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Hey @Psych2go I have a question/request… If you can answer but your obviously not going to respond, either way I like sharing I have a brother who has schizophrenia and argues with my mom, and dad. He’s crashed out and came semi-violent with us and I’m getting scared. I’m wondering if you, @Psych2go would like to help in any way. I don’t know how but I’d like you to help. I’d like you to give me a few suggestions on what to study, Schizophrenia, suicidal thoughts, phobias, anything you’re comfortable with. I have this thing called a passion project and I’m stuck on what to study and everything you’ve shown on this channel I’m interested in. If you can, I request a video on a few topics on my suggestions. You may decline if you like, I do not mind at all. Thank you for reading.
Of course Psych2go! We love this kind of content! Keep making them, we're liking these videos and yeah, already subscribed and I've commented on almost every video I watched. Not junk stuff but rather resonating the content with me and analyzing what I think.
My mom has schizophrenia, and has faced lots of discrimination when she tells people about it. It can be scary when she’s having a really bad episode, but she generally does such a great job of keeping herself together, and has improved a lot over the years. Thank you for talking about this!!
Same here my friend. My mom has this terrible mental illness as well. It can take a lot out of everybody. Not just the person who has schizophrenia. But remember you are not alone. ❤ They need our structure and stability.
I'm not sure about my absolute diagnoses now. Somehow, I was said to be suffering from this and it hurt me on the day I was in a lab in the university. The entire group got to know that I'm mentally unstable since I couldn't stop reacting to what processed in my mind. Somehow, I think this got wide spread in strange manner. So, the group mates actually stopped talking with me/sharing the observation with the knowledge of everyone, all of them got the signatures leaving me alone and somehow, one staff member asked the instructor (who's really kind) whether I ain't a problem/disruption for the lab and he often observed me and his gaze was really threatening.
My mother has paranoia schizophrenia but my dad is emotional unattached so I'm adopted. My biological mother don't take her medication so my adopted mothers try and protect me from her as well as her side of the family.
Are you scared of certain people because of the voices telling you false things or seeing delusions when you look at certain people or both. The reason I am asking is that I think that my wife's two brothers have schizophrenia or schizo affective. They are just so scared of me. I never had a confrontation with either one. They look at me and just can't handle being in the same room as me. Their mother had schizophrenia. They can't even look at me. They look away or down. I am not a threat to anyone. I am well educated and have a clean record.
Sadly my brother in law had it, went off his meds, and took his own life. He was the nicest dude, and most people never knew the demons he fought, so raising awareness of mental illness like this is seriously important work.
My fiance has schizoaffective bi polar. And when I met him he was a alcoholic and no meds. Now he's sober and on meds and psychotherapy he's doing so amazing but there's days where he becomes manic and starts hearing or seeing things. I love him and always will be there for him.
Thank you so much for sharing that. 💛 It means a lot to hear that this video resonated with you. You’re incredibly strong, and we’re honored to be part of your journey. Sending you lots of love and support-you're not alone! 💕✨
This came at the perfect time. My aunt has this. She’s also in her 50’s, and she has a learning and developmental disability. She can’t take care of herself, so my mom takes care of her. I help too. I’m sharing this video with my mom to help better understand. Most of the time, my aunt is a sweetheart. But once in a while, she’ll act a little odd when her medicine needs adjustment. We’ve learned to pick up on those signs.
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s so thoughtful of you to support your mom and aunt in such a meaningful way. It sounds like your family is doing an amazing job understanding and caring for her. Sharing this video with your mom is a great idea, and we hope it helps. Your compassion really shines through. Wishing you all the best on this journey.
I have schizoaffective disorder, dpressive type. I mostly have auditory hallucinations, and usually when im stressed. I do have anhedonia and the blank expression, i do isolate, which is mot new since im an introvert, but more so, i guess. Then, if you have insomnia, it makes everything worse. I have no family and only a few friends, and even though i have these friends, they dont know just how deep this illness can be. I would advise joining support groups. you'll feel less alone.
Do these auditory hallucinations make you scared of certain people? I believe that my wife's two brothers have this. They are too scared of being around me. I have done nothing to them. There is a lot of schizophrenia in the family. I have been concerned about my safety around them.
I got Schizophrenia diagnosis in the past and the current psychiatrist is emphasizing on PTSD more than that saying that I "don't" experience psychosis.
my father has been diagnosed with this mental disorder and he also has violent tendencies which stem from his paranoia, he also gets caught up in narcotics which probably does not help at all. I understand that the violent tendencies are not from schizophrenia, but perhaps other mental illnesses ? he has struggled with this for most of his life and at times has caused his a great deal of hardship. my father has metioned before how "angels" that have followed him since a young age communicate with him. and it is truly a terrifying thing watching the mental disorder take apart your life and draw your loved ones away.
I'm not sure about my diagnosis but I used to be a devout Christian and I was forced to hide how much the God and his angels abused me by then, as long as I became an atheist I could break free.
From what I’ve seen from a family friend, religion is probably not a good combo with Schizophrenia. It definitely doesn’t help when there are devout people around him who would confirm his hallucinations and believe that he’s seen/heard some sort of truth. Instead of grounding him back to the reality, they are feeding into the delusions.
@@anuruksuriyaarachchi3988I understand schizophrenic and psychotic illnesses are inconceivably horrific, but according to the Bible and true Christian teachings, that was NOT God or his angels tormenting you, and God CAN and WILL one day save you from the devil's torment. God is good. I doubt that everyday but he proves to me everyday that he isn't what my mind tells me He is. God loves you so much and He will heal your mind. It just takes time. Sending so much love your way. Don't think about religious obsessions, just know simply that God does in fact love you so much. Even though your minds trying to convince you the opposite is true, God really does love you.
I have an online friend with Schizophrenia, and it's good for me to learn more about what they are going through and who they are as a person, thank you 💙
Remember that healing from schizophrenia is possible. I used to have auditory hallucinations every night, but now I no longer experience them. I am raw vegan, I take medication, I make sure to get enough sleep, I exercise, I meditate, and I play video games to take care of my mental health, and it’s actually working!
Thank you for sharing your journey-it’s inspiring to hear how far you’ve come. It’s a powerful reminder that healing is possible with the right combination of care and self-discipline. Your story could give hope to so many others navigating similar challenges. Wishing you continued progress and strength on your path. Keep taking care of yourself-you’re doing amazing!
Same here, except i eat meat, take no medication, sleep randomly (but enough most of the time), almost no exercise, no meditation and i play video games too. Looks like it is healing miracle of video games.
@@chesterdamolester6990 i've completed this game already. I like the game. Fights are pretty hard for me (i don't play that kind of games much), but i made it through them. Many violent scenes. But overall i recommend.
When I hear schizophrenia, I oftentimes think of Terry A. Davis, who's been likely one of the smartest programmers in the world. Unfortunately he mostly refused treatment, became homeless and committed suicide in the end, which is sad to lose someone with so much potential and knowledge
I used to do hard drugs quite often, and I would say that when using them my behaviour became much more irratic in nature. This could have been due to the opioids that were cut in them since the last time I did it, it was tested and laced with fentanyl. During that time everything that was not fine was blown up and destructive coping behaviors in all addictions flew high. Especially my alcohol intake, when every week I was in an insanity loop, of negative trains of thoughts until in anxiety. Until I snapped. Which I feel much better months later!!
My sister was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, its been a wild ride learning and managing her psychosis in the family. She started to tick every single box in this video over the span of 5 months. Getting help for her has been extremely difficult when she can't trust anyone. Still in the process of getting her out of psychosis, but progress is being made! Finally got antipsychotics, now she just needs to take them for awhile lol. I've experienced psychosis a few times before, so it was easy for me to understand and navigate the situation fairly well. It's a very interesting disorder with how significantly it can alter your perception as a whole. It is indeed, extremely misunderstood.
Schizoaffective here; you did a good job of explaining that while we do experience intense episodes of psychosis, many are not CONSTANTLY in a psychotic state. I typically still have hallucinations all the time with accompanying delusions like the idea that people can hear and communicate with me through thought. I know that people can’t really hear my thoughts on one hand, but the back of my mind won’t let me truly believe that on the other hand so it is always just a staple of how I perceive the world; usually my brain interprets the voices I hear as the thoughts of people around me, which is what leads me to loathe being around groups of people because it exacerbates my symptoms.
My dad is diagnosed with schizophrenia and is unmedicated so I decided to watch this video to learn more to help him as best as I can ( I don't have the correct resources to get him to a hospital yet) and I genuinely started crying thinking about how genuinely scared he must be dealing with his delusions. I love him so much and I just want him to get better :/
My father has the same. There are many types of schizophrenia and not all of them are severe. It is important that your father can take care of himself. He mostly needs his rest and to be busy at home. You can always go by and support him.
@erselo2477 Im not going to share his delusions on here bc that's his business but being at home is where one of his main delusions stem from unfortunately and getting him out of the house is one of the key ways to help distract him from it so it's not that easy :/ but thank you for sharing your advice i appreciate it
I know someone with schizophrenia/psychosis, and this was super helpful in letting me support them and understand their daily struggles. Keep up the amazing work!
