I was roommates with a guy who developed schizophrenia as we were living together... The medication he was prescribed made him depressed and he stopped taking them.. He eventually went on to take his own life.. Seeing this channel really made me glad to see someone with this condition so seemingly well-adjusted and successful. Hope the best for ya, man.
My sister has schizophrenia and it’s been my life mission since I was 9 years old to be a mental health advocate and today I’ve been her guardian for 22 years
My son developed schizophrenia after using meth intravenously for years. I often wonder if he had it before then. But it was 1000% confirmed by the time he was 25… You really helped me as his mother understand what he’s going through because he’s not as articulate about it as you are. This is really good insight to help him better. ❤He wouldn’t admit it for years. Also, he’s in Wisconsin.
I wish schools had the budget and resources for yearly mental health screening, I feel like it could help alot of people alot erlyer and keep them from drugs which can make conditions permanently worse.
The elementary school I work at had a mental health therapist and she was one of the biggest assets to our whole district honestly. They just let her go because of budget cuts while simultaneously preaching how much mental health means to them.
My daughter wasn’t diagnosed until she was 20, but looking back at her childhood I can place symptoms of it happening in the second grade. She also self medicated before finding out.
I'm amazed. I don't know you, but I'm proud of you. Thank you for sharing and helping normalize mental health. So many people become incarcerated because of having undiagnosed mental health disorders.
thank you so much for sharing your story it reminds me a lot like mine. I have schizoaffective disorder but only have half hallucinations. they're not real enough for the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred, but they used to be. I mostly had delusions back then. I can tell that they're fake after many MANY years of teaching myself to be self-aware, training myself to know myself and my insights & psychology. I'm able to pick myself apart psychologically and sociologically. because of that self-awareness, I'm able to pick up people apart too. I was looking enough to be born in a great household with my superhero being my mom. she's helped me through my highs and my lows. if anyone has questions let me know. remember, you're not alone. having a question does not mean you're crazy. question everything!! even if those questions lead to answers that give more questions. Live life curious
I just wanted to say that I am so happy that you’re making these videos! People don’t understand much about it and this helps a lot! One thing that drives me crazy is that it seems like everyone thinks that if someone is schizophrenic they are going to be violent. I know that it can happen, but in my experience it usually doesn’t. My cousin had it and he was fine as long as he took his meds and stayed away from street drugs.
My son was extremely violent when not on meds. Now on meds he says that it was like someone took control of his body and he was standing by and watching.
Props to you for figuring stuff out. How were you able to deal with the anxiety of coming off drugs and dealing with the anxiety of knowing that you won’t have the ability to numb your way out of it?
I honestly was just taking everything day by day. I was still dealing with my symptoms, and barely getting by. I was just lucky to have friends and family to help me!
I would add that while I'm not schizophrenic, I have a fair amount of experience with self-medicating, both personally and among friends and family. I think it's not nearly that logical a thought process, like, "I'm suffering with x-condition. I'll do drugs to feel more whatever or relieve symptom-y." I think it's usually just a matter of gravitating, often with little conscious thought or control, toward substances or activities that release some steam or allow one to disconnect. I had a roommate, for instance, who used to make stupid strong coffee and leave it on the burner. You could literally swirl the pot and see the coffee on the sides of the pot, almost like a syrup. It was horrendous. Then she would pour a mug and add, idk, no less than ten heaping tablespoons of sugar to it. Also horrendous. lol She didn't consciously think or say, "There's something wrong and my body/mind is telling me I might see some correction if I drink my coffee like this." She said, "Too bad. I know you all don't like it, but I like my coffee like this." However, once she was diagnosed and got her meds dialed in, she found that the appeal wasn't there anymore. Obviously, this isn't a cut and dry comparison to narcotics, but self-medication or self-soothing behaviors can take many forms. It might be substance abuse. It might be zoning out and scrolling on a phone for 13 hours a day. I'm not countering anyone's thinking or input. Just adding my $.02 to the conversation.
Thank you for open up to us, I have a political uncle who have schizophrenia. His motives are different since he is a war veteran. But I just wanted to let you know that I understand how you feel, and that you are very brave to say this on RUclips. We are rooting for you! Never quit taking your meds. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
“More livable” is a description non schizo people will ever understand. 🙏❤️🙏✨ whenever my attitude changes slightly I get the whole. “Are you suuure you’re okay? Your meds are still working riiight?”. Which is fun cause I’m “ultradian bipolar 1” 😂. But, I do have a question! Have you experienced tactile hallucinations? In my worst swing my auditory were non stop and the tactile served to bring me to an almost catatonic state. Only curious. Thanx again for being strong enough to share your story. 🙏🙏🙏✨✨✨
Props to you. People don’t realize that schizophrenia hits during our most formative years as young adults not kids. And it’s missed cause often that’s the age of college and parties and experimenting.
I'm 14, my theripist (I have autism already) has started thinking about trying to diagnose schizophrenia or something similar as I'm noticing and are having much more REAL halucinations
Also drugs can directly cause schizophrenia. Just so people are aware. If you’re experiencing symptoms, doing a bunch of drugs will do the opposite of helping you
You just came across my feed for some reason, so I don’t know any of your content, but I did start scrolling to see. My father was a paranoid schizophrenic who was also diagnosed with major depression. He took his own life when I was 17, which was in 2005, but it still affects me to this day. It really helps me to see people with schizophrenia excelling. I’m glad that you are turning your diagnosis into a positive and a way to make a difference. Keep up the good work.
