What are Depression and Bipolar with Psychotic Features?
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Depression with psychotic features, also called psychotic depression, and bipolar with psychotic features are subtypes of major depression and of bipolar disorder respectively. They occur when a severe depressive or manic episode includes some form of psychosis.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, someone who is psychotic is out of touch with reality. Psychosis could include hallucinations (such as hearing voices or seeing things that are not really there), delusions (which are essentially false beliefs not grounded in reality or false perceptions), or some other break with reality.
In this video, I go into further detail about what a diagnosis of major depression or bipolar disorder with psychotic features means.
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I have bipolar disorder with psychotic features (during downs) and it was difficult to diagnose but I am on the right path! Don’t give up! Everything is temporary. ❤️
Is it temporary?
hey that's what i was just diagnosed with
@@macurban7946in nature, ever poison has a cure, why not the same with mental “poison” as well? If you give up, you immediately start to tell yourself it’ll never go away and like a placebo, it wont go away and this will create and continually reinforce a self-fulfilling prophecy and loop until you realize you suffered for so long without realizing it. Better to have false hope than to give up entirely.
Then why have I not recovered
Mental poison? That’s wild. Only thing that’s poison is Americas social output as a collective like programs, government, drugs, religion, guilt associated to it and or standards of Americas expectations that drives peoples psyche into this form of state.
This country is a melting pot recipe of psychologically manipulating people into this form of mental state then call them crazy with a label and proposes a pill for it.
It’s the society, fear mongering of
We're still human. This channel hopefully reminds people of that.
I felt this statement. My family dont even understand and ive given up trying to explain myself as it falls on deaf ears.
People take advantage of my kindness a lot. I've been abused by someone with untreated bipolar for far too long. It's basically destroyed me. It's hard to be understanding in my situation, but I don't take that out on other's. With that said, I definitely understand why some people have negative perceptions. It may come from a lack of knowledge or very negative personal experiences.
Fractured Minds that struggle for sanity.... But still human.
I stamp 😂✅ that 💯
Well said, King!! Salute!! I think my ex has mental problems so I’m trying to understand him more so I can heal from it as he will not seek help for it, he is in denial!! God bless you, and I pray people will see you for the great person you are no matter what problems you have!! Yes you are only human,and God loves you all!! Don’t forget that!! He just made you differently!! 👌💯🙏🏼😇👍💜
Thank you for making this video. I don’t usually hear people talk about depression or bipolar with psychotic features. I have struggled with depression for most of my adult life but earlier this year I experienced my first psychotic break. It was a terrifying experience where I heard voices, saw “secret messages” everywhere and became convinced that the TV was talking to me directly. I ended up being involuntarily admitted to a psych hospital where my delusions only worsened. I didn’t trust the nurses or the food or the medication and I didn’t want to shower because I thought I would get electrocuted. I became paranoid that we were being experimented on or that cops were going to arrest me even if I haven’t done anything. The psychiatrist initially diagnosed me with schizoaffective disorder but it was later changed to depression with psychotic features. I was discharged after 11 days and I haven’t had an episode to this degree since. But this experienced left a permanent scar on my mental health and i worry it can happen again.
Too many coinstances happened, I am sure not just because the mentality illness, many things truly exist or have happened like a gamer or gamers controlling the whole world.
My Mom is going through this right now & it's heartbreaking. She's waiting on an inpatient bed at this moment & this has only happened one other time in her life and it was after bad car accidents both times. I don't understand it at all but I pray the Dr's can help my Mom get better fast!
Take your antipsychotics as long as u need to.i am afraid too about this or that I'll do something crazy again and can't help it
That’s exactly what I’m feeling with my newly discovered diagnosis of bipolar disorder. It’s such a horrible way of feeling I hope to keep the faith that it’ll be gone soon; got to just keep pushing through this scary illness. I wish everyone great care and success stories
@@nicholemancine5110wow so sorry to hear about your mom. I was in two car accidents back to back now I can't mentally function properly. How's your mom doing?
When I was manic I thought I was a saint I went around blessing people
Nothing wrong with blessing people, just as long as it doesn't harm you to do so.
I thought I was a saint too but it didn't help that someone actually called me one it just furthered the deulusion lol but if you wanna be a saint go be one!
In my manic I feel like I’m in charge of people life and I have the reason voice like I told you am always right ! 😢 I want things my way because I’m the boss
I can relate I was Jesus then God. Mind blowing high
I gave away every single thing I owned. 3 times. total damages exceeded 1 million lost.
I have bipolar, and when I hit the bottom (depression) I felt like the police officers are out to get me, it’s just a matter of time when I actually did nothing wrong at all, I was scared shitless that everyone’s mad at me & will come and get me. I turned of my phone for days and stayed in a dark room crying. I quit my job too because I thought if I went out then someone will catch me.
It was a very dark moment.
On the other side, when mania kicks in.. I thought I was more than God lol
What a life.
