I'm diagnosed schizophrenic and I appreciate how the nurse here responded. He didn't act angry or aggravated, didn't laugh or make fun, and most importantly, did not try to tell the patient he was wrong or crazy or try to talk him out of what he was saying. Obviously Stevieo knows this, bit just for everyone who doesn't: it's very important to approach a schizophrenic having a delusion in this way. It keeps voices, hallucinations, anxiety, and paranoia from triggering and making the situation worse. Just be nice and pass it along to someone who can take care of it, like the social worker ❤️
What's sad is the way the nurse is portrayed is how everyone should treat everyone else in the first place. What you're saying sounds like as long as someone is a courteous, nondisrespectful, decent human being (as they should), they won't trigger the confusion & scary symptoms (to the patient- not saying schizophrenia is scary ☺️) of schizophrenia. IMHO, if more people treated complete strangers with respect, civility & courtesy like an actual civilized society would do, on the norm, everyone's individual triggers would be muted, less people would argue about unimportant, petty, mundane squabbles & people as a whole wouldn't be more happy, but they'd certainly be more content & less inclined to commit violent & horrific acts on the daily- one would think 🤔
What changed the way I treat anyone with a psychiatric disorder was learning that schizophrenia is caused by damage to, and damages, the part of the brain that would allow them to tell something is wrong. It made me realize that so many disorders go untreated because the sufferer truly does not know something is even wrong. It also led me to realize I have cyclothymia and that my PTSD has some pretty odd symptoms. I went from 'why don't they just go to a doctor and take their meds? Surely they have to realize something isn't right', to actively trying to not destabilize anyone having delusions. I 'play along', since there is rarely anything more productive I can do for them. And I've never been in a situation where it would not be fine to indulge them. Makes me wonder how many times people have afforded me the same.
@@cajunasian165 I completely agree with you! People just being kind and respectful in general would cut back on a lot of issues and not just with the mentally ill. Now I'm not saying that there will never be a situation with a schizophrenic (or other person) where doing this won't help, but generally speaking, it does help a helluva lot more times than the times it doesn't. People really do need to learn how to just be nice and also to be able to acknowledge when we're wrong and be okay with the fact that sometimes we're wrong. I think that last one is harder. I know it is for me.
I'm a psych nurse. I was once having a casual conversation with a patient who was experiencing psychosis. She suddenly said "oh, while I'm in hospital, can I get the camera that's in my head removed". I paused and replied "well, that's something you can discuss with our GP when you see him tomorrow". Having a good poker face is an essential psych nurse skill. 😄
Sounds like something that would happen my dreams. Somehow getting an object lodged in my skull, somehow being alive and completely ok and just trying to get tk the hospital to have it removed, but things would get in my way and make me late and then the dream would just change to something else
As a student nurse during my rotation in the psych ward, I had this really sweet old lady, who had to be monitored 24/7 due to Mother Mary telling her to kill herself a few times a day. On day, she jumped up, ran away and screamed „I‘m paralysed!“ She was so thankful when I showed her, that if she could wiggle her toes, she was indeed not paralysed. It was kind of funny and sweet, but at the same time so so tragic, it was hurting my soul to see those people suffer from their own minds, not being able to trust their own brain. Being a psych nurse would be way too hard for me, my deepest respect for your profession!
Are you allowed to tell them that you are removing it? Just to please them or try to help? Like the way you might go along with a dementia patient that you can’t reorient
😅serious praise to the ER worker who called social on me, I was able to get housing after three years of being homeless due to delusions 🙏 finally holding down jobs and having pets ❤
Worked in the mental health field for many years. They would say the most amazing things. But when they were really unwell it was terrifying for them and sometimes us as well. I remember one who literally tried to kill me, later when he regained some clarity he was extremely distressed by what he had to do as l was one of his favourite workers. We sat and talked through it. He never went off his medication again.
Can I ask you a question? I met this marmot outside that said I was acting a bit weird, I told him I was just tired, then after that the marmot telepathically invaded my mind and made me play hopscotch. So basically I am asking if it's normal for a marmot to have telepathy? Will wearing an aluminum foil hat help block his telepathy so I don't have to keep playing hopscotch?
This is very accurate, thank you!! Everybody acts different, but often times people with schizophrenia are portrayed as being absolutely crazy, which isn’t always the case! My cousin, for example, can hold a normal conversation and is a very sweet woman, but she also does things such as wearing tin foil because she believes the government is sending alien spies after her. Yes, it’s not something a neurotypical person would likely be saying, but like I said, she can still hold a normal conversation and is the sweetest woman ever!
My sister is a high school teacher. She's okay now, but when she'd have episodes when we were younger, she said the voices were telling her to eat until she killed herself or they would kill her family. She got up to 400 pounds, feeling compelled to eat and eat, and it honestly did almost kill her before she got help. She's slowly losing that weight now. It has never affected her ability to teach, and she's utterly brilliant, having studied in three different countries. She just needs her meds to keep away the voices.
@@rhov-anion I don't think that neurotypical is the right word or group for this. Cause also the other group (neurodi...don't know how to spell it right now, also my mobile phone doesn't know xD) wouldn't say/believe this. This also can come from other conditions as maby brain damage (It sounds you meant something like this).
I’ve heard whispers around me ever since I was a kid, and I’ve seen shadows move, heard/seen doors slam and knocks and things similar. When I got older I began seeing fires that weren’t there, and would call the fire department pretty often over a spreading fire that doesn’t exist, and would also have paranoia that someone is stalking me. So tbh this is actually pretty accurate, especially how nonchalant he said it…because it’s normal to us.
I've got a friend who's like that now because he's done so many drugs. He's convinced people are trying to quietly cut through his ceiling to attack him when he's asleep. 🤦♂️ Don't do drugs, kids.
Did you ever consider that maybe you could be psychic or have the ability to see remnants of your past lives? Personally, I don't know whether or not a person can be psychic. I haven't been convinced either way but that doesn't mean it's not possible. Anything is possible. I only ask because I have a family member with schizophrenia and the doctor told us that schizophrenia does not start in early childhood. So if you started having these issues in early childhood I'm wondering if it's something else that might be happening to you? I was just curious, that's all. Don't feel pressured to reply if you don't want to. 🙂
@@saravalcar4572 mental illness is something that can affect so many areas in someone's life in such horrible ways , I've been practicing witchcraft for 5 years and I believe in ghost and deity and the fae and many more things but what the person said about there experiences is not "psychic abilitys " That is schizophrenia. Don't tell people who are going though those things that it's a magical thing because it is quite the opposite and very scary for those people and they may not get help they need if they do believe that it's something that is metaphysical. Also yes it's possible to have schizophrenia at a young age it's just not common.
@@saravalcar4572 Actually schizofrenia CAN start in early childhood, though it isn't as common. It is more common to start in late teens or early twenties abd mostly before your thirties.
I once got a call, as a paramedic, and when I walked in the guy screamed at me to "get away from me Satan". My partner was my daughter. She turned to the cop by her and said "he's obviously met my mom". The witch.
My best friend suffers with bipolar and also has delusions/hallucinations. One time she went to the GP for help as she was hearing voices telling her to harm herself. They didn't take her seriously, the day after that she jumped in front of the train. By some grace of god she only had a broken pelvis bone and few bruises. Last year she rang me asking if what she thinks is real, as she had terrible delusions. It's absolutely heartbreaking, but having compassion and not demonising the illness is the key in my opinion.
@@JJ-fq2foorrr maybe definitely don’t do this, considering the Bible is full of references to demons and devils and whatnot. A huge percentage of delusions with mental illness already center around religion, particularly Christianity, so maybe let’s not risk just blindly providing people with more fuel?
@@JJ-fq2fo Uh, no. The girl doesn’t need religion. She needs pills. I really hope you’re just trolling and not actually serious. If you are serious, please go read up on mental health and treatment for mental health, because religion could actually make things worse, especially with mental illnesses like bipolar or schizophrenia. Mental health issues are due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, which can be corrected through medication ONLY. Religion really isn’t going to help here. Stop spouting that. That’s not okay and could actually damage someone more. Keep your religion to yourself, please.
My partner is schizophrenic and genuinely schizophrenic ppl can really be very calm about the more intense delusions. I also experience delusions, so it's like "oh yeah the street lights are telling me the end times are coming it's NBD what's for lunch" "oh we're doing sandwiches, since the shadow people STILL WONT PAY RENT-"
as you get older in your schizophrenia it’s easier to tell for some things what’s a delusion and what’s not. although there are days where you’re completely in your illness and you have no idea what’s going on. those days are the worst.
I was having delusions and I knew something was wrong, but not what. I didn't know what a delusion was, exactly. I knew I felt the cat walking across me sometimes, but when I'd look, no cat. So at some point, when I thought I saw the cat walking across the room, I started checking whether it was really the cat (or not). I shrugged it all off because I knew I had an appointment with the doc in about 17 days, and I knew I didn't feel great. Turns out I had some brain cancer which caused the delusions. I just knew that whatever was happening, I wasn't supposed to believe it unless I started checking to see whether it was real. I learned later that's what they termed "delusions". Huh.
Very realistic! Hollywood often portrays schizophrenia patients as acting more like bipolar disorder with psychotic features. In reality, this is a much more accurate portrayal of a schizophrenic psychotic episode.
Maybe in the type of delusion or even the wording. But not in his demeanor and the spontaneous cheerful way he States the entire delusion outright is not typical. And I say that from having been around several hundred people with just this sort of delusion in active psychosis. It's a tough situation but there is no counseling that will make schizophrenia get better or go away. People with schizophrenia are impacted severely as far as life goals and social life and they need and deserve counseling to cope as you would with any major illness or life change but it's medication that can treat the symptoms and restore their thinking to normal and the longer they are ill without medicine or the the more amount of time spent in relapse due to failure to take medication the more unlikely it is that they will return fully to normal thinking and behavior. Things are changing rapidly so if you have someone that's newly diagnosed don't despair. In the next decade more than likely there will be far better treatments and in that person's lifetime they will be a cure so hang in there and treat it as you would being a sudden diabetic or having a treatable chronic disease of any kind. It has absolutely nothing to do with parenting so you can stop blaming yourself for that too.
Yes and most of the serial killers and famous murderers who are diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic are nothing of the kind. They are psychopaths who know what to do to imitate schizophrenia. Because when someone claims to be hearing voices that command them to do something it's the one thing that you flat out cannot prove they're not really experiencing. And if they are experiencing bad they are by definition psychotic even if outside of those bizarre thought they think and behave fairly normally. You don't see it that way but it's impossible for someone to go to court and say yes he is hearing voices telling him he is the involuntary henchman of a Intergalactic warlord who is forcing him to kill people... but he is normal and knows that what he did was wrong. You cannot say you know someone is not hearing voices or afraid of them and feeling compelled to do what they order him to do. So every psycho out there psycho as in psychopath not psychotic pretends to be crazy as a last resort. They go for multiple personality or schizophrenia with command to hallucinations every time because they are the two things that you cannot disprove and therefore can be used as an insanity defense. Kenneth Bianchi did not have multiple personalities for example. He was pure b*******.
When I was a kid my mom dated this guy with schizophrenia, but she didn't know he had it until he went off his meds and told her he saw men coming out of machines to get him. They didn't last long after that because he refused to go back in his meds and she couldn't deal.
I recently went to the ER and while waiting for the Doc, I made friends with a nice man who was there because elves jammed M&Ms in his ears so he couldn’t hear the angels screaming.
My partner has schizophrenia. They're grounded 99% of the time, but every now and then they'll "glitch" and just smoothly accept some delusion as though it was just part of reality. Usually I'll ask if they think the medication is working. Over the years, they've learned to accept this as a polite way of telling them something is wrong. So, they've learned to remain calm and ask what's the "glitch." If it's a visual hallucination, then they'll use their phone's camera and realize nothing's there. If it's a delusion, then we'll compare notes on what I remember and what they remember. As for auditory hallucinations, that's constant, so they've learned to treat it like radio static unless there's a new "voice" or they honestly think you said something. Then, they compare notes. They've learned to treat their schozophrenia as an information fidelity issue. They describe it as the dreaming part of the brain bleeding into the waking part of the brain. It may not be 100% accurate, but it offers an explanation they can understand.
Thank you for your comment. People often think that if a schizophrenic takes meds that magically, they stop being schizophrenic. I'm like your partner. 99% of the time, I'm fine, but every so often (mostly when I'm over tired, extremely stimulated, or very stressed), I have bleed in. Oh, and I don't drink alcohol at all. Not because of my meds, but because it tends to lead to bleed in.
I'm Schizophrenic. My 'come to reality' moment was I decided I needed samples of my skin so I could make little robots to live in my blood so I could live forever. 😅 So I went and asked my ER room to help... I mean, they did, but not with the samples 😂
Fututist would say you were not too far off. But for now biomacanical nanobots are science fiction. But using your own cells might prevent your immune system from attacking them.
I’m schizophrenic and at first I thought I was gonna throw hands at this video, but this is actually accurate. We’re so used to our own delusions that we’re actually really calm, sweet, and matter of fact about it when asked. We’ve already felt the horror.
I’m not schizophrenic, I’m Schizotypal but I’m so used to seeing monsters I’m just like, “yup. Guess I gotta deal with this now. Imma call you Steve. Sup Steve?”
That's my experience with the vast majority of my schizophrenic pts. They're generally very calm and polite, but just not quite 100% present and engaged, for obvious reasons.
I'm so so thankfull for all psycho nurses (who care). I'm from central Europe, we usually unfortunately put people with mental illness(es), when they need help, in mental hospitals. I was hospitalized several times and most of the times nurses were there for us 24/7, observing us, calming down us, feeding us, giving meds to us (and watching us to actually swallow pills) and speaking with us, when we needed. Doctors where there a lot less time. Hospitalization helped me most of the times and I'm so thankful for all the kind nurses, which many off them were able to change they behaving, when you changed and not to remind you, you were unhelpful and silly in beginning. (I gave for some of them presents. In first time chocolaty, in second for one nurse painted wood like goblin or midget in clothes like mine, cause I have dwarfism.) You have to have sensitive heart but nerves from steel!
@@eliseigo490 aaww 🥰 thank you very much 🖤 I love helping n talking to my pts they mean a lot to me. I'm glad u had some great nurses helping you get through it 😊 n oh yes we are very sensitive at heart but do also require nerves of steel to handle everything going on
Don't I've been there. I'm 17, almost 18, going through something, my mind has been killing me but Yoga, nature and returning to my roots - people, places, music etc. is what heals me tremendously, meditation, yoga practices I learned from Sadhguru help me a lot, Grace is there, God is there, hopelessness can turn into tremendous excitement and hope in such a short period of time, wish you the best 🙏🏼🫡❤️@@MailEiei-s5o
I used to work at a care facility that had many schizophrenics- I asked one of the guys how he was doing- he said "I'm a paranoid schizophrenic- how do you think I'm doing?" Poor guy was so self aware.. 😢
@@princessmanitari4993 Lol- it's good to have a sense of humour - but this guy Barry (he's passed now) had no sense of humour at all I'm afraid...his life was agony and full of fear. We tried to cheer him up of course, but he felt death was imminent at all times- so he was terribly serious... 😥😥
@@lordjunebug7707 I found out only last year that he died of an infection - because he hated to shower or be clean, and he developed a skin infection... I blame the horrible uncaring system we have in my country - such a lack of understanding mental health issues ... So he literally died of neglect.. 😥💔
Yeah I worked as a psychiatric counselor and it's kind of surprising how patients can say the wildest things so nonchalant. I asked a patient how they were doing today and they just said "oh I was murdered twice this morning but now I'm reincarnated" like...hmm well glad you're back
Well I guess thats the kindest thing you can say. 😅 Invalidating them just makes them more anxious and distrusting. Besides, we dont actually know, they might be right😅😂. Maybe we are the schizophrenics and they actually see reality. 😅
Please remember, folks, there are people who love these folks and remember what they were/are like in their healthy state of mind. Do what this guy does - be kind, be calm, and call someone who can handle the situation. I hate passing through the ER to take care of my COPDers and hearing the nurses making fun of psych patients. There's dark humor, there's making light of stressful situations... And there's plain old meanness.
Exactly. I work on root causes of disease. I think this particular disease is extremely complex and it is triggered by a combination of factors including emotional trauma where extreme distress occurred, damage to the brain whether that was through a drug or chemical or even medication reaction plus I do believe there are spiritual factors going on that doctors don't understand. It's complex
This is accurate. I’m schizophrenic and it’s so hard not to believe I’m being controlled by the government or something when I have dreams that we are all sims and stuff like that.
If you are really "schizophrenic", please take into consideration that a lot of mental illness is indeed spiritual in nature & real. Call on Jesus Christ for salvation & help with deliverance.
