When I was a little kid I thought that everyone except me was psychic. Because other people could often tell what I was thinking or feeling, but I couldn't tell what other people were thinking or feeling. A few years later I found out that I have autism, and I realised that other people could tell what I was feeling because of my body language.
The brain is so complicated, and it's so sad to see how some people become so tormented by their own brains. I used to have an acquaintance who was schizophrenic. He was a really nice guy, but his delusions were so harmful to him, and sometimes others. He was on disability because there was no way he could work. He didn't have a tv or a radio, so he would mostly just sit in his apartment and stare at the paintings on his walls, and would occasionally claim that the objects in the painting were communicating with him. He needed a ride out of town once but refused to get in my car because it had a stereo in it. He was very wary of electronics fearing that they were spying on him. He eventually had to be moved to a facility because his ability to care for himself started degrading. Unfortunately he died young because he would often go off his meds and self medicate with opioids and alcohol because he believed that they quieted his delusions better than the prescriptions did. Maybe they did, but they eventually ended up killing him.
One scientific theory doing the rounds that tries to explain Capgras syndrome (the one where you think your nearest and dearest have been replaced with imposters/cyborgs/whatever) is that it can result from a head wound that disrupts the neural connections between the visual cortex (at the back of the brain) and the amygdala (the almond-shaped body near the centre of the brain important in the process of emotions). According to this theory, the visual cortex sends the message that the person in the field of vision is someone that the sufferer knows, but due to the disruption, the amygdala fails to produce any emotional response. The mind can reconcile this disparity only by rationalising it as the person recognised having been replaced by a look-alike. Hence the lack of emotional reaction. Well, it's a theory, and given the impenetrable nature of the human mind, possibly the best one we are likely to come up with.
Our patient believes himself to be hosting an educational channel on TH-cam. He thinks his therapists are actually viewers leaving comments. Poor guy ;)
That's the best comment I've read in weeks. If "our patient" had a sense of humour he would have liked this. Perhaps we should increase his shock therapy..? 🤔
I do not suffer from erotomania; the fact that Johnny Depp is pursuing me and won't take no for an answer is a daily problem for me. Johnny, get a life !
Of course not. She's madly in love with me, and secretly comes to my apartment every evening where we make the beast with two backs all night. Sorry to burst your bubble. 😋
blindleader42 wait what!? She's cheating on me?? She told me she loves me! We are married and have a damn child together but the government doesn't want us together
i'm struggling with biopolar with psychotic tendencies, presents similar to schizophrenia, the voices and not always voices, but random sounds, noises, i look at my cat to make sure if it's real or not lol it is no cup of tea i'm telling you! great vid as always!!
I was the victim of one of these and it was terrifying and the police basically told me there was nothing they could do until he attacked me which he almost certainly would and he eventually did. It all started because I bought a sports car. A local schizophrenic became convinced it was his car and I'd stolen it. Then he accused me of stealing his entire life. Me, my girlfriend, my home and everything in it belongs to him and he was absolutely convinced of this. Imagine how angry you would be at a person if they had successfully taken everything you owned and were living in your house with your partner. Imagine how justified you would feel doing anything to that person because they had stolen your entire life. This was an extremely intelligent man that was delusional and the danger to me was off the charts. If I didn't own my home I'd have left and in the UK you cannot arm yourself and so I and my partner were is a seriously dangerous situation. This guy would obviously come around trying to 'get his life back.' As he believed I was in his life, his plan was to remove me by any means necessary and take his life back.
yeah. nice English accent without sounding pretentious. not that the English sound pretentious or are themselves so, it's just the American perception of it ironic that that evaluation sounds pretentious, I guess
You're awesome Simon! I've been recommending your work to all my friends and family. I personally can't get enough! Thank you for your consistency, and dedication! Keep it up!
It doesn't take much in terms of chemistry to go off the rails or put more clinically... an imbalance or lack of essential nutrients like potassium, magnesium, calcium, vitamins and other substances like bacteria can cause mental health problems.
These are difficult to live with and to deal with. My ex-wife has paranoid dilutions. She believes that because my Dad called our daughter "his little girl" that my parents were going to have children services declare her an unfit mother and adopt our daughter. Or just kidnap her at night. She would barricade them in and not want to come out. It eventually lead to her divorcing me. She now says I plan the same thing.
When i was 19 i thought i was actually dead and walking around as a ghost. I had a drug addiction and had overdosed. I thought i died and that seeing my family in my home was somehow deaths way of transitioning me to the afterlife. This worsened when i attempted to go visit a friend. They had no idea of the situation and played a joke by answering the door and pretending not to see me and shitting the door. I sat on their step and sobbed a bit. He came out and asked what was up and i told him i was dead. For the next 2 days my friend helped convince me i was still very alive. The delusion stopped and i have not experienced it since.
I know someone who is probably on the schizophrenic spectrum (she denies anything is wrong, so no chance of diagnosis). Thinks cameras are installed everywhere, watching her. That her banking interactions were being monitored via spy cameras by the nursing home her mother was in for temporary physical therapy. That secret agents were following her - she claimed there were hundreds of them - and she "knew" she was being followed because she'd noticed several out of state license plates. During an episode will walk around in a literal catatonic daze. Her 90yr old mother has woken up in the middle of the night believing the radio is on because she hears music or voices talking. I also remember about 15 years ago that the mother was going through a stressful time and was acting very erratic, claiming that she had died. She literally told us, in a very bizarrely hyperactive state, that "I died, I died! I stumbled and I died!" Really looked out of it. This behavior went on for a year or so until she gave herself a mild stroke. I swear until this day her brain just blew a circuit. The brain damage was actually an improvement. Still has auditory hallucinations at times, but is far more lucid and mentally with it than the 65 year old daughter.
I actually have erotomania due to a brain injury/schizoaffective. I don't stalk them or anything, it's more of a fantasizing thing for me. It's honestly comforting.
There's a guy who I went to school with who now lives in Pakistan and he believes he is a TI and he is the victim of 'energy weapons'. He posts really long stories about it on facebook. It's both fascinating and very sad as he believes he is 110% of sound mind but even cracks in the wall will make him think he is being targeted...