I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 with psychotic features before I was diagnosed with bipolar schizoaffective disorder (which was later changed AGAIN to depressive type schizoaffective disorder after we determined that I haven't had a manic episode in several years). I've noticed this pattern a lot in people I've met with schizoaffective disorder.
wow i just got diagnosed bipolar schizoaffective this august. i was previously diagnosed bipolar with psychotic features and i only had one really severe manic episode, and that was five years ago. i wonder if the same will happen to me?
@@oatmeal_-zh4uy I'm not sure what the exact criteria are for timelines, but it's worth pointing out to your psychiatrist or doctor!
perhaps
I’m here becuase my sister was diagnosed with bipolar 1 with psychotic features. I’m trying to educate myself, but I’m still wondering if the diagnosis was correct. She really seems to have these hallucinations and delusions so frequently that I thought she was schizophrenic but I don’t know enough about it.
Lauren, I just wanted to tell you that your videos have made me decide to go back to seeing my therapist on a regular basis to deal with my depression. I’ve kind of just let the treatments for all of my illnesses (physical & mental) go lax for too long. After 17 years, I was just over it all. But I’m determined to keep putting in the time and effort to get better. Thank you for being you and offering these videos to others. I also very much enjoyed the “day in the life” video of yours and getting to see more of your silly side. Take care!❤️
That’s fantastic! 👏👏👏
It's amazing how you are able to explain such a complicated topic in such an accessible, succinct and clear way. Thank you!
I had voices for 18 years and then I decided my voices aren't people. For the past 2 years this November. Im easier to talk to me now. I was before but now I can be myself. New meds and prayer did this. I hear them here and there but not like before.
Glad to hear that. On the 4oad to feeling better!! 🎉
I have 2 voices in me ! The evil one is always fighting me and my thoughts the good one I feel like it’s my consciousness but that voice is bad it makes me wanna do sad things 😢 it got worse after I had babies 😞
I have been diagnosed with DID which is a “logical disorder” (meaning that it functions structurally, and usually doesn’t feature disorganized thought or psychosis) but parts of us experienced transient childhood psychosis in the past and drug-induced psychosis as an adult. I’ve described the ambiguity of voices as knowing the difference between “outside” and “inside” voices. We still experience passive auditory hallucinations and paranoia, but thankfully are no longer prone to delusions/“true” hallucinations (true meaning the medical distinction where they are indistinguishable from reality rather than understood to be hallucinations.) I say all this bc psychosis and hallucinations come in so many forms and gradients and I feel like people don’t really consider them on a spectrum, or it’s comorbidity.
This was really interesting. Almost everything in life is on the spectrum and it makes sense that the level of pyschosis/hallucinations, would also vary, but isn’t something ppl discuss openly. Thank you for sharing. I wonder if many other ppl have this experience?
@@Blondicakes thank you. From what I’ve seen, there’s a couple of personal accounts of systems experiencing complex or narrative hypnagogic/pompic hallucinations, and I know another personally who experiences visual hallucinations when the DPDR is particularly bad (which manifests as the world continuously stretching away from them, almost like a dolly zoom. There’s a word for this that I can’t remember. That, and the common swarming insect hallucination.) But yes, hallucinations, and by extension psychosis and delusions, are so contextual that it’s hard to really get a firm handle on their logistics, perhaps partially because they are dream logic themselves.
No you’re on TikTok too much
I had a very short psychotic moment during my depression 32 years ago as well as a moment of, I guess delusion. It only happened once and never returned. I remember it well. I never told anyone....
I have bipolar 1 with psychotic features and paranoid delusions and have them alot 😭 weed is the only thing that helps.
@@fucjoff5621 i doubt weed helps
What happened when you had it?
@@fucjoff5621the weed use is probably making it worse but giving you temp relief
I’ve been watching your videos since my daughter’s admission to a hospital with an acute psychosis 😔Your videos gave me hope for my daughter’s future !
Keep doing what you’re doing Lauren
You’re amazing ♥️
I hope things are better now ❤
I typed "depression with psychotic features" in the RUclips search bar because I've been a tiny bit worried lately that I might be experiencing this, and wanted more information. When a LAUREN VIDEO popped up, I was so excited!!! I love your channel SO MUCH, and seeing that you'd actually addressed this was like discovering that the local ice cream parlor has my favorite flavor back in the case. :) You are just the best, as always. So honoring, calm, informative and accessible. Thanks!
Don't feel bad, I have the same problem, I've been dealing with this for allmy life. You WILL be ok!!❤
A person I love has this and it tears me up seeing them like that......... be well.
I have major depressive disorder with psychotic features (psychotic depression) I hadn't heard of it before the doctor told me about it. Thanks for posting
Psychosis can also be experienced by people with personality disorders. When my friend with Borderline Disorder and I tried dating, her anxiety over being in a serious relationship brought on psychosis.
Stop dating friends !!!
