room. I also hear everyday noises, like dishes clanking or the toilet seat being put down, when I'm alone.
The flash of...people...at 26:53 reminded me of something I used to experience (I was way more stressed, and stress makes everything worse). I saw...what I thought was another world...I saw it other places, but really focused in on it at crosswalks...It could be an empty crosswalk and I would see people, but not people. They were shadows, shaped like people, with texture like people, holding phones and walking, and talking, and existing like real people. In small groups, I still get that, but in crowds, these days I'm too busy melting down because the noise is overwhelming.
By far the worst hallucination I have is whispering. It sounds like a cafeteria if everyone were whispering. A few words or sentences come through, but it's mostly endless, maddening noise. Actually maddening too. That one makes me angry, makes me want to both curl up in a ball and cry and lash out at anyone and anything around me. I get mean when that one happens. Because of it, I now have a phobia of whispering (hearing anyone do that triggers it, probably worsened by my fear of it, but...yeah).
Ok, so aside from the whispering thing, my hallucinations are tolerable (not everyone's are, and I SO hope that anyone who needs help will find it). Paranoia, however, is not. The only persistent paranoid feeling of mine so far is to do with food. Even watching someone else make the food doesn't get rid of it, but depending on who it is, makes me able to eat it. I mainly have issues with any dish that has meat, or tastes funny, because I feel like I'm being tricked into eating fish. I even will think there's poison in my food, but that doesn't bother me as badly as the fish thing. That one makes me entirely unable to eat many things. I'll try to eat it, and gag. Paranoia, for me, is getting worse, slowly but surely. It's there more often, it's stronger when it is. Initially it was just in psychotic breaks. Now it's not. During one psychotic break, I was terrified of my cats, and my mom. I swore they were some sort of tiger-dog mechanical thing. Way bigger than they actually are, just disguised. Physically impossible. I swore my mom wasn't actually my mom, but some scientist disguised as her to trick me into comfort. I swore they were controlled by her, that they wouldn't hurt her, but at her signal, would hurt me. Recently, not during a psychotic break, but outside of a meeting I went to with mom (I had stepped out because I was hallucinating a lot inside), I felt, very strongly, like there was someone behind me with a knife, raised and ready to strike. Consciously, I Knew that wasn't the case. If it actually were, chances are I wouldn't notice anything. I had gone outside to try something my therapist suggested, which is giving the hallucinations a time frame to do whatever. Instead, I told myself "Ok. I Know there's no one there. It's illogical. If there really were someone there, I probably wouldn't feel it. So. 2 minutes. I am going to give it 2 minutes before I turn around. And there will be nothing there. I Know that. So, for 2 minutes, I'm going to look out at the yard, and resist the urge to check my back." 2 minutes was pushing it a little bit. I should've done 1 and a half (the last 15 seconds or so I was Completely panicking). But, I made it. When time was up, I took a deep breath, turned around slowly, and looked. And there was nothing. No one. Just air. That gave me confidence, too. It felt much better in the end than giving in to the paranoia and constantly looking around scaredly.
Back to the general disorientation, it has a lot to do with paranoia too. I often think something has moved when nothing has. Often, things Do Look like they're moving, to me. Even the walls can bend, but they aren't, right? It's extremely difficult to decorate, because almost anything will scare me one day or another. Grey animals make me paranoid (which sucks, because not only are they beautiful, but they have their own personalities too and I wish I could get to know them). Bright red just scares me. Dark colors distort easier. Paintings with any sort of face, human or not, are absolute no-nos. Images with many dots, ones that are blurred, abstract one, or ones with random color splotches as a background, are not ok.
I avoid horror things, especially images, because I don't want to fuel my imagination with scary things to hallucinate later. I hesitate to even play videos with horror games in another tab, just to listen to (only way I ever 'watch' them), because I'm worried about whispering, things being described too well, etc. But, I am glad to have done that with this one, and when Mark talked about that schizophrenia simulation, I decided to actually watch that part.
Also edit: 32:05 Personally, dreaming is often better. Nightmares suck, and nightmares where I'm Schizophrenic in them too are possibly worse than reality. But overall, dreaming, and daydreaming, is my safe haven. I don't...quite...lucid dream...but something like it? I know I'm dreaming, but don't want to change anything. I know what's going on around, everything. I know how many will play out because they're recurring settings, or even stories. I rarely want to change anything. The only times I do are when they're nightmares, and I've learned to just wake myself up from those, by changing the dream as much as I can, or by hurling my car off a cliff (I Desperately wanted to avoid the 2 areas that were coming up next). My favorites are the ones where I fly. It just feels...so incredible, so relaxing, so peaceful.
This is literally the only long comment i fully read in my entire life, you are an amazing person.
from what i learned you "love to fly" so take skydiving into consideration or better discuss that with your family.
if i was there beside you i would talk to you a lot, encourage you anyway i can, take you to places you like and try my best for you
wearing the shoes part is a cute thing if that makes you feel better.
i don't care if you were a boy or a girl i would do it anyway as nobody deserves living like that
i just want to tell you that you or anyone who has Schizophrenia are amazing and strong people, never give up
How did you find out you were schizophrenic?
this is so helpful and i really admire someone who shares their experience like that, often times we can say something bad or stupid because of misinformation, and understanding and seeing how people interact with certain health issues can guide us through a situation that might happen in the future. Thank you :)
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and struggles with Schizophrenia. People don’t truly understand how difficult it can be unless they hear it from real people. I myself have been guilty of that. Books can only tell us so much but to actually hear it come from a real person who experiences it everyday really puts it into perspective on how awful it can be. Again, thank you for sharing and you have an amazing day you beautiful person.