I remember seeing a lady with erotomania on Dr. Phil. She calmly asserted that she was the wife of Tyler Perry, and explained all the peculiar ways that this was true. She had the whole gamut of belief in psychic connection, a secret life together, the works. Poor woman! :-(
Delusions are the worst. Even with realistic ones (being sued, someone breaking into your house) you still get all the stress, anxiety, and anger but no means to definitively resolve it. I remember one guy that the nurses found exercising at night because he was convinced that if he went to sleep his heart would stop.
When I was young I was convinced that people at my school were spying on my every move. I was afraid to make any action or say anything anywhere in private or public because they were listening...watching...somehow. I eventually got over it. Later in life I found myself heading towards the delusion that I had a relationship with a model from another country. I recognized it when I woke up one morning and was feeling pretty happy because we had pretty big plans that day. Yeah, I looked around and was like... you're an idiot! Haven't had that issue since.
Some of these were Criminal Mind episodes. The brain is very complex. It's beautiful when it works but can cause so many problems when it doesn't. I guess that is a big understatement.
@@whynot6530 - Not specifically as a reality show but people believed that everything was fake for their benefit. Perhaps as some sort of experiment. Such thoughts were and still are called a 'paranoid delusion.'
The sensation of bugs crawling on the skin is, unfortunately, often one of the side effects of menopause. It is not alleviated easily. Also, I don't what kind of LSD the REST of the world was enjoying, but whatever the stuff was that was on the street in Atlanta the summer of 1969 produced in me about half of the psychopathology you describe here; and once you open that door into insanity, it is very, very hard to close it again; because: how do you know WHICH reality is true?
Sometimes when I'm tired my brain will start interpreting noises as spoken, usually nonsensical, English words. One time when I was young I stayed up all night and was convinced the crows outside were saying things like "Can you hear me out there?" and "Can you see me?". It doesn't help I have bad hearing in the first place. There were a few episodic times in my teenage years where I'd have intrusive thoughts that felt like thoughts being put into my head. Haven't had any of those in over a decade fortunately and I'm past the age where schizophrenia typically starts.
When I was a child, I believe I was a horrible person in another life, and that my current life had been designed to punish me for the horrible things I had done in a previous life.
I've known a few odd balls in my life. One was convinced that his body was asleep somewhere and he spent thousands of years with his mind hopping from one body to another on a mission to keep mankind from wiping itself out.
We are a DID System and our human mom had a rare postpartum psychosis called " changling baby syndrome" and wouldn't have anything to do with Us until We were 1 1/2 years old and Our brother was born. We have something called Mowgli Syndrome ( due to inconsistant human care and being raised with/by the pets )and We used to have Ekbom Syndrome(caused by Tormentor Alter).Another Alter tricked him out of Our System.These are very strange and debilitating conditions but are Very Real. "Changling Baby Syndrome" is the least known of the 3 postpartum psychosis...the one that is known/spoken about the most is where the baby/child is killed either " to protect him/her" or because the " child/baby is considered evil". There is also the "fragile baby" syndrome....where the parent(s) are afraid that the baby will get damaged if it is touched/ held. Many "delusional conditions" are actually trauma based...esp trauma that wasnt properly diagnosed nor processed through yet.We have alot of conditions including DID,CPTSD,Unipolar Depression and alot of Phobias...most have been around since birth.
Owaissa Althea Dickey / Thank you for sharing. I’m so sorry for the things you had to experience. It’s amazing what coping mechanisms humans utilize in order to survive. I hope you have been able to find safe and loving relationships today and that you’re learning to integrate and heal.
When I was ten I sort of had the Truman show delusion although it was more of a thought experiment than a mental health problem. Yeah I was a weird kid
As a thought experiment (as a kid) I was wondering whether I would ever be able to prove or disprove that. Later I expanded the thought that I just might be hooked up to a large simulation computer and that I really was sedated. I never really believed this but it was an interesting thought. I should have written a vook about that. This was the early 1970'ies, so I was really up front on weird ideas. And then impossible things start to happen. A long lost book that I was looking for popped out from the shelf. People mention things that cannot be true (one recognised me from 1985 by my peculiar beard. Fine, I did not have a beard in 1985). I can make things fail just by staring at them (well - everything fails, so no trick here). Pictures drop from the wall as I stare at them (that really scared me). Weird bangs and crashes. And a fire blanket was pulled from its container in the night. It has never repeated. Perhaps those spiders have got way to fat?
I was convinced for a period as a kid of the same thing... primarily based on how crappy things were. Like... some producer guy was messing with me so the show wasn't boring. I used to monologue like Clarissa Explains it All when I was alone and wonder if the editors ever put that stuff in the final cut. The Trueman show hadn't even come out yet... I actually got a little paranoid for a few weeks after seeing that film as it made me remember doing that and wonder if maybe it wasn't just a childhood delusion I'd grown out of. Lol.
There is a rare condition explored in the (fantastically well done) Psychological horror thriller called Goodnight Mommy, in which a person believes someone close to them has been replaced by someone who wants to harm them
I hate people who don’t know what they are talking about spreading this lie. Well done to the country for never teaching about Epilepsy or caring that teaching how to respond to a seizure can save lives.
Walking Corpse Syndrome is the most intriguing psychological disorder. If I'm forced to pick one, that's the one I hope I get. Also, I now hate Simon for making my skin itch. I'm fully convinced that my body is covered in bugs now.
HEY! Epilepsy is not a psychological disorder. Furthermore, disassociation in epileptics is a temporary state that can be an aura or an actual seizure in the case of partial complex epilepsy. This disease has faced more myth and discrimination throughout time than any other and you just added to it. So thanks for that. Misinformation like this that leads to discrimination contributes to the hopelessness due to discrimination that epileptics face and is why we have the highest suicide rate of any disorder.
Those people who suffer from implanted thoughts are likely mistaking their "imp of the perverse" or their own thoughts for outside thoughts. One theory says schizophrenia is basically the same sort of problem - they don't recognize their own inner monologue as being theirs.
