Two of my brothers have schizophrenia ❤ They are two of the most generous, kindest, most thoughtful, and family oriented people I have ever known in my entire life and I've known a lot of people. It's been devastating to love someone and to see their lives become so unmanageable. To see them each be so ill and not understand why or how. God bless those who have been affected by this disorder ❤
I am a mother of schizophrenic son who is currently at the hospital since he had a crisis about two weeks ago. I think much of the suffering comes from not understanding the illness. I am myself living with polio all my life in a wheelchair and I remember saying that if God sent me a disabled child I would know how to make him happy and when was diagnose with schizophrenia I found myself very ignorant about the whole thing, but one thing I tell him every day how much I love him. Thank you for all I learn with this video.
Sometimes, all we can do is to say I love you, cheer them on from the sideline and complement them on their progress. Ain't nothing wrong with that mama, GOD bless the both of you 🙏 I have no doubt in my mind your son loves you too ❤
@@ieshagroves-dyer5373I’m in the same boat with my 30 year old son. He’s in hospital just now and was diagnosed 2 weeks ago. His behaviour in recent years all makes sense now, and I just hope he gets meds to help him.
This video broke me into tears my daughter is 27 years old and I cannot get her to accept that there something wrong. She has had run ins with police . Constant loss of employment frequency of depression ,voices & visions. Because she's an adult the court system say there's nothing I can do . This is the hardest thing as a parent I have ever had to deal with. This video gave me some hope so thank you for posting it
Same this happened with my daughter 😢she left house we don’t know that time where she left then 10 days before we got call from hospital they said yr daughter here she was in empty building unconscious some guy saw her then call police 🥹now we got her home she taking medicine now but she talk by herself 😢
So appretantly my older brother had Schizophrenia .. He lived away in London and he lost his job and became homeless for a while and then he became depressed.. I welcomed him to come live with me in America to which he agreed, but he was not the same person.. he had no motivation and he was always thinking to himself.. he did not want to engage in any conversation .. Often times he would tell me that he hears these sounds that annoys him he also claimed that a lot of people were "staring" at him.. I kept telling him that its all in your head and to ignore such things.. None of this helped.. He went to see a counselor but that did not help either.. He decided he would move back to London to "find himself".. that was his reasoning and I was dumb enough to agree and let him move back.. A few weeks later my cousin from London called me to tell me that he committed suicide .. I swear I was so devastated and angry words could not describe how angry I was!!! I blamed myself for not being there more for him. I am still trying to recover from this terrible loss but its not easy.
Thomas, my reply is a year after your comment but I just have to reply. With the best will and all the love in the world ( not to mention resource ) you cannot hope to anticipate what a person with schizophrenia might do. I live near the west coast of France and care for ( perhaps 'support' is a better word ) my step daughter. Her own family, including her mother, will have nothing to do with her. She has spent a good deal of time in hospital and is in one as I write. She goes missing from time to time and has been picked up in places like Lyon ( 400km away ) and Milan in Italy. My Friend's son also with the same condition has obliged his father to always be ready to bail him out of some difficulty. I at least was partly prepared because I have a son with autism. Different affliction but it prepares you for what might might happen. I once caught my step-daughter hanging out the window of our 5th floor apartment. An hour earlier and you would not have guessed anything was amiss....and I am well used to her changes in mood and demeanor. You did what anyone could have done for his brother. I am well used to the 24/24 kind of supervision they sometimes need and its not easy. His death is not your fault but the fault of a condition that can turn some of them in to a loose cannon, rarely dangerous to others but often dangerous to themselves. He turned to you and you were there for him. I wish you peace.
the unwanted thoughts are the hardest thing for me to deal with. They just won't go away.. you can try to control them all you want... but when you have a stressful day, they will be there in full force.
My mom has it and boyyy it's a hell of a thing when she has episodes. You just can't get angry and her and now she's going through it while I'm in a different country 😭 I feel useless because she is going to the negative part of the episode she is isolating her self in the house and the sad thing is that I'm her only family 😢💔😔. Pray for me y'all
@@alda19661 Just imagine the tortures f an alone who has no one to care,cure 4 treatment,geting worse day by day😭😭,can,t cm.out f room for th last 1 year,😭😭,It is th most worse tortured disease till death,While suffering in depression n worse anxiety,have lost all family,then faced more tragedies,😭😭, lost home,all wealth,...all left alone...Now suffering in much worse mental state,can,t manage myself,gone much worse,Life is hell torture,Doctors say that without strong caring support,it will b a miracle to recover for an alone mentaly upset person,so will anyone support me ,adopt for few months to recover😭😭😭?True. But what,s about those who have lost mental strength after facing constant shocks,life tragedies,no one alive to care😭😭,geting v worse mentaly sick...Can,t manage anything,doctors say that medicines work if some caring gurdian,caretaker will support then health improves...😭😭,but if no one cares,no one supports,such person remains in room whole time,can,t face people,can,t come out in day light,become worse mentally,physically,remain in unhygenic state which lead to more mental tortures so Suicide remains th only solution after loosing family,health,wealth,after loising a high grade multi national job then shocks kept on going,remain un employed for 4 years and have become worse sick😭😭,Lectures,advice work if someone truly supports to recover,God never comes ,He sends people to save such helpless person...I request the whole world to listen and urgently contact me as im suffering in vv severe mental tortures,neither die nor can live peacefully,brain power is expired😭😭,Respected listener,plzzz...Is there anyone who can take me away,save me,Adopt me for few months to recover,make sm true efforts to bring me back into normal life...By Swear,im in v worse hell mental ,physical state...Need an urgent true support
I know I’m a stranger, but my mom has it too. I grew up with it and I know how lonely and misunderstood people can feel when they don’t know someone else that’s been through it. Please, if you want someone to talk to about it, I know it would help me to talk about it too. 💚 Just let me know.
I have all the Symptoms of Schizophrenia. It's only now that I have come to terms with it. Awhile back I had an immense psychotic episode. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. It was torture, I couldn't sleep for months and I had to deal with horrors others couldn't comprehend. But it's only now that I have learned to use my thoughts against themselves. Take that fear and turn it into a challenge. Fight your fears, hold back against the 'darkness' trying to hold you back. If you can hold back against it, you begin to see what you can accomplish. I have turned my illness into a personal/spiritual lesson. I turn my pain into love for others. My worries for my own safe being into the worry of those around me. I don't introvert myself, rather, know that I have the limitless power to help those around me. Even if it's one person I can make happy, I do my best. I now have an open mind and I genuinely want world peace. I understand humanity belongs united and that we ALL suffer in our own ways. Your pain is not meant to be taken alone. If you are hurt, find others to help. This division of people is primal as we are all one. I beat my depression and now I am taking down this mental illness. Stand strong everyone, live life to the fullest. Even the weak can become the strong.
@@LostLakeLass Im into v worse state,self yarming,hitting myself,shouting, plzzz help,im alone😭😭😭,True. After loosing all family,sudden all wealth loss,home loss geting divorced,suffering vv worse depression,anxiety😭😭😭,no one is taking care..Then Sbbr,Tqwa remain away as u become worse mentaly sick...Is there any person who had all these tragedies, still alive,recovered, i beg the whole world..i want to meet such person..By swear,such person can only help me😭😭,Who fces such tragedies now a days,rarely survive..Dont give thousand years old stories examples,,need this cheap society time true wise men to support but no one will come ahead..i know😭😭😭,True. But what,s about those who have lost mental strength after facing constant shocks,life tragedies,no one alive to care😭😭,geting v worse mentaly sick...Can,t manage anything,doctors say that medicines work if some caring gurdian,caretaker will support then health improves...😭😭,but if no one cares,no one supports,such person remains in room whole time,can,t face people,can,t come out in day light,become worse mentally,physically,remain in unhygenic state which lead to more mental tortures so Suicide remains th only solution after loosing family,health,wealth,after loising a high grade multi national job then shocks kept on going,remain un employed for 4 years and have become worse sick😭😭,Lectures,advice work if someone truly supports to recover,God never comes ,He sends people to save such helpless person...I request the whole world to listen and urgently contact me as im suffering in vv severe mental tortures,neither die nor can live peacefully,brain power is expired😭😭,Respected listener,plzzz...Is there anyone who can take me away,save me,Adopt me for few months to recover,make sm true efforts to bring me back into normal life...By Swear,im in v worse hell mental ,physical state...Need an urgent true supportTrue. But what,s about those who have lost mental strength after facing constant shocks,life tragedies,no one alive to care😭😭,geting v worse mentaly sick...Can,t manage anything,doctors say that medicines work if some caring gurdian,caretaker will support then health improves...😭😭,but if no one cares,no one supports,such person remains in room whole time,can,t face people,can,t come out in day light,become worse mentally,physically,remain in unhygenic state which lead to more mental tortures so Suicide remains th only solution after loosing family,health,wealth,after loising a high grade multi national job then shocks kept on going,remain un employed for 4 years and have become worse sick😭😭,Lectures,advice work if someone truly supports to recover,God never comes ,He sends people to save such helpless person...I request the whole world to listen and urgently contact me as im suffering in vv severe mental tortures,neither die nor can live peacefully,brain power is expired😭😭,Respected listener,plzzz...Is there anyone who can take me away,save me,Adopt me for few months to recover,make sm true efforts to bring me back into normal life...By Swear,im in v worse hell mental ,physical state...Need an urgent true support
@@brokenheart1188 I will pray for u but u should find masjid 🕌 they know this treatment,maybe u have jinn in yr body same happen with my daughter 😥I m so sad too she live in her room but doctor gave her medicine for dipreshion
Have you tried taking vitamin D supplements every night? My mom has this and I supplement her and she is better with the vitamin D and Fishoil. Anything to feed the brain. Smart drugs and Joy from Organic India.
@@meryjes.9828 Jesus can deliver you from that completely. Those are demons. Your going through a spiritual battle. People who don’t have Jesus in their life will not understand but it’s spiritual not physical. Look into it please 🙏🏽♥️. May God protect you in the name of Jesus 🙏🏽💕
Metalhead4life\m/ add REALLY??? YOU MEAN, I LIKE WAT I LIKE AN IM BEING FORCED TO DO WHAT I DONT LIKE, DONT WANT TO, DONT CARE TO OR ENJOY BUT TO FIT IN YOUR STRUCTURED WORLD WHERE EVEN BIRDS HAVE NO HOMES I HAVE TO BE DOING WHATEVER SOME MANMADE AUTHORITY SAYS OR IM A PROBLEM FUCK YOU IM HUMAN IM DOING ME DISEASE???? LOL...
Metalhead4life\m/ i have adhd and heard voices telling me they wanted me to follow satan and I asked the voice it’s name it wouldn’t tell me it’s name I said I command you in the name of Jesus Christ tell me your name right now it said Lucifer in a very sinister creepy tone, I began reading books on deliverance and life is so much better now I had a pastor pray for me every night and I feel relief.
Knowing a few people who have ADHD and after watching this video ...also hearing the stories of what it's like inside the mind of a person with ADHD, I find myself complaining a lot LESS about my physical disability that I've had since birth. I never complained much before, but a lot after learning of the other things mentioned.
My grandson spent six months in hospital when he was sixteen. After many different medications, he is now on one that helps, but is not perfect. He lives with his dad, my son, and I am so thankful for that. It's not easy for the caregiver either. I don't ever want him to be on the street.
I hope your grandson is doing well now. Keep in mind that no psych drugs are designed to cure any patient. Please see my post above. Homeopathy (what cured my loved one) is the second most widely used system of medicine in the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Marijuana makes my schizophrenia worse. I get really paranoid that people want to hurt me, I start thinking really bad about myself, I feel everyone know what I'm thinking and feeling, and I hear the voices outside my head. I'm so glad got help and stopped smoking marijuana. I couldn't have done it without God in my life.
Ya man, I too have same kind of felling and i am also facing problem which are related with eyes due to this Ganja so called Marijuana. I always think i am looking people through the corner of my eyes and they are making wrong ideas about me.
I lost my schizophrenic son to addiction. Sadly. It took his passing for me to try to truly understand this disease. He hid a lot of things. It breaks my heart to know that not only was he hiding his addiction but his illness as well. He was finally turning a corner. In his last year of life, he finally admitted he was sick and started medication. He was a different person. He let our family in. We shared good times. It was beautiful. What we didn’t know was that he was addicted to heroin. He overdosed 2 months ago. It’s been heartbreaking. We’re shattered.
Two of the most beautiful people I met were diagnosed with schizophrenia. I was treated in a mental health clinic for two months and these men befriended me and became a grounding force for me. One is extremely talented and we laughed as he could always tell if pieces of a puzzle were missing (I would check and he was right). He told me he was schizophrenic and just stopped taking his meds as he thought he was feeling better (but that his wife would kill him if he did again :)). The other is a young man creative and sensitive. When he told me of his condition I stupidly asked "are you ok now?" and he gave me a broad smile and said "I am perfectly fine because now I hear less voices" and then picked up his guitar and sung beautifully. All Im trying to say is that schizophrenia is a title and people havent got "labels" on them. We are all pretty much the same and we all face struggles. Lets just be more open and not judge so easily and see how better things would be for all of us.
