This is why I am so irritated with other people’s delusions being enabled. “Reality checking” is really opposed on social medias like TikTok. It upsets me to see people playing into mentally ill people’s delusions instead of leaving them be. They treat it like roleplaying, when they’re clearly not well.
feeding into peoples delusions is just as bad as reality checking someone, both can cause serious distress. imo we shouldnt be interacting with people who are delusional at all on the internet, there isnt anything we can do to make sure that they wont hurt themselves or someone else
I agree, I experience hallucinations and delusions (The delusions started in 2020-2021 but I’ve had hallucinations my whole life). My parents and sibling would always enable these hallucinations saying they are “ghosts” because they believe in ghosts and thought I was “spiritually sensitive”. I managed to realize that they are not ghosts and convinced my parents to get me the proper help I need (therapy and medication). It’s definitely helped though I don’t know what’s caused it. It could have been caused by me having depression (I’m pretty sure I’ve had it since I was young), me having delusional disorder, schizophrenia, or schizoaffective disorder or it could be none of those and I’m just having random hallucinations and delusions. I’m honestly just really glad that I was able to snap out of it and get the help i need.
@@trulyc Truly - " imo we shouldnt be interacting with people who are delusional at all on the internet," If anything I think isolating these people will cause them harm too. We should help non-dangerous mentally ill individuals with community care/medication/psychotherapy where possible; they are still people after all not wild animals. I will agree that sadistic individuals shouldn't be preying on venerable people via the internet; but I guess the anonymity which the internet provides means this is just always going to be a problem.
@@garybrocklehurst6784 I get what you're saying but when it's a stranger online, you have no clue what can help them get there versus what makes them worse/move further away from getting help. That's basically what Truly is getting it. As much as we want to help, we cannot push strangers to get the help they need; hell, it's hard enough to do so with a friend- I've lost a few because they're mad at me for not letting them "game over" so to speak. Reality checking is a useful skill in my own life, but I have to be the one to do it as trusting others too has put me in dangerous situations.
I was recently diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and Snapped's hallucinations are really similar to things I experience. I guess it goes to show how easily mental health can spiral out of control, especially when other people want to take advantage of the mentally ill. I hope Snapped is doing ok now and has gotten help.
I hope so as well, it's really disturbing that people took advantage of his hallucinations to make him hurt himself for their own sick amusement. Also ignore the comment that called you a freak, no need to pay attention to the ignorant.
It is a schizoaffective disorder yes, I’ve had the same until I got help but they still don’t go away as much as just sedated enough to not react but I’ve had family member and friends tell me I could see spirits etc… like no and stop enabling that idea it could make me very sick very fast
I'm glad you were able to receive help. I had a friend with schizoaffective disorder in high school. To a far lesser extent, I experienced severe anxiety in high school, which made me feel constant fight or flight and made me hallucinate creepypastas. In my rational brain, I knew they weren't real, but the intense fear gripped me still. My dad refused to get me treatment, saying that I would be thrown in a nuthouse (which I later learned was not true). After having an allergic reaction to prozac which gave me amnesia, I stopped hallucinating. Nowadays, I began to seek treatment and take cbd oil, and it helps stop irrational thoughts and my panic attacks and helps me sleep. The freedom of relief is bliss.
i feel so terrible for this guy. him opening up and people feeding him these ideas makes me feel sick. as a member of the straight edge community myself, i take medication for my mental illness and it makes me feel terrible how some don't have that trust in medicine or even his 'friends'. i feel horrible about this and how people would mess with his mind.
Hearing stories of addiction and accidental overdose over prescribed medication, all the way to being lesser then normal and muted, makes medication look terrifying to many. (Admittedly even to myself. I tend to want to stay far away from medication when I can.)
@@joltyflare i totally get that, i dont want this to come off as 'everyone should alwayd be on meds' but i personally use them and theyve slightly helped
I'm CSA survivor. I used get nightmares so I stopped sleeping. I told a friend and I could sleep again. Benzos triggered my addiction. I get where he's coming from. How do you know. You're not crazy, how do you know that snapped fingers is not crazy. You just have an opinion. You can understand where he's coming from. He's probably crazy to us, but don't know.
I'm glad you included the ending bit, I feel like a lot of "deep dive mystery" channels don't include the ending because it's less ~mysterious~ that way. I think hearing the ending makes it all the more real and frightening that this person was almost made worse by some individual looking for entertainment.
This has been covered a lot over the past couple years, and a lot of the ending only happened this year, some of it only a month ago. I really wish Snapped would do an AMA but I get it if he doesn't want to be the portal guy anymore. Surprised he even used the same account.
Clicking on a random recommended video and immediately having a person I've never heard of before tell me to take care of myself and keep going... didn't know that was what I needed right now but here I am crying. Rest of the video is great too. You've earned yourself a sub
It would be in your best interest to build up some mental toughness, you are crying because someone said something NICE to you? If you cry because of this, then how will you cope with the real traumatic stuff?
As someone with schizophrenia, I can tell you first hand, the reason Snapped didn't want to talk about it anymore is because coming out of psychosis is _humiliating._ Everyone saw what happened, everyone saw your behaviors, and everyone is judging you for it. It's an awful feeling.
I really hate when people do these cringy elaborate larp shit to people who deal with hallucinations and delusions for their entertainment. I've dealt with hallucinations myself when I was a teen and sometimes now as adult and it is the most horrifying things I can think of. I had someone do something similar but it was a one time thing and was more in a bullying way than convincing me to something bad to me or someone else. (think like "I can see it too it's real")
I had once due to severe lack of sleep, over 48 hours, hearing voices, seeing shadows in the corner of my eyes, I reached a deep paranoia level, after sleeping 15 hours it all went away, I don't want to imagine living like that
Hope you're okay. You're judgement on this might be better than mine. But do you think snappedfingers actually suffered from this? Do you think it could be some kind of elaborate hoax?
@@td.adigee Or the most probable,he was a guy with undiagnosed mental health problem probably Schizophrenia that didn't believe in the system so he tried to fix his problems in other ways ans people just decided to have fun while messing with him because why no...since you know people can be bastards
I'm glad he got help. Because as someone who went through years of this shit when I was in my teens before getting meds and therapy, this is exactly what people did to me, though to be fair I think the other people I experienced felt they were genuinely helping. I confided in some of the horrific hallucinations I was having, and many people fed into it by saying I was demon possessed and needed to go to church or whatever. I am not religious, but many of the things I seen had religious imagery, so of course it scared me.
0:23 I really needed to hear this. I had a stroke last week and currently in the hospital (and I'm only 23(!)), being treated for the left side of my body, as well as managing my blood sugar levels (Type 1 diabetic). I'm finally going home tomorrow, and hearing these supportive words makes me smile and honestly gives me hope. May sound cheesy or cringe or whatever but it's true. Hope you and everyone that reads this is doing well. As you said; take care of yourselves, be happy and safe, and stay positive no matter what you're going through. Stay strong and stay blessed everybody.
Ngl I got in a car crash today and I feel the same way. Even if people have no idea who tf I am, hearing them say that they hope I make it through my struggles definitely means a lot :3
By the sounds of it he has gotten help and is doing just fine now but is embarrassed by his very public mental health crisis. He probably just wants to be left alone and get on with his life and not be constantly reminded of one of his darkest times. But you know who knows...
So glad to hear he's still alive! I've heard stories this guy before, but they always ended with his final post being about entering the catacombs. Everyone assumed he got there and died somewhere deep in the catacombs.
I hate when people try and interfere with severe psychological issues. You see this all the time on TikTok. Someone talks about their hallucinations and psychosis. And then people comment that there's things hiding in the walls, just to fuck with them.
i myself suffer with schizophrenia, and social media is my only outlet to get to know other people like me. it sucks when every single time i see someone trying to share similar experiences to mine every comment is just "im living in your walls, look right behind you, there's bugs in your skin" type shit, its like telling a suicidal person to kill themselves, just cruel and unfunny
@@earthtoursamajor God same, I have bipolar and have been in three episodes of psychosis. And the fact that people who don't even know me would comment that shit is just disappointing imo.
@@rayimd it's about the principle. How would you feel if you had a condition that made you think that on occasion. Even if you knew it was fake you'd be pissed as all hell if some rando on the internet thought it was funny or tried to get you to go into psychosis.
As a neurodivergent person who's had struggles with anxiety and depression, i absolutely despise people who think it's fun to manipulate and use people's mental illnesses and delusions against them. It's absolutely despicable. A part of me hopes that the people manipulating Snapped were also people who suffered from the same delusions, if only because it means that they were not deliberately manipulating him with malicious intent. I hope that Snapped is able to recover and get the help he needs, and I hope that the people who were manipulating him also got mental help, as no one who indulges and uses delusions to manipulate those who suffer from them can be considered 100% mentally well and lacking in issues.
As a fello neurodivergent bipolar individual with schizoaffective this is so fucking offensive. These posts seem like the cries for help I have made in the past due to lack of support and understanding. You cant just assume the world is there to manipulate you because you don't understand their psychosis.