Charlie Kaufman, who wrote and directed Anomalisa, also wrote and directed Synecdoche, New York, in which Caden Cotard [Philip Seymour Hoffman] has Cotard's delusion.
I should make a video about my own experience with the Trueman symptoms It’s an awful thing to suffer from, and I’m lucky that those thoughts are practically ignorable now
I work in a law office. We get so many calls from people who think the medical industry is out to get them and that everyone is lying to them, and nobody will help them. It's so sad, and it's hard to decline these cases because what they really need is medical help, but they can't be made to understand that. Our inability to help them then drives their belief that everyone's out to get them.
very interesting. A family member of a friend suffered from the first one on this list, and listening to my friends description of her delusions and the effect on her family equal parts sad and fascinating.
Would they be classed as mental illnesses? I would say FE was a cult. They wilfully ignore evidence of the globe. Moon landing deniers I would call skeptics, they make far more reasonable arguments re: available tech, anomalies in footage and so forth. I think they’re wrong but not illogical.
I had the unfortunate experience of living in a townhouse with bedbugs for a while. Got out as soon as we could. Drove every mattress and piece of furniture to the dump and bought new stuff when we moved. For a solid year I would wake up swearing I felt them on me. I'd turn on the lights in the middle of the night, pull off the sheets, drag the bed away from the wall to check the bed frame and baseboards. Havent found anything and it doesnt happen much anymore but I sure felt crazy for a while.
One thing is most common in stroke victims is thinking one or more of their limbs is not theirs. I had a great aunt who thought her leg was not hers and tried to throw it out of her bed and so ended up on the floor. This can be caused because the nerves to the limb are damaged from the stroke.
Ekbom’s Syndrome brought back memories of a re-occurring dream I use to have and thinking about it while I was awake would make my skin crawl. At some point in a dream I would get itchy skin. I would scratch until I tore open my skin and ants would crawl out. Hey, thanks for reminding me.
I had a girlfriend who accused me of being someone named Roy, and then Troy, and then her dead dad. She was diagnosed schizo-effective, bipolar, and BPD. She took like ten different pills. She also liked to go over to the building next door while I was at work and shoot cocaine in her veins, which probably didn't help.
Haven Sabaini - I believe there’s a spiritual explanation... I believe spiritual beings exist beyond our bodily senses & our 3-dimensional reality. Perhaps beings WERE watching. I seek Truth but some things we won’t be able to confirm on this side of eternity. There is an important place for faith in that regard. However i will add that it is often the case that Truth is stranger than Fiction. May you find Truth and peace in your journey!
Haven Sabaini - another thought...have you ever looked into people who were victims of MK Ultra and/or ritual abuse & mind control? That is a common fear among victims of those forms of abuse. I hope that’s not the case but wanted to add as an aside...
@@Seeker0fTruth I lived through extreme abuse as a child (not ritualistic though). I have never heard of MK. I'm currently in EMDR therapy for C-PTSD. I don't know if being abused is the cause of that very real and unshakable feeling or not but now I am going to do a bit of research.
I have excessive anxiety that often slips over into paranoia. I usually ask my husband "do I have anything to be paranoid about or is this just my mind?" 100% of the time, he says "it's just you, sweetie." and then I can relax bc I know it isnt real.
The belief that familiar people are imposters or have had their identities or faces switched reminds me of “The Return of Martin Guerre.” Guerre was a man who disappeared from his family and village in the Pyrénées in 1548, but returned unexpectedly in 1556. But the returned Martin seemed different from the old one. Was he the same man? That was the subject of two famous trials in 16th-century France. A feature film and a book, both quite interesting, were based on this case.
truman and frigoli is all i feel and i dont know why or how i only discovered those are very similar to me now. Thank you for opening my mind on that some other people feel like this too.
There are very interesting discussions about Capgras delusion in the book A Tell Tale Brain that suggest the part of the brain that connection facial recognition with our internal representation of the world around us breaks, leading to a recognition but new association, leading to this delusion.
I was coming out of a shop one time when I let a woman come in before I came out and she said "thanks Lewis" and I didn't recall ever having seen this woman before in my life. I had a close call with The Truman Show delusion for a few days after that!
#1 Is the scariest one imo, there's even a subreddit about it called "Gangstalking" or something, and you see there's actual people who believe they are being stalked
I definitely had an short experience with Capgras delusion as a child. I can remember it clearly, I think because it scared me so much. I had a very high fever and I started to hallucinate. I could see cartoon rockets flying in the room, then when I looked at my mother and my grandma something told me it wasn’t them even though it looked like them. I got up and ran from them as fast as I could and I remember them reaching for me as I ran and being terrified of what would happen if they caught me. That’s all I can remember, my mom said the fever broke shortly after. They had called an ambulance and by the time they arrived I was acting normal again. Never experienced anything like that since, thank goodness because I was seriously terrified.
Fregoli Delusion is kind of what I experience in my dreams. For example I dream about a person, let's say a co-worker called Luis. Louis pretty much acts like Luis in my dream, doing things I would not be surprised to see Louis doing and talking in ways Louis talks in real life. In the dream I know it is Luis. I AM dreaming about Louis. But Louis does not look like Luis. Instead he looks like my neighbour Freddie. While dreaming I don't find this strange. But if tasked to write a text about my dream and to illustrate said text I would have to draw Freddie but describe his behaviour as relatively normal behaviour for Louis apart from the typical strangeness that comes with a dream. Edit: Replaced wrong word.
Marie Lastname Dreams are very tricky. No one knows how it really works. I have similar dreams too. Where I'm convinced it's one person and all seems normal, but when I wake up I realize they looked like someone else completely. Just weird. The human brain and mind are amazing and scary
I sometimes feel like there are bugs on my bed and crawling over me. Doesn’t happen often but a couple times a year. Usually means I get very little sleep that night.