@@socalbarbie1040 Yes, I don't know why but dating a friend doesn't seem to work out well.
I really appreciate you making this video, genuinely. All of my psychiatrists that I have gone through have never explained my diagnosis to me properly and it's always been really difficult for me to depict what it is I am feeling, or whether or not the things that I think, say, or do, are normal or not and ultimately, I end up feeling ashamed of myself or think that I am going insane.
Most points in my life I'd end up masking a lot of what I was enduring in my head because I was told by one of my psychiatrists that what I go through is all in my head and that I'm just crazy, which resulted in me just staying quiet during evaluations and being automatically embarrassed of all my manic episodes and the thoughts I'd have.
Thank you so much for sharing all of this info, and most importantly, thank you for helping me realize that I am a human being that just needed reassurance.
I have Bipolar and have hallucinations with both my Depressive episodes and Manic, this video explains it so clearly and accurately, thank you so much
Can you please do a video on PTSD/Complex PTSD and psychotic features? Great video once again 🙂
that would be bpd
This was very helpful thank you. I experience a lot of derealization like I'm in a video game and some delusions and I'm working on finding a therapist for it since schizophrenia and bipolar run in my family. One delusion I have often is that I completely believe that if I fall asleep I will have a heart attack and die. I was born with heart disease so it's hard to convince me otherwise so ill stay up for 3 to 4 days and it's really been impacting my health and work.
God bless.
My OCD's obsessional intrusive thinking got so stuck during a crisis that I started having lack of insight, very high magical thinking, high ideia of reference and temporary delusinal beliefs.
Sounds like pure ocd with a repetitive behaviour cancelling out an intrusive thought. Even worse if you have moments of clarevoiance to throw you deeper into it. Others have ocd, then you have obsessive compulsive personality disorder. The first you feel bad about yourself guilty. The second is repetitive behaviour with objects. The third is obsessive compulsive cleaning and bleaching. It's less about magic.
Know when ur disassociating and be strict on urself. It takes awhile to feel somewhat normal again but don’t give up
I have been living with this crippling form of bipolar for 20+ years at this point. Ive been committed 4 times for treatment to help get my psychosis under control. Psychotic Depressive episodes have caused me to attempt to take my own life, end friendships over delusions and I wont even go into detail about the things I see and hear because it scares me a lot when it happens. Manic psychosis elevated my blood pressure immensely and when I got into the ambulance and they took my blood pressure and it was 187/160 and my head felt like it was going to explode from all the pressure I felt during a manic psychotic break. Ive had two depressive psychotic breaks that resulted in stays at a psych ward and while deployed overseas. Ive had two manic psychotic breaks that resulted in a stay at a psych ward for hurting my girlfriend and then a treatment facility for my second break to help me detox and get the right meds to control my psychosis. Respridone works like magic for me and I am set up to see a psychiatrist who can further get me on the right combo and give me some control of my life back. Im 37 and I noticed stuff that was not right about me at a very early age. This mental mood disorder does not let up or go away, you just learn how to better control it and try to stay away from triggers and use coping mechanisms to de-escalate those feelings of psychosis that can affect you. There is help out there and there are many others out there suffering from the same problems I have had to face for two decades now.
I live with OCD and Major Depressive Disorder, I have also had a brief psychotic episode. OCD is my most prominent struggle and intrusive thoughts + compulsions can be really debilitating. I have heard you mention people with schizophrenia also often experience intrusive thoughts. I was wondering, considering October 10-16 is OCD Awareness week, if you could make a video about OCD and Schizophrenia, psychosis, their overlap, intrusive thoughts, or something along those lines.
Thanks for the video.
I second this request. It would be incredibly useful in helping us understand what is going on and, perhaps, how better to support someone who is experiencing what appears to be this very overlap.
I have both too
I was also just looking into the overlap between OCD and psychosis - it doesn’t seem like it’s talked about often in the popular OCD discourse. Would love to also hear more about that.
@@halgaucher6730 I agree
All this! 💛
I'm a bit suprised to see this video has so few comments even after being uploaded like an hour ago, so I'm leaving this extra comment hoping it will help with the algorithm!
I recently had my first real psychosis with my depression and received this diagnosis. I never knew what psychosis was or that it could happen to anyone before that.
I was diagnosed with Bipolar 2. I am on medication now which has really helped. One issue is that I have been a cannabis user for over 10 years and quitting is driving me into psychosis. It is very difficult to manage feeling this way while taking medication. Almost like my brain knows what to do but my body panics. This leads into manic episodes every time I try to quit but this time will be the last time and hopefully I will be able to manage my bipolar diagnosis a lot better going forward 🙏🏾
Thank you for creating this content!