They didn't claim any of what you guys are angry about? I'm not being confrontational, I'm trying to understand because I struggle piecing this kinda stuff together. (Really not arguing I hope you know what I mean)
Yeah, those people on discord trying to get him to believe he could see in another dimension where awful. Reminds of the Chris Chan trolls(not defending chris chan tho, but back in the day before all the mom fucking stuff, he did not really deserve the harassment he got), just bullying and manipulting mentally ill people because they are vulnerable at that moment.
I understand the sentiment you hold, but as someone with schizophrenia and in therapy... The whole "just don't respond to it" is kinda the main advice I've gotten from tons of professionals . Medication is another thing, but for the most part they just tell you to ignore them and figure out ways to recognize them.
The issue Ive found is while ignoring them works. It doesnt always work. My friend has very strong ones and his only respite is to talk to someone who can fully distract him. Or to have someone verify its not real. So yea... Distraction seems to be a good one too
I had a friend like this and what they figured out was that if he's unsure he'd pull out his phone and look at the thing/person he was unsure of through the camera on the phone screen. It works for him. I do imagine it may not work for everyone because the same thing making you see the original hallucinations could also make them show up on your phone? But it did and does continue to work for him.
It was really cathartic to hear he'd gotten rid of one of the recurring hallucinations that way. Unfortunately, my beetle hallucinations (thanks pest trauma) aren't as persistent as they used to be, but like to come back whenever I'm stressed out. It's pretty easy to tell whether they're real or not because they don't move realistically, so it only takes a glance for them to disappear or I realise it's just a bit of dark lint, but even though I'm always incredulous, that takes a toll. The worst bit with pest hallucinations is that you can't 100% ignore them, because real pests need to be investigated as soon as possible. If you let them reproduce just one time, it takes months before you can be sure they're gone, and that's ***definitely*** not recommended if you're already traumatised 😅
@@stephanaeon with this kind of visual/audio hallucination, it's less about fact-checking, and more about, like, getting your brain to change track. Getting the phone and looking through the camera requires you to activate other parts of your brain to remember which pocket it's in, swipe in your passcode, hold it up steady, focus your eyes on the screen, etc. It's sort of like when your attention drifts away from a conversation and someone gives you a tap on the shoulder or clicks their fingers to get your attention. Doesn't work so well if you *believe in* the hallucination or delusion, though. So much of psychology is your brain adjusting to expect things that aren't true or that are unhelpful.
I've been ignoring them since I was little to the point at first I thought they were normal and that everyone had them but just ignored them. As I grew older and learned it's not normal, I became accustomed to them so I just kept ignoring them. The result was they don't even bother me anymore, although if I really focus on them, they become "stronger" so to speak and it becomes harder to ignore them. Edit: the point being that I kinda feel lucky I've fallen into a feedback loop of ignoring them instead of paying attention to them and having them grow.
When he said “Before we hop into the video” I expected it for be a sponsor or them telling me to subscribe. I was hit by the beautiful truck of kind words and I really want to just thank you for that. Someone out there may have really needed it just right and then. I hope you are doing great too.
This is really funny because I just watched a disturbing Reddit iceberg video and this guy was in it and I was looking for a deep dive on this guy and I saw this in my subscription feed. That aside, this video is incredible and shows how far you’ve come from the Plagued Moth collab. Keep up the great work my dude.
This sounds so terrifying to experience. As someone who has had sleep paralysis as well as night terrors for as long as I can remember, feeding into delusions makes the nightmare real. I grew up being pinned to the bed several times a week, feeling like my entire body was being electrocuted, and I couldn't close my eyes. There was always this silhouette of a bald man thing that was darker than dark, and it would just stand in my doorway and vibrate in a way that made my eyes hurt. When I was 18 and googled it, I found out how common seeing "shadow people" was. I genuinely wished I still thought I was the only person in the world to see something like that. I did and do see a doctor, and it's just a sleep condition that I take medication to help with, but I fell down a rabbit hole of insanity during the period of time I believed that what I was seeing was real. I still kind of wonder though. I just don't think about it anymore. It doesn't help, I'll never get answers and I don't want them anyway, and it's far too easy to spiral. Mental health is no joke.
I used to have sleep paralysis all the time as a child, but night terrors never happened to me. I’ve heard stories of others, why exactly do Night Terrors occur?
Honestly this is incredibly sad. This man needs a doctor and a doctor that is going to take him serious. Psychosis is no joke I went through postpartum psychosis after having my daughter and it’s one of the most terrifying things you will ever go through. It’s like being at war with your own brain because you can’t trust Your own brain. It’s really hard to trust other people. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t need help. I knew there was something wrong with me because I would have conversations with people or at least I thought I was having these memories and then I would bring them up to the people I had the memories about and they said that it never happened. A lot of my psychosis started as just questioning whether or not I was seeing some thing correctly. Like shadows out of the corner of my eye or thinking someone had walked by when they didn’t. The experience I had going to the hospital though was not good. I had a mental break down and was forced into an inpatient hospital. The entire time they kept giving me sedatives because apparently I would have panic attacks when I was awake. I unfortunately I have a lot of other health problems so we had to do a lot of research before finding medication that would not make things worse. Cases like this are very very very fragile and the patient needs to be treated with respect, and validation. Even if their claims seem crazy the worst thing you can do is tell someone who is going through active psychosis that they are going through active psychosis. My family had to learn this the hard way because when they would say I was over reacting I didn’t even understand what was going on. I’m actually currently not on any antipsychotics but I am on medication controlling my vitamin levels as well as anxiety medication. As I said before I have a lot of other health problems so I take a lot of medication‘s but it took a lot of hard work and very caring and fragile treatment from doctors. My heart literally aches for this man because I know what the system is like and what he probably has experienced and that’s probably why he’s lost faith in that system. Which I also would validate for him there are certain hospitals that if they brought me to I have flashbacks from the times where they forced me in there and then just drugged me up. My daughter is over a year and my mental state is doing a lot better but I can’t imagine somebody who has no light at the end of the tunnel. I really hope this man finds a good doctor that cares about him and doesn’t just want to shut him up. And to the people encouraging these delusions, it’s kind of evil. This man is sick and he is not in the right state of mind encouraging that is only making him more sick and putting him and the people around him in more danger.
I got a cold this week after a really stressful month and hearing you tell me to take care of myself and that I'm gonna be okay made me feel so warm inside. I love your videos, and as someone considering content creation myself, it's so exciting to watch your confidence go up and your editing and presentation style improve! I love how you tell stories, and I appreciated hearing a different side of this one. I feel like a lot of presenters I've heard discuss this person or cases similar treat it very dramatically and present it like a campfire story, and it's nice to see someone talk about the user like a real person and what happened to them after the whole catacombs incident. Thanks for making my day a little brighter when I feel gross, your videos always make me smile.
I had a cold this week also and it kinda kicked my ass,, I'm not even accustomed to being sick this long, it's shit awful lol. Hope you get better soon!
i had a fairly high fever (102-104) all throughout this week and woke up a few times in the night insanely paranoid. it makes me understand snappedfingers a little more, since i kinda get how he could get to that point
It’s insane how some youtuber I just started watching said some encouraging words at the beginning of a video so out of the blue exactly when I needed to hear it. Thank you
The “Paris Catacombs” section is so saddening and depressing. The fact he was just a touch away from getting treatment or any kind of mental help only to be dragged down deeper and becoming more unstable than the user was before is just so saddening to me…
I had a friend who was schizophrenic… dude had a genius level IQ (180 if I recall) but he was so obsessed with the Illuminati and Freemasons and other secret societies that it was impossible for him to ever apply his brilliance. He had some very strange obsessions too. Like he went through a zen Buddhist martial arts phase and part of that was he’d fully masticate (chew) his food. It was pretty distracting him slurping food around in his mouth. He’d do it with foods like mashed potatoes and peanut butter even. Last I heard he started thinking he was Jesus and tried stalking a female friend of ours for which he was arrested. I also heard he started having delusions that his father was a Freemason so he distanced himself from his family which were the only people keeping him stable. I heard he had issues with the law and repeated episodes that lead him to being hospitalized. In the end I hope the best for him but he certainly was a level of crazy I’m not interested in associating with at this point in my life.
@@breguera77 I almost think it’s a curse that comes with extreme intelligence especially in the misinformation age. Dude could’ve worked for NASA but instead of using his obsessive focus and applying it to something beneficial to society he got caught in the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. It’s funny too I’m pretty sure Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus trilogy was what kicked off his journey off the rails. If there was any message in that book it was to be careful about your sources and what you believe as truth. He loved the term FNORD which is basically an idea or opinion which is passed off as fact, which is the basis of most conspiracy theories. How despite his extreme intelligence did he miss that big of a point.
this is exactly what happened to my dad. he also thought that my mom was communicating with him through pictures and she was in a cult. he would look at rocks through microscopes and thought it was native americans communicating with him through small etchings in these rocks from the past. he thought worms were crawling in his skin and he would pick at them and had scabs all over his body. he refused any type of help until he eventually quit drugs and it made the psychosis go away for the most part. he still believes a lot of stuff about my mom (they’re divorced now)
Great video! I've heard plenty about this story but hadn't heard of the update of him moving on from that train of thought. Hopefully he got help and is a healthier and happier person now.
