Simon there's companies that will make ai generated videos of people, you should have paid one to make a copy of you & then had that copy host this video. It would have been too perfect
When I worked in a psychiatric hospital, we had a woman admitted suffering from psychotic depression. She was convinced that she had murdered her three children and her husband, and was determined to kill herself. When her family came to visit, all in perfectly good health, she accused them of being actors employed by the hospital. They reported that she was previously a very loving, caring mother and wife. She slowly improved, and was more or less recovered after three months. It's hard to imagine such a personal hell.
I was diagnosed with psychotic depression. I was convinced my neighbors hated me and my family and friends were gaslighting me. I had auditory hallucinations and hallucinations, I became aggressive. It's under control now.
I had open heart surgery, and a few days later, while still in the hospital, I had 3 cardiac arrests. My body and brain had gone through such trauma from being resuscitated over & over that I was thrown into what used to be called ICU psychosis. What was most disturbing to me is that I remembered every single crazy thing about it, my delusions and hallucinations! Thank goodness I didn't do anything horrendous. Well, I did slap a male nurse because I thought he was going to harm some random, imaginary toddlers. Thank goodness I came out of it after 3 or 4 days. I'm really glad to hear that the patient, the lady, also came through it. I very much hope she didn't have any memories of what she thought or saw during her illness.
@@einienj3281 I have a best mate who is convinced his neighbors are trying to kill him or hack his tech etc he is not taking his psych meds and I love him but have no idea what to do, do you have any advice?
@@tommo9176 That's sad, and could escalate. Have you spoken with his family members? You can ask advice from a mental health organization, they have help/emergency call lines and support numbers/groups.. in my case it went to me becoming a danger to myself and my husband called an ambulance, from the hospital to the psych ward, meds, then released home, now it's therapy and meds.. it's tricky when the person doesn't think there's anything wrong with them and refuse to take their meds, there has to be some kind of an intervention. Or it will escalate.
This happened to me due to seizures about 6 years ago. It was one of the most terrifying experiences I have ever had. I was in the hospital, trying to speak with various members of my family, and I couldn't figure out why I was that important for the powers that be to kidnap me and replace my family with actors. I questioned everyone in my family, trying to catch them by asking detailed personal questions only they would know the answers to. I knew that someone was going to kill me and was begging the "actors" to please let me visit with my real family one last time before they kill me. Obviously, none of that was true. My intellect was completely intact, and I was fine in every other way, and I was so terrified because I thought I must have done something wrong that I didn't remember in order to cause this elaborate plan to kill me. Thankfully, I have been seizure free for years, and am psychologically very healthy now. Love and light to you all!
After a seizure go into a kind of mild, psychotic state. I find it quite enjoyable and my behavior doesn't harm anyone. It fades over 48 hours. I think it might be similar how people might feel after electroshock maybe?
I had a girlfriend who was like this. First 3 years were heaven until this started. What followed was 4 years of hell. She became convinced that my brain had been replaced with someone's named Alex (not my name). I would tell her about things we had done together years before to try and prove I was who I said I was. One time I found her staring at me and she said my face was melting. Other times, she got angry at me at the supermarket because she said I was sending messages to other people there. She liked to draw and would give me birthday cards with mutilated bodies on them. I never felt I was in any danger from her, though. Other people I wasn't so sure. I finally took her back to her parents (also imposters according to her) because I could not get her the help she needed. She was Japanese and we were living in Japan. I had no authority to have her committed or force her to get help, and didn't know what to do. It was heartbreaking because every once in a while, she would have moments where she was her old self and she was very scared, I presume about what was happening to her. But then the paranoia returned. Those moments made me keep trying to help her, but I finally had to admit that I couldn't.
@@mary.h.377 Unfortunately, I don't. (At least she wasn't in the news for anything violent.) Being a gaijin (foreigner), I was not exactly welcomed by her family, and I moved across the country a year later. During the last year together, she hardly talked to me and only when necessary. It has been almost 30 years now and I still wonder if maybe there was something else I could have done. If I had tried harder ...
@@DadCanInJapanThat's and terrible experience 😓😓😓 Just be concious that this wasn't your fault in any kind of way, you weren't trained to deal with something like this, and sometimes even the best Psychiatric specialists that exists are powerless as well. The best Wishes to you.
What part of Japan? Did she have any relatives in the 40s that were exposed to the atomic bombs? Idk maybe I'm crazy but something about this disease has me thinking something military phy op or after effects of radiation passed down through DNA over generations something like that.
I've experienced this as a result of a stroke. I woke up from having locked in syndrome in hospital. Terrifying doesn't cover it I don't even have a word for the experience of waking up in hospital seeing my parents but thinking they were there to observe me and experiment on me. I thought that's why I was in hospital and couldn't move the left side of my body and not because of my stroke. I'm so glad I am recovering now it's been a long road and I still have moments when my mum isn't my mum. So long as I keep taking my meds, going to therapy I will be okay. I keep a note book that has pictures of my family and friends with explanations of everything. But it's still scary when I wake up and my heart drops.
Oh god that sounds horrifying. Not only being convinced that your parents are imposters experimenting on you but being unable to move as well. It’s good to hear that therapy and meds are helping! I hope things are going better for you now! :)
When I was very little, my dad got a haircut and shaved off all his facial hair when I wasn't home - his curls, his mustache, sideburns, long beard, all gone. I was terrified of him, and I'm not sure I ever (as a child) accepted it was the same man, only learned to love him again. I was 100% sure mom had gotten rid of dad and brought home this new guy to replace him. Every adult that went along with it was suspect. As a child, my world was pretty malleable - I mean, I was just learning how things worked and therefore more excepting of things. I imagine having this experience as an adult - when you're pretty sure you know how the world works - must be the most terrifying, earthshaking thing.
Lol, reminds me of when my dad shaved his mustache when me and my sister were little kids. I recognised him eventually but thought he was one of his buddies at first. My sister screamed and cried because she thought dad had been replaced.
For those who may not know. Before you get to do a PhD. You present a research proposal before you can start writing the actual thesis. Either to a panal at the department, faculty or university level. I almost quit after my first proposal was rejected. Because the panal shows little mercy and really tear it apart. It's not fun or easy. If the panal feels it's not good enough for a PhD level they will not allow you to start. You do a new proposal and present it again. This sometimes does not end and some folk never move past this stage and either quit or are forced to. I sympathise if that is what pushed him over the edge. I have seen some with less or no mental illness breakdown because of this.
I hear you! Something similar happened to me. Now alll my friends and family believe I was simply not good enough and are treating me as a failure dreaming above her league.
@afterlifeauthor Ugh, I'm so sorry. That is brutal. You must be incredibly bright and motivated to make it as far as you have. Here I am struggling to finish my MBA. Granted, I also work a very demanding full time job, but still. I would be super proud to get close to where you did. BTW: Don't give up. Maybe take a break and reframe? Work with a mentor or a coach? But do it for yourself, not for the other negative Nancys in your life. Who needs people like that?
A podcaster I listened to dropped out of a phd program after they rejected his proposal because it was about military history. Nobody grants funding for that anymore, it has to be social history (even though it was supposed to be about military culture, which is social history) because that’s what’s trendy now. He decided he hated research and went on to teach high school.
I've worked at a psychiatric hospital for several years and I've seen one case of this, a woman who had schizophrenia. It was incredibly sad. She was so scared and wanted to talk to her family but wouldn't call them because she believed they were replaced with demons occupying identical bodies to her loved ones. Somehow she did give consent to us to tell them about her care, and telling them day after day when they called that she didn't want to speak to them, and why, was heartbreaking. Especially with her husband.