People in many movies(think of the Body Snatchers) are told they are crazy, when they, and the audience know they are not. Seems that would add to the problem, that is, convincing someone they are imagining it. Plus, nothing personal, but the internet, cameras in every store, stop light and street corner (even in you video ) say we are watching you. In my own home I don't worry about that though, since anyone watching me would have long since been driven into a coma, out of boredom.
My sister had a transient delusion that she was somebody else and had been shot, for quite afew months she was utterly convinced someone else had taken over her body, I was 8 years old at the time so it was quite terrifying.
I had something similar to the Truman show delusion as a kid; I was convinced I was the star of a tv show, but it gave me pleasure rather than paranoia. It was never diagnosed - my parents thought I was just imaginative. It eventually went away on its own.
as somoene who suffers from prosopagnosia fregoli, capgras (which I knew about before, and often like to think of as a 'opposite' of proso) and intermetamorphosis is REALLY interesting! It shows how complex the human brain is that such seemingly closely relaed diseases can exist in the world and in reality seemto be completely unrelated otherwise.
I once thought there were worms growing out of my legs (I was hallucinating) and my thought process went "Why are there worms growing out of my legs? Did I step in a puddle? Am I an apple?" And I was convinced I was an Apple for like five minutes.
+just that guy I know someone who was in a lot of psychological distress (for very rational reasons) who was afraid of swallowing things for a while. It went so far that she didn't dare leaving her keys on her nightstand over the night because she was afraid she might try to swallow the keys while asleep and suffocate because of it. She knew exactly how ridiculous her fear was. It didn't help with getting rid of the fear. Edit: Deleted word than had no business being in my comment.
I'm scared of butterflies... telling me my fear is not rational does not make it go away. Turns out the human mind is not really a rational place--and people who act like it is are very delusional.
@@NimhLabs im scared of heights but knowing it is irrational and forcing me to climb to very unsafe places helped me alot and now I almost never experience panic at heights, and if i do i can control it pretty easily
I found this video very interesting and informing. And I understand you have to be mindful of your sponsors but I would like to see a TopTenz list on Cannabis related problems. Such as Cannabinoid Hyperemesis and Cannabis related Erectile Dysfunction. I have a friend and if she smokes high THC cannabis, she goes into a hard depression and starts cutting herself. I have and older friend, in her 50's, that has seizures if she smokes too much. And Roseanne had to take her mother to the emergency room for over indulging in edibles because it made her blood pressure drop
Sometimes I wonder if the person sitting next to me is hearing the voices in my head without being bothered or annoyed. If I infer they are being bothered or annoyed, does it make me paranoid?
As a young child I wholeheartedly believed my parents were extraterrestrials who kidnapped a human child (me) to observe how a human grows over time. I always assumed it was just me being weird and stupid.
I suffer from about 3 or 4 of these delusions. My life has been like hell because of it the last 6 years. I was diagnosed with Schizo affective disorder today after finally sharing it with a mental health clinic
When I was a little kid I thought that everyone except me was psychic. Because other people could often tell what I was thinking or feeling, but I couldn't tell what other people were thinking or feeling. A few years later I found out that I have autism, and I realised that other people could tell what I was feeling because of my body language.
Holy crap, dude, me too! lol
Jason Akers lol
I can see your logic.
I'm joining the club.Can't hide anything from anybody. Now that I'm older, I'm learning to live with it.
Lol
The brain is so complicated, and it's so sad to see how some people become so tormented by their own brains. I used to have an acquaintance who was schizophrenic. He was a really nice guy, but his delusions were so harmful to him, and sometimes others. He was on disability because there was no way he could work. He didn't have a tv or a radio, so he would mostly just sit in his apartment and stare at the paintings on his walls, and would occasionally claim that the objects in the painting were communicating with him.
He needed a ride out of town once but refused to get in my car because it had a stereo in it. He was very wary of electronics fearing that they were spying on him. He eventually had to be moved to a facility because his ability to care for himself started degrading. Unfortunately he died young because he would often go off his meds and self medicate with opioids and alcohol because he believed that they quieted his delusions better than the prescriptions did. Maybe they did, but they eventually ended up killing him.
One scientific theory doing the rounds that tries to explain Capgras syndrome (the one where you think your nearest and dearest have been replaced with imposters/cyborgs/whatever) is that it can result from a head wound that disrupts the neural connections between the visual cortex (at the back of the brain) and the amygdala (the almond-shaped body near the centre of the brain important in the process of emotions). According to this theory, the visual cortex sends the message that the person in the field of vision is someone that the sufferer knows, but due to the disruption, the amygdala fails to produce any emotional response. The mind can reconcile this disparity only by rationalising it as the person recognised having been replaced by a look-alike. Hence the lack of emotional reaction.
Well, it's a theory, and given the impenetrable nature of the human mind, possibly the best one we are likely to come up with.
Interesting
Our patient believes himself to be hosting an educational channel on TH-cam. He thinks his therapists are actually viewers leaving comments. Poor guy ;)
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I concur Doctor. We need to escalate treatment.
My flexi straw will clear the anus so we can...operate!
Lol🙃
That's the best comment I've read in weeks. If "our patient" had a sense of humour he would have liked this. Perhaps we should increase his shock therapy..? 🤔
"I'm only paranoid because everyone's out to get me." - Maj. Frank Burns
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean that they're not out to get you.
Words from Kurt Cobain
@Commentator You can have no proof but be right by coincidence
@Commentator what he said was "a broken clock is correct twice a day". he just didn't use those words.
I do not suffer from erotomania; the fact that Johnny Depp is pursuing me and won't take no for an answer is a daily problem for me. Johnny, get a life !
So Jessica Alba doesnt love me?
Of course not. She's madly in love with me, and secretly comes to my apartment every evening where we make the beast with two backs all night. Sorry to burst your bubble. 😋
blindleader42 wait what!? She's cheating on me?? She told me she loves me! We are married and have a damn child together but the government doesn't want us together
i'm struggling with biopolar with psychotic tendencies, presents similar to schizophrenia, the voices and not always voices, but random sounds, noises, i look at my cat to make sure if it's real or not lol it is no cup of tea i'm telling you! great vid as always!!
theinsanelogic - hope you feel better & live a happy and safe life!