I've lived with an untreated schizophrenic for 11 years (aged 10-21) and this is not my experience at all. It was an ugly, dirty, scary and depressing illness.
I asked my doctor for a simple sedative. He forced Paxil on me, I told him it wasn’t the right meds. He insisted. 3 months later I completely broke down. I felt like I could tear the world in half, like I could pull god from heaven & tear him apart. I was walking into traffic, never eating, I lost 30 pounds in that 3 month period. When I broke, I revisited my doctor, told him what I’d been going through & he wept. I told him how dangerous I felt, the room was heavy with a power hate & purpose driven malevolence. He provided the medicine I initially asked him for, he complied & I’ve been fine ever since. These meds are dangerous, long term they don’t know what they’re going to do. I fear the mentally ill sometimes become Guinea pigs for some of these newer drugs. It’s a very dangerous edge to balance on.
I'm just glad I've found an unbiased video on schizophrenia. I've been diagnosed by several psychiatrists as a paranoid schizophrenic. I've got enough insight to dismiss the possession of demons as total ignorance.
Actually, the video IS biased, but in the other direction. An unbiased video would simply present facts without the positive emotional message attached.
LardBigfoot In my opinion as a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, it's unbiased. There is a ''business'' in the pharmaceutical industry, but I can relate to the personal experiences of the people being interviewed. I don't know what the hell your ''point'' is, or why you even commented.
Eric Crawford OH, I get it now. From your biased perspective, the video is unbiased. That makes sense. My point is that the video isn't unbiased. I'm glad I was able to clear that up.
Zack Also, the argument that "I am diagnosed and I can relate" is extremely legit, how the fook can it be unbiased if you can't even relate to that? Like, we have a documentary about LSD and no ome who has ever taken LSD can relate to the documentarys description of the effects of LSD. If that is the case it is probably a lot of propaganda. Take any situation like that: the immigrants rape and live on the states moneh in random city. And then people who live there don't know a single immigrant without a job. Of course that is an extreme but you get my point. Take any sotuation like that: either it is propaganda or it can't be confirmed
I found this a very clear, simple and informative piece of film - I have a son who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia since he was around 18yrs old, and he is now 46yrs old.... film like this helps to give clear information with regard to what this illness is, and how people can learn to live with it.... my heart goes out to anyone with this illness, and to their families as well -
I do not suffer from schizophrenia. But am very interested in learning about this mental illness. This video was very helpful and insightful on the illness.
Well, unlearn and don't learn all that shit out of the DSM. talk to ppl you know have it. The LAST thing the world really needs is an ignorant nurse with needle in hand who only knows about mental illness FROM BOOKS. GOD HELP US!!!
I know the diagnostic on the inside like a shrink, but disagree very much with the method needed. They`re very sensitive in social interactions, that`s what it`s all about. They need to socialize more, ALOT more, they don`t have hallucinations, people whisper to. The other part of the illness is the fact that the schizophrenic whispers, some of them and they don`t know about it, no you don`t need to move your tongue or lips to whisper, it`s also a permanent brain disorder that doesn`t give the afflicted individual any detail on how he or she is doing it to learn how to stop it, I wish very much that wouldn`t be the case because they don`t do it for attention and they will forever lack secrecy.
Ah, there's quite a few people saying that this isn't real...which is disconcerting in the least. The body can get sick. There are such things as colds, fevers, cancers, eczemas, etc. The brain is a part of the body. It can get sick as well. Do y'all forget that or...eh, whatever. Peace be with y'all.
Yeah but this and most other ones like autism you're born with it you or you expierence it through drugs but its not permanent with drugs its temporary.......theres just no way you can all of the sudden develop this like if 9 different enitys just highjack your brain no way in hell
This video help me to feel relieve that there's hope for schizophrenic people cause my boyfriend has and i love him even though he has that illness cause i think he is a great man, a kind and sweet man that i wanna help him get through it. He is dong his best in coping in his everyday life. He is much better than a normal guy who has no mental issues but treat other people badly. I wish there are lots of people who understands them and taking part on helping them.
I have three grown sons and my oldest was diagnosed & has been on SSDI since 2008 for paranoid, disorganized, and a mild form of catatonic schizophrenia..most of these years I’ve been his champion, though I thought such grief was reserved for the death of a child. I miss my son, his physical presence is here but it is that of a stranger and one that is always evolving: childlike, reticent, a liar like no other, but most of the time he engages with his hallucinations: laughing, joking, arguing, extreme anger, and what blew my mind most recently was when his wife (who doesn’t exist), died and I watched and comforted through this devastation which was gone by morning. My son was an energetic snowboarder, loved to skateboard, was a thoughtful charmer with a goofy disposition and had an easy way with the ladies. I’m my boys’ biggest fans, but in the last two years I’ve failed my severely mentally ill son, I’m full of resentment that my life has been only him, shortchanging my other two sons who need me too. The kicker is, for the last year, eldest has demanded quite frequently that I submit to a DNA test, part of a frightening delusion that I’m not his mother, my brain was dissected at some point and he needs to confine and observe me to figure out what is going on. He also befriended a very young kid and was doing meth. Needless to say, 911 has been here several times when I and my family have feared for my safety, and my son’s too. I am very soft with tough love, I thought my boy would get better over the years, but it’s the opposite instead. Am I too close to this to see any real danger. If this isn’t posted right, I’m sorry - I don’t do too much.
Hello there, I am very sorry to hear about your situation. I want you to know that you are not alone in this struggle. There are many spouses of those suffering from serious mental illness in similar situations as you. Help is out there. Please feel free to visit our website for some resources that can be very helpful for you. leapinstitute.org/home Furthermore, feel free to reach out directly to us at info@leapinstitute.org
This video is such a great example of how the public can educate itself about mental illnesses and become more sensitive and aware of how people with mental illnesses can live "normal lives," whatever that really means.
My son is suffering from this mental illness. My battle is only to keep him as productive and safe as possible. The biggest challenge is his father being in denial. Telling him not to take his medication and there's nothing wrong with him. It's stressing him out about things that he cannot control. Agitating the situation while I'm the permanently taking care of him. I sent him this video praying it would help but he also stuffers from mental illness and has not been treated!
What a wonderful video. I am in awe of all the people featured here. They have been through some extraordinarily terrifying times which must have seemed totally without hope. Yet their bravery and the understanding and patience of their peers families and doctors seems to have given them quality of life and joy that must have been unimaginable .
Hey, look up her name now. You will see that she didn't ever actually have schizophrenia. It was Munchauzen by proxy, meaning her mother was parading her around for attention and giving her too many pills, all of which her body never needed. Her illness didnt take her childhood. Her mother did.
I was diagnosed bipolar back in 2010...finally had an answer to why I have been the way I have since elementary school. Had no clue that another doctor diagnosed me with schizophrenia a year or so ago. I mean, I know I've been showing symptoms for a while now, but the symptoms come and go. I'll have them for like a month and they go away for a while then come back. Mostly when I'm manic and I manage it without medication pretty well. I have to. I can't take the meds for the schizophrenic symptoms because they zonk me out...and with my job...I can't be zonked out. I have to be alert and protect citizens and police officers and I can't do that when I'm out of it...but I can do it even with the paranoia and delusions and hallucinations. People have no clue I'm crazy. lol. I live fairly normal in their eyes...but I'm alone 95% of the time.
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 13, i'm now 15 and take a high dose of abilify medication, quintepine and xenidate medication, the voices seem so real to the point where you talk to them more than your own family and friends, i have been kicked out of many school due to this illness,
You are not crazy. Don’t let them put you in a box, don’t let them put their beliefs on you. You are just as credible and important as they are. You are a powerful, creative being. You have the power to live a life of happiness, love, purpose and fulfillment. But first you have to believe in yourself. You are very talented. Learn more about your talent/s. When you master your talents or special abilities and share those gifts with other people, adding value to someone else life, you can for once experience true happiness. Leave the drugs and the alcohol alone. This will make you feel good at first but the hangover or the crash will always push you into a deeper depression. The drugs and alcohol will align you with lower vibrations. When you are in this lower vibration state you can experience the pain, torment and the fear of others, so much so that it intensify these feelings within yourself. Exercise, eat healthy and always think positive. For every negative thought you have, for every negative image you see, tell yourself something positive. Repeat this and repeat it with Believe: 1. There is a purpose for my life. 2. I am smart. 3. I am intelligent 4. I am loved 5.I am talented 6. I will add value to this world 7. This pain is temporary 8. I will overcome 9. Once I over-come this I will help others who have experienced this same problem 10. I love myself, I love other people, I love God and God loves me Tell yourself that God loves you. Ask God to give you peace. If you chose not to believe in God then you will never be able to experience the love of God. We are not talking about religion. We are talking about getting to know the source of your life, the source of your power, We are talking about growing a relationship with your higher self. Leave the negative people who reinforce and increase your negative beliefs about yourself. Get around some positive people fast. Do you realize who you are?! When you were in your moms wound. You were in a race. You didn’t have eyes but yet you had vision. Out of all the millions of sperm, your competitors. You were the winner. You were the one who was born. You had so much faith back then. You believed that there was a better life for you. And look at you now. You have arms and legs. You had a goal and went out there and you pursued it. If you think that you can beat out millions even billions of other potential people and you don’t have a purpose in this life? Then this means you forgotten who you are. Let me remind you who you are. You are loved, you are connected, you belong, you are powerful. You are not crazy. You have super powers. You had all these traits to make it in to this world and those traits are still in you right this second. Learn them, embrace them I cut my arms when I was diagnosed with a mental disorder. I set my hospital bed on fire and laid there.I didn’t want to live but didn’t want to die. I was in a really bad place. But I overcame. I found my strength and you can too. Inbox me if you ever want to talk. I get my greatest pleasure in helping people and don’t mind sharing what I did to over come this issue. I love you. You are a winner! Yes I'm talking to YOU.
+Deanna Rachelle Shhhhh, be quiet, go sit in the corner, atta girl. This is for grown ups who stopped believing in the tooth fairy and have actually decided to treat a VERY REAL mental illness that has been proven beyond the shadow of doubt. people have a real hard time and you wanna come here with this? No offense, but this is NOT COOL AT ALL. People are in VERY REAL PAIN HERE.
***** Pfff "pseudoscience". Ok, with someone who has this kind of middle-age mentality, it's not even worth arguing. You rpobably think vaccination and MRIs are also a thing of the devil and I trully don't wanna be burned at the stake by the likes of you. Waste of breath. have a nice life.
I love my son so much and pray for him many times every day...Lord please help him! I love you, Matthew! I watched this many times over the last 14yrs and shared this with my other 4 sons.
I thank you for this video because I just recently learned that my brother who we loss in Dec 2011 was diagnosed with this disease years ago and he never shared with us of this illness. Now after looking at this video its helps me to understand why I would've never believed he was schizophrenic. I wish I had known and maybe we could've helped him cope with some of the things he had no control over.
Lovely video and stories - I've lived independently with schizophrenia for many years and I'm very happy and content now............ I've been happy several other times in my life and consider myself fortunate! I've had six or more careers with each lasting for 4- 6 years ............ Usually it is not just me who is dismissed but many in our department or area. I've had many ups and downs on my journey and acted out in suicide attempts by taking pills twice - this behaviour was triggered by losing complete mental functioning and seeing no way out! I believe toxic relationships and comments which are unresolved contribute to a breakdown in conscious and subconscious functioning in ones brain - hence voices and hallucinations manifest because the brain software is confused.............. My solution to these positive symptoms is to reframe each past unresolved toxic situation into a positive and tweek ones thinking so these interferences go away! This process is difficult and takes time. Establishing healthy boundaries also helped me............. God bless - Malcolm
Ive got this and it made me feel insane, feels like im loosing my sanity more and more for every day that goes, this really made me feel good and I can relate to it. If you have it, try to focus on your career and what you love, you wont even notice it. In my country I will be labeled a nutcase, so I cant come clean with it, il hopefully see you over in the US when im done with my PHD here :) feel well all, we can do it!
I don't have full blown schizophrenia but I am schizo-effective,and I can tell you that with the right treatment and medication you can have control over your Diagnosis and symptoms.This video breaks my heart to hear just how this illness stigmatizes these people.I'm glad that most of them have gained control back in their lives.
These people are so brave to have faced this and survived. They are also incredibly brave to talk about it so publicly. From the comments here, I'm sure that's a terrifying thing to do. I have faced the stigma of being mentally ill but I don't think the stigma is ever so complete and horrifying as it is with schizophrenia. I am so sorry that all the comments are so ignorant and hateful.