@@ashleypadgett4280 Quit pushing your beliefs on random people, you divine imbecile. Also, I'm not against ALL Christians, but I hate those that believe everything, word for word, in a book that was written by people who thought the world was flat. 🖕
I'm a psychiatric pharmacist. The first time I shadowed a colleague we were talking to a patient about his meds and he suddenly comes out with "No offense, but if I can't go to sing with my church choir this evening then God will smite every last one of us". I was surprised by how politely he said it
What's really crazy is diagnosing someone not by using any test, science or imaging of any kind, but using your subjective opinion when going down a list of symptoms in the DSM. All symptoms and illnesses of course being voted into existence by a small committee, all of whom are paid by drug companies. Then comes the second crazy half when this voted into existence illness, for which no one knows the cause nor can actually demonstrate is treated. All are given drugs which bind to at least two dozen different types of receptor site, at least 6 are permanently inactivated due to permanent binding. This pretty well ceases normal frontal lobe functionality and the patients are mentally disabled often at this point with uncontrollable parkinson like movement from the damage.
I'm a Christian, but even I think that patient is a bit you know. God doesn't kill people just because they can't sing at church because they're in a hospital... that man needs therapy.
My mom had a family friend, right in the prime of his life just into his 2nd or 3rd year in college and he started screaming at the dinner table. No one understood why, but he was seeing a giant spider drop down from the ceiling onto the table and he was terrified. My mom also worked in a state psych hospital and loved a woman who had such a severe episode with voices telling her she had bugs in her eyes. She clawed out her eyes and poured cleaners into the sockets desperately trying to get rid of the bugs that weren’t there. They put her on a new medication and they thought she could honestly go home, she could hold a conversation and seemed normal. Then they realized it was destroying her liver and had to take her off. My mom described how crushing it was to see her finally come out of her delusions and possibly start her life over again to rocking back and forth in a corner as the medicine was weaned off. Knowing a few people with schizo effective type disorders myself, it’s a tragic disease that destroys lives right as they’re supposed to start living it to the fullest.
That sounds demonic. I mean- sure it’s chemicals in the brain, but sometimes I wonder if demons cause that to happen. 1/3 of the angles fell with Satan, that’s a lot.
@@ratking927 I agree. Imagine knowing your mind is playing tricks on you but it’s so real you can’t tell what is real and what is not. Desperate for relief from the hallucinations and voices. It’s heartbreaking. It’s destructive. Instead we paint these people as being villains in our movies instead of victims of mental illness.
We had a guy come into the ER telling us he was a werewolf. Problem was that right after he said that to us he started attacking people and trying to bite everyone. Of course it was the one night that we very strangely had no policeman in the ER with someone they had brought in. So here we are trying to protect other patients, some who are quite sick, and ourselves from this guy while we wait for the cops to show up. The two security guards were useless as they were both half the size of this man. It eventually took 6 cops to get this man to the floor and hold him there while we injected a sedative. No other patients were injured but two of the other nurses got badly bitten and he fractured my wrist which I didn’t realize until after I managed to inject him with the sedative. We regularly get psych patients into the ER who are hallucinating but they are rarely violent. Most often they’re more a danger to themselves. This guy though was definitely noteworthy.
At least you didn't get bitten by the werewolf and turn into a werewolf and I want to know about the nurses who were bitten did they turn into werewolves on the next full moon
I found this quite accurate. One of my family members says it all so casually, it took me a little while to adjust to the fact that because they’ve heard it so many times it’s engraved in them to be the truth, despite it being an auditory hallucination. I can have a completely normal conversation with them, very sweet person with a heart of gold and very intelligent! Just breaks my heart sometimes when their delusions and hallucinations get so overwhelming for them.
@@ashleypadgett4280 🤣🤣🤣 No. While I am a proud Christian... I must say that line of thinking is why people are killed during these 'spiritual exorcisms'. You cannot confuse mental illness for spiritual warfare.
Yeah my uncle got admitted yesterday because God is again telling him that he doesn't deserve food or water. If he does, he's going to hell. It's very upsetting.
I remember when I was treated poorly and given looks like that too at the ER 😊 it was the day I knew I wouldn’t be looked at the same anymore. I don’t hate having schizophrenia because of its symptoms. The worst thing I’ve had to go through is the looks and judgement of people because I have this condition. People suck.
Fictional unproven characters vs proven scientific disorder. Idk I don't think its satan. Besides dude probably wouldn't care about small fry like humans. XD
I really feel bad for the people that go through this. My mother works with schizophrenia patients often and they are truly kind people, they just have a lot going on. It’s interesting to hear about their delusions and what they go through.
They are truly kind people because they are just people suffering from a condition. Conditions don’t define people. I know you’re trying to be empathetic here but you are being quite condescending.
The devil likes to possess kind and gullible and easily manipulated people! So they is no schizophrenia, man made illness for profit and they are trying to deny the truth about what religion says about demons and possession. If you have awareness and can tell the difference between right or wrong, then you are not ill mentally or physically but spiritually and are possessed. Exercisim will help and prayers, not medication.
@@GlazeonthewickeR your right. I know a person with schizophrenia who, (if you were stupid enough to believe him), puts all his behaviour down to his condition.
As a paranoid schizophrenic, this is so true. It's the massive calmness, because we're so used to the delusions, that it just gets to the point where we don't even notice how calm we actually are.
I wish my brother was calm he abt kicked my a** every single night knocking my door down saying god & the devil wanted to rip my soul apart & not even my prayers would help me . He beat me up 2x after he thought I poisoned his food & that I worked for Disney & us 99 radio station with the government cause we were controlling his every moves from the cameras in the sky .. he passed this April due to drinking his voices away but the night prior to this I actually had 1 night with my “ real” brother
@@KareBear710I get it and I’m sorry. I was reading these like wow def not the experience I grew up with my dad was not calm at all about his illness. I feel I have secondary schizophrenia from my worldview being shaped that way and having to go along with things and it is more like what you are talking about. It’s a wild ride for sure
I am so thankful for our local pediatric ER. When your kid is diagnosed with very early onset when she’s 8, that means you are a frequent flyer at the ER, social services is called on you at least once a year, and the police know your kids name. The illness sucks, but it is the trained professionals that end up determining how badly things will spiral. As a parent, the worst feeling in the world is leaving your young child in the pediatric behavioral health (psychiatric) ward. However, it’s those same people who help bring her back to me.
For some reason, people with issues like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, & other mental health challenges, can spot me in a crowd, and make a beeline for me. One guy even ran across a busy highway to meet me. One young woman, who was in the residence hall I managed during grad school, had a clear case of schizophrenia, and I was so glad I was there for her. She hallucinated and heard voices, but there was a part of her consciousness that was aware of her delusions, and that they were not true. It was just hard to ignore the cacophony of voices, to sort them out and realize what they were. We had to get her out of the dorm quickly, because we had some girls, and visiting boyfriends, who would taunt her and make fun of her. This was a private university, with a lot of sorority girls and frat boys, who were often nasty, privileged bullies. Sometimes, you learn things about humanity that you wish you didn’t know.
@rockingrandmaof2 because people are cruel to schizophrenic or otherwise mentally ill people ALL of the time, or at least are judgemental and cannot understand what's happening with the person. You [and I, and everyone] have probably reacted this way to a mentally ill person before. Because unlike being mean to a developmentally disabled person, people are usually comfortable being that way towards schizophrenics [etc] because they seem otherwise totally normal and competent until they start saying weird shit. And it's not always a complete 180, acting normal then suddenly claiming to be posessed. They often slowly develope bizarre ideas and behaviors that don't make sense to others or are even irritating-- and something VERY common is they develope "religious" ideas, and their peers think they've become some crazy born again Christian. And sometimes on top of all that, they can be hostile and disagreeable, and going through a total change of personality. I knew a kid who became schizophrenic in his late teens and got the idea that people who had tattoos were going to hell, and that he had to warn everyone [and this was about 2015]. You can imagine how well that blew over. And THAT is a prime example of how a schizophrenic person can become a massive target for bullying.
Do you know how sometimes you meet somebody and know they’re a good person? Reading this let me know. You are a good person. When I’m in the middle of an episode I’m drawn to people who are calm and kind. It’s like a kind of weird hyper empathy… I just know the people who are OK to go to. Most likely, I’m picking up on body language and eye contact but it feels like a flashlight in the dark. You are a light. That’s why people in crisis are drawn to you. Zen can be a superpower in the right situation.
First paragraph: I know a CRC (Certified Rehab Counsellor) who can go into a locked unit, go stand in a corner, interact with nobody, and within a half hour every single person dx'd with Borderline Personality Disorder will have an episode. I°m like that withepeople who have a very specific type of OCD. I forget the name but it's when everything must be perfectly parallel (180°), a right angles (90°), or (less severe cases) exactly in the middle (45°). If two things are at any other angle to each other, they have an episode. I can go into a locked unit, stand in a corner, have no interaction with patients, and every single one with that specific type of OCD will have an episode. People in the general population who have tendencies of that type (but still WNL) tend to hate me on site. I've no idea how or why this happens. My only clue is a neuro-psych once told me my OCD tendencies are WAY below normal limits.
One time I went to the ER (my first time since moving out at 18, too) for the psychotic episode I was having because I didn't know where else to go. I knew it was happening and I'd explained to the hospital staff that I'd been diagnosed for two years, told them about my medications, etc and even had my grandma and mom on the phone with them since I knew they'd be able to help explain better than I could in the mental state I was in. I can kind of understand the staff not believing me, but it still baffles me that they didn't believe my grandma or mom either. Anyways, they took 5 vials of blood and after being extremely rude to all three of us while waiting for the drug tests to come back, all they did was vaguely apologize for thinking I was high and made me leave since apparently there was "nothing wrong" with me. God I would have loved someone to call a social worker/ other mental health professional, anything for me back then
I'm sorry you had to deal with that. It's incomprehensible. Why would they doubt that someone with a diagnosis and medications was having a psychotic episode? Especially when even lay people know psychotic episodes are part of certain diagnoses? I'm not asking you, just marveling at the stupidity.
@@mrjones2721 I agree. But I think the bigger problem here is, why did they continue to not believe even after they were told by the person’s mom and grandmother the same thing? I mean not apologizing and being rude about it is obviously bad in its own right, but continuing to be in a state of disbelief of a person’s mental condition even when the person themself is stating they have a mental condition, and their family members are backing it up, and the person themself who has the mental condition is the one who got ahold of their family members to back them up, it’s just stupid, not to mention straight up ridiculous. And it makes it even worse, considering I have ADHD and OCD, and this whole situation has happened with me too, and numerous other people that I have met in my life. You’d think someone smart enough to figure out complicated medical procedures and concepts would be able to have a little more common sense than to have this sort of situation happen so often. P.S. Sorry for the possible grammar mishaps here. I’m very tired while dictating this to TH-cam using the voice to text function on my Mom’s iPad. So if you or anyone else reading this doesn’t understand what I’m saying, feel free to ask and I’ll clarify it later.
@@NixieEppler who are you talking to here? I ask as there is no name stated in your comment to identify the person it's directed to and there are two people you could be talking to here.
Yep that's about it. Good job not blaming drugs. The issues I went through for my friend was horrendous. They blamed bad weed. Took her taking a baseball bat to her head to take her seriously. Then there was the time she asked if I was burning in hellfire in front of the security and psych and they sent her on her way. It was so hard getting her in for help and she was talking exactly like that and they would just let her go. So frustrating.
My grandmother was a lifelong paranoid schizophrenic. When I was four, I asked my mom why we weren’t feeding the people in the walls. That was when my mom had to explain that sometimes the things grandma thought and said weren’t real. By the time I was born she was mostly harmless. The upside is that I’m pretty good at dealing with the more interesting people I meet on public transportation. The downside would have to be the immense embarrassment of her arguing (loudly) with Coke machines, ranting (loudly) about what the people just said about her over the grocery store intercom, or screaming in the front yard about what “they” said we said about her. Still loved her with all my heart. And she loved us.
@@grmpEqweer yeah… because that would be crazy(?) Ever talk to an ex-v00doo priest or someone who’s come from the upper echelons of the dark side? They say that the “spririt” world is a lot more real than the physical world. They have some stories that will make your skin crawl. Richard Lorenzo Jr. and John Ramirez can teach us a lot about this stuff. Just putting it out there. No need to get riled up. The best trick in the 😈’s book is getting people to believe that “he” / another realm doesn’t exist. My heart breaks for these people suffering such torment, and I’m not minimizing nor am I saying that mental health disorders are all from the “dark” side. Please do some research before you blast me. Thank you.
I feel like this is also the experience of someone with an undiagnosed illness they've been dealing with for years and still don't have a diagnosis because 'every test came back normal'.
That’s me at the moment 😭 I have just came to the conclusion I’ll just live in pain. Every test, colonoscopy, always comes back okay or just hemorrhoids. I’m thinking maybe a I have celiac disease because my son is allergic to wheat and dairy so maybe I am too and yeah. Idk life’s hard, I wish people were more understanding of that.
@@mckaelyntennison6914 Just get an allergen test. If that doesn't find it compartmentalize your diet and remove alergens until you find the issue. If that doesn't work it's a nerve problem.
@@lilymalcolm6886 an exorcist will first do basically what the ER tech in this video is doing as well. Rule out all possible explainable causes before actually performing an exorcism. There's a lot of sensationalist media around exorcisms but the Church actually has a huge vested interest in not abusing the process or turning it into a spectacle. That being said, exorcisms happen a lot more frequently than people realize because Satan and his minions ARE real and do act in the world.
@@jamestouchette859 Schizophrenia or other conditions that cause psychosis are explainable causes to one person but might not be to another depending on cultural beliefs. I guess what I'm saying is you can have an explainable cause, but still have a patient who has an exorcism. But yeah, your first step is always gonna be a medical work up in a hospital.
@@lilymalcolm6886 I think you underestimate the extent to which the Church will go to explain a condition as naturally caused! It's worth looking into, but your point stands as valid and a healthy dose of skepticism for the uninitiated it 100% appropriate :)
I have a friend who very rapidly began having symptoms in our mid-twenties. Sometimes we'd be chilling, and she'd be like "does your other voice ever get very loud in your head?". I was like " I don't have a second voice, but that sounds annoying, yeah". There was a pause where she remembered not everyone has schizophrenia, and we both laughed. That kind of thing made her decline more palatable for her, for a time. Just laugh it off like you said "you too" to the waiter.
As someone that's 19 and has no family history of mental illnesses (or as far as I know) That's terrifying that you could just get it out of nowhere. One traumatic experience, one head injury and your brains entire wiring is changed. I'm particularly terrified of schizophrenia. I have huge respect and compassion for people that have to be dealing with this awful sick condition. They suffer so much it's heartbreaking. though I never have met any person with one in real life but I learn from the internet. I looked the causes up and it said it was mainly hereditary, interaction between genes and Environment (traumatizing experiences), maternal infections, mother's who've had complications during pregnancy, child birth. And that it's most likely to happen in a human's peak ages in life, like late teens to late twenties and early thirties. That's terrifying and scary. I don't know what should I do to never get it🥲
@@smollilbean Most-most typically, it seems to be up to genetics; my friend has a family history of manic-type mental illness and personality disorders, though I'm unsure of schizophrenia in specific. She started first exhibiting signs in our early teens, but it was difficult to discern at the time if it was simply an overexaggerated form of anxiety or not (her main "tell" is hearing a voice in her head that sounds exactly like her regular head-voice, just sometimes overlapping). It may also be "triggered" by mind-altering drugs such as LSD, so I guess avoid those. All-in-all, though, as scary as schizophrenia is, most people are able to manage it by way of medications and just getting used to the voices/images being there. If you ever start seeing or hearing scary things (which is also more common in Western countries), tell your therapist. It's important to separate the hallucinations from reality as best you can ("oh, yeah, creepy clown people don't exist in real life") and try not to focus on the hallucination, I've found. The creepy clown will still be there, but he won't do anything. Noises can be drowned out by music, too. Hope you don't get it! It's exhausting, more than anything. The scary, violent patients are very rare, and if you get help early, even that won't happen.
can absolutely relate to calling the social worker immediately 😅 but i'm a homeroom teacher and it was my own students i found having an episode of delusions hiding in the trash disposal area of the school. they're twins, and graduating high school this year. it's been a journey. y'all please don't give up!❤
My uncle (mum's brother) has schizophrenia. He hasn't gone to see his own mother let alone any other family in almost 20 years because of it. It's an absolutely heartbreaking mental illness.
My husband is a paranoid schizophrenic and has little contact with his family or much of anyone for that matter. While I love him and care for him it is very frustrating when the same fears constantly pop up. Most of the time I can convince him it is the paranoia, but sometimes he gets mad at me for not believing him no matter how illogical. (His past friends sneaking in our house at night to make him swallow heroin, somehow not waking me for example.)
@@barbtalbott8911I believe my sister is schizophrenic 😔 she has very very similar delusions. She keeps talking about this one night and how all these things happened to her and she was raped by a doctor and everyone in our family was in on it, and it’s not true at all. My other sister was there it was a normal night. When I told her that she said maybe they drugged her too 😢 and she keeps having these “memories” about this night. She doesn’t feel safe going anywhere. She even thinks that pastor at my church is “in on it”. It’s so heartbreaking I just want my sister back and healthy.