You are an amazing human being. I love that you’re using this platform to normalize mental health, and that you’re making other people feel less alone 🩷
I’m really curious about the content of auditory hallucinations. Like what exactly do schizophrenic individuals hear? Is it conversations, put downs, encouragement etc?
hello, schizoeffective person here. similar to schizophrenia. for me, auditory hallucinations are like really quiet version of regular inner monologue. but the monologue is interpreted like a spectrogram, so I see things in my head when I hear any sounds, including the hallucinations. I have synesthesia which is the mixing of multiple senses so not only can I see colors and shapes but I see waves and sound. Auditory hallucinations are dull versions of all that.
I don't know if this is a question you can answer but you mentioned in women the age range for getting schizophrenia is 25-30, which makes sense. I am Bipolar Type 1 with Psychosis and right now my meds aren't working for me considering I see and hear more hallucinations before having a mood swing. SO here is my question, what is the difference between Psychosis and Schizophrenia?
hi kodi, im simon, due to destructive past presented to me by bullies from my hood i had ptsd diagnosed at 16, im also border line so live is hard but im not surrender cos of good people around but i dont feel any happines at all but i do if i make someone hapy cuz i cant feel that way i want people around to feel that way and that helps but also sometimes it destroy me more and more, a lil bit every day for 10 years now
I am sorry to hear you are currently living with this struggle! I am glad to hear you can feel “happy” by helping other people ❤ I hope that you learn/discover a way to feel emotions especially happiness!
Congratulations on finding medication that makes your day to day life more livable!! Do you still use illicit drugs and if so, how were you able to change your relationship with illicit drugs to be recreational and not self medicating? Love your content! I work in a mental health related field and I share your channels with a lot of my clients and their personal support team! Keep up the great work! And thank you for not only helping to educate people regarding how it can be to live with schizophrenia! The world needs more people like you! Thank you for all that you do!!!
My mom was schizophrenic. I never noticed her having hallucinations, but she would tell me some crazy stories. Growing up, I believed all of them. Honestly, some of the stories are believable, but I'll never know what was reality or not. I'm not sure if she knew she was schizophrenic or not. Her father was schizophrenic, and I've been told it's genetic. I went to a therapist with these concerns and I feel like he didn't believe me. He told me to test if I'm schizophrenic, to stick my tongue out. If I can't control it's actions when it's out of my mouth, that means I also have schizophrenia. Okay, so that was the build up to my question. What symptoms did you start noticing before meds? What type of test did they do to confirm the diagnosis? Thanks for opening up! I'm proud of you and how far you've come!❤
Bipolar 1 sista here. I experience psychotic features when I have my severe depressive episodes. Really cool to see you being so open with this stuff. It’s hard for me to talk about openly… I admire your strength!
hi feel free to not answer if this is uncomfortable but would you mind describing some of the hallucinations you’ve gotten? i’m just curious. thanks so much and thank you for spreading awareness about stuff like this!❤
Do you mind me asking if you were doing drugs prior to schizophrenia symptoms? Like, does the use of drugs bring out symptoms sooner? If too personal, I understand. Just curious.
I’ve read that smoking marijuana as a teen can bring schizophrenia out. The majority of people with schizophrenia Have pre-existing mental illness, meaning the drugs did not cause it, it was already there.
I have a friend who has Schizophrenia, were in high school, he developed it in middle school, he is chil, exepct his mother is a aweful and womt get him meds so sometimes he has to kick me sometimes to be sure im the real me :) Im apparently liked by two of his visual hallucinations :)
Countries need to stop arresting people for drug use 💀 Anyway, my mother's cousin-in-law tried to shoot her son. Ended up shooting her husband through the hand and her son through the shoulder. She was then diagnosed with Schizophrenia, I believe. She'd been struggling with her mental health for a while, apparently, and no one listened to my great aunt when she said that they needed to get her help :/
My best friend in high school, most intelligent person in the world, straight A’s would get would cry hysterically when he got a B, to the point his nose would start bleeding ended up running naked through the woods and at the age of 19/20 was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
I have symptoms of mental illness but I have to wait till I’m 18 for a diagnosis because my parents think it’s because of the phone I’m not joking they really do and it’s a very sad situation
My biggest question is how do the hallucinations look when your hallucinating people? Is it like a real person just standing beside you... or kind of shapes and shadows like when you think you see a shadow in the corner of your eye? Or maybe a dream like state where you can't see the face or the face is reconstructed from people you've actually seen before, even if it was a second in a crowd...
Just very curious how the brain recreates these hallucinations... Audio I can easily imagine cause we all think/ talk to ourselves in our heads... But visual is a bit harder for me to completely wrap my head around... closest I can imagine is shrooms but that was more of like a fun house weird mirror effect on objects but other people looked normal
@Silent_Steel It might surprise you to find that some people have little to no internal audio track. Likewise, while many people have a very visual mental interpretation of their world, some picture pretty much nothing, having essentially no mental "eye." Someone was just saying the other day that they don't have an internal dialog. Like, they have to have a vocal conversation (even by themselves). Otherwise it's just....um....quiet, I guess? I kind of liken it (in a very small way) to how some people say they don't recall dreaming at all, while some have extremely vivid dreams. It's said that most people dream in black and white, but some dream in color. Crazy how we're all so different, isn't it? I personally have little auditory, lots of visua processing. Also VERY vivid, colorful dreams, and constant internal dialog, almost to the point that I can sort of pop in and see what's going on in there and surprise myself. "Oh, we're chatting about ducks rn? Rad." lmao
@tashsme I can definitely see that some people don't have that internal monolog (thinking)... and just blurt out the 1st thought that comes to mind lol... got quite a few friends like that... and dreams are very fascinating, too... like how everyone dreams, but most people forget 90% of their dreams within the 1st 5 mins of waking... and how scientists still don't fully understand why we dream... but I like the idea that it's the brain processing the data of the previous day to make ready for the next day of data... pretty neat stuff to me
Your story is inspirational Very very positive to hear you and your overcoming your struggles and your symptoms. I personally have been diagnosed with schizophrenia at 14. And my systematic detachment from even the slightest form of reality is completely gone for years at a time. The medication is fantastic, when it works properly. The street drugs however, where never beneficial. I would like to know what your coping skills for paranoia that is related to anything positive. That is capable of even subdoing, even for a little bit. Cause the paranoia is completely engulfing my cognitive states, and the paranoia is causing the auditory complications that are truly causing my life to deteriorate, entirely. I'm ok, but I desperately require a little bit of rest from the constant, regrettable, duality of existence, unable to even have the slightest perception of reality. The insurmountable amount of paranoia needs to end it's endless pursuit. And I'm just politely asking for advice that will be functional. The only thing that is capable of releasing my hellish constructs of my corruption of my mind is my guitar. I have run out of everything else. I only have music. But one thing can't save me and I need a legitimate reason to remain on a world that I was never meant to exist in, that I fell like the world laments my meer earthly presence.