I was diagnosed with MDD when I was 21 years old. 6 years after, during a relatively mild depression episode, I woke up one day and I was sure of being dead. I believed that the world around me was my "private hell", and the people were clones or holograms of the original living ones. I remember I was desperate for two things: I couldn't communicate with the world of living people, and even worse, I couldn't kill myself anymore. I was already dead! I thought that, if I had attempted to kill myself, I would find myself in another similar private hell,
and so on for the eternity. I was hospitalized for one month, I did ECT and they gave me Olanzapine for the first time. It worked. My diagnosis was changed in Psychotic depression, and fifteen years after I still take antidepressant and antipsychotic. I never had another psychotic crisis severe like the first one, but when I'm in a "psychotic bubble" I'm always concerned with death and fear of death. I discovered that my delusion wasn't an original creation of my mind, it was already known as "Cotard delusion" or "nihilistic delusion". It even has a Wikipedia page! 🙂
I have bipolar 1, and I also experienced Cotard's delusion during my psychotic episode. I was in the hospital, I thought I was dead and thought that the nurses were angels. I thought that if my husband came in a black truck he would be the devil coming from hell or if he came in a red Jeep he would be be saved by Jesus's blood.
I have had similar! Horrible 9 months
Glad you are doing good!
That was the most terrifying thing I’ve read I’m glad your better
Woke up from a long sleep. He yawned, stretched, and at last opened his eyes completely. For two minutes, however, he lay in his bed without moving, as though he were not yet quite certain whether he were awake or still asleep, whether all that was going on around him were real and actual, or the continuation of his confused dreams.
Omg Lauren! Thank you for covering this! ❤️❤️❤️ I feel seen. Usually I experience psychosis during mania but it can happen during depressive episodes as well, it starts with lethargy and largely stopping being able to care for myself, then smell hallucinations and sleep disturbances, then I start hearing things & full on seeing things and feeling things that “aren’t there”. The subject matter does change all the time dependent on my mood state and it’s nice to see that’s legitimate. Last time it was triggered heavily by medical trauma so my episode was a lot of delusions that people I care about were going to harm me, seeing scary people in my house, panic episodes where I believed I was going to be poisoned, and feeling the sensation/thought of being poked with needles. Do you think you could cover CPTSD/PTSD psychosis next?
Thank you for all your videos Lauren greatly appreciated I have schizoaffective bipolar type PTSD anxiety so on but you are a great person keep it up you are a blessing from God to me and others God bless you
Love everything you guys are doing. Bless.
good to see you are doing good lauren
I love you I needed to hear this dealing with my daughter. Thanks you
Thank you Lauren for your videos you have helped me understand more about my diagnosis of shizoaffective disorder with Bi polar and I really appreciate you!
When is was really depressed i was very nihilistic and would hear occasional voices that would comment on what i was doing. Or sometimes, they would shout "hey!" at me or when i was thinking about doing something they would yell "dont!" yeah it was scary. I just don't know if this is actually psychotic depression i would like some answers.
I had Ocd with delusional beliefs (including high schizotypy traits)
That explains a lot. One of my friend had bipolar d ... and it makes very hard to understand him, sometimes I am his only friend but is really hard.Knowing this makes me understand him better and try to find a middle point to keep being friends cuz he can hurt and he is not capable of control that.
My son is a war veteran was poisoned..he has manic bipolar with psychotic features..am a mental health professional and i have been living with him for 8 years he has never been on medician and iv noticed as he gets older the episodes are farther apart if he drinks achahol its so out of control...GOD bless anyone dealing with this it really is hard to live with i wish there was a support group
There are you just have to find them through diligent research
yup, this is me, i'm angry over illogical reason, sometimes for things people around me done in the past, especially people who lie to me, i can not separate between reality rn and something in my head (psychosis features, delusions and hallucinations) it's scary, especially if you had many past trauma
I have MDD w psychotic features, and struggling with routine and hygiene is real - and very embarrassing. I used to make excuses about why I couldn't get to appointments, or I'd show up late, disheveled, sometimes smelly. It's not that I don't want to be a decent "normal" person - it's just that I am so caught up in what's going on in my head, or sometimes what's happening around me, real or not, that I can't even process taking a shower or cooking a meal. Right now I'm trying to stay on my meds for more than 4 days in a row. I almost got to 5wks and then I got too stressed and stopped taking them. Lately it's the paranoia and delusional thinking kicking my butt while the hallucinations are pretty quiet.
I have been struggling with hygiene at times. It's hard to make my immediate physical reality feel as real and important or as interesting as the one in my head
I'm schizophrenic, not bipolar but I do have bouts of depression. I have audiotary schizophrenia, I've been this way my entire life.
I definitely do have many days that I spend in bed not really leaving my room. I most often prefer to stay in my room, not socialize and read a lot of books watch TV and play on my phone.
Your line about that people who don't socialize spend a lot of time in their room poor hygiene and the way that they sometimes rarely speak or speak oddly really spoke and stood out to me.
I just wanted to thank you for pointing this out as I didn't fully realize it could be a symptom of psychosis or depression.