I used to suffer from psychosis (depression with psychotic features) and delusions. The best way to explain it is that your sister is dreaming while she’s still awake. She’s suffering, too, and the best thing you can do is support her and try to get her help. Sometimes people are lucky and they recover, but sometimes they don't. Watch out for your sister and take care of her when she can't take care of herself.
Mental illness is growing rampant in the US. However, the government cares more about sending OUR tax dollars to foreign countries. Please explain that to me!?😢
I once brought in a very nice woman who was adamant that the aliens had laid eggs in her head. The doctor was really sympathetic and did a head xray and gave her a physical copy to keep looking at whilst she was sectioned
@@HeroFanNo.1 Procedure of forcibly housing a patient in a location where they can be given care due to lack of self control and/or presenting danger to themselves and others.
My not dad(was very briefly seeing my mum) is very much a paranoid schizophrenic. I'm talking cut the cords off stuff and claim they were running despite it, having full conversations with a porch and a coffee pot, collecting rocks and literal trash from around the neighborhood because they were money, stealing CDs and breaking them because they were listening to him, stole his ex's identity because his repo'd truck had a baby(something like that, forget exactly on that one as it was just too odd), etc. He was a genuinely great guy and his mind basically crapped out from pesticide spraying for decades(developed schizophrenia in his 50s). He dated my mum for like a year and they got engaged but he became more and more erratic and then eventually became dangerous to be around. He was fired for attacking his boss(mum and him worked together), arrested for the identity theft, and was supposed to be put on legally mandated meds as part of his release as well as getting social workers out. The SW would just argue with him and antagonize for laughs, no one even gave him his meds, and he ultimately lost everyone in his life. He became a borderline hermit and ended up getting used by a literal random lady he found one day that he decided was going to be his new daughter So he'd take care of her financially and take her places while barely knowing her name. He cut me out of his life after his son started talking to him again(and eventually the son dumped him all over again) and I haven't gotten to see the only man who actually loved me. He was the closest thing to a father I'd ever have and his illness broke us apart. And it's not on our end he became a hermit. We would try and visit and call for YEARS. It's been almost like 15ish years and we tried for most of that. He's just not interested anymore and has completely imploded into his own mind. I haven't seen him or talked to him in almost a decade(he spoke to my mum about 5 or 6 years ago) ans I still miss him ans cry about him. He was my dad and I love him to this day. He taught me all about cars and motorcycles and took me on trips and was one of the best things to ever happen to me. I'll always miss him and I'm always sorry that his mind broke him. Paranoid schizophrenia can be brutal for everyone. BUT, it does have funny moments. There were times when stuff he'd say was so damn funny we couldn't help but laugh. And yes, a fridge magnet was accused of being possessed by Satan and he and I tried to "exorcise" it by washing it with bleach water and then putting it on and off the fridge like a dozen times. He was not religious and I still laugh about it to this day. This video really brought up some shit for me and figured I'd share if anyone cares to read my long ass novel of a comment. Thank you for reminding me. It's bittersweet but I'm thankful nonetheless.
Thank you so much for your story, your dad sounds like he was fun when he could be. I'd miss a guy like that, too. It's so hard believing 💩 that's not true. I bet he loves you best he can somewhere. It had to be hard to tell us that, thank you again. All the best.
Sounds like my father very similar story, unfortunately I lost him in 2017 and he was doing a little better then. But I've now developed schizophrenia my self when I go into a full on episode I think and feel the most insane stuff but even what u would consider a 'good' day is so difficult to discern between the real and paranoia at least I understand my father better now that's the only plus to this,other then that it's a nightmare and I feel no-one really understands I've also been neglected by those so called care co-ordinators not all of the staff are bad tho.
Happened to me once, I was way deep into a very bad episode and was convinced there was worms living in my muscles so I tried to cut them out. Thankfully my brother was there in the living room when I started doing you know what and wrestled the knife away from me. Spent three month in a ward tho so that wasn’t fun. But at least it’s controllable now and not rawdogging me like it was for the first 5 years I had it.
My mother-in-law cleaned an apartment for a guy who was a schizophrenic. He had been an engineer but had to retire early due to his illness. She told me he complained of hearing wolves howling when he had his fan on. The fan was howling. One day she went out to check on him. She usually cleaned for him every two weeks, but she hadn't heard from him. She called but he didn't answer. She went to check on him and found him dead. He had wrapped his head in rubber bands. He was in his bed.
It was really bad. I gave the cleaner side of the story. Too everyone out there, be greatful for what you have, even if it isn't perfect. Everything is temporary.
Most larger cities in the US actually do have dedicated ER psych facilities and the police/paramedics know to take symptomatic patients there. The problem is that patients like the guy in this video aren't going to understand that's the hospital they need to go to....so they just show up at any old ER or a CVS minute clinic, or whatever...
The appropriate response BTW when someone says something like that is “That sounds like it would be very scary!” Or something to that effect. You can validate how they are feeling without validating that the thing they think is happening is happening
SO TRUE! & it makes them not want to hurt you! It means get away from them FAST. & WITHOUT alerting them that you are alarmed. Just act calm and get away.
@@kaycoats8344 psychotic people aren’t usually dangerous. If someone you care about is having a psychotic episode, you should probably suggest you go to the hospital instead of trying to run away from the person. At least if they don’t seem threatening
I once had a client with very limited hearing who was asked by the psych if he heard voices. He responded, "OMG! YES!!! But I keep telling them I'm DEAF! I explain that with my hearing aid I know they're talking and from their tone I'm pretty sure they're telling me to do something but I can't make out a single word they're saying. I uesd to explain this over and over and they'd act like *I* am the one who didn't understand. I eventually gave up. Now when they start talking I don't even bother responding. I just pretend I don't know they're there."
@@glitchcaptor108okay idk if this is wrong to say, but all I can see is someone standing there, and then suddenly going "You are too in focus sir, I know for a fact you arent real"
I wish there were better understanding of hallucinations and delusions - it shouldn't be socially acceptable to give someone "the look" to their face and try to get out of the interaction if you're a service provider. If the person is in any event consenting to a medical check-up or to treatment, what's the issue? "Wow, that sounds really tough - sorry, can I just get that blood pressure cuff on you? Thanks." As a lawyer, I get schizophrenic clients all the time who want to tell me this and that that's happening and how they're being targeted, but they understand what I'm here for too and they let me make a note about what they've said and then redirect them to the topic I'm there to talk with them about. I just try to imagine how I would feel if e.g. I was sick, and then I also was trying to flee from a powerful, omnipresent organization that wanted to kill me. I would want my doctors and nurses to focus on making me feel safe while providing care, not to look at me like I'm crazy. If you genuinely believe a fear, you're not going to get talked out of it. That doesn't mean you can't appreciate someone caring about you and your well-being.
@@j.h.miretskay3430 I'm a housing lawyer - low income people with mental health issues often end up facing eviction for various reasons (ranging from hoarding, noise complaints, arrears, and any other reason anybody might be evicted). It's also worth noting that many people with mental health conditions also have successful tenancies - I only see the people who don't.
Paranoid schizophrenia runs in my family. My uncle had skin cancer and said nasa had put it there because they wanted to cut off his arm for stealing. I told him nasa didn't care about him anymore. They were losing funding and could barely keep going. He let the Dr check him out. The cancer had spread. The treatment would have been invasive and didn't have a high success rate. He was in a home for the criminally insane for terrorism charges (long story. Michigan has REALLY strict terrorism laws. He was harmless by called and made a threat to the post office). We decided to keep him comfortable until he passed because the thoughts of treatment scared him so much.
To be honest as a social worker I MUCH preferred an honest to God paranoid schizophrenic then someone that was messed up from spice. Seeing as we didn’t have an SA unit on campus (state psych hospital) we were not the place for someone to detox. But someone that was honestly mentally ill, well once they were stable and had resources they might not have another in patient experience for YEARS. Also thank you for recognizing that it is Social Workers that would be called in this situation. A lot of times people assume it’s a psychiatrist and that isn’t true.
Did moonlighting in a Psychiatric facility during IM residency- this is spot on. I was told “I see a devil on your shoulder that is telling me that I should kill you”. I asked if he was going to… fortunately the patient said, “You seem nice, so I will wait to see if I should”.
When the father of my child has his episodes he thinks everybody is after him and everyone is in danger, he will call you 20 times or more in 5 minutes and it will get worse and worse he can't get out of it without medication which he refuses to take everytime and it's a hell hole. Reason why I had to leave him was to protect the baby and he still couldn't pull himself together and take meds or go to therapy in clear moments. I love to laugh about it here - but in reality it's hell.
@@mellie4174 I wish that as well. Because it is just traumatic to witness the change of character a person you deeply love suddenly wents through and how they just randomly start to throw away their lifes. The last time it happened we could barely stop him from leaving the country. He would have died on the streets somewhere overseas or would have been put into jail. It breaks my heart every time it happens.
Its literally impossible for most to pull themselves together because their mind, even when they're calm, is telling them that either everyone is in on it or everyone doesn't know that people are against him/her. Everything you try to do to help, they think either people or demons are controlling us (the loved ones) or we don't realize what we're doing is what people or demons want. I have a family member that is in VERY deep with the illness... It's heartbreaking and horrifying. I wish we had a better system to get them the help they need. They don't have the ability to consent (or not) to treatment themselves when their minds are so wrapped up in the illness that can completely destroy their own lives and the lives of loved ones. Sorry to ramble... Everything just comes out when it comes to this subject 😅
Understood, cost me my marriage of 25 years, I just couldn't do it anymore. He refused to be medicated, even though he knows it helps. We're still friendly enough but his family gets all the hell now instead of me
the most important thing when confronted with delusions like this is to not argue with the person with schizophrenia -- it won't make them believe otherwise and will just in fact reinforce their belief and have you deemed as untrustworthy and working against them i was convinced the people i knew were trying to poison me as a teen and it developed into disordered eating because anyone i told about it said that i was being stupid so i just shut up about it and stopped eating regularly unless i could cook my own food
Going through EMT clinicals worked in the ED and had a patient come in complaining of paranoid delusions. They were completely on the ball that there were paranoid delusions until they described that the delusions were caused by people on the roof of their house installing a satellite beaming the signals into their teeth. It... was frankly horrifying how matter of fact they put it. Few hours later I had to excuse myself out of a patients room to keep from laughing, because the patient hurt themselves falling off the roof. When my trainer asked what was up I told what went through my head "Well, I guess we figured out who was installing the satellites on room Xs house." I was told I'd fit in very well in the emergency medicine world with that sort of humor.
I know a woman who is paranoid schizophrenic and she built a shield made out of tinfoil for her abdomen to "block the radiation" that the CIA is beaming through the walls of her house. She said they built bunkers under her house and they camp down there to complete their work. 👀
my first job working in a nursing home ( it's now been torn down) I was not warned about a woman who was sitting in the middle of her bed with a bundle of towels & small blankets that were jumbled up in her arms while she leaned over it humming. I was making beds on the opposite side of the room from her so I wasn't really paying attention to her. I wasn't given any information on her, she was not my patient. however I drew near to her as I was making beds in her area. then...I had my back to her making the bed right across from her own..and I got a severe cold chill and I swear to all I am....some thing told me to JUMP NOW! and I jumped over that twin bed to the other side. and looked back to see that old woman had buried a pair of SEWING SHEERS into that bed where my back had been standing. I started screaming for help. the woman just covered up herself again. btw..they gave her back those sewing sheers. they were over 8"long bc she didn't hurt me. I walked out. told they to mail me what few hours they owe me. OMG.
Thank you, those of us with schizophrenia are usually NOT violent and dangerous the way we're portrayed. Edit: holy hell this blew up. Everyone calm the F down and be civil please.
@@deeclark9880 I'm sorry your brothers are like that. From your description it sounds like they have more going on than just schizophrenia, though. There are people who get violent/dangerous, but the vast majority of us aren't and it's a dangerous stereotype that gravely harms us.
My brother was a paranoid schizophrenic and I felt very sorry for him but I was scared to death of him. He was a big strong guy and it took 8 guys to get him in a straight jacket. He once pulled a toilet off the wall of a public building. He attacked my mother and bit off part of her ear because he thought she was a vampire. He would of killed her if she didn't manage to get away from him. He tried to steal a fighter plane on a military base in Louisiana. Needless to say my childhood and young adulthood was terrifying. I was so relieved when he died. He had a horrible life, but so did the rest of the family.
@@thatsabunchofbalderdash oh yeah he had lots of medical help but the drugs back then weren't as good as they are now for schizophrenia and he hated how they made him feel
That’s what I love about Chicago med! It focuses on how psychiatry is just as important as physical ailments. I would want a psychiatrist like dr. Charles. It is so hard to find a good one.
Here in Florida there is always a psych doctor in the ERs. There's been a few times those ER psychs have saved my life and have given me more compassion than I've ever felt in my life, too. They know they're someones lifeline and they take it very seriously. I had one crying WITH me and just holding my hands in my room once after I told him what was going on and how exhausting it was.... I could feel him trying to push love from his heart into his hands and into mine. It was very comforting.
@@eisflamme2438that's not even what he meant, lol. It was figure for getting rid of the objects that cause you to do harm to yourself, even if they're important to you.
@@eisflamme2438damn that is NOT the translation I read... I was told Jesus told men to remove their eyes if they couldn't control their urges towards women and how they dressed. Unless there're two eye-removing stories, totally possible 😂
I had an aunt who was schizophrenic and she was one of the sweetest person I’ve ever met. She was the only person to ask me if I liked girls after I told her I didn’t have a boyfriend, and even though I couldn’t answer the question because my mom was around, I felt truly seen.
As someone that experienced three psychotic episodes, I want to say I’m grateful my psychosis isn’t as bad as some of the scary comments I read here. You guys are strong for battling schizophrenia or psychosis every day
I have seen cases where the person's pressure can shoot up and the hospital almost took the person into an operation theatre... But it was merely symptom and the person got normal without operation... I tried to save a priest from an operation telling him not to go with doctors... He did not listen... To his luck after giving him anesthetic, doctor asked if he had had any other meds... The doctors were shocked by the response and called off the operation, he would have died on that table that day... He still never listened to me, he got another appointment and checked in... This was a priest capable of driving spirits and he disobeyed... For what?? Symptoms are given to force one into the hospital and then through others in hospital, it brings death... Have seen it too, in moms case... And testimonials of people in Church... This is why I cannot go to hospitals and use homeopathic meds that is safe without having the need for any equipment or surgeries...
As a person with schizophrenia that was the best move you could do I applaud you for keeping calm and getting a social worker because it's very hard and scary for us
@@Victorina3518 this doctor has knowledge and experience with physical health issues whereas a social worker can reassure the person since they know how to deal with them and are better equipped to deal with someone with a mental illness. thank you for coming to my TED talk
Was working in the ER when my husband popped on by. He normally hates dropping anything off because of the chaos. I asked him what he needed and he said he just wanted to make sure I was ok. I assured him I was and he went home. It was just weird. I was about to call my sister to have her check on him when he came back. He explained that he might be wrong, but he was pretty convinced he was God and that the police were angels. Thank goodness it was a slow night. I called the supervisor and he sat with him until my relief came. My husband is bipolar with psychosis and the doc had tried him on new med. He's back on the old meds. 1st episode in 7 years. Hopefully, the last. I am so grateful my husband was "God." A Satan possession would have freaked me out. Especially as the 1st psych hospital made me come back and get him a few hours later. Apparently, my husband thought he was in Inception and was screaming to get out (I could hear him in the background, they had to have security follow him) and they said that he had a right to leave. I frantically tried to get ahold of any of his docs. Finally I remembered all his old meds would have been ordered for a year so I had them all refilled beforeI drove to get him. I had him take them as previously prescribed the moment we left the hospital. I couldn't get him to go to a different hospital. He absolutely refused. So I hid his keys and wallet. It was an awful 3 days. I had to tell him the tv was "broken" (I unplugged it.) Because it was talking to him and he wanted to hear what it was saying, but every time he'd watch it, he'd stare at me oddly. I asked him if he knew who I was and he said, no. Later he said he couldn't tell if I was good or evil. I think his meds started working a little bit, because I finally got him willing to go to a different hospital 3 days later. This psych unit warned him that he wouldn't be allowed to leave until a doctor had assessed him & he agreed. Thank god. As stressful as that was for me, I at least had experience. I can't imagine how terrifying it is for families who don't. They want us to get them admitted amd don't understand that we can't just take them right away. My husband is normally a gentle giant. I jokingly call him my sloth because he is so laid back & slow. He finds good in every one. While psychotic, he's scary. This happened on a Thursday. Neither his psychiatrist nor his Primery ever called me back. And there was no back up psychiatrist because they were all gone for the week! Our mental health care in this country is a mess.
I’m a stylist and my coworker is a part time hairdresser/nurse. She once told us she had to watch a patient having a psychotic episode and patient made her get really close and said “Jesus doesn’t like your mascara” 😂 I almost peed from laughing. She said “in her defense it did look like shit”
My son always had a great sense of humor. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and his humor is extra funny now. However, this is a debilitating thing to live with. Humor helps😂
This was me during a massive breakdown at university once. I had undiagnosed psychosis that was brought on by intense stress and apparently said shit like this. I don't remember a lot of it, was like I just zoned out and then kinda got "back to normal" a few days later.