I don't care about STIGMAS because everybody lives to some extent then dies. The hard part is just how stupid and ignorant everyone is about everything under the sun. NO SUCH THING AS UNCLEAN SPIRITS - NO NEED TO LOOK OVER THERE! YET, billions around the globe worship dieties (spirits) since civilizations began: Yoga - Dieties Buddha- Dieties Rosicrucian and Freemasonry - Dieties Voodoo and African religions - Dieties Aztec and Inca - Dieties Eygtyptology ( Ancient and Modern) - Dieties Native American religions - Dieties Mexican religions- Dieties Shriners - Dieties Satanists - Dieties Baphometists- Dieties Millions of Heavy Metal fans - Baphomet and Dieties Millions of JayZ, Beyonce, Kanye fans - Baphomet, 666, and Dieties Thousands of Hollywood Celebrities- Baphomet and Dieties Trillions of dollars in sales of T-shirts, fashions, jewelry, books, websites, apps - Baphomet, Witchcraft, Satanic worship and Dieties. SCHIZOPHRENICS IN HOSPITALS OWNED BY FREEMASONS SHRINERS WHO WORSHIP DIETIES - RULE NUMBER 1: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DIETIES SCHIZOPHRENICS IN ORGANIZED CHURCHES AND RELIGIONS SEEKING ANSWERS FROM "ORDAINED" MINISYERS PREACHERS- RULE NUMBER 1: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SATAN, OR ANY OTHER SPIRIT THAT ENTERS THE FLESH TO TORMENT YOU OR ANY OTHER MAN. SCHIZOPHRENICS WITH FAMILY MEMBERS: RULE NUMBER ONE: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS EVIL SPIRITS BECAUSE BOTH THE FREEMASONS WHO RUN EVERY HOSPITAL ON EARTH SAY SO, AND THE FREEMASONS WHO RUN ALL OF THE SCHOOLS ON EARTH SAY SO, AND THE SAME FREEMASONS WHO RUNS ALL OF ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS ON EARTH SAYS SO! So let's just pop a few toxins to fry your dopamine receptors to dull your senses, and not only will you loose the brain function to perform just a little better than a zombie, but allowing Satanists to fry your own fckng brains also has the benefit of making the asshole voices of Satan sound just a little bit softer. UNTIL HE LAUGHS AT YOU AS YOU JUMP IN FRONT OF A FCKNG BUS BECAUSE FRYING YOUR OWN BRAIN ONLY WEAKENS THE "NEURONS AND SIGNALS" THAT HE USES TO MAKE YOU HEAR AND SEE STUPID, PERVERSE, AND ASSININE ANNOYING BULLSHIT ALL DAY WILL NOT MAKE HIM GO ANY FCKNG WHERE. **HE'S NOT SPEAKING AN AUDIBLE VOICE WITH VOCAL CHORDS BECAUSE HES NOT FLESH. HE'S A SPIRIT, SO HE TALKS, SENDS VISUALS, SMELLS, AND TOUCHING BY USING OUR SPIRITS (MINDS).
Hey everyone! Look up her name now. You will see that she didn't ever actually have schizophrenia. It was Munchauzen by proxy, meaning her mother was parading her around for attention and giving her too many pills, all of which her body never needed. Her illness didnt take her childhood. Her mother did.
5 years ago my older brother had his first psychotic episode and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, at first he managed to recover, get back into work and even maintain a relationship following medication and some time in the hospital but this only lasted a short period of time, since then hes relapsed 3 times, last time being in April 2013 l. I am not going to describe my whole experience because I honestly can't, some things I would rather forget, there have been times where I have needed to talk to somebody but have struggled to find the right words and have always been led to believe that nobody would understand me, its a vicious cycle that's incredibly hard to describe to someone who hasn't lived through it first-hand. I'm 19 now and its my first year living out at university on my own, last week my brother was admitted to hospital after months of deterioration, when we speak its very draining and it hurts me because i know my old brother is still in there somewhere...
The issue I see with a lot of comments on videos like this is that they immediately think that, because they watched a video on a disease, that they have it. I'm not dismissing all the people who have suspicions but its unfortunate to see blatant "Look at me I'm special" attitudes. this shit ain't a joke. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
Jake Nash I believe it's mainly teens. everything emotionally is heightened during that stage, and since they won't remember much of childhood in terms of emotions, it will feel like they've had it all their lives. For another example, I'm scared I will have social anxiety and basic paranoia about everything forever, until I tell myself it has only appeared in teenage years, and once I become an adult, the fears will calm down in some sense.
I mean, you’re seeing a bunch of people who probably went to the video because they’re concerned they have it. It would be better to work with people who are trying to self-diagnose with empathy. Many people don’t have the privilege of the level of access to medical care needed to get a diagnosis on a mental health condition.
I want to say thank you for this wonderful, inspirational video. I have much schizophrenia in my family. It is a horrid burden in some ways, but yes, it does NOT define anyone. It is just another life challenge. Thank you very much for all you do here.
I have family who have this illness and it has been a difficult road. This video shows a supportive system of understanding not only from family but medical institutions but my experience isn't like this.
Latonia Anderson Me too..my mother and brother both have schizophrenia. They refuse to seek help.. I dunno what to do anymore. Spend about 4 years trying to be supportive..but I'm just getting tired of it all.
My tears fell down as ive watched this video...Now, i truly understand this sickness...thank you for this video for enligthening me about this paranoid schizoprenia.....This is full of hopes of recovery..
@@marigreer703 Did you even watch the documentary where they say facial expressions can be less? She's also talking about something serious, you're a jerk
I was in college I was around 22, when it hit me. All my life I was pretty shy, but this crippled me. Emotionaly, mentally, it was draining. I dont know if it was schizophrenia, OCD, or IDD I never got checked out but for 8 months I lost it. These where my symptoms. It started with intrusive violant thoughts, hurting myself, others, my family, the kids. Thoughts offensive to my very nature, sexual, involving, animals, kids. My thoughts where, am I turning into a serial killer or pedophile, either way it depressed me. Soon after the laughter started, I could here it. Other days I couldnt tell if I was at home or in class. Walking around school was horrible, it was like everyone knew every disguisting thought in my head, I would see something on t.v relating to what was going on with me, I would think theyres no hope, I would just cry. The worst was when people would say stuff like, "dude you should shave you look like charlie manson", I would think, why would he say that and dwell on it for days. After six and a half months, I had to leave school, I would lock myself in my room, I thought I would loose control and hurt someone. I couldnt sleep after some time, I would sleep a couple hours and wake up around 3 a.m and struggle to go back to sleep. After awhile I thought I gotta tell mom. I cried that night, I thought thats it, no more future im gonna end up in a home, locked up, cutting myself. (This is part of story most people don't like to hear) I prayed for the first time in my life that night, And I slept like a baby, when I woke up, I felt a lot better, but not completely okay, after a while I felt good enough to go back to school, after a while I was my old self. My body and my mind where my enemy, my prison. It was like living with my thoughts and another persons, Someone I didnt like. You don't have to believe it was devine healing, But I believe it was. God bless you.
Man, trying to find relevant information on youtube is like rummaging through a yard sale😥. I am late for this video but I am blessed I found it. I love and respect each and every person living with mental. Ya'll are amazing people.
Yeah, it's hard to find on here... I'm fact even this one is no longer relevant. Look up her name now. You will see that she didn't ever actually have schizophrenia. It was Munchauzen by proxy, meaning her mother was parading her around for attention and giving her too many pills, all of which her body never needed. Her illness didnt take her childhood. Her mother did.
Listen, to those hearing voices in their heads, like me, you are not crazy. Unless you suffered a horrible head injury in the past, or you binge on meth or LSD regularly there's nothing wrong with you medically. Don't waste your money on therapy and medicine. The medicines only make you calm, often sleepy. But they are not permanent cures. Then I did my own research and found the solution. Like me, you belong to the unique 5 to 10 % of the worlds population that can hear and/or see spirits and entities. Yes, they are real and communicate with us regularly. They speak on a certain wavelength or channel that only we can hear/see. The spirits belong to three basic groups - angels & demons, dead people, and entities( dwarves and fairies). Spirits talk to us telepathically -mind to mind- or by using mediums/people. They can distort speech to give it another meaning. For example, a friend is talking pleasantly to you but instead you hear curses and mockery. That way you become angry with him/her. Sometimes you think you can read other peoples thoughts when in fact the spirits are just creating an illusion. This is where your paranoia / persecution complex sets in. The bad spirits want to make you paranoid, to be isolated socially. They also want to destroy you physically- slash your wrist, shave your head etc. We usually start hearing voices after a traumatic event- death in the family, sexual abuse, bullying, rejection etc. We can also pick up troubled spirits when we visit cemeteries, hospitals, prison, asylum, haunted houses etc - places of suffering. Like people, there are good and bad spirits. The bad spirits purpose is to isolate you socially and cause depression. My experience (90%) were mostly bad. Like magicians, they can create all kinds of visual and/or auditory illusions - like breaking glass, slamming doors, seeing shadows, pounding walls, crying babies, angels appearing, police sirens etc. They can imitate your parents or friends voices. They can even speak through animals. In my experience, the good spirits only intervene when things are life threatening or when you,re about to commit a deadly sin. I have already dealt with this situation for the last 20+ years, 12 of them, medicine free. I am OK now. Most doctors know only the physical/medical aspect of our condition. They ignore the spiritual realm. So they come up with all sorts of theories about our shame, guilt or unconscious desires etc. That we are suffering from a chemical imbalance etc. They can't cure you because they really don't know what is happening and they refuse to accept the idea of spirit activity. Its like the blind leading another blind. But, don't go to mediums and channelers, they will only bilk you for money. Go instead to a priest or pastor who will help. But beware, a few of the spirits will fight back and may even return later.
Those people should be so proud of them selves. I find my Bipolar 2 hard to deal with sometimes and It can not compare to how hard it must be to live with schizophrenia. Raising awareness about mental health to get rid of the stigma attached is so important and I am so glad it is now on the rise.
i have schizophrenia and i love myself. love must come from within you. others just do not care about people with mental illness. dont expect thers to validate you.
Just want to let you know this is my favorite UA-cam comment I’ve ever read, and I really appreciate you sharing it. Sending more love your way and thanks for inspiring me to work harder in finding love for myself.❤
I am a recovery support specialist who is trying to understand the people I help. Thank you so so much for this beautiful story of hope and understanding.
My mother had schizophrenia since she was 24&she passed awzy 2017.I admire the people on this video that has it!They are showing that u can live a normal life with this illnness!Thats something my mom wasn't able to do.I thank these AMAZING PEOPLE🙏
NEW TO THIS. mY DAUGHTER WHO WENT MISSING 8 YEARS AGO, WAS LOCATED AND HOSPITALIZED IN CALIFORNIA. FOR ALL THAT TIME I DID NOT KNOW IF SHE WAS DEAD OR ALIVE. POLICE WERE NOT WILLING TO LOOK FOR HER. IT WAS A TERRIBLE TIME IN OUR LIVES. I AM SOOO GLAD THAT SHE WAS LOCATED AND PUT INTO STATE GUARDIANSHIP...OTHERWISE I AM SURE SHE WOULD CONTINUE DOWN HER VERY DARK ROADi
my mother suffers from paranoid schizophernia, and it is very difficult for me. It affects my mental and physical health, my education and pretty much everything. it feels like im living with a hollow body, it feels like ive lost my mother. she havent gone to work since 2011, she had a great government job, she was so intelligent and acheived so much including scholarship. she was in denial too and i was too young to navigate the problem earlier. she lost the will to live in a way. it feels that she wants to change but just cant. she took anti psychotics in 2016 and it didnt changed much. but early on this year she stopped and now its worse. so please never go off your medication after being dependent on it for some time. and its difficult for the family, i suffer too. if anyone want to talk , im up for it :)
Dr Breggin actually was able to get every single patient he was supervising out of a state mental hospital during his education at Harvard, an unthinkable feat by most biological based psychiatrists (mostly patients admitted for psychosis). There was also a famous residential treatment facility in San Jose, CA who treated only schizophrenics (without meds) and had the highest success ratings in the state for release rates. It was shut down because it had no funding from big pharma.
I would LOVE to know how they were treating them! Because the schizophrenics I live with are filthy hoarders. And I'm tired of this NONSENSE. And the ttmper tantrums/ telling in other voices. It's Bullshit!!!
My mother had it, my sister has it, I have bipolar depression. I don't know to much about my brother. I heard a same voice twice. I'm taking risperidone very low dose. So far I'm doing pretty good. No kids, don't drink and single and celibate. Loving it.
