Hi Dr Grande. In my late 20’s I was diagnosed with bi polar 1, after a long lasting manic episode. Your videos have helped me understand what happened with me and what to be prepared for in the future. I don’t feel so alone after hearing your information. Thanks man, keep up the awesome work. 😃
I found myself enveloped in year long paranoia episode that became a full blown delusional state. I believed I was a Targeted individual and everyone in the street were surveillance role players working for the sherifs or a private intelligence agency and that I was under remote neural monitoring. Felt so real but I just couldn't believe it so I kept trying to prove myself wrong but it felt like I was just proving myself right everytime. It got so bad that I was on the verge of hurting people who I believed were conspiring against me but I never did because I also believed that the whole thing was meant to provoke me. Thankfully I got better over time without medication but that year in my life remains a mystery to me. I live a normal life like anybody else, I actually feel that I came out of this a stronger person.
How did you get better? My boyfriend is going through this. We’ve been together for 14 years and it started really about 2 years ago when I got pregnant with our 4th kid. He started getting into videos on TH-cam and the. Accusing me of cheating and to the point where I’m scared. He’s not getting better. We have really great days but I’m sad and scared for him and it just seems like he believes I’m cheating and I never have. I think it’s like all day long.
I thought gangs were out to get me and holding me hostage several different instances. That year is a mystery to me as well I kept proving myself right but something just telling me it doesn't make sense. I got an invega injection ans my life is better.. But nothing will take that year away or make it better
I've dealt with so many longterm meth users. Their delusions are quite fixed and rigid. They usually involve fear and persecution. They clean up for a while then the delusions disappear. It shocks me as a lay person as to why when they relapse the exact bizarre delusions start right where they left off. These delusions become stronger and more complex at each drug relapse.
We [believe] claims to be true or not. Delusions are typically bizarre or warped in the sense that the “conclusions” are labyrinthine. The believe aspect is really what’s important. Everyone already believes in “true facts”, the difference is the degree of commitment and the aberrant behavior and speech, it always changes how the patient reacts to the delusion. Again, aberrant behavior or speech, strange changes in routine, a labyrinth of interconnected strange “facts” (true or not) believed logical.
Thank you so much for describing this topic in such a dignified and compassionate way. Unfortunately I dealt with someone who has delusions for a long time. Everyone I ever encountered simply thought that delusions are because the person is stupid and if they just informed the person they are wrong then berate them for not agreeing that will cure them! As you know that will take them for 0 to 100 and from delusional to violent. And these ppl to this day think that what they did was helpful!!! I have more regard for a person with delusions than the simpletons that thinks they can fix delusions by force them to be right.
wow really liked this, my male nurse has helped me over the years helping me see that my delusions are not real, but this is like the final nail in its coffin lol, helps me have more confidence in going back to work and getting out there hopefully
I have taken a few Psychological tests in my life. I always found the question Do you have delusions ? HILLARIOUS IF They are delusions - how would I know .
Yes, whilst having a delusion you don't know it's a delusion you believe it's real life but after the delusion has passed you're able to differentiate that from reality, meaning you can answer the question 'do you have delusions?'. They're like dreams. You don't know you're dreaming at the time of dreaming but when you wake up you realise it was a dream.
@@mwjgcreeves4984 yeah. I've had many delusions in the past and to this day I'm still wondering what the cause is since I've never taken drugs and I don't drink so it must be biological but I don't think I have bipolar.
I have ran out of my medication and watching these videos helps me to calm myself down by understanding more about why I feel the way I do :'( can't wait to pick up my prescription tomorrow
Very interesting subject, Dr Grande. I’ve always confused delusions with hallucinations. I have a wonderfully talented pianist as an accompanist, but he has Bipolar 1, which once got out of hand when he was telling me Mozart was telling him to play the aria known as 'Queen Of The Night’ at double the speed. I tried all manner of things to convince him this couldn’t be true, but no, he played it double speed and I sang it at that speed 😂. I did pass my associates exam, but with compliments for the vocal calisthenics. Later, someone else told him what he did and he couldn’t apologize enough. I’m now supposing that was a delusion he had.
It would really have to be assessed by a mental health professional, as to whether the pianist thought he was hearing Mozart's voice speaking to him, which would be a hallucination, or whether he had an entrenched and strange belief that Mozart was somehow communicating to him via the musical notations or something. Sometimes either way these symptoms can come up due to substance use, and I don't know if that was a factor here or not? I hope he will be evaluated by a mental health clinician.
I found this video quite informative. I have bipolar one and bpd. I have had two episodes of psychosis , and have believed many of these delusions . I've had hallucinations too. I'm just recovering from a long two months of psychosis. Still amazes me everythingibelived in. I was never one for conspiracy theories or even knew much about them until I was hit with psychosis. Paranoia of government was so real to me. Alternate realities , grandious thoughts.... All of it was so real. Thank you for sharingthis video
If you think someone is delusional because what they believe is totally ridiculous to you it is entirely possible that you feel incredulous towards their belief because you are actually the deluded one.
There's akways that danger which is why, when I was working a an assessor, I akways trues to ignore strangeness as proof of delusions. Strangeness is subjective. Just because I'm incredulous of wgat they're saying doesn't mean it's not possibly true. My coworkers would get mad at me for trying to prove or disprove delusions but I thought it made sense to not fall back on impressions based on my own experience of what is or isn't plausible. Example: I met a client who believes she was Kurt Cobain's daughter. So instead of just assuming (way if it was really her on a bad day while high and she got mugged, lost German phone and ID and was irrational so cops thought she was delusional... unlikely, but possible). So I looked her up... wow, she looked almost just like her. She knew true facts about "herself", was relatively high functioning, etc. But I found the objective proof she wasn't. She was about 7 years too young, cited her age as the celebrity's age, but her real birthday, and they didn't jibe. I tried to point this out and she didn't budge. Boom. Classic delusion.
@@navagator2452 you have to have beliefs about beliefs to automatically think any position is ridiculous. A true default position isn't thinking anyone else's position is ridiculous, but instead you're merely wary of unsure of it, or maybe you find it uncompelling because of how it's presented. The response of derision assumes a background of knowledge on the subject, which in turn requires beliefs on the larger topic at hand.
@@navagator2452 that's good of you not to TELL someone their belief is ridiculous, but I wasn't talking about just what we tell people. I'm talking about the inner reaction, your inner dialogue. Thinking someone's opinion is ridiculous, (unless based on our assessment of the person in general, like their raving and foaming at the mouth mixed with incoherent internally illogical points coupled with ideas that are foreign to us), is a reaction based on things we already think we know at least tentatively or assume (that's' called belief). Hence, to think someone has a ridiculous belief is to have a belief about their belief. One can't dodge believing in things on any topic one cares enough about to have any sort of emotional reaction or polemical response to.
My brother had Schizophrenia and suffers from delusions daily. His biggest definitely stems from paranoia: he thinks cars that pass by us are going fast to irritate him or to get away from him. He also thinks when people honk their horns, they’re doing so at him. We tell him all the time that this is not the case, but he never believes us. Other examples: he thinks the cops are always out to get him, even if he has done nothing illegal, he believes 9/11 happened because of him, he also believes that whenever Duke looses at a basketball game it’s because of him or that if they loose “everybody” is going to make fun of him. We try to explain to him why none of this is the case, but the delusions are so deep that nothing we say changes his mind. It’s really very sad.
I am a Hungarian med student in 5th year. As uni lectures are online now, my psychiatry teacher sends us quite a few youtube videos and I just got a link to this video and I was sooo suprised and happy, cause I have been watching your videos for a few months now!! :D Your videos are not just entertaining for everyone but really informative for those who study psychiatry. :) So thank you for these videos! Keep doing what you're doing!
Would you consider a video on recreational drug use leading to psychotic episodes? And how substance induced psychosis differs from the idea that some predisposed individuals can develop mental illness "triggered" by drug use? I think it could be worthwhile especially with today's prevalence of mixing or laced substances, synthetic/designer drugs.
@@thecheesegod2738 Hi if it is not too private could you elaborate further? have you ever talked about this with a professional? seems very interesting. I hope you find a way to feel better
@@simon20002 thank you and no I have not, it's not too bad, it's gotten better since "the accident" lol but yes I'll elaborate, if I dont happen to answer the question you had in mind just ask. I had bought weed from a weed place in my state because it is legal and decided I just wanted to try it, id love to expirience everything at least once. I never ever had anxiety before in my life, I wasnt even sure I knew what that felt like really. Even when I had panic attacks they were panic attacks alright just without the anxiety, hard to explain but usually when I had them I would just be like oh okay cool... anyways I'm gonna go and do normal stuff to "trip" myself out of it. So I thought I would be totally okay on weed. Turns out I was wrong. I knew that weed is stronger than some cigarette so i took only 2 hits of the weed. At first I wanted to eat so bad I just wanted wierd stuff to eat and I'm a pretty boring person when it comes to eating, I eat everything plain. But all of a sudden I wanted chocolate waffles with frosting? So I started toasting up the waffles so the frosting would melt and I go to wash my hands again (have ocd) and my boyfriend was watching a video on TH-cam and has been playing it the whole time and the voice was a computer reading a script like siri or google. So I go to wash my hands and the second I turn off the water I notice how monotone the voice is in the video and BOOM, all of a sudden I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack and die. I'm like fuck, wtf is going on. I sat on the couch and was trying to tell him to turn it off but I was like wierdly stuck and felt too relaxed to even open the mouth but after a while I managed to tell him to fuck off🤣 kicked him out of the room and turned on the DUMBEST movie I could find on netflix because for some reason I knew this was a problem due to an external source so perhaps the only way to calm down was externally too. Turns out I was right and the movie helped me calm down after 30 minutes and since this was indica I was super sleepy and fell asleep. Everyday after that I would randomly get anxiety and it felt terrible, I had to look it up to make sure it was that because I had never felt like this before. It's been exactly a year and I still feel it. Everytime I take my (prescribed) adderall (started it a month ago) i get anxiety during the come up and have to calm myself down by watching funny or stupid things lol but yes this is how it happened🤣 Also I want to point out I never did any drugs before weed only drank once a year and I was 18 when I did the weed.
This video was very informative! It helped me gain insight to a neighbor of the Reformed Jewish faith who frequently asserted he was a reincarnated extraterrestrial directly descended from Jesus. For a decade he'd persist with this, finally, I had to end the friendship as I could not tolerate it any more.
well, if he is not hurting anyone and it makes him happy, we need to feed this delusion and be happy they discoverd their alien-kin self, and running away from them is big meanie action
sometimes there has been years of verbal proof of person sitting back and listening but theres so much information that has lead up to such belief that someone just doesnt understand?
The last woman I fell in love with has a very strong version of bipolar. When she’s off of her medication long enough she can forget even her own name. I got involved some when she went off of the rails and I repeated to her mom something alarming she said to me, to her mom. She ended up marrying another guy after knowing him almost 5 years. I think that she will need loving people around her as guardrails when she gets off of her medication. I love her very much.
So when I was a teenager I was diagnosed with psychotic depression and was told I had delusions, but as I recall I actually knew these thoughts didn't make any sense, they were just so pervasive/intrusive and violent that I was terribly afraid that I would hurt someone. In hindsight I really didn't have the knowledge or skill to actually carry out the intrusive thoughts as actions, but it was nonetheless terrifying for me and made me feel like a monster. At that time I had several simultaneous lines of thought I was consciously aware of (although I was only able to deliberately drive my train of thoughts in two lines, the others were linguistic/auditory intrusive thoughts and visuals of horrific violence.) Nobody really seemed to notice how much pain and fear I was living in, especially not my parents or therapist. Once I was on an antipsychotic the 4 extra lines of thought went away within a couple of days (or at least I was no longer aware of them) but the emotional aftermath lasted for years.