@@Dee-cu8yr I have over 5 reports due on the same day, all being pushed back because they were running into each other. I tried to ask to have them staggered since I couldn't do 5 independent studies done AND written up at the same time, unless they wanted to accept my late work. I was told no, and this was about the 3rd or 4th time they had done this to me, and I had other classes to do work for so I eventually kind of just broke away from reality from the stress of it all.
As someone with schizophrenia, can confirm y’all are the weird ones to us when we’re unwell. I still don’t understand how your own brain can do this to you, and I’ve had this illness since childhood.
I had a patient tell me he had neck pain because he fell down the steps. Ordered an x-ray of his cervical spine. “So I lied. I didn’t really fall but you wouldn’t have ordered the x-ray otherwise. My ex girlfriend implanted a camera in my mouth and I want to see if it will show up on the x-ray”
I called up emergency a few months back during a manic episode due to my Bipolar 1 and BPD, wanted to voluntarily baker act myself cause the sane part of me knew I needed help before I did something stupid that I'd regret.. A couple days after I was released and back home, a social worker from that very psych unit I was at drove alllllllll the way over from that side of town just to check up on me. Gave me her number and told me if I ever needed anything to call her and that, if I ever felt that I needed to go back, she'd personally come and pick me up. Blew my mind. She really didn't have to do that but she chose to and she's amazing for that. Social workers and dispatchers really don't get the appreciation they deserve.... And CNAs.
I think of it as language translation. The pt description isn't wrong. One of these days this oxygen addiction is going to kill me, it's so toxic. Turns out it's a very common genetic allergy. Stupid bodies! Lol. I'm always amazed when I find a person who says the normal amount of pain is none. Normal things are very dead.
@@syzygy4365 I think you’re thinking about the wrong people? Registration takes your insurance information. Think of social work as very similar to psychology- at least in terms of the career I have in it. I have a masters degree. So, I am able to do counseling for survivors of domestic violence, trauma, people suffering from mental illness, etc. in my job, when someone comes to the hospital, lets say it’s for a case of domestic violence and they were transferred via ambulance- I go in and speak with the patient, explain the resources they can get once they’re out of the hospital- like counseling, temporary shelters, and set up a plan with them and other workers. In the case of someone suffering from mental illness, I will go in and speak with the patient about what symptoms they are having, and try to determine the problem. Sometimes, patients don’t want to talk, but regardless, I will refer them to a psychologist, psychiatrist, and form an outpatient plan- example- patient is to follow up with counselor after discharge, attend counseling once a week, do an evaluation with a psychiatrist to determine if they need meds or a medication change, etc. of course I would have to approve this plan with anyone else working on their case. social workers are there to organize anything we think could be beneficial to you while inside the hospital, and after discharge. You’re thinking of registration. That’s who takes your insurance information.
Looking back on so many years of being unaware of my diagnosis, along with no proper medication to manage such...this clip makes me thankful for all healthcare workers and other people for having the patience, especially when i was having an episode and not knowing its affect on me and others.
I met a lady with a cool outfit (a floor length hooded coat over a red dress) and she warned me to stay away from men because they’re trying to take away my god powers. Then an old man dared to walk by and she pointed a crooked finger at him saying “I know what you’re trying to do to little girls!” I’ll never forget it
My daughter was a student at a psych for a few weeks for nursing school in college. There was this one lady who was totally nonverbal. Apparently one night the patient started screaming at my daughter that she needed to look out because she was going to get her. My daughter was freaked out. Something she will never forget.
@@jodil1209 I remember a similar incident where this schiz patient freaked out because I told him there was no doc and he couldsee one [he was hallucinating].. he wouldn't stop screaming and yelling - this was a couple days into my job ... I will never fucking forget that.
My mom had an incident in nursing school on a FL sanitarium in the “60s where a guy with only one leg walked down the hall like he had two legs one night. He normally used a crutch. Between that and the eugenics she dropped out of nursing school.
Had to chuckle. As a clinical social worker for 24 years, I specialized in counseling to severe and persistently mentally ill adults and teenagers in a large community mental health center in middle Tennessee. Great people, bad illnesses. Now retired and living in Carson City, NV, I miss "my people." At the end of my career I was a licensed clinical social worker who saw insurance clients ("the worried well") mostly. When I was lucky enough, a truly mentally ill person popped up on my calendar. Such a satisfying feeling to see them and figure out a way to improve their quality of life. I miss them.
The best thing you can do is validate the struggle. It sucks, but there are people there to help and support him. I also know there's a person who shares their experiences over social media. They have taught their dog to greet people. If they order the dog to greet and it looks confused, they know it's a hallucination
@@kas7145 I agree, when he talks about what's happening, I don't try to give advice. I just listen and give him attention. I've seen the video of the man and the dog. Very helpful resource for that guy 👍🏽
It's the beginnings that are so hard....the rare super you kids and those who are just in college and starting life. Such a hard, stigmatizing diagnosis
In some places even the inkling of emotions, like frustration, gets you bared from any care thats not psych for a long while. So I hope whoever this 'patient' was based on, that they got an evaluation of their physical symptoms, along with whatever psych treatment they needed.
When I worked on a psych unit at a hospital, we did medical evaluations several times a day. They were a few times when we moved patients from psych to a medical unit because their medical status was more urgent. I can only speak to my experience but medical needs were most definitely considered in addition to psychiatric needs.
I recently lost my surgeon because he get testy whenever I'd raise my voice with him, so after he yelled at me for taking up too much of his time, I hung up on him. That was too much, I guess. 🙄
While there are a lot of stigma around mental illnesses, I do think it's also important, for me at least, to have a sense of humour about it. Although I do think people need to learn about the mental illness and not have prejudice towards it and assume that all schizophrenics are batshit crazy.
They’re not batsh!t crazy, most of the time. My dad has schizophrenia and as long as he takes his meds he’s a really cool dude. My grandfather had schizophrenia and he didn’t have the proper treatment so he ended up going off his meds. He tried to kill my grandmother during an episode when he thought she was a demon. Then he tried to cleanse himself by drinking bleach and reading the Bible out loud. It was super messed up. Sometimes the guy walking down the street yelling at the sky, punching the air just needs help. That episode isn’t who he is, it’s just a moment where he has an unmet need. He’s responding the only way he can in that situation. It sucks.
@@DiscoChixify I'm really sorry about your dad and grandpa. I know it's a very tough situation and can be very hard to deal with for both the person going through it, but also for the ones around them. I don't know where in the world you live, but if it's in the US, I imagine that it can be hard to get the help they need. I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when I was 17, but I've had the symptoms since my early teenage years. I'm 28 now and luckily I live in Denmark, so treatment is free, but it's been a long hard road to get to where I am now. Although I'm on medication I still experience symptoms like hallucinations everyday. Treatment, therapy and medication, is very important, I just wish everyone had access to it.
@@DiscoChixify hey, do you know there's a high chance that you may or may not have it as well? Not being mean: it's hereditary (genetic). Don't worry; there's a high chance that I may or may not have it because of my father.
Thank you for saying this. I have schizophrenia and I went years without having it diagnosed because I was terrified that people I love would think I was crazy or be afraid of me or that I would lose my kids, and it was honestly horrible for me during that period of time. Medication has changed my life, and as long as I take it, I'm pretty well completely "normal".
My aunt had schizophrenia. She died because she crawled under her house, terrified that someone in her house was trying to kill her. She had food and water hidden under there, but didn't touch it. We assume because she thought it was poisoned. She was never quite right in the head, but it all got so much worse when her husband and both her sons died in a ten year span of time.
I know right? It's so devastating. People are so "get the help you need and be open about it" but the times we are open about it we just get weird looks or weird thibgs said at us and admitted, and the place I was admitted really didn't do dogshit for me but make my experiences even more terrifying
@@sweetascandyxoxo It's fine. My partner has been helping me try and get over the trauma it put me through, they've been a big help. It's always nice to have people there.
@@Raymans_malewife I feel that. Every therapist has been awful. The one time I tried to get inpatient help for depression, it made everything so much worse for me, plus I was treated like a criminal and had to deal with slander after I returned to school. Never again. 😔 I'm just really glad that my current psychologist doesn't belittle me. It sucks to have to be your own lifeline and therapist when your 'you' is broken. But self help books are good too.
As someone whos had stress induced psychosis i was so nervous about how this sketch was gonna go down but thank god it was funny and relatable for both sides of the situation and everyone was calm. Thank you. I was nervous to click.
I had to spend an overnight in a hospital after my hypertension med dosages were "adjusted" following a minor brain bleed "event." When the admissions clerk asked if I'd had any thoughts of suicide, I smartassedly said "Sure!" So they assigned psych med students to sit bedside to make sure I wouldn't try to hurt myself. Three students in a row, lovely young ladies to whom I taught makeup tips after my partner brought me my makeup kit from home. They were all so grateful, and only one ever asked me why I wasn't sleeping. In a hospital, who sleeps? Certainly not the patients! So they sent in a psych DOCTOR whom I had to talk to before they would discharge me. She asked normal questions about suicidal tendencies, and when she heard about the many times I'd been ignored or just plain mistreated or exploited by medical staff incompetence, she said, "That's alot. No wonder you're depressed." Then she asked me which tinted sunscreen I'd recommend for her very fair skin. I got my name put at the end of what I was told was a sixteen-month wait list for an outpatient psych evaluation. It's been 26 months, and I'm still waiting...but my makeup skills are perfected now!
Yeah, my neighbour is a paranoid schizophrenic and the police had a standoff with him using my vehicle as cover after I had to call them because he threatened to kill me for being "in league with the CIA" because I put up new security cameras in broad daylight. Unfortunately, things like this can happen up to 3 times a week. He likes to set his house (owned by his grandfather who also lives there) on fire, too. The fire dept has had to break out the windows 3 times in the last 2 years. We need a better system for dealing with mental health!
I'm a cook in a psychiatric hospital and this is a daily event for us, NBD, just don't acknowledge the delusions, treat them with respect and dignity and get them through that lunch line and let their MHT know about the Convo...easy as pie:)
I'm diagnosed schizophrenic and I appreciate how the nurse here responded. He didn't act angry or aggravated, didn't laugh or make fun, and most importantly, did not try to tell the patient he was wrong or crazy or try to talk him out of what he was saying. Obviously Stevieo knows this, bit just for everyone who doesn't: it's very important to approach a schizophrenic having a delusion in this way. It keeps voices, hallucinations, anxiety, and paranoia from triggering and making the situation worse. Just be nice and pass it along to someone who can take care of it, like the social worker ❤️
What's sad is the way the nurse is portrayed is how everyone should treat everyone else in the first place. What you're saying sounds like as long as someone is a courteous, nondisrespectful, decent human being (as they should), they won't trigger the confusion & scary symptoms (to the patient- not saying schizophrenia is scary ☺️) of schizophrenia. IMHO, if more people treated complete strangers with respect, civility & courtesy like an actual civilized society would do, on the norm, everyone's individual triggers would be muted, less people would argue about unimportant, petty, mundane squabbles & people as a whole wouldn't be more happy, but they'd certainly be more content & less inclined to commit violent & horrific acts on the daily- one would think 🤔
(Scary symptoms to the patient: not meaning it's scary. My apologies on the unclear wording.
What changed the way I treat anyone with a psychiatric disorder was learning that schizophrenia is caused by damage to, and damages, the part of the brain that would allow them to tell something is wrong. It made me realize that so many disorders go untreated because the sufferer truly does not know something is even wrong. It also led me to realize I have cyclothymia and that my PTSD has some pretty odd symptoms.
I went from 'why don't they just go to a doctor and take their meds? Surely they have to realize something isn't right', to actively trying to not destabilize anyone having delusions. I 'play along', since there is rarely anything more productive I can do for them. And I've never been in a situation where it would not be fine to indulge them. Makes me wonder how many times people have afforded me the same.
is the nurse a filipino?
@@cajunasian165 I completely agree with you! People just being kind and respectful in general would cut back on a lot of issues and not just with the mentally ill. Now I'm not saying that there will never be a situation with a schizophrenic (or other person) where doing this won't help, but generally speaking, it does help a helluva lot more times than the times it doesn't. People really do need to learn how to just be nice and also to be able to acknowledge when we're wrong and be okay with the fact that sometimes we're wrong. I think that last one is harder. I know it is for me.
I'm a psych nurse. I was once having a casual conversation with a patient who was experiencing psychosis. She suddenly said "oh, while I'm in hospital, can I get the camera that's in my head removed". I paused and replied "well, that's something you can discuss with our GP when you see him tomorrow". Having a good poker face is an essential psych nurse skill. 😄
Sounds like something that would happen my dreams. Somehow getting an object lodged in my skull, somehow being alive and completely ok and just trying to get tk the hospital to have it removed, but things would get in my way and make me late and then the dream would just change to something else
As a student nurse during my rotation in the psych ward, I had this really sweet old lady, who had to be monitored 24/7 due to Mother Mary telling her to kill herself a few times a day. On day, she jumped up, ran away and screamed „I‘m paralysed!“
She was so thankful when I showed her, that if she could wiggle her toes, she was indeed not paralysed.
It was kind of funny and sweet, but at the same time so so tragic, it was hurting my soul to see those people suffer from their own minds, not being able to trust their own brain.
Being a psych nurse would be way too hard for me, my deepest respect for your profession!
@@danagibbs3265 something on your mind you get no time to take care of?
@@Amira_Phoenix Nope, just normal dreams
Are you allowed to tell them that you are removing it? Just to please them or try to help? Like the way you might go along with a dementia patient that you can’t reorient
😅serious praise to the ER worker who called social on me, I was able to get housing after three years of being homeless due to delusions 🙏 finally holding down jobs and having pets ❤
So happy for you!!!
That’s wonderful. I’m so happy for you.
Congratulations! You're a very strong person, and you deserve all the happiness! 💕
That's awesome! I'm proud of you!
Heck yeah! Happy for you!! 😁👍
Worked in the mental health field for many years. They would say the most amazing things. But when they were really unwell it was terrifying for them and sometimes us as well. I remember one who literally tried to kill me, later when he regained some clarity he was extremely distressed by what he had to do as l was one of his favourite workers. We sat and talked through it. He never went off his medication again.
Need help sir
Schizophrenia gets misdiagnosed all time. Really requires deep introspection and responses to tests and such.
@@run6182 please tell and help
Can I ask you a question? I met this marmot outside that said I was acting a bit weird, I told him I was just tired, then after that the marmot telepathically invaded my mind and made me play hopscotch. So basically I am asking if it's normal for a marmot to have telepathy? Will wearing an aluminum foil hat help block his telepathy so I don't have to keep playing hopscotch?
@@LisaAnn777Is this comment so people laugh with you, or at you?
This is very accurate, thank you!! Everybody acts different, but often times people with schizophrenia are portrayed as being absolutely crazy, which isn’t always the case! My cousin, for example, can hold a normal conversation and is a very sweet woman, but she also does things such as wearing tin foil because she believes the government is sending alien spies after her. Yes, it’s not something a neurotypical person would likely be saying, but like I said, she can still hold a normal conversation and is the sweetest woman ever!
My sister is a high school teacher. She's okay now, but when she'd have episodes when we were younger, she said the voices were telling her to eat until she killed herself or they would kill her family. She got up to 400 pounds, feeling compelled to eat and eat, and it honestly did almost kill her before she got help. She's slowly losing that weight now. It has never affected her ability to teach, and she's utterly brilliant, having studied in three different countries. She just needs her meds to keep away the voices.
Phone number???
I believe you, my BIL does the same thing but he refuse to get the help he needs.
honestly, if the tinfoil hat enables her to participate in society normally because it makes her feel safe, then it's a good coping mechanism
@@rhov-anion I don't think that neurotypical is the right word or group for this. Cause also the other group (neurodi...don't know how to spell it right now, also my mobile phone doesn't know xD) wouldn't say/believe this.
This also can come from other conditions as maby brain damage (It sounds you meant something like this).
I’ve heard whispers around me ever since I was a kid, and I’ve seen shadows move, heard/seen doors slam and knocks and things similar. When I got older I began seeing fires that weren’t there, and would call the fire department pretty often over a spreading fire that doesn’t exist, and would also have paranoia that someone is stalking me. So tbh this is actually pretty accurate, especially how nonchalant he said it…because it’s normal to us.
I've got a friend who's like that now because he's done so many drugs. He's convinced people are trying to quietly cut through his ceiling to attack him when he's asleep. 🤦♂️ Don't do drugs, kids.