I think you might need to be more specific. If you’re legitimately curious or have experience with such things. You’ll understand this is a blanketed question. In my younger years I believed I could have full discussions with just about any animal! And at times inanimate objects! But, it wasn’t tons of fun. 🙏✨
@@Yourenotmetho Sorry. The particular aspect in which I was framing that question was, I recognize he uses his dog to greet people in order to assist him in discerning hallucinations from reality. What if his dog herself was a hallucination?
@@kizuuna i understand what you’re saying now. I suppose maybe I was hoping to cover a couple angles with my question. But I do wonder why you’re curious about that? Cause tbh. In a really bad break moment. It’s difficult to even consider questioning your few things that can anchor you in reality. So I’m certain you’re curious. But I will urge you to take into consideration how powerful words can be at times. 🙏🙏🙏✨
@@Yourenotmetho Yeah that's a good point I was honestly afraid to ask that. I get if that wasn't already one of his concerns I could give him a crazy trip lol. It's just one of those insatiable curiosities I guess
fun fact about schizophrenia is that it affects people differently in different parts of the world depending on the culture. America and Hollywood make hallucinations and schizophrenia like this crazy psychopath murder evil thing. so when people typically start to hallucinate they think the worst and they're thinking determines their hallucination. people in different parts of the world like Africa, those people are like shamans because their view of spiritual people with a higher connection than regular people and have more welcoming and positive hallucinations. same with Native Americans. it's really the thought process that determines your hallucinations. You have to work your mind into believing you will have positive hallucinations even if you're in the middle of a negative one. You have to gain control over them. It took me whole life to figure that out and I'm still figuring it out with my intrusive thoughts. "You influence your mind just as much as the mind influences you." don't forget that.
My sister in law and sadly my nephew both had mental breaks at age 24 and never been the same since it’s hard to remember how they used to be to who they are now my nephew think ppl want to poison him all the time and my sister in law thinks everyone especially men are gay and pretend to like women so they don’t look homosexual and she’s so convinced that her boyfriend of 6 years sadly they broke up now several years ago but when she went through her mental break down said he was using her picture to get men and she kicked him said he gave her aids it was so hard to see her be this way from who she used to be I never new this stuff could happen until I met her and then shortly after my nephew suffered the same fate and i had no idea I thought maybe she took a bad drug or something then. I learned that this psychotic breaks happen to ppl an most usually get it between 18 and 24 godbless
Another readon it can go a few years undiagnosed is because a kid will go to college, ( which can set it iff, new things n dhit,) and personality changes are just observed as who you are, thet didnt know you before to call it out. Where as when you are in your home life relatives and friends notice the changes as in the case of my daughter. She was still home, so diagnosis was in 6 weeks. ( Earlier but she "wasnt telling" ) But i argued with those vouces and told them " im her mom, we talk about everything" and THEY ... AGREED!
Ten years later, she needs we took a med outside the first hospitalization and instead asked about a non medicated treatment that just happened to be starting, but the patient had to ask, the doc couldn't bring up unless they did.. So she went into a behavioral management study.. drug free. Does great. Happy girl. Diet also no carbs, mostly fiber an some meat and fish. No prepackaged food( poison) which was introduced to her diet as she got older and ate at other places other than home. The plastic food hit hard. So all three of my girls as adults, cook at home.. anytime their diet gets a bit "dirty", they have PMS, psychosis, depression and anxiety. Cook from scratch. Organic food. It was an assault to theyr body when they ate other people's food. I saw thiis early with two of them having asthma. And I always are the way I do because of fibromyalgia from infancy. Growing up in the 60s to 80s, I couldn't consume certain foods anymore till I started cooking from scratch again after a tip out of the US and I could eat beef and corn and vegetables and eggs again. So my body recognizes the crap they did to our food , I'd be bedridden for days and miss school, so when I came back,I got organic food. And then raised my kids on it. No soda either. No milk, unless it was used to cook. No baby formula, I nursed all three when no one did. For two years each. Almost tree for one. ( No birth control ever. Kids are 5 years apart each. ) I'm just putting this out there because my daughter's first phsyce doc asked me about all this, and it confirmed a couple of his theories. Mental illness in the US is higher than other countries who's same illnesses are far fewer.
I don’t talk about specific name brands because medication works differently for everyone, but I’ll just say that I’m on a month injection. Everyone will have different experiences with different meds, so I hope he find what works best for him!