Hey! I apologize, I know this is a late response, and I don’t want to intrude- but have you ever looked into harm OCD? What you had described sounded similar to what someone with that condition may experience.. People with Harm OCD can often have overwhelming beliefs and multiple kinds of intrusive thoughts surrounding hurting people, but they know the thought process is irrational, and it disagrees with their actual morals and feelings, like thoughts of hurting someone you love despite actually never wanting to do it in a million years.. I’m happy to hear you have found treatment that works, and that your symptoms have gone away, or at least reduced. I’m sure it must have felt alienating, I’m sorry to hear. :( I wish you nothing but the best recovery. :)
A question i have for a long time related to this, and found surprisingly few answers in research literature: what about the deeply religious people? I'm trying to avoid the word "fanatics" as it has quite a negative and judging tone, but the prevalence of certain characteristics seems quite high for me: unshakeable beliefs, feelings of being chosen, in possession of secret knowledge for ethernal life, unstoppable urge to try to persuade others to be converted, feelings of being on a sacred mission, ability to argue till the end on "the truth" (even with very high racionality!), low acceptance of thoughts of others, low empathy, and even strong beliefs that God has messages direct to them in the Bible (can be any other variant of religion). Can this be the strong symptom of ...what? Delusions? Mania? Psychosis? NPD? As far as i know one of the criterion of personality disorders in the DSM is behaviours deviating from the accepted cultural norms - is this the explanation why religion + personality disorders (or this particular religious character) seems so underrepresented in research? Or is it more like an unspoken policy, something like "psychology should not judge religion as illness"? I know there are many types of deeply religious people, and also that most of the religious people are much low-key. But what about the above mentioned character?
Excellent presentation and loaded with important insights on delusional disorders. I hope people understand that you save them months of researching with the integrity of your presentations. I learned a great deal from this one it pertains to my own personal experiences. I will be watching this one multiple times to allow the wealth of information on this disorder to set in. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Dr Grande ,one of the many responses that I have received,is that those persons have tendency to call you Delusional if You have spotted a pattern in someone that indicates Delusions,(or other abnormal behavior)so what has helped me to remain on task is to remember that I am the one who was following up on the clues First (I noticed the pattern First) not until you bring up the “subject “of a pattern is anything noticed,so,as a “defense” they’ll indicate that you are the one having Delusions.(Key Word “Pattern”.)
Dr. This is actually how they watch us. Nobody ever believes it. Majority of people on earth are oblivious living in the mind instead of the body. Good video. This is correct for some people. Most of them are talented people socially denied to be who we really are causing us to feel discrimination. Discrimination is not a delusion. We act like other people to cope with the pain. Great video Dr, I agree with a lot!!!
What makes it very hard to talk a person out of a delusion is that they are feeling persecuted, and as such they are very agitated and aggressive, talking loudly... So it's very hard to start talking to them, they won't listen and will antagonize you, making it even dangerous to question what they are saying.
Hey dr Grande. I'm currently struggling with paranoia and what I think are delusions. This video gives me a clearer idea of what I might be experiencing. I have diagnoses that include psychosis but nothing's really been explained to me like this. Thanks for sharing :) I hope you're having a good one.
Omg, so it's come to my awareness that my mother may have a histrionic personality (she's incredibly attention seeking, so much so that when me and my sisters were being abused by my father she swept it under the rug and made it all about her), and that last type of delusion.. She legit had a mental breakdown when I was 16 thinking some radio show host was 'giving her signals' through the radio that he was secretly in love with her.. As I was dealing with my own neglected mental health, it was incredibly hard to watch, but this really opened my eyes to what she was experiencing. This really helped make sense of it, thank you!
As someone super interested in "alternative explanations" (aka conspiracy theories) my biggest fear is being delusional. I'm so afraid to cross that line! for example I'm always telling my guests to be careful the kind of jokes they make in my house because I have Alexa. Haha.. I know it makes me sound nuts when I do it but I also feel like it's a cautionary step so I do it anyway. Great video, thanks!
You can be interested in those things without being delusional, but it is a very delicate balance. Best to stay accountable to people who you consider very sane.
I miss this videos DR. Grande, its always a hit going back in time with you. There is so much to open up and learn, study even more as Virtual Reality comes and imaginary creative.
I had a boyfriend one time who would make me shower every time I came over, just in case I was bugged or something. And if he came to my place he'd shut all the blinds and check to see if any cameras were set up recording him. He was very paranoid.
Is there such a thing as group/shared delusions? One example is the belief that positive thoughts will make you rich that seems to be everywhere in our culture right now. Most of the church sites on TH-cam have some version of this. Even some psychology sites talk about something similar-making it sound like thoughts are responsible for everything and that mental illness has no physical/biological component.
Or in large group awareness human potential trainings-forgot to mention that. All of this positive thinking training in our culture seems to be a type of collective magical thinking or delusion.
Classic schizophrenia is the shared belief within a family structure through thought process and dialectic with a isolate they are all at the church he lines them up every Sunday.
Reckless Dreamer ayy gang stalking CAN be a delusion. but that stuff really happens all over america at least. look up “revenge for hire “ for one source of its activities.
Had a friend in high school who said she was dating a guy who didn't know she existed. I gave her the benefit of the doubt back then - she's young & wants a boyfriend so bad etc. But it didn't end there - she continued the relationship well into college and after and would go into detail about their sex life. She is also angry all the time and blames everyone else for her problems. I wonder what Dr Grande would say the possible diagnosis would be for this behavior?
Dear Dr G. a perfect choice of a brown shirt for this presentation. I am involved in natural medicine. One of the most common delusions I encounter is that individuals who are addicted to various foods (that are very negatively impacting their health) are generally not open to any form of nutritional advice. Even if it involves them overall eating much more, but not the foods they are addicted too.
Thank you for explaining the difference between delusions and hallucinations, I normally mix up these two concepts. Very informative video, always a pleasure to watch your content! ❤️
Just saw this video. Never seen you before. You are incredibly down to earth in your intelligence. Your extremely easy to follow and listen to. A very nice speaking voice. Your so thourough in all your teaching if tangents and categories . Your nice looking. You are interested in what your talking about which would seem to makes the viewer stay focused in your discussion.
Before I was institutionalized for psychosis I was delusional. One of my delusions is very interesting to me. I thought that everyone play a social game of persons. I thought: When you are child you are ignorant of this game, but once you discover this game you are immediately grown up. Also, your parents can't kick you out of the house until you discover this game. To play a game you choose a person you want to be and you play according to what you choose. If you play well you gain 'social points'. For example, if you choose to be a celebrity and you really become a celebrity people will like you and everyone would like to play with you. But if you don't become it then you lose 'social points' and nobody will play with you. It was really fun. If you have questions AMA.
Albeit if it is seen as real in spite of your consciousness of it I see how that can become delusional, as I believe it has within myself. Interesting that grains of truth in this are that people really see the world that way and think it's true, but only you and me would be labeled delusional bc we see that for what it is but have struggled to detach from it.
I have a buddy who lives in the thick of the forest, up in the hills. His girlfriend not content to be up there during the day because they argue usually sets out walking then catches rides (hitchhiking) down to the valley and into a trailer park where she knows a lot of people. She has been gravitating over to my house because I assume no one is letting her hang around for very long. She is 32 years old and reasonably attractive but it's very apparent she has schizophrenia and I'm not sure what to do. None of us has money for psychiatric counseling and just the mention of schizophrenia upsets her even worse. I've been allowing her to hang out in my living room where she gets good wifi on her phone and can listen to music which calms her down a bit. What keeps happening is she starts arguing rather loudly with someone only she can hear. I'll be in another part of my house and I keep having to stop what I'm doing to go see what's wrong with her (this time). Anyway it's usually the same. Most often she believes electrical outlets have a tiny speaker hidden in them and someone is communicating with her through them. If it's not the electrical outlets then it's either from her phone or from my next door neighbor if she can hear the music he's playing. The only things that seem to keep her normal are when she's focused on house cleaning (for money) or when my cynical sense of humor makes her laugh. A few of us in town let her do house cleaning but there's only so much we can afford. I don't know what else to do and I feel sorry for her because I know she needs professional help and medication but she insists there's nothing wrong with her and that the voices are real. Thanks for reading.
Wouldn't it have made sense to look the word up? A construct is "an idea or theory containing various conceptual elements" You can look it up for more detailed and thorough definition and discussion of course.
Diagnosed with Pugalistica Dementia. I was gifted with Paranoid Personality Dissorder. I was also gifted with Skitzo-Effective (bipolar) PPD is a huge part of my highly intellectual side, which makes breaking delusions extremely difficult ! For every crack someone has to my delusion, i have a "logical" answer to combat that. Knowledge is a wonderful thing, but it can turn on you. Thank you for your video sir ! :)
I'm at the point I'm actually trying to find a way to prove to myself that I am INDEED DELUDED! Yeah, it seems ridiculously real, and in my mind, I can't convince myself that I am (not to mention I keep finding things to say at least some of the things I believe are valid) I'd really like to be presented with some of that new information he was talking about so I can just move on already. I'm sick of thinking about it. Chances are that I am paranoid and I am diagnosed as BI Polar and have had many episodes... however my delusions do not leave when I'm in good health. I don't want to be paranoid or worry about any of the shit that my brain won't stop telling me is real. What I think I really need is someone who can solidly refute my arguments, present me with this new information that points to the contrary, and eventually, in time, see things the correct way they should be... Only problem is, I've been looking for that person for almost 15 years.... and still am no closer to finding them....
My ex used to get paranoid and delusional , he’d fully believe scenarios about me that he’d made up in his head and was convinced I’d done them . It was very scary not being able to prove to him that I hadn’t done those things . He used cocaine heavily and I believe that’s what triggered them for him , it also made my life hell . I wish I could’ve done something to help him so he didn’t end up treating me how he did
I mean, religion is like this global thing that a lot of people believe in and support. So in that case, I’d think you don’t need to be delusional to accept something like that. Because enough people support you. Versus if you’re one person who thinks something that nobody else does and is completely eviscerated by evidence to the contrary, the ability to hang onto that thinking anyway might mean your brain is busted up.
This was very eye opening for me. On both sides of the table, perspective is key. Let's think about a delusional person and the length of their life compared to how much the professional really knows. Abuse, paranoia, knowing important people, anger, even feeling like an alien and people are out to get them, all sound crazy when family is telling the Dr. about their background and trying to have them committed. Getting authorities involved and pursuing actions. Now let's think about a toxic family narcissistic dynamic. Complete with flying monkeys, endless gaslighting attempts, denial, protecting an abusive family member to save face and keep the normal family appearance. What happens when the patient is the truth telling scapegoat? What if the patient has evidence to prove long standing abuse from their cult like family? Along with proof of lying and cover ups? But in the hospital they have no access to anybody or anything to present the truth.
As a former cop, I can verify that crooked cops engage in “local” conspiracies. The hard part is proving conspiracies because “correlation is not equal to causation.” Not all conspiracies are formal. An example of informal conspiracies is “professional courtesy” or the “code of silence.”
Omigosh, the example Dr. Grande uses here describes what this person would do in our conversations to a tee! Jumping to conclusions about one small thing that was said in a sentence.
Years ago I when I first entered therapy they thought I was delusional until everything I told them was proven to be true. My family was in politics ect. Over time I was able to provide evidence to back up everything I was saying. Originally they were diagnosing me with everything under the sun, this was 25 years ago. Needless to say I still attend the same therapist and I do not have any of those things. My experiences at the time seemed unbelievable. Its all mainstream today. I can identify with what others are saying. Stay strong, find your beliefs and stand firm.
thank you for the information Dr. Grande, I have bipolar 1 disorder and did not realize I was experiencing ideas of reference. I felt normal. But now i see more clearly how this was related to my mood.
