Reacting to Schizophrenia Tests
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- Lauren has schizoaffective disorder and in this video, she talks through taking two different online schizophrenia tests. The purpose of this video is to caution against self diagnosing through the internet. But also showing how tools such as these online tests to find out if you may have schizophrenia symptoms can be helpful in terms of highlighting areas of concern to bring up with your doctor.
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the chemical industry for decades has poisoned our populations all over the globe right? and the medical industry owned by the same people is offering the remedies making trillions of dollars, and you have faith in them? you take their education advice and medications?
you look extra bright today Lauren !
My son has FINALLY excepted he has schizophrenia after 3.5 years. He’s 21 and the kindest soul. They have also found the correct medication that he only has to take every 3 months via injection. I have tried numerous times to get him to watch your videos and now he is and he now can see he can live a normal life thanks to you. THNAK YOU 🙏
What medication is that?
I see that you wrote this a year ago. How is your son doing on his medication? Is he still on the same meds?
Our son is having auditory hallucinations and we’re just beginning to explore the possibilities of what may be causing them and where to go from there…
@@bens2718 There’s nothing glamorous about it nor do I seek attention. It’s in fact something we keep quiet about. I came here to understand it. WTF is wrong with you!
Irish Dee Talks. You seem like a nice person. I am so glad that you love your son. I love my family. Maybe I will build my family too.
Oh sh!t, girlie, you look SUUUUUPER cute today! The hair, the top, the lipstick, it's all just *chef's kiss*
Yesssss
ew I don't want a chef kiss me doe
Wow… a lot of these are the same questions for PTSD and/or ASD screening. Just goes to show you how easy it is to get misdiagnosed in either direction.
same. this made me genuinely question myself, and if it werent for the fact that i KNOW i have ptsd and i have a high likelihood that im autistic aswell, i might have accidentally thought i were schizophrenic. obviously i wouldnt say for sure unless i got diagnosed, but itd definitely mess w my head just thinking abt it
Your hair looks adorable, Lauren! I love this length and cut on you.
You’re really courageous doing all these videos. I’m very thankful for this.
LAUREN YOUR HIGHLIGHTS LOOK AMAZING GIRL!
I just want to say thank you!!! I have been suffering from schizophrenia and didn’t know it. Only two weeks ago I was diagnosed with it. I have been binge watching all of your videos and thanks to you and the great people in the comment section I accepted it. It did start around in my late teens but my family dont believe in therapy and told me that the demons were messing with me and would get the prayer and left on my own afterwards. I don’t feel alone anymore and understand that everything I was going through was my mental illness. I have attempted suicide a lot of times and kind of messed up my throat from trying to hang myself but somehow was always stopped. I can’t thank you and the community enough.
Your board game story is so endearing. When I was a kid, I remember clearly that I thought I could either guess the right answer to 50/50 questions OR it was the opposite of everything I was thinking and these periods of time would rotate. 😆😆😆 I do not have schizophrenia and grew out of it, but I liked that you reminded me of that. It's interesting to me that this childhood conviction of my inherent ability to affect outcomes of chance is a symptom of psychosis (in adults). ❤😊
I'm gonna agree with people in the comment section. Lauren, you look fantastic!! And thank you so so much for your courage, power & having a golden heart to create a channel like this.
You are gorgeous!! Found your channel recently and have binge-watched nearly all of your videos. I appreciate you so much - keep educating people on what these illnesses really look and feel like! You are doing amazing work here!
Bless you Lauren. Always appreciate your honest and great videos. ❤️
Love your channel I'm a suffering woman just like you replying to your posts is giving me a voice and you are so informative it's great to inform other people who are interested in understanding more. 😊x ❤
I feel so lucky that I opened RUclips and found a brand new video by you! ❤️
Enjoyed this video! Loved the light hearted approach while stressing how important it is to talk to a professional. 💗
My emotional support people detect me having symptoms before i do. But I'm getting better at catching it.
Lauren, you always look gorgeous, but today, you look stunning! The colour of the background definitely enhances your colours. Your info is always excellent.
Holy heck, you look so beautiful lately. The hair and makeup and outfits lately...wow! And then add in your brain and loving, empathetic personality and you are just the total package. Thank you for all of the super interesting videos lately! The information and production quality are always fantastic.