I have questions but honestly don't know enough about schizophrenia to say I know how to ask questions sensitively, if necessary. I've never had a visual hallucination, or ever any that I know of. But with a visual hallucination, (not to sound rude) but don't some relative context clues maybe help dismiss some hallucinations? I mean - do they all make sense in ways? Obv the mind is powerful so that's why I'm curious what it's like. For example, if you see someone casually talking to you in the doorway while your playing a game at 2 am, or something, like do they ever look like strangers or like people you might recognize? Can questioning the logic of "who tf is this calm person talking to me at 2 am in my doorway all chill?" Or like "nah my uncle live 5 states away, I know he's not here." I hope I'm making sense and not just sounding rude and ignorant. Is the lighting of a hallucination ever off from the surrounding room? Like you're in low light be see someone as if multiple lights are on?
Born female here (trans male). I’ve been getting symptoms. I’m 20. It’s more like physical touches, “seeing” someone in the corner of my eye REALLY vividly, but when I look there, they’re gone, and sometimes auditory hallucinations. Is this enough of a concern to tell a doctor?
Hi,i dont know if you will see this,but i was having hallucinations and tye doctor took me off my meds as she thinks im stable now,its been over a year since stopping my meds,but ive had two things happen,1 audibly and 1 seeing something(that terrified me).How do i know if its real or im being haunted.Sorry if this sounds strange 🩵
God this sounds just like my ex husband who I have 2 daughters with. He did H and then right after that he got diagnosed with schizophrenia with delusions and psychosis. It's been 7 years and it's still really bad. He's broken into people's homes with them there and they had a gun and were threatening to shoot him in he didn't go away. He then started screening our names (because he thought that our daughters and I were being held hostage in these people's house) he then broke there window and tried to get in. Luckily the cops got there just in time to pull him out of the window and arrested him. He got sent to a mental facility thanks to his mother who has full custody of him because he can't be trusted to do the right things but he had never done anything like this. He would usually just start talking to himself about God and pulling energy from the sun. If you want to go check out his Facebook and come tell me what you think? His name is Worm Sharfe. But his real name is Jeramie Sharfe. He just used his nickname which he's had since he was a child.
I’ve always wondered what it would be like if someone tried to fight their hallucinations? Like if they ran towards it and like stood inside it then like surely you would just like be inside it as it isn’t there and then it would go right?
Im 12 turning 13 in August (born female, identifies as male) but apparently im showing signs of schizophrenia. (My family already has alot of special needs in it and my biological grandfather has schizophrenia) So i just wanna know your experience and what you think the signs would be like biological girl! (Please use he/him for me, I feel very uncomfortable when I'm called she/her)
I genuinely don’t mean to sound disrespectful, but do you find hearing voices/seeing people ect scary? Is it like seeing a ghost or is it literally just like seeing/hearing a person?
Did your incarceration actually help you or did it just make things worse? A lot of people with mental health issues end up with problems with the law, and a lot of the time, prison does not have the ressources necessary to help someone in crisis. Usually leading to the person getting further into deep shit.
@@SchizophrenicHippieI imagine your schizophrenia must've gotten way worse in there! Glad you got out and got help! You seem like a wonderful dude now💖
Are you able to rationalize things like “this isn’t real” and then think about it logically when you’re having hallucinations? For example can you think “oh, this person isn’t real, it’s 4am in my kitchen and I’ve been alone all day?”
Have you tried turning to Yeshua? He can heal you, restore you. Ima do something I haven't done in awhile but I'll keep you in my prayers brethren, Yeshua can heal you
@@Lordofgodlevels yes .. but if you find the right meds you can minimize the amount of side effects while reducing (or maybe getting rid of) symptoms. There are side effects to most meds. Almost everyone takes some kind of medication and they live just fine. Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that needs proper treatment (meds) .. meditation won’t treat it
I’ve noticed all scitzo people use drugs !! Anyone thinking crack or acid is cool ?? Think again 😂😂😂 I know ppl in real life who did way to much drugs and now are scitzo
I was roommates with a guy who developed schizophrenia as we were living together... The medication he was prescribed made him depressed and he stopped taking them.. He eventually went on to take his own life..
Seeing this channel really made me glad to see someone with this condition so seemingly well-adjusted and successful. Hope the best for ya, man.
My sister has schizophrenia and it’s been my life mission since I was 9 years old to be a mental health advocate and today I’ve been her guardian for 22 years
My son developed schizophrenia after using meth intravenously for years. I often wonder if he had it before then. But it was 1000% confirmed by the time he was 25…
You really helped me as his mother understand what he’s going through because he’s not as articulate about it as you are. This is really good insight to help him better. ❤He wouldn’t admit it for years. Also, he’s in Wisconsin.
I wish schools had the budget and resources for yearly mental health screening, I feel like it could help alot of people alot erlyer and keep them from drugs which can make conditions permanently worse.
The elementary school I work at had a mental health therapist and she was one of the biggest assets to our whole district honestly. They just let her go because of budget cuts while simultaneously preaching how much mental health means to them.
My daughter wasn’t diagnosed until she was 20, but looking back at her childhood I can place symptoms of it happening in the second grade. She also self medicated before finding out.
I'm amazed. I don't know you, but I'm proud of you. Thank you for sharing and helping normalize mental health. So many people become incarcerated because of having undiagnosed mental health disorders.
You are currently handling things absolutely well.Exceptionally well keep it up
thank you so much for sharing your story it reminds me a lot like mine.
I have schizoaffective disorder but only have half hallucinations. they're not real enough for the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred, but they used to be. I mostly had delusions back then. I can tell that they're fake after many MANY years of teaching myself to be self-aware, training myself to know myself and my insights & psychology.