Thank you Dr Grande. Re-watching this video helped to answer a question that I asked on a more recent video. I probably should've checked over your wonderful videos prior to asking :) . You tend to cover many bases! 😄
Dr. Grande, this has been so helpful. I have a son I thought was in psychosis, but now I think it's PPD (no halucinations of any sort). The problem is, any form of help being offered is viewed by him as part of the overall conspiracy against him. He refuses medicine and thinks psychiatrists are in on the conspiracy. It's scary and I don't know how to handle it.
Examining this video and the information submitted makes reflect deeply on my circumstance and have better understanding the differences between reality and symptoms of mental health. I most times struggle with thoughts pertaining to my mental health but this data will become useful and I'll be determined to manage my thoughts and understand certain situations from a different perspective.
It sounds like you have a lot of amount of experience with delusional patients (though it's not entirely clear whether you're speaking from your personal experience or based on things you've read). I have four questions for you - I'd be very interested in your response to any or all of them. 1. How often have you found that you actually diagnose someone with "Delusional Disorder" - as opposed to someone having delusions associated with other "disorders" (schizophrenia, manic episodes, etc). According to DSM V Delusional Disorder is a rare disease, and these individuals may be "high functioning." I'm trying to picture what this looks like. Can you give a specific case history about someone you diagnosed with this disorder? 2. If you see a patient who describes something odd or bizarre (for example, "government spying" - an example you give here - or similar) - how much time and effort do you devote to examining evidence presented by the patient in order to determine whether they are in fact observing something real - and not something imaginary? In other words, since delusions are by definition FALSE beliefs - what specific steps do you take to determine that the "beliefs" are false? I don't see much of anything about this in the DSM, though it seems important in determining whether someone is, in fact, delusional. 3. Have you ever had a patient who claimed to be subjected to a pattern of things like "organized stalking" (IOW, stalking/tracking by groups on foot, in cars, etc) or sort of a systematic gaslighting in addition to other things like "government spying"? And if so, how did you respond to these claims? Did you investigate their veracity or did you diagnose them as delusions? - BTW - about six minutes into this video you talk about persecutory delusions involving "rays" and "satellites" - you also mention "mind control" which as we know is actually a thing (and psychology is part of it - let me know if you need me to provide support for any part of this statement). What if the person didn't say the were being tracked/followed/attacked by "satellites" but by "drones." Would that change your point of view as to the plausibility of this belief? 4. This is more about you as a doctor. Once you've diagnosed a person as delusional, are you still receptive to evidence that the person's "beliefs" are in fact evidence-based and factual? And if evidence is provided, what do you do with the fact that you diagnosed the person as delusional? Do you correct your records and admit your mistake? Has anyone ever done this? Thank you for considering these questions. If you need any clarification for anything I have said or asked, just let me know.
My brother has been going through tons of paranoid delusions over the last several years. He was diagnosed with bipolar with psychotic tendencies. He is convinced my parents raped and molested him and my grandmother as well. He thinks this happened before I was born and I'm only 16 months younger. He is in the mental hospital again right now and I'm wondering if this will ever get cleared up in his mind. He is now trying to get my parents, myself and my grandmother sent to the hospital as well on a title 36, (Arizona). He trashed my parents house this time, as he was living there. He broke priceless heirlooms and destroyed a lot of pictures. This is incredibly difficult because we are his only support group. He has burned all other bridges he had.. We have contacted everyone we can think of to help him but now we are at a loss and none of us want him to be on the streets, though we can no longer deal with him living with any of us. It's simply too much. Hoping someone can possibly give us some advice, or even just a tiny bit of positivity..
I have a friend who is allergic to water. She breaks out in the rain or in the shower or if she goes swimming. She has to wear gloves to do dishes but she mostly just has to deal with the rashes
Rachael Gosser the general consensus in the medical community is that people who present with this are not allergic to the water itself (aquagenic urticaria), but rather salts, chlorine, or other solutes found in their water source. Tell them to try washing with distilled water and see what happens. 👍
Yeah same here. my grandfather is dealing with paranoid delisions in a SERIOUS way right now. He had a serious head injury 40 years ago and was also a Police officer downtown Toronto. We dont know, but it slowly started showing up from time to time over the past 25 years
I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder a long time ago... Recently I moved in with my biological mother (I was adopted) she seems to have factitious disorder, but has zero patience for me calling her on her lies. I don't think I'm delusional, I take my meds everyday, but because she knows I was diagnosed with this disorder she's using it to her advantage. I got hospitalized not long ago because she said she had cancer (third time in 6years) and we argued over the fact that "this isn't the first time I've heard that from you" I was hospitalized for delusional thinking.... I'm afraid that I'm wrong and actually delusional. But I really don't think I am...
I've had what others would consider auditory hallucinations, a lengthy one in particular. It was not overly hostile towards me; arguably, it was too compassionate. I am now convinced these occurred due to my central delusion, which is that I had been a kind and intelligent person, who was not really mentally sick. But as I have been going over the major events and habits of my life, I can see that delusion does not match the facts at all. I guess I have "conspiracy theories" about my life. I think some people may have been trying to lead me further astray. Others, to try to help me and show me kindness. Some, to use me. Some, to trick or warn me. And yet others, to teach me lessons about myself and this world. In this last category, I have failed badly - and at the moments I've realized this, I've responded with self-destructiveness that has helped nobody. Maybe this post is another example of that, for all I know. I don't know if I can successfully change that well. But I think I've at least been awoken to my major delusions.
My mom worked in a mental hospital for years. One story she told me was that once a patient was admitted for swearing up and down that his wife was poisoning his milk. He was administered treatment and then released after being symptom free after some time. Plot twist? As he was leaving the hospital his wife said "Have this milk" he drank it and immediately collapsed. He was tested and poison was found in him so his wife was arrested. He survived thank goodness but it just goes to show that sometimes humans are... interesting to say the least. Human behavior being able to be somewhat predictable is why I find psychology so fascinating. Parsing together people's behavior to form a diagnosis is like detective work in a way and I admire the ones whose responsibility it is to make those discoveries. A delusion is unfortunately one of the saddest symptoms to witness, the break from reality for a lot of my mother's patients was heartbreaking. She dealt with a lot of schizophrenics some of which would attempt suicide or attempt to poison staff. Others would tell elaborate stories about their "adventures". If you are reading this and you suffer from schizophrenia or psychotic episodes just know that I wish you the best and I hope you have a wonderful day.
Thank you so much! A very thorough and informative video. So I have a couple of questions about delusions: 1. You mention that people with bipolar disorder generally will cycle in and out of their delusions. It this true of other people as well? Like, do they ever wonder, even for a split second, if what they believe so strongly is actually true? 2. Is it common for people to become violent as the result of a delusional belief? For example, if someone is worried that the government is hurting them with radiation, would it be likely that this patient would somehow retaliate in self-defense?
I believed for a year that I was terminally ill , and people were hiding it from me, and that everyone looked at me with pitty and if they were nice to me it was because they knew I was dying .... I even stopped eating for a while because I got so depressed. Which made me end up in hospital with severe malnutrition so because I felt so weak it made the delusion more real that I really was dying . Even though the doctors kept reassuring me showing me blood tests I just couldn’t believe it , even if I wanted to. So ended up in a mental ward 🤦🏻♀️
Thank you very much for this clear summary, Dr. Grande. But no, I'm not interested in receiving counseling with this. I like my delusions very much, and I wouldn't let even Dr. Grande touch it.😎 I have pretty strong boundaries here. Everything has its limits! Have a wonderful day! 😊
@@kaelin8775 this is happening to me now it started February of this year I was literally fine before I never used to get delusions I don’t if it got triggered because of being stressed but it’s literally so annoying
Hi- someone please reply. I know someone who has been struggling with what I possibly think is delusions. I have known them all my life so this sudden change made it really hard to believe they were delusional, but now I’m starting to see the symtoms more clearly. She believes there’s something out to get her of course. She sees the same license plates everywhere, cars speed on the road when their near her, they harass her, people knock on her car, there is a microphone and camera in her car as well. She believes it must be some sort of “game” that she has to win. She says it’s never going to stop. She believes that when she’s gotten pulled over my cops that they are purposely doing it in spite of the game. Or (which she doesn’t know for sure) people could just be messing with her and trying to “ruin her life”. Which it has. She has lost her job (which she believes was from the game) and even moved out of her current state because of it. This has been going on for almost 2 years. The thing that scares me the most is that she pointed out a license plate to me that she’s seen before, and then later that day I saw a license plate that seemed the exact same (but could have just been extremely similar). This has conflicted me into whether or not I should believe she is delusional. But deep down I think it could have been mere coincidence, I don’t know. I’m so lost and it’s truly broken me seeing this happen to her. It’s been so long that she’s had these delusions it makes me lose hope that she will ever stop believing them. Someone help me.
Sometimes I think someone can take my soul, or they’re poisoning my food to harm me, or certain roads i go down will bring me into another dimension, or if I walk in a spot I leave a piece of me so I have to go back twice sometimes five times to get that piece of ke back, or if I a vent is on my soul will leave my body, or if I sleep before 12:00 I’ll go into another year:(. I need help. I wasn’t like this until I started to isolate from everyone. I want to not think like this anymore.
I must say from my own experiences that there is deception or influence that 'the delusionist' can create as source and manipulation. In this case the person would create elaborate stories to convince people that he was psycho deluded even about the things he wasn't even deluded about, once you got to know him. It had entered into criminality on occasions, as he'd also play his stories to secretly incriminate some people as a result of them doing his tidings. His grandiosity made him think he had big-time reality. He would even go as far to fake freakish involuntary facial movements which was one of the ploys (along with a far flung story) he had used to emotionally wind his girlfriend in to become his wife... Time now to watch your 'Purpose of Delusions' video... thanks doctor 🙏
I have bipolar disorder, I have been delusional at one time, and nothing anyone said would change it. I was sent to the psych ward and put on nasty antipsychotics and the delusions went away, I'm not sure how that works. They never came back.
Can your subconscious replace memories so what you think happened changes to help you cope with something bad that happened? Can the likelyhood of delusions increase when under constant stress?
I have never been diagnosed with schizophrenia but recently, due to a perfect storm that was situational, being extremely isolated, impoverished, vulnerable because of my decision to reside in an art studio which is not legally residential and worst of all, without privacy! Well, it caught up with me, combined of course with my adhd meds, I had sleep deprived psychosis, and the paranoia honestly had always been around to some degree but it became insanity! I also was eventually able to sleep, and while I still woke up to the same reality, unsure to what degree my paranoia of getting kicked out of my studio were legitimately based on reality, simply being well rested made me not care, in a good way, about the “voices” trying to delegitimise me and take my studio space! What made this so much worse was that me sleeping, which my sanity relies on, was also what was being prohibited (technically it might actually be prohibited to sleep in this non residential studio!) So basically everything avalanched from that point on, because I believed that I was being spied on or monitored to get caught sleeping, it was a nightmare!
"The Onion," an old satirical channel, has a very excellent video titled "Is the Government Spying on Schizophrenia Enough?" It does a decent job of poking fun at the kind of delusions schizophrenics and others might have.
In my friend groups, we do use humor to understand, assess, and come to terms with our peculiarities. I posted a suggestion. Feel free to ignore it if you wish.