I don't have full on schizophrenia, I have Schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder and I am different than many individuals with mental illness. I recognized early on that I had a mental condition and from then on, I was about 13 or 14 when it started, that I had to take care of it. Now, 10 years later, I have finally found a medication that works for me it is Invega Sustenna and I am really overjoyed by how much better I feel and am. My Dad who is basically a caretaker still he is happy for me. I don't get sad or anxious, my psychosis is gone. It's just a great medication. I have read that a lot of people can't take it and that upsets me because this is everything I've ever dreamed of. The negative thoughts I used to get and the voices I had, they stopped and I don't hear that constant drone of voices all the time and I don't constantly think about my friends leaving me. It completely takes that away and I am able to live. Right now, though, I am morbidly obese and am getting surgery to help me with it and that's my only problem currently. I hope everyone else with similar conditions or schizophrenia in general are able to get the help they need and will do well if they currently are not. :)
Understood. I'm on 50mg Seroquel XR (time release), every night before bed. At present, I am eligible for disability, but I choose to turn it into a fighting chance for a normal life. Hopefully, I don't develop tardive dyskinesia (and I'll take your good luck with any other good luck I can get!), and if the delusions and hallucinations don't ever return, I'll be happy. Better I die from long-term effects of quetiapine than my own hands. Thank you for wishing me luck...with ALL sincerity.
Thank you so much for putting up this video. Just being able to see them for who they are is amazing esp of how they are giving back to help the community and provide awareness. Has truly inspired me as a student nurse to always look for different ways to help them recover but most importantly to LISTEN :)
So many comments, before mine, about recovery. I have seen and experienced it. Yes there are many, too many, people diagnosed with schizophrenia who do not recover. The usual cause is their estrangement from a system and loved one's who have not yet been able to build bridges of mutual respect, lack of judgement and trust. And so they go it alone without support, treatment and services. With the right tools--it happens. We see it every day in the e-mails we receive and the people we work with.
I feel your pain - I think people understand very little about mental illnesses we are still in the Dark Ages. What is worse is that parents try to treat children with like they have special needs and forget that they have the ability to make sense of the world and make intelligent decisions
Very good video. Thanks for the knowledge. I have to say Dr, Rebecca ur brilliant and your wording are excellent. You kept ticking my boxes. Your very knowledgeable. Other Doctors too are good in other ways. Thank you all with informations into understanding the illness.
Sarah Bucket , why do you say this? I had a client with Schizophrenia and anxiety who successfully lived alone and had her symptoms well managed by medication and learning coping skills in counseling. I know many counselors who have dealt with some form of mental illness personally and are able to function well enough to care for their selves and their clients. Mental illness isn't easy to deal with but many individuals with mental illness can live with decent quality of life.
People with UNTREATED schizophrenia are violent, aggressive, agitated and paranoid. People with TREATED schizophrenia can be more docile depending on the severity of their illness. There is a negative stigma attached to schizophrenia , but it isn't fair to say "people with schizophrenia aren't violent" without explaining to the viewer that TREATMENT makes all the difference. Every schizophrenic I know who was untreated, was very violent and paranoid- i work at a clinic with children and adults who suffer from schizophrenia and autism
My sister's schizophrenia began as a teen having an episode where she held a glass bottle threatening to kill my mom and I. Then many years and decades went by with her not being violent, until recently she had another (1 of hundreds) hospital stay where she assaulted a patient and also threw a chair across a room. For 12 years she's stalked and harassed me so badly I went no contact; it was either that or a restraining order. It is worth noting (what her psychiatrist told us) these anti psychotic and anti anxiety meds after time don't work as well as they do when the patient begins taking them. I'm going to add (due to the other comment above) that I have a friend who is the care giver for her schizophrenic brother, and she is constantly scared he will assault and/or kill her. So, sorry to burst peoples bubble but yes, if they are in a paranoid psychotic episode they can easily become violent even if it's just towards themselves. See that fantastic Mark Ruffalo series where his schizophrenic brother goes into a library, sits down, whips out an axe and severs his own arm off. I believe that is based on a true story.
@@coffeedogsandservicedoglaw9045They are actually more likely to attack a family member or someone they know than the public. Please watch "My Schizophrenia Killed My Mother" from "Real Stories" Mental Health Documentary: "This feature documentary profiles four residents of the Brockville Mental Health Centre, a forensic psychiatric hospital for people who have committed violent crimes. Patients struggle to gain control over their lives so they can return to a society that often fears and demonizes them. Shrouded in stigma, institutions like this one are places into which patients disappear from public view for years. Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner, the director of critically acclaimed 'NCR: Not Criminally Responsible', was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to share their experiences with stunning frankness."
I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder 2 years a go and have to take 3 different medications everyday. It's horrible, horrible, horrible but I have a great support worker and currently studying a diploma.
Long term psychodynamic therapy can help. A relationship, rooted in trust, compassion and understanding heals even deepest wounds. That's what people lack these days within their families and themselves. It's easy to call a patient's symptoms irrational, disconnect from them emotionally and blame it on the chemistry. Delusions and hallucinations are a distorted language and it has its own logic. If we'd bother to look at it this way we'd be able to understand a patient's tragedy which created the illness, treat it with respect and make a difference, hopefully. Of course therapy is expensive and takes years to get results, also it's painful and requires deep involvement from both parts. So mainstream psychiatry just focuses on quick pharmaceutical solutions. The goal is the absence of symptoms and unfortunately in many cases it also means the absence of vitality.. No surprise it makes some people go back to medieval beliefs about possession by demons.. Sorry for my imperfect English
This video is Amazing! God, I wish more people could open up, learn & understand to help each other. So many people are struggling and I wish (truly) I could hug anyone who needed it. I wish the medication & psychological care were affordable.
Hey everyone! Look up her name now. You will see that she didn't ever actually have schizophrenia. It was Munchauzen by proxy, meaning her mother was parading her around for attention and giving her too many pills, all of which her body never needed. Her illness didnt take her childhood. Her mother did.
Lol at all the religious comments. I'm the paranoid type and the last thing I want in my head is the thought of these voices being demons or that what I'm seeing is some sort of supernatural thing, which I doubt because I see people I know/knew sometimes. Biggest living problem for me at the moment is losing sleep because of this.
These people are weak minded and hurt everyone around them that doesnt fall to their knees and join their religious cults. Good for you fof seeing that its not the answer. I hope you are doing well Declan
Law of thermodynamics tells you about cause and affect... since heaven the pit and hell are within where you are within yourself will have the biggest affect on the mind. Sin can certainly put you close or even in these places. The Brain side is more for the speech problems and following conversations and the like. Demons can and do have a role keeping people awake things like this so it gets you in the worse state ... Torture is most common when I hear about these people and myself needless to say why also confusion and the like ... he'll on earth or should I say within that person. Your welcome.
The only thing left to do is to learn to live with it, but it takes time.. Took me 12 years to "accept" it, now I have to work on it, I wish I was "normal", but well... This is what I got and I guess this is everything have to work with. I'll just try to stay positive.
Here is a list of some 'Brilliant' people who were given the stigmatizing title 'Schizophrenic'. Richard Dadd ( 1817 - 1886 ) English Painter Paul Morphy ( 1837 - 1884 ) American Chess Player Lynette Roberts ( 1909 - 1995 ) Argentinian-Welsh Poet, Writer and Artist Malcolm Arnold ( 1921 - 2006 ) English Composer and Horn Player John Nash ( b.1928 ) American Mathematician and 1994 Nobel Prize Winner Brian Wilson ( b.1942 ) American Singer / Songwriter / Musician Syd Barrett ( 1946 - 2006 ) English Singer / Songwriter / Musician and Artist David Bowie ( 1947 - 2016 ) English Singer /Songwriter / Musician, Actor and Composer. I think there is a large problem when one of the very, very few people with the illness does something dangerous. As a large amount of people in the general public tend to think it applies to everyone with the stigmatizing title 'Schizophrenia'
had a couple situations, its not fun, but seeking help from professionals and loved ones helps... keep in mind its all in your head, and you can overcome it... you're stronger than it :)
This is a very good video and I hope it has helped me to better understand what it must be like to live with Schizophrenia. I would recommend that nobody who suffers from any mental illness reads the comments, because most of them are from ignorant and spiteful people who clearly didn't actually learn anything from this video.
I wonder if research using LSD might lead to better outcomes for schizophrenia. The effects of LSD are comparable to schizophrenia, hallucinations, paranoia, both visual and auditory. I hope some kind of actual cure will be discovered that precludes the need for lifetime medication.
I am helping and becoming friends with a clinical schizophrenic that I met anonymously through a depression help chat room. The person was contemplating suicide and I gave them my kik. We have been chatting for a few days. I found that she had been through a REALLY rough life, losing both her parents before she was was 8, her mother committing suicide in front of her. All of her friends have abandoned her when they found out she was a schizophrenic. She has been through several foster homes and only ever felt comfortable at one, which she has now moved out of to go to college. She feels isolated at college and I am infering that she doesn't have any friends that she can talk to or vent to. Her roommate hasnt been very helpful either. I really want to help her as much as I can. Thanks for posting this video, it has helped me understand how to better help people with schizophrenia. I will admit that before watching this video I though schizophrenia was such a horrible illness, causing people to be violent and radical. But I have learned a lot from this video. If anyone has any other suggestions on how I can help her and be an ally, please let me know. Thanks :)
It is really unfortunate that so many people feel comfortable making broad, sweeping generalizations about people with mental illness without being educated and/or having life experience. If you really knew someone with true schizophrenia, it would make your heart hurt. You would feel their desperation and celebrate with every step toward recovery. Thank God for modern medicine. After trial after trial, my brother is finally finding some relief...and peace. He is not cured, but without medicine I don't think he would be with us right now. And if I hear one more person say schizophrenia is just demonic possession, I might lose part of my faith in humanity. Come on people.
Two of my brothers have schizophrenia ❤ They are two of the most generous, kindest, most thoughtful, and family oriented people I have ever known in my entire life and I've known a lot of people. It's been devastating to love someone and to see their lives become so unmanageable. To see them each be so ill and not understand why or how. God bless those who have been affected by this disorder ❤
I am a mother of schizophrenic son who is currently at the hospital since he had a crisis about two weeks ago. I think much of the suffering comes from not understanding the illness. I am myself living with polio all my life in a wheelchair and I remember saying that if God sent me a disabled child I would know how to make him happy and when was diagnose with schizophrenia I found myself very ignorant about the whole thing, but one thing I tell him every day how much I love him. Thank you for all I learn with this video.
Hope you and your son are doing well now.
Sometimes, all we can do is to say I love you, cheer them on from the sideline and complement them on their progress. Ain't nothing wrong with that mama, GOD bless the both of you 🙏 I have no doubt in my mind your son loves you too ❤
I feel so helpless for my son. 😢
@@ieshagroves-dyer5373I’m in the same boat with my 30 year old son. He’s in hospital just now and was diagnosed 2 weeks ago. His behaviour in recent years all makes sense now, and I just hope he gets meds to help him.
This video broke me into tears my daughter is 27 years old and I cannot get her to accept that there something wrong. She has had run ins with police . Constant loss of employment frequency of depression ,voices & visions. Because she's an adult the court system say there's nothing I can do . This is the hardest thing as a parent I have ever had to deal with. This video gave me some hope so thank you for posting it
Same this happened with my daughter 😢she left house we don’t know that time where she left then 10 days before we got call from hospital they said yr daughter here she was in empty building unconscious some guy saw her then call police 🥹now we got her home she taking medicine now but she talk by herself 😢
So appretantly my older brother had Schizophrenia .. He lived away in London and he lost his job and became homeless for a while and then he became depressed.. I welcomed him to come live with me in America to which he agreed, but he was not the same person.. he had no motivation and he was always thinking to himself.. he did not want to engage in any conversation .. Often times he would tell me that he hears these sounds that annoys him he also claimed that a lot of people were "staring" at him.. I kept telling him that its all in your head and to ignore such things.. None of this helped.. He went to see a counselor but that did not help either.. He decided he would move back to London to "find himself".. that was his reasoning and I was dumb enough to agree and let him move back.. A few weeks later my cousin from London called me to tell me that he committed suicide .. I swear I was so devastated and angry words could not describe how angry I was!!! I blamed myself for not being there more for him. I am still trying to recover from this terrible loss but its not easy.
+Thomas Schmidt Hi, Thomas, I cried when I read your words here, please write me if you want. GL
+Jinyu Liu jinyuliuhome@gmail.com
Thomas Schmidt
Riveting story.
I hope things are leveling out for you today.
I'm so sorry. I hope you feel better and that your brother found peace.
Thomas, my reply is a year after your comment but I just have to reply. With the best will and all the love in the world ( not to mention resource ) you cannot hope to anticipate what a person with schizophrenia might do. I live near the west coast of France and care for ( perhaps 'support' is a better word ) my step daughter. Her own family, including her mother, will have nothing to do with her. She has spent a good deal of time in hospital and is in one as I write. She goes missing from time to time and has been picked up in places like Lyon ( 400km away ) and Milan in Italy. My Friend's son also with the same condition has obliged his father to always be ready to bail him out of some difficulty. I at least was partly prepared because I have a son with autism. Different affliction but it prepares you for what might might happen. I once caught my step-daughter hanging out the window of our 5th floor apartment. An hour earlier and you would not have guessed anything was amiss....and I am well used to her changes in mood and demeanor. You did what anyone could have done for his brother. I am well used to the 24/24 kind of supervision they sometimes need and its not easy. His death is not your fault but the fault of a condition that can turn some of them in to a loose cannon, rarely dangerous to others but often dangerous to themselves. He turned to you and you were there for him. I wish you peace.
the unwanted thoughts are the hardest thing for me to deal with. They just won't go away.. you can try to control them all you want... but when you have a stressful day, they will be there in full force.