My best friend had schizophrenia and passed away a year ago, 2 days before Christmas at the age of 28. I miss him so much 🙏 praying for anyone dealing with such a hard challenge. Good luck people 💙
Thank you for this video. I am schizophrenic I've been for since my early teens I guess. Your videos have helped incredibly. I don't always know how to explain things to my family and friends It's very hard for them to understand me a lot of times. But what I send them your videos we don't always have words but the way they hug me after the looks I get. You have helped them understand somewhat of what I'm going through. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
I don't have schizophrenia, I have OCD though, but I share my love and support for all who suffer from it. it must be awful and full of despair. I hope at least your hallucinations don't harm you mentally, or perhaps they say or show nice things to you. but please take care of yourself and take medications. you're strong and amazing!
I am a schizophrenic and have quite a few of the positive symptoms that you mentioned in the video such as believing that I have a parasitic infection, that I see things that aren’t there like rabbits jumping through my living room, to smelling mice and/or rats in my house, to hearing voices outside my bedroom. Some of these things I am able to distinguish the reality of and some of them I am not. This can be very scary and heavily contributes to my agoraphobia. The best thing that I have found that helps me, is to have a person that listens to me and doesn’t judge, tell me if they see or hear or smell the same things as me. The hardest part is finding someone that you can trust to give you a fair go at finding out if things are hallucinations or not as most people just dismiss us schizophrenics without even investigating or checking what we say. That is when we get very upset but upset doesn’t mean violent. The truth of it is that it is very bloody scary not to be able to trust your own mind, and so this causes us distress. Distress is not violence but is often misinterpreted as aggressive or violent behaviour, when the truth of the matter is that we are frightened because we can’t distinguish reality from non reality. Schizophrenia is a very difficult mental health illness to deal with. So next time you see a schizophrenic person, please bear in mind that they are most likely more scared of you dismissing them, than what you need to be of them being violent towards you.
i am not schizophrenic, tho I deal with lots of paranoia which messes me up really badly. truly, this is the most terrifying thing ever, my heart is with whoever deals with this. you're strong yall
I wish my family and irl friends could actually like me even if I'm schizoaffective + dyslexic, everyday is so hard, everyday is just terrible, everyday my life is ruin and I only think about the inevitable thing, but so far I'm 17 and even after getting abused ly everyway possible for 10 years, I only live for my online friends nothing else, I cursed my existence so bad, but I keep living only for people I care about very good video, keep going!!
I used to be and now I'm an atheist but still I don't get many online friends like you have. I mean, I think I'm hated in general and those get to know about my mental health and interests. Dump me for some reason.
Your struggles are heard and understood. Living with schizoaffective disorder and dyslexia can indeed make daily life a challenging journey. It is natural to feel overwhelmed and to seek solace in the support of online friends. Your existence is not a curse, but a unique path filled with lessons and growth. Embrace your diagnosis as a guide, not a definition. Mindfulness, meditation, and acceptance are powerful tools to navigate the complexities of our mind. Continue learning about life and yourself, and remember, you are not alone in this journey. I am also one that share a similar diagnose, although i am one that found its way to Accept it, to learn to life with it... thus i really hope and pray you also will find your way to learn to life your life and find the right support in the right moment of time.😇🙏
I’ve had two psychotic episodes in my 40s. After the first one, they diagnosed me as having this breakdown because of stress and depression, so they prescribed me antidepressants and an anti psychotic. It was after my second psychotic episode where I started to do my own research. Anxiety which brings on paranoia and eventually could bring on a psychotic episode is because of low self worth. It wasn’t until I stated to educate myself on childhood trauma did I start to feel a true healing journey begin. I suggest to everyone to look at how childhood trauma affected you , because whether you believe it or not, you experienced some sort of trauma and need to deal with it.
It worries me thinking that a lot of people may be having a psychotic break but they consider it "spiritual" and don't seek help but instead frame their life around those experiences...
@zackerybartlett8050 Honestly same 😅😅 But I do think there's a difference between the two. Obviously your spirit guides would never tell you to harm yourself or others. So if you're hearing those messages, chances are good you probably have schizophrenia 😅
Going forward with my new reality, or accepting that we are broken and people will look at us with disgust and meds that leave me in worse state than middle of psychosis ever was - my choice was simple, psychiatrist understand nothing. If I had mostly negative experiences maybe I would break, but this is not the case.
@@DolrittoIf you recognize there is dysfunction and are aware enough to pinpoint the root of your issues, you can find the proper solution. Or adopt positive coping mechanisms. Trial and error occurs, but your reality is also dependent on your will to change, for the better.
As long as they have a voice of reason they are sane. If they can vocalize how they helped themselves and can articulate it it’s fine. I’m more scared who are frightened when someone says the correct ways they fixed their destructive behaviours and that pushes them into an extreme.
There's a lot they don't know and just "fill in the blanks" with what they know (or think they know) similar to what the mind does with blind spots in the eye. I consider the average person to be "functionally schizophrenic."
Dang, I had no idea so many other people also have schizoaffective disorder. I felt so isolated before considering it’s relatively rare for a diagnosis (0.3%) but everyone’s comments sums up my experience in some form or another, if not the entire experience. Mine has gotten worse this past year due to poor health and poor doctoring due to insurance, he took me off near all my meds and am dealing heavily with the fall out. I want back on my meds but he wants me in outpatient and I can’t do that taking care of two Elderly parents who can’t walk (broken hip and leg and one with recent ligament surgery) I’m so exhausted from my hallucinations, they’ve become far more frequent and my visual hallucinations are working over time like never before and it terrifies me. I don’t enjoy things anymore and I hadn’t cried for a year until literally a week ago when I had a mental breakdown and wound up in the hospital physically sick (viral infection and extremely low potassium+ inflamed liver, just got home today from 3 days of stay as I type this actually) I still can’t sleep but these comments make me feel so much less alone, you have no idea how much I needed to read these comments. Some days I feel like I don’t have my disorder but then I’m reminded shortly that I’m not faking anything. I can’t shake my delusions and I know I need help but I fear being locked away, as my doc threatened this twice and I still refused his outpatient referral so I’m probably headed there next time he sees me anyway.
Thank you so very much for putting this one out. I have a friend with schizophrenia who is suffering a lot lately. It’s so hard to see him convinced that some very scary things are happening that aren’t real. I just try to be a good friend but really don’t know what to say.
Schizophrenic speaking, I am hallucinating quite rarely, usually sounds, not visual, and I am glad about it, I have mostly negative symptoms.. I don't really know why I am saying this, but eh, why not
@@Hollow_174 i'm also diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and i had a psychotic break that lasted almost 2 years with no break. Make sure to always take your meds, psychosis can cause brain damage if untreated.
My Dad has schizophrenia (undiagnosed, but all the symptoms are there and every Doctor and therapist we've talked to, in private and official settings, confims this). It's very exausting to Keep our family's life together. He's weary of most people outside the family, so we have to be careful who we can let near him and it's always a tiny risk whenever he goes outside, as he may or may not get into conflict with strangers, 2-3 times even physical already. He sleeps up to 18 hours a day, in the psychotic Episodes he can go a week without any sleep at all, he is a messy and because he sometimes destroys things and in his episodes and constantly rearranges the order in the house in a chaotic manner, our flat is... disorganized.... slightly.... He spends money we don't have, loses things on an almost weekly basis, and we have to stay behind his work scedule (a mini Job as a Newspaper deliverer), cause sometimes he decides to just leave for 1-2 days. These are mainly just the day to day things, don't get me started on what an episode looks like. Hint: pretty terrifying, tantrums almost like a toddler with everything that accompanys that (never violent towards people so far, thank God). On some days you can't even talk to him, as he is mentally absent 90 percent of that time. His speech becomes unrecognisable, his face and voice can change in a rather scary way. Complete disfuction in almost all areas of life in those episodes, they are like every 3-4 Months for 1-2 Weeks. Dealing with him can feel like dealing with some exaggerated cartoon character sometimes. So much so that growing up, mentally stable and healthy people always seemed strange to me. It took a while and is still a process for me to understand and find my place in the World outside of the mental instability I grew up among (my mother has her rather significant issues too, she just managed to get our family by somehow for all these years). It's hard but I can't do anything other than to push forward day by day, trying to change, fail, try again and defend my will to live against all the despair inside me. My heart goes out to everyone struggling, let's pull through together. Life on earth is fortunately limited, let's do something useful with it and be faithful till God calls us home. Thanks so much for reading, God bless❤
I have schizoaffective bipolar type, and it sounds a lot like that because it lasts for periods of time. For me, it happens every two to three months for like a whole week. I go from depressed to maniac, and then in between, I get paranoid and hear whispers or see shadows. Fortunately, I am under medication, which makes things easier and gives me more insight into my illness. Why isn't he on medication? It must be very difficult for him and everybody around him (including you). I hope things get better for you and your family.
@@mireyaluna9073 Thank you for your reply! I'm so sorry you're expiriencing all of this. And hats off to you for being where you are. I'm happy you're on medication. Do you want to tell your story? My father isn't on medication because we can't convince him that anything is wrong. You can't force medication unless you get the paramedics to force him into a clinic in case he is a danger to himself or others. He has been hurting himself a couple Times, once so badly my Mom called the ambulance but my Father could talk himself out of it. Other than that hes generally safe for himself and has never purposefully hurt another.