Thanks for this! I have depression with a drug induced psychosis
How are you doing?
@@user-wb2yv7ll9d great thanks
I’ve talked to 2 psychiatrists and get no where. My mom was bipolar and my dad was schizophrenic (they are deceased which is why I said “was”). I’m diagnosed with depression, anxiety, ptsd, ocd, and adhd. I really feel like I’m bipolar or something along those lines. I felt like I couldn’t talk to my first psychiatrist and my second psychiatrist just didn’t seem to care. When I told him about my intense shifts in mood he said that it wasn’t patterned enough to be bipolar. So I believed him. But I’ve watched a lot of videos and done a lot of reading and it doesn’t seem to me that bipolar is patterned at all. It shifts differently from person to person. I really need the help. But I am so tired of seeing psychiatrists that just don’t help.
I can help you by telling you what to tell your psychology ad psychiatrist. I have very deep depressive disorder recurrent with psychotic features. Pdsd. High Anxiety, Hdad. I was instutionaled in a state mental institution for 5 years. 2005 to 2009. I am on me ntal disability since 2005. I have held down a job part time with the government for 3 years now.
This video is what I needed. Thank you
The problem with mine was my dog passed away and my mdd psychotic episode was related to her saying goodnight I love you and stay calm when overstressed the meds take that away I knew they would everyone was against me having the voice though it hurt but shes still with me in heart and spirit
Yeah. I was on the fence as to whether I had schizoeffective disorder or bipolar with psychotic features as the treatment is different for each. My psychosis was quite advanced though a few times so I think that's why I am diagnoses as schizoeffective disorder bipolar type.
My father had major depression with psychotic features. Family told me it started when I was 2. I never knew a "normal" dad.
I have Bipolar I and for me I experience psychosis with mixed episodes (being depressed and manic at the same time) most often. I am pretty embarrassed about them so it takes me a long time to own up to this to my psychiatrist. My anti-psychotic works really well for me. I barely have any psychosis now that I've been on that medication for 2.5 years. And my mood stabilizer helps me stay out of extreme moods. Usually I feel pretty normal now. But before the meds life was a mess. I didn't have ways to describe what I saw or believed during psychosis and was ashamed to tell anyone in my life, more so than for other mental health symptoms. For me the hallucination was consistent, shadow figures at the edges of my vision whispering things I couldn't understand and then in my mind I felt that they were out to get me and I couldn't trust anyone or that they wanted me to die. Also, because it was so vague and not like what I saw on TV and movies I was reluctant to think it was even really a problem. We need more accurate rep of mental health disorders in mass media.
My medication regimen for bipolar with mixed states doesn't work well. 5 years on a robust dose of lithium, lamotrigine, quetiapine, never missed a dose and I am still here with my psychotic mixed episodes, chronically unstable, always low mood and suicidality. An Italian invented ECT but here in Italy we use it just for catatonia.
I'm sorry that's the case. I've heard that ECT does help some people. I'm sorry that's not an option you can explore. Mixed states are the absolute worst.
I have bipolar 1 disorder with psychotic features and last year, I was hospitalised for having erratic behaviour (where I was talking to dead people and yelling at my neighbours), having grandiose delusions (believing I was Jesus), persecutory delusions (believing that my neighbours were witchdoctors) and also having made a suicide attempt. Although I was diagnosed with BD, I occasionally see things when I am not experiencing a mood episode and I am worried that my BD might be progressing towards a schizoaffective disorder. I am on 300mg of Seroquel and 1300mg of Sodium Valproate and have been stable for a couple of weeks now. I am 18 years of age.
How is it going?
I worry about something similar. I’ve been diagnosed with MDD with psychotic features but that was some time ago and it hasn’t exactly gone away. The meds help tremendously, but I’m super worried that because I was never fully cured of it that I was misdiagnosed and may have scizoeffective disorder or full on sizophrenia. Idk, I’ll ask my doctor about it. In the end all that matters is that I’m getting treated with the right medications and working towards managing a more stable life.
PDD and GAD
Went to the ER because something was taking away my mind and thoughts. I would not wish this upon the worst of people.
I have MDD with psychotic features. My two worst depressive episodes had some extremely scary symptoms that aren't like regular mood dips, PMDD, or seasonal affective symptoms... it's not a joke. I suppose on one hand you could call it bipolar pending mania, though. I often wonder when my first experience with that will be.
MDD with psychosis is way rarer than bipolar depression
Hi @Living Well with Schizophrenia, I have been struggling with bipolar with psychotic features and sometimes I have to go and question myself if I have schizophrenia or just bipolar 1. And not knowing what is my true illness, can drive me to the point of madness. I recently got hypomanic and that quickly turned into a manic episode, after about a week and half of dissociation leading to psychotic symptoms. I thought I saw god in everything, due to the context of recently being tested by god and turning into a true follower of Christ. I became Christian and a few weeks later became manic. That is when the hospital said I have a psychosis due to elevate and elated euphoric mood.