I'm able to pick myself apart psychologically and sociologically. because of that self-awareness, I'm able to pick up people apart too.
I was looking enough to be born in a great household with my superhero being my mom. she's helped me through my highs and my lows.
if anyone has questions let me know.
remember, you're not alone. having a question does not mean you're crazy. question everything!! even if those questions lead to answers that give more questions.
Live life curious
I just wanted to say that I am so happy that you’re making these videos! People don’t understand much about it and this helps a lot! One thing that drives me crazy is that it seems like everyone thinks that if someone is schizophrenic they are going to be violent. I know that it can happen, but in my experience it usually doesn’t. My cousin had it and he was fine as long as he took his meds and stayed away from street drugs.
My son was extremely violent when not on meds. Now on meds he says that it was like someone took control of his body and he was standing by and watching.
Props to you for figuring stuff out. How were you able to deal with the anxiety of coming off drugs and dealing with the anxiety of knowing that you won’t have the ability to numb your way out of it?
I honestly was just taking everything day by day. I was still dealing with my symptoms, and barely getting by. I was just lucky to have friends and family to help me!
I would add that while I'm not schizophrenic, I have a fair amount of experience with self-medicating, both personally and among friends and family. I think it's not nearly that logical a thought process, like, "I'm suffering with x-condition. I'll do drugs to feel more whatever or relieve symptom-y."
I think it's usually just a matter of gravitating, often with little conscious thought or control, toward substances or activities that release some steam or allow one to disconnect.
I had a roommate, for instance, who used to make stupid strong coffee and leave it on the burner. You could literally swirl the pot and see the coffee on the sides of the pot, almost like a syrup. It was horrendous.
Then she would pour a mug and add, idk, no less than ten heaping tablespoons of sugar to it. Also horrendous. lol
She didn't consciously think or say, "There's something wrong and my body/mind is telling me I might see some correction if I drink my coffee like this."
She said, "Too bad. I know you all don't like it, but I like my coffee like this."
However, once she was diagnosed and got her meds dialed in, she found that the appeal wasn't there anymore.
Obviously, this isn't a cut and dry comparison to narcotics, but self-medication or self-soothing behaviors can take many forms. It might be substance abuse. It might be zoning out and scrolling on a phone for 13 hours a day.
I'm not countering anyone's thinking or input. Just adding my $.02 to the conversation.
Thank you for open up to us, I have a political uncle who have schizophrenia. His motives are different since he is a war veteran. But I just wanted to let you know that I understand how you feel, and that you are very brave to say this on RUclips. We are rooting for you! Never quit taking your meds. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Sending you much love and strength!!❤❤ thank you for sharing and for making people more aware of.this!!
“More livable” is a description non schizo people will ever understand.
🙏❤️🙏✨ whenever my attitude changes slightly I get the whole. “Are you suuure you’re okay? Your meds are still working riiight?”. Which is fun cause I’m “ultradian bipolar 1” 😂.
But, I do have a question! Have you experienced tactile hallucinations? In my worst swing my auditory were non stop and the tactile served to bring me to an almost catatonic state. Only curious. Thanx again for being strong enough to share your story. 🙏🙏🙏✨✨✨
Props to you. People don’t realize that schizophrenia hits during our most formative years as young adults not kids. And it’s missed cause often that’s the age of college and parties and experimenting.
I'm 14, my theripist (I have autism already) has started thinking about trying to diagnose schizophrenia or something similar as I'm noticing and are having much more REAL halucinations
if you try to interact with the hallucinations can you feel their touch?
Also drugs can directly cause schizophrenia. Just so people are aware. If you’re experiencing symptoms, doing a bunch of drugs will do the opposite of helping you
Yeah, self medicating with street drugs makes schizophrenia worse.
You just came across my feed for some reason, so I don’t know any of your content, but I did start scrolling to see. My father was a paranoid schizophrenic who was also diagnosed with major depression. He took his own life when I was 17, which was in 2005, but it still affects me to this day. It really helps me to see people with schizophrenia excelling. I’m glad that you are turning your diagnosis into a positive and a way to make a difference. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for the work you doing.
You are an amazing human being. I love that you’re using this platform to normalize mental health, and that you’re making other people feel less alone 🩷
Thank you for your videos !
I’m really curious about the content of auditory hallucinations. Like what exactly do schizophrenic individuals hear? Is it conversations, put downs, encouragement etc?
hello, schizoeffective person here. similar to schizophrenia. for me, auditory hallucinations are like really quiet version of regular inner monologue. but the monologue is interpreted like a spectrogram, so I see things in my head when I hear any sounds, including the hallucinations.
I have synesthesia which is the mixing of multiple senses so not only can I see colors and shapes but I see waves and sound. Auditory hallucinations are dull versions of all that.
I don't know if this is a question you can answer but you mentioned in women the age range for getting schizophrenia is 25-30, which makes sense. I am Bipolar Type 1 with Psychosis and right now my meds aren't working for me considering I see and hear more hallucinations before having a mood swing. SO here is my question, what is the difference between Psychosis and Schizophrenia?
Sorry you're going through this.
I wish you the best!
hi kodi, im simon, due to destructive past presented to me by bullies from my hood i had ptsd diagnosed at 16, im also border line so live is hard but im not surrender cos of good people around but i dont feel any happines at all but i do if i make someone hapy cuz i cant feel that way i want people around to feel that way and that helps but also sometimes it destroy me more and more, a lil bit every day for 10 years now
I am sorry to hear you are currently living with this struggle!
I am glad to hear you can feel “happy” by helping other people ❤
I hope that you learn/discover a way to feel emotions especially happiness!
This really makes me sad. I hope that you seek help and are able to find happiness within yourself. You are worth it!