I didn’t know until my late 20s.. I wish I could apologize to all my exes for everytime I snapped and didn’t believe them. But it’s just better to move forward and do better
The mother of my two daughters developed schizophrenia. When my two daughters were 8 and 12. She walked out on the three of us. She has been gone for over forty years. She very little contact with my two daughters and no contact with me! 😢
I have schizoaffective bipolar type and it’s so difficult to coming to terms with it all. Part of me hates it because of the stigma, so much so I don’t want to even disclose it with the people I get close to in fear of how they will see me. I get confused a lot also with the diagnosis saying to myself i don’t have it and that the things I experience are true it displaces me so much that I can’t tell reality from the delusions. The saddest thing of it all is I can’t talk about it without me looking like I’m insane so I try to manage it by myself which is just faulty because in the end you can’t really trust yourself. I know I need people I just don’t want to look foolish and be a burden. It can be a real struggle
Love this and wanted to add my story. Yes, it usually occurs in a person's twenties but I was an anomaly 😅 experiencing hearing voices since I can remember. even as a kid you can have hallucinations that children don't even understand or experience in the real world. And probably the most difficult part is that even though I'm quite lucky in that taking my meds silences them nearly immediately, the voices try to convince me not to take medicine or they'll hurt my loved ones 😢. Experiencing delusions and hallucinations can be a pain but as a writer, some of my best ideas come from the most terrifying delusions and hallucinations that I have. In my book it mentions swarms of bugs in a ring on fire as a portal for example. That came from a hallucination. Also, what made it so hard to come to terms that I had schizophrenia was because I didn't realize that the internal hallucinations were hallucinations. But just because a hallucination is internal and you can tell it from reality, doesn't mean it can be any less distressing.
It's like the neurons in the brain are firing when they aren't supposed to, activating memories and recollections, creating the wrong assumptions and thought patterns... forcing difficulty in experiencing reality at the same pace as most of us. Stay blessed with the life and chance to experience life :) Love you all
Schizophrenia is a Challenge and some years are better than others but with proper treatment it is doable but sometimes it really takes over for awhile and self isolation has been a way to cope. Thank you for this video 🫂
The amount of people that I've heard talking about schizophrenia when they're actually talking about dissociative identity disorder is mind boggling. I have no idea where this misconception even came from, as the two are not at all similar and don't even have similar names.
Did some research and DID and schizophrenia were thought to be the same, just different manifestation of the same disorder. Now we know better but the general knowledge usually is much slower than advancement science makes, mainly because learning out of the school has minus prestige among people.
The only reason I can think of for the conflation between schizophrenia and DID/plurality as a whole is the "hearing voices" part of it. Anyone who's actually informed on the realities of being plural and being shizophrenic knows that these are two vastly different things. It's really unfortunate how much both are stigmatised
Thanks for making this Video,my mom has Schizophrenia and Bipolar so sometimes she would yell at people when I’m walking with her or yell at nothing,tho with her mom my grandma she’s calm,I always try to calm my mom down also because I fear that my mom will get attacked when she yells at the wrong person,I’m always scared for her when I’m not around her,thanks to this video I now understand more about schizophrenia than I did before,tho I’m still young I’m still understanding.
My mother in law has schizophrenia. My wife's two brothers either have schizophrenia or schizo affective. They literally are so scared to be in the same room as me. One brother whispers to himself as if he is talking to someone. The other brother acts gradiose and really a fake. I never had an agrument with either one of them. They got worse when their parents died 10 yrs ago from natural causes. One tried to say to police that I was present when his mom passed. I was living in another city. I was told to go over to.see what was going on at the house. When i talked to police, i told them i didnt live at the house. I had to prove it. I was asked by police if i got along with my brother in law. An odd question to ask me. I had to inform the police that my brother in law may be hallucinating due to schizophrenia or schizo affective. He was hallucinating that i harmed my mother in law. I was offended because I got a long with my mother in law very well. My brother in law was sleeping with his mother when she died too. He admitted that to police. But didnt say about her medical issues that could have contributed to her death.
@@johngault22 I think Jinx represents schizophrenia rly well, the whole show is based on violence and its showing how trauma can change you to be things you never thought you could be, dont see her as a violent schizophrenic, see her as a person who's traumatized and copes with violence who just happens to be schizophrenic
I have been in and out of hospital so many times that I'm still trying to figure out what I have when it comes to my mental health in general and I already have a list of my mental health problems/issues that I do have and learning more new stuff about myself every day
My wife's two brothers have had this for years and won't deal with it. It has been worse. They are way too scared to be in the same room as me. They can't even look at me. Just way too scared. I haven't done anything to them.
A buddy of mine went mad over the years. He recently made national news recently for lighting a mailbox on fire, but he just wanted to go back to jail. It was 10 years between the first symptoms and living on the street.
I've been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder since I was a teenager. I felt more alienated by my mother and my siblings because they're uneducated about the diagnosis. I wasn't able to open up to them about my problems because they believe that I'm fantasizing things and can't determine what's real and what's not. Stigmatism is strong within my family and instead of them seeing me as a human being, they saw me as a freak. Now, I'm out of that toxic environment and seeking professional guidance. I'm currently taking Invega Trinza as treatment and on the road to recovery without any relapses.
I've experienced these symptoms EVERY.SINGLE.DAY!!! 🤧 But I also having other symptoms after my medications is completely out: epilepsy-like-tic (though, I also epileptic) and it quite suffocating me. But the symptoms is actually vary for other schizophrenics though, so please educate yourself about schizophrenia whether you are a schizophrenics or their caregivers
I’m still recovering from schizoaffective. I truly pity those that have schizophrenia since it tends to be more severe than schizoaffective disorder. :( I’m lucky I learned to live with my illness since I started having psychosis when I was 6 years old.
Hi Psych2go, can make a video about the difference between Schizophrenia and Dissociative personality disorder. as always thank you for making psychology easier to understand and helping lot of people.❤
Timestamps 1). Schizophrenia 0:20 2). Psychosis 1:51 3). Hallucinations 2:26 4). Delusions 3:52 Hope this helps you out. Hope you have a nice day. Sorry this is so late. 💙💙💙💙💙💙
My mother has schizophrenia. She fully believed that God sent me as a test for her and she was a prophet She'd treat me like "un-normal" creature as a child, and I believed I was "that" as well Ik these were a decade ago, because of the abuse and neglect from her I've developed Borderline I still feel bad for her and I wish she could've have a better life Thanks for the video :)
I was diagnosed as a schizophrenic yet I show signs of DID as well. Without going into too many specifics, I do hallucinate often in the form of shadowy figures darting from place to place, as well as sounds and voices when nobody is around. In addition, I've been told by my husband that I have a second personality completely separate from me. Her mannerisms are far different than my own, which he showed a video of happening in case I just had a mental breakdown. When the doctor medicated me, all it did was turn me into a shell of who I was normally, in addition to almost having a heart attack caused by really low blood pressure as a potential side effect. Juggling both issues makes it hard for me to always determine if what I heard or saw was real or not, however I am more than aware of what reality is considering the onset of these symptoms didn't happen or were noticed until several years ago. So it's not like I believe EVERY shadow I see is really something at all, but the noises definitely catch me off guard the most. I know I alarm others around me when I suddenly jump and look towards something when nothing is there, but they understand it as "she's been through a lot and is stressed out" which I'll accept over them just saying "she's weird." Medications couldn't help me, but the support of those who love and care for me has been enough to make it bearable.
I do not have schizophrenia, but I have had a psychotic break, and it was TERRIFYING. -10/10 strongly recommend against. I knew the voices I was hearing were not real and that hearing voices was very abnormal for me so I checked into the hospital. There they gave me a pill and sent me home. I went to bed, and when I woke up a month had passed. According to those around me, during that time I was like an alzheimers patient, asking the same questions every 5 minutes. I have no memory of any of it. My brother tells me my memory went into witness protection, and I agree with that sentiment. From what I remember before I checked out, those voices were screaming some really horrifying things in my head. I later found a journal entry I had no idea I had made that was completely unhinged, begging someone to make the voices stop, so from that I gather k was hearing voices the whole time. For about 6 mo ths after I had problems with short term memory recall. To this day I have some issues with memory, though most of that I attribute to a lifetime of trauma and abuse.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable s0urce here in Australia. Really need!
Ya myco_saint💜💜💜. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Years ago I was shotty diagnosed with schizophrenia tendencies. If I saw this video then I’d feel I am more than half of the definition. I’d look or demand proper help. But it wasn’t that people had been wanting to hurt me, it’s that neglect I noticed lead to certain lack of proper development aids. Such as normal amount of friends or proper friends. Hearing my concerns or the damning one, putting me in charge of an adults choices I surely wasn’t ready for and didn’t have the info to inform them on. Outer voice always seemed suppressed. The times my own logic was better than my family and not heard lead to so many things that could have been handled better. I am not awake yet still. Will I ever be alive?