Fun topic. We should discuss how delusions tie into theology. Because I grew up being the only person I knew that perceived religious behavior like worshipping invisible, non-existent beings, perceiving anyone who challenges their delusion as evil. So often religious and cult behavior ties into mass cultural delusion. So I'm left to assume delusions are very natural and very human. And I'm just missing that part that makes me normal.
I have a friend with delusions and hallucinations. I love this friend and would love to help her. She almost burnt her car the other day , because she thought a person or spirit was in it. How can I go about helping her, without turning her against me. I'm so confused. I love your channel, and your insight seems to be spot on. Can you point me in the right direction? Her family has given up. She will NOT admit it, because she truly sees this stuff. She doesn't see she needs help. 😔 Thank you, Mr Grande.
Have you seen this médium TV shows on TV ? There are many ppl how see spirits but they dont burn down the houses or Cars becouse of that ..Im just thinking it migth BE real when some One sees this spirits but you cant killed them their alreeady dead .. Soo maybe its just about how to deal with this things .. and the knolege about the spiritual world .. becouse the way a ser it if milions of ppl belive in heaven ir hell across many religions or spiritual paths ...are they all delusional, or maybe to a no none beliver just beliving in God can BE delusional. To cientists that dont belive in God all priests and all Jesus falowers should BE considered delusionals ..
My ex-best-friend of 35 years, we would go to garage sales and she would get too close to men and think they wanted her. Everyone wanted her and no one even noticed her. If she put the moves on a man, he always looked at me for help. She is married and has cheated on her husband since day one. I don't understand why he hangs on to this marriage, her life is cheating, hating, manipulating, and facebook and when she has the opportunity, she will sleep with someone she doesn't know. She is definitely delusional. Never once in 35 years have I heard her say this gal she knows is beautiful, no one is beautiful but her--honestly, she is kinda' homely. The last time we went to lunch, she sat and stared at a young black man, who had to be 25 years younger, and got up and stopped at his table to flirt. She waited until he left to get a head nod between them. That was an entire 2 hours wasted and I was ticked off but that is who she is. She is talented, with what a glue gun--crafter. She has no loyalty but rubs your face in the fact she is married; she steals putting out fake charities on Facebook--thousands of dollars; and will always tell you what a great Christian she is, although she has a fake claim and gets disability to spend on luxuries every month.That's delusional from what I am getting from Dr. Grande. Her life on Facebook is a decent, affluent, outgoing, happy person--her reality is not that.
I'm not sure if this is delusion or if it would be called something else. If I'm under a lot of stress or if I'm extremely anxious about something, I sometimes start to believe things that I rationally know aren't grounded in fact, like that I have cancer or that I'm going to die in a car crash on an upcoming trip or that my friends are trashing me behind my back. Often it's sickness-related, like in my first week of college when I THOUGHT I was adjusting well to a new experience but when I found a blood blister on my toe I got so scared and convinced it was melanoma that I lost sleep & walked 6 miles to the clinic to have a guy just shave it off and be like "yep it was a blood blister." When my first cat died when i was a teenager, I got mild food poisoning at a restaurant and got convinced I had gallbladder cancer and I had tests done about it. Recently, I was about to make a major life decision i was nervous about & I became convinced my friends were judging me and criticizing me behind my back and that they secretly resented me. And when I've gone through this stuff, I have been VERY aware that these catastrophizing beliefs and fears were not actually grounded in fact. I KNEW that rationally it was unlikely I had toe cancer or that I had gallbladder cancer or that all my friends secretly hate me and conspire about it. I knew that those fears were not grounded and I knew that it was my repressed anxieties about stuff I wasn't dealing with coming out like whack-a-mole somewhere else in my psyche. Rationally I understood what I was feeling and what I FELT was true was irrational. But it still FELT true and still scared me. One of my best friends goes through the same thing-- if she's stressed or anxious she'll start to believe that a minor physical malady is a life-threatening illness and schedule a doctor appointment and lose sleep about it even though she's also 100% aware that it's just her brain freaking her out and that her headache is from stress and not a brain tumor. We laugh about this sometimes because it's so weird to fully understand that something that FEELS true is, for sure, not true, and sometimes she's like "hey remind me that I'm not dying" and I'm like "you're not dying" and it helps. Is that delusion? Even if you know that something your brain keeps telling you to be afraid of is not actually happening? Or is that called something else? Because I've also known people with delusions who FULLY believe their narratives and cannot separate reality and their delusions. They don't "know in their head" that something they "feel" isn't actually true. I feel like that is for sure delusion, but is what my friend and I experience also delusion?
Dr. Grande, Did you ever listen to the great Radio Monologuist, JOE FRANK? One of his radio shows- from his IN THE DARK series in the 90s- was called HOTLINE, and the main protagonist (vocalized by the great actress GRACE ZABRISKI) has a darling and tragic delusion that her great love was the man she saw going down the escalator as she went up (or vice versa). Her whole life seems in service to this event. In the sketch, she is talking on the phone hotline to a phone psychic who is playing a hand of tarot cards for her and egging her on but also allowing her to flower. Deep stuff. When you brought up the delusion of famous people being so into the person with delusions, I remembered this show. Check it out sometime. Joe just died not so long ago. Many people have not heard of him but he is a seminal influence in pop culture. He is the one who asks the hard questions, like, what is sadder? A jukebox or a coffin?
What if the delusions are causing the depression? I've been delusional for at least 2 years with the same thoughts. Every time I have these thoughts I convince myself that they're not rational. I tried seeking therapy, but my delusions won't allow me to trust any therapist.
I would suggest maybe trying to be honest with your therapist that your delusion is telling you not to trust them. And say that you’re struggling to get better because of that lack of trust. Usually honesty is best policy when dealing with counselors and therapists
I've had intense delusions, no thanks to conspiracies and new age self-help BS. It's a big community of delusional individuals. I'm just glad I can move on with a more rationalistic view of the world.
Scandals such as Watergate, MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, nuclear weapons, the Red Scare and espionage during the Cold War, political assassinations such as JFK, RFK, Malcolm X's and MLK's and revelations of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, My Lai Massacre and Tuskeegee Experiment all undermined public confidence in the US government and contributed to a rise in conspiracy theories, such as JFK's Second Shooter, water floridation, targeted individuals, etc.
*Theres a lot of bad things the U.S government has done, but it would be unwise to assume that all or most delusional people are actually being persecuted. It's beyond evil, but probably the C.I.A. would Target the homeless,runaway teens, sex trafficking victims, and refugees/migrants trying to cross the border. You can buy a human being in Lybia for as little as $20, and there's a crazy amount of people killed in Mexico by 'cayotes'. Middle class Americans shouldn't feel so sure of them selves, but there are other groups that are far more accessible for abuse then 50 years ago*
I think it has to do with what people read in the news .... also they can see the local police officer pumping gas next to them .... then they deduce “ok so it’s not the local police...” also they think “who has the technology and capability to (for example) get inside my brain.... it must be a group with extremely advanced technology like the FBI ... the local police mostly ride horses and give parking tickets”
IMHO you have to realize, what "the govt" represents for these people. A safe job that offers people a nice retirement? No, it's symbolic: the govt represents "the big power that I can't control or see." These people feel their have lost their power in life to a big unknown influence which they can't perfectly control or even observe. In a way, their subconscious minds have correctly grasped the situation; but the conscious experience has failed to correctly translate that to our waking world. I think the disconnect between the spirit world of the subconscious and the physical manifestation of that world (our conscious minds) is a large part of several disorders. We dream only answers, but we have forgotten to ask the questions.
I used to work for a Social Security attorney. We had the only person I've ever heard of who wanted to appeal his favorable decision because if he took the money that would mean he agreed that he was mentally ill and the CIA wasn't surveilling him. He had to sign forms at some point appointing a representative and consenting to all the paperwork and then didn't want the money.
Hi Dr Grande. In my late 20’s I was diagnosed with bi polar 1, after a long lasting manic episode. Your videos have helped me understand what happened with me and what to be prepared for in the future. I don’t feel so alone after hearing your information. Thanks man, keep up the awesome work. 😃
@Nancy Jaimes Reyes I have had many delusions in the past and don't know the cause of them.
I sometimes wonder if I get intuition and delusions mixed up..idk
I’m so happy for you.
I hope it works well for you now, he thought me with my ocpd. Cheers‼️
Being sober and educated had reduced my delusions: and allowed me to spell it correctly.
Good for you, my dear! 👍
Hahaha this comment brought me joy 😂
Thats true
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Well done. :-)
As a schizophrenic, this video was very informative. I've experienced many of these delusions, though never hallucinations of any kind.
me too...people dont believe u when u say ur schizo but no hallucinations
He's crazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣....... And they psycho 😭😂😂
I found myself enveloped in year long paranoia episode that became a full blown delusional state. I believed I was a Targeted individual and everyone in the street were surveillance role players working for the sherifs or a private intelligence agency and that I was under remote neural monitoring. Felt so real but I just couldn't believe it so I kept trying to prove myself wrong but it felt like I was just proving myself right everytime. It got so bad that I was on the verge of hurting people who I believed were conspiring against me but I never did because I also believed that the whole thing was meant to provoke me. Thankfully I got better over time without medication but that year in my life remains a mystery to me. I live a normal life like anybody else, I actually feel that I came out of this a stronger person.
How did you get better? My boyfriend is going through this. We’ve been together for 14 years and it started really about 2 years ago when I got pregnant with our 4th kid. He started getting into videos on TH-cam and the. Accusing me of cheating and to the point where I’m scared. He’s not getting better. We have really great days but I’m sad and scared for him and it just seems like he believes I’m cheating and I never have. I think it’s like all day long.
Congratulations on your recovery!
I thought gangs were out to get me and holding me hostage several different instances. That year is a mystery to me as well I kept proving myself right but something just telling me it doesn't make sense. I got an invega injection ans my life is better.. But nothing will take that year away or make it better
@@ABar83376 he needs to see a Dr.
Amy Barton I have been a T.I. for 15 years! When I quit doing meth and gave my life to Jesus I got better!
I've dealt with so many longterm meth users. Their delusions are quite fixed and rigid. They usually involve fear and persecution. They clean up for a while then the delusions disappear. It shocks me as a lay person as to why when they relapse the exact bizarre delusions start right where they left off. These delusions become stronger and more complex at each drug relapse.
Mark Mariner - What’s really odd is when people who know meth abusers make major decisions by what the delusional meth addicts decide.
We [believe] claims to be true or not. Delusions are typically bizarre or warped in the sense that the “conclusions” are labyrinthine. The believe aspect is really what’s important.
Everyone already believes in “true facts”, the difference is the degree of commitment and the aberrant behavior and speech, it always changes how the patient reacts to the delusion. Again, aberrant behavior or speech, strange changes in routine, a labyrinth of interconnected strange “facts” (true or not) believed logical.
What kind of delusions do they have?
This is soooooo true. I see so much of this as a clinician.
@@ohem It sounds to me like you are describing flat earthers.
Thank you so much for describing this topic in such a dignified and compassionate way. Unfortunately I dealt with someone who has delusions for a long time. Everyone I ever encountered simply thought that delusions are because the person is stupid and if they just informed the person they are wrong then berate them for not agreeing that will cure them! As you know that will take them for 0 to 100 and from delusional to violent. And these ppl to this day think that what they did was helpful!!! I have more regard for a person with delusions than the simpletons that thinks they can fix delusions by force them to be right.
wow really liked this, my male nurse has helped me over the years helping me see that my delusions are not real, but this is like the final nail in its coffin lol, helps me have more confidence in going back to work and getting out there hopefully
Why did you specify that the nurse is a male?
I have taken a few Psychological tests in my life. I always found the question Do you have delusions ? HILLARIOUS
IF They are delusions - how would I know .