Did you ever consider that maybe you could be psychic or have the ability to see remnants of your past lives? Personally, I don't know whether or not a person can be psychic. I haven't been convinced either way but that doesn't mean it's not possible. Anything is possible. I only ask because I have a family member with schizophrenia and the doctor told us that schizophrenia does not start in early childhood. So if you started having these issues in early childhood I'm wondering if it's something else that might be happening to you? I was just curious, that's all. Don't feel pressured to reply if you don't want to. 🙂
@@saravalcar4572 mental illness is something that can affect so many areas in someone's life in such horrible ways , I've been practicing witchcraft for 5 years and I believe in ghost and deity and the fae and many more things but what the person said about there experiences is not "psychic abilitys "
That is schizophrenia. Don't tell people who are going though those things that it's a magical thing because it is quite the opposite and very scary for those people and they may not get help they need if they do believe that it's something that is metaphysical.
Also yes it's possible to have schizophrenia at a young age it's just not common.
@@saravalcar4572 Actually schizofrenia CAN start in early childhood, though it isn't as common. It is more common to start in late teens or early twenties abd mostly before your thirties.
@@saravalcar4572 dude. Schizophrenia is an actual problem, not fancy magic land past life shit. Wtf.
I once got a call, as a paramedic, and when I walked in the guy screamed at me to "get away from me Satan". My partner was my daughter. She turned to the cop by her and said "he's obviously met my mom". The witch.
Hahaha
"Haha, go to your room."
XD
Gotta find the humor 🤣
So that clearly states that you and your dad ain't got not chance to win against Ur mom😂😂😂
My best friend suffers with bipolar and also has delusions/hallucinations. One time she went to the GP for help as she was hearing voices telling her to harm herself. They didn't take her seriously, the day after that she jumped in front of the train. By some grace of god she only had a broken pelvis bone and few bruises. Last year she rang me asking if what she thinks is real, as she had terrible delusions. It's absolutely heartbreaking, but having compassion and not demonising the illness is the key in my opinion.
@@JJ-fq2foorrr maybe definitely don’t do this, considering the Bible is full of references to demons and devils and whatnot. A huge percentage of delusions with mental illness already center around religion, particularly Christianity, so maybe let’s not risk just blindly providing people with more fuel?
@@JJ-fq2fo Uh, no. The girl doesn’t need religion. She needs pills. I really hope you’re just trolling and not actually serious. If you are serious, please go read up on mental health and treatment for mental health, because religion could actually make things worse, especially with mental illnesses like bipolar or schizophrenia. Mental health issues are due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, which can be corrected through medication ONLY. Religion really isn’t going to help here. Stop spouting that. That’s not okay and could actually damage someone more. Keep your religion to yourself, please.
@@JJ-fq2foJesus fucking hell no.
@@JJ-fq2foabsolutely not. 99 percent of schizophrenics are religious. Look it up. Religion is NOT the answer.
JESUS CHRIST is the only deliver healer and way truth and life for all@@SpringerA1984
My partner is schizophrenic and genuinely schizophrenic ppl can really be very calm about the more intense delusions. I also experience delusions, so it's like "oh yeah the street lights are telling me the end times are coming it's NBD what's for lunch" "oh we're doing sandwiches, since the shadow people STILL WONT PAY RENT-"
Damn them shadow people not paying rent! What do they think this is, a lawless land? They could at LEAST give you a dollar or something
Or some shadow bucks to get thing from the shadow merchant gosh!!
as you get older in your schizophrenia it’s easier to tell for some things what’s a delusion and what’s not. although there are days where you’re completely in your illness and you have no idea what’s going on. those days are the worst.
Shadow ppl are the worst tenants
I was having delusions and I knew something was wrong, but not what. I didn't know what a delusion was, exactly. I knew I felt the cat walking across me sometimes, but when I'd look, no cat. So at some point, when I thought I saw the cat walking across the room, I started checking whether it was really the cat (or not). I shrugged it all off because I knew I had an appointment with the doc in about 17 days, and I knew I didn't feel great. Turns out I had some brain cancer which caused the delusions. I just knew that whatever was happening, I wasn't supposed to believe it unless I started checking to see whether it was real. I learned later that's what they termed "delusions". Huh.
Very realistic! Hollywood often portrays schizophrenia patients as acting more like bipolar disorder with psychotic features. In reality, this is a much more accurate portrayal of a schizophrenic psychotic episode.
LOLOLOL RIDICULOUS
Maybe in the type of delusion or even the wording. But not in his demeanor and the spontaneous cheerful way he States the entire delusion outright is not typical. And I say that from having been around several hundred people with just this sort of delusion in active psychosis. It's a tough situation but there is no counseling that will make schizophrenia get better or go away. People with schizophrenia are impacted severely as far as life goals and social life and they need and deserve counseling to cope as you would with any major illness or life change but it's medication that can treat the symptoms and restore their thinking to normal and the longer they are ill without medicine or the the more amount of time spent in relapse due to failure to take medication the more unlikely it is that they will return fully to normal thinking and behavior. Things are changing rapidly so if you have someone that's newly diagnosed don't despair. In the next decade more than likely there will be far better treatments and in that person's lifetime they will be a cure so hang in there and treat it as you would being a sudden diabetic or having a treatable chronic disease of any kind. It has absolutely nothing to do with parenting so you can stop blaming yourself for that too.
Yes and most of the serial killers and famous murderers who are diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic are nothing of the kind. They are psychopaths who know what to do to imitate schizophrenia. Because when someone claims to be hearing voices that command them to do something it's the one thing that you flat out cannot prove they're not really experiencing. And if they are experiencing bad they are by definition psychotic even if outside of those bizarre thought they think and behave fairly normally. You don't see it that way but it's impossible for someone to go to court and say yes he is hearing voices telling him he is the involuntary henchman of a Intergalactic warlord who is forcing him to kill people... but he is normal and knows that what he did was wrong. You cannot say you know someone is not hearing voices or afraid of them and feeling compelled to do what they order him to do. So every psycho out there psycho as in psychopath not psychotic pretends to be crazy as a last resort. They go for multiple personality or schizophrenia with command to hallucinations every time because they are the two things that you cannot disprove and therefore can be used as an insanity defense. Kenneth Bianchi did not have multiple personalities for example. He was pure b*******.
And neither did Billy what's his face the serial rapist
When I was a kid my mom dated this guy with schizophrenia, but she didn't know he had it until he went off his meds and told her he saw men coming out of machines to get him. They didn't last long after that because he refused to go back in his meds and she couldn't deal.
I recently went to the ER and while waiting for the Doc, I made friends with a nice man who was there because elves jammed M&Ms in his ears so he couldn’t hear the angels screaming.
He sounds lovely.
Nice 💖
Can I be friends with him?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂♥️!!
Don't we all feel like that sometimes
My partner has schizophrenia. They're grounded 99% of the time, but every now and then they'll "glitch" and just smoothly accept some delusion as though it was just part of reality. Usually I'll ask if they think the medication is working. Over the years, they've learned to accept this as a polite way of telling them something is wrong.
So, they've learned to remain calm and ask what's the "glitch." If it's a visual hallucination, then they'll use their phone's camera and realize nothing's there. If it's a delusion, then we'll compare notes on what I remember and what they remember. As for auditory hallucinations, that's constant, so they've learned to treat it like radio static unless there's a new "voice" or they honestly think you said something. Then, they compare notes.
They've learned to treat their schozophrenia as an information fidelity issue. They describe it as the dreaming part of the brain bleeding into the waking part of the brain. It may not be 100% accurate, but it offers an explanation they can understand.
Thank you for this comment. This was an excellent way to explain it in a way others can grasp.
Thank you for your comment. People often think that if a schizophrenic takes meds that magically, they stop being schizophrenic. I'm like your partner. 99% of the time, I'm fine, but every so often (mostly when I'm over tired, extremely stimulated, or very stressed), I have bleed in. Oh, and I don't drink alcohol at all. Not because of my meds, but because it tends to lead to bleed in.
Wow
@@wolfy7592Just wow.
@@sophiedash4026 just wow
I'm Schizophrenic. My 'come to reality' moment was I decided I needed samples of my skin so I could make little robots to live in my blood so I could live forever. 😅 So I went and asked my ER room to help... I mean, they did, but not with the samples 😂
Glad they were able to help you out!
That would make a pretty good sci-fi movie!
I'm so glad you were able to get the help you needed. 🪻
Hope you're doing well. Mental illness is a bitch
Fututist would say you were not too far off. But for now biomacanical nanobots are science fiction. But using your own cells might prevent your immune system from attacking them.
I’m schizophrenic and at first I thought I was gonna throw hands at this video, but this is actually accurate. We’re so used to our own delusions that we’re actually really calm, sweet, and matter of fact about it when asked. We’ve already felt the horror.
I’m sorry you’re dealing with that. It sounds like such a terrible disease. Thank you for talking about it.
I’m not schizophrenic, I’m Schizotypal but I’m so used to seeing monsters I’m just like, “yup. Guess I gotta deal with this now. Imma call you Steve. Sup Steve?”
I'm sorry that you have to deal with this disease. I can't imagine what a struggle that must be.
I can’t imagine what you’ve gone thru
Wish there was a cure, instead of just medication
That's my experience with the vast majority of my schizophrenic pts. They're generally very calm and polite, but just not quite 100% present and engaged, for obvious reasons.
Me as a psych nurse: "Tht must be very concerning would you please tell me more about that?"
I'm so so thankfull for all psycho nurses (who care). I'm from central Europe, we usually unfortunately put people with mental illness(es), when they need help, in mental hospitals. I was hospitalized several times and most of the times nurses were there for us 24/7, observing us, calming down us, feeding us, giving meds to us (and watching us to actually swallow pills) and speaking with us, when we needed. Doctors where there a lot less time. Hospitalization helped me most of the times and I'm so thankful for all the kind nurses, which many off them were able to change they behaving, when you changed and not to remind you, you were unhelpful and silly in beginning. (I gave for some of them presents. In first time chocolaty, in second for one nurse painted wood like goblin or midget in clothes like mine, cause I have dwarfism.)
You have to have sensitive heart but nerves from steel!
@@eliseigo490 aaww 🥰 thank you very much 🖤 I love helping n talking to my pts they mean a lot to me. I'm glad u had some great nurses helping you get through it 😊 n oh yes we are very sensitive at heart but do also require nerves of steel to handle everything going on
@@eliseigo490 psycho nurses lol
@@eliseigo490 In THE USA we just house them in prisons
@@bomcstoots1 cool, help please how?
I can’t imagine the absolute stress it must be to have a brain you can’t trust.
Yeah it's pretty stressful. My life is pretty much over. I just wanted to give up
Don't I've been there. I'm 17, almost 18, going through something, my mind has been killing me but Yoga, nature and returning to my roots - people, places, music etc. is what heals me tremendously, meditation, yoga practices I learned from Sadhguru help me a lot, Grace is there, God is there, hopelessness can turn into tremendous excitement and hope in such a short period of time, wish you the best 🙏🏼🫡❤️@@MailEiei-s5o
@@MailEiei-s5o I'm schizo and I gave up on myself. Sometimes, it feels like I would be better off dead.
It’s the cruelest. 😢
@@Pennypacker0602 I've been there. Sadhguru, his Yoga practices and exposure to nature saved me ☺️🙏🏼
"Alright, we got a chapel upstairs"
Religion doesn't cure mental illness 🙄
So they can push him out the window?
No, many of them are believers of God so talking with the chaplain is helpful to the social worker and the patient.
9 times out of 10 someone who thinks there possessed are really just mentally ill
You deserve way more likes than what you have 😂
I used to work at a care facility that had many schizophrenics- I asked one of the guys how he was doing- he said "I'm a paranoid schizophrenic- how do you think I'm doing?" Poor guy was so self aware.. 😢
It's our humor! (I say that as someone with ocd)
@@princessmanitari4993
Lol- it's good to have a sense of humour - but this guy Barry (he's passed now) had no sense of humour at all I'm afraid...his life was agony and full of fear. We tried to cheer him up of course, but he felt death was imminent at all times- so he was terribly serious... 😥😥
That’s pretty rare where I work. Most paranoid schizophrenics never get out of their delusions and can’t except that they are Ill
@@C-Herethe way he was paranoid he would go out did he pass away that way? Just wondering i know someone who might be a paranoid schizophrenic
@@lordjunebug7707
I found out only last year that he died of an infection - because he hated to shower or be clean, and he developed a skin infection... I blame the horrible uncaring system we have in my country - such a lack of understanding mental health issues ... So he literally died of neglect.. 😥💔
Yeah I worked as a psychiatric counselor and it's kind of surprising how patients can say the wildest things so nonchalant. I asked a patient how they were doing today and they just said "oh I was murdered twice this morning but now I'm reincarnated" like...hmm well glad you're back
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Well I guess thats the kindest thing you can say. 😅 Invalidating them just makes them more anxious and distrusting. Besides, we dont actually know, they might be right😅😂. Maybe we are the schizophrenics and they actually see reality. 😅
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is this cotards delusion
Totally good response 😅
Please remember, folks, there are people who love these folks and remember what they were/are like in their healthy state of mind. Do what this guy does - be kind, be calm, and call someone who can handle the situation. I hate passing through the ER to take care of my COPDers and hearing the nurses making fun of psych patients. There's dark humor, there's making light of stressful situations... And there's plain old meanness.
Exactly, they wouldn't be that way if it was their choice.
Exactly. I work on root causes of disease. I think this particular disease is extremely complex and it is triggered by a combination of factors including emotional trauma where extreme distress occurred, damage to the brain whether that was through a drug or chemical or even medication reaction plus I do believe there are spiritual factors going on that doctors don't understand. It's complex
@@shellbellhealingagreed 100%
What is COPD?
This is accurate. I’m schizophrenic and it’s so hard not to believe I’m being controlled by the government or something when I have dreams that we are all sims and stuff like that.
@Hu Anus bro.💀
If you are really "schizophrenic", please take into consideration that a lot of mental illness is indeed spiritual in nature & real. Call on Jesus Christ for salvation & help with deliverance.
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Quit pushing your beliefs on random people, you divine imbecile.
Also, I'm not against ALL Christians, but I hate those that believe everything, word for word, in a book that was written by people who thought the world was flat. 🖕
@@ashleypadgett4280 Jesus gave us medicine for a reason. Prayer alone ain't gonna cure someone.
It sucks
We have a woman in brazil with those problems and its really bad
She even called a kid a sexual abuser for touching her
I'm a psychiatric pharmacist. The first time I shadowed a colleague we were talking to a patient about his meds and he suddenly comes out with "No offense, but if I can't go to sing with my church choir this evening then God will smite every last one of us". I was surprised by how politely he said it
Religion is a great source for paranoia, for sure. I say this out of personal experience.
What's really crazy is diagnosing someone not by using any test, science or imaging of any kind, but using your subjective opinion when going down a list of symptoms in the DSM. All symptoms and illnesses of course being voted into existence by a small committee, all of whom are paid by drug companies.
Then comes the second crazy half when this voted into existence illness, for which no one knows the cause nor can actually demonstrate is treated. All are given drugs which bind to at least two dozen different types of receptor site, at least 6 are permanently inactivated due to permanent binding. This pretty well ceases normal frontal lobe functionality and the patients are mentally disabled often at this point with uncontrollable parkinson like movement from the damage.
I'm a Christian, but even I think that patient is a bit you know. God doesn't kill people just because they can't sing at church because they're in a hospital... that man needs therapy.
@@YuBeaceYep, my worst delusions and hallucinations were about religion. I grew up as a religious person so it makes sense, and I still am
Pre or post covid? Cuz im thinkin dude shoulda been allowed to sing... Js.
My mom had a family friend, right in the prime of his life just into his 2nd or 3rd year in college and he started screaming at the dinner table. No one understood why, but he was seeing a giant spider drop down from the ceiling onto the table and he was terrified. My mom also worked in a state psych hospital and loved a woman who had such a severe episode with voices telling her she had bugs in her eyes. She clawed out her eyes and poured cleaners into the sockets desperately trying to get rid of the bugs that weren’t there. They put her on a new medication and they thought she could honestly go home, she could hold a conversation and seemed normal. Then they realized it was destroying her liver and had to take her off. My mom described how crushing it was to see her finally come out of her delusions and possibly start her life over again to rocking back and forth in a corner as the medicine was weaned off. Knowing a few people with schizo effective type disorders myself, it’s a tragic disease that destroys lives right as they’re supposed to start living it to the fullest.
oh my god that is terrible :(
That sounds demonic. I mean- sure it’s chemicals in the brain, but sometimes I wonder if demons cause that to happen. 1/3 of the angles fell with Satan, that’s a lot.
@@ratking927 I agree. Imagine knowing your mind is playing tricks on you but it’s so real you can’t tell what is real and what is not. Desperate for relief from the hallucinations and voices. It’s heartbreaking. It’s destructive. Instead we paint these people as being villains in our movies instead of victims of mental illness.
Was it Lithium?
I was warned of the same thing when I was put on it...
My 17 year old son just got diagnosed with this with this 🤦♀️ saddest thing is literally soul crushing to watch n can’t really help
We had a guy come into the ER telling us he was a werewolf. Problem was that right after he said that to us he started attacking people and trying to bite everyone. Of course it was the one night that we very strangely had no policeman in the ER with someone they had brought in. So here we are trying to protect other patients, some who are quite sick, and ourselves from this guy while we wait for the cops to show up. The two security guards were useless as they were both half the size of this man. It eventually took 6 cops to get this man to the floor and hold him there while we injected a sedative. No other patients were injured but two of the other nurses got badly bitten and he fractured my wrist which I didn’t realize until after I managed to inject him with the sedative. We regularly get psych patients into the ER who are hallucinating but they are rarely violent. Most often they’re more a danger to themselves. This guy though was definitely noteworthy.