My roommate says I could have some latent schizophrenia, since I begin to hear muffled music or talking when I'm on THC or when I'm incredibly distressed. This video is really timely, just in case he's right
Update Over my mentality: I have renounced crushes... OR DID I? I have a best friend who I follow everywhere comfortably. I also especially follow him when he is with his girl best friend cause he always talks about such things with her that I am mostly not allowed to listen. But if he doesn't tell me to go away for a moment, Then it means that it was not a secret. For example, I once overheard him saying something like "...first sight" so I feel like he wanted her as his girlfriend or something(both of us are 12 but she is 11). About my dreams, they are all pitch black. This shows my emptiness in life because of love. This video helped me understand more of this disorder. I found out that I have Catatonia. Hence, it helped me. Thanks Psych❤
Im not sure if yall read the comments, but I would like a video about Aint-socal personality disorder. I'm a very high functioning psychopath, there is very little to no videos about dealing with ASPD, most videos just pin us out as evil or without feelings, It's not fun being constantly told your evil, Im tierd of being told I can't change.
🤔I believe there is actually a type known as pro social psychopathy...They actually do the right things & help others because even if they're not hardwired for warm fuzzy empathy like neurotypicals, they understand the benefits of having things be mutually beneficial with others & cooperating with society's rules.These ones aren't super narcissistic like many people imagine when we refer to psychopathy whether it's secondary(sociopathy) or primary(brain abnormality from birth)🤔.This group should be studied more, it may possibly help with interventions particularly while people are still growing up for example.
As far as I'm aware, I was born with schizophrenia because my parents have told me that I've had hallucinations and "imaginary friends" my whole life. I've never once been medicated for it unfortunately, but I have learned how to handle it myself and generally keep myself feeling sane, although there's only so much I can do with a disorder like this. Thinking back on stuff, I can acknowledge what sounds realistic and what's fake, but beyond that, there's still stuff in my head that I've probably had misconstrued for years
Depending on the nature of these imaginary friends it could also be something other than schizophrenia. I imagine there's a lot more to your experiences beyond what you've written in this comment, but it always helps to get an informed opinion if at all possible for you.
Waking up 2am in a hospital woke up from coma in psychosis. Terrifying. After over 20 years and 5 relapses. I'm still on Olanzapine. Because of how it effects me... I'm always drunk because of them. Thus, I havn't been sober all that time. Being called nasty things from people because of it as well.
My mother has schizophrenia and the symptoms in this video are accurate, sadly my mother was very abusive when I lived with her as a child, and despite it being proven in court, the government refuses to hospitalize her to help her condition. Canada says they care for the mentally ill but refuse to save my mother from herself, she literally doesn't know she has the condition and refuses to knowledge it. My hatred for my own country has gotten so bad I refuse to sit still for our national anthem in school, if abuse isn't good enough a reason to help her, then what will be in their eyes?
I just watched the difference between sociopaths and psychopaths and even though that video is pretty old it made me realize that almost all of the women from my moms side of the family are psychopaths as you said it is genetic and a lot the women from my family have done many things like my grandmother was in many different wards and has harassed my mom her sisters and they’re husbands accusing them of plotting on her and according to mom she has Schizophrenia which is why she has been to many wards because of her episodes they are all also very manipulative and when I was a bit younger I stayed with my aunt from my dad’s side and she got in contact with my mom’s older sister who my mom didn’t like much so we never really got to see her and my aunt (dads side) said we would be able to start seeing her and having days out with her and though my aunt was never rude to her and was fine with talking and being around her I could tell she never really liked her. Me my sister and my cousin shared a phone and we had her number saved because she always wanted to have days out with us but one day she asked my cousin to show my little brother something she got for him and my cousin saw the text but got distracted and forgot about it and later in the day she called us and talked to us for a little bit and then she asked my cousin if she showed my brother the toy and she admitted that she got distracted and forgot and my aunt got angry and accused her of trying to break her relationship with my brother this made my cousin cry and she went to her my aunt crying and told her what happened this made her mad and she started telling her how daughter was rude and disrespectful and faking it this made my aunt block her(I’m not gonna right anymore I’m tired lol)
what if the things that are heard are not aloud, but rather in your brain ? would that then be considered this mental disorder or just your thoughts playing tricks on you ?
I've heard recently that schizophrenia is seen as a super bad and violent condition mostly in northern countries. In southern countries, some people experience a "good" type of schizophrenia, like voices genuily helping and guiding them. In some parts of Africa, schizophrenic people are not excluded because of it, but rather seen as people able to communicate with spirit of their ancestor. My point is that, in northern countries, the understanding of schizophrenia is way different than in southern countries. Studies showing it are few and quite recent, but it's interesting to consider in my opinion. Why not a video about it ? ;)
I have schizoaffective disorder bipolar type, it went untreated and was misdiagnosed for depression. I went into psychosis and broke into my neighbors house, then threatened him with violence because I hallucinated a girls voice crying and mumbling as though gagged. The voice was coming from somewhere in his house but I couldn't find the girl. I developed a delusion that he was part of a cult that kidnapped the girl and they were going to sacrifice her. I wrecked his house in search for the nonexistent girl and scared the hell out of my neighbor. My memories about what happened after are vague and collodoscopepic, I didn't sleep for two weeks and doctors thought I was on multiple drugs. Eventually one doctor recognized that I was mentality ill and put me on a handful of pills. It took me two years to be able to function somewhat normally and appropriately. Recovery from psychosis is possible, it may be challenging and even though Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder can't be cured it is manageable with medication and treatment.
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Schizoid personality disorder
Hey @Psych2go I have a question/request…
If you can answer but your obviously not going to respond, either way I like sharing
I have a brother who has schizophrenia and argues with my mom, and dad. He’s crashed out and came semi-violent with us and I’m getting scared. I’m wondering if you, @Psych2go would like to help in any way. I don’t know how but I’d like you to help. I’d like you to give me a few suggestions on what to study, Schizophrenia, suicidal thoughts, phobias, anything you’re comfortable with. I have this thing called a passion project and I’m stuck on what to study and everything you’ve shown on this channel I’m interested in. If you can, I request a video on a few topics on my suggestions. You may decline if you like, I do not mind at all.
Thank you for reading.
Of course Psych2go! We love this kind of content! Keep making them, we're liking these videos and yeah, already subscribed and I've commented on almost every video I watched. Not junk stuff but rather resonating the content with me and analyzing what I think.
Thank you for your amazing videos!
My mom has schizophrenia, and has faced lots of discrimination when she tells people about it. It can be scary when she’s having a really bad episode, but she generally does such a great job of keeping herself together, and has improved a lot over the years.
Thank you for talking about this!!
Same here my friend. My mom has this terrible mental illness as well. It can take a lot out of everybody. Not just the person who has schizophrenia. But remember you are not alone. ❤ They need our structure and stability.
I'm not sure about my absolute diagnoses now. Somehow, I was said to be suffering from this and it hurt me on the day I was in a lab in the university. The entire group got to know that I'm mentally unstable since I couldn't stop reacting to what processed in my mind. Somehow, I think this got wide spread in strange manner. So, the group mates actually stopped talking with me/sharing the observation with the knowledge of everyone, all of them got the signatures leaving me alone and somehow, one staff member asked the instructor (who's really kind) whether I ain't a problem/disruption for the lab and he often observed me and his gaze was really threatening.
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My mother has paranoia schizophrenia but my dad is emotional unattached so I'm adopted. My biological mother don't take her medication so my adopted mothers try and protect me from her as well as her side of the family.
I'm schizoaffective. A delusion is like believing a mirage you know isn't real, but must keep searching for over and over.
I'm schizo too finally I'm not alone
Are you scared of certain people because of the voices telling you false things or seeing delusions when you look at certain people or both. The reason I am asking is that I think that my wife's two brothers have schizophrenia or schizo affective. They are just so scared of me. I never had a confrontation with either one. They look at me and just can't handle being in the same room as me. Their mother had schizophrenia. They can't even look at me. They look away or down. I am not a threat to anyone. I am well educated and have a clean record.
Im also Schizoeffective and I don't fully follow the metaphor.
You said it well. Mine started at age 2 I am now 32. 😢
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Sadly my brother in law had it, went off his meds, and took his own life. He was the nicest dude, and most people never knew the demons he fought, so raising awareness of mental illness like this is seriously important work.
My biological mother was suicidal from 14 too 43 wich by then I was born and apparently I'm her beacon of hope.
My fiance has schizoaffective bi polar. And when I met him he was a alcoholic and no meds. Now he's sober and on meds and psychotherapy he's doing so amazing but there's days where he becomes manic and starts hearing or seeing things. I love him and always will be there for him.
Wow. You're an angel
Do not fall for Codependency
Wow I'm in tears! You are a guardian angel and a blessing. I hope you both live the best lives possible. God bless you! 🙏🏼❤
Wish everyone had this support
You're 1 of the good ones dear👍🏻👍🏻.
I have schizophrenia and dis touched my heart.
I don't know who the **** I am because none of the doctors are telling the truth about my actual condition. They're not open.