Hey there! Was watching the video and heard about your part. "I'm not a psychologist... but...", and thought of some things I've had happen to me that could probably help. When I was 21, I was heavily obsessed with being a femboy and being a sort of detourrent for my sister to not have to worry about sexual predators. I've already been doing it for some time. But after my 22nd birthday, I began acting strange, even looking back on it now. Whenever I'd be taking transit to visit friends or anything, I'd act even more hupervigilant than I used to be. I wasn't a kid who grew up stupid my mom and sisters have all taught me techniques and things that I need to be worried about strangers on the road and in elementary school but this hyper vigilantism was unlike anything I was used to doing myself this hyper vigilantism eventually turned itself into a sort of delusion that there was a group of people that were trying to find me whether it was to traffic me or whether it was to make me disappear off the face of the Earth there was a group of individuals who were attempting to find me which would have me believe that they could tap into things like the music I listen to the energy I radiate based off my mood and the games I play all of this kind of boil down when eventually my mom sent me to the mental hospital to get me evaluated and make sure I was doing good mentally the psychologist their determined that I had two cases mainly one case wasn't as bad as the other one cuz one case was basically the main actor taking over the whole show when the other one is kind of just running in the background in this case this was an instance where I had something they classify as a schizophrenic psychosis, were a person experiences delusions of a group or individual that doesn't exist that has intentions to find or harm them even if they're even if they're delusions are countered by real life proof that it isn't real, I've specifically remember nights where I was walking out with my friends in downtown and in my head I was under the assumption that there were people in the crowd that were following me for a minute but I couldn't actually prove it. This is a good case of someone having schizophrenic psychosis psychosis is usually the general feeling that everything is out to get you but schizophrenic psychosis is a very special and very like rule-based version of psychosis where you don't necessarily believe everyone out in the world is out there to get you but with schizophrenic psychosis you kind of invent this like Illuminati Corporation sort of to say that is hunting you down or trying to locate you. My other diagnosis ironically enough just being schizophrenic is not as bad as schizophrenia is made out to be it's not like I turn around the corner and I see something that isn't there or here people speaking into my ears whenever I don't want to, I've received tons of psychological help over the past five years and with hardening friendships and explaining to family about doctors I have someone managed to get my life back in order, but schizophrenia will often have you do little quirks regardless of your condition whether it's like a stable condition or you're actually cracking at the seams, an example with me is that even if I'm alone or with a friend doesn't matter whatever I'm doing at that point in time whether if it's not readable I will narrate my own life experiences as they're happening in real time to myself even if I'm the only person in the room as if I'm a third person party watching my own life through my own eyes when we all know this isn't the case but this is just a quirk that I have from my mental condition and it doesn't emphasize that I don't have the mental capacity to understand that I am my own being and the actions I do are result of my actions , I think of it as like as if I was a TH-camr doing real life content and I was just narrating my day-to-day life just instead of thousands of subscribers I'm narrating to myself, which is just a self-check way to make sure that my mental is not absolutely going insane because I talk to myself in a sane voice in order to make sure that my mental is still good if I start becoming incoherent or senile or start blabbering nonsense about some Evil Lizard Corporation that's trying to find me then I know I've cracked. I know it's a bunch of random knowledge points, but if it helps understand the chaotic uncertainty of having scitzophrenia, you may be able to spot it in a friend or loved one and know how to not shame them for it.
Your greeting was so sweet and encouraging. This might be dumb to admit to but i was literally curled on the floor crying silently when i heard u say that. Its just really kind even if u arent speaking to anyone in particular.
I’m so glad that he did come back; I remember watching a video about his situation a little while back when it ended with him saying even the “experts” on discord had been possessed by demons that were trying to convince him not to actually go to the catacombs It’s really good to know that he didn’t end up getting himself hurt or worse and seemingly got help so he can live a somewhat normal life
I have never seen your videos before today. Your snippet at the beginning made me cry. As a mom of 2 dealing with PPD, I did not expect that while insomnia-scrolling through TH-cam, but I needed it. Thank you, for being you. I can't wait to dig through all of your videos.
Just what a schizophrenic needs, to be alone in the Paris catacombs and with a chainsaw ready to amputate fingers/ limbs if they have hallucinations. Such a messed up situation to imagine
The man I once called my brother has bipolar and drug-induced psychosis. For the past 5 or so years, he’s sounded exactly like this, while hurting EVERYONE around him. At least Snapped seems to have found help. Gives a bit of hope.
It's funny how often spiders appear in various hallucinations. I used to have night terrors (as an adult) which would essentially be me waking up and seeing spiders either on the bed, on me, etc. Usually lead to screaming but they'd disappear before my eyes. Like my mind started to focus, like vision, which made the spiders phase out of existence.
@@moosesues8887 Yeah. I haven't heard about them appearing in actual spiritual things so I think they're something that primarily only appears in hallucinations. My guess is because they're basically little dots with sticks poking out so it's easy for the brain to create visually.
Yeah I used to have pretty bad sleep paralysis as a teenager and I’d always hallucinate spiders, apparently it’s one of the most common hallucination alongside vague shadowy figures
This is why I hate how people on tiktok are using the word "delulu" thinking it's quirky. I feel like it's so disrespectful to cases like these. Feels like it invalidates people who are actually delusional and are in need of help.
Another fantastic video. Found your channel bc of the collab you did with Plagued Moth a while back, and honestly I respect the work you put into the vids. Keep it up, man. Also, dig the earrings. Don't see guys rocking those kinds much, but they suit ya.
hey man, that little comment you made at the beginning about being okay and taking care of yourself, i needed that. and i don’t believe you’re “blabbering”. thank you for the content you create and hearing the voices of those unheard
I really enjoyed the video, and your editing is really high quality from what I’ve seen. Honestly, hearing you describe their hallucinations felt like getting slapped in the face. Schizophrenia runs in my family, and I myself have been seeking help for it, but people never truly realize how their actions affect those out of touch with reality. It seems that people have started to become hesitant with reality checking, although, if handled properly, it’s an important tool. Never feed into someones delusions. Ever. Again, great video, I’ll be looking forward to more.
This is maybe the best video I've seen from you. Usually your stuff is really similar to other "disturbing content" on TH-cam or it is on the same subjects I've seen elsewhere. This was something completely new to me that I'd never heard of and it was well researched & well told. So well done man. Hope to see more deep dives like this.
You seem like a really chill guy. I like your tone how you tell everyone how you hope we’re doing okay. I’m under the weather right now mentally but that’s not really important right now. I really like your videos that I keep stumbling upon. Thanks for uploading.
Knight, you just popped up in my feed. I’m really going through it emotionally and mentally and I really needed to hear that in the intro. I love you. Thank you.
I also used to resist treatment because I was so scared of not knowing what would happen if I was honest. With lies, and refusal, you know what the result will be. Honesty is much scarier. However, it is *far* healthier, and almost always results in a positive ending. Im currently being honest with my caretaker and therapist, and while it’s anxiety inducing, I know they’ll do their best to help.
I just wanted to say man, I found you through Plagued Moth, and love how much you've improved. I'm a musician, and it warms my heart to see someone happy doing something they love. 😊
First, thanks for wishing me well, hope you'll have a great year, too! Secondly, 3:48 thanks for saying "in regards to". It's actually "in regard to" and you just reminded me that I still have to check my thesis to correct that phrase, because I consistently use the incorrect spelling.
I think he was stopped by authorities somewhere on the way to the catacombs and was forced to get help. This would explain his absence and clarity after.
First time viewer. When a TH-cam takes just a few seconds to say "I hope you're doing ok, if you're going through a rough time, stay strong, I'm sure you'll pull through" stuff like that, I appreciate it so, so, so freaking much. So few creators do this but a handful do it consistently, it takes so little time, and 0 effort from the creator, but it goes so so far for the viewer. It's just a little sign of empathy, and spreading love and kindness. More TH-camrs should do it.
This is so disgusting... people online literally worsened this poor man's mental health. He went from recognizing that there was at least something wrong that wasn't real, to now thinking it was all real and nothing was wrong...
Great video...but it sure made me think about my best friend who offed himself ~10 years ago. When one reads totally mental things, like in this video, one easy forget how a schizophrenic that talks to you can make it seem So True and Rational! In fact my friend just tossed red flag after red flag at me, but he made it all make sense... Rest In Your Chaos, man 🖤
i was having a really bad day and this came into my recs so i clicked on it out of curiosity. surprisingly enough, your message to the viewers was really much needed and it gave me the energy i needed to be productive for the rest of the day. thanks, man.