@@soitrash Mm...Well, my mom suspected it most of my life, since she saw symptoms early, heard my conversations with my 'imaginary friends' and thought they were too real, and since it runs in the family (both my mother & her father...mom is not paranoid schizophrenic, though grandpa was (I never met him since he left her early in life). But, it didn't get bad until middle school. I don't remember much from that time, but have journals and notes talking about the voices. From them, it's clear that they were scary then, that they bothered me. But, no one would diagnose me, because they said I was 'doing too well in school' or 'too smart' (which is complete bs btw). I actually stopped having positive symptoms at all for a year or so, when high school started. It was only after those came back, and I actually talked about it (found the right person) that I was diagnosed...I didn't realize that's what it is until it came back after that year though.
I've got Schizoaffective disorder and honestly, that game was pretty accurate to what I go through. My hallucinations are different, but everyone has different ones. The looping thoughts are much faster in real life and often overlap the same message over and over, faster than you can think.
Was not expecting the Minotaur thing the first time, threw my mug and spilled coffee all over myself
dude same
GEEZ SAME I just threw my phone 😂😂
I literally threw my phone, that first jump scare. Was not expecting cowmanbull
Omg same! I jumped in my chair impaled my head through the ceiling now im laughing with the smiley man in my attic and things wont stop sucking my feet n it tickles lol 😂
Same man
“That’s what I was suppose to see before, but then I didn’t because I...uh didn’t.” Sounds like what I would put for an “explain your answer” question.
You need to get a life
BIG JOCK KNEW HE KNEW I didn’t know that leaving a comment was an indication of the type of life I live, thanks for the unsolicited advice.
Wooooooo touchy
BIG JOCK KNEW HE KNEW nah not really
@@brookebondrozelle Yes really 😡
⚠️ Just a warning: The third game has an epilepsy warning! I don’t want anyone to have a seizure! ⚠️
Thank you! People like you make my life so much easier haha
Tysm 🙏👍👌
@Alan The Deer oop-
@kevin sparlin huh
Omg 666 likes
I know its 2 years later but watching the schizophrenia game.. I'm not schizophrenic but I have had auditory hallucinations before and the point where he starts hearing random things and freaking out was very accurate for me
Why the first cow made me jump
Eddyislittyy 1738 ikr everyone saying it scare the shit out of them but it didn’t for me 😐
Eddyislittyy 1738 SAME ! 😂😂😂
Yay
I was eating a popsicle and it went all in my mouth...let’s say my bf was really happy about it🤦🏼♀️😂😂😂
because it was a jump scare?...
As someone who grew up with a schizophrenic dad I’m hoping that the schizophrenia simulator will bring awareness.
For some of those who don’t know, schizophrenia’s stigma is that they’re crazy and will hurt anyone. That’s when the dopamine levels are too high.
On the other hand, when the dopamine levels are too low a person will have Parkinson’s disease and the stigma on that is that it’s a sad disease.
I wish people didn’t view schizophrenic as someone who will hurt you no matter what and have all these bad views. It’s hard to grow up watching the one you love most suffer with it, but having a healthy support system can help them tremendously.
What's stigma?
My dad has schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder as well.
Gabriel Galdino Stigma balls
Why is all mental health so misrepresented?! It’s disgusting
@@kittencookiecronch4493 well it is I think more of a natural instinct thing. Like animals avoid any contact with an ill conspecific. It is just the "to survive" aspect which cause this misrepresentation of any physical or psychological illness. Like everything which doesn't fit into the norm is avoided. It is to a greater or lesser extent a disgusting way of sustaining the own species.
Man, I was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 10. It was scary, living with all these voices in my head, I still deal with that problem to this day but it doesn't scare me now.
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Can do anything.
Can be anything.
so they chose The World's Fattest Man.
In order to give the worlds fattest man true courage, the US government paid 1 Billion Dollars to any and all sexy celebrity women who would sleep with the world's fattest man.
Once sexing all the women of his dreams, the world's fattest man (henceforth referred to as the worlds fattest man or 1tonstramrolleverything) had nothing to lose.
He then, of course, agreed to go on a One Man Suicide Mission to Mars.
To Save Us All.
The Rocket that carried 1tonsteamrolleverything to his destination was the B-128-22--1-n!. Shaped like a coconut crab, and sprayed top down with internet memes, the craft was deemed invincible.
Inside The Craft the worlds fattest man would ride around is in Rascall, or simply SteamRoll in small spurts to get around, eat, or sex the many many women provided by the holodeck.
Upon landing, 1tonsteamrolleverything looked up at the Sun and began his long trek to the top of Olympus Mons.
The entire world watched him, we laughed, cried, and Anne Hathaway said that she would never ware underware again in his honor.
eventually the worlds fattest man reached his destination.
NASA said, "OK 1ton, it's time to do your thing, good luck and godspeed"
He said "STEEEAAAMMMMROOOOLLLLLL EVVVVEEERRYYYYTHIINNGG!!!"
Then he bit down on all the yummy cyanide pills he could, detonated the Nuke, and SteamRolled.
He rolled on
and on
and on and on
and saved us all.
And so everyone on Earth got attractive and then got liad.
And freedom and food and drugs populated the world.
and Rainbows, everywhere.
The Universe was conqured much sooner than thought as a result.
The govt made catgirls and everyone liked that too.
Thank you sexy celebrity women
Thank you worlds fattest man.
One day we to will learn to SteamRoll, perhaps on Earth too.
We will teach our children, and our childrens children what ne can really do the second they hit 1 Ton.
One day
to save us all
Once again
So do like converse with yourself? ( Not trying to be rude sorry if I am) but like what would they say?
@@GammaCatch What in the fresh hell did I read ?
Im so sorry. I hope you are well ❤️
aww im sorry!