Yes, whilst having a delusion you don't know it's a delusion you believe it's real life but after the delusion has passed you're able to differentiate that from reality, meaning you can answer the question 'do you have delusions?'. They're like dreams. You don't know you're dreaming at the time of dreaming but when you wake up you realise it was a dream.
@@fin183 ESPECIALLY evident in the case of *Bipolar Disorder* , when the Manic phases come to an end.
@@mwjgcreeves4984 yeah. I've had many delusions in the past and to this day I'm still wondering what the cause is since I've never taken drugs and I don't drink so it must be biological but I don't think I have bipolar.
@@mwjgcreeves4984 can you please explain more? So its mania/hallucination followed by depression followed by delusion ??
You can have a delusion and know it. You just can't help it.
I have ran out of my medication and watching these videos helps me to calm myself down by understanding more about why I feel the way I do :'( can't wait to pick up my prescription tomorrow
I hope you’re doing better!
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Very interesting subject, Dr Grande. I’ve always confused delusions with hallucinations. I have a wonderfully talented pianist as an accompanist, but he has Bipolar 1, which once got out of hand when he was telling me Mozart was telling him to play the aria known as 'Queen Of The Night’ at double the speed. I tried all manner of things to convince him this couldn’t be true, but no, he played it double speed and I sang it at that speed 😂. I did pass my associates exam, but with compliments for the vocal calisthenics. Later, someone else told him what he did and he couldn’t apologize enough. I’m now supposing that was a delusion he had.
I used to get both mixed up too, but it helps to see hallucinations being on the realm of the senses, and delusions being on the realm of ideas.
It would really have to be assessed by a mental health professional, as to whether the pianist thought he was hearing Mozart's voice speaking to him, which would be a hallucination, or whether he had an entrenched and strange belief that Mozart was somehow communicating to him via the musical notations or something. Sometimes either way these symptoms can come up due to substance use, and I don't know if that was a factor here or not? I hope he will be evaluated by a mental health clinician.
Dr. Grande aka Dr. BIG
@Simone S indeed a total delusion.
What if he just heard it. Lol.
I found this video quite informative. I have bipolar one and bpd. I have had two episodes of psychosis , and have believed many of these delusions . I've had hallucinations too. I'm just recovering from a long two months of psychosis. Still amazes me everythingibelived in. I was never one for conspiracy theories or even knew much about them until I was hit with psychosis. Paranoia of government was so real to me. Alternate realities , grandious thoughts.... All of it was so real. Thank you for sharingthis video
@roki feler go see your doctor to find the proper help
You’re young, it happens to some people at that age and never again. Lack of sleep sometimes?
If you think someone is delusional because what they believe is totally ridiculous to you it is entirely possible that you feel incredulous towards their belief because you are actually the deluded one.
Mike Baker big facts
Mike Baker so how long have you been narcissistic?
There's akways that danger which is why, when I was working a an assessor, I akways trues to ignore strangeness as proof of delusions.
Strangeness is subjective.
Just because I'm incredulous of wgat they're saying doesn't mean it's not possibly true.
My coworkers would get mad at me for trying to prove or disprove delusions but I thought it made sense to not fall back on impressions based on my own experience of what is or isn't plausible.
Example: I met a client who believes she was Kurt Cobain's daughter.
So instead of just assuming (way if it was really her on a bad day while high and she got mugged, lost German phone and ID and was irrational so cops thought she was delusional... unlikely, but possible).
So I looked her up... wow, she looked almost just like her. She knew true facts about "herself", was relatively high functioning, etc. But I found the objective proof she wasn't.
She was about 7 years too young, cited her age as the celebrity's age, but her real birthday, and they didn't jibe. I tried to point this out and she didn't budge.
Boom.
Classic delusion.
@@navagator2452 you have to have beliefs about beliefs to automatically think any position is ridiculous.
A true default position isn't thinking anyone else's position is ridiculous, but instead you're merely wary of unsure of it, or maybe you find it uncompelling because of how it's presented.
The response of derision assumes a background of knowledge on the subject, which in turn requires beliefs on the larger topic at hand.
@@navagator2452 that's good of you not to TELL someone their belief is ridiculous, but I wasn't talking about just what we tell people.
I'm talking about the inner reaction, your inner dialogue.
Thinking someone's opinion is ridiculous, (unless based on our assessment of the person in general, like their raving and foaming at the mouth mixed with incoherent internally illogical points coupled with ideas that are foreign to us), is a reaction based on things we already think we know at least tentatively or assume (that's' called belief).
Hence, to think someone has a ridiculous belief is to have a belief about their belief.
One can't dodge believing in things on any topic one cares enough about to have any sort of emotional reaction or polemical response to.
My brother had Schizophrenia and suffers from delusions daily. His biggest definitely stems from paranoia: he thinks cars that pass by us are going fast to irritate him or to get away from him. He also thinks when people honk their horns, they’re doing so at him. We tell him all the time that this is not the case, but he never believes us. Other examples: he thinks the cops are always out to get him, even if he has done nothing illegal, he believes 9/11 happened because of him, he also believes that whenever Duke looses at a basketball game it’s because of him or that if they loose “everybody” is going to make fun of him. We try to explain to him why none of this is the case, but the delusions are so deep that nothing we say changes his mind. It’s really very sad.
You should make a podcast
I would love that
You should get unlimited data then you can just listen to TH-cam
I can listen to this guy for hours
Slugpowder - I agree completely.
Carmen V he is too excited toned like overly dramatic
I am a Hungarian med student in 5th year. As uni lectures are online now, my psychiatry teacher sends us quite a few youtube videos and I just got a link to this video and I was sooo suprised and happy, cause I have been watching your videos for a few months now!! :D Your videos are not just entertaining for everyone but really informative for those who study psychiatry. :) So thank you for these videos! Keep doing what you're doing!
Try to humanize your patients
Excellent - this clarified a wide range of conditions for me
Would you consider a video on recreational drug use leading to psychotic episodes? And how substance induced psychosis differs from the idea that some predisposed individuals can develop mental illness "triggered" by drug use? I think it could be worthwhile especially with today's prevalence of mixing or laced substances, synthetic/designer drugs.
Not fair to people who really have mental illness that all these counselors think it can be bc of drugs when some people can't help it.
@@WhitneyAbrina lmao drug induced psychosis or persistent perceptive hallucinogen induced disorders are still mental health issues
Yea please!! I never had anxiety but after I tired weed ONCE I now have anxiety every day
@@thecheesegod2738 Hi if it is not too private could you elaborate further? have you ever talked about this with a professional? seems very interesting. I hope you find a way to feel better
@@simon20002 thank you and no I have not, it's not too bad, it's gotten better since "the accident" lol but yes I'll elaborate, if I dont happen to answer the question you had in mind just ask. I had bought weed from a weed place in my state because it is legal and decided I just wanted to try it, id love to expirience everything at least once. I never ever had anxiety before in my life, I wasnt even sure I knew what that felt like really. Even when I had panic attacks they were panic attacks alright just without the anxiety, hard to explain but usually when I had them I would just be like oh okay cool... anyways I'm gonna go and do normal stuff to "trip" myself out of it. So I thought I would be totally okay on weed. Turns out I was wrong. I knew that weed is stronger than some cigarette so i took only 2 hits of the weed. At first I wanted to eat so bad I just wanted wierd stuff to eat and I'm a pretty boring person when it comes to eating, I eat everything plain. But all of a sudden I wanted chocolate waffles with frosting? So I started toasting up the waffles so the frosting would melt and I go to wash my hands again (have ocd) and my boyfriend was watching a video on TH-cam and has been playing it the whole time and the voice was a computer reading a script like siri or google. So I go to wash my hands and the second I turn off the water I notice how monotone the voice is in the video and BOOM, all of a sudden I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack and die. I'm like fuck, wtf is going on. I sat on the couch and was trying to tell him to turn it off but I was like wierdly stuck and felt too relaxed to even open the mouth but after a while I managed to tell him to fuck off🤣 kicked him out of the room and turned on the DUMBEST movie I could find on netflix because for some reason I knew this was a problem due to an external source so perhaps the only way to calm down was externally too. Turns out I was right and the movie helped me calm down after 30 minutes and since this was indica I was super sleepy and fell asleep. Everyday after that I would randomly get anxiety and it felt terrible, I had to look it up to make sure it was that because I had never felt like this before. It's been exactly a year and I still feel it. Everytime I take my (prescribed) adderall (started it a month ago) i get anxiety during the come up and have to calm myself down by watching funny or stupid things lol but yes this is how it happened🤣
Also I want to point out I never did any drugs before weed only drank once a year and I was 18 when I did the weed.
You're skilled and your english is perfectly clear: Thank you!
Very interesting, and Todd's way of explaining is so fluid-like, pretty smart bloke.
This video was very informative! It helped me gain insight to a neighbor of the Reformed Jewish faith who frequently asserted he was a reincarnated extraterrestrial directly descended from Jesus. For a decade he'd persist with this, finally, I had to end the friendship as I could not tolerate it any more.
well, if he is not hurting anyone and it makes him happy, we need to feed this delusion and be happy they discoverd their alien-kin self, and running away from them is big meanie action
4:00 Even paranoids have enemies... and sometimes "they" really ARE out to get them!
Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you.
@doctorDooK Thanks!
I think the paranoiacs are the ones going after people
that isn't helpful.
sometimes there has been years of verbal proof of person sitting back and listening but theres so much information that has lead up to such belief
that someone just doesnt understand?
The last woman I fell in love with has a very strong version of bipolar. When she’s off of her medication long enough she can forget even her own name. I got involved some when she went off of the rails and I repeated to her mom something alarming she said to me, to her mom. She ended up marrying another guy after knowing him almost 5 years. I think that she will need loving people around her as guardrails when she gets off of her medication. I love her very much.
So when I was a teenager I was diagnosed with psychotic depression and was told I had delusions, but as I recall I actually knew these thoughts didn't make any sense, they were just so pervasive/intrusive and violent that I was terribly afraid that I would hurt someone. In hindsight I really didn't have the knowledge or skill to actually carry out the intrusive thoughts as actions, but it was nonetheless terrifying for me and made me feel like a monster. At that time I had several simultaneous lines of thought I was consciously aware of (although I was only able to deliberately drive my train of thoughts in two lines, the others were linguistic/auditory intrusive thoughts and visuals of horrific violence.) Nobody really seemed to notice how much pain and fear I was living in, especially not my parents or therapist. Once I was on an antipsychotic the 4 extra lines of thought went away within a couple of days (or at least I was no longer aware of them) but the emotional aftermath lasted for years.
Hey! I apologize, I know this is a late response, and I don’t want to intrude- but have you ever looked into harm OCD? What you had described sounded similar to what someone with that condition may experience.. People with Harm OCD can often have overwhelming beliefs and multiple kinds of intrusive thoughts surrounding hurting people, but they know the thought process is irrational, and it disagrees with their actual morals and feelings, like thoughts of hurting someone you love despite actually never wanting to do it in a million years.. I’m happy to hear you have found treatment that works, and that your symptoms have gone away, or at least reduced. I’m sure it must have felt alienating, I’m sorry to hear. :( I wish you nothing but the best recovery. :)
A question i have for a long time related to this, and found surprisingly few answers in research literature: what about the deeply religious people? I'm trying to avoid the word "fanatics" as it has quite a negative and judging tone, but the prevalence of certain characteristics seems quite high for me: unshakeable beliefs, feelings of being chosen, in possession of secret knowledge for ethernal life, unstoppable urge to try to persuade others to be converted, feelings of being on a sacred mission, ability to argue till the end on "the truth" (even with very high racionality!), low acceptance of thoughts of others, low empathy, and even strong beliefs that God has messages direct to them in the Bible (can be any other variant of religion). Can this be the strong symptom of ...what? Delusions? Mania? Psychosis? NPD? As far as i know one of the criterion of personality disorders in the DSM is behaviours deviating from the accepted cultural norms - is this the explanation why religion + personality disorders (or this particular religious character) seems so underrepresented in research? Or is it more like an unspoken policy, something like "psychology should not judge religion as illness"? I know there are many types of deeply religious people, and also that most of the religious people are much low-key. But what about the above mentioned character?