Great video! Glad that you covered his return, that's something a lot of people have ignored. But: In the future, you might want to reduce the sound effects. The constant clicking every couple seconds got a little grating.
jesus, the fact that they considered cutting off a member to deal with the "creatures". its scary, its even scarier knowing i might get there some day. thats a good reason to try and get help early, the more you wait the harder it gets to get better
What’s scary for me is that I also had the “haaaah” sound in my ear a few times in my life, the first one was when I was in kindergarten trying to fall asleep and the last one was about 2 months ago
Snapped fingers has terrible schizophrenia (most probably). That doesn't mean they're dangerous, it means they need help. This is what all this stigma about mentally ill people and psychological welfare centers does. I know this is extremely difficult but he needs to get rid of these discord experts. Most of the time you are being manipulated, the person doing the manipulation is super nice and seems like they wanna help you. These people are not helping snapped fingers, even if they think they do and snapped would be way better of without them.
Dang, this is super high-quality. I can't believe you don't even have 100k subs, this is just as well-produced as all the big TH-camrs. You might be one of my new favorites in this genre
What is scary about the internet is that not only are people going to it to seek medical advice from complete strangers but they could just as easily find somebody just like themselves, as far as having a mental episode, and they could team up to create complete havoc. Like what if the person calling him chief wasn't messing with him and was actually completing their own mission to find a universal soldier to defeat the underrealm. While the other guy is a universal soldier on a mission to find his commander who is the only one who knows the secrets of where to find, enter and defeat the beast of the underealm. They could be down there right now for all we know.
hi hun, thanks for putting that message in about taking care of yourself . im 27 years old and im in liver failure and on the verge of kidney failure ... im very sick and very scared. your message made me smile throughout this creepy content ive been distracting myself with. thank you so much i needed to hear that.❤
I have a buddy who is just like snapped fingers in the very very beginning where they also have hallucinations and isn’t trustworthy of therapy or the doctors as they too feel like they are being used as a lab rat. With no irl friends they can open up to about it in real life or well anyone in real life for that matter. Seeing how these people took advantage of his hallucinations makes my stomach turn. I wanna keep my friend away from these sick bastards as much as I can.
Don’t worry we are trying to help with our buddy and their situation as much as we can. They did take therapy and meds however there were many many complications due to the general area in the us that they live in.
I won’t lie, I usually don’t comment, but the intro helped me a lot today. It really helped hearing someone else tell me to take care of myself. Thank you, I’m going to subscribe
He also came back and explained everything in a now deleted posts. He explained this whole thing and said that basically it was a delusion. He's gotten help and is doing better. Interestingly, he left up the comments from before his leaving but deleted the updates. He also respectfully asked to be left alone and for people to drop it.
this is my first time watching this channel and your comment at the begining made me cry. sometimes it's so hard to believe I'm going to pass ok through what I'm suffering right now, but you gave me a bit of hope, Knight. Thank you so much.
My own brother dealt with hallucinations similar to these a while back where horrifying creatures would walk through the walls, or everyday objects which he trusts turn into malicious beasts. My parents got him the help he needed, and he doesn’t suffer anymore, I don’t remember the diagnosis though. Anyways it just stings to see this guy be manipulated for so long without getting help.
I do feel for this guy. While I do struggle ALOT with mental illnesses, it isn't the same as his. Aka major depression, ocd, anxiety, pocd. I understand what its like when your mind is against you. Its terrifying. I hate how unfair it is that certain people are forced to live with these kind of things their whole life.
This is so sad, he clearly has some form of schizophrenia and people have convinced him it's something supernatural. This is why psychology and medication is so important. I'm really glad he realized he was being manipulated by other users
Investigate why there are hacked TH-cam channels that aren't used anymore and they have copyrighted content like family guy and Bob's burgers, and they don't get taken down
A few minutes into this video and I can already tell this user has Schizophrenia or a Schizoaffective disorder. How? I'm schizophrenic, and have the exact same (or similar) hallucinations. Now since I have been diagnosed with childhood onset Schizophrenia, they told me I'm less likely to suffer from delusions, but I remember a time where I was delusional at one point, it's such a scary experience, I wouldn't wish that upon anyone...
Um holy crap. I needed* to hear the beginning. That I'd pull through. That you hoped I'm okay. Because I'm not. I needed the encouragement. Thank you so much. I have decided to see if I feel better tomorrow, and to grab a glass of water. I hope you're hanging in there too knight.
I hadn't been looking at my sub box for weeks and hadn't even noticed the glow-up. Glad to see your channel growing! Well deserved ❤️ Coincidentally, I also remember seeing that exact crackhead clip a few years ago. Weird that this account is the origin
Someone's gotta clear his name. Other channels cover this story, and they don't feature his last post. They speculate that he died in the catacombs. If I were him, I'd wish someone made a video to set my record straight.
i love how caden is only referring to the guy as snappedfingers lmao instead of referring to his real actual name or giving him a fake name like "bob" assuming snappedfingers didn't put his real name in his bio or anything
For some reason I immediately wondered if SnappedFingers was female when I saw the post where they asked if you could cut off a finger and reattach it somewhere Idk my mind is weird
I’ve experienced psychosis before in the midst of severe depression. Not to this degree, but even so, it was terrifying. I can’t imagine how this must have been, especially with the people around him validating his delusions. I have such a strong hatred for people in the spiritual community that tell psychotics they just “have a gift” or “can see things most people can’t.”
I feel so terrible that this innocent man found a bad part of the internet and the people he reached out to for help fed into his delusions and drove him deeper and deeper.
Ive been diagnosed with a bipolar disorder - which I know is different from a schizo adjacent disorder - and have posted some crazy stuff on reddit during manic episodes and got some replys like snapped did. Looking back and seeing how people were encouraging me is sickening. I wish snapped got more replys of people trying to help without just being blunt and saying ‘youre crazy, get help’ like i did bc saying shit like that might seem better than enabling, but it can be just as damaging. After coming out of an episode looking at messages from people at one point actually triggered a whole new episode (helpful or not) so i truly believe just leaving snapped alone no matter how helpful you think youre being is the best course.
Thank you for the endless support.
Nice Slow Glo t-shirt
The editing is getting so much better !
Where's your t-shirt from?
Hi
New sub inbound, you're a very beautiful man.
This is why I am so irritated with other people’s delusions being enabled. “Reality checking” is really opposed on social medias like TikTok. It upsets me to see people playing into mentally ill people’s delusions instead of leaving them be. They treat it like roleplaying, when they’re clearly not well.
feeding into peoples delusions is just as bad as reality checking someone, both can cause serious distress. imo we shouldnt be interacting with people who are delusional at all on the internet, there isnt anything we can do to make sure that they wont hurt themselves or someone else
I haven't seen the video yet but now I'm more interested in this
I agree, I experience hallucinations and delusions (The delusions started in 2020-2021 but I’ve had hallucinations my whole life). My parents and sibling would always enable these hallucinations saying they are “ghosts” because they believe in ghosts and thought I was “spiritually sensitive”. I managed to realize that they are not ghosts and convinced my parents to get me the proper help I need (therapy and medication). It’s definitely helped though I don’t know what’s caused it. It could have been caused by me having depression (I’m pretty sure I’ve had it since I was young), me having delusional disorder, schizophrenia, or schizoaffective disorder or it could be none of those and I’m just having random hallucinations and delusions. I’m honestly just really glad that I was able to snap out of it and get the help i need.
@@trulyc
Truly - " imo we shouldnt be interacting with people who are delusional at all on the internet,"
If anything I think isolating these people will cause them harm too. We should help non-dangerous mentally ill individuals with community care/medication/psychotherapy where possible; they are still people after all not wild animals.
I will agree that sadistic individuals shouldn't be preying on venerable people via the internet; but I guess the anonymity which the internet provides means this is just always going to be a problem.
@@garybrocklehurst6784 I get what you're saying but when it's a stranger online, you have no clue what can help them get there versus what makes them worse/move further away from getting help. That's basically what Truly is getting it. As much as we want to help, we cannot push strangers to get the help they need; hell, it's hard enough to do so with a friend- I've lost a few because they're mad at me for not letting them "game over" so to speak.
Reality checking is a useful skill in my own life, but I have to be the one to do it as trusting others too has put me in dangerous situations.
I was recently diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and Snapped's hallucinations are really similar to things I experience. I guess it goes to show how easily mental health can spiral out of control, especially when other people want to take advantage of the mentally ill. I hope Snapped is doing ok now and has gotten help.
I hope so as well, it's really disturbing that people took advantage of his hallucinations to make him hurt himself for their own sick amusement. Also ignore the comment that called you a freak, no need to pay attention to the ignorant.
It is a schizoaffective disorder yes, I’ve had the same until I got help but they still don’t go away as much as just sedated enough to not react but I’ve had family member and friends tell me I could see spirits etc… like no and stop enabling that idea it could make me very sick very fast
I'm glad you were able to receive help. I had a friend with schizoaffective disorder in high school. To a far lesser extent, I experienced severe anxiety in high school, which made me feel constant fight or flight and made me hallucinate creepypastas. In my rational brain, I knew they weren't real, but the intense fear gripped me still. My dad refused to get me treatment, saying that I would be thrown in a nuthouse (which I later learned was not true). After having an allergic reaction to prozac which gave me amnesia, I stopped hallucinating. Nowadays, I began to seek treatment and take cbd oil, and it helps stop irrational thoughts and my panic attacks and helps me sleep. The freedom of relief is bliss.