That guy might of been one if he was that hard to restrain
At least you didn't get bitten by the werewolf and turn into a werewolf and I want to know about the nurses who were bitten did they turn into werewolves on the next full moon
Most often - if they are violent, there are drugs or alcohol involved (usually mixed - most often meth or cocaine).
I found this quite accurate. One of my family members says it all so casually, it took me a little while to adjust to the fact that because they’ve heard it so many times it’s engraved in them to be the truth, despite it being an auditory hallucination.
I can have a completely normal conversation with them, very sweet person with a heart of gold and very intelligent! Just breaks my heart sometimes when their delusions and hallucinations get so overwhelming for them.
It's not mental illness, but spiritual warfare. They should call on Jesus Christ for salvation & deliverance.
@@ashleypadgett4280 🤣🤣🤣 No.
While I am a proud Christian... I must say that line of thinking is why people are killed during these 'spiritual exorcisms'. You cannot confuse mental illness for spiritual warfare.
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Hahahahahahaha!!!
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@@joinrevolution You would laugh until it's happening to you.
As an EMT these are always a white knuckle ride when they say the voices want them to kill you, too
That is nightmare fuel. Thank you for being an EMT! You guys are truly heros. ❤
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Well... shit... I appreciate the hell out of you for dealing with that and so much more
Try being in the psych hospital and having your roomie tell you they (the voices) want to kill you. Terrifying.
@@courtneyolson8028 I had a similar experience. One of the scariest nights of my life.
Yeah my uncle got admitted yesterday because God is again telling him that he doesn't deserve food or water. If he does, he's going to hell.
It's very upsetting.
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Aw, I'm sorry to hear that sweetie 😔
I hope he gets the help he needs. That's an awful and dangerous type of episode there.
I am very sorry to hear this. I hope his episode passes sooner than later.
imagine how upsetting it must be for god to be ignored like that
I remember when I was treated poorly and given looks like that too at the ER 😊 it was the day I knew I wouldn’t be looked at the same anymore. I don’t hate having schizophrenia because of its symptoms. The worst thing I’ve had to go through is the looks and judgement of people because I have this condition. People suck.
How are you doing now?
Well in his defense you can't prove he isn't possessed 😂
Satan has better things to do than harass one unimportant person.
@@spicybeantofu fantastic proof
Fictional unproven characters vs proven scientific disorder.
Idk I don't think its satan. Besides dude probably wouldn't care about small fry like humans. XD
@@spicybeantofu Satan can go harass trump
Apparently a blessed crucifix produces a dramatic effect on individuals who are possessed.
I really feel bad for the people that go through this. My mother works with schizophrenia patients often and they are truly kind people, they just have a lot going on. It’s interesting to hear about their delusions and what they go through.
Thank you 🙂
They are truly kind people because they are just people suffering from a condition. Conditions don’t define people. I know you’re trying to be empathetic here but you are being quite condescending.
The devil likes to possess kind and gullible and easily manipulated people! So they is no schizophrenia, man made illness for profit and they are trying to deny the truth about what religion says about demons and possession. If you have awareness and can tell the difference between right or wrong, then you are not ill mentally or physically but spiritually and are possessed. Exercisim will help and prayers, not medication.
@@GlazeonthewickeR your right. I know a person with schizophrenia who, (if you were stupid enough to believe him), puts all his behaviour down to his condition.
As a paranoid schizophrenic, this is so true. It's the massive calmness, because we're so used to the delusions, that it just gets to the point where we don't even notice how calm we actually are.
I wish my brother was calm he abt kicked my a** every single night knocking my door down saying god & the devil wanted to rip my soul apart & not even my prayers would help me . He beat me up 2x after he thought I poisoned his food & that I worked for Disney & us 99 radio station with the government cause we were controlling his every moves from the cameras in the sky .. he passed this April due to drinking his voices away but the night prior to this I actually had 1 night with my “ real” brother
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@@KareBear710 that's so fucked up sorry you went through that
@@KareBear710I get it and I’m sorry. I was reading these like wow def not the experience I grew up with my dad was not calm at all about his illness. I feel I have secondary schizophrenia from my worldview being shaped that way and having to go along with things and it is more like what you are talking about. It’s a wild ride for sure
I am so thankful for our local pediatric ER. When your kid is diagnosed with very early onset when she’s 8, that means you are a frequent flyer at the ER, social services is called on you at least once a year, and the police know your kids name. The illness sucks, but it is the trained professionals that end up determining how badly things will spiral. As a parent, the worst feeling in the world is leaving your young child in the pediatric behavioral health (psychiatric) ward. However, it’s those same people who help bring her back to me.
I'm a schizophrenic but I still died laughing at this. The facial expressions. I CAN'T
I don't feel bad anymore. Thank you. 😂
For some reason, people with issues like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, & other mental health challenges, can spot me in a crowd, and make a beeline for me. One guy even ran across a busy highway to meet me.
One young woman, who was in the residence hall I managed during grad school, had a clear case of schizophrenia, and I was so glad I was there for her. She hallucinated and heard voices, but there was a part of her consciousness that was aware of her delusions, and that they were not true. It was just hard to ignore the cacophony of voices, to sort them out and realize what they were. We had to get her out of the dorm quickly, because we had some girls, and visiting boyfriends, who would taunt her and make fun of her. This was a private university, with a lot of sorority girls and frat boys, who were often nasty, privileged bullies. Sometimes, you learn things about humanity that you wish you didn’t know.
Why would anyone want to make fun of her?
@rockingrandmaof2 because people are cruel to schizophrenic or otherwise mentally ill people ALL of the time, or at least are judgemental and cannot understand what's happening with the person. You [and I, and everyone] have probably reacted this way to a mentally ill person before.
Because unlike being mean to a developmentally disabled person, people are usually comfortable being that way towards schizophrenics [etc] because they seem otherwise totally normal and competent until they start saying weird shit. And it's not always a complete 180, acting normal then suddenly claiming to be posessed. They often slowly develope bizarre ideas and behaviors that don't make sense to others or are even irritating-- and something VERY common is they develope "religious" ideas, and their peers think they've become some crazy born again Christian. And sometimes on top of all that, they can be hostile and disagreeable, and going through a total change of personality.
I knew a kid who became schizophrenic in his late teens and got the idea that people who had tattoos were going to hell, and that he had to warn everyone [and this was about 2015]. You can imagine how well that blew over.
And THAT is a prime example of how a schizophrenic person can become a massive target for bullying.
Do you know how sometimes you meet somebody and know they’re a good person? Reading this let me know. You are a good person. When I’m in the middle of an episode I’m drawn to people who are calm and kind. It’s like a kind of weird hyper empathy… I just know the people who are OK to go to. Most likely, I’m picking up on body language and eye contact but it feels like a flashlight in the dark.
You are a light. That’s why people in crisis are drawn to you. Zen can be a superpower in the right situation.
First paragraph: I know a CRC (Certified Rehab Counsellor) who can go into a locked unit, go stand in a corner, interact with nobody, and within a half hour every single person dx'd with Borderline Personality Disorder will have an episode.
I°m like that withepeople who have a very specific type of OCD. I forget the name but it's when everything must be perfectly parallel (180°), a right angles (90°), or (less severe cases) exactly in the middle (45°). If two things are at any other angle to each other, they have an episode. I can go into a locked unit, stand in a corner, have no interaction with patients, and every single one with that specific type of OCD will have an episode. People in the general population who have tendencies of that type (but still WNL) tend to hate me on site. I've no idea how or why this happens. My only clue is a neuro-psych once told me my OCD tendencies are WAY below normal limits.
@Beth Moore I wonder if you’re an INFJ?
One time I went to the ER (my first time since moving out at 18, too) for the psychotic episode I was having because I didn't know where else to go. I knew it was happening and I'd explained to the hospital staff that I'd been diagnosed for two years, told them about my medications, etc and even had my grandma and mom on the phone with them since I knew they'd be able to help explain better than I could in the mental state I was in.
I can kind of understand the staff not believing me, but it still baffles me that they didn't believe my grandma or mom either.
Anyways, they took 5 vials of blood and after being extremely rude to all three of us while waiting for the drug tests to come back, all they did was vaguely apologize for thinking I was high and made me leave since apparently there was "nothing wrong" with me.
God I would have loved someone to call a social worker/ other mental health professional, anything for me back then
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I'm sorry you had to deal with that. It's incomprehensible. Why would they doubt that someone with a diagnosis and medications was having a psychotic episode? Especially when even lay people know psychotic episodes are part of certain diagnoses? I'm not asking you, just marveling at the stupidity.
@@mrjones2721 I agree. But I think the bigger problem here is, why did they continue to not believe even after they were told by the person’s mom and grandmother the same thing? I mean not apologizing and being rude about it is obviously bad in its own right, but continuing to be in a state of disbelief of a person’s mental condition even when the person themself is stating they have a mental condition, and their family members are backing it up, and the person themself who has the mental condition is the one who got ahold of their family members to back them up, it’s just stupid, not to mention straight up ridiculous. And it makes it even worse, considering I have ADHD and OCD, and this whole situation has happened with me too, and numerous other people that I have met in my life. You’d think someone smart enough to figure out complicated medical procedures and concepts would be able to have a little more common sense than to have this sort of situation happen so often. P.S. Sorry for the possible grammar mishaps here. I’m very tired while dictating this to TH-cam using the voice to text function on my Mom’s iPad. So if you or anyone else reading this doesn’t understand what I’m saying, feel free to ask and I’ll clarify it later.
You did the right thing in your situation. I’m sorry they failed you. I hope you’re doing well now
@@NixieEppler who are you talking to here? I ask as there is no name stated in your comment to identify the person it's directed to and there are two people you could be talking to here.
Yep that's about it. Good job not blaming drugs. The issues I went through for my friend was horrendous. They blamed bad weed. Took her taking a baseball bat to her head to take her seriously. Then there was the time she asked if I was burning in hellfire in front of the security and psych and they sent her on her way. It was so hard getting her in for help and she was talking exactly like that and they would just let her go. So frustrating.
My grandmother was a lifelong paranoid schizophrenic. When I was four, I asked my mom why we weren’t feeding the people in the walls. That was when my mom had to explain that sometimes the things grandma thought and said weren’t real. By the time I was born she was mostly harmless.
The upside is that I’m pretty good at dealing with the more interesting people I meet on public transportation. The downside would have to be the immense embarrassment of her arguing (loudly) with Coke machines, ranting (loudly) about what the people just said about her over the grocery store intercom, or screaming in the front yard about what “they” said we said about her.
Still loved her with all my heart. And she loved us.
Plot twist: it is actually Satan, but Satan has an allergy to antipsychotics.
Antipsychotics just dope the brain up.
Dope the brain *down*
@@OldtowndoodlesI'd rather take a pill than think Satan was possessing me.
@@grmpEqweer yeah… because that would be crazy(?) Ever talk to an ex-v00doo priest or someone who’s come from the upper echelons of the dark side? They say that the “spririt” world is a lot more real than the physical world. They have some stories that will make your skin crawl. Richard Lorenzo Jr. and John Ramirez can teach us a lot about this stuff. Just putting it out there. No need to get riled up. The best trick in the 😈’s book is getting people to believe that “he” / another realm doesn’t exist. My heart breaks for these people suffering such torment, and I’m not minimizing nor am I saying that mental health disorders are all from the “dark” side. Please do some research before you blast me. Thank you.
I feel like this is also the experience of someone with an undiagnosed illness they've been dealing with for years and still don't have a diagnosis because 'every test came back normal'.
That’s me at the moment 😭 I have just came to the conclusion I’ll just live in pain. Every test, colonoscopy, always comes back okay or just hemorrhoids. I’m thinking maybe a I have celiac disease because my son is allergic to wheat and dairy so maybe I am too and yeah. Idk life’s hard, I wish people were more understanding of that.
i'm in this description and i don't like it
@@mckaelyntennison6914 Just get an allergen test. If that doesn't find it compartmentalize your diet and remove alergens until you find the issue. If that doesn't work it's a nerve problem.
@@explosiverift2037 my issuance doesn’t approve it 🙃
In that situation when it isn’t a physical illness, 99.9999999% of the time it’s just Munchausen.
He’s in the right place. Massive thank you to ERs everywhere for helping everyone out :)
"Hmm, not sure if we've ever done an exorcism here before, but lemme see if the hospital chaplin can whip something up."
I mean when culturally appropriate, safe, etc. and at patient request that is actually an option.
@@lilymalcolm6886 an exorcist will first do basically what the ER tech in this video is doing as well. Rule out all possible explainable causes before actually performing an exorcism. There's a lot of sensationalist media around exorcisms but the Church actually has a huge vested interest in not abusing the process or turning it into a spectacle.
That being said, exorcisms happen a lot more frequently than people realize because Satan and his minions ARE real and do act in the world.
@@jamestouchette859 Schizophrenia or other conditions that cause psychosis are explainable causes to one person but might not be to another depending on cultural beliefs. I guess what I'm saying is you can have an explainable cause, but still have a patient who has an exorcism. But yeah, your first step is always gonna be a medical work up in a hospital.
@@lilymalcolm6886 I think you underestimate the extent to which the Church will go to explain a condition as naturally caused! It's worth looking into, but your point stands as valid and a healthy dose of skepticism for the uninitiated it 100% appropriate :)
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I have a friend who very rapidly began having symptoms in our mid-twenties. Sometimes we'd be chilling, and she'd be like "does your other voice ever get very loud in your head?". I was like " I don't have a second voice, but that sounds annoying, yeah". There was a pause where she remembered not everyone has schizophrenia, and we both laughed. That kind of thing made her decline more palatable for her, for a time. Just laugh it off like you said "you too" to the waiter.
As someone that's 19 and has no family history of mental illnesses (or as far as I know) That's terrifying that you could just get it out of nowhere. One traumatic experience, one head injury and your brains entire wiring is changed. I'm particularly terrified of schizophrenia.
I have huge respect and compassion for people that have to be dealing with this awful sick condition. They suffer so much it's heartbreaking. though I never have met any person with one in real life but I learn from the internet.
I looked the causes up and it said it was mainly hereditary, interaction between genes and Environment (traumatizing experiences), maternal infections, mother's who've had complications during pregnancy, child birth. And that it's most likely to happen in a human's peak ages in life, like late teens to late twenties and early thirties. That's terrifying and scary. I don't know what should I do to never get it🥲
@@smollilbean Most-most typically, it seems to be up to genetics; my friend has a family history of manic-type mental illness and personality disorders, though I'm unsure of schizophrenia in specific. She started first exhibiting signs in our early teens, but it was difficult to discern at the time if it was simply an overexaggerated form of anxiety or not (her main "tell" is hearing a voice in her head that sounds exactly like her regular head-voice, just sometimes overlapping).
It may also be "triggered" by mind-altering drugs such as LSD, so I guess avoid those. All-in-all, though, as scary as schizophrenia is, most people are able to manage it by way of medications and just getting used to the voices/images being there.
If you ever start seeing or hearing scary things (which is also more common in Western countries), tell your therapist. It's important to separate the hallucinations from reality as best you can ("oh, yeah, creepy clown people don't exist in real life") and try not to focus on the hallucination, I've found. The creepy clown will still be there, but he won't do anything. Noises can be drowned out by music, too.
Hope you don't get it! It's exhausting, more than anything. The scary, violent patients are very rare, and if you get help early, even that won't happen.
I have OCD, and this is how it’s been since learning how to separate “my” thoughts from “intrusive” thoughts
Amen to that
Not OCD, but generalized anxiety and depression. We'll get through this.
@@AmazingAutist we will indeed 💕
Are you saying that like the guy in the hat is like the intrusive thoughts?
@@DearReaderReadAloud yes
can absolutely relate to calling the social worker immediately 😅 but i'm a homeroom teacher and it was my own students i found having an episode of delusions hiding in the trash disposal area of the school. they're twins, and graduating high school this year. it's been a journey. y'all please don't give up!❤
My uncle (mum's brother) has schizophrenia. He hasn't gone to see his own mother let alone any other family in almost 20 years because of it. It's an absolutely heartbreaking mental illness.
My husband is a paranoid schizophrenic and has little contact with his family or much of anyone for that matter. While I love him and care for him it is very frustrating when the same fears constantly pop up. Most of the time I can convince him it is the paranoia, but sometimes he gets mad at me for not believing him no matter how illogical. (His past friends sneaking in our house at night to make him swallow heroin, somehow not waking me for example.)
@@barbtalbott8911I believe my sister is schizophrenic 😔 she has very very similar delusions. She keeps talking about this one night and how all these things happened to her and she was raped by a doctor and everyone in our family was in on it, and it’s not true at all. My other sister was there it was a normal night. When I told her that she said maybe they drugged her too 😢 and she keeps having these “memories” about this night. She doesn’t feel safe going anywhere. She even thinks that pastor at my church is “in on it”. It’s so heartbreaking I just want my sister back and healthy.