When experiencing a form of psychosis like schizophrenia the voices and hallucinations are NOT distinguishable from reality, you don’t process it as “voices in my head” you try to ask questions to yourself like “where is that coming from” IF you even have the mental strength to ask yourself anything let alone form a cohesive thought. The “voices” don’t tend to string together actual sentences or make sense. It’s like suddenly having a second conscience or something, and those two every other second realize they’re not alone, panic and battle for individuality by spilling whatever they can as fast as possible.
I'm surprised that the old man didn't catch a marlin.
Also not-so-fun fact: Symptoms of schizophrenia don't only include hallucinations but an undying sense of paranoia. I laughed when Mark said, "I think there's someone here." The simulation did what it wanted, I see.
Ya I don’t think my mom has hallucinations but she’s always paranoid to the point she thinks everyone even her closest family is out to get her
@@r.h.8504 Um...
...
...
no.
@@MrsRoseSimple why tf are you saying "no" to someone else's reality
@@dma93-ch Well... I don't know the whole story, that's all. Because a certain person thinks people are out to get them doesn't mean that they have schizophrenia. So I'm saying "no" because that doesn't correspond to what I said. I'm not saying "no" to their reality. For instance... if someone says that they have obsessive habits that doesn't mean that they're automatically someone with OCD.
I mean, maybe I misunderstood. It's just that premature diagnosis is a severe problem. Correlation doesn't always equal causation. If RH were to tell me that her mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia I'd take back my comment willingly. Of course, that person doesn't have to because it's not really my business.
Call it a little lapse in judgment. I was hoping that RH would explain further even though they don't have to. Which is okay.
Instead, I get someone unrelated to the matter who doesn't understand context because they were outside the conversation completely.
So how about this?
Calm the fuck down. I made a mistake. You win. Sorry.
@@MrsRoseSimple whoa whoa calm down.
The first game reminded me of that episode of Courage The Cowardly Dog where courage and Eustace went to a burger restaurant and the guy was turning people into food or something (I am to lazy to look it up and honestly its a fuzzy memory)
No, Courage misunderstood the situation and THOUGHT people were being made into burgers when the pig man was actually crafting lifelike, edible statues out of beef. He was just a passionate artist. It's one of the few times it ends well for Mr. Baggs.
I loved watching courage the cowardly dog when i was young😊
🐕
That episode was a one-time-case where it acutally _was_ a figment of Courage's paranoia; the pigman's wife was making edible sculptures out of hambuger, and the man that got "eaten" owned an art gallery and wanted to put her work on display.
Me too
Mark, when you said "they are behind YOU" I turned around and my cat was sitting there, staring at me.
That's amazing xD
Guess ur cat listens to markiplier
Your cat...
Whants... you... ded...
Na...
That is creepy though
I had to reach behind me to see if my dog was there. Would've been funny if she was.
Your cat: *wut you lookin at? *
I have schizophrenia, but my dreams aren’t that bad sometimes it is that scary.
Sorry 😞
@Blank_Bow Child I don't have schizophrenia, but I couldn't imagine what it would be like. I hope your doing good. 😊
The first step to handling it is acknowledging that you have it and taking medicine for it. My mom started taking medicine for hers (she has paranoia schizophrenia) and it really helps a lot so stay strong dude!
TheSniper 101 thanks! I have gotten treatment and it definitely isn't as bad anymore!
Glad to hear you're getting treatment and doing better. I hope you continue to be safe and happy despite living with the disorder.
*PLEASE READ*
For the third game please do not watch it if you have epilepsy I don't want anyone to have a seizure
what’s epilepsy? I’ve never heard of it lol. Wait is it the thing where u have like sleeping issues?
@@its_bree8917 it's a Neurological condition, it varies greatly but with grand maul seizures you shake and stop breathing it can be potentially life threatening.
Nicole Mozingo Oh wow. Thanks for telling me that’s just wow. That really sucks that it exist.
xxxtentacion_ insomnia is the condition where you have sleeping issues. epilepsy is caused by flashing bright lights, or things like that.
well fuck me, i have epilepsy and i just watched it ? im on medication so i hope that nothing happens..
*door opens*
Mark: Oh I hate it
Jacob Sims
Normally I think these comments are fake but for once I saw this comment when this was said on the video
Ago gratias, odio.
Oof, the schizophrenia one gave me a headache, I can't imagine what it would be like to live with the disorder...
It sure was a strain on the eyes, that's for sure. Threw my anxiety into overdrive.
It isnt fun but with proper psychological care and treatment it can be managed and we can live extremely fulfilling and demanding lives
Absolutely true. I have severe schizophrenia, and am not on medication due to wanting to handle it naturally through perseverance. This route is quite difficult and highly don't recommend it, but I am much better with my daily routines and how I live. I have an amazing boyfriend who helps me cope with it and I am doing much better now that I have ways of handling my thoughts and hallucinations.
You should definitely eek help from a professional.
Agreed there is no way I could stand that
I had a heart attack when the first cow appeared,
Which is almost 100% of the comments...
It scared me so much that I hit myself in the face with my phone..
I nearly kicked my brother off the couch who was sitting next to my feet.
@@goldenarrow_6218 I nearly did the same thing
Almost threw my phone across my room, luckily I had it plugged in and caught it by the cord 😂😂😂
mwrozek24 me too
The whole point of the Schizophrenia Simulator is that you can't "win" against the disorder. Bleak? Yes; unfair? Absolutely. But it's the sad reality of schizophrenia.
Thank you! Someone understands. I have this disorder and just like it's reality there is no hope. Even my antipsychotics and therapy sessions offer little to no relief, there is no guarantees and there is no known cure for the interactive living nightmare that is schizophrenia. Sometimes death is more preferable, but i hang on for the sake of my family. Markiplier god love him, needs to understand the message to the game he's playing, when you have schizophrenia you don't win. Wining isn't an option when you're living in horror.