I was the victim of one of these and it was terrifying and the police basically told me there was nothing they could do until he attacked me which he almost certainly would and he eventually did.
It all started because I bought a sports car. A local schizophrenic became convinced it was his car and I'd stolen it. Then he accused me of stealing his entire life. Me, my girlfriend, my home and everything in it belongs to him and he was absolutely convinced of this. Imagine how angry you would be at a person if they had successfully taken everything you owned and were living in your house with your partner. Imagine how justified you would feel doing anything to that person because they had stolen your entire life. This was an extremely intelligent man that was delusional and the danger to me was off the charts. If I didn't own my home I'd have left and in the UK you cannot arm yourself and so I and my partner were is a seriously dangerous situation. This guy would obviously come around trying to 'get his life back.' As he believed I was in his life, his plan was to remove me by any means necessary and take his life back.
Simon, you're an excellent narrator.
“I’m Simon whistler and welcome back to National Geographic savannah mating rituals”
yeah. nice English accent without sounding pretentious. not that the English sound pretentious or are themselves so, it's just the American perception of it
ironic that that evaluation sounds pretentious, I guess
You're awesome Simon! I've been recommending your work to all my friends and family. I personally can't get enough! Thank you for your consistency, and dedication! Keep it up!
The brain sure is a complex organ...
-ED case- Maybe too complex. Even the brain can't understand itself.
It doesn't take much in terms of chemistry to go off the rails or put more clinically... an imbalance or lack of essential nutrients like potassium, magnesium, calcium, vitamins and other substances like bacteria can cause mental health problems.
It's actually quite simple. If it were complex, it could not be manipulated so easily
The one dislike is from those other list channels with the crappy robotic voice for a narrator
It's gone now, just some crazy person who suffered a temporary delusion that voting down meant up :-P
I love you.
Marry me.
Or maybe the people who hate having the lie spread that Epilepsy is some kind of mental illness or psychological disorder.
These are difficult to live with and to deal with. My ex-wife has paranoid dilutions. She believes that because my Dad called our daughter "his little girl" that my parents were going to have children services declare her an unfit mother and adopt our daughter. Or just kidnap her at night. She would barricade them in and not want to come out. It eventually lead to her divorcing me. She now says I plan the same thing.
Reckec oh my.
Sorry that sounds awful.
When i was 19 i thought i was actually dead and walking around as a ghost. I had a drug addiction and had overdosed. I thought i died and that seeing my family in my home was somehow deaths way of transitioning me to the afterlife. This worsened when i attempted to go visit a friend. They had no idea of the situation and played a joke by answering the door and pretending not to see me and shitting the door. I sat on their step and sobbed a bit. He came out and asked what was up and i told him i was dead. For the next 2 days my friend helped convince me i was still very alive. The delusion stopped and i have not experienced it since.
riiight
Steven is that you?? Steven Clarke??
I know someone who is probably on the schizophrenic spectrum (she denies anything is wrong, so no chance of diagnosis). Thinks cameras are installed everywhere, watching her. That her banking interactions were being monitored via spy cameras by the nursing home her mother was in for temporary physical therapy. That secret agents were following her - she claimed there were hundreds of them - and she "knew" she was being followed because she'd noticed several out of state license plates. During an episode will walk around in a literal catatonic daze. Her 90yr old mother has woken up in the middle of the night believing the radio is on because she hears music or voices talking. I also remember about 15 years ago that the mother was going through a stressful time and was acting very erratic, claiming that she had died. She literally told us, in a very bizarrely hyperactive state, that "I died, I died! I stumbled and I died!" Really looked out of it. This behavior went on for a year or so until she gave herself a mild stroke. I swear until this day her brain just blew a circuit. The brain damage was actually an improvement. Still has auditory hallucinations at times, but is far more lucid and mentally with it than the 65 year old daughter.
Ex Libris That is so sad.
I actually have erotomania due to a brain injury/schizoaffective. I don't stalk them or anything, it's more of a fantasizing thing for me. It's honestly comforting.
There's a guy who I went to school with who now lives in Pakistan and he believes he is a TI and he is the victim of 'energy weapons'. He posts really long stories about it on facebook. It's both fascinating and very sad as he believes he is 110% of sound mind but even cracks in the wall will make him think he is being targeted...
I have the delusion that I'm out to get someone. I don't know who, but boy are they gonna get it!
Ive been thinking it was me danny. Danny, i miss all those times from our childhood. DANNY!!!
Nothing like levity to break the tension ....
Maybe its not a delusion, maybe it's your destiny....
That's pretty funny
I have the delusion that people are out to get me its really getting to me.
I remember seeing a lady with erotomania on Dr. Phil. She calmly asserted that she was the wife of Tyler Perry, and explained all the peculiar ways that this was true. She had the whole gamut of belief in psychic connection, a secret life together, the works. Poor woman! :-(
Delusions are the worst. Even with realistic ones (being sued, someone breaking into your house) you still get all the stress, anxiety, and anger but no means to definitively resolve it. I remember one guy that the nurses found exercising at night because he was convinced that if he went to sleep his heart would stop.
When I was young I was convinced that people at my school were spying on my every move. I was afraid to make any action or say anything anywhere in private or public because they were listening...watching...somehow. I eventually got over it.
Later in life I found myself heading towards the delusion that I had a relationship with a model from another country. I recognized it when I woke up one morning and was feeling pretty happy because we had pretty big plans that day. Yeah, I looked around and was like... you're an idiot! Haven't had that issue since.
yeah ive woke from a dream aswell
Hope you’re doing better, now!
I, unfortunately, kinda relate to the first paragraph
Some of these were Criminal Mind episodes. The brain is very complex. It's beautiful when it works but can cause so many problems when it doesn't. I guess that is a big understatement.
It's only complex because it's not understood. It's actually very simple once you understand it.
@@legalizitt you do? Please share your research with the medical community, it would most likely advance psychological care a few hundred years.
What was the “Truman Show” delusion called before the show ??
Quinn Lollis The Truman Delusion
I know I'm really late, but there were actually no reported cases of it before the Truman Show.