May you get it back 🧡
This touched the heart I guess. 😅
I also have schizophrenia, and this video definitely did touch my heart
Thank you so much for sharing that. 💛 It means a lot to hear that this video resonated with you. You’re incredibly strong, and we’re honored to be part of your journey. Sending you lots of love and support-you're not alone! 💕✨
This came at the perfect time. My aunt has this. She’s also in her 50’s, and she has a learning and developmental disability. She can’t take care of herself, so my mom takes care of her. I help too. I’m sharing this video with my mom to help better understand. Most of the time, my aunt is a sweetheart. But once in a while, she’ll act a little odd when her medicine needs adjustment. We’ve learned to pick up on those signs.
Hope she gets better❤
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s so thoughtful of you to support your mom and aunt in such a meaningful way. It sounds like your family is doing an amazing job understanding and caring for her. Sharing this video with your mom is a great idea, and we hope it helps. Your compassion really shines through. Wishing you all the best on this journey.
I have schizoaffective disorder, dpressive type. I mostly have auditory hallucinations, and usually when im stressed. I do have anhedonia and the blank expression, i do isolate, which is mot new since im an introvert, but more so, i guess.
Then, if you have insomnia, it makes everything worse.
I have no family and only a few friends, and even though i have these friends, they dont know just how deep this illness can be.
I would advise joining support groups. you'll feel less alone.
Do these auditory hallucinations make you scared of certain people? I believe that my wife's two brothers have this. They are too scared of being around me. I have done nothing to them. There is a lot of schizophrenia in the family. I have been concerned about my safety around them.
Just so you know, I love you as the person you are currently :D
Wow our story is kinda the same
Honestly, I'm generally hated by many (not all though) and unlovable and I think I deserve it even if I want it and my parents kinda give it.
I got Schizophrenia diagnosis in the past and the current psychiatrist is emphasizing on PTSD more than that saying that I "don't" experience psychosis.
my father has been diagnosed with this mental disorder and he also has violent tendencies which stem from his paranoia, he also gets caught up in narcotics which probably does not help at all. I understand that the violent tendencies are not from schizophrenia, but perhaps other mental illnesses ? he has struggled with this for most of his life and at times has caused his a great deal of hardship. my father has metioned before how "angels" that have followed him since a young age communicate with him. and it is truly a terrifying thing watching the mental disorder take apart your life and draw your loved ones away.
I'm not sure about my diagnosis but I used to be a devout Christian and I was forced to hide how much the God and his angels abused me by then, as long as I became an atheist I could break free.
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From what I’ve seen from a family friend, religion is probably not a good combo with Schizophrenia. It definitely doesn’t help when there are devout people around him who would confirm his hallucinations and believe that he’s seen/heard some sort of truth. Instead of grounding him back to the reality, they are feeding into the delusions.
@@DL-idk Exactly. !00% Luckily my parents aren't that much. Especially my father who's a Buddhist.
@@anuruksuriyaarachchi3988I understand schizophrenic and psychotic illnesses are inconceivably horrific, but according to the Bible and true Christian teachings, that was NOT God or his angels tormenting you, and God CAN and WILL one day save you from the devil's torment. God is good. I doubt that everyday but he proves to me everyday that he isn't what my mind tells me He is. God loves you so much and He will heal your mind. It just takes time. Sending so much love your way. Don't think about religious obsessions, just know simply that God does in fact love you so much. Even though your minds trying to convince you the opposite is true, God really does love you.
I have schizophrenia myself and the struggle with the illness is very real. It doesn’t help that everyone has stereotypes about schizophrenia
I have an online friend with Schizophrenia, and it's good for me to learn more about what they are going through and who they are as a person, thank you 💙
Yeah i know 6 online 💀
@Telesto_Timelost 😭 oh
I see them sometimes in town. They're easy to recognize. As I was telling someone who works in mental health the other day, they're like children.
@@Viejo-verde you're meannn
@@Aquasky05 i love to bully my bestie about it frfr
Remember that healing from schizophrenia is possible. I used to have auditory hallucinations every night, but now I no longer experience them. I am raw vegan, I take medication, I make sure to get enough sleep, I exercise, I meditate, and I play video games to take care of my mental health, and it’s actually working!
Thank you for sharing your journey-it’s inspiring to hear how far you’ve come. It’s a powerful reminder that healing is possible with the right combination of care and self-discipline. Your story could give hope to so many others navigating similar challenges. Wishing you continued progress and strength on your path. Keep taking care of yourself-you’re doing amazing!
Same here, except i eat meat, take no medication, sleep randomly (but enough most of the time), almost no exercise, no meditation and i play video games too. Looks like it is healing miracle of video games.
Play Hellblade
@@Psych2goThe keto diet has shown extremely positive impact on people with schizophrenia
@@chesterdamolester6990 i've completed this game already. I like the game. Fights are pretty hard for me (i don't play that kind of games much), but i made it through them. Many violent scenes. But overall i recommend.
When I hear schizophrenia, I oftentimes think of Terry A. Davis, who's been likely one of the smartest programmers in the world. Unfortunately he mostly refused treatment, became homeless and committed suicide in the end, which is sad to lose someone with so much potential and knowledge
I used to do hard drugs quite often, and I would say that when using them my behaviour became much more irratic in nature. This could have been due to the opioids that were cut in them since the last time I did it, it was tested and laced with fentanyl. During that time everything that was not fine was blown up and destructive coping behaviors in all addictions flew high. Especially my alcohol intake, when every week I was in an insanity loop, of negative trains of thoughts until in anxiety. Until I snapped. Which I feel much better months later!!
My sister was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, its been a wild ride learning and managing her psychosis in the family. She started to tick every single box in this video over the span of 5 months. Getting help for her has been extremely difficult when she can't trust anyone. Still in the process of getting her out of psychosis, but progress is being made! Finally got antipsychotics, now she just needs to take them for awhile lol.
I've experienced psychosis a few times before, so it was easy for me to understand and navigate the situation fairly well. It's a very interesting disorder with how significantly it can alter your perception as a whole. It is indeed, extremely misunderstood.
Schizoaffective here; you did a good job of explaining that while we do experience intense episodes of psychosis, many are not CONSTANTLY in a psychotic state. I typically still have hallucinations all the time with accompanying delusions like the idea that people can hear and communicate with me through thought.
I know that people can’t really hear my thoughts on one hand, but the back of my mind won’t let me truly believe that on the other hand so it is always just a staple of how I perceive the world; usually my brain interprets the voices I hear as the thoughts of people around me, which is what leads me to loathe being around groups of people because it exacerbates my symptoms.
My dad is diagnosed with schizophrenia and is unmedicated so I decided to watch this video to learn more to help him as best as I can ( I don't have the correct resources to get him to a hospital yet) and I genuinely started crying thinking about how genuinely scared he must be dealing with his delusions. I love him so much and I just want him to get better :/
My father has the same. There are many types of schizophrenia and not all of them are severe. It is important that your father can take care of himself. He mostly needs his rest and to be busy at home. You can always go by and support him.
@erselo2477 Im not going to share his delusions on here bc that's his business but being at home is where one of his main delusions stem from unfortunately and getting him out of the house is one of the key ways to help distract him from it so it's not that easy :/ but thank you for sharing your advice i appreciate it
I know someone with schizophrenia/psychosis, and this was super helpful in letting me support them and understand their daily struggles. Keep up the amazing work!
My best friend had schizophrenia and passed away a year ago, 2 days before Christmas at the age of 28. I miss him so much 🙏 praying for anyone dealing with such a hard challenge. Good luck people 💙
Thank you for this video. I am schizophrenic I've been for since my early teens I guess. Your videos have helped incredibly. I don't always know how to explain things to my family and friends It's very hard for them to understand me a lot of times. But what I send them your videos we don't always have words but the way they hug me after the looks I get. You have helped them understand somewhat of what I'm going through. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
I don't have schizophrenia, I have OCD though, but I share my love and support for all who suffer from it. it must be awful and full of despair. I hope at least your hallucinations don't harm you mentally, or perhaps they say or show nice things to you. but please take care of yourself and take medications. you're strong and amazing!
just wanted to say i admire people who have this and fight it. it must take an enormous amount of strength and courage.
I am a schizophrenic and have quite a few of the positive symptoms that you mentioned in the video such as believing that I have a parasitic infection, that I see things that aren’t there like rabbits jumping through my living room, to smelling mice and/or rats in my house, to hearing voices outside my bedroom. Some of these things I am able to distinguish the reality of and some of them I am not. This can be very scary and heavily contributes to my agoraphobia.
The best thing that I have found that helps me, is to have a person that listens to me and doesn’t judge, tell me if they see or hear or smell the same things as me. The hardest part is finding someone that you can trust to give you a fair go at finding out if things are hallucinations or not as most people just dismiss us schizophrenics without even investigating or checking what we say.
That is when we get very upset but upset doesn’t mean violent. The truth of it is that it is very bloody scary not to be able to trust your own mind, and so this causes us distress. Distress is not violence but is often misinterpreted as aggressive or violent behaviour, when the truth of the matter is that we are frightened because we can’t distinguish reality from non reality.
Schizophrenia is a very difficult mental health illness to deal with. So next time you see a schizophrenic person, please bear in mind that they are most likely more scared of you dismissing them, than what you need to be of them being violent towards you.