Thanks!
Congratulations on finding medication that makes your day to day life more livable!!
Do you still use illicit drugs and if so, how were you able to change your relationship with illicit drugs to be recreational and not self medicating?
Love your content!
I work in a mental health related field and I share your channels with a lot of my clients and their personal support team!
Keep up the great work!
And thank you for not only helping to educate people regarding how it can be to live with schizophrenia!
The world needs more people like you!
Thank you for all that you do!!!
My mom was schizophrenic. I never noticed her having hallucinations, but she would tell me some crazy stories. Growing up, I believed all of them. Honestly, some of the stories are believable, but I'll never know what was reality or not. I'm not sure if she knew she was schizophrenic or not. Her father was schizophrenic, and I've been told it's genetic. I went to a therapist with these concerns and I feel like he didn't believe me. He told me to test if I'm schizophrenic, to stick my tongue out. If I can't control it's actions when it's out of my mouth, that means I also have schizophrenia.
Okay, so that was the build up to my question.
What symptoms did you start noticing before meds?
What type of test did they do to confirm the diagnosis?
Thanks for opening up! I'm proud of you and how far you've come!❤
It's amazing u recognize that u have it my uncle had he didn't realize something was off he thought we r nuts
Bipolar 1 sista here. I experience psychotic features when I have my severe depressive episodes.
Really cool to see you being so open with this stuff. It’s hard for me to talk about openly… I admire your strength!
I know a few women who got schizophrenia and they all got it in their teenage years, mostly 19..
Never met anyone who got it in 25-30
hi feel free to not answer if this is uncomfortable but would you mind describing some of the hallucinations you’ve gotten? i’m just curious. thanks so much and thank you for spreading awareness about stuff like this!❤
Sub to you. Love from Scotland. Stay strong
You have my support...and luna
Do you mind me asking if you were doing drugs prior to schizophrenia symptoms? Like, does the use of drugs bring out symptoms sooner? If too personal, I understand. Just curious.
A bit of a chicken or egg kind of question.
I’ve read that smoking marijuana as a teen can bring schizophrenia out. The majority of people with schizophrenia Have pre-existing mental illness, meaning the drugs did not cause it, it was already there.
Thank you
I have a friend who has Schizophrenia, were in high school, he developed it in middle school, he is chil, exepct his mother is a aweful and womt get him meds so sometimes he has to kick me sometimes to be sure im the real me :)
Im apparently liked by two of his visual hallucinations :)
Countries need to stop arresting people for drug use 💀
Anyway, my mother's cousin-in-law tried to shoot her son. Ended up shooting her husband through the hand and her son through the shoulder. She was then diagnosed with Schizophrenia, I believe. She'd been struggling with her mental health for a while, apparently, and no one listened to my great aunt when she said that they needed to get her help :/
My best friend in high school, most intelligent person in the world, straight A’s would get would cry hysterically when he got a B, to the point his nose would start bleeding ended up running naked through the woods and at the age of 19/20 was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
I have symptoms of mental illness but I have to wait till I’m 18 for a diagnosis because my parents think it’s because of the phone I’m not joking they really do and it’s a very sad situation
My biggest question is how do the hallucinations look when your hallucinating people? Is it like a real person just standing beside you... or kind of shapes and shadows like when you think you see a shadow in the corner of your eye? Or maybe a dream like state where you can't see the face or the face is reconstructed from people you've actually seen before, even if it was a second in a crowd...
Just very curious how the brain recreates these hallucinations... Audio I can easily imagine cause we all think/ talk to ourselves in our heads... But visual is a bit harder for me to completely wrap my head around... closest I can imagine is shrooms but that was more of like a fun house weird mirror effect on objects but other people looked normal
@Silent_Steel
It might surprise you to find that some people have little to no internal audio track.
Likewise, while many people have a very visual mental interpretation of their world, some picture pretty much nothing, having essentially no mental "eye."
Someone was just saying the other day that they don't have an internal dialog. Like, they have to have a vocal conversation (even by themselves). Otherwise it's just....um....quiet, I guess?
I kind of liken it (in a very small way) to how some people say they don't recall dreaming at all, while some have extremely vivid dreams. It's said that most people dream in black and white, but some dream in color.
Crazy how we're all so different, isn't it?
I personally have little auditory, lots of visua processing. Also VERY vivid, colorful dreams, and constant internal dialog, almost to the point that I can sort of pop in and see what's going on in there and surprise myself.
"Oh, we're chatting about ducks rn? Rad." lmao
@tashsme I can definitely see that some people don't have that internal monolog (thinking)... and just blurt out the 1st thought that comes to mind lol... got quite a few friends like that... and dreams are very fascinating, too... like how everyone dreams, but most people forget 90% of their dreams within the 1st 5 mins of waking... and how scientists still don't fully understand why we dream... but I like the idea that it's the brain processing the data of the previous day to make ready for the next day of data... pretty neat stuff to me
@@tashsmeDo you have schizophrenia?
Your story is inspirational
Very very positive to hear you and your overcoming your struggles and your symptoms.
I personally have been diagnosed with schizophrenia at 14. And my systematic detachment from even the slightest form of reality is completely gone for years at a time. The medication is fantastic, when it works properly. The street drugs however, where never beneficial. I would like to know what your coping skills for paranoia that is related to anything positive. That is capable of even subdoing, even for a little bit. Cause the paranoia is completely engulfing my cognitive states, and the paranoia is causing the auditory complications that are truly causing my life to deteriorate, entirely.
I'm ok, but I desperately require a little bit of rest from the constant, regrettable, duality of existence, unable to even have the slightest perception of reality. The insurmountable amount of paranoia needs to end it's endless pursuit. And I'm just politely asking for advice that will be functional.