Excellent presentation and loaded with important insights on delusional disorders. I hope people understand that you save them months of researching with the integrity of your presentations. I learned a great deal from this one it pertains to my own personal experiences. I will be watching this one multiple times to allow the wealth of information on this disorder to set in. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Dr Grande ,one of the many responses that I have received,is that those persons have tendency to call you Delusional if You have spotted a pattern in someone that indicates Delusions,(or other abnormal behavior)so what has helped me to remain on task is to remember that I am the one who was following up on the clues First (I noticed the pattern First) not until you bring up the “subject “of a pattern is anything noticed,so,as a “defense” they’ll indicate that you are the one having Delusions.(Key Word “Pattern”.)
Dr. This is actually how they watch us. Nobody ever believes it. Majority of people on earth are oblivious living in the mind instead of the body.
Good video. This is correct for some people. Most of them are talented people socially denied to be who we really are causing us to feel discrimination.
Discrimination is not a delusion. We act like other people to cope with the pain.
Great video Dr, I agree with a lot!!!
What makes it very hard to talk a person out of a delusion is that they are feeling persecuted, and as such they are very agitated and aggressive, talking loudly... So it's very hard to start talking to them, they won't listen and will antagonize you, making it even dangerous to question what they are saying.
Not all under delusions are aggressive and loud. That must have been your experience with that particular person.
Thank you, there’s a lot people in America need this!
Hey dr Grande. I'm currently struggling with paranoia and what I think are delusions. This video gives me a clearer idea of what I might be experiencing. I have diagnoses that include psychosis but nothing's really been explained to me like this. Thanks for sharing :) I hope you're having a good one.
Omg, so it's come to my awareness that my mother may have a histrionic personality (she's incredibly attention seeking, so much so that when me and my sisters were being abused by my father she swept it under the rug and made it all about her), and that last type of delusion.. She legit had a mental breakdown when I was 16 thinking some radio show host was 'giving her signals' through the radio that he was secretly in love with her.. As I was dealing with my own neglected mental health, it was incredibly hard to watch, but this really opened my eyes to what she was experiencing. This really helped make sense of it, thank you!
As someone super interested in "alternative explanations" (aka conspiracy theories) my biggest fear is being delusional. I'm so afraid to cross that line! for example I'm always telling my guests to be careful the kind of jokes they make in my house because I have Alexa. Haha.. I know it makes me sound nuts when I do it but I also feel like it's a cautionary step so I do it anyway. Great video, thanks!
You can be interested in those things without being delusional, but it is a very delicate balance. Best to stay accountable to people who you consider very sane.
Don't be afraid of being delusional
I miss this videos DR. Grande, its always a hit going back in time with you. There is so much to open up and learn, study even more as Virtual Reality comes and imaginary creative.
I had a boyfriend one time who would make me shower every time I came over, just in case I was bugged or something. And if he came to my place he'd shut all the blinds and check to see if any cameras were set up recording him. He was very paranoid.
Are you sure that he existed?
So? Maybe he had trust issues or mental health issues.
@@WhitneyAbrina Yeah that's my point.
Poor guy
Yeah but why did you put up with that
Is there such a thing as group/shared delusions? One example is the belief that positive thoughts will make you rich that seems to be everywhere in our culture right now. Most of the church sites on TH-cam have some version of this. Even some psychology sites talk about something similar-making it sound like thoughts are responsible for everything and that mental illness has no physical/biological component.
Or in large group awareness human potential trainings-forgot to mention that. All of this positive thinking training in our culture seems to be a type of collective magical thinking or delusion.
law of attraction is real, its quantum physics and thats a hard science. maybe u should study more on it
Religion
Classic schizophrenia is the shared belief within a family structure through thought process and dialectic with a isolate they are all at the church he lines them up every Sunday.
The “gang stalking /targeted individuals” phenomenon is a very interesting. Would this be considered a mass delusion?
Reckless Dreamer ayy gang stalking CAN be a delusion. but that stuff really happens all over america at least. look up “revenge for hire “ for one source of its activities.
Have you ever been a victim of this? Because I have and its terrifying
Shared delusion.
If gangstalking is real how in the world is it a delusion?
These people are likely schizophrenic
Very interesting, and Todd's way of explaining is so fluid-like, pretty smart bloke.
Had a friend in high school who said she was dating a guy who didn't know she existed. I gave her the benefit of the doubt back then - she's young & wants a boyfriend so bad etc. But it didn't end there - she continued the relationship well into college and after and would go into detail about their sex life. She is also angry all the time and blames everyone else for her problems. I wonder what Dr Grande would say the possible diagnosis would be for this behavior?
Dear Dr G. a perfect choice of a brown shirt for this presentation. I am involved in natural medicine. One of the most common delusions I encounter is that individuals who are addicted to various foods (that are very negatively impacting their health) are generally not open to any form of nutritional advice. Even if it involves them overall eating much more, but not the foods they are addicted too.
Thank you for explaining the difference between delusions and hallucinations, I normally mix up these two concepts.
Very informative video, always a pleasure to watch your content! ❤️
Just saw this video. Never seen you before. You are incredibly down to earth in your intelligence. Your extremely easy to follow and listen to. A very nice speaking voice.
Your so thourough in all your teaching if tangents and categories .
Your nice looking. You are interested in what your talking about which would seem to makes the viewer stay focused in your discussion.
Before I was institutionalized for psychosis I was delusional. One of my delusions is very interesting to me. I thought that everyone play a social game of persons. I thought: When you are child you are ignorant of this game, but once you discover this game you are immediately grown up. Also, your parents can't kick you out of the house until you discover this game. To play a game you choose a person you want to be and you play according to what you choose. If you play well you gain 'social points'. For example, if you choose to be a celebrity and you really become a celebrity people will like you and everyone would like to play with you. But if you don't become it then you lose 'social points' and nobody will play with you.
It was really fun. If you have questions AMA.
Wow really interesting .. can you talk more about it .. for example, what did you choose ? How and when did you discover it is just a delusion?
Sounds like a pretty accurate interpretation of reality to me.
Albeit if it is seen as real in spite of your consciousness of it I see how that can become delusional, as I believe it has within myself. Interesting that grains of truth in this are that people really see the world that way and think it's true, but only you and me would be labeled delusional bc we see that for what it is but have struggled to detach from it.
Nah man that’s just reality
This right here
I have a buddy who lives in the thick of the forest, up in the hills. His girlfriend not content to be up there during the day because they argue usually sets out walking then catches rides (hitchhiking) down to the valley and into a trailer park where she knows a lot of people. She has been gravitating over to my house because I assume no one is letting her hang around for very long. She is 32 years old and reasonably attractive but it's very apparent she has schizophrenia and I'm not sure what to do. None of us has money for psychiatric counseling and just the mention of schizophrenia upsets her even worse. I've been allowing her to hang out in my living room where she gets good wifi on her phone and can listen to music which calms her down a bit. What keeps happening is she starts arguing rather loudly with someone only she can hear. I'll be in another part of my house and I keep having to stop what I'm doing to go see what's wrong with her (this time). Anyway it's usually the same. Most often she believes electrical outlets have a tiny speaker hidden in them and someone is communicating with her through them. If it's not the electrical outlets then it's either from her phone or from my next door neighbor if she can hear the music he's playing. The only things that seem to keep her normal are when she's focused on house cleaning (for money) or when my cynical sense of humor makes her laugh. A few of us in town let her do house cleaning but there's only so much we can afford. I don't know what else to do and I feel sorry for her because I know she needs professional help and medication but she insists there's nothing wrong with her and that the voices are real. Thanks for reading.
So I've listened to about 15 of your videos, and one of the (many) things I've learned, is that "construct" basically means "thing"
Wouldn't it have made sense to look the word up? A construct is "an idea or theory containing various conceptual elements" You can look it up for more detailed and thorough definition and discussion of course.
Thank you Dr. Grande you make my psychiatry lectures digestible!.
Going through this with my husband. This helps me to understand what exactly is happening.
Diagnosed with Pugalistica Dementia. I was gifted with Paranoid Personality Dissorder. I was also gifted with Skitzo-Effective (bipolar)
PPD is a huge part of my highly intellectual side, which makes breaking delusions extremely difficult ! For every crack someone has to my delusion, i have a "logical" answer to combat that.
Knowledge is a wonderful thing, but it can turn on you.
Thank you for your video sir ! :)
Schizoaffective*
I bet you are mathematically illiterate
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Me Mathematically illiterate ?
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I am the kid that flunked lunch. YOU on the other hand, I can tell you make your parrents proud ! 🤪
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Sometimes the "delusions" are real, so real you can't just push away.
I managed to convince myself I had superpowers
I believe in things that aren’t true and feel things that aren’t true but I can’t seem to tell myself it’s not real because it feels real
I'm at the point I'm actually trying to find a way to prove to myself that I am INDEED DELUDED!
Yeah, it seems ridiculously real, and in my mind, I can't convince myself that I am (not to mention I keep finding things to say at least some of the things I believe are valid)
I'd really like to be presented with some of that new information he was talking about so I can just move on already.
I'm sick of thinking about it.
Chances are that I am paranoid and I am diagnosed as BI Polar and have had many episodes... however my delusions do not leave when I'm in good health.
I don't want to be paranoid or worry about any of the shit that my brain won't stop telling me is real.
What I think I really need is someone who can solidly refute my arguments, present me with this new information that points to the contrary, and eventually, in time, see things the correct way they should be...
Only problem is, I've been looking for that person for almost 15 years.... and still am no closer to finding them....
@@jimbob8910 nomatter what issues we fix, yes, the "delusions" stick around i agree. we're all in this together though, crazy or not. hang in there x
Just like a dream you can't help it how can you even tell until you wake up?
My ex used to get paranoid and delusional , he’d fully believe scenarios about me that he’d made up in his head and was convinced I’d done them . It was very scary not being able to prove to him that I hadn’t done those things . He used cocaine heavily and I believe that’s what triggered them for him , it also made my life hell . I wish I could’ve done something to help him so he didn’t end up treating me how he did
What’s the difference between believing in conspiracy theories and believing in religion?
Little to none.
I mean, religion is like this global thing that a lot of people believe in and support. So in that case, I’d think you don’t need to be delusional to accept something like that. Because enough people support you. Versus if you’re one person who thinks something that nobody else does and is completely eviscerated by evidence to the contrary, the ability to hang onto that thinking anyway might mean your brain is busted up.
Popularity and social priviledge.
Depends on when you learn in your soul knows. Its so deep, you'll know
This was very eye opening for me. On both sides of the table, perspective is key. Let's think about a delusional person and the length of their life compared to how much the professional really knows. Abuse, paranoia, knowing important people, anger, even feeling like an alien and people are out to get them, all sound crazy when family is telling the Dr. about their background and trying to have them committed. Getting authorities involved and pursuing actions. Now let's think about a toxic family narcissistic dynamic. Complete with flying monkeys, endless gaslighting attempts, denial, protecting an abusive family member to save face and keep the normal family appearance.