This sounds more like OCD, and not schizophrenia.
Me too
Jesús is the answer 🙏🏽💯💯
My mom has it and boyyy it's a hell of a thing when she has episodes. You just can't get angry and her and now she's going through it while I'm in a different country 😭 I feel useless because she is going to the negative part of the episode she is isolating her self in the house and the sad thing is that I'm her only family 😢💔😔. Pray for me y'all
I'm so sorry you have to go through that.
@@alda19661 Just imagine the tortures f an alone who has no one to care,cure 4 treatment,geting worse day by day😭😭,can,t cm.out f room for th last 1 year,😭😭,It is th most worse tortured disease till death,While suffering in depression n worse anxiety,have lost all family,then faced more tragedies,😭😭, lost home,all wealth,...all left alone...Now suffering in much worse mental state,can,t manage myself,gone much worse,Life is hell torture,Doctors say that without strong caring support,it will b a miracle to recover for an alone mentaly upset person,so will anyone support me ,adopt for few months to recover😭😭😭?True. But what,s about those who have lost mental strength after facing constant shocks,life tragedies,no one alive to care😭😭,geting v worse mentaly sick...Can,t manage anything,doctors say that medicines work if some caring gurdian,caretaker will support then health improves...😭😭,but if no one cares,no one supports,such person remains in room whole time,can,t face people,can,t come out in day light,become worse mentally,physically,remain in unhygenic state which lead to more mental tortures so Suicide remains th only solution after loosing family,health,wealth,after loising a high grade multi national job then shocks kept on going,remain un employed for 4 years and have become worse sick😭😭,Lectures,advice work if someone truly supports to recover,God never comes ,He sends people to save such helpless person...I request the whole world to listen and urgently contact me as im suffering in vv severe mental tortures,neither die nor can live peacefully,brain power is expired😭😭,Respected listener,plzzz...Is there anyone who can take me away,save me,Adopt me for few months to recover,make sm true efforts to bring me back into normal life...By Swear,im in v worse hell mental ,physical state...Need an urgent true support
I know I’m a stranger, but my mom has it too. I grew up with it and I know how lonely and misunderstood people can feel when they don’t know someone else that’s been through it. Please, if you want someone to talk to about it, I know it would help me to talk about it too. 💚 Just let me know.
Do you struggle dealing with the bad times when reality leaves? Hard time to communicate real reality during episodes
And hugs
I have all the Symptoms of Schizophrenia. It's only now that I have come to terms with it. Awhile back I had an immense psychotic episode. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. It was torture, I couldn't sleep for months and I had to deal with horrors others couldn't comprehend.
But it's only now that I have learned to use my thoughts against themselves. Take that fear and turn it into a challenge. Fight your fears, hold back against the 'darkness' trying to hold you back. If you can hold back against it, you begin to see what you can accomplish.
I have turned my illness into a personal/spiritual lesson. I turn my pain into love for others. My worries for my own safe being into the worry of those around me. I don't introvert myself, rather, know that I have the limitless power to help those around me. Even if it's one person I can make happy, I do my best.
I now have an open mind and I genuinely want world peace. I understand humanity belongs united and that we ALL suffer in our own ways. Your pain is not meant to be taken alone. If you are hurt, find others to help. This division of people is primal as we are all one.
I beat my depression and now I am taking down this mental illness. Stand strong everyone, live life to the fullest. Even the weak can become the strong.
You're so strong and amazing, God bless
@@LostLakeLass Im into v worse state,self yarming,hitting myself,shouting, plzzz help,im alone😭😭😭,True. After loosing all family,sudden all wealth loss,home loss geting divorced,suffering vv worse depression,anxiety😭😭😭,no one is taking care..Then Sbbr,Tqwa remain away as u become worse mentaly sick...Is there any person who had all these tragedies, still alive,recovered, i beg the whole world..i want to meet such person..By swear,such person can only help me😭😭,Who fces such tragedies now a days,rarely survive..Dont give thousand years old stories examples,,need this cheap society time true wise men to support but no one will come ahead..i know😭😭😭,True. But what,s about those who have lost mental strength after facing constant shocks,life tragedies,no one alive to care😭😭,geting v worse mentaly sick...Can,t manage anything,doctors say that medicines work if some caring gurdian,caretaker will support then health improves...😭😭,but if no one cares,no one supports,such person remains in room whole time,can,t face people,can,t come out in day light,become worse mentally,physically,remain in unhygenic state which lead to more mental tortures so Suicide remains th only solution after loosing family,health,wealth,after loising a high grade multi national job then shocks kept on going,remain un employed for 4 years and have become worse sick😭😭,Lectures,advice work if someone truly supports to recover,God never comes ,He sends people to save such helpless person...I request the whole world to listen and urgently contact me as im suffering in vv severe mental tortures,neither die nor can live peacefully,brain power is expired😭😭,Respected listener,plzzz...Is there anyone who can take me away,save me,Adopt me for few months to recover,make sm true efforts to bring me back into normal life...By Swear,im in v worse hell mental ,physical state...Need an urgent true supportTrue. But what,s about those who have lost mental strength after facing constant shocks,life tragedies,no one alive to care😭😭,geting v worse mentaly sick...Can,t manage anything,doctors say that medicines work if some caring gurdian,caretaker will support then health improves...😭😭,but if no one cares,no one supports,such person remains in room whole time,can,t face people,can,t come out in day light,become worse mentally,physically,remain in unhygenic state which lead to more mental tortures so Suicide remains th only solution after loosing family,health,wealth,after loising a high grade multi national job then shocks kept on going,remain un employed for 4 years and have become worse sick😭😭,Lectures,advice work if someone truly supports to recover,God never comes ,He sends people to save such helpless person...I request the whole world to listen and urgently contact me as im suffering in vv severe mental tortures,neither die nor can live peacefully,brain power is expired😭😭,Respected listener,plzzz...Is there anyone who can take me away,save me,Adopt me for few months to recover,make sm true efforts to bring me back into normal life...By Swear,im in v worse hell mental ,physical state...Need an urgent true support
@Broken Heart how can I reach you my darling?
@@brokenheart1188 I will pray for u but u should find masjid 🕌 they know this treatment,maybe u have jinn in yr body same happen with my daughter 😥I m so sad too she live in her room but doctor gave her medicine for dipreshion
I'm 70 years old have had this illness 50 years. Life suck s.but I hope some day I will wake up and be. cured by the grace of God
I am 33 Years old AND I was diagnosed with Paranoid schizofrenia last year it Is so hard I became Christian 💓 life Is so hard
@@meryjes.9828how are you now
How r u now , I heard jinn does this thing
Have you tried taking vitamin D supplements every night? My mom has this and I supplement her and she is better with the vitamin D and Fishoil. Anything to feed the brain. Smart drugs and Joy from Organic India.
@@meryjes.9828 Jesus can deliver you from that completely. Those are demons. Your going through a spiritual battle. People who don’t have Jesus in their life will not understand but it’s spiritual not physical. Look into it please 🙏🏽♥️. May God protect you in the name of Jesus 🙏🏽💕
This video lead me to treatment. Iwas diagnosed several years ago but I fought it.. thank you,this video opened my eyes..
I will never complain about my attention deficit disorder ever again after watching this
Metalhead4life\m/ add REALLY??? YOU MEAN, I LIKE WAT I LIKE AN IM BEING FORCED TO DO WHAT I DONT LIKE, DONT WANT TO, DONT CARE TO OR ENJOY BUT TO FIT IN YOUR STRUCTURED WORLD WHERE EVEN BIRDS HAVE NO HOMES I HAVE TO BE DOING WHATEVER SOME MANMADE AUTHORITY SAYS OR IM A PROBLEM FUCK YOU IM HUMAN IM DOING ME DISEASE???? LOL...
Metalhead4life\m/ i have adhd and heard voices telling me they wanted me to follow satan and I asked the voice it’s name it wouldn’t tell me it’s name I said I command you in the name of Jesus Christ tell me your name right now it said Lucifer in a very sinister creepy tone, I began reading books on deliverance and life is so much better now I had a pastor pray for me every night and I feel relief.
Metalhead4life\m/ I don’t wish it on anyone
Knowing a few people who have ADHD and after watching this video ...also hearing the stories of what it's like inside the mind of a person with ADHD, I find myself complaining a lot LESS about my physical disability that I've had since birth. I never complained much before, but a lot after learning of the other things mentioned.
Kyle James Catterall if you fast fwd to the last 10-15 min of the video they talk about hearing voices
My grandson spent six months in hospital when he was sixteen. After many different medications, he is now on one that helps, but is not perfect. He lives with his dad, my son, and I am so thankful for that. It's not easy for the caregiver either. I don't ever want him to be on the street.
I hope your grandson is doing well now. Keep in mind that no psych drugs are designed to cure any patient. Please see my post above. Homeopathy (what cured my loved one) is the second most widely used system of medicine in the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Marijuana makes my schizophrenia worse. I get really paranoid that people want to hurt me, I start thinking really bad about myself, I feel everyone know what I'm thinking and feeling, and I hear the voices outside my head. I'm so glad got help and stopped smoking marijuana. I couldn't have done it without God in my life.
Ya man, I too have same kind of felling and i am also facing problem which are related with eyes due to this Ganja so called Marijuana. I always think i am looking people through the corner of my eyes and they are making wrong ideas about me.
try the song "Ten Storey love song" by The Stone Roses!!!!
thnx
man if you are schizo you don't have to smoke marijuana... could be dangerous
Yeah, I know. I actually gave it up.
I lost my schizophrenic son to addiction. Sadly. It took his passing for me to try to truly understand this disease. He hid a lot of things. It breaks my heart to know that not only was he hiding his addiction but his illness as well.
He was finally turning a corner. In his last year of life, he finally admitted he was sick and started medication. He was a different person. He let our family in. We shared good times. It was beautiful.
What we didn’t know was that he was addicted to heroin. He overdosed 2 months ago. It’s been heartbreaking. We’re shattered.
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Two of the most beautiful people I met were diagnosed with schizophrenia. I was treated in a mental health clinic for two months and these men befriended me and became a grounding force for me. One is extremely talented and we laughed as he could always tell if pieces of a puzzle were missing (I would check and he was right). He told me he was schizophrenic and just stopped taking his meds as he thought he was feeling better (but that his wife would kill him if he did again :)). The other is a young man creative and sensitive. When he told me of his condition I stupidly asked "are you ok now?" and he gave me a broad smile and said "I am perfectly fine because now I hear less voices" and then picked up his guitar and sung beautifully. All Im trying to say is that schizophrenia is a title and people havent got "labels" on them. We are all pretty much the same and we all face struggles. Lets just be more open and not judge so easily and see how better things would be for all of us.
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I've lived with an untreated schizophrenic for 11 years (aged 10-21) and this is not my experience at all. It was an ugly, dirty, scary and depressing illness.
I asked my doctor for a simple sedative. He forced Paxil on me, I told him it wasn’t the right meds. He insisted. 3 months later I completely broke down. I felt like I could tear the world in half, like I could pull god from heaven & tear him apart. I was walking into traffic, never eating, I lost 30 pounds in that 3 month period. When I broke, I revisited my doctor, told him what I’d been going through & he wept. I told him how dangerous I felt, the room was heavy with a power hate & purpose driven malevolence. He provided the medicine I initially asked him for, he complied & I’ve been fine ever since. These meds are dangerous, long term they don’t know what they’re going to do. I fear the mentally ill sometimes become Guinea pigs for some of these newer drugs. It’s a very dangerous edge to balance on.
I'm just glad I've found an unbiased video on schizophrenia. I've been diagnosed by several psychiatrists as a paranoid schizophrenic. I've got enough insight to dismiss the possession of demons as total ignorance.
Actually, the video IS biased, but in the other direction. An unbiased video would simply present facts without the positive emotional message attached.
LardBigfoot In my opinion as a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, it's unbiased. There is a ''business'' in the pharmaceutical industry, but I can relate to the personal experiences of the people being interviewed. I don't know what the hell your ''point'' is, or why you even commented.
Eric Crawford OH, I get it now. From your biased perspective, the video is unbiased. That makes sense. My point is that the video isn't unbiased. I'm glad I was able to clear that up.
Can you explain furthermore what it is like to believe that you're possessed?
Zack Also, the argument that "I am diagnosed and I can relate" is extremely legit, how the fook can it be unbiased if you can't even relate to that? Like, we have a documentary about LSD and no ome who has ever taken LSD can relate to the documentarys description of the effects of LSD. If that is the case it is probably a lot of propaganda. Take any situation like that: the immigrants rape and live on the states moneh in random city. And then people who live there don't know a single immigrant without a job. Of course that is an extreme but you get my point.