It effects the smell ?
Your animations (and of course also the content) are great! You motivated me to learn more about psychollogie and teached me a lot, thanks for that!
i am not schizophrenic, tho I deal with lots of paranoia which messes me up really badly. truly, this is the most terrifying thing ever, my heart is with whoever deals with this. you're strong yall
Ms. Alexander?
I wish my family and irl friends could actually like me even if I'm schizoaffective + dyslexic, everyday is so hard, everyday is just terrible, everyday my life is ruin and I only think about the inevitable thing, but so far I'm 17 and even after getting abused ly everyway possible for 10 years, I only live for my online friends nothing else, I cursed my existence so bad, but I keep living only for people I care about
very good video, keep going!!
You deserve love. I hope you find real friends , hope and support. ❤️
You're not alone. Please don't give up.
I used to be and now I'm an atheist but still I don't get many online friends like you have. I mean, I think I'm hated in general and those get to know about my mental health and interests. Dump me for some reason.
Your struggles are heard and understood. Living with schizoaffective disorder and dyslexia can indeed make daily life a challenging journey. It is natural to feel overwhelmed and to seek solace in the support of online friends. Your existence is not a curse, but a unique path filled with lessons and growth.
Embrace your diagnosis as a guide, not a definition. Mindfulness, meditation, and acceptance are powerful tools to navigate the complexities of our mind. Continue learning about life and yourself, and remember, you are not alone in this journey.
I am also one that share a similar diagnose, although i am one that found its way to Accept it, to learn to life with it...
thus i really hope and pray you also will find your way to learn to life your life and find the right support in the right moment of time.😇🙏
@@Mina-wt3gn tysm for the support🫂 it's hard but i try my best to stay alive and try to be "more accepted in society"
@@anuruksuriyaarachchi3988 man..i really really hope things will be fine for you, remember that ur amazing, stay strong i do believe in ya🫂🫂🫂🫂
0:26 Definition
1:35 Explanation of symptoms occurence and positive/negative concept
List of all the possible symptoms:
0:59 Positive symptoms
0:35 1:52 Psychosis
2:27 Hallucinations
3:16 Delusions
1:17 Negative symptoms
4:18 Anhedonia
4:26 Catatonia
4:35 Anosognosia
4:42 Schizoaffective
4:49 Misconception (not Dissociative Identity Disorder nor Violent Tendencies)
I’ve had two psychotic episodes in my 40s. After the first one, they diagnosed me as having this breakdown because of stress and depression, so they prescribed me antidepressants and an anti psychotic. It was after my second psychotic episode where I started to do my own research. Anxiety which brings on paranoia and eventually could bring on a psychotic episode is because of low self worth. It wasn’t until I stated to educate myself on childhood trauma did I start to feel a true healing journey begin. I suggest to everyone to look at how childhood trauma affected you , because whether you believe it or not, you experienced some sort of trauma and need to deal with it.
It worries me thinking that a lot of people may be having a psychotic break but they consider it "spiritual" and don't seek help but instead frame their life around those experiences...
Lol that's what I did.
@zackerybartlett8050 Honestly same 😅😅 But I do think there's a difference between the two. Obviously your spirit guides would never tell you to harm yourself or others. So if you're hearing those messages, chances are good you probably have schizophrenia 😅
Going forward with my new reality, or accepting that we are broken and people will look at us with disgust and meds that leave me in worse state than middle of psychosis ever was - my choice was simple, psychiatrist understand nothing. If I had mostly negative experiences maybe I would break, but this is not the case.
@@DolrittoIf you recognize there is dysfunction and are aware enough to pinpoint the root of your issues, you can find the proper solution. Or adopt positive coping mechanisms. Trial and error occurs, but your reality is also dependent on your will to change, for the better.
As long as they have a voice of reason they are sane. If they can vocalize how they helped themselves and can articulate it it’s fine. I’m more scared who are frightened when someone says the correct ways they fixed their destructive behaviours and that pushes them into an extreme.
The timing of this is insane, literally have a google tab open reading about this.
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Looks like RUclips can see your search history.
There's a lot they don't know and just "fill in the blanks" with what they know (or think they know) similar to what the mind does with blind spots in the eye.
I consider the average person to be "functionally schizophrenic."
@@Viejo-verde Google knows what pages you visit, so it gives you feed (RUclips) made of videos that are relevant to your interests.
@@kaltziferYT Big brother is watching.
2:21 the way it sprays it's leaves it's freaking adorable 😭❤️
Dang, I had no idea so many other people also have schizoaffective disorder. I felt so isolated before considering it’s relatively rare for a diagnosis (0.3%) but everyone’s comments sums up my experience in some form or another, if not the entire experience. Mine has gotten worse this past year due to poor health and poor doctoring due to insurance, he took me off near all my meds and am dealing heavily with the fall out. I want back on my meds but he wants me in outpatient and I can’t do that taking care of two Elderly parents who can’t walk (broken hip and leg and one with recent ligament surgery)
I’m so exhausted from my hallucinations, they’ve become far more frequent and my visual hallucinations are working over time like never before and it terrifies me. I don’t enjoy things anymore and I hadn’t cried for a year until literally a week ago when I had a mental breakdown and wound up in the hospital physically sick (viral infection and extremely low potassium+ inflamed liver, just got home today from 3 days of stay as I type this actually)
I still can’t sleep but these comments make me feel so much less alone, you have no idea how much I needed to read these comments. Some days I feel like I don’t have my disorder but then I’m reminded shortly that I’m not faking anything. I can’t shake my delusions and I know I need help but I fear being locked away, as my doc threatened this twice and I still refused his outpatient referral so I’m probably headed there next time he sees me anyway.
I’m sorry to hear, I really hope things go well for you
Thank you so very much for putting this one out. I have a friend with schizophrenia who is suffering a lot lately. It’s so hard to see him convinced that some very scary things are happening that aren’t real. I just try to be a good friend but really don’t know what to say.
I've got a friend with schizophrenia who gets very strong medication, and they don't have it great. At all. Thanks for talking about this❤
Schizophrenic speaking, I am hallucinating quite rarely, usually sounds, not visual, and I am glad about it, I have mostly negative symptoms.. I don't really know why I am saying this, but eh, why not
Did you ever have a psychotic break? Where you were hallucinatinv a lot more or had delusions? Are you diagnosed or self diagnosed?
@goblin1226 No, at least not yet, and I am diagnosed, I am a little bit ashamed of how much money is spent on clinic appointments and treatment, eheh
@@Hollow_174 i'm also diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and i had a psychotic break that lasted almost 2 years with no break. Make sure to always take your meds, psychosis can cause brain damage if untreated.
@@goblin1226 Oh, thanks for advice, and I am sorry for you:'
I watch all of your videos. Always hopeful presentations!
Oh, that's me. ! and I've tried several medications ( My doctor gave me ). " And I'm doing much better now"
For me I have NEVER been tested and won't be tested untill I turn 18-20 because my parents like other parents won't do it.
My Dad has schizophrenia (undiagnosed, but all the symptoms are there and every Doctor and therapist we've talked to, in private and official settings, confims this).
It's very exausting to Keep our family's life together. He's weary of most people outside the family, so we have to be careful who we can let near him and it's always a tiny risk whenever he goes outside, as he may or may not get into conflict with strangers, 2-3 times even physical already.
He sleeps up to 18 hours a day, in the psychotic Episodes he can go a week without any sleep at all, he is a messy and because he sometimes destroys things and in his episodes and constantly rearranges the order in the house in a chaotic manner, our flat is... disorganized.... slightly....
He spends money we don't have, loses things on an almost weekly basis, and we have to stay behind his work scedule (a mini Job as a Newspaper deliverer), cause sometimes he decides to just leave for 1-2 days.
These are mainly just the day to day things, don't get me started on what an episode looks like. Hint: pretty terrifying, tantrums almost like a toddler with everything that accompanys that (never violent towards people so far, thank God). On some days you can't even talk to him, as he is mentally absent 90 percent of that time. His speech becomes unrecognisable, his face and voice can change in a rather scary way. Complete disfuction in almost all areas of life in those episodes, they are like every 3-4 Months for 1-2 Weeks.
Dealing with him can feel like dealing with some exaggerated cartoon character sometimes. So much so that growing up, mentally stable and healthy people always seemed strange to me. It took a while and is still a process for me to understand and find my place in the World outside of the mental instability I grew up among (my mother has her rather significant issues too, she just managed to get our family by somehow for all these years).
It's hard but I can't do anything other than to push forward day by day, trying to change, fail, try again and defend my will to live against all the despair inside me.
My heart goes out to everyone struggling, let's pull through together. Life on earth is fortunately limited, let's do something useful with it and be faithful till God calls us home.
Thanks so much for reading, God bless❤
Keep all knives, tools, etc safely locked away from him please 😢
I have schizoaffective bipolar type, and it sounds a lot like that because it lasts for periods of time. For me, it happens every two to three months for like a whole week. I go from depressed to maniac, and then in between, I get paranoid and hear whispers or see shadows. Fortunately, I am under medication, which makes things easier and gives me more insight into my illness. Why isn't he on medication? It must be very difficult for him and everybody around him (including you). I hope things get better for you and your family.