Great video and you look absolutely glowing today. Hope you and your family are doing well.
I'm really glad you were speaking out against self diagnosing and websites that make it seem as if you are diagnosed with said disorder
We need more candid moments like in this video when you talk to rob! ❤️
You look so beautiful i am jealous lol I have schizoaffective disorder and I can barely even take a shower or smile! Very proud of you hopefully u can one day give us tips on how to
Oh, my gosh! I constantly do that one with screwing words around when I'm talking! I didn't realize that was enough of a thing to be on a symptoms questionnaire. Wrong words will just fall out of my mouth when I wasn't even thinking about that word or thing.
I can relate, it’s debilitating. Almost like i’m not willing to talk to anyone because of it.
This is so interesting. I don't have schizophrenia and always wondered what "word salad" was. I wonder if that's the severe version of what you're talking about? Your explanation makes it so much more understandable, and it's good to know that people aren't speaking in complete gibberish, even if it sometimes sounds like it - that they have an actual thought they're expressing, just with the wrong words. I hope your symptoms improve as much as possible! That must be so frustrating.
You look so full of light today 💜
I love your work. 💖💫💕 Thank you
As a psychiatry resident (doctor-in-training to be a psychiatrist) I find your videos to be excellent resources for understanding the more subtler, less evident symptoms and struggles of people with schizophrenic spectrum conditions. I work primarily in inpatient hospital settings at this time, and the people I treat are in severe conditions and unable to communicate in any clear manner, much less as eloquently as you do.
You should do a video on forensic psychiatrist. That’s how I got diagnosed with schizoaffective.
Another interesting video! Thank you!
I converse within my head (out loud when nobody’s there) like if i was talking to somebody, as if there is an audience of some kind in my mind listening, like the Truman show, but in my head.
Absolutely stunning!
loreon its its nice too see you and hear your advice you have a friendly face and a warm smile that makes me feel good and so do your talks eric rorris minneapolis minneasota
Loving your hair!!! So beautiful. 🖤
Great video, loved it. Thankyou
If someone were to ask me to take that test I would get angry because I would have thought they were judging me because I would be parinoyed
Love this outfit and hairstyle!! So beautiful!
I love being on patreon. we get here so early
You look fantastic, Lauren!
Great video very informative
The hair’s everything 😍😍
Well done!
your blonde hair is looking amazing!
I can relate, to the second test. I have bi-polar 2...thanks
your hair looks amazing
Thanks for the video ..please tell us about the medicine you take
We Can Do Anything we think if we’re thinking it correctly in heart 💜
Hi! Love your channel! Could you do a video on the effects of alcohol while on antipsychotics? If you already have, whoops!
As a child I used to play Risk and Monopoly with my parents. My father would "jinx" my dice with a hand gesture and it always seemed to magically succeed and make me to roll low numbers. Man that pissed me off. hahaha
13:25 the way you look at rob is so sweet
One suggestion, if you’re changing your medication, or you need to monitor your condition, take these tests once a week, or fortnight and compare your results to previous weeks. This will give an indication that any changes to medication have had a positive, or negative impact in your condition
I do these before each therapist and psychiatrist appointments called phq-9s, and I totally agree with you suggestion
I love the red on you (yes off topic haha) 🥰
on the reacts note: There is a movie out called Fear of Rain. It is on Crave is you have it. I JUST started it. It is a horror movie/thriller it seems. Featuring a woman who is described in the notes as suffering from schizophrenia. It seems like it could be triggering.
You look very pretty, The camera can be so cruel I don't even like getting a pic but it is very friendly to you!
Have you discussed comorbidity in the past, such as dyslexia, various learning disabilities?
Please tell me how you overcome the paranoia and fear of being constantly watched and judged and basically captured 24/7 but are able to go on camera...you're one of the first people i've heard diagnosed that shares that same paranoia, but you seem to be functioning really well and you do really well on camera.
Edit: to be honest, even writing that makes me feel uneasy and paranoid...
also, I looked up the tests to take them before you did just to see what results i'd get (I have been diagnosed with Schizoaffective since 2007)
do you take meds?