@@ExhumedFromBed when my mother had an episode and I had to pin her down was the last straw so I had her sectioned
Then she had a great granddaughter and realized she needed help
Hate to think what would've happened if I wasn't there, hope you have a loving family around you
To be clear the game does have a second ending. It isn't very comforting, but Mark thought you couldn't open the safe, but indeed you can. It isn't a futile effort for the sake of being accurate.
Yeah, I was kind of upset when he said that, too. Then again, most people aren't aware of the reality behind most mental disorders. That's why people try to make simulations like this in the first place. To spread awareness.
Of course, Mark still thinks this is a game and as a gamer was probably upset that he couldn't "win." Because you can't. Sometimes you just have to learn to cope. That was, I hope, what the simulation was trying to pull off.
Rae P. This comment made me cry cuz I know it’s so true
Ok how many people got scared by the cow man’s first appearance
I've never jumped that hard in my life and this is from a minor game
Ajs Everything I literally jumped so hard my phone fell
@@bonkeddoggo6022 XD
I had a mini heart attack
Swear I’m in bed watching this and that shit just pooped out
I have been living with schizoaffective disorder (a type of schizophrenia) since I was 12 years old and am 34 now and I must say. This is a fairly good idea of what its like. Random voices, anxiety, paranoia, disorientation, and the attempt to get passed it with the help of doctors and pills. I am pretty sure Mark actually started feeling the overwhelming reality that is non-reality
not a disorder that is a mortal saying pills help in this world but once your dead you will really see it is not fake saying it is a disorder is like saying when your drinking you got no control of your body after so long that is not true drinking brings who you really are out
Mark:Im so excited and able to do games in such
Not even 3 seconds later
Mark:I HATE IT
You know, I never really understood what schizophrenia was about when I was growing up, even when I looked up definitions and symptoms in books. That third game really made it clear what schizophrenics suffer through. My heart goes out to all those who suffer from it.
That game only shows 1% of what schizphrenia is like. there's videos attempting to portray what schizophrenics go through day to day. But it's good to see you have more insight into what it's like
Shame, the 2nd game had loads of depth yet no one talks about it.
The Saltwater fish gets less and less tastier as you eat better fish. So do the others when you eat even better fish.
It's not long when you can't sate that hunger of yours and start feeding on yourself. That flesh cube.
It also could represent the ocean in our time. Pollution causes loads of fishes to die and soon the human race was engulfed in water because of Global Warming, and all that remains is, Flesh cubes and dead fishes.
Shivam Thakur
Glad to know I’m not the only one who thought this.
Why hasnt mark pinned this
Shivam Thakur That is quite deep
Shivam Thakur guessing your a tree hugger then
Being a tree hugger is better than a tree destroyer
My dad is schizophrenic and has a personality disorder, it's difficult for him and me to deal with. I myself have ptsd and depression from the abuse from my mother (no longer see her). Life is tough but I know it isn't always like this so I keep moving on taking everything thrown at me head on. *thanks for reading have a day/night*
*I wish you the best of luck bro*
I'm so sorry you're going through that, I can't do much, and I'm sorry about that, but everything will be okay, have a great day/night too *hugs*
You're not alone, I deal with tons of shit too. So we're comrades. Fight on! *fistbump*
I know how you feel man, my mom is schizophrenic and I'm only 13, but I'm already showing signs of schizophrenia.
My close friend is also schizophrenic, and seeing a game represent it so well is actually touching.
Praying for you guys. Hope you have a good day/night too :)
The fish one is a confusing one but the more you watch it the more you go:
*confused oh*
Edit: That third game man..wow I learned a lot today.
I love your pfp. frog boy is best boy
Its a bit exaggerated but the paranoia, the anxiety, the hallucinations all take a toll on you in general. I have schizophrenia and It may not be as intense as this, but it gets pretty serious pretty fast if you dont try to ground yourself. Being alone definitely doesnt help because you have very few things to focus on, and for me personally it heavily affects my perception of time making memories seem closer together than they are. The voices and hallucinations are different in severity and type for everyone, my hallucinations ranging from just seeing things out of the corner of my eye, to entities that linger and move around when things are really bad. I have more visual than auditory hallucinations so things at night/in the dark are especially bad. The last game does a good job at setting in the anxiety and intensity of how things can escalate. Nightmares definitely feel more intense and dreams can be indistinguishable from reality unless its not in first person or the dream is just weird enough you know it couldn't possibly have happened. Alot of people instead of being diagnosed with schizophrenia are diagnosed with some kind of paranoia, anxiety, psychosis or even a stress disorder. Lots of different things can cause hallucinations but schizophrenia could come from anything, or a combination of things eventually leading to schizophrenia like trama. Im not a doctor or anything but i do try to study psychology in my free time to understand all of my illnesses and help people around me understand things as well.alot of this is just my experience and what ive seen in other people.
Wow so interesting tell me all about it
This is very interesting, I was wondering how someone with Schizophrenia would view this game. Just how much of it is true and just how much is interesting game mechanic. Like you said it's different for everyone, from what I learned that people usualy have auditory over visual halucintions and I knew it vaires between people. In the end I was curious on how close this was to real scizophrenia.
Shut up
Both my mother and I have schizophrenia and it presents differently in both of us, for my mother she has very bad hallucinations, audio, visual, and even physical. Without her medication she cannot function at all. Wheras mine is less...intense. The paranoia and audio hallucinations are there, and they get pretty bad, they're nowhere near as bad as my mother's. It differs between individuals that's for sure.
Sweaty Tomato You didn’t have to read the comment or reply, you know.