Hey, I also have schizoaffective disorder. Just want to tell you that things get better with time.
Wishing you the very best, and hoping that everything gets better soon for you. I take Loxapine and I find it helpful for paranoia. Hugs
"How do you deal with interdimensional beings"
"Fuck them"
Yup, sounds like Reddit
@elysiacore ♡ get well soon
@@user-qn8lh7ej9g *N o*
4chan has the exact same mindset as well from what memes I've seen
Honestly if interdimensional beings were real that's the first thing I'd want to do lol
Two ways if you think differently.
i feel so terrible for this guy. him opening up and people feeding him these ideas makes me feel sick. as a member of the straight edge community myself, i take medication for my mental illness and it makes me feel terrible how some don't have that trust in medicine or even his 'friends'. i feel horrible about this and how people would mess with his mind.
Hearing stories of addiction and accidental overdose over prescribed medication, all the way to being lesser then normal and muted, makes medication look terrifying to many.
(Admittedly even to myself. I tend to want to stay far away from medication when I can.)
@@Junk8 better numb than sticking a drill in my arm
Lol I was put on medication and the side effects were so bad they just created new issues which negate the purpose of them.
@@joltyflare i totally get that, i dont want this to come off as 'everyone should alwayd be on meds' but i personally use them and theyve slightly helped
I'm CSA survivor. I used get nightmares so I stopped sleeping. I told a friend and I could sleep again. Benzos triggered my addiction. I get where he's coming from. How do you know. You're not crazy, how do you know that snapped fingers is not crazy. You just have an opinion. You can understand where he's coming from. He's probably crazy to us, but don't know.
I'm glad you included the ending bit, I feel like a lot of "deep dive mystery" channels don't include the ending because it's less ~mysterious~ that way. I think hearing the ending makes it all the more real and frightening that this person was almost made worse by some individual looking for entertainment.
This has been covered a lot over the past couple years, and a lot of the ending only happened this year, some of it only a month ago. I really wish Snapped would do an AMA but I get it if he doesn't want to be the portal guy anymore. Surprised he even used the same account.
@@sammowastaken apparently the account was hacked around the time of the tone shift, so I dunno if it was really snappedfingers
@@busdriverguyHow would anybody other than the owner know it was hacked?
Clicking on a random recommended video and immediately having a person I've never heard of before tell me to take care of myself and keep going... didn't know that was what I needed right now but here I am crying. Rest of the video is great too. You've earned yourself a sub
I know right what a nice feeling even if he’s a complete stranger
For real sometimes that’s all we need ❤
It would be in your best interest to build up some mental toughness, you are crying because someone said something NICE to you? If you cry because of this, then how will you cope with the real traumatic stuff?
Stupid
Yeah, ngl. That felt nice
As someone with schizophrenia, I can tell you first hand, the reason Snapped didn't want to talk about it anymore is because coming out of psychosis is _humiliating._ Everyone saw what happened, everyone saw your behaviors, and everyone is judging you for it. It's an awful feeling.
@You just lost the game what?
Words like yours are precisely why I don't judge. You can't help that your brain decided it wanted to glitch out.
I hope you're doing OK, friend
cmon. He just successfully closed that hell portal and became free of those Beings
@@DrDawgg he doesnt know what schizophrenia means
I really hate when people do these cringy elaborate larp shit to people who deal with hallucinations and delusions for their entertainment.
I've dealt with hallucinations myself when I was a teen and sometimes now as adult and it is the most horrifying things I can think of.
I had someone do something similar but it was a one time thing and was more in a bullying way than convincing me to something bad to me or someone else. (think like "I can see it too it's real")
i hope youre okay now dude
I had once due to severe lack of sleep, over 48 hours, hearing voices, seeing shadows in the corner of my eyes, I reached a deep paranoia level, after sleeping 15 hours it all went away, I don't want to imagine living like that
Hope you're okay.
You're judgement on this might be better than mine. But do you think snappedfingers actually suffered from this? Do you think it could be some kind of elaborate hoax?
@@td.adigee Or the most probable,he was a guy with undiagnosed mental health problem probably Schizophrenia that didn't believe in the system so he tried to fix his problems in other ways ans people just decided to have fun while messing with him because why no...since you know people can be bastards
seek a mental asylum, freak
I'm glad he got help. Because as someone who went through years of this shit when I was in my teens before getting meds and therapy, this is exactly what people did to me, though to be fair I think the other people I experienced felt they were genuinely helping. I confided in some of the horrific hallucinations I was having, and many people fed into it by saying I was demon possessed and needed to go to church or whatever. I am not religious, but many of the things I seen had religious imagery, so of course it scared me.
I feel you. Religious "therapy" is the opposite of helpful and can be quite traumatizing. You're very strong for persevering.
To be absolutely fair, some people, its a real experience. It's bad if you combined someone with mental issues with someone actually being stalked.
"Experts on Discord" is a combination of words I had never thought I'd hear
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I really needed to hear this. I had a stroke last week and currently in the hospital (and I'm only 23(!)), being treated for the left side of my body, as well as managing my blood sugar levels (Type 1 diabetic). I'm finally going home tomorrow, and hearing these supportive words makes me smile and honestly gives me hope. May sound cheesy or cringe or whatever but it's true.
Hope you and everyone that reads this is doing well. As you said; take care of yourselves, be happy and safe, and stay positive no matter what you're going through. Stay strong and stay blessed everybody.
Ngl I got in a car crash today and I feel the same way. Even if people have no idea who tf I am, hearing them say that they hope I make it through my struggles definitely means a lot :3
Wish you well bro
Did you take the vaccine by any chance
Really hope your healing goes smoothly for you 🙏🏻🤍
@@misstigerbubbles LMAO WHAT
By the sounds of it he has gotten help and is doing just fine now but is embarrassed by his very public mental health crisis. He probably just wants to be left alone and get on with his life and not be constantly reminded of one of his darkest times. But you know who knows...
I'm pretty sure he got caught trying to sneak into Paris and he got help there.
So glad to hear he's still alive! I've heard stories this guy before, but they always ended with his final post being about entering the catacombs. Everyone assumed he got there and died somewhere deep in the catacombs.
His account was locked by Reddit mods because of suspicion of possible account theft so theres a chance he might not be him (sorry to ruin day)
Is it really possible for him to enter the catacombs in a alternate or unscheduled time. It's possible the French police arrested he got help there
@@kringle7804 it is possible, it’s difficult but definitely possible.
😂
I hate when people try and interfere with severe psychological issues. You see this all the time on TikTok. Someone talks about their hallucinations and psychosis. And then people comment that there's things hiding in the walls, just to fuck with them.
@@rayimd it's not funny, though lol
i myself suffer with schizophrenia, and social media is my only outlet to get to know other people like me. it sucks when every single time i see someone trying to share similar experiences to mine every comment is just "im living in your walls, look right behind you, there's bugs in your skin" type shit, its like telling a suicidal person to kill themselves, just cruel and unfunny
@@earthtoursamajor God same, I have bipolar and have been in three episodes of psychosis. And the fact that people who don't even know me would comment that shit is just disappointing imo.
@@rayimd what's funny is you thinking you're in the right 😬
@@rayimd it's about the principle. How would you feel if you had a condition that made you think that on occasion. Even if you knew it was fake you'd be pissed as all hell if some rando on the internet thought it was funny or tried to get you to go into psychosis.
As a neurodivergent person who's had struggles with anxiety and depression, i absolutely despise people who think it's fun to manipulate and use people's mental illnesses and delusions against them. It's absolutely despicable. A part of me hopes that the people manipulating Snapped were also people who suffered from the same delusions, if only because it means that they were not deliberately manipulating him with malicious intent. I hope that Snapped is able to recover and get the help he needs, and I hope that the people who were manipulating him also got mental help, as no one who indulges and uses delusions to manipulate those who suffer from them can be considered 100% mentally well and lacking in issues.
Autism and schizophrenia are two very different things dude
@@user-id8ih ??? When did I claim that??
As a fello neurodivergent bipolar individual with schizoaffective this is so fucking offensive. These posts seem like the cries for help I have made in the past due to lack of support and understanding. You cant just assume the world is there to manipulate you because you don't understand their psychosis.
They didn't claim any of what you guys are angry about? I'm not being confrontational, I'm trying to understand because I struggle piecing this kinda stuff together. (Really not arguing I hope you know what I mean)
Yeah, those people on discord trying to get him to believe he could see in another dimension where awful. Reminds of the Chris Chan trolls(not defending chris chan tho, but back in the day before all the mom fucking stuff, he did not really deserve the harassment he got), just bullying and manipulting mentally ill people because they are vulnerable at that moment.