“That’s 😬 probably something I should bring up in therapy 😬” YUP, I FEEL YOU
I just scored 89 on the last one... Did it before you did and when you said what you got, I had to write this..
This one had a warm boardgame feel to it. Like lets sit down together and see what each gets on these tests! :) [...] ^-^; Take the test! :)
Queria um video como este no canal e encontrei...😊 obrigado
I wanted a video like this on the channel and I found it...😊 thank you
I love your hair!
I literally took that exact test only minutes ago. The second one that is on your screen.
Have you tried a mediation pod? Curious to what your experience is with those.
thankyou
Hi Lauren, love your videos and you look amazing as always. I'm not sure anyone reads these comments but I'll write anyway because watching through all your content, I truly learned to care about you.
As someone who's been diagnosed with bipolar shizoaffective, I've suffered a great deal and let me just say, finding my way out had nothing to do with tests, medication, psychiatrists or hospitalization. And this is not a unique, rare case but happens all the time around the world in places where schizophrenia is treated in a different way.
The Western model isn't the only one and I'm sure deep down in your heart you know being stripped naked, pinned against the floor by four men, locked into a room on your own while you're dealing with a voice in your head telling you to kill yourself, sedated and medicated until you lose all memory, taken all human rights and freedom, electroconvulsive therapy against your will, having to give birth medicated and risking your child gets permanent damage ( and the list goes on) , then being medicated, if necessary ,forcefully until the end of your days, is NOT the only way.
And yet you are very subjective in your videos, truly only tackling the western model, even mentioned partnering with big pharma would be something you'd consider. You have a lot of power now and followers , who trust you and follow you and are thankful but is this help really? The studies you comment on such as "schizophrenia is proven to be found in the brain" that you found from some article are nowhere scientific and there are just as many studies proving the opposite. As a mater of fact, it's a fact schizophrenia can not be found in the brain if you look at the broader picture. Having that influence and influencing in this way is dangerous.
Making a video a video about the history of psychiatry and how one after another treatment became obsolete , whether insulin therapy, or lobotomy, so will prescribing pills most probably become obsolete one day because they are not , as in any other medical field Targeted towards any disease at all but rather are sedatives. Not only no one knows what they do to the brain but also, if they are so "researched " why don't psychiatrists know what to administer , just blatantly try everything out on you and sometimes you end up on seven different medications, the "perfect cocktail". Does that make sense from a rational objective perspective? Is that how things are done in ANY other field of medicine, trial and error?
Or when it comes to your video about an article stating people with untreated mental illness are dangerous and might be responsible for mass shootings, why can't you also pull out the many studies on most of the mass shooters having been ON psychiatric drugs during their acts? It's a fact. And I know from experience that these drugs that no one knows of how they work, can make you into another person. I have experienced it on myself when I was prescribed anti depressants and almost killed myself "accidentally" although not the slightest thought of it ever crossed my mind before. Does this all not matter.. the other side of the story? Is it ok to post one-sided videos, no wonder big pharma is eager to sponsor you in all you do, and surely that would make you rich too. But can you reconcile that with your consciousness?
I'm not someone ranting here because I have nothing better to do and like to criticize , no, the psychiatric system almost cost me my life many times and as much as I love seeing your in your videos, and your spirit and am impressed by your strength I do hope that one day you actually post videos that are open, objective and offering a wide ranger of solutions for everyone , rather than sharing a one sided narrative, big pharma is so in love with.
The truth is we are unique human beings, with our unique struggles that have to be addressed on an individual level and not medicated away just so we "fit into" society and are "normal". When you share about the DSM, Diagnostical Statistical Manual of mental illness, that is used to diagnose us and drug us accordingly, you don't mention it's a slim board of doctors of which around 70% are involved with the pharma industry that make up/ vote for new diseases to be put in that book, a number that has dramatically increased , as well as the psychiatric diagnoses, and we're speaking hundreds and hundreds of percent. All of a sudden 20% of US population is diagnosed with a mental illness and we are so lucky we are Finally treated? At least that is how this channel is presenting most of the information. As this being very positive and the psychiatric system very helpful. Once again, SO many people suffer from it, isn't there a more objective way? What I share here are facts, why not include them in some of your videos and give people hope?