Honestly you probably fabricated all of this. She probably disclosed to you that she was abused and you instead made false statements and embellished to make her seem crazy on paper. I know for a fact people like you utterly fabricate and twist things around to make a patient seem crazy so you could have an excuse to keep them there and charge them over 10 Grand for it.
@@UA-camAccount-yj1jz I'm a tech, not a psychiatrist. I make $16/hr no matter how long any patient stays or what they're diagnosed with or prescribed, I have no reason to fabricate anything. What you're describing absolutely happens sometimes but there are also many situations exactly like what I described where people are really, really sick and need help. The world isn't half as evil as you think.
Some people may get it from prolonged & exuberant usage of alcohol or certain drugs, or it can develop from health conditions like low thyroid or other metabolic conditions, or potentially a nutrient deficiency like vitamin B12
i suffer from a history of mental illness, heavy drug use has melted my brain figuritively speaking, i suffer from deporsonalisation and dissasosiation every minute of every day, i can relate to this condition not because i have it, but because i beleive I Have Died and this whole world is a simulation. suffering from any type of identity disorder is horrifying in every way, it paralyzes you in every way bless anyone who suffers with similar conditions to the one described in the video, i know its hell
I went through a period of months where I experienced much of the same things you are describing. I thought I had died too and was in a simulation or hell of some kind. Have you tried to ask for help? I barely survived it because it was too horrible and scary and hopeless.
@@shroomyk curious to know what help you got? As I know someone going through something similar, but they believe they keep dying (and coming back/resetting) and certain actions or things they see will just trigger their death all over again. So they won't get help/keep appointments because they think going to that appointment will trigger their death again 😓
@@GalaxiiBunnii I had a psychiatrist moves some meds around. An anti-psychotic med may help, but for my personal situation I didn't need them long-term. Unfortunately to actually get help they would need to actually attend appointments and take meds, or stay inpatient at a mental hospital. Making them go if they don't want to is pretty much impossible unless they are suicidal or threaten to harm others. I hope they can overcome their fear at least once, go to the appointment, and maybe see that nothing bad happened. Maybe it would be helpful to go with them and be a support? I'm so sorry they are going through that. I can definitely imagine what they must feel, but I hope they will step over that line somehow so they can start to feel better.
@@GalaxiiBunnii for context: I will say that I had already been in long-term treatment for depression and anxiety, so I had a doctor already. I had moments of lucidity during the psychosis so I could kind of tell something was going wrong and getting worse. I think the actual psychosis was triggered by 2 years of really bad stress (got abused by a boss and then fired, lost all but 1 of my freelance clients, had to drop out of school, dating a narcissist who emotional and mentally abused me constantly). It all just added up, and once the boyfriend was gone and I stopped caring about work or school, I was able to normalize. But I did have to spend some time inpatient and in a partial hospital program to get me through it too.
My friend's brother-in-law had schizophrenia and one of the signs he was no longer taking his medication was he would call people replicants. When they heard that they knew to contact his psychiatrist and have him commited for treatment and take away his car keys.
I had similar case with delusional syndrome after long psychoactive use experience, and this sharp period was extremely paranoic (obsession were so absurd like my mother have born me for sale to slavery). Just want say words of grace for today's farma medicine, two years of anti-psychotics almost cure my ruined mind.
It's very interesting that Capgras is a visual syndrome, talking to someone on the phone will still have everything appear as normal, though, when visual input is present all else is overridden.
I renember watching an episode of Criminal Minds where the killer was a veteran suffering from this. They finally stopped him by having someone e he trusted tell him to close his eyes, listen to their voice, and turn himself in.
That's a common way to help someone with it. When I have manic episodes, if someone calls me and then comes to show me they're the same person on the phone, it helps a lot
I have a friend diagnosed with schizophrenia and bi polar who swears her siblings were replaced with imposters, even the phonecalls she dosnt belive them, she mostly dosnt care unless they bring up something personal about the family, then she thinks the "imposters" were crossing a line
Based on some other responses the phone conversation doesn’t work either. I think it probably depends on how the individual is affected specifically. For example, they get a call on the cell phone from a spouse, that call will likely be categorized as coming from the impersonator as that has the previous association. On the other hand if the spouse calls from an unlisted number the afflicted might see that as coming from the actual spouse and not the impersonator.
I had never heard of Capgras Delusion until I saw an episode of Law and Order SVU ("Bullseye", Season 12). A woman had been struck by a bus, sustained a traumatic brain injury, and was from then on convinced that her 10-year-old daughter had been replaced by an imposter. That made her indifferent toward the young girl's mistreatment by her horrible gaming-addicted stepfather. Her raw rejection of her daughter was painful to watch. What a terrifying condition.
I had an aunt who had water on the brain which triggered this syndrome. She called the cops on my uncle probably a dozen times over the 3 years that she was suffering. She also beat him a few times because he was an imposter. Sometimes he was the "good" uncle; other times he was the "bad" uncle. Thankfully, she's passed on due to a host of medical problems. She was in pain phyically and mentally so she's in a better place now and my uncle is safe with caring family.
@@vic5015 And those are the best gifts, tbh. My nephew gifts me a drawing or sketch of one of my cats every year for Mother's Day and my Birthday, and they mean way more to me than anything.
Simon, you did a Casual Criminalist about a man who ended up killing his father after believing he had been replaced by a fake. That case took place in Canada and his mental illness was recognized and treated and he did not go to prison.
I first learned of this from a show called Criminal minds. A army veteran didn’t realize that he was suffering from it and murdered his best friend and parents because he thought the military had replaced them with imposters
I renember that one. They finally got through to him by having someone he trusted tell him to close his eyes abd listen to them. That person then persuaded him to trmurn himself in.
Next video needs to be about Cotard's Syndrome, where people believe they have died. It's equally fascinating. Also, there's an interesting Reddit thread of a man whose wife begins to experience Capgras, but he has no idea what's going on. It's an incredible look into the syndrome from the other side (and don't worry, from the posts, it sounds like she recovered). Kurt Struebing, the guitarist for the band NME, killed his mother because he thought they he and everyone else were robots, that he could kill her and she'd just be replaced. Not quite Capgras, but very similar in many ways. If there's a name for what he had, someone let me know, please!
@@narnigrin he covered Cotard's in a video about 10 rare Psychological Delusions on one of his other channels but no standalone video yet ua-cam.com/video/aQFyrTU8abg/v-deo.html
I know a woman who suffers from something similar. She is convinced almost everyone (her relatives, her neighbors, the cashiers at the supermarket, almost all public figures on tv, but funnily enough not the local police chief) has been replaced by clones or impostors. She cannot even recognize her own face in photographs of herself: she once claimed somebody switched her photo with the photo of someone else on her identity card. She also has a number of other odd beliefs: she thinks bugs (as in live insects) are "bugs", as in listening devices, put in her house by somebody to spy on her. She's a well known figure where she lives, and she was once a semi-famous painter. She still paints, but all she produces now are crooked cardboard signs with confused warnings written on them.
That's horrible.. I've had a psychotic episode, with hallucinations and auditory hallucinations.. it was horrible as is, but I'm glad I didn't go that deep with my paranoia. I thought people were gaslighting me and I became aggressive. Psychotic depression is under control now, but if I can't sleep I start to hear whispers, even with the meds..
There is a theory that psychosis is a consciousness disorder, because when people are dreaming, their brains are simulating psychosis. I don't normally plug my channel but I made a whole video on that which maybe you would find interesting. I hope the whispers at night are not too unpleasant!
Thanks 'into the shadows' team,, you reminded of a bit in Oliver Sacks "How i mistook my wife for a hat', in which Sachs recalls a moment at his daycare surgery, some of the patients started to get agitated whenever President Ronald Reagan appeared on the dayroom telly. Sachs deduced that those particular patients seemed to have the uncanny ability to spot a fake. That bit in the book was one of many take=aways from that book.