The only thing that is capable of releasing my hellish constructs of my corruption of my mind is my guitar. I have run out of everything else. I only have music. But one thing can't save me and I need a legitimate reason to remain on a world that I was never meant to exist in, that I fell like the world laments my meer earthly presence.
I have a question, do you ever have hallucinations of your dog luna?
I think you might need to be more specific. If you’re legitimately curious or have experience with such things. You’ll understand this is a blanketed question.
In my younger years I believed I could have full discussions with just about any animal! And at times inanimate objects! But, it wasn’t tons of fun. 🙏✨
@@Yourenotmetho Sorry. The particular aspect in which I was framing that question was, I recognize he uses his dog to greet people in order to assist him in discerning hallucinations from reality. What if his dog herself was a hallucination?
@@kizuuna i understand what you’re saying now. I suppose maybe I was hoping to cover a couple angles with my question.
But I do wonder why you’re curious about that?
Cause tbh. In a really bad break moment. It’s difficult to even consider questioning your few things that can anchor you in reality. So I’m certain you’re curious. But I will urge you to take into consideration how powerful words can be at times. 🙏🙏🙏✨
@@Yourenotmetho Yeah that's a good point I was honestly afraid to ask that. I get if that wasn't already one of his concerns I could give him a crazy trip lol. It's just one of those insatiable curiosities I guess
@@kizuuna makes sense fam. 🙏🙏🙏✨
i have a question: do you have scary halucitations?
fun fact about schizophrenia is that it affects people differently in different parts of the world depending on the culture. America and Hollywood make hallucinations and schizophrenia like this crazy psychopath murder evil thing. so when people typically start to hallucinate they think the worst and they're thinking determines their hallucination.
people in different parts of the world like Africa, those people are like shamans because their view of spiritual people with a higher connection than regular people and have more welcoming and positive hallucinations. same with Native Americans.
it's really the thought process that determines your hallucinations. You have to work your mind into believing you will have positive hallucinations even if you're in the middle of a negative one. You have to gain control over them. It took me whole life to figure that out and I'm still figuring it out with my intrusive thoughts.
"You influence your mind just as much as the mind influences you."
don't forget that.
Amazing!
My son was 2 but they said the had to wait till he was 8 to formally call it schizophrenia.
What’s the best way to find help with addiction that also would be able to help me keep my place and not be homeless once I finished detoxing?
Have you had any scary hallucinations?
My mom has schizophrenia and it has made me hate her and hate myself!!
My sister in law and sadly my nephew both had mental breaks at age 24 and never been the same since it’s hard to remember how they used to be to who they are now my nephew think ppl want to poison him all the time and my sister in law thinks everyone especially men are gay and pretend to like women so they don’t look homosexual and she’s so convinced that her boyfriend of 6 years sadly they broke up now several years ago but when she went through her mental break down said he was using her picture to get men and she kicked him said he gave her aids it was so hard to see her be this way from who she used to be I never new this stuff could happen until I met her and then shortly after my nephew suffered the same fate and i had no idea I thought maybe she took a bad drug or something then. I learned that this psychotic breaks happen to ppl an most usually get it between 18 and 24 godbless
Another readon it can go a few years undiagnosed is because a kid will go to college, ( which can set it iff, new things n dhit,) and personality changes are just observed as who you are, thet didnt know you before to call it out.
Where as when you are in your home life relatives and friends notice the changes as in the case of my daughter. She was still home, so diagnosis was in 6 weeks. ( Earlier but she "wasnt telling" ) But i argued with those vouces and told them " im her mom, we talk about everything" and THEY ... AGREED!
Ten years later, she needs we took a med outside the first hospitalization and instead asked about a non medicated treatment that just happened to be starting, but the patient had to ask, the doc couldn't bring up unless they did..
So she went into a behavioral management study.. drug free.
Does great. Happy girl.
Diet also no carbs, mostly fiber an some meat and fish. No prepackaged food( poison) which was introduced to her diet as she got older and ate at other places other than home. The plastic food hit hard.
So all three of my girls as adults, cook at home.. anytime their diet gets a bit "dirty", they have PMS, psychosis, depression and anxiety.
Cook from scratch. Organic food.
It was an assault to theyr body when they ate other people's food. I saw thiis early with two of them having asthma. And I always are the way I do because of fibromyalgia from infancy. Growing up in the 60s to 80s, I couldn't consume certain foods anymore till I started cooking from scratch again after a tip out of the US and I could eat beef and corn and vegetables and eggs again.
So my body recognizes the crap they did to our food , I'd be bedridden for days and miss school, so when I came back,I got organic food. And then raised my kids on it.
No soda either. No milk, unless it was used to cook. No baby formula, I nursed all three when no one did. For two years each. Almost tree for one. ( No birth control ever. Kids are 5 years apart each. )
I'm just putting this out there because my daughter's first phsyce doc asked me about all this, and it confirmed a couple of his theories.
Mental illness in the US is higher than other countries who's same illnesses are far fewer.
What medication do you take? My brother has schizophrenia and has yet to find a prescription that suits him. Thank you 🙏
I don’t talk about specific name brands because medication works differently for everyone, but I’ll just say that I’m on a month injection. Everyone will have different experiences with different meds, so I hope he find what works best for him!
Abilify…
My family has schizophrenia history. And I am in my 20s I do not need this rn 😭
I have questions but honestly don't know enough about schizophrenia to say I know how to ask questions sensitively, if necessary.