One last thing I'll say is that simply, we ALL have a voice in our head , "normal" people sometimes talk to themselves out loud. Sometimes it leads "normal people " to suicide too. It constantly talks to us which we call the stream of consciousness, incessant thoughts we can't really control. So when it comes to mania, for me , my thoughts would go so fast I couldn't catch up, they had me and I followed and I wasn't myself anymore. I learned through meditation and therapy to watch my thoughts and not get carried away by them. And what about people who hear more than one voice and bothersome ones that make life unlivable, yes medication can help but only Temporarily , you don't need it forever and yet as you shared in your DSM video, once a person had ONE psychosis , they are diagnosed and put on medication for the rest of their lives. Besides the fact that it might have been only one or two episodes, there ARE actually ways to learn and live with these voices or hallucinations as you can read from other schizophrenics in the "hearing voices network" for instance, and in that same way, there are hundreds of other organizations helping people who do MAKE it and some even heal. Why take that hope away? It's not a once in life time case and very rare, no its just that no one ever speaks about it, no one funds it, it's of no ones interest, needless to explain why, what would the pharma industry do, what about the millions they are making. Have you checked what's going on "on the other side" and tried read books from investigative journalists such as Anatomy of an Epidemic, that shows how big pharma tests are done before drugs are released and how unreliable they are. It's all out there, it's all facts.
And I only share this because after a similar story as yours (diagnoses changing from depression, then bipolar then schizoaffective ..) I actually ultimately found a way out and it wasn't through psychiatry, I even found out that instead of treating my problems, they added a lot of problems along with trauma from five hospitalizations where I was treated just like you. It took decades to even be able to speak about what I went through, given all the fear that was instilled and years of work of convincing I can't live without my medication. Did you know that it takes around 2-3 years to get off psychiatric drugs and what you experience when you get off them fast (as most psychiatrist do when they get you off it because they don't know better, since there's been no studies on it), did you know that what you get when you stop them too fast (within a few months), are most of the time withdrawal symptoms and NOT your disease coming back? Because no psychiatrist ever told me . When I stopped lithium and went manic, they told me it's because of my underlying disease I was born with and it had to manifest one day or another? However later on I found out that one always goes manic when stopping lithium too fast because the brain had gotten used to it , and there is no way. Every day these withdrawal symptoms when someone is trying to get off drugs are interpreted as "your disease". That too is a truth.
So getting off medication slowly and on the way actually slowly treating your underlying problems, whatever it was that caused trauma, hearing voices, or pain CAN work and with an understanding psychiatrist, a therapist , supporting family members, very healthy died (full detox), meditation etc. you can often heal. I've seen it happen...please don't take the above truths away and only concentrate on your point of view, with people thanking you for confirming their labels are valid when they are not applicable for everyone and being medicated until ones death with all power taken away and being made dependent, is not the only way . Thank you 🙏
I'm Autistic. So to get diagnosed because I had a suspicioun I took 3 online tests and when all of them pointed to Autism I booked an appointment with a psychologist and got an actual diagnosis.
Self diagnosis is bad. But...
I was referred to my college's counculing psychologist. A 30 year clinician at a world class specialist hospital, I was referred because I just wasn't answering my parents calls, for 3 months (after doing something stupid to myself); wasn't studying at all, and I started falling nearly all my courses...
Told the psychologist that I think, and it might not be true, it might be a schizophrenia prodrome... The psychologist was stunned, and she didn't say a thing for a few seconds, but she didn't say anything more about it...
You look amazing today.
I read minds and haves pulled whole page of words from people’s thoughts and they were shocked
hi! my sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia and stopped taking her medication because she was gaining weight. she is now in a psychotic episode again, which is very sad. do you have any videos about weight gain on medication and how to help her?
This was fun. How can you tell if the conversations you are hearing between people are real or not? I never can and as a result I walk around in my own universe and this can be disastrous. Mostly it's ok.
So I took the tests that you did and I did one about me to age 28 when the major break never to return happened and them took the test as to now -- 30+ years later. My score came down significantly after 30 years. This is through information, learning over again what is real and scientific and what is fantasy. It's like learning how to walk after being paralyzed. I take vitamins not meds. So it had been retraining my brain . Music was the first breakthrough. I could always read the lyrics and music hits a majority of the brain. Add dance and you have a perfect elexer.