I used to suffer from psychosis (depression with psychotic
features) and delusions. The best way to explain it is that your sister is dreaming while she’s still awake. She’s suffering, too, and the best thing you can do is support her and try to get her help. Sometimes people are lucky and they recover, but sometimes they don't. Watch out for your sister and take care of her when she can't take care of herself.
Mental illness is growing rampant in the US. However, the government cares more about sending OUR tax dollars to foreign countries. Please explain that to me!?😢
I once brought in a very nice woman who was adamant that the aliens had laid eggs in her head. The doctor was really sympathetic and did a head xray and gave her a physical copy to keep looking at whilst she was sectioned
🥺💓 what a good doctor tbh
What do you mean by “sectioned”?
@@HeroFanNo.1 Procedure of forcibly housing a patient in a location where they can be given care due to lack of self control and/or presenting danger to themselves and others.
@@JM-kx7dhridiculous that you can be detained for just believing aliens are in your head
My not dad(was very briefly seeing my mum) is very much a paranoid schizophrenic. I'm talking cut the cords off stuff and claim they were running despite it, having full conversations with a porch and a coffee pot, collecting rocks and literal trash from around the neighborhood because they were money, stealing CDs and breaking them because they were listening to him, stole his ex's identity because his repo'd truck had a baby(something like that, forget exactly on that one as it was just too odd), etc. He was a genuinely great guy and his mind basically crapped out from pesticide spraying for decades(developed schizophrenia in his 50s). He dated my mum for like a year and they got engaged but he became more and more erratic and then eventually became dangerous to be around. He was fired for attacking his boss(mum and him worked together), arrested for the identity theft, and was supposed to be put on legally mandated meds as part of his release as well as getting social workers out. The SW would just argue with him and antagonize for laughs, no one even gave him his meds, and he ultimately lost everyone in his life. He became a borderline hermit and ended up getting used by a literal random lady he found one day that he decided was going to be his new daughter
So he'd take care of her financially and take her places while barely knowing her name. He cut me out of his life after his son started talking to him again(and eventually the son dumped him all over again) and I haven't gotten to see the only man who actually loved me. He was the closest thing to a father I'd ever have and his illness broke us apart. And it's not on our end he became a hermit. We would try and visit and call for YEARS. It's been almost like 15ish years and we tried for most of that. He's just not interested anymore and has completely imploded into his own mind. I haven't seen him or talked to him in almost a decade(he spoke to my mum about 5 or 6 years ago) ans I still miss him ans cry about him. He was my dad and I love him to this day. He taught me all about cars and motorcycles and took me on trips and was one of the best things to ever happen to me. I'll always miss him and I'm always sorry that his mind broke him. Paranoid schizophrenia can be brutal for everyone.
BUT, it does have funny moments. There were times when stuff he'd say was so damn funny we couldn't help but laugh. And yes, a fridge magnet was accused of being possessed by Satan and he and I tried to "exorcise" it by washing it with bleach water and then putting it on and off the fridge like a dozen times. He was not religious and I still laugh about it to this day. This video really brought up some shit for me and figured I'd share if anyone cares to read my long ass novel of a comment. Thank you for reminding me. It's bittersweet but I'm thankful nonetheless.
well wishes to you... this was heartbreaking to read... I hope the good memories bring you comfort :)
I read every word. Thank you for sharing your beautiful history with us.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I've never experienced anything to do with schizophrenia, your comment made this video for me. 🕊️💜
Thank you so much for your story, your dad sounds like he was fun when he could be. I'd miss a guy like that, too. It's so hard believing 💩 that's not true. I bet he loves you best he can somewhere. It had to be hard to tell us that, thank you again. All the best.
Sounds like my father very similar story, unfortunately I lost him in 2017 and he was doing a little better then. But I've now developed schizophrenia my self when I go into a full on episode I think and feel the most insane stuff but even what u would consider a 'good' day is so difficult to discern between the real and paranoia at least I understand my father better now that's the only plus to this,other then that it's a nightmare and I feel no-one really understands I've also been neglected by those so called care co-ordinators not all of the staff are bad tho.
Happened to me once, I was way deep into a very bad episode and was convinced there was worms living in my muscles so I tried to cut them out. Thankfully my brother was there in the living room when I started doing you know what and wrestled the knife away from me. Spent three month in a ward tho so that wasn’t fun. But at least it’s controllable now and not rawdogging me like it was for the first 5 years I had it.
"not rawdogging me"
Oh my gosh that's a hilarious but damn, that really gets your point across
My mother-in-law cleaned an apartment for a guy who was a schizophrenic. He had been an engineer but had to retire early due to his illness. She told me he complained of hearing wolves howling when he had his fan on. The fan was howling. One day she went out to check on him. She usually cleaned for him every two weeks, but she hadn't heard from him. She called but he didn't answer. She went to check on him and found him dead. He had wrapped his head in rubber bands. He was in his bed.
Oh my gosh that’s so tragic. Poor guy. I can’t even imagine. Also your poor mil having to see what happened to him. 😞
It was really bad. I gave the cleaner side of the story. Too everyone out there, be greatful for what you have, even if it isn't perfect. Everything is temporary.
I'm so sorry 😪
I'm so sorry 😪
How many rubber bands did it take? asking for a friend...
We need dedicated mental health ER hospitals.
Most larger cities in the US actually do have dedicated ER psych facilities and the police/paramedics know to take symptomatic patients there.
The problem is that patients like the guy in this video aren't going to understand that's the hospital they need to go to....so they just show up at any old ER or a CVS minute clinic, or whatever...
Canada has one called CAMH
That's just more space and resources to abuse patients, most of them places are horrible.
We had them. They were underfunded snakepits of rape and assault. I think it's a good idea to have them, but they need to be funded and certified.
Nightmare fuel.
The appropriate response BTW when someone says something like that is “That sounds like it would be very scary!” Or something to that effect. You can validate how they are feeling without validating that the thing they think is happening is happening
SO TRUE! & it makes them not want to hurt you! It means get away from them FAST. & WITHOUT alerting them that you are alarmed. Just act calm and get away.
You said “would be” like you know it’s bullshit. Just say okay.
Thank you for this.
@@kaycoats8344 psychotic people aren’t usually dangerous. If someone you care about is having a psychotic episode, you should probably suggest you go to the hospital instead of trying to run away from the person. At least if they don’t seem threatening
@Kay Coats I just love it when people stigmatize mental health conditions and think everyone who isn’t okay is somehow very dangerous!
I was once told by someone on that spectrum:
"I am hearing voices. And they do not like you."
I once had a client with very limited hearing who was asked by the psych if he heard voices. He responded, "OMG! YES!!! But I keep telling them I'm DEAF! I explain that with my hearing aid I know they're talking and from their tone I'm pretty sure they're telling me to do something but I can't make out a single word they're saying. I uesd to explain this over and over and they'd act like *I* am the one who didn't understand. I eventually gave up. Now when they start talking I don't even bother responding. I just pretend I don't know they're there."
im mostly blind and- oh my god yeah ive used this logic before. like sir ur very in focus and thats sus af....for being across the room pfffht
That's not funny, at all.
@@gianfranco_maldetto_92 Nobody said it is?
@@glitchcaptor108okay idk if this is wrong to say, but all I can see is someone standing there, and then suddenly going "You are too in focus sir, I know for a fact you arent real"
That is simultaneously brilliant and terrifying. The human mind is absolutely amazing in what it can generate.
They suffer so much. It's heartbreaking
I wish there were better understanding of hallucinations and delusions - it shouldn't be socially acceptable to give someone "the look" to their face and try to get out of the interaction if you're a service provider. If the person is in any event consenting to a medical check-up or to treatment, what's the issue? "Wow, that sounds really tough - sorry, can I just get that blood pressure cuff on you? Thanks." As a lawyer, I get schizophrenic clients all the time who want to tell me this and that that's happening and how they're being targeted, but they understand what I'm here for too and they let me make a note about what they've said and then redirect them to the topic I'm there to talk with them about.
I just try to imagine how I would feel if e.g. I was sick, and then I also was trying to flee from a powerful, omnipresent organization that wanted to kill me. I would want my doctors and nurses to focus on making me feel safe while providing care, not to look at me like I'm crazy. If you genuinely believe a fear, you're not going to get talked out of it. That doesn't mean you can't appreciate someone caring about you and your well-being.
Mental hygiene legal services?
@@j.h.miretskay3430 I'm a housing lawyer - low income people with mental health issues often end up facing eviction for various reasons (ranging from hoarding, noise complaints, arrears, and any other reason anybody might be evicted). It's also worth noting that many people with mental health conditions also have successful tenancies - I only see the people who don't.
I’m really glad you said that. Someone important to me has this condition and I know they are treated as less-than frequently. Thank you very much.
Yell ppl; never laugh or make weird faces! Just go with it! 20 years in and that’s what works!
Paranoid schizophrenia runs in my family. My uncle had skin cancer and said nasa had put it there because they wanted to cut off his arm for stealing. I told him nasa didn't care about him anymore. They were losing funding and could barely keep going.
He let the Dr check him out. The cancer had spread. The treatment would have been invasive and didn't have a high success rate. He was in a home for the criminally insane for terrorism charges (long story. Michigan has REALLY strict terrorism laws. He was harmless by called and made a threat to the post office).
We decided to keep him comfortable until he passed because the thoughts of treatment scared him so much.
To be honest as a social worker I MUCH preferred an honest to God paranoid schizophrenic then someone that was messed up from spice. Seeing as we didn’t have an SA unit on campus (state psych hospital) we were not the place for someone to detox. But someone that was honestly mentally ill, well once they were stable and had resources they might not have another in patient experience for YEARS. Also thank you for recognizing that it is Social Workers that would be called in this situation. A lot of times people assume it’s a psychiatrist and that isn’t true.
What is an SA unit?
Did moonlighting in a Psychiatric facility during IM residency- this is spot on. I was told “I see a devil on your shoulder that is telling me that I should kill you”. I asked if he was going to… fortunately the patient said, “You seem nice, so I will wait to see if I should”.
I've always been interested in pt.s who hear voices telling them to do thing but make up their own minds whether to pay attention or not.
Oh, that's reassuring 😳
When the father of my child has his episodes he thinks everybody is after him and everyone is in danger, he will call you 20 times or more in 5 minutes and it will get worse and worse he can't get out of it without medication which he refuses to take everytime and it's a hell hole. Reason why I had to leave him was to protect the baby and he still couldn't pull himself together and take meds or go to therapy in clear moments. I love to laugh about it here - but in reality it's hell.
Yes it is and it destroys everyone's lives. I wish we had better treatment for it
@@mellie4174 I wish that as well. Because it is just traumatic to witness the change of character a person you deeply love suddenly wents through and how they just randomly start to throw away their lifes. The last time it happened we could barely stop him from leaving the country. He would have died on the streets somewhere overseas or would have been put into jail. It breaks my heart every time it happens.
Its literally impossible for most to pull themselves together because their mind, even when they're calm, is telling them that either everyone is in on it or everyone doesn't know that people are against him/her. Everything you try to do to help, they think either people or demons are controlling us (the loved ones) or we don't realize what we're doing is what people or demons want.
I have a family member that is in VERY deep with the illness... It's heartbreaking and horrifying. I wish we had a better system to get them the help they need. They don't have the ability to consent (or not) to treatment themselves when their minds are so wrapped up in the illness that can completely destroy their own lives and the lives of loved ones.
Sorry to ramble... Everything just comes out when it comes to this subject 😅
@@shroomtastic4875 100% someone pulling themselves out of it is not realistic. It's very sad. 💕
Understood, cost me my marriage of 25 years, I just couldn't do it anymore. He refused to be medicated, even though he knows it helps. We're still friendly enough but his family gets all the hell now instead of me
the most important thing when confronted with delusions like this is to not argue with the person with schizophrenia -- it won't make them believe otherwise and will just in fact reinforce their belief and have you deemed as untrustworthy and working against them
i was convinced the people i knew were trying to poison me as a teen and it developed into disordered eating because anyone i told about it said that i was being stupid so i just shut up about it and stopped eating regularly unless i could cook my own food
Going through EMT clinicals worked in the ED and had a patient come in complaining of paranoid delusions. They were completely on the ball that there were paranoid delusions until they described that the delusions were caused by people on the roof of their house installing a satellite beaming the signals into their teeth. It... was frankly horrifying how matter of fact they put it.
Few hours later I had to excuse myself out of a patients room to keep from laughing, because the patient hurt themselves falling off the roof. When my trainer asked what was up I told what went through my head "Well, I guess we figured out who was installing the satellites on room Xs house."
I was told I'd fit in very well in the emergency medicine world with that sort of humor.
Dude, I'm having severe mystery pains and am sore from the seizures last night. That made me crack up waaaayyyyyy harder than it had any right to!
I know a woman who is paranoid schizophrenic and she built a shield made out of tinfoil for her abdomen to "block the radiation" that the CIA is beaming through the walls of her house. She said they built bunkers under her house and they camp down there to complete their work. 👀
my first job working in a nursing home ( it's now been torn down) I was not warned about a woman who was sitting in the middle of her bed with a bundle of towels & small blankets that were jumbled up in her arms while she leaned over it humming. I was making beds on the opposite side of the room from her so I wasn't really paying attention to her. I wasn't given any information on her, she was not my patient. however I drew near to her as I was making beds in her area. then...I had my back to her making the bed right across from her own..and I got a severe cold chill and I swear to all I am....some thing told me to JUMP NOW! and I jumped over that twin bed to the other side. and looked back to see that old woman had buried a pair of SEWING SHEERS into that bed where my back had been standing. I started screaming for help. the woman just covered up herself again. btw..they gave her back those sewing sheers. they were over 8"long bc she didn't hurt me. I walked out. told they to mail me what few hours they owe me. OMG.
What the fuck?!?!?!?! They let her keep them after she almost hurt you?!?!?!
Thank you, those of us with schizophrenia are usually NOT violent and dangerous the way we're portrayed.
Edit: holy hell this blew up. Everyone calm the F down and be civil please.
I can’t say the same for my brothers who are narcissistic psychopaths who are also schizophrenic
@@deeclark9880 I'm sorry your brothers are like that. From your description it sounds like they have more going on than just schizophrenia, though. There are people who get violent/dangerous, but the vast majority of us aren't and it's a dangerous stereotype that gravely harms us.
@@blueowl8928got that straight that’s why they turn like that because overtime it’s not like it helps people care
People who assume that are idiots.
Tell that to the homeless ones that plague every city
My brother was a paranoid schizophrenic and I felt very sorry for him but I was scared to death of him. He was a big strong guy and it took 8 guys to get him in a straight jacket. He once pulled a toilet off the wall of a public building. He attacked my mother and bit off part of her ear because he thought she was a vampire. He would of killed her if she didn't manage to get away from him. He tried to steal a fighter plane on a military base in Louisiana. Needless to say my childhood and young adulthood was terrifying. I was so relieved when he died. He had a horrible life, but so did the rest of the family.
Did anyone ever try to help him?
@@thatsabunchofbalderdash oh yeah he had lots of medical help but the drugs back then weren't as good as they are now for schizophrenia and he hated how they made him feel
@@jeanchapman3911 oh how horrible. I’m sorry
My Mom has it and it's very overwhelming to deal with. It's sad because she's such a good person and doesn't deserve it.
Hugs and prayers and love , for you and your mom and all of your family.
deserve is neither here nor there
My mom too. How do you deal or help her please tell me
How did you get her to go get help?
The doctor seemed so normal. Never would have thought he was a paranoid schizophrenic
Every E.R should start having a psychiatrist stand by
That’s what I love about Chicago med! It focuses on how psychiatry is just as important as physical ailments. I would want a psychiatrist like dr. Charles. It is so hard to find a good one.
Here in Florida there is always a psych doctor in the ERs.
There's been a few times those ER psychs have saved my life and have given me more compassion than I've ever felt in my life, too. They know they're someones lifeline and they take it very seriously. I had one crying WITH me and just holding my hands in my room once after I told him what was going on and how exhausting it was.... I could feel him trying to push love from his heart into his hands and into mine. It was very comforting.
PA has a lot of great hospitals with a heartbreaking lack of emergency psychiatric care.
They do.....
Thank you for being respectful about this subject.
I’m so used to this I usually just reply with “oh okay, how long has this been going on?”
My worst psych case was a schizophrenic woman who had clawed out her own eyeballs because she was seeing evil.
--hospital SWer 15 years
That's horrible😢 God bless her
Isnt there a Verse in the bible that says to remove your eyes if they cause you to sin? 😨
Maybe we should let only mentally stable people read it...
@@eisflamme2438that's not even what he meant, lol. It was figure for getting rid of the objects that cause you to do harm to yourself, even if they're important to you.
@@eisflamme2438damn that is NOT the translation I read... I was told Jesus told men to remove their eyes if they couldn't control their urges towards women and how they dressed.