That last game really got to me on a personal level. My boyfriend hears voices, and my uncle shows all symptoms of schizophrenia.
it is not to bad as long as they accept them if they say hurt there self or what ever then yea i can see it as a problem but if they dont do nothing it is fine or they could help i like mine but they just talk alot but not in my head they talk through me usually they sometimes just take over my body and i run faster or they have convorsations with other people even when i am asleep overall i like them but thats all i am going to say . have fun :)
Personally I have schizophrenia and it's not fun whatsoever it's hard for me just multiple voices yelling into my ears or what I think is and have a panic attack from them and also visuals are scary as fuck especially if they get too close or touch me I'll legit scream or try to at least
It makes you mad. That's the point. Sometimes treatments don't work. Sometimes people are stuck forever with disorders they didn't ask for. It makes you mad because sometimes things don't wrap up with a nice bow and a happy ending where you find peace with your disorders. Sometimes, they make you mad.
Perfectly put.
"We'll make you eat until it hurts." That's a really good vaguely-menacing-but-could-image-it-being-real slogan.
“Mom. Why do you always call now?! Mom” Ok, that part had me laughing 😂.
I was scrolling through the comments and I read this comment just as Markiplier said it. Now I feel weirded out.
The thumbnail editing is on point 👌🏽
_the eyes, go for the eyes_
Bruh i ship you with helena rose like you guys are the first commenters all the time
Wilson? Is that you?
More 60 parsecs Please!!!
The third one hit home. My cousin has schizophrenia. Shes a sweetheart and shes strong. Her medicine does help a great deal. With the amount of times she has been put in the hospital...im glad she knows what she has and how lucky we are to have her still
I don't even know what to say about that second game
When you see Mark upload scary games video,
*halloween spirit intensifies*
Skeleton doots intensifies
Ghost dog intensifies
Rose Kate nice XD
I have surround sound headphones and when the person said "They hate you" I crapped myself because it sounds right next to me.
The schizophrenia game really gives an insight to what living with mental illness is like. Hearing or seeing things that aren't really there is terrifying even if you know it's not really there
The last game simulator of schizophrenia just made me sad to understand somewhat of how it is, they should make one for depression so I can show my mom and tell he “this is me 24/7”
I have it
Its scary
Im an artist so painting is calming to me....
But i see monsters everywhere
You can’t visualize depression, it’s a feeling deep in you. It’s a deep sadness that plagues you for so long. The only way you could make a game like that is too make a sweet happy character but then break everything around her and make everything fall apart.
A depression game would just be staring at a gray wall while a mosquito buzzes in your ear
Insomnia Awaken is a decent visualization
I'm very late but cold exposure like ice baths and the wim hoff method helped me
-JUMPSCARE LIST-
I've included some just genuinely scary stuff too.
On a scale of 1 to 10 in scariness
2:14 8/10
3:03 8/10
4:32 1/10
22:58 4/10
23:39 1/10
23:59 2/10
24:15 2/10
24:28 2/10
25:09 8/10
26:51 6/10
27:13 7/10
27:56 6/10
28:24 6/10
28:36 5/10
29:44 6/10
30:04 6/10
31:05 6/10
33:04 7/10
34:22 7/10
thanks man
Thank you, you beautiful person. You have just saved me from being spooked.
Bless you, fellow human.
2:14 is definitely 9/10
Vishisht Kumar more of a 9.2/10
This really makes me sad. Watching the schizophrenia simulation. I know someone from my childhood who was abused and ended up developing schizophrenia. People now treat him like shit because of it. I always want to stick up for him. His parents hate him, people throw rocks at him. He is prone to violent outburses but I feel that we need to be kind to people regardless of their mental illness. These people don't know his background and I do. When I think about him I cry because I want to help but I am not sure how. People when you see someone openly suffering mentally please don't treat them like shit. These people see and hear crazy things. They are human as well and deserve love. We help people like that by accepting their illness as it being an illness of the brain and not an illness of their character.
He developed it but as well schizophrenia is genetical. As you mention, we need to help spread mental health awareness.
If you still have some kind of contact with him, I'd say talk to him and tell him that you support him. Sometimes all people need is a friend or just the knowledge that someone cares. But that's only if you feel safe contacting him. Be safe and supportive! You're a good person
Thank you. I try my best to not stigmatize mental illness. It truly is something that can happen to anyone. I suffer from anixety/depression due to a violent childhood. I always was a strong young girl and I never thought mental illness would affect me - but this past year...Was absolutely awful. I just want people to understand that individuals whom suffer from mental illness did not choose to be this way, they ended up developing it. Anyone can. I do not wish it on anyone. My little brother is now suffering from BPD (borderline personality disorder). He keeps sending messages to my family and myself about hating us, and calling us ugly names. Don't get me wrong I did get angry and tell him off...but that was my first reaction, but even when I did I still told him I love him and hope he speaks to someone. I just find it hard to see him go through this. My baby brother. It hurts my soul. I practically raised him. I just don't want to see him kill himself, but there isn't anything I can do -my therapist told me. She stated that the only thing I can do is have the crisis intervention unit check on him weekly, due to the fact that I am not equipped to help him. But my brain and heart tells me I should be able to. We should always be able to, we should be able to do more than just tell them to get help. I hate mental health, I wish it never was a problem for anyone. The mind is sensitive and I just want everyone to know, that I might not be able to help you but I am a great listener, just sometimes talking to someone about it helps. Don't ever let someone tell you you are crazy because you are not. You are you and you are beautiful as you are. I wish everyone well. PMA everyone.
@@brinny8965 The same goes for you, too! Everyone deserves to feel happy and healthy, mentally. If you need to talk, I'm just a stranger but I gotchu
@@wildfirefox1 thank you hunny. I appreciate that. I extend the same offer. Have a great day and be safe.
14:12 Me during school
"IDK"
"PLEASE"
*sobbing*
"I don't understand. I DON'T UNDERSTAND!"
"I don't get it!"