I cared for a man suffering this in an older person’s mental health ward. We hadn’t seen it before and haven’t seen it since. Gentlemen had dementia, used to tell us his wife was an imposter/double and he thought maybe a robot, but never said it to her face because he thought he would be ‘caught out’. Adelaide South Australia
@@xakirax_8864 his wife was so understanding. His end of life wasn’t an easy one, but he always proclaimed his love for his wife, just didn’t believe it was the real her
My neighbor had Alzheimer’s and he was convinced that his house was a well-crafted duplicate and that his family and neighbors were in on the con job. A form of “Structural Capgras Delusion” of sorts. I hope I never lose my faculties, although that ship may have already sailed.
A very similar thing happened to my father-in-law. He went on holiday with his wife, and when he returned he was convinced that he wasn't at his home, but an exact duplicate. He often talked of going back to his real home, though he didn't appear to think it was any sort of conspiracy.
@@localcrew It probably had been in decline for some time, but it wasn't really noticeable until that holiday. And yes, his condition worsened into dementia, but he died of a heart attack a year or so later.
@@Gynra Thanks for the reply. My neighbor was a retired doctor and WWII veteran and was a very intelligent overachiever in everything he did. In his late seventies he started getting forgetful and friends and family figured it was attributable to old age. Then one day I was helping him around the house and he couldn’t remember my sisters or their names (we grew up next door) and couldn’t remember colleagues names or specialties. That’s when I knew. His decline was excruciating to watch and nothing can really prepare one for what is to come. It’s like watching someone slowly disappear before your eyes and be replaced by a demented stranger. Another friend of mine’s father had Alzheimer’s and he became paranoid and violent. Had to be restrained in his hospital bed, otherwise he would attack his care givers. As I said earlier, I just hope that I retain my faculties.
i had brief periods of anxiety as a child that my pets were replaced with imposter pets every time i went away from home. glad it went away on it's own
Absolutely love this channel. You should cover something related to epilepsy, like SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy patients) or Intractable epilepsy since very little is known about those as well and they're terrifying!
Incredibly there is a man in my town with this. He dated my sister in high school. About 15 years ago he brutally murdered his sister after she flew down to Toronto to check on him when he began complaining to his family that the government had robots following him. He killed her the night she arrived by violently bludgeoning her skull and face in to “get the microchips out”. I guess here in Canada we have lighter sentences than in New York as he only served about 7 years in a mental hospital and is now out and not even on parole or supervised in any way by our Corrections department.s. I really hope for everyone’s sake he is still being monitored by a psychiatrist.
As soon as we started school my mom believed we were evil. She believed school age kids are evil. It was a source of a lot of pain that my mom deserted me in kindergarten and whenever I tried to talk to her she thought I was evil. It was like she believed school age people are a different species.
Did you ever find out what caused her to have that specific delusional belief? It's fascinating how the delusional mind "selects" a Delusion, so to speak. I hope that your mother gets better and that your relationship with her is able to heal.
@@markdombrovan8849 If you are experiencing capgras symptoms then you should speak to a doctor. I think it would be a very frightening experience, and lonely too. So I hope you are doing okay and treating yourself with kindness.
@@phishfullofasha ah, no, not capgras. Just schizotypal personality disorder. The second that name popped up i went into a panic attack and stopped watching
@@markdombrovan8849 i have a psychotic disorder as well (it hasn’t been pinned down to which specific diagnosis) and as hard as it is, try not to worry. i worry sometimes about being completely absorbed by my delusions and paranoia and potentially harming myself or others. or generally just destroying my life but worrying doesn’t help, if anything it’ll make it worse if you’re constantly thinking about what could maybe, potentially happen. just remember that odds are, people with psychosis, as long as they’re getting treatment, are no more likely to be violent than anyone else on the planet. it’s difficult and lonely to have a psychotic disorder, and i hope you’re doing well and have a good support network around you. you’re valuable and deserve to be treated kindly, don’t forget that
@@graymonk5972 thanks, your support means a lot to me. I am pretty suspicious of others, so it is indeed hard, but i am trying my best. And i hope you do too! Good luck in your life kind stranger
Suppose someone who is well-read on Capgras becomes afflicted with it themselves. Might they be able to overcome it, at least intellectually, or would they think "This seems like Capgras, but it's _different_ in my case. They really _are_ an impostor!"
All these cases sounds like dissociation. Dissociation is really scary when you/people lack the ability to understand they're dissociating. In those cases you can believe basically anything and everything
Fyi Anosognosia is the inability to recognize a deficit. It does have terrifying consequences. However, it should be noted that nearly everyone experiences a type of integration disorder when it comes to recognizing themselves as components of the universe, and instead experience themselves as individuals. Which has the consequence of feeling isolated, ashamed or proud, envious, lazy and the like.
When my mother stopped taking her schizophrenia medication, she believed for a time that I was an imposter. She believed that someone or group or thing was holding her son hostage and that I had replaced him. This was an erratically appearing delusion for her. It would come and go randomly.
Oh good god. I had a incredibly kind and gentle girlfriend with schitzfranic paranoid syndrome. I don't know what to think as one of the few people that could get her back on track sometimes. Once she didn't take it because a severe hulicantion involving pixies, and that her medication was some sort of microrobots. She thought her caregiver was a dalek from dr.who. Not quite that specific but definitely thought the caregiver was not actually a caregiver but was a murderbot 9000. I'm actually very surprised we could date at all, she had a lot of trust issues. The worst one that showed up because of the length of the relationship was her thinking she was getting sucked into a vortex or something. She was hallucinating a cartoon reality. which was almost funny, but also not, lol the poor girl thought girl thought I was the Tasmanian devil mixed with the roadrunner. Although at least she took her medication that time.
What's interesting is that, in some cases for neurological surgeries, the temporal lobe of a patient may be removed (for example, to stop epileptic seizures). The patient can still function even though the amygdala has been removed. Things like creating long-term memories can prove to be hard to create (the left side is responsible for auditory and the right for visual). It's interesting how the human brain can adapt to drastic changes though.
A friend mentioned he liked paranormal stuff. And I'm just like.... I got something for you, that sounds scarier than any paranormal thing could ever possibly be.... But is also real!
My mom had this due to her dementia. It was frustrating and difficult to watch. She would hide behind doors and walls, afraid of my dad. She would say, "He looks like you dad and is wearing your dad's clothes, but that's not your dad." She would be terrified and literally shaking with fear. The more we would try to convince her it was dad, the angrier, and more out of control she would get. Fortunately, the right anti psychotic meds finally stopped this, but she fought and refused the meds for a long time. She is 84 now, and this syndrome was about 3 yrs into her obvious untreated dementia/alz. Luckily, a good psychiatrist was able her bring her and us some peace.
I like these ones on psychological and other rare conditions better than the ones on human attrocities; I feel that those are already fully exhausted on UA-cam.
I'd argue that is curing really worth it, for those who already killed their loved ones? How do you live with yourself, after you're back in your right mind and have all the memories of taking that person's life and no longer having them around? Wow. You basically have to re-live the trauma that they were gone (the first instance, being that they were replaced), but with the additional detail that it's YOU that took them away.
Really? That's one of the first warning for weed for pain, and many pain medications: "altered stated of mind and agressive hostile thinking" is all over mine.