@@whynot6530 - Not specifically as a reality show but people believed that everything was fake for their benefit. Perhaps as some sort of experiment. Such thoughts were and still are called a 'paranoid delusion.'
@@quantumblurrr well.. You're not wrong tho..
Wow, this is actually pretty scary.
This is probably the most interesting video I've watched of you.
The sensation of bugs crawling on the skin is, unfortunately, often one of the side effects of menopause. It is not alleviated easily.
Also, I don't what kind of LSD the REST of the world was enjoying, but whatever the stuff was that was on the street in Atlanta the summer of 1969 produced in me about half of the psychopathology you describe here; and once you open that door into insanity, it is very, very hard to close it again; because: how do you know WHICH reality is true?
Sometimes when I'm tired my brain will start interpreting noises as spoken, usually nonsensical, English words. One time when I was young I stayed up all night and was convinced the crows outside were saying things like "Can you hear me out there?" and "Can you see me?". It doesn't help I have bad hearing in the first place. There were a few episodic times in my teenage years where I'd have intrusive thoughts that felt like thoughts being put into my head. Haven't had any of those in over a decade fortunately and I'm past the age where schizophrenia typically starts.
When I was a child, I believe I was a horrible person in another life, and that my current life had been designed to punish me for the horrible things I had done in a previous life.
I've known a few odd balls in my life. One was convinced that his body was asleep somewhere and he spent thousands of years with his mind hopping from one body to another on a mission to keep mankind from wiping itself out.
I think we know the same person LOL
Number 11: Flat earth.
It's top tenz mate... not top elevenz
Unfortunately, that's not all that rare anymore....
Number 11: Round earth
Timothy McCaskey no because we do get some sleep
That's not Rare. They have conventions.
What if these are not delusions but truths that we are told are lies
Iv'e heard voices in my head that were not my own, but never had I thought there was a microchip in there. Damn.
We are a DID System and our human mom had a rare postpartum psychosis called " changling baby syndrome" and wouldn't have anything to do with Us until We were 1 1/2 years old and Our brother was born. We have something called Mowgli Syndrome ( due to inconsistant human care and being raised with/by the pets )and We used to have Ekbom Syndrome(caused by Tormentor Alter).Another Alter tricked him out of Our System.These are very strange and debilitating conditions but are Very Real. "Changling Baby Syndrome" is the least known of the 3 postpartum psychosis...the one that is known/spoken about the most is where the baby/child is killed either " to protect him/her" or because the " child/baby is considered evil". There is also the "fragile baby" syndrome....where the parent(s) are afraid that the baby will get damaged if it is touched/ held. Many "delusional conditions" are actually trauma based...esp trauma that wasnt properly diagnosed nor processed through yet.We have alot of conditions including DID,CPTSD,Unipolar Depression and alot of Phobias...most have been around since birth.
Owaissa Althea Dickey / Thank you for sharing. I’m so sorry for the things you had to experience. It’s amazing what coping mechanisms humans utilize in order to survive. I hope you have been able to find safe and loving relationships today and that you’re learning to integrate and heal.
Excellent presentation, Simon!
Love your content Simon
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When I was ten I sort of had the Truman show delusion although it was more of a thought experiment than a mental health problem. Yeah I was a weird kid
That’s not to say I don’t have mental health issues though. I have been getting treatment for ocd
Will Me too. I tried to say funny things to no one in order to entertain my possible viewers.
As a thought experiment (as a kid) I was wondering whether I would ever be able to prove or disprove that. Later I expanded the thought that I just might be hooked up to a large simulation computer and that I really was sedated. I never really believed this but it was an interesting thought.
I should have written a vook about that. This was the early 1970'ies, so I was really up front on weird ideas.
And then impossible things start to happen. A long lost book that I was looking for popped out from the shelf. People mention things that cannot be true (one recognised me from 1985 by my peculiar beard. Fine, I did not have a beard in 1985). I can make things fail just by staring at them (well - everything fails, so no trick here). Pictures drop from the wall as I stare at them (that really scared me). Weird bangs and crashes. And a fire blanket was pulled from its container in the night. It has never repeated. Perhaps those spiders have got way to fat?
I was convinced for a period as a kid of the same thing... primarily based on how crappy things were. Like... some producer guy was messing with me so the show wasn't boring. I used to monologue like Clarissa Explains it All when I was alone and wonder if the editors ever put that stuff in the final cut. The Trueman show hadn't even come out yet... I actually got a little paranoid for a few weeks after seeing that film as it made me remember doing that and wonder if maybe it wasn't just a childhood delusion I'd grown out of. Lol.
Will as I kid I believed I was a character in a video game. Though I'd say it was also more of a thought experiment than a genuine delusion.
There is a rare condition explored in the (fantastically well done) Psychological horror thriller called Goodnight Mommy, in which a person believes someone close to them has been replaced by someone who wants to harm them
Shirley Jackson's The Stranger is about Capgras.
I suffer from Cassandra Syndrome, but nobody believes me.
Simon, normally I would write something snarky as is my wont. This, however is serious, and scary stuff. Thanks for the coverage.
5:53 No, SSD is Solid State Drive, silly.
At 13:13 you Suggest that epilepsy is a psychological disorder. Epilepsy is a-neurological disorder.
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Eliz Donovan this is critical for him to define properly, thanks
I hate people who don’t know what they are talking about spreading this lie. Well done to the country for never teaching about Epilepsy or caring that teaching how to respond to a seizure can save lives.
I can't believe that, when discussing erotomania, you didn't mention John Hinkley, Ronald Reagan's would be assassin.
Simon. Whistler. Bloopers. Special!
Walking Corpse Syndrome is the most intriguing psychological disorder. If I'm forced to pick one, that's the one I hope I get.
Also, I now hate Simon for making my skin itch. I'm fully convinced that my body is covered in bugs now.
Epilepsy is NOT a psychological disorder.
YES, you're right!
I hate it when people spread that lie so we get treated like crap by the public.