Take any sotuation like that: either it is propaganda or it can't be confirmed
This is a serious illness I live with a sister with schizophrenia. You gotta show them your there for them show them that you care.
I have nobody to care for me😞
@@aliranesh9036 Try teading the bible. Praying for you now ❤
@@alliecat4281 thank u
@@aliranesh9036 I care.💙
@@jennynowell6996 thank you💗
I found this a very clear, simple and informative piece of film - I have a son who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia since he was around 18yrs old, and he is now 46yrs old.... film like this helps to give clear information with regard to what this illness is, and how people can learn to live with it.... my heart goes out to anyone with this illness, and to their families as well -
how is your son doing now?
I do not suffer from schizophrenia. But am very interested in learning about this mental illness. This video was very helpful and insightful on the illness.
Trisha Lee how do u know? These people talking like robos lol
Well, unlearn and don't learn all that shit out of the DSM. talk to ppl you know have it. The LAST thing the world really needs is an ignorant nurse with needle in hand who only knows about mental illness FROM BOOKS. GOD HELP US!!!
I know the diagnostic on the inside like a shrink, but disagree very much with the method needed. They`re very sensitive in social interactions, that`s what it`s all about. They need to socialize more, ALOT more, they don`t have hallucinations, people whisper to. The other part of the illness is the fact that the schizophrenic whispers, some of them and they don`t know about it, no you don`t need to move your tongue or lips to whisper, it`s also a permanent brain disorder that doesn`t give the afflicted individual any detail on how he or she is doing it to learn how to stop it, I wish very much that wouldn`t be the case because they don`t do it for attention and they will forever lack secrecy.
Why would anyone thumbs down this video?? It's an important message
Ah, there's quite a few people saying that this isn't real...which is disconcerting in the least.
The body can get sick. There are such things as colds, fevers, cancers, eczemas, etc.
The brain is a part of the body. It can get sick as well. Do y'all forget that or...eh, whatever.
Peace be with y'all.
***** Eeeeeyup, couldn't have said it better. After all, the lower amount of dopamine currently in my system is why I'm clinically depressed soooooooo
Yeah but this and most other ones like autism you're born with it you or you expierence it through drugs but its not permanent with drugs its temporary.......theres just no way you can all of the sudden develop this like if 9 different enitys just highjack your brain no way in hell
This video help me to feel relieve that there's hope for schizophrenic people cause my boyfriend has and i love him even though he has that illness cause i think he is a great man, a kind and sweet man that i wanna help him get through it. He is dong his best in coping in his everyday life. He is much better than a normal guy who has no mental issues but treat other people badly. I wish there are lots of people who understands them and taking part on helping them.
How is he and you doing today?
My gf left me after my illness started...
@@aliranesh9036 my son's gf also left him when he got diognosed
Schizophrenia is not a joke I feel sorry for those who have it
+Rodrick Williams How is it not a joke....
They get paranoid 24/7... Hearing voices. Come on now
+Rodrick Williams you right i live with this
I understand too my brother has it. Devastating at times
calena jackson the shot or medicine they give gets rid of the voices and seeing false things. I'm sure your brother is fine
I have three grown sons and my oldest was diagnosed & has been on SSDI since 2008 for paranoid, disorganized, and a mild form of catatonic schizophrenia..most of these years I’ve been his champion, though I thought such grief was reserved for the death of a child. I miss my son, his physical presence is here but it is that of a stranger and one that is always evolving: childlike, reticent, a liar like no other, but most of the time he engages with his hallucinations: laughing, joking, arguing, extreme anger, and what blew my mind most recently was when his wife (who doesn’t exist), died and I watched and comforted through this devastation which was gone by morning. My son was an energetic snowboarder, loved to skateboard, was a thoughtful charmer with a goofy disposition and had an easy way with the ladies. I’m my boys’ biggest fans, but in the last two years I’ve failed my severely mentally ill son, I’m full of resentment that my life has been only him, shortchanging my other two sons who need me too. The kicker is, for the last year, eldest has demanded quite frequently that I submit to a DNA test, part of a frightening delusion that I’m not his mother, my brain was dissected at some point and he needs to confine and observe me to figure out what is going on. He also befriended a very young kid and was doing meth. Needless to say, 911 has been here several times when I and my family have feared for my safety, and my son’s too. I am very soft with tough love, I thought my boy would get better over the years, but it’s the opposite instead. Am I too close to this to see any real danger. If this isn’t posted right, I’m sorry - I don’t do too much.
Hello there,
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This video is such a great example of how the public can educate itself about mental illnesses and become more sensitive and aware of how people with mental illnesses can live "normal lives," whatever that really means.
They can't!
My son is suffering from this mental illness. My battle is only to keep him as productive and safe as possible. The biggest challenge is his father being in denial. Telling him not to take his medication and there's nothing wrong with him. It's stressing him out about things that he cannot control. Agitating the situation while I'm the permanently taking care of him. I sent him this video praying it would help but he also stuffers from mental illness and has not been treated!
my father is schizophrenic, it is just this past month i have been able to find him, since i have not seen him in 26 years.
What a wonderful video.
I am in awe of all the people featured here. They have been through some extraordinarily terrifying times which must have seemed totally without hope. Yet their bravery and the understanding and patience of their peers families and doctors seems to have given them quality of life and joy that must have been unimaginable .
Hey, look up her name now. You will see that she didn't ever actually have schizophrenia. It was Munchauzen by proxy, meaning her mother was parading her around for attention and giving her too many pills, all of which her body never needed. Her illness didnt take her childhood. Her mother did.
I was diagnosed bipolar back in 2010...finally had an answer to why I have been the way I have since elementary school. Had no clue that another doctor diagnosed me with schizophrenia a year or so ago. I mean, I know I've been showing symptoms for a while now, but the symptoms come and go. I'll have them for like a month and they go away for a while then come back. Mostly when I'm manic and I manage it without medication pretty well. I have to. I can't take the meds for the schizophrenic symptoms because they zonk me out...and with my job...I can't be zonked out. I have to be alert and protect citizens and police officers and I can't do that when I'm out of it...but I can do it even with the paranoia and delusions and hallucinations. People have no clue I'm crazy. lol. I live fairly normal in their eyes...but I'm alone 95% of the time.
This is so sad
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 13, i'm now 15 and take a high dose of abilify medication, quintepine and xenidate medication, the voices seem so real to the point where you talk to them more than your own family and friends, i have been kicked out of many school due to this illness,
How are you? I was diagnosed with Paranoid schizofrenia last year
You are not crazy. Don’t let them put you in a box, don’t let them put their beliefs on you. You are just as credible and important as they are. You are a powerful, creative being. You have the power to live a life of happiness, love, purpose and fulfillment. But first you have to believe in yourself. You are very talented. Learn more about your talent/s. When you master your talents or special abilities and share those gifts with other people, adding value to someone else life, you can for once experience true happiness.
Leave the drugs and the alcohol alone. This will make you feel good at first but the hangover or the crash will always push you into a deeper depression. The drugs and alcohol will align you with lower vibrations. When you are in this lower vibration state you can experience the pain, torment and the fear of others, so much so that it intensify these feelings within yourself.
Exercise, eat healthy and always think positive. For every negative thought you have, for every negative image you see, tell yourself something positive.
Repeat this and repeat it with Believe:
1. There is a purpose for my life.
2. I am smart.
3. I am intelligent
4. I am loved
5.I am talented
6. I will add value to this world
7. This pain is temporary
8. I will overcome
9. Once I over-come this I will help others who have experienced this same problem
10. I love myself, I love other people, I love God and God loves me
Tell yourself that God loves you. Ask God to give you peace. If you chose not to believe in God then you will never be able to experience the love of God. We are not talking about religion. We are talking about getting to know the source of your life, the source of your power, We are talking about growing a relationship with your higher self. Leave the negative people who reinforce and increase your negative beliefs about yourself. Get around some positive people fast.
Do you realize who you are?! When you were in your moms wound. You were in a race. You didn’t have eyes but yet you had vision. Out of all the millions of sperm, your competitors. You were the winner. You were the one who was born. You had so much faith back then. You believed that there was a better life for you. And look at you now. You have arms and legs. You had a goal and went out there and you pursued it. If you think that you can beat out millions even billions of other potential people and you don’t have a purpose in this life? Then this means you forgotten who you are. Let me remind you who you are. You are loved, you are connected, you belong, you are powerful. You are not crazy. You have super powers. You had all these traits to make it in to this world and those traits are still in you right this second. Learn them, embrace them
I cut my arms when I was diagnosed with a mental disorder. I set my hospital bed on fire and laid there.I didn’t want to live but didn’t want to die. I was in a really bad place. But I overcame. I found my strength and you can too. Inbox me if you ever want to talk. I get my greatest pleasure in helping people and don’t mind sharing what I did to over come this issue. I love you. You are a winner! Yes I'm talking to YOU.
Hey beyonce can I get your autograph lol
Christen Lyle Lol your funny
Thank you thats very nice
+Deanna Rachelle Shhhhh, be quiet, go sit in the corner, atta girl. This is for grown ups who stopped believing in the tooth fairy and have actually decided to treat a VERY REAL mental illness that has been proven beyond the shadow of doubt. people have a real hard time and you wanna come here with this? No offense, but this is NOT COOL AT ALL. People are in VERY REAL PAIN HERE.
***** Pfff "pseudoscience". Ok, with someone who has this kind of middle-age mentality, it's not even worth arguing. You rpobably think vaccination and MRIs are also a thing of the devil and I trully don't wanna be burned at the stake by the likes of you. Waste of breath. have a nice life.
I love my son so much and pray for him many times every day...Lord please help him! I love you, Matthew! I watched this many times over the last 14yrs and shared this with my other 4 sons.
I thank you for this video because I just recently learned that my brother who we loss in Dec 2011 was diagnosed with this disease years ago and he never shared with us of this illness. Now after looking at this video its helps me to understand why I would've never believed he was schizophrenic. I wish I had known and maybe we could've helped him cope with some of the things he had no control over.
Lovely video and stories - I've lived independently with schizophrenia for many years and I'm very happy and content now............ I've been happy several other times in my life and consider myself fortunate! I've had six or more careers with each lasting for 4- 6 years ............ Usually it is not just me who is dismissed but many in our department or area. I've had many ups and downs on my journey and acted out in suicide attempts by taking pills twice - this behaviour was triggered by losing complete mental functioning and seeing no way out!
I believe toxic relationships and comments which are unresolved contribute to a breakdown in conscious and subconscious functioning in ones brain - hence voices and hallucinations manifest because the brain software is confused.............. My solution to these positive symptoms is to reframe each past unresolved toxic situation into a positive and tweek ones thinking so these interferences go away! This process is difficult and takes time. Establishing healthy boundaries also helped me............. God bless - Malcolm
Ive got this and it made me feel insane, feels like im loosing my sanity more and more for every day that goes, this really made me feel good and I can relate to it. If you have it, try to focus on your career and what you love, you wont even notice it. In my country I will be labeled a nutcase, so I cant come clean with it, il hopefully see you over in the US when im done with my PHD here :) feel well all, we can do it!
wow..
Will your PhD be in UFO Gynecology?
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I don't have full blown schizophrenia but I am schizo-effective,and I can tell you that with the right treatment and medication you can have control over your Diagnosis and symptoms.This video breaks my heart to hear just how this illness stigmatizes these people.I'm glad that most of them have gained control back in their lives.
thank you so much for this!!! All of these people are amazing and truly deserve our respect!!! Well done to all of them.
I’m so proud of these people I so wish that my daughter with schizophrenia would work with a psychiatrist and stay on meds
Watch TED voices in my head It's amazing explanation from a beautifully inspiring woman
Kaylee Hampton Thank you for that! I'm currently doing a paper on Schizophrenia so that is helpful :)
Cecelia?
She's amazing.
@@ChemicalValentine1 I didn't understand...can you tell us in Easy English please?
I hope Schizophrenia will be history in the future
Mulli Godingar and cancer
i hope people will understand schizophrenics in the future and stop thinking
that it is a disease :))
I don't know...
ro completely cure schizophrenia would be hard because well, it's the brain, and we still understand so little about it.
Everything is history in the future.
ella runciter I mean it is a mental illness wdym
These people are so brave to have faced this and survived. They are also incredibly brave to talk about it so publicly. From the comments here, I'm sure that's a terrifying thing to do. I have faced the stigma of being mentally ill but I don't think the stigma is ever so complete and horrifying as it is with schizophrenia. I am so sorry that all the comments are so ignorant and hateful.
I don't care about STIGMAS because everybody lives to some extent then dies.
The hard part is just how stupid and ignorant everyone is about everything under the sun.
NO SUCH THING AS UNCLEAN SPIRITS - NO NEED TO LOOK OVER THERE!