I experience this when I have manic episodes, I think because I've also had a traumatic brain injury on top of already being bipolar. I've never been violent because of it, just terrified
I was never formally diagnosed with Capgras, but I found out about it through my doctor. Three years ago I went through a period of extreme psychosis brought on by years of hard living. I became convinced that certain members of my family had been replaced with some other type of being that took on their sentience and I almost attempted to kill one of them. It was the scariest, most confusing thing I’ve ever experienced, because I genuinely believed it and wanted the real family member back. It got so bad another family member had to literally shoot me to keep me from doing God knows what. Six months in to one of my many hospital stays later, a psychiatrist told me that she believed I was suffering from drug induced psychosis (obviously) and something called Capgras Syndrome. She said that the formal testing for it was lengthy and expensive and my insurance company wouldn’t cover it, but I’m glad to have found this video (and a few other really good ones) on the topic. It’s profoundly scary when you stop and take a moment to think about what you would do if you believed your loved one had been replaced and you were trying to figure out how to get them back. What would you do? Would you stop at nothing?
Well if it’s not in the DSM, most folx don’t believe it exists as they don’t understand *how* things are added to each DSM and how long passes between each revision.
Yeah, I kinda hate the idea of DSM, psychology is the last field of science that needs firstworld overdefining and/or ESG-andjectant influence. And that's also precisely why the worst types of personalities are so heavily into tainting said field with both. The more you know about our modern psychology, the more you know how full of BS and ignorance-concealing jargon it is - which isn't a reason to discard psychology as a whole, but surely a reason question the established institutions, whose primary function is more often than not, pure self-preservation at the expense of genuine scientific and philosophical progress ofhumanity.
ah yes, the Amygdala. the bad guy of the brain, the fear centrum. I'd wish I could get one or both removed as I've lived with anxiety for most of my life and need to take a ton of pills.
I have the opposite problem, I am not scared of anything or anyone. That gets me into trouble sometimes because I don't respect or acknowledge the authority of others. And honestly, why should I? LOL
I was 15 years old when I sustained a traumatic brain injury. To my knowledge, I have thankfully never experienced Capgras Syndrome, though my brain has created plenty of memories that I can prove never occurred, and altered others beyond recognition. Capgras Syndrome seems less surprising than my (non- existent) horse that lived in the bathtub (!) of my personal bathroom (?) in the house that my dad (never got around to) built on the property that he (actually did) owned at the time. Simpler than my red sports Fiero (distortion of Ferrari?), which I drove all over the place though I didn't have my driver's license yet. I remember meeting a former boyfriend years before I actually met him, at a banquet that may or may not have happened, but that I surely wouldn't have been invited to, because of the tattoo of his mother's maiden name across his belly in 6-inch block letters. Wait, why would I recognize that particular tattoo from a banquet at a school he never even visited? He was actually in the area at that time, but since he was incarcerated at a facility that took about 45 minutes to drive to from campus, there's no way I would have met him or seen his tattoo prior to our actual meeting in 2003. So confusing, since I remembered it so clearly!
When I saw the video title, my dyslexic brain read it as “Living with Imposter Syndrome”. I was like “huh, not the usual type of content for this channel, but it’s still an interesting topic” 😂 great video though ❤️
I've had an experience with this of sorts- it was slightly terrifying and traumatic and worse, as I've got some neuro degenerative conditions, I am at a higher risk of this occurring again as the one experience I have had was caused by acute inflammation in my brain and the neuro degenerative conditions are prone to cause inflammation in the brain. In my experience I believed that my mom and aunt (sisters) switched bodies. Luckily a few days of intensive treatment with steroids given both by IV and epidural straightened out my experience. While it in the end was pretty funny, I'm always fearful that it could happen again.
From an episode of Scrubs: Howie: Mr. Swick, I want to commend you for not disclosing what you injested before because, well, you were actually talking to my imposter. Patient with Capgras Syndrome: I knew it. Howie: I'm impressed because the differences are subtle. My voice sounds like this (using his normal voice) while his voice sounds like this (still using his normal voice). Patient: I heard it.
I don't think I have this syndrome but I do remember not trusting my mom for weeks when I was very young. I thought she had been replaced. It was most definitely caused by watching tons of horror movies at my friends.
I've dealt with this due to psychosis induced by mania. It is terrifying to experience. I'm on antipsychotic now, and it helps me with the psychosis, so it's more manageable and less severe when it happens.
Having experienced OCD and still recovering from it opened my eyes to mental ilnesness in totally new way Like me fully doubting myself if water tap is running or not while im watching it being off but my mind is sending me full alarms that are u sure its not on?
Cotard's syndrome (or delusion) is another absolutely bonkers and rare condition in which the sufferer believes they are dead, are rotting, or have never existed.
My grandad had this before he passed away, he thought my grandma who he'd been married to for 60+ years was an imposter and that his real wife was being kept away from him somewhere else in the nursing home
I don't know if you'll read this, but I really like your videos across your multiple channels. I have some suggestions for subjects over which you might be interested in when making future videos: Suttee, wherein an Indian widow threw herself onto her late husband's funeral pyre. The horrific practice of female genital mutilation that takes place all over the world. The bone-filled underground catacombs of Paris. The Tiananmen Square Massacre. The Chernobyl disaster.
Random thought I had while watching this: if all emotions related to visual stimuli are gone, wouldn't a good test be playing a game you used to love? My thought was video game, but card or board game might work too. If you feel someone is an imposter, play a game you loved as a child. If it doesn't do anything for you, seek a doctor? I dunno, just a theory. Maybe someone more qualified can test it.
My mom has developed chronic paranoid schizophrenia after prolonged opioid use for pain relief. One of the add-ons to her condition is Capgras syndrome. She is absolutely and unshakably convinced that I'm not her son, and that her real son was murdered on a specific date that she keps saying. Not even showing her my ID and birth certificate over and over has made any difference. And even in a lucid moment, she'll tell me that I may look like her son and be nice to her like "her son" used to be, but that it's just not true that I'm her son. It's hell. Especially because we used to be quite close before she became mentally ill.
What you described as schizotypal personality disorder is not accurate. It sounded like you were describing schizophrenia. They are two different things. I have schizotypal personality disorder along with borderline personality disorder and dysthymia. The effects of these is that when my mood changes my personality changes. As in I will have different wants and needs, and react to situations completely differently. It’s all still me, though I can disassociate and do terrible things in that time. It makes being around me for long periods of time difficult. Especially living with me is a bit like getting whiplash A few times a week. I am not paranoid and I do not believe that there are things going on around me that other people can’t see or comprehend.
I feel bad for the guy. It was very obvious he needed mental help, not to be thrown in prison. It's not a good thing he murdered his wife and I don't think he should go unpunished, but prison will not help his already bad mental state.
@@darlenefraser3022 Treatment for addicts especially in the past were either expensive, very religious, or just plain unavailable. There are lots of treatments out there for addicts now. Drug abuse might be a choice, but you can't just switch off addiction.
@@darlenefraser3022 having the condition isn’t a choice but bending to it and deciding to murder your wife certainly was, addicts don’t choose to feel the need to use, but they choose to give into the urge
I’m curious what the response would be if someone who was familiar with Capgras suddenly got it. Would they recognise the situation and be able to get help
I am conflicted about people who are Afflicted with this mental illness and who have murdered somebody on one hand I know that they're not in their right state of mind but on the other hand they took somebody's life somebody's child, somebody's friend, somebody's parents, somebody's spouse somebody's siblings.
some of these comments are really dehumanizing man just want ppl to know that people with psychosis as still people and that we aren’t freaks or inherently dangerous (obviously some people with psychosis commit violent crimes, but so do people without psychosis. everyone has the capacity to commit heinous violent crimes)
Dude....the visual center of the brain is the occipital lobe. You get almost everything right, and somehow made the most simple factological mistake :D Good video none the less. Anyway, Capgras is usually(more 50%) caused by lesson in the right hemisphere. In my practice as a clinical psychologist, I have seen 3 cases of Capgras syndrome and I have heard of at least 2 more. Considering that I live in small country and I started practice this year, those are not small numbers. Sadly Capgras is far more common than we give it credit for.