My significant other, we had company over. And he thought I was in the bathroom screaming and thrashing around and making all these noises (I wasn't doing anything I was washing my face) here comes flying in there screaming in my face to go to bed to shut the fuk up... Absolutely terrifying. Laid down in bed I was so scared but I got up and I went out onto the back porch and smoke a cigarette.. I could hear him talking, to what seems like no one. He thought I was out there doing all of the screaming and thrashing around as well. But I wasn't😢 I figured the next morning I could talk to him. He was doubling down on crazy... Maybe the next day.. just accusations of infidelity and all of this crazy stuff, things that had nothing to do with whatever was going on that night just total chaos in his mind. He's never done this before.. but I'm kind of scared and trying to figure out how to deal with this. He still doesn't realize that he had a psychotic episode. I don't know how to deal with this and I don't want anybody to get hurt, me or my children 💔 I feel like I've lost my best friend
Not always that everything happens for a reason, so use your reason to make the best of what happens. Understanding should come before Freewill. We understand our lives by looking backwards ,reflecting on the past & we live or life forwards, into a potentially unknown future. Everyone should be profoundly tangible to get help when agony exceeds endurance. Always know your limits and plan well, during hardships. Furthermore pain is both 1 useful & 2 hurtful, so learn to make meaning in life, by giving meaning to life.
Is it possible to experience hallucinations and delusions but being able to function with them with people not necessarily knowing you are psychotic? I've experienced both but usually don't completely break from reality - e.g. I know I am hallucinating and I know my delusions are odd so I keep them a secret (even though I still think they are true, and don't realize I was delusional until after they have passed). There was only a brief period of time where I really was out of touch with reality. I have been diagnosed with depression with psychotic features by some professionals and with schizoaffective by others, although the former professionals say I've never met the full criteria for schizophrenia (which I would agree with since I haven't had any long-term breaks from reality), so I'm not schizoaffective.
Maybe it's just me, but I didn't understand a word you were saying. It just felt like a whole bunch of words. With no clear definition, or understanding of what psychotic features are.
I am four minutes and three seconds into the video, the first minute was about your supporters and prescribing, and now less than a minute away from the end of the video, and I know even less, then I thought I did when I started the video.
I just had a very good friend that was diagnosed with depression with psychotic features. The questions I'm left with after watching this video or as follows.
What are the psychotic features?
How often do they show themselves?
Any kind of special consideration that should be given when trying to support somebody with not only depression, but also, the psychotic features?
What are some examples of the psychotic features? Are they delusions? Are they complete brakes reality? Can be dangerous?
I have mixed bipolar disorder and deal with psychosis on a regular basis. I hear voices and see things. I have 2 specific voices that i hear. I hear an old man and a woman. I hear them both during my depression phase and mania. Their personalities change depending on the phase. When i see things i see the old man but he doesnt have a face and he only stays in doorways. I also see bugs either on the walls or running around me. It gets really scary sometimes. I am currently playing medication roulette with my psychiatrist to find the right medication. But i have found that none of them help me sleep so i go days with no sleep making the hallucinations worse.
Read bible, especially psalms during episodes, it helps!
Thank you for your wonderful note of encouragement. I have the same diagnosis as you. It's so odd to me while my decisions make so much sense to me, sometimes people don't know where I'm coming from. Does anyone have that problem as well?
Got diagnosed with Bipolar 1 with psychotic features I’m prescribed anti psychotics and mood stabiliser..I feel extremely mixed each day about them🙃
I’m not officially diagnosed due to the unwillingness of my father but my therapist have really doubled down on the idea that it’s bipolar with psychotic features but one thing I don’t recall her mentioning is the manic delusions being paranoid delusions when im manic and psychosis gets involved “the people” or “them” become a very archetypal theme “they” “watch me through my phone” or are the car behind me in traffic on my way home and I am curious as to if these types of delusions fall under this umbrella or if the fact they’re paranoid delusions make them something else
I got cptsd and I feel like I got sexual trauma from being assaulted by a demon at 11/12.
Went schizoaffective or bipolar and tried to get help, wasn‘t taken seriously and went on with my education, got psychotic and feel completely brainmush rn.
Found interesting thank you
I am diagnosed with MDD with psychotic features. It really sucks.
Damn thats cool "feature" xD i also have this feature (if you wanna call it like that) in BPD
Anyone else hoping this would help them decide which they were experiencing?
I refuse therapy and diagnosis because it would turn me into a thing. I am no thing.. .
I’m here and working on Me every day not a fan of my meds tho I still take them
What I've been really confused about are the people who insist that you can have bipolar/depression and schizophrenia WITHOUT being schizoaffective. I don't know how having the two separately is possible, because then it'd either have the "with psychotic features" added, or it'd be schizoaffective. Are those people just confused? Or am I the one who's wrong?
hi lauren and rob thank you for your videos and work greetings from Mexico i have a question for you about ritalin, have you ever tried it to counter the side effects of quetiapine my doctor gave it to me not so long ago and it makes me feel a lot better les drowsy and more active sorry for my english its not my first lenguage and again greetings from mexico
Have you ever seen when somebody goes into psychosis and never comes back?