What happens when the patient is the truth telling scapegoat? What if the patient has evidence to prove long standing abuse from their cult like family? Along with proof of lying and cover ups? But in the hospital they have no access to anybody or anything to present the truth.
How are you doing? 🤔😌
@@cerah9046 I am doing very well thank you. It's interesting, what made you ask?
@@valeneravae8211 Just making sure 😌
@@cerah9046 thank you.
As a former cop, I can verify that crooked cops engage in “local” conspiracies. The hard part is proving conspiracies because “correlation is not equal to causation.” Not all conspiracies are formal. An example of informal conspiracies is “professional courtesy” or the “code of silence.”
Omigosh, the example Dr. Grande uses here describes what this person would do in our conversations to a tee! Jumping to conclusions about one small thing that was said in a sentence.
Years ago I when I first entered therapy they thought I was delusional until everything I told them was proven to be true. My family was in politics ect. Over time I was able to provide evidence to back up everything I was saying. Originally they were diagnosing me with everything under the sun, this was 25 years ago. Needless to say I still attend the same therapist and I do not have any of those things. My experiences at the time seemed unbelievable. Its all mainstream today. I can identify with what others are saying. Stay strong, find your beliefs and stand firm.
thank you for the information Dr. Grande, I have bipolar 1 disorder and did not realize I was experiencing ideas of reference. I felt normal. But now i see more clearly how this was related to my mood.
Thank you Dr Grande. Re-watching this video helped to answer a question that I asked on a more recent video. I probably should've checked over your wonderful videos prior to asking :) . You tend to cover many bases! 😄
You're welcome!!
Dr. Grande, this has been so helpful. I have a son I thought was in psychosis, but now I think it's PPD (no halucinations of any sort). The problem is, any form of help being offered is viewed by him as part of the overall conspiracy against him. He refuses medicine and thinks psychiatrists are in on the conspiracy. It's scary and I don't know how to handle it.
When people are high they get delusions and then feel like a fool when I come down
I'm literally doing that right now.
Careful with that, never know when you wont come down.
Examining this video and the information submitted makes reflect deeply on my circumstance and have better understanding the differences between reality and symptoms of mental health. I most times struggle with thoughts pertaining to my mental health but this data will become useful and I'll be determined to manage my thoughts and understand certain situations from a different perspective.
It sounds like you have a lot of amount of experience with delusional patients (though it's not entirely clear whether you're speaking from your personal experience or based on things you've read). I have four questions for you - I'd be very interested in your response to any or all of them. 1. How often have you found that you actually diagnose someone with "Delusional Disorder" - as opposed to someone having delusions associated with other "disorders" (schizophrenia, manic episodes, etc). According to DSM V Delusional Disorder is a rare disease, and these individuals may be "high functioning." I'm trying to picture what this looks like. Can you give a specific case history about someone you diagnosed with this disorder? 2. If you see a patient who describes something odd or bizarre (for example, "government spying" - an example you give here - or similar) - how much time and effort do you devote to examining evidence presented by the patient in order to determine whether they are in fact observing something real - and not something imaginary? In other words, since delusions are by definition FALSE beliefs - what specific steps do you take to determine that the "beliefs" are false? I don't see much of anything about this in the DSM, though it seems important in determining whether someone is, in fact, delusional. 3. Have you ever had a patient who claimed to be subjected to a pattern of things like "organized stalking" (IOW, stalking/tracking by groups on foot, in cars, etc) or sort of a systematic gaslighting in addition to other things like "government spying"? And if so, how did you respond to these claims? Did you investigate their veracity or did you diagnose them as delusions? - BTW - about six minutes into this video you talk about persecutory delusions involving "rays" and "satellites" - you also mention "mind control" which as we know is actually a thing (and psychology is part of it - let me know if you need me to provide support for any part of this statement). What if the person didn't say the were being tracked/followed/attacked by "satellites" but by "drones." Would that change your point of view as to the plausibility of this belief? 4. This is more about you as a doctor. Once you've diagnosed a person as delusional, are you still receptive to evidence that the person's "beliefs" are in fact evidence-based and factual? And if evidence is provided, what do you do with the fact that you diagnosed the person as delusional? Do you correct your records and admit your mistake? Has anyone ever done this?
Thank you for considering these questions. If you need any clarification for anything I have said or asked, just let me know.
Thank you for your videos, I find them so inspiring. I often find myself putting them on as I'm going to sleep. Please do a podcast!
You are right about careful assessment
My brother has been going through tons of paranoid delusions over the last several years. He was diagnosed with bipolar with psychotic tendencies. He is convinced my parents raped and molested him and my grandmother as well. He thinks this happened before I was born and I'm only 16 months younger. He is in the mental hospital again right now and I'm wondering if this will ever get cleared up in his mind. He is now trying to get my parents, myself and my grandmother sent to the hospital as well on a title 36, (Arizona). He trashed my parents house this time, as he was living there. He broke priceless heirlooms and destroyed a lot of pictures. This is incredibly difficult because we are his only support group. He has burned all other bridges he had.. We have contacted everyone we can think of to help him but now we are at a loss and none of us want him to be on the streets, though we can no longer deal with him living with any of us. It's simply too much. Hoping someone can possibly give us some advice, or even just a tiny bit of positivity..
My ex-husband believes he's allergic to water (he's not)
I have a friend who is allergic to water. She breaks out in the rain or in the shower or if she goes swimming. She has to wear gloves to do dishes but she mostly just has to deal with the rashes
I knew someone who says he’s allergic to water.
Rachael Gosser the general consensus in the medical community is that people who present with this are not allergic to the water itself (aquagenic urticaria), but rather salts, chlorine, or other solutes found in their water source. Tell them to try washing with distilled water and see what happens. 👍
Impossible surely. How are they still living? Most things contain water anyway?
That's just an excuse to not take showers lol
Excellent, enlightening video. You nailed it 👏 Very helpful. Thank you 😊
Can a traumatic event cause a reaction that makes someone delusional in that one area for the rest of his/her life?
That’s what I’m dealing with but no one says anything about it 😖😖😖
@@maridamacy im going through this, but i'm aware of it. it's very hard
Yeah same here. my grandfather is dealing with paranoid delisions in a SERIOUS way right now. He had a serious head injury 40 years ago and was also a Police officer downtown Toronto. We dont know, but it slowly started showing up from time to time over the past 25 years
Have you seen a trauma based therapist? I would consider.
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I don’t know how many different ways to tell my drs I need that.
It never happens.
I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder a long time ago... Recently I moved in with my biological mother (I was adopted) she seems to have factitious disorder, but has zero patience for me calling her on her lies. I don't think I'm delusional, I take my meds everyday, but because she knows I was diagnosed with this disorder she's using it to her advantage. I got hospitalized not long ago because she said she had cancer (third time in 6years) and we argued over the fact that "this isn't the first time I've heard that from you"
I was hospitalized for delusional thinking....
I'm afraid that I'm wrong and actually delusional. But I really don't think I am...
I've had what others would consider auditory hallucinations, a lengthy one in particular. It was not overly hostile towards me; arguably, it was too compassionate.
I am now convinced these occurred due to my central delusion, which is that I had been a kind and intelligent person, who was not really mentally sick. But as I have been going over the major events and habits of my life, I can see that delusion does not match the facts at all.
I guess I have "conspiracy theories" about my life. I think some people may have been trying to lead me further astray. Others, to try to help me and show me kindness. Some, to use me. Some, to trick or warn me. And yet others, to teach me lessons about myself and this world. In this last category, I have failed badly - and at the moments I've realized this, I've responded with self-destructiveness that has helped nobody. Maybe this post is another example of that, for all I know.
I don't know if I can successfully change that well. But I think I've at least been awoken to my major delusions.
You put into words what I could not
My mom worked in a mental hospital for years. One story she told me was that once a patient was admitted for swearing up and down that his wife was poisoning his milk. He was administered treatment and then released after being symptom free after some time. Plot twist? As he was leaving the hospital his wife said "Have this milk" he drank it and immediately collapsed. He was tested and poison was found in him so his wife was arrested. He survived thank goodness but it just goes to show that sometimes humans are... interesting to say the least. Human behavior being able to be somewhat predictable is why I find psychology so fascinating. Parsing together people's behavior to form a diagnosis is like detective work in a way and I admire the ones whose responsibility it is to make those discoveries. A delusion is unfortunately one of the saddest symptoms to witness, the break from reality for a lot of my mother's patients was heartbreaking. She dealt with a lot of schizophrenics some of which would attempt suicide or attempt to poison staff. Others would tell elaborate stories about their "adventures". If you are reading this and you suffer from schizophrenia or psychotic episodes just know that I wish you the best and I hope you have a wonderful day.
Thank you so much! A very thorough and informative video. So I have a couple of questions about delusions:
1. You mention that people with bipolar disorder generally will cycle in and out of their delusions. It this true of other people as well? Like, do they ever wonder, even for a split second, if what they believe so strongly is actually true?
2. Is it common for people to become violent as the result of a delusional belief? For example, if someone is worried that the government is hurting them with radiation, would it be likely that this patient would somehow retaliate in self-defense?
I believed for a year that I was terminally ill , and people were hiding it from me, and that everyone looked at me with pitty and if they were nice to me it was because they knew I was dying .... I even stopped eating for a while because I got so depressed. Which made me end up in hospital with severe malnutrition so because I felt so weak it made the delusion more real that I really was dying . Even though the doctors kept reassuring me showing me blood tests I just couldn’t believe it , even if I wanted to. So ended up in a mental ward 🤦🏻♀️
I hope you feel better now, I guess that if you trust so deeply in something you can as well get it, such as a career or project.
i wish i could listen to myself when i'm being delusional but i cant get through to me! its very frustrating
same :(
Thank you very much for this clear summary, Dr. Grande. But no, I'm not interested in receiving counseling with this.
I like my delusions very much, and I wouldn't let even Dr. Grande touch it.😎 I have pretty strong boundaries here. Everything has its limits! Have a wonderful day! 😊
Is it possible to have delusions sometimes... like sometimes I feel like what if it’s real and sometimes I really think it’s real
Yesss omg I have that too
Me tooooo!
Jasmine...your beautiful...I'm completely nuts...wanna go out sometime.?
very late response but i also get that, I flicker in an out of believing things that seem impossible, so like an on-off delusion
@@kaelin8775 this is happening to me now it started February of this year I was literally fine before I never used to get delusions I don’t if it got triggered because of being stressed but it’s literally so annoying
Dr. Grande this was a really great video!
Thank you for the videos De Grande, very good
Hi- someone please reply. I know someone who has been struggling with what I possibly think is delusions. I have known them all my life so this sudden change made it really hard to believe they were delusional, but now I’m starting to see the symtoms more clearly. She believes there’s something out to get her of course. She sees the same license plates everywhere, cars speed on the road when their near her, they harass her, people knock on her car, there is a microphone and camera in her car as well. She believes it must be some sort of “game” that she has to win. She says it’s never going to stop. She believes that when she’s gotten pulled over my cops that they are purposely doing it in spite of the game. Or (which she doesn’t know for sure) people could just be messing with her and trying to “ruin her life”. Which it has. She has lost her job (which she believes was from the game) and even moved out of her current state because of it. This has been going on for almost 2 years. The thing that scares me the most is that she pointed out a license plate to me that she’s seen before, and then later that day I saw a license plate that seemed the exact same (but could have just been extremely similar). This has conflicted me into whether or not I should believe she is delusional. But deep down I think it could have been mere coincidence, I don’t know. I’m so lost and it’s truly broken me seeing this happen to her. It’s been so long that she’s had these delusions it makes me lose hope that she will ever stop believing them. Someone help me.