I wonder if knowing about Capgras Syndrome prevents someone with these theorised “disconnections” between the temporal lobes and amygdala from forming the delusion that their loved one is false? They would experience the lack of emotional response to their loved ones, but never go down the path of thinking they are an imposter, they would seek treatment instead, recognising that their must be an issue in their brains.
‘Harmless’ cannabis use can cause an extreme, rare mental disarrangement. Makes you wonder how many users are developing or already living with less obvious issues.
It puzzles me as to why this isn’t until he DSM. It makes me wonder if it’s hard to diagnose so they are going more by what the patients and their loved ones are saying then by any scan or test that might definitively diagnose them. So sad though for both the sufferer and their loved ones.
My dad had a psychotic episode about 12 years ago. He never got Capgras Delusion thankfully, but he was convinced he'd murdered some girl back in the 70's and the police were part of a mass conspiracy involving his friends and family members to get him to turn himself in. He thought they had an entire division dedicated to setting him up. He actually DID turn himself in at one point and confessed, only for them to check their records and ask him what the fuck he was on about because they sure as hell didn't know. I explained all this to him to try and get him to reason his way out of it, that if it really did happen and the police were waiting to nab him they would have when he turned himself in, but the delusions persisted for months until we eventually had to have him committed for 6 weeks. Thankfully, after they got him on some new antipsychotics to replace the ones he'd been on for over a decade, he came out of it. Mostly anyway. He's told me since that he still thinks he did it, but doesn't think we're part of a conspiracy anymore. I mean, I told him even if I thought he did do it I wouldn't give a fuck, he's my dad and I'd help him cover it up if I had to, same as anyone who loved their family would. It was just scary as fuck seeing him in the grip of such strong delusions that he couldn't make sense of reality anymore. The meds he'd been on for over ten years were a pair of older antipsychotics that aren't typically prescribed together, and we think that combined with excessive drinking is what led to the psychotic episode. It's a good thing he never developed full blown Capgras, because the state he was in he'd probably have tried to murder us.
My former spouse had this. I had to spend hours everyday trying to convince her I wasn't an impostor. She attacked me several times and it was really hard to get her psychiatric/psychological help.
I saw a quite tragic video where a well known actor rambled about paranoid religious stuff and how some conspiracy had destroyed his career -mental illness can happen to anybody.
During the last months of my grandmother she accused all of us (my mother and her sister, me, my sister, my uncle and nephew) to be not real and that the hospital she was in feeds her maggots and we are all actors. She even yelled at me asking who I was, since she „never had children“.
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When I worked in a psychiatric hospital, we had a woman admitted suffering from psychotic depression. She was convinced that she had murdered her three children and her husband, and was determined to kill herself. When her family came to visit, all in perfectly good health, she accused them of being actors employed by the hospital. They reported that she was previously a very loving, caring mother and wife. She slowly improved, and was more or less recovered after three months. It's hard to imagine such a personal hell.
that sounds absolutely heart breaking and terrifying.
I was diagnosed with psychotic depression. I was convinced my neighbors hated me and my family and friends were gaslighting me. I had auditory hallucinations and hallucinations, I became aggressive. It's under control now.
I had open heart surgery, and a few days later, while still in the hospital, I had 3 cardiac arrests. My body and brain had gone through such trauma from being resuscitated over & over that I was thrown into what used to be called ICU psychosis. What was most disturbing to me is that I remembered every single crazy thing about it, my delusions and hallucinations! Thank goodness I didn't do anything horrendous. Well, I did slap a male nurse because I thought he was going to harm some random, imaginary toddlers. Thank goodness I came out of it after 3 or 4 days.
I'm really glad to hear that the patient, the lady, also came through it. I very much hope she didn't have any memories of what she thought or saw during her illness.
@@einienj3281 I have a best mate who is convinced his neighbors are trying to kill him or hack his tech etc he is not taking his psych meds and I love him but have no idea what to do, do you have any advice?
@@tommo9176 That's sad, and could escalate. Have you spoken with his family members? You can ask advice from a mental health organization, they have help/emergency call lines and support numbers/groups.. in my case it went to me becoming a danger to myself and my husband called an ambulance, from the hospital to the psych ward, meds, then released home, now it's therapy and meds.. it's tricky when the person doesn't think there's anything wrong with them and refuse to take their meds, there has to be some kind of an intervention. Or it will escalate.
This happened to me due to seizures about 6 years ago. It was one of the most terrifying experiences I have ever had. I was in the hospital, trying to speak with various members of my family, and I couldn't figure out why I was that important for the powers that be to kidnap me and replace my family with actors. I questioned everyone in my family, trying to catch them by asking detailed personal questions only they would know the answers to. I knew that someone was going to kill me and was begging the "actors" to please let me visit with my real family one last time before they kill me. Obviously, none of that was true. My intellect was completely intact, and I was fine in every other way, and I was so terrified because I thought I must have done something wrong that I didn't remember in order to cause this elaborate plan to kill me. Thankfully, I have been seizure free for years, and am psychologically very healthy now. Love and light to you all!
Did the doctors know what was wrong with you? It seems a lot of doctors themselves haven't heard of this disorder!
Aw! Congrats to you!
After a seizure go into a kind of mild, psychotic state. I find it quite enjoyable and my behavior doesn't harm anyone. It fades over 48 hours. I think it might be similar how people might feel after electroshock maybe?
Absolutely terrifying ! Relieved to hear you’ve made a complete recovery . May you stay delusion free forever .
I had a girlfriend who was like this. First 3 years were heaven until this started. What followed was 4 years of hell. She became convinced that my brain had been replaced with someone's named Alex (not my name). I would tell her about things we had done together years before to try and prove I was who I said I was. One time I found her staring at me and she said my face was melting. Other times, she got angry at me at the supermarket because she said I was sending messages to other people there. She liked to draw and would give me birthday cards with mutilated bodies on them. I never felt I was in any danger from her, though. Other people I wasn't so sure. I finally took her back to her parents (also imposters according to her) because I could not get her the help she needed. She was Japanese and we were living in Japan. I had no authority to have her committed or force her to get help, and didn't know what to do. It was heartbreaking because every once in a while, she would have moments where she was her old self and she was very scared, I presume about what was happening to her. But then the paranoia returned. Those moments made me keep trying to help her, but I finally had to admit that I couldn't.
Do you know what the outcome was?? Did she get better?
@@mary.h.377 Unfortunately, I don't. (At least she wasn't in the news for anything violent.) Being a gaijin (foreigner), I was not exactly welcomed by her family, and I moved across the country a year later. During the last year together, she hardly talked to me and only when necessary. It has been almost 30 years now and I still wonder if maybe there was something else I could have done. If I had tried harder ...
@@DadCanInJapanThat's and terrible experience 😓😓😓
Just be concious that this wasn't your fault in any kind of way, you weren't trained to deal with something like this, and sometimes even the best Psychiatric specialists that exists are powerless as well.
The best Wishes to you.
@@carloscampos5860 Thank you for your kind words. Intellectually, I know there was nothing else I could do, but emotionally, I still wonder.
What part of Japan? Did she have any relatives in the 40s that were exposed to the atomic bombs? Idk maybe I'm crazy but something about this disease has me thinking something military phy op or after effects of radiation passed down through DNA over generations something like that.
My mother is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, she is convinced I've been murdered and replaced. It truly is terrifying and sad to watch.