YET, billions around the globe worship dieties (spirits) since civilizations began:
Yoga - Dieties
Buddha- Dieties
Rosicrucian and Freemasonry - Dieties
Voodoo and African religions - Dieties
Aztec and Inca - Dieties
Eygtyptology ( Ancient and Modern) - Dieties
Native American religions - Dieties
Mexican religions- Dieties
Shriners - Dieties
Satanists - Dieties
Baphometists- Dieties
Millions of Heavy Metal fans - Baphomet and Dieties
Millions of JayZ, Beyonce, Kanye fans - Baphomet, 666, and Dieties
Thousands of Hollywood Celebrities- Baphomet and Dieties
Trillions of dollars in sales of T-shirts, fashions, jewelry, books, websites, apps - Baphomet, Witchcraft, Satanic worship and Dieties.
SCHIZOPHRENICS IN HOSPITALS OWNED BY FREEMASONS SHRINERS WHO WORSHIP DIETIES -
RULE NUMBER 1: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DIETIES
SCHIZOPHRENICS IN ORGANIZED CHURCHES AND RELIGIONS SEEKING ANSWERS FROM "ORDAINED" MINISYERS PREACHERS-
RULE NUMBER 1: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SATAN, OR ANY OTHER SPIRIT THAT ENTERS THE FLESH TO TORMENT YOU OR ANY OTHER MAN.
SCHIZOPHRENICS WITH FAMILY MEMBERS:
RULE NUMBER ONE: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS EVIL SPIRITS BECAUSE BOTH THE FREEMASONS WHO RUN EVERY HOSPITAL ON EARTH SAY SO,
AND THE FREEMASONS WHO RUN ALL OF THE SCHOOLS ON EARTH SAY SO,
AND THE SAME FREEMASONS WHO RUNS ALL OF ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS ON EARTH SAYS SO!
So let's just pop a few toxins to fry your dopamine receptors to dull your senses, and not only will you loose the brain function to perform just a little better than a zombie,
but allowing Satanists to fry your own fckng brains also has the benefit of making the asshole voices of Satan sound just a little bit softer.
UNTIL HE LAUGHS AT YOU AS YOU JUMP IN FRONT OF A FCKNG BUS BECAUSE FRYING YOUR OWN BRAIN ONLY WEAKENS THE "NEURONS AND SIGNALS" THAT HE USES TO MAKE YOU HEAR AND SEE STUPID, PERVERSE, AND ASSININE ANNOYING BULLSHIT ALL DAY WILL NOT MAKE HIM GO ANY FCKNG WHERE.
**HE'S NOT SPEAKING AN AUDIBLE VOICE WITH VOCAL CHORDS BECAUSE HES NOT FLESH. HE'S A SPIRIT, SO HE TALKS, SENDS VISUALS, SMELLS, AND TOUCHING BY USING OUR SPIRITS (MINDS).
Hey everyone! Look up her name now. You will see that she didn't ever actually have schizophrenia. It was Munchauzen by proxy, meaning her mother was parading her around for attention and giving her too many pills, all of which her body never needed. Her illness didnt take her childhood. Her mother did.
Very imformative. Thank you for making this video available.
5 years ago my older brother had his first psychotic episode and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, at first he managed to recover, get back into work and even maintain a relationship following medication and some time in the hospital but this only lasted a short period of time, since then hes relapsed 3 times, last time being in April 2013 l. I am not going to describe my whole experience because I honestly can't, some things I would rather forget, there have been times where I have needed to talk to somebody but have struggled to find the right words and have always been led to believe that nobody would understand me, its a vicious cycle that's incredibly hard to describe to someone who hasn't lived through it first-hand. I'm 19 now and its my first year living out at university on my own, last week my brother was admitted to hospital after months of deterioration, when we speak its very draining and it hurts me because i know my old brother is still in there somewhere...
How is your brother doing today?
im a skizo and i used to be on meds through my teen years seeing this video makes it helpful
You stopped taking the meds?
It's pretty interesting to learn something about this disease, I actually did learn something from this video.
Thank you for sharing this insightful and benevolent video on this sad subject. Very encouraging ! God Bless !
The issue I see with a lot of comments on videos like this is that they immediately think that, because they watched a video on a disease, that they have it. I'm not dismissing all the people who have suspicions but its unfortunate to see blatant "Look at me I'm special" attitudes. this shit ain't a joke. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
Jake Nash I believe it's mainly teens. everything emotionally is heightened during that stage, and since they won't remember much of childhood in terms of emotions, it will feel like they've had it all their lives. For another example, I'm scared I will have social anxiety and basic paranoia about everything forever, until I tell myself it has only appeared in teenage years, and once I become an adult, the fears will calm down in some sense.
I think it's called "medical school syndrome?"
@@SharonVeeLee Greys anatomy syndrome lol
I mean, you’re seeing a bunch of people who probably went to the video because they’re concerned they have it. It would be better to work with people who are trying to self-diagnose with empathy. Many people don’t have the privilege of the level of access to medical care needed to get a diagnosis on a mental health condition.
I want to say thank you for this wonderful, inspirational video. I have much schizophrenia in my family. It is a horrid burden in some ways, but yes, it does NOT define anyone. It is just another life challenge. Thank you very much for all you do here.
I have family who have this illness and it has been a difficult road. This video shows a supportive system of understanding not only from family but medical institutions but my experience isn't like this.
Latonia Anderson Me too..my mother and brother both have schizophrenia. They refuse to seek help.. I dunno what to do anymore. Spend about 4 years trying to be supportive..but I'm just getting tired of it all.
My tears fell down as ive watched this video...Now, i truly understand this sickness...thank you for this video for enligthening me about this paranoid schizoprenia.....This is full of hopes of recovery..
The black girl is very pretty
+Irene Carina Mental illness is not sexist or racist. And doesn't care what you worship.
Irene Carina dead eyes n a wig?!?🤷
Very pretty hope she gets help
@@marigreer703 Did you even watch the documentary where they say facial expressions can be less? She's also talking about something serious, you're a jerk
@@selty jerks are those who go around calling pople with a difference in opinion jerks...... also, really?lol
My daughter had schizophrenia too but she is not a monster. She just 23 years old and she has a long life. And we are from Vietnam.
So great to hear all these recovery stories.
I was in college I was around 22, when it hit me.
All my life I was pretty shy, but this crippled me.
Emotionaly, mentally, it was draining. I dont know if it was schizophrenia, OCD, or IDD I never got checked out but for 8 months I lost it. These where my symptoms.
It started with intrusive violant thoughts, hurting myself, others, my family, the kids. Thoughts offensive to my very nature, sexual, involving, animals, kids.
My thoughts where, am I turning into a serial killer or pedophile, either way it depressed me.
Soon after the laughter started, I could here it.
Other days I couldnt tell if I was at home or in class.
Walking around school was horrible, it was like everyone knew every disguisting thought in my head, I would see something on t.v relating to what was going on with me, I would think theyres no hope, I would just cry.
The worst was when people would say stuff like, "dude you should shave you look like charlie manson", I would think, why would he say that and dwell on it for days.
After six and a half months, I had to leave school,
I would lock myself in my room, I thought I would loose control and hurt someone.
I couldnt sleep after some time, I would sleep a couple hours and wake up around 3 a.m and struggle to go back to sleep.
After awhile I thought I gotta tell mom.
I cried that night, I thought thats it, no more future im gonna end up in a home, locked up, cutting myself.
(This is part of story most people don't like to hear)
I prayed for the first time in my life that night,
And I slept like a baby, when I woke up, I felt a lot better, but not completely okay, after a while I felt good enough to go back to school, after a while I was my old self.
My body and my mind where my enemy, my prison.
It was like living with my thoughts and another persons,
Someone I didnt like.
You don't have to believe it was devine healing,
But I believe it was.
God bless you.
How are you doing today?
Rev55 thank you because i am mentally ill and have anxiety. And i am at risk
I believe it was divine intervention as well!
Man, trying to find relevant information on youtube is like rummaging through a yard sale😥. I am late for this video but I am blessed I found it. I love and respect each and every person living with mental. Ya'll are amazing people.
Yeah, it's hard to find on here... I'm fact even this one is no longer relevant. Look up her name now. You will see that she didn't ever actually have schizophrenia. It was Munchauzen by proxy, meaning her mother was parading her around for attention and giving her too many pills, all of which her body never needed. Her illness didnt take her childhood. Her mother did.
Negative symptoms also include inability to feel joy, and lack of motivation.
Listen, to those hearing voices in their heads, like me, you are not crazy. Unless you suffered a horrible head injury
in the past, or you binge on meth or LSD regularly there's nothing wrong with you medically. Don't waste your money on
therapy and medicine. The medicines only make you calm, often sleepy. But they are not permanent cures. Then I did my
own research and found the solution. Like me, you belong to the unique 5 to 10 % of the worlds population that can hear
and/or see spirits and entities. Yes, they are real and communicate with us regularly. They speak on a certain wavelength
or channel that only we can hear/see. The spirits belong to three basic groups - angels & demons, dead people, and
entities( dwarves and fairies).
Spirits talk to us telepathically -mind to mind- or by using mediums/people. They can distort speech to give it another
meaning. For example, a friend is talking pleasantly to you but instead you hear curses and mockery. That way you become
angry with him/her. Sometimes you think you can read other peoples thoughts when in fact the spirits are just creating an
illusion. This is where your paranoia / persecution complex sets in. The bad spirits want to make you paranoid, to be
isolated socially. They also want to destroy you physically- slash your wrist, shave your head etc. We usually start
hearing voices after a traumatic event- death in the family, sexual abuse, bullying, rejection etc. We can also pick up
troubled spirits when we visit cemeteries, hospitals, prison, asylum, haunted houses etc - places of suffering.
Like people, there are good and bad spirits. The bad spirits purpose is to isolate you socially and cause depression. My
experience (90%) were mostly bad. Like magicians, they can create all kinds of visual and/or auditory illusions - like
breaking glass, slamming doors, seeing shadows, pounding walls, crying babies, angels appearing, police sirens etc. They
can imitate your parents or friends voices. They can even speak through animals. In my experience, the good spirits only
intervene when things are life threatening or when you,re about to commit a deadly sin.
I have already dealt with this situation for the last 20+ years, 12 of them, medicine free. I am OK now. Most doctors know
only the physical/medical aspect of our condition. They ignore the spiritual realm. So they come up with all sorts of
theories about our shame, guilt or unconscious desires etc. That we are suffering from a chemical imbalance etc. They
can't cure you because they really don't know what is happening and they refuse to accept the idea of spirit activity.
Its like the blind leading another blind. But, don't go to mediums and channelers, they will only bilk you for money.
Go instead to a priest or pastor who will help. But beware, a few of the spirits will fight back and may even return
later.
Shocking are these gone from a skitzophrenics life forever
Those people should be so proud of them selves. I find my Bipolar 2 hard to deal with sometimes and It can not compare to how hard it must be to live with schizophrenia. Raising awareness about mental health to get rid of the stigma attached is so important and I am so glad it is now on the rise.
i have schizophrenia and i love myself. love must come from within you. others just do not care about people with mental illness. dont expect thers to validate you.
Just want to let you know this is my favorite UA-cam comment I’ve ever read, and I really appreciate you sharing it. Sending more love your way and thanks for inspiring me to work harder in finding love for myself.❤
I am a recovery support specialist who is trying to understand the people I help. Thank you so so much for this beautiful story of hope and understanding.
i can relate to all of this, im currently on med for it for treatment,
My mother had schizophrenia since she was 24&she passed awzy 2017.I admire the people on this video that has it!They are showing that u can live a normal life with this illnness!Thats something my mom wasn't able to do.I thank these AMAZING PEOPLE🙏
NEW TO THIS. mY DAUGHTER WHO WENT MISSING 8 YEARS AGO, WAS LOCATED AND HOSPITALIZED IN CALIFORNIA. FOR ALL THAT TIME I DID NOT KNOW IF SHE WAS DEAD OR ALIVE. POLICE WERE NOT WILLING TO LOOK FOR HER. IT WAS A TERRIBLE TIME IN OUR LIVES. I AM SOOO GLAD THAT SHE WAS LOCATED AND PUT INTO STATE GUARDIANSHIP...OTHERWISE I AM SURE SHE WOULD CONTINUE DOWN HER VERY DARK ROADi
You did not bring her home? Abandoned her?
my mother suffers from paranoid schizophernia, and it is very difficult for me.
It affects my mental and physical health, my education and pretty much everything.
it feels like im living with a hollow body, it feels like ive lost my mother.
she havent gone to work since 2011, she had a great government job, she was so intelligent and acheived so much including scholarship. she was in denial too and i was too young to navigate the problem earlier. she lost the will to live in a way. it feels that she wants to change but just cant. she took anti psychotics in 2016 and it didnt changed much. but early on this year she stopped and now its worse.
so please never go off your medication after being dependent on it for some time.
and its difficult for the family, i suffer too. if anyone want to talk , im up for it :)
Dr Breggin actually was able to get every single patient he was supervising out of a state mental hospital during his education at Harvard, an unthinkable feat by most biological based psychiatrists (mostly patients admitted for psychosis).