This is what I’m diagnosed with.
It's horrible when you get mad over something stupid and like I did I broke a door punch holes in walls an actual words I have no explanation of why she got mad cuz it was even a big deal and then you feel horrible afterwards
So, It's complicated with the hospitalization stuff I have schizoaffective disorder with a secondary anxiety disorder and PTSD and my PTSD plays into the delusions so hospital stays are difficult for me so I'm best treated in intensive outpatient care because I'm treatment resistant in the hospital due to the fact that my delusions have to do with being stuck on a submarine and being locked in a hospital makes that worse even with medication
This matches me 100% completely. I was diagnosed schizoaffective for at least 5 years and my new psychiatrist changed to major depressive with psychotic features. I was mad about it at first because I thought they were saying what I had was less severe but... This sounds a little bit more severe. I was off my meds the other day and can actually recall saying at one point I had superpowers lol. Also I am extremely pessemistic. I am always talking in a negative way, listen to depressing music and feel like every single decision I make, especially treatment wise, is a mistake and I don't know how to fix it. It's a living nightmare. Also very suicidal past few months. To the point where my last hospital visit told them meds, no meds, doesn't matter i'm gonna.. you know..
If someone doesn't suffer from this. Tour are so lucky. I wish to rid myself of this disease
I must be stupid. I’m more confused after this video 😮.
Ugh. I have psychotic depression. I spend all day in my room paralyzed by delusions. I wish they would make a cure for his horrible illness..
I have a hard time keeping up appearances...it's Bouquet btw :)
Well idk personally I was diagnosed bipolar but my father is schizophrenic and I'm just not sure if I'm bipolar with psychosis or not. My mania is short lived and my depression doesn't have the intensity it used to I basically feel nothing but anxiety and I trust no one. I live alone in a tent in the woods and visit my moms house during the day for food and to charge my phone. My delusions are always centered around being stalked or spied on and the voices won't talk to me just about me. When I was taking Seroquel I still had delusions and hallucinations just less often and I can keep myself from being as reactive (like now when the stalked thoughts start it's like I try to catch them at it .. I go searching for evidence and proof unless it's the government then I just sort of accept it and spend half my time telling them inside jokes and the other half begging them not to take away things that are important to me and by them I mean their listening and recording devices)
I have psychotic depression
I was in the army 88 89 I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1991 by mhmr. Looks like the army didn't know or should I say care about it.
My teenager was just diagnosed with this. :(
I can't functions properly as individual
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Meditation breath work is even a more consistent therapy than meds
I see we read the same articles.
I just went thru one of the worst bipolar depression I’ve ever had! Spent about 7 to 8 days without tak8ng a shower, feeling so worthless and wanting to die. I know it always pases but this time it hit me so hard. I was so close to end it all! Then I woke up one morning jumped in the shower, cut my hair, shaved and hit the gym and felt like I could bang a Victorias Secret model and then hit the playboy mantiene. I was in top of the world! My swing are very fast! Spend about 7 to 8 days depressed then a few weeks super pumped and cycle starts over again! Oh well! It is what it is!
I believe my wife has this condition she has extremely bad mood swings and suffers bouts of paranoia.
Distraction techniques work better than meds
I know someone with schizoaffective disorder who craves and uses stimulants and or cocaine-- not a good combination! This person had her first major psychotic episode after using cocaine. I’m presuming the cocaine precipitated the psychotic behavior. Is there a significant connection between inhaling stimulants including Adderal and schizoaffective disorder? She is 26, been admitted to five psychiatric hospitals but still repeats the addictionw. A few of her admissions were involuntary.
This is hell on the family as well. We need help……thanks.
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Hi Lauren
,Im from London i was watching your videos for couple of years now help me greatly
My ex partner was dignosd with bi polar disorder after 7 years was trying to look after her
sadly our roads departed as it was no other way she was was love of my life missing her every day
Any chance you can suggest for male side what to do after an hursh break up ?
I’m here to say just because your classification is mental surprise it’s spiritual you are taping into a higher line for earth so when your given medication it will bring your gifts down
Why B saying that.
Joe was wearing new trousers and as we dont have a full mirror at home he asked the carer if he could use the full-length mirror in the bedroom. She said no because its her room. Used to be my father's.We asked and she said no, which Joe accepted. B presented a hand mirror and i said dont worry ive got a camera. Then i missed out seeing my father the next day. But the day after, which was (today), M phoned to ask Joe "what happened yesterday?" We weren't there yesterday. He asked, "what do you mean?"