It’s hell on earth for her and tragic for you
so sorry to hear yall are dealing with that :/
This must be heartbreaking for both of you, I'm so sorry
What if she is right?
@@Shadow__133 you'd think I'd be the first one to know. Unless I don't know I'm a clone....
I've experienced this as a result of a stroke. I woke up from having locked in syndrome in hospital. Terrifying doesn't cover it I don't even have a word for the experience of waking up in hospital seeing my parents but thinking they were there to observe me and experiment on me. I thought that's why I was in hospital and couldn't move the left side of my body and not because of my stroke. I'm so glad I am recovering now it's been a long road and I still have moments when my mum isn't my mum. So long as I keep taking my meds, going to therapy I will be okay.
I keep a note book that has pictures of my family and friends with explanations of everything. But it's still scary when I wake up and my heart drops.
Oh god that sounds horrifying. Not only being convinced that your parents are imposters experimenting on you but being unable to move as well. It’s good to hear that therapy and meds are helping! I hope things are going better for you now! :)
Omg this post was literally how it feels.
Sending good, strong vibes to you 🤗
When I was very little, my dad got a haircut and shaved off all his facial hair when I wasn't home - his curls, his mustache, sideburns, long beard, all gone. I was terrified of him, and I'm not sure I ever (as a child) accepted it was the same man, only learned to love him again. I was 100% sure mom had gotten rid of dad and brought home this new guy to replace him. Every adult that went along with it was suspect. As a child, my world was pretty malleable - I mean, I was just learning how things worked and therefore more excepting of things. I imagine having this experience as an adult - when you're pretty sure you know how the world works - must be the most terrifying, earthshaking thing.
Lol, reminds me of when my dad shaved his mustache when me and my sister were little kids. I recognised him eventually but thought he was one of his buddies at first. My sister screamed and cried because she thought dad had been replaced.
aww, poor thing! lol@@Omicron9999
For those who may not know. Before you get to do a PhD. You present a research proposal before you can start writing the actual thesis. Either to a panal at the department, faculty or university level. I almost quit after my first proposal was rejected. Because the panal shows little mercy and really tear it apart. It's not fun or easy. If the panal feels it's not good enough for a PhD level they will not allow you to start. You do a new proposal and present it again. This sometimes does not end and some folk never move past this stage and either quit or are forced to. I sympathise if that is what pushed him over the edge. I have seen some with less or no mental illness breakdown because of this.
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I hear you! Something similar happened to me. Now alll my friends and family believe I was simply not good enough and are treating me as a failure dreaming above her league.
@afterlifeauthor Ugh, I'm so sorry. That is brutal. You must be incredibly bright and motivated to make it as far as you have. Here I am struggling to finish my MBA. Granted, I also work a very demanding full time job, but still. I would be super proud to get close to where you did.
BTW: Don't give up. Maybe take a break and reframe? Work with a mentor or a coach? But do it for yourself, not for the other negative Nancys in your life. Who needs people like that?
@@afterlifeauthor^^ see above
A podcaster I listened to dropped out of a phd program after they rejected his proposal because it was about military history. Nobody grants funding for that anymore, it has to be social history (even though it was supposed to be about military culture, which is social history) because that’s what’s trendy now. He decided he hated research and went on to teach high school.
I've worked at a psychiatric hospital for several years and I've seen one case of this, a woman who had schizophrenia. It was incredibly sad. She was so scared and wanted to talk to her family but wouldn't call them because she believed they were replaced with demons occupying identical bodies to her loved ones. Somehow she did give consent to us to tell them about her care, and telling them day after day when they called that she didn't want to speak to them, and why, was heartbreaking. Especially with her husband.
Honestly you probably fabricated all of this. She probably disclosed to you that she was abused and you instead made false statements and embellished to make her seem crazy on paper.
I know for a fact people like you utterly fabricate and twist things around to make a patient seem crazy so you could have an excuse to keep them there and charge them over 10 Grand for it.
@@UA-camAccount-yj1jz I'm a tech, not a psychiatrist. I make $16/hr no matter how long any patient stays or what they're diagnosed with or prescribed, I have no reason to fabricate anything. What you're describing absolutely happens sometimes but there are also many situations exactly like what I described where people are really, really sick and need help. The world isn't half as evil as you think.
Such tragic lives.
Shout out to the healthcare workers for doing an amazing job!
That is a truly terrifying condition.
I have the same condition too, but I feel like i am normal, and wouldn't do something like that.. right? So scared rn
Some people may get it from prolonged & exuberant usage of alcohol or certain drugs, or it can develop from health conditions like low thyroid or other metabolic conditions, or potentially a nutrient deficiency like vitamin B12
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i suffer from a history of mental illness, heavy drug use has melted my brain figuritively speaking, i suffer from deporsonalisation and dissasosiation every minute of every day, i can relate to this condition not because i have it, but because i beleive I Have Died and this whole world is a simulation. suffering from any type of identity disorder is horrifying in every way, it paralyzes you in every way
bless anyone who suffers with similar conditions to the one described in the video, i know its hell
I went through a period of months where I experienced much of the same things you are describing. I thought I had died too and was in a simulation or hell of some kind. Have you tried to ask for help? I barely survived it because it was too horrible and scary and hopeless.
@@shroomyk curious to know what help you got? As I know someone going through something similar, but they believe they keep dying (and coming back/resetting) and certain actions or things they see will just trigger their death all over again. So they won't get help/keep appointments because they think going to that appointment will trigger their death again 😓
@@GalaxiiBunnii I had a psychiatrist moves some meds around. An anti-psychotic med may help, but for my personal situation I didn't need them long-term. Unfortunately to actually get help they would need to actually attend appointments and take meds, or stay inpatient at a mental hospital. Making them go if they don't want to is pretty much impossible unless they are suicidal or threaten to harm others. I hope they can overcome their fear at least once, go to the appointment, and maybe see that nothing bad happened. Maybe it would be helpful to go with them and be a support? I'm so sorry they are going through that. I can definitely imagine what they must feel, but I hope they will step over that line somehow so they can start to feel better.
Youre alive fool lmfao you aint making ghost yt comments
@@GalaxiiBunnii for context: I will say that I had already been in long-term treatment for depression and anxiety, so I had a doctor already. I had moments of lucidity during the psychosis so I could kind of tell something was going wrong and getting worse. I think the actual psychosis was triggered by 2 years of really bad stress (got abused by a boss and then fired, lost all but 1 of my freelance clients, had to drop out of school, dating a narcissist who emotional and mentally abused me constantly). It all just added up, and once the boyfriend was gone and I stopped caring about work or school, I was able to normalize. But I did have to spend some time inpatient and in a partial hospital program to get me through it too.
My friend's brother-in-law had schizophrenia and one of the signs he was no longer taking his medication was he would call people replicants. When they heard that they knew to contact his psychiatrist and have him commited for treatment and take away his car keys.
I had similar case with delusional syndrome after long psychoactive use experience, and this sharp period was extremely paranoic (obsession were so absurd like my mother have born me for sale to slavery). Just want say words of grace for today's farma medicine, two years of anti-psychotics almost cure my ruined mind.
It's very interesting that Capgras is a visual syndrome, talking to someone on the phone will still have everything appear as normal, though, when visual input is present all else is overridden.
I renember watching an episode of Criminal Minds where the killer was a veteran suffering from this. They finally stopped him by having someone e he trusted tell him to close his eyes, listen to their voice, and turn himself in.