"What's happening.?!"
"I'M SO CONFUSED!" Yeah, thats my life.... 😂
That whole thing is me daily
Me during math
Ashley Reyes I feel you man
Same!
I can't be the only one that saw the second game and immediately thought, "Mornin! Nice day for fishing, aint it? Huh huh!"
Viva la dirt league! I love those guys, but I have a question, can you help me? My sheep have run amuck and I need a brave adventurer like you to go and get them!
I loved that Schizophrenia Simulator game, I actually know someone who may have it, and from what she describes to me the game is pretty accurate. Voices, hallucinations, often saying negative things. Vertigo, dizziness, memory problems, scattered thoughts, and a complete disconnection from reality at times. That and frequent nightmares with morbid themes. The game was made really well, gave me a headache but I’m pretty sure that was the point.
I have hallucinations, negative thoughts, vertigo(but not often) and memory problems, I am sure I’m fine I’m just a dramatic child
@Blake Moss If you don't have it, that is NOT for you to say or assume.
Man I never thought about schizophrenia but now seeing this game, if its anything even remotely close to this I don't think I would be able to deal with it.
As a Schizophrenic it hit the, what we call, 'positives and negatives' perfectly, and with what you had listed, perfectly.
CosmoQueen2900 actually, its is his right to say such things. Because according to many records, schizophrenia isn't as bad as described. There are few who have terrible cases of it, but many do not experience as many things as listed. As someone who has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic (which also runs in my family), I believe there is nothing wrong with what he said, whatsoever.
I have to say, I suffer from schizophrenia and I must say that the last game is very accurate. The voices are accurate, the delusional state and the paranoia that I live with everyday. Not knowing what is real and fake is accurate. Of course every person that has schizophrenia is different but this is vey close.
I think everything went downhill when you ate the apple
Yeah no I think everything went downhill when Mark decided he was gonna make a RUclips career😂😂😂 jk I love Mark
Seems like Mark is actually Snow White
It all went downhill when Eva decided to eat the Apple
apples are bad for you kids
an apple a day keeps sanity away
I hope Mark sees just how special, incredible, hopeful, kind, strong, and diverse his audience is. Really, ya'll are the best!! I suffer from PTSD, Chronic Anxiety, and Moderate Depression, and I'm honestly so lucky... I hope no one takes what they have for granted, because there are people who are in so much pain and confusion and fear that I wouldn't wish upon anyone. *Keep being the happy, lovely people that you are, folks!! I love you all!!!!!*
PTSD, anxiety and depression here as well. Now I smile when people think I'm weird for being so jumpy and always looking behind me! I couldn't imagine living with schizophrenia (it runs in the family, so I got lucky), the anxiety is enough for me.
that sounds awful. i’m so sorry. stay strong❤️
Broooo we have basically the exact same conditions more or less, I have very mild PTSD severe anxiety and clinical depression so if you ever need someone to talk to I’m here!
*Can I take PTSD*
PTSD, ADD, anxiety(and all the fun side dishes: insomnia, paranoia, etc) depression, and autism. I know it’s rough, but we all got this!!
Noones gonna talk about the 2nd game?
Oni it’s completely overshadowed by the third game so no
i would. i actually find it the scariest!
Nope :3
I liked my own comment and reply
Oni it is scary because it is so weird and random
My mother has schizophrenia, specifically bipolar schizophrenia. She refused to take medication until this January. My mother said many things I didn't understand, or said that I said things that I didn't. She would get up randomly at night and wake me up, or randomly leave. My mother is a single parent, so she'd go searching for my father often. Though I do not have schizophrenia, this is how I'd imagine her to have felt, or is feeling. My mother would be insanely stressed, and would do things because of her having to provide for her children while disabled. She's getting her disability papers in a few months now that she's less stressed I feel as if she's finally getting to know me.
How old are you? It makes me very worried that a parent, can potentially harm their child. Not saying that she would though. Just a concerned passerby.
Eeh, my mother is bipolar... She didn't talk a lot of nonsense, but my childhood was pretty similar, only with coherent communication. xD
She didn't go on meds until i was a grown man, and thanks to those meds, she's no longer impulsive, has paid off her debt, and is working towards a better life.
Unfortunately, those meds are a little late... I've grown up already, so i'm permanently damaged by my childhood. xD
My husband has it and he's been on meds and in therapy for years. It's helping him soooo much!! He has to deal with constant voices in his head like in the game. It's awful to deal with but I'm glad he's getting the help he needs
Karl I don't want to put my last name I appreciate your concern! Though that is not something I'd announce on a public server, I can reassure you that before her medication, she has been monitored by doctors. I did not live with her until she started taking medication, and would visit with professionals. To this day, several months after medication, she's still being monitored and is doing just fine. 😊
Angel Valdez Thank you! I wish you the best for you and your family, and I hope you stay safe.
Mark: "I can't imagine what dreaming would be like if I had schizophrenia. Somehow I think it's worse than reality."
Me: "You've got no idea" XD
25:33 No, nobody is there. In Schizophrenia Simulator, the voices the character is hearing is in their head. The character has hallucinations/delusions, some which can be seen, some which can be heard, and all in their head. This is what they are taking medicine for. I read a bit about Schizophrenia a while back (as a (beginner) writer, I like to know about these things so I can write them as accurately as possible (and try to understand them)), but that's about all I can remember. I hope that made sense. I'm not the best at explaining things.
no shit that's what schizophrenia is
the medicine is dopamine supplements, they help with anxiety and stress from the hallucinations and delusions but don’t actually change how or when they the hallucinations are triggered.