@@mireyaluna9073 Thank you for your reply! I'm so sorry you're expiriencing all of this. And hats off to you for being where you are. I'm happy you're on medication. Do you want to tell your story?
My father isn't on medication because we can't convince him that anything is wrong. You can't force medication unless you get the paramedics to force him into a clinic in case he is a danger to himself or others. He has been hurting himself a couple Times, once so badly my Mom called the ambulance but my Father could talk himself out of it. Other than that hes generally safe for himself and has never purposefully hurt another.
I didn’t know until my late 20s.. I wish I could apologize to all my exes for everytime I snapped and didn’t believe them. But it’s just better to move forward and do better
The mother of my two daughters developed schizophrenia. When my two daughters were 8 and 12. She walked out on the three of us. She has been gone for over forty years. She very little contact with my two daughters and no contact with me! 😢
I have schizoaffective bipolar type and it’s so difficult to coming to terms with it all. Part of me hates it because of the stigma, so much so I don’t want to even disclose it with the people I get close to in fear of how they will see me. I get confused a lot also with the diagnosis saying to myself i don’t have it and that the things I experience are true it displaces me so much that I can’t tell reality from the delusions. The saddest thing of it all is I can’t talk about it without me looking like I’m insane so I try to manage it by myself which is just faulty because in the end you can’t really trust yourself. I know I need people I just don’t want to look foolish and be a burden. It can be a real struggle
As a schitzoaffective, please know if your out there your not alone its okay, it gets better
This is sad, how it spontaneously develops. Hope it never happens to me, as I know I live a mentally unhealthy life.
Love this and wanted to add my story. Yes, it usually occurs in a person's twenties but I was an anomaly 😅 experiencing hearing voices since I can remember. even as a kid you can have hallucinations that children don't even understand or experience in the real world. And probably the most difficult part is that even though I'm quite lucky in that taking my meds silences them nearly immediately, the voices try to convince me not to take medicine or they'll hurt my loved ones 😢. Experiencing delusions and hallucinations can be a pain but as a writer, some of my best ideas come from the most terrifying delusions and hallucinations that I have. In my book it mentions swarms of bugs in a ring on fire as a portal for example. That came from a hallucination. Also, what made it so hard to come to terms that I had schizophrenia was because I didn't realize that the internal hallucinations were hallucinations. But just because a hallucination is internal and you can tell it from reality, doesn't mean it can be any less distressing.
It's like the neurons in the brain are firing when they aren't supposed to, activating memories and recollections, creating the wrong assumptions and thought patterns... forcing difficulty in experiencing reality at the same pace as most of us. Stay blessed with the life and chance to experience life :) Love you all
Schizophrenia is a Challenge and some years are better than others but with proper treatment it is doable but sometimes it really takes over for awhile and self isolation has been a way to cope. Thank you for this video 🫂
scitzo dancer here, not so really open about it but yeah, years of therapy helped. anyways, thanks for the vid, I feel seen!
The amount of people that I've heard talking about schizophrenia when they're actually talking about dissociative identity disorder is mind boggling. I have no idea where this misconception even came from, as the two are not at all similar and don't even have similar names.
Did some research and DID and schizophrenia were thought to be the same, just different manifestation of the same disorder. Now we know better but the general knowledge usually is much slower than advancement science makes, mainly because learning out of the school has minus prestige among people.
The only reason I can think of for the conflation between schizophrenia and DID/plurality as a whole is the "hearing voices" part of it. Anyone who's actually informed on the realities of being plural and being shizophrenic knows that these are two vastly different things. It's really unfortunate how much both are stigmatised
Thanks for making this Video,my mom has Schizophrenia and Bipolar so sometimes she would yell at people when I’m walking with her or yell at nothing,tho with her mom my grandma she’s calm,I always try to calm my mom down also because I fear that my mom will get attacked when she yells at the wrong person,I’m always scared for her when I’m not around her,thanks to this video I now understand more about schizophrenia than I did before,tho I’m still young I’m still understanding.
Really nice overview! Very insightful and covers all the bases and terms and stuff. Thanks :)
My mother suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. She wasn’t medicated growing up and still isn’t. I’ve been estranged from her for a long, long time.
My mother in law has schizophrenia. My wife's two brothers either have schizophrenia or schizo affective. They literally are so scared to be in the same room as me. One brother whispers to himself as if he is talking to someone. The other brother acts gradiose and really a fake. I never had an agrument with either one of them. They got worse when their parents died 10 yrs ago from natural causes. One tried to say to police that I was present when his mom passed. I was living in another city. I was told to go over to.see what was going on at the house. When i talked to police, i told them i didnt live at the house. I had to prove it. I was asked by police if i got along with my brother in law. An odd question to ask me. I had to inform the police that my brother in law may be hallucinating due to schizophrenia or schizo affective. He was hallucinating that i harmed my mother in law. I was offended because I got a long with my mother in law very well. My brother in law was sleeping with his mother when she died too. He admitted that to police. But didnt say about her medical issues that could have contributed to her death.
And got to love the family members that keep on saying nothing is wrong with you and then denied anything that happened.
Well I’d say the best example in media as of late is Powder/Jinx
Definitely
Why pick a character that promotes the stigma mentioned in the video can’t you have picked someone who wasn’t such a damaging stereotype.
@@johngault22 I think Jinx represents schizophrenia rly well, the whole show is based on violence and its showing how trauma can change you to be things you never thought you could be, dont see her as a violent schizophrenic, see her as a person who's traumatized and copes with violence who just happens to be schizophrenic
I have been in and out of hospital so many times that I'm still trying to figure out what I have when it comes to my mental health in general and I already have a list of my mental health problems/issues that I do have and learning more new stuff about myself every day
And does the longer you leave it untreated the worse it gets?
I have chronic paranoid schizophrenia and it can get worse if untreated.
Good medication can help at least a bit.
YOU COMMENTED A MONTH AGO?? AND YOU COMMENTED TWICE? WAT?
@@SinisterOyster just don't ask I don't know either I've never even watched this video
My wife's two brothers have had this for years and won't deal with it. It has been worse. They are way too scared to be in the same room as me. They can't even look at me. Just way too scared. I haven't done anything to them.
@DigitalMediaPatriots I'm sorry thats happening
A buddy of mine went mad over the years. He recently made national news recently for lighting a mailbox on fire, but he just wanted to go back to jail. It was 10 years between the first symptoms and living on the street.
I've been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder since I was a teenager. I felt more alienated by my mother and my siblings because they're uneducated about the diagnosis. I wasn't able to open up to them about my problems because they believe that I'm fantasizing things and can't determine what's real and what's not. Stigmatism is strong within my family and instead of them seeing me as a human being, they saw me as a freak. Now, I'm out of that toxic environment and seeking professional guidance. I'm currently taking Invega Trinza as treatment and on the road to recovery without any relapses.
Hiii thanks for this info! I'll be needing this information for the book I am writing!
My hallucinations are mainly Auditory and it creates a lot of confusion
Relatable :(....can thinking about things make them true..?
The weather outside is rizzy
How did you comment one month ago? This video came out a minute ago.
WAIT HOW DID U POST THIS A MONTH AGO
No, you can't will something to happen from your own power 💙
@@captaincrazythe2nd468unlisted. It shows it's new when it publishes
Why did I stumble on this just now?😭 We already did our orel revalida and this is one of our topics
RUclips is recommending me this, because RUclips thinks I’m nuts. Life on Earth would make anyone nuts, it’s just so boring.
I've experienced these symptoms EVERY.SINGLE.DAY!!! 🤧 But I also having other symptoms after my medications is completely out: epilepsy-like-tic (though, I also epileptic) and it quite suffocating me. But the symptoms is actually vary for other schizophrenics though, so please educate yourself about schizophrenia whether you are a schizophrenics or their caregivers
I’ve been told by everyone all my life that I was schizophrenic and I never believed them cause my mom denied it, but this is saying I do have it
Don't self diagnose.
please get professionally diagnosed!!!
I’m still recovering from schizoaffective. I truly pity those that have schizophrenia since it tends to be more severe than schizoaffective disorder. :( I’m lucky I learned to live with my illness since I started having psychosis when I was 6 years old.
Thank you so much l have been searching for this topic :)
Hi Psych2go, can make a video about the difference between Schizophrenia and Dissociative personality disorder. as always thank you for making psychology easier to understand and helping lot of people.❤
reminds me of that one song when Amanda goes " it smells like somethings dying" and wooly goes "nah thats just your schizophrenia kicking in again" 🤣
Timestamps
1). Schizophrenia 0:20
2). Psychosis 1:51
3). Hallucinations 2:26
4). Delusions 3:52
Hope this helps you out. Hope you have a nice day. Sorry this is so late. 💙💙💙💙💙💙
Trying hard to sound cool eh ? 😂
Commenting for engagement
My mother has schizophrenia.