That's a common way to help someone with it. When I have manic episodes, if someone calls me and then comes to show me they're the same person on the phone, it helps a lot
I have a friend diagnosed with schizophrenia and bi polar who swears her siblings were replaced with imposters, even the phonecalls she dosnt belive them, she mostly dosnt care unless they bring up something personal about the family, then she thinks the "imposters" were crossing a line
Based on some other responses the phone conversation doesn’t work either. I think it probably depends on how the individual is affected specifically. For example, they get a call on the cell phone from a spouse, that call will likely be categorized as coming from the impersonator as that has the previous association. On the other hand if the spouse calls from an unlisted number the afflicted might see that as coming from the actual spouse and not the impersonator.
I had never heard of Capgras Delusion until I saw an episode of Law and Order SVU ("Bullseye", Season 12). A woman had been struck by a bus, sustained a traumatic brain injury, and was from then on convinced that her 10-year-old daughter had been replaced by an imposter. That made her indifferent toward the young girl's mistreatment by her horrible gaming-addicted stepfather. Her raw rejection of her daughter was painful to watch. What a terrifying condition.
I had an aunt who had water on the brain which triggered this syndrome. She called the cops on my uncle probably a dozen times over the 3 years that she was suffering. She also beat him a few times because he was an imposter. Sometimes he was the "good" uncle; other times he was the "bad" uncle. Thankfully, she's passed on due to a host of medical problems. She was in pain phyically and mentally so she's in a better place now and my uncle is safe with caring family.
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There's always stuff they make themselves.
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As a mum I can tell you honestly that 90% of kid given gifts are crafts and the other 10% are plushies and candies they wanted themselves.
Simon, you did a Casual Criminalist about a man who ended up killing his father after believing he had been replaced by a fake. That case took place in Canada and his mental illness was recognized and treated and he did not go to prison.
I first learned of this from a show called Criminal minds. A army veteran didn’t realize that he was suffering from it and murdered his best friend and parents because he thought the military had replaced them with imposters
That is when I first learned about it as well.
I renember that one. They finally got through to him by having someone he trusted tell him to close his eyes abd listen to them. That person then persuaded him to trmurn himself in.
That’s where I first heard of it, too.
Navy Seal actually, but yeah. He thoughts the military was getting back at him for an Op that in his eyes went wrong called "Dorado Falls"
Next video needs to be about Cotard's Syndrome, where people believe they have died. It's equally fascinating. Also, there's an interesting Reddit thread of a man whose wife begins to experience Capgras, but he has no idea what's going on. It's an incredible look into the syndrome from the other side (and don't worry, from the posts, it sounds like she recovered). Kurt Struebing, the guitarist for the band NME, killed his mother because he thought they he and everyone else were robots, that he could kill her and she'd just be replaced. Not quite Capgras, but very similar in many ways. If there's a name for what he had, someone let me know, please!
Still Capgras Syndrom for the robot replacements. Sad state to be in tho.
Do you have the link to the reddit thread? Thx
Is there not already a video on Cotard's? I'm pretty sure there is.
@@narnigrin Quick Google showed nothing. I know he's done the Alice in Wonderland syndrome.
@@narnigrin he covered Cotard's in a video about 10 rare Psychological Delusions on one of his other channels but no standalone video yet ua-cam.com/video/aQFyrTU8abg/v-deo.html
I know a woman who suffers from something similar. She is convinced almost everyone (her relatives, her neighbors, the cashiers at the supermarket, almost all public figures on tv, but funnily enough not the local police chief) has been replaced by clones or impostors. She cannot even recognize her own face in photographs of herself: she once claimed somebody switched her photo with the photo of someone else on her identity card. She also has a number of other odd beliefs: she thinks bugs (as in live insects) are "bugs", as in listening devices, put in her house by somebody to spy on her. She's a well known figure where she lives, and she was once a semi-famous painter. She still paints, but all she produces now are crooked cardboard signs with confused warnings written on them.
Having the mind turn on itself is among the most horrifying events that can happen.
That's horrible.. I've had a psychotic episode, with hallucinations and auditory hallucinations.. it was horrible as is, but I'm glad I didn't go that deep with my paranoia. I thought people were gaslighting me and I became aggressive. Psychotic depression is under control now, but if I can't sleep I start to hear whispers, even with the meds..
There is a theory that psychosis is a consciousness disorder, because when people are dreaming, their brains are simulating psychosis. I don't normally plug my channel but I made a whole video on that which maybe you would find interesting. I hope the whispers at night are not too unpleasant!
Thanks 'into the shadows' team,, you reminded of a bit in Oliver Sacks "How i mistook my wife for a hat', in which Sachs recalls a moment at his daycare surgery, some of the patients started to get agitated whenever President Ronald Reagan appeared on the dayroom telly. Sachs deduced that those particular patients seemed to have the uncanny ability to spot a fake. That bit in the book was one of many take=aways from that book.
I cared for a man suffering this in an older person’s mental health ward. We hadn’t seen it before and haven’t seen it since. Gentlemen had dementia, used to tell us his wife was an imposter/double and he thought maybe a robot, but never said it to her face because he thought he would be ‘caught out’. Adelaide South Australia
That's so sad
I hope hes at peace now
@@xakirax_8864 his wife was so understanding. His end of life wasn’t an easy one, but he always proclaimed his love for his wife, just didn’t believe it was the real her
@@KarinaMilne Glad to hear the love was still there.
Bless the wife, What a patient, loving woman.
Wow, that's scary. I'm a veteran with some TBI. I hope that never happens to me. I love my family too much.
Most veterans with tbi’s go on to live fully healthy normal life styles dont let the sensationalist media fool u
It's from an injury to specific areas of the brain, and as someone who has it, it doesn't make you a violent person and antipsychotics can treat it
My neighbor had Alzheimer’s and he was convinced that his house was a well-crafted duplicate and that his family and neighbors were in on the con job. A form of “Structural Capgras Delusion” of sorts. I hope I never lose my faculties, although that ship may have already sailed.
A very similar thing happened to my father-in-law. He went on holiday with his wife, and when he returned he was convinced that he wasn't at his home, but an exact duplicate. He often talked of going back to his real home, though he didn't appear to think it was any sort of conspiracy.
@@Gynra That is bizarre. Had his mental state deteriorated prior to that? Was there a subsequent decline in his mental health?
@@localcrew It probably had been in decline for some time, but it wasn't really noticeable until that holiday. And yes, his condition worsened into dementia, but he died of a heart attack a year or so later.
@@Gynra Thanks for the reply. My neighbor was a retired doctor and WWII veteran and was a very intelligent overachiever in everything he did. In his late seventies he started getting forgetful and friends and family figured it was attributable to old age. Then one day I was helping him around the house and he couldn’t remember my sisters or their names (we grew up next door) and couldn’t remember colleagues names or specialties. That’s when I knew. His decline was excruciating to watch and nothing can really prepare one for what is to come. It’s like watching someone slowly disappear before your eyes and be replaced by a demented stranger. Another friend of mine’s father had Alzheimer’s and he became paranoid and violent. Had to be restrained in his hospital bed, otherwise he would attack his care givers. As I said earlier, I just hope that I retain my faculties.
The Truman Show
i had brief periods of anxiety as a child that my pets were replaced with imposter pets every time i went away from home. glad it went away on it's own
Absolutely love this channel. You should cover something related to epilepsy, like SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy patients) or Intractable epilepsy since very little is known about those as well and they're terrifying!
Or Lafora Disease too.
@@selfan2005 Definitely, that one has always made my skin crawl. I can't even imagine
@Kaylie Williams Look up Angelina's story online, it will at times make you cry, but also warm your heart.
@Kaylie Williams Look up Angelina's story online, it will at times make you cry, but also warm your heart.
I loathe that people cannot understand or accept mental illness and its affects on people. The ignorance breaks my heart and makes me angry.