M said that B had said that Joe went upstairs and changed his trousers infront of the mirror and that my father was angry with Joe and me. B is making a formal complaint. She often doesn't know what im talking about when its obvious, Joe thinks its a language barrier, but i cant believe it. She took offence over the last few days when i was looking for something on TV my father would like to watch. She gets very annoyed over it. Agitated. I wondered if it was because she had to do some paper work for her agency boss. A week or two before B was ah angel. Then mood dopped. Before B made false accusation she was walking around tutting, and kissing her teeth. Once B told me she found out someone tampered with her test because god told or showed her. So did she have a false vision? And d8d it happen again. She gets very bubbly for a week or two, then very grumpy moping about in the dark in the corner at the table. I said oh you are straining your eyes. Then she says no i hve good eyesight. She is brilliant carer. But th3n i couldn't see my father for a week because my brother cant t3ll him on the phone that B told an untruth which she believed. I was present when Joe came through the front door. He gad no time to change his trousers, not even if he walked in with no trousers on and put them onbin the hall, let alone speed upstairs like superman and switch trouser and come down stairs in the hlink of her eye. How can we find out? A friehd told Joe to buy her chocolates and say sorry she misunderstood. We wont do that. Im wondering if she is a wrong one cleverly disguised as a good person, because i hired her care, now with the same computer we paid znd hired eith she cross-examines us for using. As if its her house now. Im wanting to believe its mild bipolar with mild psychosis, but i also fear the worst. Until now i didn't think it was suspicious that she behaved oddly when i asked her which padt of Africa shes from, and refused to tell me. When i asked if I could take a photo of her to perfect my portrait of her, proportions, that i was drawing she refused. I said but i can delete it straight after, she still refused. I heard from my cousin that his foreign nanny disappeared outbof the blue with all his treausure. We have still got lots of treasure left from what a self appointed housekeeper stole. I dont know what to do but i cant just do nothing as advised by everyone. Her agency is new aswell sonwhat if they are trained in carework for a more sinister purpose?
I went from MDD to bipolar 1 with psychotic features. I have now been diagnosed with the bipolar type of schizoaffective disorder because I have had psychotic and other schizophrenic symptoms without a mood episode.
Help: I am BD2 and wondering: What's the difference between a normal, say, less-than-confident thought (those normal "voices" in our heads that are not sounding like they are outside our head but are our own voice calling ourselves stupid after a mistake, etc.) and delusional thoughts about being worthless and not being loved by anyone? I feel like I struggle so much with depression at times that I take every word my husband speaks as being criticism or proof he doesn't love me. I am so insecure that I am shocked I've never been jealous , especially in a very unhealthy psychotic way like being convinced he's cheating or whatever. He has a tough time communicating (it's not his forte) but over time it's come to the light that I am perceiving things in a manner that is not reality. He sometimes stares at me in shock like he has no idea where I came to a certain conclusion. I have gone to bed angry or giving him the silent treatment, hoping he will notice and apologize but he has never done so because he's completely unaware that he gave me something to be mad about. Recently, we have talked about things because I have said, "When are you going to apologize?" and we hash it all out and I realize I have completely heard something different. I now strive very hard to not jump to conclusions. He does apologize if he's been insensitive and can own up to it, don't get me wrong: it's just that 9 times out of 10 I have perceived that he's being a certain way and he's not. Conversely, I can be really "on" when I am hypomanic and I sometimes "feel" as though I am in a TV show or being watched by others. It's not a complete delusion because I am aware that no one is watching me but I sometimes "give into" that feeling because I enjoy feeling like my wit is being heard and appreciated. Oftentimes, I am fantasizing about singing and dancing for people when I blast a song that evokes that type of feeling. When I was younger, I started to "practice" being social (the way kids practice kissing with a pillow) by talking on the phone with my friends while holding a magazine opened to a picture of some idol I had back then and feeling like they could really see and hear my interactions and could therefore approve of them. However, once the hypomania wore off, it got dark because I felt like I couldn't turn it off and the posters on my wall could then watch me being gross and messy in my room. Feeling judged is a common theme for me and sometimes at work I feel like I am in high school and people will judge me as being stupid or lame. But I am 50!!!! What is this? Am I delusional because I often think my boss is mad at me or perceive others as disapproving of me but later find out that wasn't the case? I sometimes hate going to work or to church because of that constant feeling and having to figure out what is real and what is me overthinking things. Can this be considered psychosis? I don't take meds.
This is me. Got a vasectomy on my 20th birthday and do not participate in any breeding behavior. If you have this... do not make any more of us. It is a shitshow of hell. The best thing we can do is just avoid interactions and sit on the sidelines and contribute whatever good we can manage. Shaman like behavior, but don't drag anyone else into it. Help in the form of therapy / psych meds is essential to maintain that, which i've done without fail for 20 years now. but do NOT let this disease go to another, it is your main duty. To infect your child with it is worse than death.
When you are going to take a bipolar test and you hear this and you know tou scoring a perfect.