HEY! Epilepsy is not a psychological disorder. Furthermore, disassociation in epileptics is a temporary state that can be an aura or an actual seizure in the case of partial complex epilepsy. This disease has faced more myth and discrimination throughout time than any other and you just added to it. So thanks for that. Misinformation like this that leads to discrimination contributes to the hopelessness due to discrimination that epileptics face and is why we have the highest suicide rate of any disorder.
Those people who suffer from implanted thoughts are likely mistaking their "imp of the perverse" or their own thoughts for outside thoughts. One theory says schizophrenia is basically the same sort of problem - they don't recognize their own inner monologue as being theirs.
Charlie Kaufman, who wrote and directed Anomalisa, also wrote and directed Synecdoche, New York, in which Caden Cotard [Philip Seymour Hoffman] has Cotard's delusion.
The belief that one is dead isn't really a delusion, just a premature conclusion.
I should make a video about my own experience with the Trueman symptoms
It’s an awful thing to suffer from, and I’m lucky that those thoughts are practically ignorable now
You should have that professionally looked at
No need to show us, we've already seen it
I work in a law office. We get so many calls from people who think the medical industry is out to get them and that everyone is lying to them, and nobody will help them. It's so sad, and it's hard to decline these cases because what they really need is medical help, but they can't be made to understand that. Our inability to help them then drives their belief that everyone's out to get them.
Drug addicts have that bug thing. It's well-known.
I don't?
very interesting. A family member of a friend suffered from the first one on this list, and listening to my friends description of her delusions and the effect on her family equal parts sad and fascinating.
Two very common delusions: flat-earthers and moon-landing deniers
Would they be classed as mental illnesses? I would say FE was a cult. They wilfully ignore evidence of the globe. Moon landing deniers I would call skeptics, they make far more reasonable arguments re: available tech, anomalies in footage and so forth. I think they’re wrong but not illogical.
I had the unfortunate experience of living in a townhouse with bedbugs for a while. Got out as soon as we could. Drove every mattress and piece of furniture to the dump and bought new stuff when we moved. For a solid year I would wake up swearing I felt them on me. I'd turn on the lights in the middle of the night, pull off the sheets, drag the bed away from the wall to check the bed frame and baseboards. Havent found anything and it doesnt happen much anymore but I sure felt crazy for a while.
Hey ! Everyone over to my house for tacos ! .........No wait I'm feeling better now, forget what I was saying.
It's amazing what human mind is capable of. The truth is so grey and complicated.
If you listen with headphones it is clear as day at 6:17 Simon let's one go. He has a lot to say to start over, I would have kept going too.
One thing is most common in stroke victims is thinking one or more of their limbs is not theirs. I had a great aunt who thought her leg was not hers and tried to throw it out of her bed and so ended up on the floor. This can be caused because the nerves to the limb are damaged from the stroke.
Ekbom’s Syndrome brought back memories of a re-occurring dream I use to have and thinking about it while I was awake would make my skin crawl. At some point in a dream I would get itchy skin. I would scratch until I tore open my skin and ants would crawl out. Hey, thanks for reminding me.
I had a girlfriend who accused me of being someone named Roy, and then Troy, and then her dead dad. She was diagnosed schizo-effective, bipolar, and BPD. She took like ten different pills. She also liked to go over to the building next door while I was at work and shoot cocaine in her veins, which probably didn't help.
She sounds like a keeper!
As a child, I constantly thought cameras were following me and filming me...is this just childish imagination or was I suffering delusions?!?
Haven Sabaini I also felt I was being watched... Wondering the same...
@@Seeker0fTruth if you happen to seek out and find THIS particular truth, will you please fill me in, TruthSeeker?
Haven Sabaini - I believe there’s a spiritual explanation... I believe spiritual beings exist beyond our bodily senses & our 3-dimensional reality. Perhaps beings WERE watching. I seek Truth but some things we won’t be able to confirm on this side of eternity. There is an important place for faith in that regard. However i will add that it is often the case that Truth is stranger than Fiction. May you find Truth and peace in your journey!
Haven Sabaini - another thought...have you ever looked into people who were victims of MK Ultra and/or ritual abuse & mind control? That is a common fear among victims of those forms of abuse. I hope that’s not the case but wanted to add as an aside...
@@Seeker0fTruth I lived through extreme abuse as a child (not ritualistic though).
I have never heard of MK.
I'm currently in EMDR therapy for C-PTSD.
I don't know if being abused is the cause of that very real and unshakable feeling or not but now I am going to do a bit of research.
Yes, We are always watching you.
I have excessive anxiety that often slips over into paranoia. I usually ask my husband "do I have anything to be paranoid about or is this just my mind?" 100% of the time, he says "it's just you, sweetie." and then I can relax bc I know it isnt real.
I’m surprised at how much this video stresses me out. I felt really on edge for some reason.
The belief that familiar people are imposters or have had their identities or faces switched reminds me of “The Return of Martin Guerre.” Guerre was a man who disappeared from his family and village in the Pyrénées in 1548, but returned unexpectedly in 1556. But the returned Martin seemed different from the old one. Was he the same man? That was the subject of two famous trials in 16th-century France. A feature film and a book, both quite interesting, were based on this case.
Gary Cooper i guess 16th century people couldn't figure out that people age and change
truman and frigoli is all i feel and i dont know why or how i only discovered those are very similar to me now. Thank you for opening my mind on that some other people feel like this too.
Humanity + Control = Mental Outcome
There are very interesting discussions about Capgras delusion in the book A Tell Tale Brain that suggest the part of the brain that connection facial recognition with our internal representation of the world around us breaks, leading to a recognition but new association, leading to this delusion.
I was coming out of a shop one time when I let a woman come in before I came out and she said "thanks Lewis" and I didn't recall ever having seen this woman before in my life.
I had a close call with The Truman Show delusion for a few days after that!
That's the beginning of the end. Letting you know, it was all a game.
Thought experiment: Imagine all this is true and re-watch the video.
Re Erotomania. The French movie "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" is an excellent example. It starts Audrey Tautou, my favourite French Actress.