Mark your frustration is the POINT
Hey mark I have schizophrenia to since I was 13 and I am almost 20. I would like to say that it is different for everyone. Some see things, some hear things or both. For some like myself it maybe hard to tell the difference from what is real and what is not but thanks to hard work, some thiripy, coping skill and some strong medications I am doing better then ever on plus with you making me laugh and smile I know I can get though anything
Rose Hannar you don’t have to answer, but what exactly do you have to figure out is real?
Gallifreyan_Hunter oh it fine but I use to have a hard time tell what I was seeing and hearing where actually happening in real life. Just like it the game where the player heated different voices I did too the would call my name and whisper things about me. Most of the time it was during school of just before I fall asleep plus alway seeing a figure of someone and feeling as if someone is following you I still can’t sleep to this day
@@rosehannar2344 I hope you continue to get better and better! I have insomnia and it sucks not being able to sleep properly without pills, I can't imagine how it would be when you're feeling and hearing stuff too! I once tried a sleeping pill that made me feel that someone was watching me sleep and he/she/it would come up to me and breathe in my ear but when I turned around to see who that was, there was nobody there... I was sweating from the anxiety it gave me..! Anyways I feel you and I wish the best to you 💗
Noe Dactyl thank you so much that really means a lot because I don’t open up about this to other people I don’t know only my close friends and family plus Thiripist know but I feel that one makes chanel we are a close family so thanks so much I wish the Same to you. I do take very strong pills but I am leveled now so I am incontrol for the most part
ExtramundaneLove thank you so much for caring and I am so happy to I am so much then I was when I was little so thanks I didn’t even know that anyone would say anything or reply to my comment this means so much
_Thank you Mark, very spoopy!_
I love your profile pic
Why I'm seeing you literally everywhere.
* 1 second sans theme *
you feel your comments crawling on your back
*Thank you Daniel Sambar, very cringe!*
Markiplier: How did i get here?
Me: DO YOU HAVE 90 MINUTES?
so the thing about schizophrenia is that it's an incurable life long illness that gets worse as you age. the treatment options are effective but keeping patients on their medication is very difficult. so mark feeling stressed and frustrated is very attune to how someone experiencing schizophrenia would likely feel, both with the psychotic symptoms and the changes in personality. the audio being almost entirely irrelevant to the visual aspects of the game is a good example of how distracting hearing voices can be. the humanoid creatures walking towards you is scary and uncomfortable because that's how you feel when you see visual hallucinations. the field of view in the game is probably in relation to visual hallucinations as well because, as the game said, you can feel dizzy from your visual world changing rapidly and also medication side effects. of course there are other aspects of schizophrenia that the final game doesn't touch on (mainly because it would be hard to do such i presume) but i think mark's anguish in losing the game is parallel to how a person with schizophrenia might feel after suffering with the illness for years. there is no cure; there is no resolution. it's very disheartening, but also very honest.
It is disheartening. Schizophrenia is nothing to joke about
I disagree. The idea that schizophrenia is inherently degenerative has been completely overturned. Recovery is a path so whilst there is no 'cure' maintenance of mental health is not only possible but probable in cases where treatment is available and there is a stable support network in place. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2011. I now go by the diagnosis of 'past experience of psychosis' and work as a peer support worker within the mental health services. I haven't experienced psychosis in 4 years whilst I used to experience it all day every day. I recognise that your aim was probably to inform people of the severity of the condition but I would ask you to look towards modern studies on the matter as there is so much hope for those diagnosed these days.
We have google....to look this up
She has...schizophrenia
Also you used an ellipsis wrong
Mark, play the Watson Scott Test game... Is very spoopy!!
Kary Em 89 I second this notion
Mark would make it more funny than scary though
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OMG YAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSS... Ok I'll leave
That I agree with. Made me paranoid for like a whole day.
Not gonna lie, the first cow guy almost gave me a heart attack...
Ditto
Same
It got me too
From witch of the 3 games
@@danibelghiru4916 The first one.
Glad someone made that third game and that you decided to play it. I have schizophrenia, but I don't have it too badly. I was diagnosed when I was 12 with it (22 now), and the medications I was given seemed to make it worse. Initially I was only hearing whispers and seeing shadows and lights, but once I started on my meds, the whispers became voices telling me that no one loved me and that no one would miss me if I was gone. Shadows got worse as well going from standing in a doorway or darting around a corner to seeing them bomb rushing me when I turned around. Dreams also started to become horrifying to the point I was staying awake till 3 in the morning just to avoid sleeping. I consulted my doctor 4 years ago about wanting to stop taking them, and he agreed as long as I did more checkups with him. First year off meds they got worse, but they've progressively gotten better the last few years. Voice are now just faint whispers again, and the shadows and lights are less often. I feel I'm one of the lucky ones to be able to recover from it on my own and to still be a relatively functional adult. It's still a bit hard for me to socialize, and I'm still a bit jumpy when people sneak up on me unintentionally. Thank you for playing this.
the schizophrenia one I can relate to sadly. It took a really long time to stay as stable as I am today. I am lucky that I got to have the chance to get help before I had to call a hospital my home. This disorder and so many more is no joke. People who dont understand how bad it can be. When a few of my friends thought it was cool I can see things. They dont realize how it can get worse and how things can look so real. I dont have my own car and license because of my hallucinations. There needs to be more people willing to help, more doctors wanting to listen, doctors explaining medications of what they are usually used for instead of taking a shot in the dark. That game makes me think what it was like before I stood up and admitted I needed. Saying that you need the help and willing to do whatever is the bravest thing anyone who needs help. You have to start somewhere and you have to stick to your guns till the end of time. It took me 6 maybe 7 years to get to the point were I am stable. Its not easy and it is not a fast process you need patience with yourself to get the help you need.
Yasha Higarashi how accurate was the game?
Please don't breed. That's the whole reason there are millions of people out there with incurable mental disorders.