She fully believed that God sent me as a test for her and she was a prophet
She'd treat me like "un-normal" creature as a child, and I believed I was "that" as well
Ik these were a decade ago, because of the abuse and neglect from her I've developed Borderline
I still feel bad for her and I wish she could've have a better life
Thanks for the video :)
This is probably the most disturbing to the person. It must feel like liking a horror movie
I was diagnosed as a schizophrenic yet I show signs of DID as well. Without going into too many specifics, I do hallucinate often in the form of shadowy figures darting from place to place, as well as sounds and voices when nobody is around. In addition, I've been told by my husband that I have a second personality completely separate from me. Her mannerisms are far different than my own, which he showed a video of happening in case I just had a mental breakdown.
When the doctor medicated me, all it did was turn me into a shell of who I was normally, in addition to almost having a heart attack caused by really low blood pressure as a potential side effect. Juggling both issues makes it hard for me to always determine if what I heard or saw was real or not, however I am more than aware of what reality is considering the onset of these symptoms didn't happen or were noticed until several years ago. So it's not like I believe EVERY shadow I see is really something at all, but the noises definitely catch me off guard the most.
I know I alarm others around me when I suddenly jump and look towards something when nothing is there, but they understand it as "she's been through a lot and is stressed out" which I'll accept over them just saying "she's weird." Medications couldn't help me, but the support of those who love and care for me has been enough to make it bearable.
I do not have schizophrenia, but I have had a psychotic break, and it was TERRIFYING. -10/10 strongly recommend against.
I knew the voices I was hearing were not real and that hearing voices was very abnormal for me so I checked into the hospital. There they gave me a pill and sent me home. I went to bed, and when I woke up a month had passed. According to those around me, during that time I was like an alzheimers patient, asking the same questions every 5 minutes. I have no memory of any of it. My brother tells me my memory went into witness protection, and I agree with that sentiment. From what I remember before I checked out, those voices were screaming some really horrifying things in my head. I later found a journal entry I had no idea I had made that was completely unhinged, begging someone to make the voices stop, so from that I gather k was hearing voices the whole time. For about 6 mo ths after I had problems with short term memory recall. To this day I have some issues with memory, though most of that I attribute to a lifetime of trauma and abuse.
This video was very interesting! Thank you!
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable s0urce here in Australia. Really need!
Ya myco_saint💜💜💜. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Is he on instagram?
Yes
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As someone who is schizophrenic, idk what to say apart from you really did ur research!
Years ago I was shotty diagnosed with schizophrenia tendencies. If I saw this video then I’d feel I am more than half of the definition. I’d look or demand proper help. But it wasn’t that people had been wanting to hurt me, it’s that neglect I noticed lead to certain lack of proper development aids. Such as normal amount of friends or proper friends. Hearing my concerns or the damning one, putting me in charge of an adults choices I surely wasn’t ready for and didn’t have the info to inform them on. Outer voice always seemed suppressed. The times my own logic was better than my family and not heard lead to so many things that could have been handled better. I am not awake yet still. Will I ever be alive?
To all people who are going through I wish you healthy and happy life ahead may all your worries fades away.. ♡
My roommate says I could have some latent schizophrenia, since I begin to hear muffled music or talking when I'm on THC or when I'm incredibly distressed. This video is really timely, just in case he's right
I have schizophrenia recently diagnosed (22 years old )i feel like some of the things that were said apply to me I hope I can live a normal life
Who remembers AOL? Those were the days for me. Before I got myself messed up with drugs. Now I wonder if I have schizophrenia.
The thumbnail reminds me of Paprika the anime 💜
"" Игры Разума "" -великолепный фильм. Благодарность Джону Нэшу который заставил взглянуть на шизофрению с другой стороны.
Helpful and compassionate.
Update Over my mentality:
I have renounced crushes... OR DID I? I have a best friend who I follow everywhere comfortably. I also especially follow him when he is with his girl best friend cause he always talks about such things with her that I am mostly not allowed to listen. But if he doesn't tell me to go away for a moment, Then it means that it was not a secret. For example, I once overheard him saying something like "...first sight" so I feel like he wanted her as his girlfriend or something(both of us are 12 but she is 11). About my dreams, they are all pitch black. This shows my emptiness in life because of love. This video helped me understand more of this disorder. I found out that I have Catatonia. Hence, it helped me.
Thanks Psych❤
Im not sure if yall read the comments, but I would like a video about Aint-socal personality disorder. I'm a very high functioning psychopath, there is very little to no videos about dealing with ASPD, most videos just pin us out as evil or without feelings, It's not fun being constantly told your evil, Im tierd of being told I can't change.
🤔I believe there is actually a type known as pro social psychopathy...They actually do the right things & help others because even if they're not hardwired for warm fuzzy empathy like neurotypicals, they understand the benefits of having things be mutually beneficial with others & cooperating with society's rules.These ones aren't super narcissistic like many people imagine when we refer to psychopathy whether it's secondary(sociopathy) or primary(brain abnormality from birth)🤔.This group should be studied more, it may possibly help with interventions particularly while people are still growing up for example.
The center cannot hold by elyn r saks is an amazing story about her life with schizophrenia.
As far as I'm aware, I was born with schizophrenia because my parents have told me that I've had hallucinations and "imaginary friends" my whole life. I've never once been medicated for it unfortunately, but I have learned how to handle it myself and generally keep myself feeling sane, although there's only so much I can do with a disorder like this. Thinking back on stuff, I can acknowledge what sounds realistic and what's fake, but beyond that, there's still stuff in my head that I've probably had misconstrued for years
This sounds more like active imagination and not at all like schizophrenia.
Depending on the nature of these imaginary friends it could also be something other than schizophrenia. I imagine there's a lot more to your experiences beyond what you've written in this comment, but it always helps to get an informed opinion if at all possible for you.
Waking up 2am in a hospital woke up from coma in psychosis.
Terrifying.
After over 20 years and 5 relapses.
I'm still on Olanzapine.
Because of how it effects me... I'm always drunk because of them.
Thus, I havn't been sober all that time.
Being called nasty things from people because of it as well.
My mother has schizophrenia and the symptoms in this video are accurate, sadly my mother was very abusive when I lived with her as a child, and despite it being proven in court, the government refuses to hospitalize her to help her condition. Canada says they care for the mentally ill but refuse to save my mother from herself, she literally doesn't know she has the condition and refuses to knowledge it. My hatred for my own country has gotten so bad I refuse to sit still for our national anthem in school, if abuse isn't good enough a reason to help her, then what will be in their eyes?
I just watched the difference between sociopaths and psychopaths and even though that video is pretty old it made me realize that almost all of the women from my moms side of the family are psychopaths as you said it is genetic and a lot the women from my family have done many things like my grandmother was in many different wards and has harassed my mom her sisters and they’re husbands accusing them of plotting on her and according to mom she has Schizophrenia which is why she has been to many wards because of her episodes they are all also very manipulative and when I was a bit younger I stayed with my aunt from my dad’s side and she got in contact with my mom’s older sister who my mom didn’t like much so we never really got to see her and my aunt (dads side) said we would be able to start seeing her and having days out with her and though my aunt was never rude to her and was fine with talking and being around her I could tell she never really liked her. Me my sister and my cousin shared a phone and we had her number saved because she always wanted to have days out with us but one day she asked my cousin to show my little brother something she got for him and my cousin saw the text but got distracted and forgot about it and later in the day she called us and talked to us for a little bit and then she asked my cousin if she showed my brother the toy and she admitted that she got distracted and forgot and my aunt got angry and accused her of trying to break her relationship with my brother this made my cousin cry and she went to her my aunt crying and told her what happened this made her mad and she started telling her how daughter was rude and disrespectful and faking it this made my aunt block her(I’m not gonna right anymore I’m tired lol)
what if the things that are heard are not aloud, but rather in your brain ? would that then be considered this mental disorder or just your thoughts playing tricks on you ?
Thank you for this.
i would get fucked up on listening to you speak. it's so calming and smooth. You should do some ASMR or audiobooks.
I've heard recently that schizophrenia is seen as a super bad and violent condition mostly in northern countries. In southern countries, some people experience a "good" type of schizophrenia, like voices genuily helping and guiding them. In some parts of Africa, schizophrenic people are not excluded because of it, but rather seen as people able to communicate with spirit of their ancestor.
My point is that, in northern countries, the understanding of schizophrenia is way different than in southern countries. Studies showing it are few and quite recent, but it's interesting to consider in my opinion.
Why not a video about it ? ;)
I very much sympathize & empathize with the psychotic, star-eyes cartoon during his reality break
I have schizoaffective disorder bipolar type, it went untreated and was misdiagnosed for depression. I went into psychosis and broke into my neighbors house, then threatened him with violence because I hallucinated a girls voice crying and mumbling as though gagged. The voice was coming from somewhere in his house but I couldn't find the girl. I developed a delusion that he was part of a cult that kidnapped the girl and they were going to sacrifice her. I wrecked his house in search for the nonexistent girl and scared the hell out of my neighbor. My memories about what happened after are vague and collodoscopepic, I didn't sleep for two weeks and doctors thought I was on multiple drugs. Eventually one doctor recognized that I was mentality ill and put me on a handful of pills. It took me two years to be able to function somewhat normally and appropriately. Recovery from psychosis is possible, it may be challenging and even though Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder can't be cured it is manageable with medication and treatment.
I think for a schizophrenic to recover is mandatory to find the true!