Kaila E. My suggestion is to first you must know what , if any , toxins are the cause . Drugs, alcohol and things that alternate reality
“What does your daddy do? He helps people find their feelings.” Kindergarten Cop
Sometimes I think someone can take my soul, or they’re poisoning my food to harm me, or certain roads i go down will bring me into another dimension, or if I walk in a spot I leave a piece of me so I have to go back twice sometimes five times to get that piece of ke back, or if I a vent is on my soul will leave my body, or if I sleep before 12:00 I’ll go into another year:(. I need help. I wasn’t like this until I started to isolate from everyone. I want to not think like this anymore.
Very interesting as usual!
I must say from my own experiences that there is deception or influence that 'the delusionist' can create as source and manipulation.
In this case the person would create elaborate stories to convince people that he was psycho deluded even about the things he wasn't even deluded about, once you got to know him.
It had entered into criminality on occasions, as he'd also play his stories to secretly incriminate some people as a result of them doing his tidings.
His grandiosity made him think he had big-time reality.
He would even go as far to fake freakish involuntary facial movements which was one of the ploys (along with a far flung story) he had used to emotionally wind his girlfriend in to become his wife...
Time now to watch your 'Purpose of Delusions' video... thanks doctor 🙏
I have bipolar disorder, I have been delusional at one time, and nothing anyone said would change it. I was sent to the psych ward and put on nasty antipsychotics and the delusions went away, I'm not sure how that works. They never came back.
So are u okay now, medications helped?
Im fine now. I take supplements, not medications. I was on meds for only a month when this happened.
What antipsychotics did you take to have the delusions go away?
@@hopeful188 Seroquel, Haldol, and Risperidone.
my meds aren't working 😭😭😭😭😭😭'im anxious
almost 80% of the types i had during depression, well done sir!!! i really appreciate your work, keep going
Can your subconscious replace memories so what you think happened changes to help you cope with something bad that happened?
Can the likelyhood of delusions increase when under constant stress?
I have never been diagnosed with schizophrenia but recently, due to a perfect storm that was situational, being extremely isolated, impoverished, vulnerable because of my decision to reside in an art studio which is not legally residential and worst of all, without privacy! Well, it caught up with me, combined of course with my adhd meds, I had sleep deprived psychosis, and the paranoia honestly had always been around to some degree but it became insanity! I also was eventually able to sleep, and while I still woke up to the same reality, unsure to what degree my paranoia of getting kicked out of my studio were legitimately based on reality, simply being well rested made me not care, in a good way, about the “voices” trying to delegitimise me and take my studio space! What made this so much worse was that me sleeping, which my sanity relies on, was also what was being prohibited (technically it might actually be prohibited to sleep in this non residential studio!) So basically everything avalanched from that point on, because I believed that I was being spied on or monitored to get caught sleeping, it was a nightmare!
"The Onion," an old satirical channel, has a very excellent video titled "Is the Government Spying on Schizophrenia Enough?" It does a decent job of poking fun at the kind of delusions schizophrenics and others might have.
I don't like it. I don't even like this video.
There is nothing funny about schizophrenia.
Don’t make fun of mental illness. Do you l laugh at cancer too?
In my friend groups, we do use humor to understand, assess, and come to terms with our peculiarities. I posted a suggestion. Feel free to ignore it if you wish.
Fun topic. We should discuss how delusions tie into theology. Because I grew up being the only person I knew that perceived religious behavior like worshipping invisible, non-existent beings, perceiving anyone who challenges their delusion as evil. So often religious and cult behavior ties into mass cultural delusion. So I'm left to assume delusions are very natural and very human. And I'm just missing that part that makes me normal.
I have a friend with delusions and hallucinations. I love this friend and would love to help her. She almost burnt her car the other day , because she thought a person or spirit was in it. How can I go about helping her, without turning her against me. I'm so confused. I love your channel, and your insight seems to be spot on. Can you point me in the right direction? Her family has given up. She will NOT admit it, because she truly sees this stuff. She doesn't see she needs help. 😔 Thank you, Mr Grande.
Have you seen this médium TV shows on TV ? There are many ppl how see spirits but they dont burn down the houses or Cars becouse of that ..Im just thinking it migth BE real when some One sees this spirits but you cant killed them their alreeady dead .. Soo maybe its just about how to deal with this things .. and the knolege about the spiritual world .. becouse the way a ser it if milions of ppl belive in heaven ir hell across many religions or spiritual paths ...are they all delusional, or maybe to a no none beliver just beliving in God can BE delusional. To cientists that dont belive in God all priests and all Jesus falowers should BE considered delusionals ..
My ex-best-friend of 35 years, we would go to garage sales and she would get too close to men and think they wanted her. Everyone wanted her and no one even noticed her. If she put the moves on a man, he always looked at me for help. She is married and has cheated on her husband since day one. I don't understand why he hangs on to this marriage, her life is cheating, hating, manipulating, and facebook and when she has the opportunity, she will sleep with someone she doesn't know. She is definitely delusional.
Never once in 35 years have I heard her say this gal she knows is beautiful, no one is beautiful but her--honestly, she is kinda' homely. The last time we went to lunch, she sat and stared at a young black man, who had to be 25 years younger, and got up and stopped at his table to flirt. She waited until he left to get a head nod between them. That was an entire 2 hours wasted and I was ticked off but that is who she is. She is talented, with what a glue gun--crafter. She has no loyalty but rubs your face in the fact she is married; she steals putting out fake charities on Facebook--thousands of dollars; and will always tell you what a great Christian she is, although she has a fake claim and gets disability to spend on luxuries every month.That's delusional from what I am getting from Dr. Grande. Her life on Facebook is a decent, affluent, outgoing, happy person--her reality is not that.
Sounds like a horny hypocrite to me.
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I'm not sure if this is delusion or if it would be called something else. If I'm under a lot of stress or if I'm extremely anxious about something, I sometimes start to believe things that I rationally know aren't grounded in fact, like that I have cancer or that I'm going to die in a car crash on an upcoming trip or that my friends are trashing me behind my back. Often it's sickness-related, like in my first week of college when I THOUGHT I was adjusting well to a new experience but when I found a blood blister on my toe I got so scared and convinced it was melanoma that I lost sleep & walked 6 miles to the clinic to have a guy just shave it off and be like "yep it was a blood blister."
When my first cat died when i was a teenager, I got mild food poisoning at a restaurant and got convinced I had gallbladder cancer and I had tests done about it.
Recently, I was about to make a major life decision i was nervous about & I became convinced my friends were judging me and criticizing me behind my back and that they secretly resented me.
And when I've gone through this stuff, I have been VERY aware that these catastrophizing beliefs and fears were not actually grounded in fact. I KNEW that rationally it was unlikely I had toe cancer or that I had gallbladder cancer or that all my friends secretly hate me and conspire about it. I knew that those fears were not grounded and I knew that it was my repressed anxieties about stuff I wasn't dealing with coming out like whack-a-mole somewhere else in my psyche. Rationally I understood what I was feeling and what I FELT was true was irrational. But it still FELT true and still scared me.
One of my best friends goes through the same thing-- if she's stressed or anxious she'll start to believe that a minor physical malady is a life-threatening illness and schedule a doctor appointment and lose sleep about it even though she's also 100% aware that it's just her brain freaking her out and that her headache is from stress and not a brain tumor. We laugh about this sometimes because it's so weird to fully understand that something that FEELS true is, for sure, not true, and sometimes she's like "hey remind me that I'm not dying" and I'm like "you're not dying" and it helps.
Is that delusion? Even if you know that something your brain keeps telling you to be afraid of is not actually happening? Or is that called something else? Because I've also known people with delusions who FULLY believe their narratives and cannot separate reality and their delusions. They don't "know in their head" that something they "feel" isn't actually true. I feel like that is for sure delusion, but is what my friend and I experience also delusion?
Very interesting, thanks. Can you do a more in-depth review of delusions that commonly impact older adults with dementia or Alzheimers? Thanks!
I honestly been struggling with ocd and it has caused me to become paranoid and delusional. Im blessed i found this and i will go to therapy.
"As sweet as dreams may be, eventually we all have to wake up."
Dr. Grande, Did you ever listen to the great Radio Monologuist, JOE FRANK? One of his radio shows- from his IN THE DARK series in the 90s- was called HOTLINE, and the main protagonist (vocalized by the great actress GRACE ZABRISKI) has a darling and tragic delusion that her great love was the man she saw going down the escalator as she went up (or vice versa). Her whole life seems in service to this event. In the sketch, she is talking on the phone hotline to a phone psychic who is playing a hand of tarot cards for her and egging her on but also allowing her to flower. Deep stuff. When you brought up the delusion of famous people being so into the person with delusions, I remembered this show. Check it out sometime. Joe just died not so long ago. Many people have not heard of him but he is a seminal influence in pop culture. He is the one who asks the hard questions, like, what is sadder? A jukebox or a coffin?
What if the delusions are causing the depression? I've been delusional for at least 2 years with the same thoughts. Every time I have these thoughts I convince myself that they're not rational. I tried seeking therapy, but my delusions won't allow me to trust any therapist.
What thougts you have ? And are you better now ?
@@nellen474 no not really
I would suggest maybe trying to be honest with your therapist that your delusion is telling you not to trust them. And say that you’re struggling to get better because of that lack of trust. Usually honesty is best policy when dealing with counselors and therapists
Thank you for these informative videos. They are super helpful in my daily work
Very informative video, Dr. Grande. Thank you! I would like to know what is your take on the flat earth conspiracy theory delusion.
I've had intense delusions, no thanks to conspiracies and new age self-help BS. It's a big community of delusional individuals. I'm just glad I can move on with a more rationalistic view of the world.
What's the reason behind government-type persecutory delusions? Is there some evolutionary background to it?
Scandals such as Watergate, MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, nuclear weapons, the Red Scare and espionage during the Cold War, political assassinations such as JFK, RFK, Malcolm X's and MLK's and revelations of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, My Lai Massacre and Tuskeegee Experiment all undermined public confidence in the US government and contributed to a rise in conspiracy theories, such as JFK's Second Shooter, water floridation, targeted individuals, etc.
*Theres a lot of bad things the U.S government has done, but it would be unwise to assume that all or most delusional people are actually being persecuted. It's beyond evil, but probably the C.I.A. would Target the homeless,runaway teens, sex trafficking victims, and refugees/migrants trying to cross the border. You can buy a human being in Lybia for as little as $20, and there's a crazy amount of people killed in Mexico by 'cayotes'. Middle class Americans shouldn't feel so sure of them selves, but there are other groups that are far more accessible for abuse then 50 years ago*
I think it has to do with what people read in the news .... also they can see the local police officer pumping gas next to them .... then they deduce “ok so it’s not the local police...” also they think “who has the technology and capability to (for example) get inside my brain.... it must be a group with extremely advanced technology like the FBI ... the local police mostly ride horses and give parking tickets”
IMHO you have to realize, what "the govt" represents for these people. A safe job that offers people a nice retirement? No, it's symbolic: the govt represents "the big power that I can't control or see." These people feel their have lost their power in life to a big unknown influence which they can't perfectly control or even observe. In a way, their subconscious minds have correctly grasped the situation; but the conscious experience has failed to correctly translate that to our waking world.
I think the disconnect between the spirit world of the subconscious and the physical manifestation of that world (our conscious minds) is a large part of several disorders. We dream only answers, but we have forgotten to ask the questions.
It's not a delusion
I used to work for a Social Security attorney. We had the only person I've ever heard of who wanted to appeal his favorable decision because if he took the money that would mean he agreed that he was mentally ill and the CIA wasn't surveilling him. He had to sign forms at some point appointing a representative and consenting to all the paperwork and then didn't want the money.