Yasha Higarashi I’m sorry I hate to ask but I’m genuinely curious: is 33:04 accurate? Because to me that was honestly the scariest moment and I’m wondering if some poor schizophrenic soul has ever actually had to experience that...
@@SillyDillysTunes pretty accurate in my opinion for me the things coming from the walls voices meds vision yeah pretty accurate
Was the game even close to accurate? I’m very curious since I don’t know much about the topic
I had a health teacher who knew a kid was schizophrenic but still yelled at him for disrupting class when he loudly told the voices to stop. Definitely wasn't an appropriate response to the kid when they knew what the kid's issue was.
Ikuzuki horrible!
That's so freaking messed up!!! Did the class yell at her back???
Did they get fired?
No, we were stupid kids and no one really liked the kid.
@@Ahenzuki that's honestly terrible
A lot of people this day and age like to say they have certain mental illnesses or disorders, even if they've never been professionally diagnosed. So I know a lot of people will think I'm a liar when I say I do have schizophrenia. I was diagnosed at the age of fifteen, and I'm what my doctor likes to call "functionally schizophrenic". I am allowed to have a job, but am unable to legally get a driver's license or live alone, because I could be a danger to myself or others. I would like to say, Mark, that I think that last game was fairly accurate. While I don't often find myself seeing a "whole new reality", like when the character was in the maze, I do often find myself in places without knowing how I got there. I have experienced the "I didn't close/open that door!" types of panic, when in fact I did open or shut the door, but have no memory of doing so. The voices in the game, in my experience, are inaccurate at times but more accurate in others. I've never really heard super clear voices, and it is never just one voice at a time for me. They have been very loud and very quiet, and while sometimes I can make out what they say, most times it sounds like I'm in a crowded cafeteria with a pair of headphones on. There are seemingly hundreds of voices, all overlapping, and I can never make out more than a word here and there. So I never know for sure what they're saying. I do have visual hallucinations, and they aren't always horrific I guess? While I have seen some pretty horrible things, there are a lot of times where I see regular people. Like when I'm in the car, I'll scream for whoever to stop, because there's a person crossing the street and we aren't slowing down. Whoever is driving usually will have to pull over and calm me down, and explain to me that there is no person, even if I can still see them. I've seen people who aren't real walking down the road, in my room, outside my window, at work. I've had full blown conversations with somebody who isn't even real at work before, thinking its a customer, and my supervisor will have to pull me aside and tell me there's nobody there. We've had real customers leave the store before because of it because they find it "disturbing". I also see insects, animals, objects, wounds, and "monsters". I am also one of an ever smaller percentage of schizophrenics that have textile hallucinations, which is feeling things that aren't real. I've felt things brushing against me, something touching me, things pulling on my arms or legs or hair. I've felt pain when there was no reason to feel pain. I know what a broken bone feels like without ever having to actually break a bone. And I think the disorienting prospective is very very fitting. I have vertigo as a result of my schizophrenia, and my depth perception is pretty awful sometimes. It does vary though, sometimes its not so bad. I am literally always dizzy though. And to answer your questions about dreams, I don't ever really dream. Dreaming is extremely rare for me, but when I do they are vastly fucked up. I also know I'm only one person, and that everybody with my same illness can have vastly different symptoms. So while I think the game is pretty accurate for me, it could be totally off for somebody else.
That's definitely something I can't imagine living with. I personally don't have schizophrenia, nor do I know anyone that does, but that sounds pretty rough to live with. Is there anything you do to help alleviate the symptoms or is it something you just have to learn to live with?
Im lonely
maliciousIntent wow I’m so sorry that you have to experience that every day. I do believe every word you said. I have not been diagnosed with schizophrenia and I would not say I think I might have it but I do get awful nightmares and that’s because of the side affects of my medication. I take medication for my many mental illnesses and it works but also comes with horrific side affects - hallucinations, fucked up nightmares, loss of sleep. So my point is that I respect you to be able to go to work with such bad symptoms when I struggle to function with just side affects of a controlled drug.
It’s not every day I see a book in the comments
maliciousIntent Okay, human, I’d love to read that, but PARAGRAPHS. SERIOUSLY.
"Its scary" *ba ding* "Battery low"
Lol, good timing Bluetooth headphones.
Yeah, I hate it when that happens. Seems like mine need to be charged every hour.
@@berkleywilliams2507 I can't tell if you got wooshed or not.
Don’t you just hate that?
Hey, Mark! I can see why you feel frustrated at the end, but it makes sense when you think about it: sometimes, the demons win. Sometimes they don't. My uncle is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and there are times when his demons win. My heart goes out to those who suffer or have loved ones who suffer with schizophrenia
To be clear the game does have a second ending. You don't have to be caught by the demon.
That last game is a good simulation of Schizophrenia. But, something everyone needs to know is that "seeing" things isn't just hallucinations, it could also be delusional imagination along with fears and the things people describe what they "see" could just be an analogy and not an actual thing. And I'm not saying that people don't hallucinate, just that schizophrenia is different for each person. And, yes, having schizophrenia can cause serious horrible nightmares. Everytime I see one of these schizophrenia games it reminds me to get doctors appointments to get back to the medicine that I had, it helped but it was canceled because I couldn't pay for therapy anymore.
@@Melideer thank you.
So sorry to hear that. I hope you get the help you need. Blessings.
The schizophrenia one I really related to... Just as the game makes you feel, I've been there, where everything around me just doesn't feel right. Hearing voices was every now and then, but I ALWAYS saw things, like formless figures on the walls, colors changing, things running at me from afar. It's terrifying, because no matter what you do you can't run away from your own mind.
Same as well sadly 😔
What matters is that you have the power of your own mind. Gotta use it.
@littlejollyion vlogs I'm sorry to hear that, I really hope it'll get better for you
"Oh, I'm locked in!"
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