Unless there're two eye-removing stories, totally possible 😂
@eisflamme2438 and that's exactly what happened, she read that verse from the bible
I had an aunt who was schizophrenic and she was one of the sweetest person I’ve ever met. She was the only person to ask me if I liked girls after I told her I didn’t have a boyfriend, and even though I couldn’t answer the question because my mom was around, I felt truly seen.
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@@DeadLkeMe what? I don’t get it.
Schizophrenics are the nicest people I've ever met
That’s so kind. I know how it is being misunderstood and how family can be homophobic and having someone be understanding and cool about it does help.
Oh yeah I’m gay and parents defiantly lost it on me when I tried to tell them.
As someone that experienced three psychotic episodes, I want to say I’m grateful my psychosis isn’t as bad as some of the scary comments I read here. You guys are strong for battling schizophrenia or psychosis every day
“Alright, that’ll be $10,000”
That's it? 😅
@@jemmmorrison8608 that's just for the blood pressure
@@jemmmorrison8608 still has to pay for meds and the room
I have seen cases where the person's pressure can shoot up and the hospital almost took the person into an operation theatre... But it was merely symptom and the person got normal without operation...
I tried to save a priest from an operation telling him not to go with doctors... He did not listen... To his luck after giving him anesthetic, doctor asked if he had had any other meds... The doctors were shocked by the response and called off the operation, he would have died on that table that day... He still never listened to me, he got another appointment and checked in...
This was a priest capable of driving spirits and he disobeyed... For what??
Symptoms are given to force one into the hospital and then through others in hospital, it brings death... Have seen it too, in moms case... And testimonials of people in Church... This is why I cannot go to hospitals and use homeopathic meds that is safe without having the need for any equipment or surgeries...
I would ask satan to help with the bill. I know he got it!
But its literally what it feels like.... it feels like possession. You have no control of thoughts and struggle not to act on it.
It takes a lot to get this understanding from there.
Facts.
As a person with schizophrenia that was the best move you could do I applaud you for keeping calm and getting a social worker because it's very hard and scary for us
@@akshorts2115what kind of question is that
How is the social worker more equipped at this than a doctor ?
@@Victorina3518 this doctor has knowledge and experience with physical health issues whereas a social worker can reassure the person since they know how to deal with them and are better equipped to deal with someone with a mental illness.
thank you for coming to my TED talk
@@Victorina3518 doctors don't have training for psychological disorders.
Was working in the ER when my husband popped on by. He normally hates dropping anything off because of the chaos. I asked him what he needed and he said he just wanted to make sure I was ok. I assured him I was and he went home. It was just weird. I was about to call my sister to have her check on him when he came back. He explained that he might be wrong, but he was pretty convinced he was God and that the police were angels. Thank goodness it was a slow night. I called the supervisor and he sat with him until my relief came. My husband is bipolar with psychosis and the doc had tried him on new med. He's back on the old meds. 1st episode in 7 years. Hopefully, the last.
I am so grateful my husband was "God." A Satan possession would have freaked me out. Especially as the 1st psych hospital made me come back and get him a few hours later. Apparently, my husband thought he was in Inception and was screaming to get out (I could hear him in the background, they had to have security follow him) and they said that he had a right to leave. I frantically tried to get ahold of any of his docs. Finally I remembered all his old meds would have been ordered for a year so I had them all refilled beforeI drove to get him. I had him take them as previously prescribed the moment we left the hospital. I couldn't get him to go to a different hospital. He absolutely refused. So I hid his keys and wallet. It was an awful 3 days. I had to tell him the tv was "broken" (I unplugged it.) Because it was talking to him and he wanted to hear what it was saying, but every time he'd watch it, he'd stare at me oddly. I asked him if he knew who I was and he said, no. Later he said he couldn't tell if I was good or evil.
I think his meds started working a little bit, because I finally got him willing to go to a different hospital 3 days later. This psych unit warned him that he wouldn't be allowed to leave until a doctor had assessed him & he agreed. Thank god.
As stressful as that was for me, I at least had experience. I can't imagine how terrifying it is for families who don't. They want us to get them admitted amd don't understand that we can't just take them right away. My husband is normally a gentle giant. I jokingly call him my sloth because he is so laid back & slow. He finds good in every one. While psychotic, he's scary.
This happened on a Thursday. Neither his psychiatrist nor his Primery ever called me back. And there was no back up psychiatrist because they were all gone for the week! Our mental health care in this country is a mess.
I’m a stylist and my coworker is a part time hairdresser/nurse. She once told us she had to watch a patient having a psychotic episode and patient made her get really close and said “Jesus doesn’t like your mascara” 😂 I almost peed from laughing. She said “in her defense it did look like shit”
I feel like I might quote this at some point, lolll. Thanks for sharing this.
Haha
My son always had a great sense of humor. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and his humor is extra funny now.
However, this is a debilitating thing to live with. Humor helps😂
This was me during a massive breakdown at university once.
I had undiagnosed psychosis that was brought on by intense stress and apparently said shit like this.
I don't remember a lot of it, was like I just zoned out and then kinda got "back to normal" a few days later.
If I could.ask
Why did you Have a breakdown
@@Dee-cu8yr I have over 5 reports due on the same day, all being pushed back because they were running into each other. I tried to ask to have them staggered since I couldn't do 5 independent studies done AND written up at the same time, unless they wanted to accept my late work.
I was told no, and this was about the 3rd or 4th time they had done this to me, and I had other classes to do work for so I eventually kind of just broke away from reality from the stress of it all.
I had a massive breakdown at uni to! Yayyy
Turns out I'm bipolar thpugh. Oopsies
@@alexkeightley1 oop!! At least we know now, better late than never
The doctor: 😨
The patient: 😁
As someone with schizophrenia, can confirm y’all are the weird ones to us when we’re unwell. I still don’t understand how your own brain can do this to you, and I’ve had this illness since childhood.
I had a patient tell me he had neck pain because he fell down the steps. Ordered an x-ray of his cervical spine. “So I lied. I didn’t really fall but you wouldn’t have ordered the x-ray otherwise. My ex girlfriend implanted a camera in my mouth and I want to see if it will show up on the x-ray”
Good thing the camera wasn't real 😬
Glad you mentioned Social Worker! We do not get the recognition deserved by our positions!
I called up emergency a few months back during a manic episode due to my Bipolar 1 and BPD, wanted to voluntarily baker act myself cause the sane part of me knew I needed help before I did something stupid that I'd regret.. A couple days after I was released and back home, a social worker from that very psych unit I was at drove alllllllll the way over from that side of town just to check up on me. Gave me her number and told me if I ever needed anything to call her and that, if I ever felt that I needed to go back, she'd personally come and pick me up. Blew my mind. She really didn't have to do that but she chose to and she's amazing for that.
Social workers and dispatchers really don't get the appreciation they deserve.... And CNAs.
No we don’t get the recognition we deserve. Thank you for posting this comment ❤
I think of it as language translation. The pt description isn't wrong. One of these days this oxygen addiction is going to kill me, it's so toxic. Turns out it's a very common genetic allergy. Stupid bodies! Lol. I'm always amazed when I find a person who says the normal amount of pain is none. Normal things are very dead.
So what do you do other than take my insurance information?
@@syzygy4365 I think you’re thinking about the wrong people? Registration takes your insurance information. Think of social work as very similar to psychology- at least in terms of the career I have in it. I have a masters degree. So, I am able to do counseling for survivors of domestic violence, trauma, people suffering from mental illness, etc. in my job, when someone comes to the hospital, lets say it’s for a case of domestic violence and they were transferred via ambulance- I go in and speak with the patient, explain the resources they can get once they’re out of the hospital- like counseling, temporary shelters, and set up a plan with them and other workers. In the case of someone suffering from mental illness, I will go in and speak with the patient about what symptoms they are having, and try to determine the problem. Sometimes, patients don’t want to talk, but regardless, I will refer them to a psychologist, psychiatrist, and form an outpatient plan- example- patient is to follow up with counselor after discharge, attend counseling once a week, do an evaluation with a psychiatrist to determine if they need meds or a medication change, etc. of course I would have to approve this plan with anyone else working on their case. social workers are there to organize anything we think could be beneficial to you while inside the hospital, and after discharge. You’re thinking of registration. That’s who takes your insurance information.
Bless their hearts, they always speak with such conviction that you question if you're the one who isn't in touch with reality.
Looking back on so many years of being unaware of my diagnosis, along with no proper medication to manage such...this clip makes me thankful for all healthcare workers and other people for having the patience, especially when i was having an episode and not knowing its affect on me and others.
I met a lady with a cool outfit (a floor length hooded coat over a red dress) and she warned me to stay away from men because they’re trying to take away my god powers. Then an old man dared to walk by and she pointed a crooked finger at him saying “I know what you’re trying to do to little girls!” I’ll never forget it
As someone who works in a psych ward as a student psychologist - fucking accurate lmao
My daughter was a student at a psych for a few weeks for nursing school in college. There was this one lady who was totally nonverbal. Apparently one night the patient started screaming at my daughter that she needed to look out because she was going to get her. My daughter was freaked out. Something she will never forget.
@@jodil1209 I remember a similar incident where this schiz patient freaked out because I told him there was no doc and he couldsee one [he was hallucinating].. he wouldn't stop screaming and yelling - this was a couple days into my job ... I will never fucking forget that.
My mom had an incident in nursing school on a FL sanitarium in the “60s where a guy with only one leg walked down the hall like he had two legs one night. He normally used a crutch. Between that and the eugenics she dropped out of nursing school.
@@anncoleman 😱 that’s so creepy
Had to chuckle. As a clinical social worker for 24 years, I specialized in counseling to severe and persistently mentally ill adults and teenagers in a large community mental health center in middle Tennessee. Great people, bad illnesses. Now retired and living in Carson City, NV, I miss "my people." At the end of my career I was a licensed clinical social worker who saw insurance clients ("the worried well") mostly. When I was lucky enough, a truly mentally ill person popped up on my calendar. Such a satisfying feeling to see them and figure out a way to improve their quality of life. I miss them.
I know of a 12 year old who is starting to hear voices. Makes me feel sad for him. He really struggles sometimes.
The best thing you can do is validate the struggle. It sucks, but there are people there to help and support him. I also know there's a person who shares their experiences over social media. They have taught their dog to greet people. If they order the dog to greet and it looks confused, they know it's a hallucination
@@kas7145 I agree, when he talks about what's happening, I don't try to give advice. I just listen and give him attention. I've seen the video of the man and the dog. Very helpful resource for that guy 👍🏽
It's the beginnings that are so hard....the rare super you kids and those who are just in college and starting life. Such a hard, stigmatizing diagnosis
@@kas7145 that is so smart! Dogs are the best caretakers🥰
I have schizophrenia and I started having symptoms at 8. I know how it feels. Blessings
The deadpan explanation is so on point!
In some places even the inkling of emotions, like frustration, gets you bared from any care thats not psych for a long while. So I hope whoever this 'patient' was based on, that they got an evaluation of their physical symptoms, along with whatever psych treatment they needed.
Right? I have no experience but that was my first thought. The patient misdiagnosing the cause doesn’t mean the symptoms didn’t happen.
When I worked on a psych unit at a hospital, we did medical evaluations several times a day. They were a few times when we moved patients from psych to a medical unit because their medical status was more urgent. I can only speak to my experience but medical needs were most definitely considered in addition to psychiatric needs.
I recently lost my surgeon because he get testy whenever I'd raise my voice with him, so after he yelled at me for taking up too much of his time, I hung up on him. That was too much, I guess. 🙄
While there are a lot of stigma around mental illnesses, I do think it's also important, for me at least, to have a sense of humour about it. Although I do think people need to learn about the mental illness and not have prejudice towards it and assume that all schizophrenics are batshit crazy.
They’re not batsh!t crazy, most of the time. My dad has schizophrenia and as long as he takes his meds he’s a really cool dude. My grandfather had schizophrenia and he didn’t have the proper treatment so he ended up going off his meds. He tried to kill my grandmother during an episode when he thought she was a demon. Then he tried to cleanse himself by drinking bleach and reading the Bible out loud. It was super messed up. Sometimes the guy walking down the street yelling at the sky, punching the air just needs help. That episode isn’t who he is, it’s just a moment where he has an unmet need. He’s responding the only way he can in that situation. It sucks.
@@DiscoChixify I'm really sorry about your dad and grandpa. I know it's a very tough situation and can be very hard to deal with for both the person going through it, but also for the ones around them. I don't know where in the world you live, but if it's in the US, I imagine that it can be hard to get the help they need. I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when I was 17, but I've had the symptoms since my early teenage years. I'm 28 now and luckily I live in Denmark, so treatment is free, but it's been a long hard road to get to where I am now. Although I'm on medication I still experience symptoms like hallucinations everyday. Treatment, therapy and medication, is very important, I just wish everyone had access to it.
Stigma,STIGMA BALLZ
@@DiscoChixify hey, do you know there's a high chance that you may or may not have it as well? Not being mean: it's hereditary (genetic).
Don't worry; there's a high chance that I may or may not have it because of my father.
Thank you for saying this. I have schizophrenia and I went years without having it diagnosed because I was terrified that people I love would think I was crazy or be afraid of me or that I would lose my kids, and it was honestly horrible for me during that period of time. Medication has changed my life, and as long as I take it, I'm pretty well completely "normal".
Thank you for not turning untreated mental illness into a joke🌞👍🏻👍🏻.
We got a patient asking to get a pregnancy test because she thought she was pregnant since she heard her neighbors having sex😂😂😂😂
Oh poor sweetheart. Bad sex education I presume.
An alien did it! Lol 🙄🤦🏻♀️
@@JaimeDornanLady 😅😅😅
Was she from Utah?
@@wendy645 no
My aunt had schizophrenia. She died because she crawled under her house, terrified that someone in her house was trying to kill her. She had food and water hidden under there, but didn't touch it. We assume because she thought it was poisoned. She was never quite right in the head, but it all got so much worse when her husband and both her sons died in a ten year span of time.
As a paranoid schizophrenic I hate when we just state a delusion the social worker admits us
I know right? It's so devastating. People are so "get the help you need and be open about it" but the times we are open about it we just get weird looks or weird thibgs said at us and admitted, and the place I was admitted really didn't do dogshit for me but make my experiences even more terrifying
@@Raymans_malewife aw I’m so sorry :(
@@sweetascandyxoxo It's fine. My partner has been helping me try and get over the trauma it put me through, they've been a big help. It's always nice to have people there.
@@Raymans_malewife I feel that. Every therapist has been awful. The one time I tried to get inpatient help for depression, it made everything so much worse for me, plus I was treated like a criminal and had to deal with slander after I returned to school. Never again. 😔 I'm just really glad that my current psychologist doesn't belittle me. It sucks to have to be your own lifeline and therapist when your 'you' is broken. But self help books are good too.
How would you like to be dealt with when dealing with hallucinations or delusions?
As someone whos had stress induced psychosis i was so nervous about how this sketch was gonna go down but thank god it was funny and relatable for both sides of the situation and everyone was calm. Thank you. I was nervous to click.
Both their faces during the awkward silence tho- 😂🤣
"I'm being possessed by Satan... And he says he's gonna kill me eventually" said Dumbledore calmly
I had to spend an overnight in a hospital after my hypertension med dosages were "adjusted" following a minor brain bleed "event." When the admissions clerk asked if I'd had any thoughts of suicide, I smartassedly said "Sure!" So they assigned psych med students to sit bedside to make sure I wouldn't try to hurt myself. Three students in a row, lovely young ladies to whom I taught makeup tips after my partner brought me my makeup kit from home. They were all so grateful, and only one ever asked me why I wasn't sleeping. In a hospital, who sleeps? Certainly not the patients! So they sent in a psych DOCTOR whom I had to talk to before they would discharge me. She asked normal questions about suicidal tendencies, and when she heard about the many times I'd been ignored or just plain mistreated or exploited by medical staff incompetence, she said, "That's alot. No wonder you're depressed." Then she asked me which tinted sunscreen I'd recommend for her very fair skin. I got my name put at the end of what I was told was a sixteen-month wait list for an outpatient psych evaluation. It's been 26 months, and I'm still waiting...but my makeup skills are perfected now!
That is seriously messed up I'm sorry for you man
you’re gonna look stunning by the time the evaluation comes. just wait and you’ll see.
Yeah, my neighbour is a paranoid schizophrenic and the police had a standoff with him using my vehicle as cover after I had to call them because he threatened to kill me for being "in league with the CIA" because I put up new security cameras in broad daylight.
Unfortunately, things like this can happen up to 3 times a week. He likes to set his house (owned by his grandfather who also lives there) on fire, too. The fire dept has had to break out the windows 3 times in the last 2 years.
We need a better system for dealing with mental health!
I'm a cook in a psychiatric hospital and this is a daily event for us, NBD, just don't acknowledge the delusions, treat them with respect and dignity and get them through that lunch line and let their MHT know about the Convo...easy as pie:)
Man the cooks were always so kind to me when I went to the psych ward, thankful for you guys