... "dimensional merge" reeeeeeally makes me think of Chris Chan, and I'm now even more disturbed than I was at the start of this. 👀
Was looking for this comment
Made me audibly groan
I had a feeling whoever contacted Snapped and told him about that just wanted to fuck with him in a similar way which is messed up 😕
@@user-yq4ej5jv4s Same. 😧
Yes me too. Seems to have been around the same time too
I understand the sentiment you hold, but as someone with schizophrenia and in therapy... The whole "just don't respond to it" is kinda the main advice I've gotten from tons of professionals . Medication is another thing, but for the most part they just tell you to ignore them and figure out ways to recognize them.
The issue Ive found is while ignoring them works. It doesnt always work.
My friend has very strong ones and his only respite is to talk to someone who can fully distract him. Or to have someone verify its not real.
So yea... Distraction seems to be a good one too
I had a friend like this and what they figured out was that if he's unsure he'd pull out his phone and look at the thing/person he was unsure of through the camera on the phone screen. It works for him. I do imagine it may not work for everyone because the same thing making you see the original hallucinations could also make them show up on your phone? But it did and does continue to work for him.
It was really cathartic to hear he'd gotten rid of one of the recurring hallucinations that way. Unfortunately, my beetle hallucinations (thanks pest trauma) aren't as persistent as they used to be, but like to come back whenever I'm stressed out. It's pretty easy to tell whether they're real or not because they don't move realistically, so it only takes a glance for them to disappear or I realise it's just a bit of dark lint, but even though I'm always incredulous, that takes a toll.
The worst bit with pest hallucinations is that you can't 100% ignore them, because real pests need to be investigated as soon as possible. If you let them reproduce just one time, it takes months before you can be sure they're gone, and that's ***definitely*** not recommended if you're already traumatised 😅
@@stephanaeon with this kind of visual/audio hallucination, it's less about fact-checking, and more about, like, getting your brain to change track. Getting the phone and looking through the camera requires you to activate other parts of your brain to remember which pocket it's in, swipe in your passcode, hold it up steady, focus your eyes on the screen, etc. It's sort of like when your attention drifts away from a conversation and someone gives you a tap on the shoulder or clicks their fingers to get your attention.
Doesn't work so well if you *believe in* the hallucination or delusion, though. So much of psychology is your brain adjusting to expect things that aren't true or that are unhelpful.
I've been ignoring them since I was little to the point at first I thought they were normal and that everyone had them but just ignored them. As I grew older and learned it's not normal, I became accustomed to them so I just kept ignoring them. The result was they don't even bother me anymore, although if I really focus on them, they become "stronger" so to speak and it becomes harder to ignore them.
Edit: the point being that I kinda feel lucky I've fallen into a feedback loop of ignoring them instead of paying attention to them and having them grow.
When he said “Before we hop into the video” I expected it for be a sponsor or them telling me to subscribe. I was hit by the beautiful truck of kind words and I really want to just thank you for that. Someone out there may have really needed it just right and then. I hope you are doing great too.
My sister/Best Friend is schizophrenic, among many other things. It really breaks my heart to see someone who needs help not getting it.
This is really funny because I just watched a disturbing Reddit iceberg video and this guy was in it and I was looking for a deep dive on this guy and I saw this in my subscription feed. That aside, this video is incredible and shows how far you’ve come from the Plagued Moth collab. Keep up the great work my dude.
I literally just watched that iceberg- rlly feel bad for snapped. Hopefully he got the help he needs
@@KDASMR12 I heard somewhere that he indeed did get help for his delusions. Hopefully he’s doing a lot better now.
This sounds so terrifying to experience. As someone who has had sleep paralysis as well as night terrors for as long as I can remember, feeding into delusions makes the nightmare real.
I grew up being pinned to the bed several times a week, feeling like my entire body was being electrocuted, and I couldn't close my eyes. There was always this silhouette of a bald man thing that was darker than dark, and it would just stand in my doorway and vibrate in a way that made my eyes hurt. When I was 18 and googled it, I found out how common seeing "shadow people" was. I genuinely wished I still thought I was the only person in the world to see something like that.
I did and do see a doctor, and it's just a sleep condition that I take medication to help with, but I fell down a rabbit hole of insanity during the period of time I believed that what I was seeing was real.
I still kind of wonder though. I just don't think about it anymore. It doesn't help, I'll never get answers and I don't want them anyway, and it's far too easy to spiral. Mental health is no joke.
hey glad to hear you’ve gotten help for it. these things can be so scary
Although I can't relate, I empathize. This must be extremely horrible. I can't imagine the terror you must've experienced every night.
That's... Awful. I'm glad you're better.
Sleep paralysis is awful. I’ve had it a few times.
I used to have sleep paralysis all the time as a child, but night terrors never happened to me. I’ve heard stories of others, why exactly do Night Terrors occur?
Honestly this is incredibly sad. This man needs a doctor and a doctor that is going to take him serious. Psychosis is no joke I went through postpartum psychosis after having my daughter and it’s one of the most terrifying things you will ever go through. It’s like being at war with your own brain because you can’t trust Your own brain. It’s really hard to trust other people. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t need help. I knew there was something wrong with me because I would have conversations with people or at least I thought I was having these memories and then I would bring them up to the people I had the memories about and they said that it never happened. A lot of my psychosis started as just questioning whether or not I was seeing some thing correctly. Like shadows out of the corner of my eye or thinking someone had walked by when they didn’t. The experience I had going to the hospital though was not good. I had a mental break down and was forced into an inpatient hospital. The entire time they kept giving me sedatives because apparently I would have panic attacks when I was awake. I unfortunately I have a lot of other health problems so we had to do a lot of research before finding medication that would not make things worse. Cases like this are very very very fragile and the patient needs to be treated with respect, and validation. Even if their claims seem crazy the worst thing you can do is tell someone who is going through active psychosis that they are going through active psychosis. My family had to learn this the hard way because when they would say I was over reacting I didn’t even understand what was going on. I’m actually currently not on any antipsychotics but I am on medication controlling my vitamin levels as well as anxiety medication. As I said before I have a lot of other health problems so I take a lot of medication‘s but it took a lot of hard work and very caring and fragile treatment from doctors. My heart literally aches for this man because I know what the system is like and what he probably has experienced and that’s probably why he’s lost faith in that system. Which I also would validate for him there are certain hospitals that if they brought me to I have flashbacks from the times where they forced me in there and then just drugged me up. My daughter is over a year and my mental state is doing a lot better but I can’t imagine somebody who has no light at the end of the tunnel. I really hope this man finds a good doctor that cares about him and doesn’t just want to shut him up. And to the people encouraging these delusions, it’s kind of evil. This man is sick and he is not in the right state of mind encouraging that is only making him more sick and putting him and the people around him in more danger.
I got a cold this week after a really stressful month and hearing you tell me to take care of myself and that I'm gonna be okay made me feel so warm inside. I love your videos, and as someone considering content creation myself, it's so exciting to watch your confidence go up and your editing and presentation style improve! I love how you tell stories, and I appreciated hearing a different side of this one. I feel like a lot of presenters I've heard discuss this person or cases similar treat it very dramatically and present it like a campfire story, and it's nice to see someone talk about the user like a real person and what happened to them after the whole catacombs incident. Thanks for making my day a little brighter when I feel gross, your videos always make me smile.
I had a cold this week also and it kinda kicked my ass,, I'm not even accustomed to being sick this long, it's shit awful lol. Hope you get better soon!
@@beyondespair thanks, fam. Just that time of year I guess! Hope you feel better too!
i had a fairly high fever (102-104) all throughout this week and woke up a few times in the night insanely paranoid. it makes me understand snappedfingers a little more, since i kinda get how he could get to that point
It’s insane how some youtuber I just started watching said some encouraging words at the beginning of a video so out of the blue exactly when I needed to hear it. Thank you
The “Paris Catacombs” section is so saddening and depressing. The fact he was just a touch away from getting treatment or any kind of mental help only to be dragged down deeper and becoming more unstable than the user was before is just so saddening to me…
I had a friend who was schizophrenic… dude had a genius level IQ (180 if I recall) but he was so obsessed with the Illuminati and Freemasons and other secret societies that it was impossible for him to ever apply his brilliance. He had some very strange obsessions too. Like he went through a zen Buddhist martial arts phase and part of that was he’d fully masticate (chew) his food. It was pretty distracting him slurping food around in his mouth. He’d do it with foods like mashed potatoes and peanut butter even. Last I heard he started thinking he was Jesus and tried stalking a female friend of ours for which he was arrested. I also heard he started having delusions that his father was a Freemason so he distanced himself from his family which were the only people keeping him stable. I heard he had issues with the law and repeated episodes that lead him to being hospitalized. In the end I hope the best for him but he certainly was a level of crazy I’m not interested in associating with at this point in my life.
Almost sounds like the creator of templeOS
@@breguera77 I almost think it’s a curse that comes with extreme intelligence especially in the misinformation age. Dude could’ve worked for NASA but instead of using his obsessive focus and applying it to something beneficial to society he got caught in the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. It’s funny too I’m pretty sure Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus trilogy was what kicked off his journey off the rails. If there was any message in that book it was to be careful about your sources and what you believe as truth. He loved the term FNORD which is basically an idea or opinion which is passed off as fact, which is the basis of most conspiracy theories. How despite his extreme intelligence did he miss that big of a point.