There was also a famous residential treatment facility in San Jose, CA who treated only schizophrenics (without meds) and had the highest success ratings in the state for release rates. It was shut down because it had no funding from big pharma.
I would LOVE to know how they were treating them! Because the schizophrenics I live with are filthy hoarders. And I'm tired of this NONSENSE. And the ttmper tantrums/ telling in other voices. It's Bullshit!!!
Lost my brother to schizophrenia from opiate addiction and smoking pot.
He's in supported living now and he's safe well looked after
All I can say is thank you for this message :)
My mother had it, my sister has it, I have bipolar depression. I don't know to much about my brother. I heard a same voice twice. I'm taking risperidone very low dose. So far I'm doing pretty good. No kids, don't drink and single and celibate. Loving it.
How much of risperidone are you taking im using same medication for schizoafective but most of the time i cant feel joy or moyivation
I don't have full on schizophrenia, I have Schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder and I am different than many individuals with mental illness. I recognized early on that I had a mental condition and from then on, I was about 13 or 14 when it started, that I had to take care of it. Now, 10 years later, I have finally found a medication that works for me it is Invega Sustenna and I am really overjoyed by how much better I feel and am. My Dad who is basically a caretaker still he is happy for me. I don't get sad or anxious, my psychosis is gone. It's just a great medication. I have read that a lot of people can't take it and that upsets me because this is everything I've ever dreamed of. The negative thoughts I used to get and the voices I had, they stopped and I don't hear that constant drone of voices all the time and I don't constantly think about my friends leaving me. It completely takes that away and I am able to live. Right now, though, I am morbidly obese and am getting surgery to help me with it and that's my only problem currently. I hope everyone else with similar conditions or schizophrenia in general are able to get the help they need and will do well if they currently are not. :)
What is the name of the medication that has helped you so much?
@@flaggermillions-tg3ti invega
My sister has Schizophrenia. This is helping me better understand and I am so glad I watched. Now, I know how to better handle her relapses.
Understood.
I'm on 50mg Seroquel XR (time release), every night before bed. At present, I am eligible for disability, but I choose to turn it into a fighting chance for a normal life.
Hopefully, I don't develop tardive dyskinesia (and I'll take your good luck with any other good luck I can get!), and if the delusions and hallucinations don't ever return, I'll be happy. Better I die from long-term effects of quetiapine than my own hands.
Thank you for wishing me luck...with ALL sincerity.
Thank you so much for putting up this video. Just being able to see them for who they are is amazing esp of how they are giving back to help the community and provide awareness. Has truly inspired me as a student nurse to always look for different ways to help them recover but most importantly to LISTEN :)
So many comments, before mine, about recovery. I have seen and experienced it. Yes there are many, too many, people diagnosed with schizophrenia who do not recover. The usual cause is their estrangement from a system and loved one's who have not yet been able to build bridges of mutual respect, lack of judgement and trust. And so they go it alone without support, treatment and services. With the right tools--it happens. We see it every day in the e-mails we receive and the people we work with.
Do you get a lot of emails of recovered people with schizophrenia every day? Some of them are still taking medication?
What a great production thanks
Great video! Paranoid schizophrenic here and can relate to so much that was said here.
Also I eard voices many years but since iam posting here in UA-cam vídeos this helped face this problema, i am way better since then.
that mom really takes time cutting cucumbers
Thank LEAP Institute FOR Posting this VIDEO now i know i can treat my self better.
I feel your pain - I think people understand very little about mental illnesses we are still in the Dark Ages. What is worse is that parents try to treat children with like they have special needs and forget that they have the ability to make sense of the world and make intelligent decisions
Very good video. Thanks for the knowledge. I have to say Dr, Rebecca ur brilliant and your wording are excellent. You kept ticking my boxes. Your very knowledgeable. Other Doctors too are good in other ways. Thank you all with informations into understanding the illness.
This is so encouraging!!!
thanks for this beautifoul video. It is inspiring! Thank you, in Italy we are still so far behind on this topic.
I always thought this disease was only brought from long term use of hard core drugs, until I was diagnosed as a teen with no use of drugs at all.
I can only be grateful to people who have made this video I congratulate you for taking this brave step.Shirley
Life is possible for peoplle with mental ilness.
+Pia Carbajal depends on what illness and how severe their symptoms are i think.
thats just BS.. sorry
Pia Carbajal everyone runs
Sarah Bucket , why do you say this? I had a client with Schizophrenia and anxiety who successfully lived alone and had her symptoms well managed by medication and learning coping skills in counseling. I know many counselors who have dealt with some form of mental illness personally and are able to function well enough to care for their selves and their clients. Mental illness isn't easy to deal with but many individuals with mental illness can live with decent quality of life.
This video was incredibly helpful and gives me hope for my loved one. Thank you.
People with UNTREATED schizophrenia are violent, aggressive, agitated and paranoid. People with TREATED schizophrenia can be more docile depending on the severity of their illness. There is a negative stigma attached to schizophrenia , but it isn't fair to say "people with schizophrenia aren't violent" without explaining to the viewer that TREATMENT makes all the difference. Every schizophrenic I know who was untreated, was very violent and paranoid- i work at a clinic with children and adults who suffer from schizophrenia and autism
That isn't true. It depends on the subtype of schizophrenia a person has. Less than 1% of all schizophrenics are violent.
My sister's schizophrenia began as a teen having an episode where she held a glass bottle threatening to kill my mom and I. Then many years and decades went by with her not being violent, until recently she had another (1 of hundreds) hospital stay where she assaulted a patient and also threw a chair across a room. For 12 years she's stalked and harassed me so badly I went no contact; it was either that or a restraining order. It is worth noting (what her psychiatrist told us) these anti psychotic and anti anxiety meds after time don't work as well as they do when the patient begins taking them. I'm going to add (due to the other comment above) that I have a friend who is the care giver for her schizophrenic brother, and she is constantly scared he will assault and/or kill her. So, sorry to burst peoples bubble but yes, if they are in a paranoid psychotic episode they can easily become violent even if it's just towards themselves. See that fantastic Mark Ruffalo series where his schizophrenic brother goes into a library, sits down, whips out an axe and severs his own arm off. I believe that is based on a true story.
@@coffeedogsandservicedoglaw9045They are actually more likely to attack a family member or someone they know than the public. Please watch "My Schizophrenia Killed My Mother" from "Real Stories" Mental Health Documentary: "This feature documentary profiles four residents of the Brockville Mental Health Centre, a forensic psychiatric hospital for people who have committed violent crimes. Patients struggle to gain control over their lives so they can return to a society that often fears and demonizes them. Shrouded in stigma,
institutions like this one are places into which patients disappear from public view for years. Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner, the director of critically acclaimed 'NCR: Not Criminally Responsible', was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to share their experiences with stunning frankness."
I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder 2 years a go and have to take 3 different medications everyday. It's horrible, horrible, horrible but I have a great support worker and currently studying a diploma.
Long term psychodynamic therapy can help. A relationship, rooted in trust, compassion and understanding heals even deepest wounds. That's what people lack these days within their families and themselves. It's easy to call a patient's symptoms irrational, disconnect from them emotionally and blame it on the chemistry. Delusions and hallucinations are a distorted language and it has its own logic. If we'd bother to look at it this way we'd be able to understand a patient's tragedy which created the illness, treat it with respect and make a difference, hopefully. Of course therapy is expensive and takes years to get results, also it's painful and requires deep involvement from both parts. So mainstream psychiatry just focuses on quick pharmaceutical solutions. The goal is the absence of symptoms and unfortunately in many cases it also means the absence of vitality.. No surprise it makes some people go back to medieval beliefs about possession by demons.. Sorry for my imperfect English
Completely agree.
I agree 100%
This video is Amazing! God, I wish more people could open up, learn & understand to help each other. So many people are struggling and I wish (truly) I could hug anyone who needed it. I wish the medication & psychological care were affordable.
Hey everyone! Look up her name now. You will see that she didn't ever actually have schizophrenia. It was Munchauzen by proxy, meaning her mother was parading her around for attention and giving her too many pills, all of which her body never needed. Her illness didnt take her childhood. Her mother did.
Lol at all the religious comments. I'm the paranoid type and the last thing I want in my head is the thought of these voices being demons or that what I'm seeing is some sort of supernatural thing, which I doubt because I see people I know/knew sometimes. Biggest living problem for me at the moment is losing sleep because of this.
Religion is a mass delusion ;-)
I agree with you a certain extent.
These people are weak minded and hurt everyone around them that doesnt fall to their knees and join their religious cults. Good for you fof seeing that its not the answer. I hope you are doing well Declan
Law of thermodynamics tells you about cause and affect... since heaven the pit and hell are within where you are within yourself will have the biggest affect on the mind. Sin can certainly put you close or even in these places. The Brain side is more for the speech problems and following conversations and the like. Demons can and do have a role keeping people awake things like this so it gets you in the worse state ... Torture is most common when I hear about these people and myself needless to say why also confusion and the like ... he'll on earth or should I say within that person. Your welcome.
Hell#
The only thing left to do is to learn to live with it, but it takes time.. Took me 12 years to "accept" it, now I have to work on it, I wish I was "normal", but well... This is what I got and I guess this is everything have to work with. I'll just try to stay positive.
Here is a list of some 'Brilliant' people who were given the stigmatizing title 'Schizophrenic'.
Richard Dadd ( 1817 - 1886 ) English Painter
Paul Morphy ( 1837 - 1884 ) American Chess Player
Lynette Roberts ( 1909 - 1995 ) Argentinian-Welsh Poet, Writer and Artist
Malcolm Arnold ( 1921 - 2006 ) English Composer and Horn Player
John Nash ( b.1928 ) American Mathematician and 1994 Nobel Prize Winner
Brian Wilson ( b.1942 ) American Singer / Songwriter / Musician
Syd Barrett ( 1946 - 2006 ) English Singer / Songwriter / Musician and Artist
David Bowie ( 1947 - 2016 ) English Singer /Songwriter / Musician, Actor and Composer.
I think there is a large problem when one of the very, very few people with the illness does something dangerous. As a large amount of people in the general public tend to think it applies to everyone with the stigmatizing title 'Schizophrenia'
its abundantly clear to everyone reading your posts
who the person is that doesnt get it and needs help
This is inspiring
had a couple situations, its not fun, but seeking help from professionals and loved ones helps... keep in mind its all in your head, and you can overcome it... you're stronger than it :)
I have this disease you get it and your life is over my roommate has it as well it really sucks people just forget your still alive
How are you now bro
This is a very good video and I hope it has helped me to better understand what it must be like to live with Schizophrenia. I would recommend that nobody who suffers from any mental illness reads the comments, because most of them are from ignorant and spiteful people who clearly didn't actually learn anything from this video.
I wonder if research using LSD might lead to better outcomes for schizophrenia. The effects of LSD are comparable to schizophrenia, hallucinations, paranoia, both visual and auditory. I hope some kind of actual cure will be discovered that precludes the need for lifetime medication.
If a person has a disorder that you claim resembles an LSD trip, how is tripping harder going to help?
Child of beatnik here.
I am helping and becoming friends with a clinical schizophrenic that I met anonymously through a depression help chat room.
The person was contemplating suicide and I gave them my kik. We have been chatting for a few days. I found that she had been through a REALLY rough life, losing both her parents before she was was 8, her mother committing suicide in front of her. All of her friends have abandoned her when they found out she was a schizophrenic. She has been through several foster homes and only ever felt comfortable at one, which she has now moved out of to go to college.
She feels isolated at college and I am infering that she doesn't have any friends that she can talk to or vent to. Her roommate hasnt been very helpful either.
I really want to help her as much as I can. Thanks for posting this video, it has helped me understand how to better help people with schizophrenia. I will admit that before watching this video I though schizophrenia was such a horrible illness, causing people to be violent and radical. But I have learned a lot from this video.
If anyone has any other suggestions on how I can help her and be an ally, please let me know. Thanks :)
may god bless us all who have brain problems plus I never used the word mental because a lot of stigma attached to it
+GoPro Diaries Yeah, as soon as you start sacrificing your own well being, GET AWAY FROM THAT PERSON.
Star Citizen Police fuck off. She's absolutely harmless and sweet to everyone..
+GoPro Diaries I hope you can help hear and that you both will grow as you go through those tough times together :)
You're doing something amazing.
It is really unfortunate that so many people feel comfortable making broad, sweeping generalizations about people with mental illness without being educated and/or having life experience. If you really knew someone with true schizophrenia, it would make your heart hurt. You would feel their desperation and celebrate with every step toward recovery. Thank God for modern medicine. After trial after trial, my brother is finally finding some relief...and peace. He is not cured, but without medicine I don't think he would be with us right now. And if I hear one more person say schizophrenia is just demonic possession, I might lose part of my faith in humanity. Come on people.
who has faith in humanity anymore?
Jessica B. the bible is a poor source for anything.