I've never had a visual hallucination, or ever any that I know of. But with a visual hallucination, (not to sound rude) but don't some relative context clues maybe help dismiss some hallucinations? I mean - do they all make sense in ways? Obv the mind is powerful so that's why I'm curious what it's like.
For example, if you see someone casually talking to you in the doorway while your playing a game at 2 am, or something, like do they ever look like strangers or like people you might recognize? Can questioning the logic of "who tf is this calm person talking to me at 2 am in my doorway all chill?" Or like "nah my uncle live 5 states away, I know he's not here."
I hope I'm making sense and not just sounding rude and ignorant.
Is the lighting of a hallucination ever off from the surrounding room? Like you're in low light be see someone as if multiple lights are on?
I need help!! My husband was diagnosed as well any tips for men that get diagnosed what can we do how do we help ?
Born female here (trans male). I’ve been getting symptoms. I’m 20. It’s more like physical touches, “seeing” someone in the corner of my eye REALLY vividly, but when I look there, they’re gone, and sometimes auditory hallucinations. Is this enough of a concern to tell a doctor?
Yes. You don't need to hit a certain threshold. You're concerned, that's enough to ask a doctor. (And for any concern, not just schizophrenia) ❤️
Hi,i dont know if you will see this,but i was having hallucinations and tye doctor took me off my meds as she thinks im stable now,its been over a year since stopping my meds,but ive had two things happen,1 audibly and 1 seeing something(that terrified me).How do i know if its real or im being haunted.Sorry if this sounds strange 🩵
God this sounds just like my ex husband who I have 2 daughters with. He did H and then right after that he got diagnosed with schizophrenia with delusions and psychosis. It's been 7 years and it's still really bad. He's broken into people's homes with them there and they had a gun and were threatening to shoot him in he didn't go away. He then started screening our names (because he thought that our daughters and I were being held hostage in these people's house) he then broke there window and tried to get in. Luckily the cops got there just in time to pull him out of the window and arrested him. He got sent to a mental facility thanks to his mother who has full custody of him because he can't be trusted to do the right things but he had never done anything like this. He would usually just start talking to himself about God and pulling energy from the sun. If you want to go check out his Facebook and come tell me what you think? His name is Worm Sharfe. But his real name is Jeramie Sharfe. He just used his nickname which he's had since he was a child.
I’ve always wondered what it would be like if someone tried to fight their hallucinations? Like if they ran towards it and like stood inside it then like surely you would just like be inside it as it isn’t there and then it would go right?
Not trying to sound rude just curious are the hallucinations scary?
Im 12 turning 13 in August (born female, identifies as male) but apparently im showing signs of schizophrenia. (My family already has alot of special needs in it and my biological grandfather has schizophrenia) So i just wanna know your experience and what you think the signs would be like biological girl! (Please use he/him for me, I feel very uncomfortable when I'm called she/her)
Question. Do you ever get fake or digital type hallucinations? Like seeing something on a screen that isn’t there?
I would also be interested to know the answer to this.
I genuinely don’t mean to sound disrespectful, but do you find hearing voices/seeing people ect scary? Is it like seeing a ghost or is it literally just like seeing/hearing a person?
How often do you hallucinate? I do weekly.
Have you ever told one of your hallucinations that its not real?...if so...what do they say back.?
I heard voices at 12 💀
Hey, have you ever had gone to get deliverance done? I’ve heard of testimonies of people being set free after going to a deliverance ministry.
Theoretically if you were to play god of war / watch god of war could you see ares or kratos in your house snd fight them
Did your incarceration actually help you or did it just make things worse?
A lot of people with mental health issues end up with problems with the law, and a lot of the time, prison does not have the ressources necessary to help someone in crisis.
Usually leading to the person getting further into deep shit.
The facility I was in was the same. No resources or help. I wasn’t able to get assistance or a diagnosis until after I got out!
@@SchizophrenicHippieI imagine your schizophrenia must've gotten way worse in there!
Glad you got out and got help!
You seem like a wonderful dude now💖
Can I ask what meds work for you? Please.
is it rare for someone under those ages to have schizophrenia
What are the very first symptoms you had?
The first symptoms that the people around me noticed were paranoia, but that quickly led into my hallucinations and delusions
Have you ever had your brain scanned a spec scan Dr. Amen
Are you able to rationalize things like “this isn’t real” and then think about it logically when you’re having hallucinations? For example can you think “oh, this person isn’t real, it’s 4am in my kitchen and I’ve been alone all day?”
What is it like
ok so i was right by the tattoos, you "developed" it mainly because of D
I've seen in a lot of ur videos that u shh alot when ur having hallucinations why is that?
I will post a video about that tomorrow!
you seem nice
How long were you busted for?
Have you tried turning to Yeshua? He can heal you, restore you. Ima do something I haven't done in awhile but I'll keep you in my prayers brethren, Yeshua can heal you
Meditating for two hours a day may help more than meds.
Just an opinion.
Meditating won’t get rid of schizophrenia symptoms .. it can only (maybe) calm you down. The best it might do is help you cope with emotions
@@Waywardtrickdogs even meds have their own side effects right?
Absolutely NOT.
@@Lordofgodlevels yes .. but if you find the right meds you can minimize the amount of side effects while reducing (or maybe getting rid of) symptoms. There are side effects to most meds. Almost everyone takes some kind of medication and they live just fine. Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that needs proper treatment (meds) .. meditation won’t treat it
I’ve noticed all scitzo people use drugs !! Anyone thinking crack or acid is cool ?? Think again 😂😂😂 I know ppl in real life who did way to much drugs and now are scitzo
I see God and Jesus and angels and spiritual beings good or bad I am the one who will do nothingavout the sins of mankind
How much money do you make a year $$$
😂ok homosexual