It’s always the same story. People need to investigate why.
this is exactly what happened to my dad. he also thought that my mom was communicating with him through pictures and she was in a cult. he would look at rocks through microscopes and thought it was native americans communicating with him through small etchings in these rocks from the past. he thought worms were crawling in his skin and he would pick at them and had scabs all over his body. he refused any type of help until he eventually quit drugs and it made the psychosis go away for the most part. he still believes a lot of stuff about my mom (they’re divorced now)
Sometimes I wonder if being hyper intelligent like that does something to your synapses.
Your videos keep getting better and better! Keep up the good work 👍
Thanks, Harry! I'm on it! :')
Great video! I've heard plenty about this story but hadn't heard of the update of him moving on from that train of thought. Hopefully he got help and is a healthier and happier person now.
Hey there! Was watching the video and heard about your part. "I'm not a psychologist... but...", and thought of some things I've had happen to me that could probably help.
When I was 21, I was heavily obsessed with being a femboy and being a sort of detourrent for my sister to not have to worry about sexual predators. I've already been doing it for some time. But after my 22nd birthday, I began acting strange, even looking back on it now. Whenever I'd be taking transit to visit friends or anything, I'd act even more hupervigilant than I used to be. I wasn't a kid who grew up stupid my mom and sisters have all taught me techniques and things that I need to be worried about strangers on the road and in elementary school but this hyper vigilantism was unlike anything I was used to doing myself this hyper vigilantism eventually turned itself into a sort of delusion that there was a group of people that were trying to find me whether it was to traffic me or whether it was to make me disappear off the face of the Earth there was a group of individuals who were attempting to find me which would have me believe that they could tap into things like the music I listen to the energy I radiate based off my mood and the games I play all of this kind of boil down when eventually my mom sent me to the mental hospital to get me evaluated and make sure I was doing good mentally the psychologist their determined that I had two cases mainly one case wasn't as bad as the other one cuz one case was basically the main actor taking over the whole show when the other one is kind of just running in the background in this case this was an instance where I had something they classify as a schizophrenic psychosis, were a person experiences delusions of a group or individual that doesn't exist that has intentions to find or harm them even if they're even if they're delusions are countered by real life proof that it isn't real, I've specifically remember nights where I was walking out with my friends in downtown and in my head I was under the assumption that there were people in the crowd that were following me for a minute but I couldn't actually prove it. This is a good case of someone having schizophrenic psychosis psychosis is usually the general feeling that everything is out to get you but schizophrenic psychosis is a very special and very like rule-based version of psychosis where you don't necessarily believe everyone out in the world is out there to get you but with schizophrenic psychosis you kind of invent this like Illuminati Corporation sort of to say that is hunting you down or trying to locate you. My other diagnosis ironically enough just being schizophrenic is not as bad as schizophrenia is made out to be it's not like I turn around the corner and I see something that isn't there or here people speaking into my ears whenever I don't want to, I've received tons of psychological help over the past five years and with hardening friendships and explaining to family about doctors I have someone managed to get my life back in order, but schizophrenia will often have you do little quirks regardless of your condition whether it's like a stable condition or you're actually cracking at the seams, an example with me is that even if I'm alone or with a friend doesn't matter whatever I'm doing at that point in time whether if it's not readable I will narrate my own life experiences as they're happening in real time to myself even if I'm the only person in the room as if I'm a third person party watching my own life through my own eyes when we all know this isn't the case but this is just a quirk that I have from my mental condition and it doesn't emphasize that I don't have the mental capacity to understand that I am my own being and the actions I do are result of my actions , I think of it as like as if I was a TH-camr doing real life content and I was just narrating my day-to-day life just instead of thousands of subscribers I'm narrating to myself, which is just a self-check way to make sure that my mental is not absolutely going insane because I talk to myself in a sane voice in order to make sure that my mental is still good if I start becoming incoherent or senile or start blabbering nonsense about some Evil Lizard Corporation that's trying to find me then I know I've cracked.
I know it's a bunch of random knowledge points, but if it helps understand the chaotic uncertainty of having scitzophrenia, you may be able to spot it in a friend or loved one and know how to not shame them for it.
I'm no psychologist but this just sounds like a classic case of schizophrenia to me. I hope the guy got the help he needed.
Your greeting was so sweet and encouraging. This might be dumb to admit to but i was literally curled on the floor crying silently when i heard u say that. Its just really kind even if u arent speaking to anyone in particular.
I’m so glad that he did come back; I remember watching a video about his situation a little while back when it ended with him saying even the “experts” on discord had been possessed by demons that were trying to convince him not to actually go to the catacombs
It’s really good to know that he didn’t end up getting himself hurt or worse and seemingly got help so he can live a somewhat normal life
I have never seen your videos before today.
Your snippet at the beginning made me cry. As a mom of 2 dealing with PPD, I did not expect that while insomnia-scrolling through TH-cam, but I needed it.
Thank you, for being you. I can't wait to dig through all of your videos.
Just what a schizophrenic needs, to be alone in the Paris catacombs and with a chainsaw ready to amputate fingers/ limbs if they have hallucinations. Such a messed up situation to imagine
The man I once called my brother has bipolar and drug-induced psychosis. For the past 5 or so years, he’s sounded exactly like this, while hurting EVERYONE around him. At least Snapped seems to have found help. Gives a bit of hope.
It's funny how often spiders appear in various hallucinations. I used to have night terrors (as an adult) which would essentially be me waking up and seeing spiders either on the bed, on me, etc. Usually lead to screaming but they'd disappear before my eyes. Like my mind started to focus, like vision, which made the spiders phase out of existence.
Really? The animal spider appears in hallucinations ?
@@moosesues8887 Yeah. I haven't heard about them appearing in actual spiritual things so I think they're something that primarily only appears in hallucinations. My guess is because they're basically little dots with sticks poking out so it's easy for the brain to create visually.
Yeah I used to have pretty bad sleep paralysis as a teenager and I’d always hallucinate spiders, apparently it’s one of the most common hallucination alongside vague shadowy figures
This is why I hate how people on tiktok are using the word "delulu" thinking it's quirky. I feel like it's so disrespectful to cases like these. Feels like it invalidates people who are actually delusional and are in need of help.
Another fantastic video. Found your channel bc of the collab you did with Plagued Moth a while back, and honestly I respect the work you put into the vids. Keep it up, man.
Also, dig the earrings. Don't see guys rocking those kinds much, but they suit ya.
Welcome aboard! I'm glad you like the content!
hey man, that little comment you made at the beginning about being okay and taking care of yourself, i needed that. and i don’t believe you’re “blabbering”. thank you for the content you create and hearing the voices of those unheard
I really enjoyed the video, and your editing is really high quality from what I’ve seen. Honestly, hearing you describe their hallucinations felt like getting slapped in the face. Schizophrenia runs in my family, and I myself have been seeking help for it, but people never truly realize how their actions affect those out of touch with reality. It seems that people have started to become hesitant with reality checking, although, if handled properly, it’s an important tool. Never feed into someones delusions. Ever.
Again, great video, I’ll be looking forward to more.
This is maybe the best video I've seen from you. Usually your stuff is really similar to other "disturbing content" on TH-cam or it is on the same subjects I've seen elsewhere. This was something completely new to me that I'd never heard of and it was well researched & well told. So well done man. Hope to see more deep dives like this.
You seem like a really chill guy. I like your tone how you tell everyone how you hope we’re doing okay. I’m under the weather right now mentally but that’s not really important right now. I really like your videos that I keep stumbling upon. Thanks for uploading.
The people feeding this guy's delusions are far more disturbed than SnappedFingers could ever be.
I hardly ever see other guys with long hair and dangly earrings! I love it
Knight, you just popped up in my feed. I’m really going through it emotionally and mentally and I really needed to hear that in the intro. I love you. Thank you.
I also used to resist treatment because I was so scared of not knowing what would happen if I was honest. With lies, and refusal, you know what the result will be. Honesty is much scarier. However, it is *far* healthier, and almost always results in a positive ending. Im currently being honest with my caretaker and therapist, and while it’s anxiety inducing, I know they’ll do their best to help.
I just wanted to say man, I found you through Plagued Moth, and love how much you've improved. I'm a musician, and it warms my heart to see someone happy doing something they love. 😊
I’m no doctor but this sounds like schizophrenia, and I really wish he was willing to get legit medical help.
First, thanks for wishing me well, hope you'll have a great year, too!
Secondly, 3:48 thanks for saying "in regards to". It's actually "in regard to" and you just reminded me that I still have to check my thesis to correct that phrase, because I consistently use the incorrect spelling.
I think he was stopped by authorities somewhere on the way to the catacombs and was forced to get help. This would explain his absence and clarity after.
I thought at first you're advertising something, but it's a reminder to take care of yourself that is so wholesome! Thank you and take care too!