#1 Is the scariest one imo, there's even a subreddit about it called "Gangstalking" or something, and you see there's actual people who believe they are being stalked
I definitely had an short experience with Capgras delusion as a child. I can remember it clearly, I think because it scared me so much. I had a very high fever and I started to hallucinate. I could see cartoon rockets flying in the room, then when I looked at my mother and my grandma something told me it wasn’t them even though it looked like them. I got up and ran from them as fast as I could and I remember them reaching for me as I ran and being terrified of what would happen if they caught me. That’s all I can remember, my mom said the fever broke shortly after. They had called an ambulance and by the time they arrived I was acting normal again. Never experienced anything like that since, thank goodness because I was seriously terrified.
Fregoli Delusion is kind of what I experience in my dreams. For example I dream about a person, let's say a co-worker called Luis. Louis pretty much acts like Luis in my dream, doing things I would not be surprised to see Louis doing and talking in ways Louis talks in real life. In the dream I know it is Luis. I AM dreaming about Louis. But Louis does not look like Luis. Instead he looks like my neighbour Freddie. While dreaming I don't find this strange. But if tasked to write a text about my dream and to illustrate said text I would have to draw Freddie but describe his behaviour as relatively normal behaviour for Louis apart from the typical strangeness that comes with a dream. Edit: Replaced wrong word.
Marie Lastname Dreams are very tricky. No one knows how it really works. I have similar dreams too. Where I'm convinced it's one person and all seems normal, but when I wake up I realize they looked like someone else completely. Just weird. The human brain and mind are amazing and scary
Dreaming Brain be like:
BOGO
I’m convinced my boss is talking crap on me to all my coworkers and my coworkers are talking crap on me to my boss.
I have been told I look like a lot of people over time I'm sure
my ancestors planted a few seeds here and there
Scratching at the coke bugs; aka some drugs can cause that one.
I sometimes feel like there are bugs on my bed and crawling over me. Doesn’t happen often but a couple times a year. Usually means I get very little sleep that night.
Very interesting. And it raises the thought that much of our "entertainment" is based on an exploration of delusions.
David Sault Great point!
People in many movies(think of the Body Snatchers) are told they are crazy, when they, and the audience know they are not. Seems that would add to the problem, that is, convincing someone they are imagining it. Plus, nothing personal, but the internet, cameras in every store, stop light and street corner (even in you video ) say we are watching you. In my own home I don't worry about that though, since anyone watching me would have long since been driven into a coma, out of boredom.
You said #9 wasn't as rare as you'd think. Why is it on a list of rare psychological delusions?
My sister had a transient delusion that she was somebody else and had been shot, for quite afew months she was utterly convinced someone else had taken over her body, I was 8 years old at the time so it was quite terrifying.
Google ads can read my mind
"they feel that they are being watched by the government...more than the average person."
LOL- Is that even possible?
I had something similar to the Truman show delusion as a kid; I was convinced I was the star of a tv show, but it gave me pleasure rather than paranoia. It was never diagnosed - my parents thought I was just imaginative. It eventually went away on its own.
Michelle here. Simon, we love you here in Corpus Christi Texas
as somoene who suffers from prosopagnosia fregoli, capgras (which I knew about before, and often like to think of as a 'opposite' of proso) and intermetamorphosis is REALLY interesting! It shows how complex the human brain is that such seemingly closely relaed diseases can exist in the world and in reality seemto be completely unrelated otherwise.
Are you serious? If so, you are literally living on another planet! How fascinating...I hope it doesn't scare you, although I find it hard to believe.
I once thought there were worms growing out of my legs (I was hallucinating) and my thought process went "Why are there worms growing out of my legs? Did I step in a puddle? Am I an apple?" And I was convinced I was an Apple for like five minutes.
These are the sort of things I've been trying to tell my doctor about for years, but he just looks at me as if I'm nuts, so I've stopped trying!
“Most people are aware that there belief is irrational but believe it anyway” sounds like religious people
+just that guy I know someone who was in a lot of psychological distress (for very rational reasons) who was afraid of swallowing things for a while. It went so far that she didn't dare leaving her keys on her nightstand over the night because she was afraid she might try to swallow the keys while asleep and suffocate because of it. She knew exactly how ridiculous her fear was. It didn't help with getting rid of the fear. Edit: Deleted word than had no business being in my comment.
Atheists suffer from it too.
I'm scared of butterflies... telling me my fear is not rational does not make it go away.
Turns out the human mind is not really a rational place--and people who act like it is are very delusional.
@@NimhLabs im scared of heights but knowing it is irrational and forcing me to climb to very unsafe places helped me alot and now I almost never experience panic at heights, and if i do i can control it pretty easily
I found this video very interesting and informing. And I understand you have to be mindful of your sponsors but I would like to see a TopTenz list on Cannabis related problems. Such as Cannabinoid Hyperemesis and Cannabis related Erectile Dysfunction. I have a friend and if she smokes high THC cannabis, she goes into a hard depression and starts cutting herself. I have and older friend, in her 50's, that has seizures if she smokes too much. And Roseanne had to take her mother to the emergency room for over indulging in edibles because it made her blood pressure drop
This is actually why I would like to study neuroscience
It's not 'science'
Sometimes I wonder if the person sitting next to me is hearing the voices in my head without being bothered or annoyed. If I infer they are being bothered or annoyed, does it make me paranoid?
I feel I've watched this episode before...
Alexander Turnbull But wouldn't that just be dejá vu, which is experienced by most at one time or another?
Alexander Turnbull that’s because you are in the matrix
Alexander Turnbull same here...I think matthew santoro made the same video or something not too long ago...
mat santoro did this a few years ago.
joe will help you But not as well.
As a young child I wholeheartedly believed my parents were extraterrestrials who kidnapped a human child (me) to observe how a human grows over time. I always assumed it was just me being weird and stupid.
There have been many people that have talked to Us...while believing that We were someone they knew...long before realizing their mistake.
I suffer from about 3 or 4 of these delusions. My life has been like hell because of it the last 6 years. I was diagnosed with Schizo affective disorder today after finally sharing it with a mental health clinic