But cops are after you (in the early stages) and people do label you so you never know what is real or dross and you can't know.
Motherhood agrees with you. You look beautiful
Can you please explain what "I believe I have powers that others don't have"
💕💕💕✌ brave girl, you look awsome today ⚘🌷🌷
I never seen anyone pull off short hair better than you and now the blonde. Drop dead gorgeous.
are there any nutritional guidelines for people struggling with 'neuro' problems. Do remedies work?
You look fantastic today.....
I had the opposite issue. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but every one of those tests I take say I don't have it.
I have schizo affective disorder bi polar type and I know it's a correct diagnosis. Lately, I've gotten better. I don't understand though how i can be emotionally healthy when my brain is so fd up. I think there might be a schism between thoughts and emotions.
hi, lauren and anyone that can help! today i got prescribed an antipsychotic, but i have ocd. the medicine is for schizophrenia and bipolar though. why do you think i was prescribed that???
I take good meds. Im schizo effective but I've had limited to no symptoms since November 2019. All I have to do is pray and not believe they're people and the low frequency white noise voices goes away. I was really hell bent that they were people. But they're not. And now I can't say that to myself. Just gotta have some faith.
Would medication bias the tests? I'm not saying discontinue medication to take an accurate test! But it seems to me that if medication is working, then it should decrease the number or amplitude of the markers from the test.
Edit: haha, so right after I commented, you addressed the issue.
I believe that anosognosia would prevent most people with schizophrenia to understand they need to take a test or an assessment...
Omg! Look at you! you look gorgeous!
How can I contact you for help with the case of schizophrenia and to ask about the best medication I have taken and seen fast results
All suffering stems from fear. Fear of the unknown in which one might call death to rebirth, but also to the unknown of the ultimate truth of existence. One day you will lose everything. We must find that to be alright and its through meditation we lose this fear.
man i pass these things every time
I went to my psychiatrist yesterday he was thinking that i was missed diagnosed for over 25 years and i have ruinating anxiety instead
I just took the last test, it's says i have no schizophrenia after being diagnosed with it for over 25 years
You look really nice.🤩 Red is your color.
I have problems with thinking people can hear my thoughts. I'm a firm believed this is true, and it made me lose control for most of my life. Especially women have this ability. But people are only a tiny bit aware, usually, a person removed from himself. It could be energy and intuition and body language too. I've seen proof of it countless times, mostly from women, which makes me think it's primarily intuition. Everyone has their own space and no one can be in mine. We are all separate yet somehow connected. It gets easier to deal with after time and practice.
I commented one your “do I have schizophrenia” episodes and I forgot to say one of my delusions were the simulation thing
Red is definitely your color!
I've taken a few of the tests and they told me I don't have it. I think one said low-risk. The doctors are about half and half yes and no.
@@monicasaenz141 that sure takes the confusion out of it.
Hi Lauren, I take Seroquel because it is the only way I can get sleep I have tried other meds and can't sleep on them. I have the negative symptoms really bad though, like lack of motivation, I love your channel, there is no way I could do all that you do. I have no motivation to do anything. Can you suggest a medication that can combat these negative symptoms. Every time I ask my doctor he recommends a new med that doesn't work, I have tried many of them and they do nothing for my negative symptoms they don't help me sleep so I have to go back on Seroquel. I have gained over 100 pounds since being medicated. Do you have any advice for combating weight gain and for lack of motivation. You have done well in these areas so any advice you can give me I would be eternally grateful.
Have you tried aripiprazole or brexpiprazole? They are the best ones for what you describe, make sure you take them in the morning and you may need to start with a slow dose and take something like diazepam or temazepam to help you sleep at night.
@@sharnistevens1428no I haven't tried those. thanks for the info, I will look into those.
I still don´t know if I have schizofrenia.
My voices are complaining that they hear me, my friends and my dog. They are crazy.
Is it rarely in children ❤ I wanna know for my self?
huh i took a few and got high risk on most of them kinda neat
I just Googled some schizophrenia tests. They all said they were for "entertainment purposes." So I guess it's a test that's fun to do. What could be wrong with that?
Cute hair!