I really needed the intro, this means a lot, Ik it’s not directed exactly towards me but it still goes to show that someone cares
First time viewer. When a TH-cam takes just a few seconds to say "I hope you're doing ok, if you're going through a rough time, stay strong, I'm sure you'll pull through" stuff like that, I appreciate it so, so, so freaking much. So few creators do this but a handful do it consistently, it takes so little time, and 0 effort from the creator, but it goes so so far for the viewer. It's just a little sign of empathy, and spreading love and kindness. More TH-camrs should do it.
This is so disgusting... people online literally worsened this poor man's mental health. He went from recognizing that there was at least something wrong that wasn't real, to now thinking it was all real and nothing was wrong...
Snapped got help
“experts on discord” is an oxymoron
Great video...but it sure made me think about my best friend who offed himself ~10 years ago.
When one reads totally mental things, like in this video, one easy forget how a schizophrenic that talks to you can make it seem So True and Rational!
In fact my friend just tossed red flag after red flag at me, but he made it all make sense...
Rest In Your Chaos, man 🖤
i was having a really bad day and this came into my recs so i clicked on it out of curiosity. surprisingly enough, your message to the viewers was really much needed and it gave me the energy i needed to be productive for the rest of the day. thanks, man.
Great video! Glad that you covered his return, that's something a lot of people have ignored. But: In the future, you might want to reduce the sound effects. The constant clicking every couple seconds got a little grating.
People seem to share a similar sentiment. I’ll use it more sparingly in future videos! ❤️
jesus, the fact that they considered cutting off a member to deal with the "creatures". its scary, its even scarier knowing i might get there some day. thats a good reason to try and get help early, the more you wait the harder it gets to get better
What’s scary for me is that I also had the “haaaah” sound in my ear a few times in my life, the first one was when I was in kindergarten trying to fall asleep and the last one was about 2 months ago
So glad to have had this in my recommended. Your channel is super cool and I'm so happy to have been introduced to it!
most sane reddit user
This whole time, I was thinking that he was a very imaginative troll.
Sounds like case of schizophrenia, the tone change probably means he’s gotten some sort of psychiatric help, good for him
It's really nice of you to say that in the intro. I don't watch this channel but on first impression, it seems like you have a sweet soul man :)
Snapped fingers has terrible schizophrenia (most probably). That doesn't mean they're dangerous, it means they need help.
This is what all this stigma about mentally ill people and psychological welfare centers does.
I know this is extremely difficult but he needs to get rid of these discord experts.
Most of the time you are being manipulated, the person doing the manipulation is super nice and seems like they wanna help you. These people are not helping snapped fingers, even if they think they do and snapped would be way better of without them.
Wow! I would've never though you'd suggest a dislike, that's such a responsible thing to do!
Definitely liking this!
7:39 "experts" on discord
Dang, this is super high-quality. I can't believe you don't even have 100k subs, this is just as well-produced as all the big TH-camrs. You might be one of my new favorites in this genre
What is scary about the internet is that not only are people going to it to seek medical advice from complete strangers but they could just as easily find somebody just like themselves, as far as having a mental episode, and they could team up to create complete havoc. Like what if the person calling him chief wasn't messing with him and was actually completing their own mission to find a universal soldier to defeat the underrealm. While the other guy is a universal soldier on a mission to find his commander who is the only one who knows the secrets of where to find, enter and defeat the beast of the underealm. They could be down there right now for all we know.
hi hun, thanks for putting that message in about taking care of yourself . im 27 years old and im in liver failure and on the verge of kidney failure ... im very sick and very scared. your message made me smile throughout this creepy content ive been distracting myself with. thank you so much i needed to hear that.❤
I have a buddy who is just like snapped fingers in the very very beginning where they also have hallucinations and isn’t trustworthy of therapy or the doctors as they too feel like they are being used as a lab rat. With no irl friends they can open up to about it in real life or well anyone in real life for that matter. Seeing how these people took advantage of his hallucinations makes my stomach turn. I wanna keep my friend away from these sick bastards as much as I can.
Don’t worry we are trying to help with our buddy and their situation as much as we can. They did take therapy and meds however there were many many complications due to the general area in the us that they live in.
I won’t lie, I usually don’t comment, but the intro helped me a lot today. It really helped hearing someone else tell me to take care of myself. Thank you, I’m going to subscribe
He also came back and explained everything in a now deleted posts. He explained this whole thing and said that basically it was a delusion. He's gotten help and is doing better. Interestingly, he left up the comments from before his leaving but deleted the updates. He also respectfully asked to be left alone and for people to drop it.
You look so kind and friendly, you brought a smile on my face knightytt
How can people be so cruel and manipulate towards those who need help? It's disgusting. I do hope that op got help they needed.
this is my first time watching this channel and your comment at the begining made me cry. sometimes it's so hard to believe I'm going to pass ok through what I'm suffering right now, but you gave me a bit of hope, Knight. Thank you so much.
My own brother dealt with hallucinations similar to these a while back where horrifying creatures would walk through the walls, or everyday objects which he trusts turn into malicious beasts. My parents got him the help he needed, and he doesn’t suffer anymore, I don’t remember the diagnosis though. Anyways it just stings to see this guy be manipulated for so long without getting help.
I just want to point out how fabulous you look! your hair is so pretty, and I love the earrings!
I do feel for this guy. While I do struggle ALOT with mental illnesses, it isn't the same as his. Aka major depression, ocd, anxiety, pocd. I understand what its like when your mind is against you. Its terrifying. I hate how unfair it is that certain people are forced to live with these kind of things their whole life.
The intro was so sweet :') thanks dude, I appreciate it
This is so sad, he clearly has some form of schizophrenia and people have convinced him it's something supernatural. This is why psychology and medication is so important. I'm really glad he realized he was being manipulated by other users
Thank you for the comment at the beginning, about getting through it. Someone close to me died and I needed that. Thank you.
Investigate why there are hacked TH-cam channels that aren't used anymore and they have copyrighted content like family guy and Bob's burgers, and they don't get taken down
A few minutes into this video and I can already tell this user has Schizophrenia or a Schizoaffective disorder. How? I'm schizophrenic, and have the exact same (or similar) hallucinations.
Now since I have been diagnosed with childhood onset Schizophrenia, they told me I'm less likely to suffer from delusions, but I remember a time where I was delusional at one point, it's such a scary experience, I wouldn't wish that upon anyone...
I’ve heard this story before, but interestingly no one has really touched on the manipulation factor of it
u dont know how much i needed that reassurance in the start of the video thank you so much !!!
Um holy crap. I needed* to hear the beginning. That I'd pull through. That you hoped I'm okay.
Because I'm not. I needed the encouragement. Thank you so much. I have decided to see if I feel better tomorrow, and to grab a glass of water. I hope you're hanging in there too knight.
I hadn't been looking at my sub box for weeks and hadn't even noticed the glow-up. Glad to see your channel growing! Well deserved ❤️
Coincidentally, I also remember seeing that exact crackhead clip a few years ago. Weird that this account is the origin
This is the first video I’ve watched of yours, and just want to say wow, what a thoughtful and sweet intro!
why is the masked singer iceberg in here 0:03
GERARD WAY PFP SPOTTED
@@will-woodfel hell yeah
>leave me alone i’ve moved on from that stuff
>hmm how interesting, i must make a video detailing this stuff
I mean, it IS interesting
Someone's gotta clear his name. Other channels cover this story, and they don't feature his last post. They speculate that he died in the catacombs. If I were him, I'd wish someone made a video to set my record straight.
i love how caden is only referring to the guy as snappedfingers lmao instead of referring to his real actual name or giving him a fake name like "bob"
assuming snappedfingers didn't put his real name in his bio or anything
We don't know any name for snappedginfers or even their gender. Ive seen people think they were female as well
For some reason I immediately wondered if SnappedFingers was female when I saw the post where they asked if you could cut off a finger and reattach it somewhere
Idk my mind is weird
@@errorphase Really? That was the opposite for me. 😂
I’ve experienced psychosis before in the midst of severe depression. Not to this degree, but even so, it was terrifying. I can’t imagine how this must have been, especially with the people around him validating his delusions. I have such a strong hatred for people in the spiritual community that tell psychotics they just “have a gift” or “can see things most people can’t.”
I feel so terrible that this innocent man found a bad part of the internet and the people he reached out to for help fed into his delusions and drove him deeper and deeper.
Ive been diagnosed with a bipolar disorder - which I know is different from a schizo adjacent disorder - and have posted some crazy stuff on reddit during manic episodes and got some replys like snapped did. Looking back and seeing how people were encouraging me is sickening.
I wish snapped got more replys of people trying to help without just being blunt and saying ‘youre crazy, get help’ like i did bc saying shit like that might seem better than enabling, but it can be just as damaging.
After coming out of an episode looking at messages from people at one point actually triggered a whole new episode (helpful or not) so i truly believe just leaving snapped alone no matter how helpful you think youre being is the best course.
Dude these videos got some crazy quality now. Congrats from me and my 45,199 alternate accounts!
Thank you for that intro. It made me feel a little bit better
I feel so bad for this guy, I really hope he’s ok