Same
Incredibly there is a man in my town with this. He dated my sister in high school. About 15 years ago he brutally murdered his sister after she flew down to Toronto to check on him when he began complaining to his family that the government had robots following him. He killed her the night she arrived by violently bludgeoning her skull and face in to “get the microchips out”. I guess here in Canada we have lighter sentences than in New York as he only served about 7 years in a mental hospital and is now out and not even on parole or supervised in any way by our Corrections department.s. I really hope for everyone’s sake he is still being monitored by a psychiatrist.
As soon as we started school my mom believed we were evil. She believed school age kids are evil. It was a source of a lot of pain that my mom deserted me in kindergarten and whenever I tried to talk to her she thought I was evil. It was like she believed school age people are a different species.
Did you ever find out what caused her to have that specific delusional belief? It's fascinating how the delusional mind "selects" a Delusion, so to speak. I hope that your mother gets better and that your relationship with her is able to heal.
I'm so sorry for your suffering. It's tragic.
If you or someone you know has these symptoms then please contact a doctor ASAP.
I have the same condition too, but I feel like i am normal, and wouldn't do something like that.. right? So scared rn
@@markdombrovan8849 If you are experiencing capgras symptoms then you should speak to a doctor.
I think it would be a very frightening experience, and lonely too. So I hope you are doing okay and treating yourself with kindness.
@@phishfullofasha ah, no, not capgras. Just schizotypal personality disorder. The second that name popped up i went into a panic attack and stopped watching
@@markdombrovan8849 i have a psychotic disorder as well (it hasn’t been pinned down to which specific diagnosis) and as hard as it is, try not to worry.
i worry sometimes about being completely absorbed by my delusions and paranoia and potentially harming myself or others. or generally just destroying my life
but worrying doesn’t help, if anything it’ll make it worse if you’re constantly thinking about what could maybe, potentially happen.
just remember that odds are, people with psychosis, as long as they’re getting treatment, are no more likely to be violent than anyone else on the planet.
it’s difficult and lonely to have a psychotic disorder, and i hope you’re doing well and have a good support network around you. you’re valuable and deserve to be treated kindly, don’t forget that
@@graymonk5972 thanks, your support means a lot to me. I am pretty suspicious of others, so it is indeed hard, but i am trying my best. And i hope you do too! Good luck in your life kind stranger
So sorry for those whose brains betray them and for those but can't help but love them.
Simon, that key holder is legend! I just started a new job today & convinced my dad & myself need both. 🔑
Suppose someone who is well-read on Capgras becomes afflicted with it themselves. Might they be able to overcome it, at least intellectually, or would they think "This seems like Capgras, but it's _different_ in my case. They really _are_ an impostor!"
All these cases sounds like dissociation. Dissociation is really scary when you/people lack the ability to understand they're dissociating. In those cases you can believe basically anything and everything
Fyi Anosognosia is the inability to recognize a deficit.
It does have terrifying consequences. However, it should be noted that nearly everyone experiences a type of integration disorder when it comes to recognizing themselves as components of the universe, and instead experience themselves as individuals. Which has the consequence of feeling isolated, ashamed or proud, envious, lazy and the like.
Been there done that Didn’t get stabbed, though
I am sure the world is a simulation and I am the only real person, when I dissociate. It is wild.
Fascinating and yet terrifying video! I sincerely hope that I, or anyone I love, never experience this particular form of hell.
When my mother stopped taking her schizophrenia medication, she believed for a time that I was an imposter. She believed that someone or group or thing was holding her son hostage and that I had replaced him. This was an erratically appearing delusion for her. It would come and go randomly.
Oh good god. I had a incredibly kind and gentle girlfriend with schitzfranic paranoid syndrome. I don't know what to think as one of the few people that could get her back on track sometimes. Once she didn't take it because a severe hulicantion involving pixies, and that her medication was some sort of microrobots. She thought her caregiver was a dalek from dr.who. Not quite that specific but definitely thought the caregiver was not actually a caregiver but was a murderbot 9000. I'm actually very surprised we could date at all, she had a lot of trust issues. The worst one that showed up because of the length of the relationship was her thinking she was getting sucked into a vortex or something. She was hallucinating a cartoon reality. which was almost funny, but also not, lol the poor girl thought girl thought I was the Tasmanian devil mixed with the roadrunner. Although at least she took her medication that time.
What's interesting is that, in some cases for neurological surgeries, the temporal lobe of a patient may be removed (for example, to stop epileptic seizures). The patient can still function even though the amygdala has been removed. Things like creating long-term memories can prove to be hard to create (the left side is responsible for auditory and the right for visual). It's interesting how the human brain can adapt to drastic changes though.
This channel is slowly becoming one of my favorite channels, new videos can’t come fast enough.
Follow his other channels. He has so many lol
2:47 Oh those statements are immediately freaky with the closeup shot of the eye following. Well done.
A friend mentioned he liked paranormal stuff.
And I'm just like.... I got something for you, that sounds scarier than any paranormal thing could ever possibly be.... But is also real!
I wouldn’t be surprised if people in the past with this condition, thought their loved ones were changelings.
My mom had this due to her dementia. It was frustrating and difficult to watch. She would hide behind doors and walls, afraid of my dad. She would say, "He looks like you dad and is wearing your dad's clothes, but that's not your dad." She would be terrified and literally shaking with fear. The more we would try to convince her it was dad, the angrier, and more out of control she would get. Fortunately, the right anti psychotic meds finally stopped this, but she fought and refused the meds for a long time. She is 84 now, and this syndrome was about 3 yrs into her obvious untreated dementia/alz. Luckily, a good psychiatrist was able her bring her and us some peace.
I like these ones on psychological and other rare conditions better than the ones on human attrocities; I feel that those are already fully exhausted on UA-cam.
Kek bro videos of these mental disorder where the first go tos almost evrrything on this channel is exhausted n has been for 12 years.
I'd argue that is curing really worth it, for those who already killed their loved ones? How do you live with yourself, after you're back in your right mind and have all the memories of taking that person's life and no longer having them around? Wow. You basically have to re-live the trauma that they were gone (the first instance, being that they were replaced), but with the additional detail that it's YOU that took them away.
As someone with schizoeffective, it's terrifying that a medication could cause psychosis.
Really? That's one of the first warning for weed for pain, and many pain medications: "altered stated of mind and agressive hostile thinking" is all over mine.
I experience this when I have manic episodes, I think because I've also had a traumatic brain injury on top of already being bipolar. I've never been violent because of it, just terrified
I’ve experienced this when I had a psychotic episode. It is fucked up
Same.
Hope ur doing better now
@@xakirax_8864 thanks, I am.
I was never formally diagnosed with Capgras, but I found out about it through my doctor. Three years ago I went through a period of extreme psychosis brought on by years of hard living. I became convinced that certain members of my family had been replaced with some other type of being that took on their sentience and I almost attempted to kill one of them. It was the scariest, most confusing thing I’ve ever experienced, because I genuinely believed it and wanted the real family member back. It got so bad another family member had to literally shoot me to keep me from doing God knows what.
Six months in to one of my many hospital stays later, a psychiatrist told me that she believed I was suffering from drug induced psychosis (obviously) and something called Capgras Syndrome. She said that the formal testing for it was lengthy and expensive and my insurance company wouldn’t cover it, but I’m glad to have found this video (and a few other really good ones) on the topic.
It’s profoundly scary when you stop and take a moment to think about what you would do if you believed your loved one had been replaced and you were trying to figure out how to get them back. What would you do? Would you stop at nothing?
Well if it’s not in the DSM, most folx don’t believe it exists as they don’t understand *how* things are added to each DSM and how long passes between each revision.
Yeah, I kinda hate the idea of DSM, psychology is the last field of science that needs firstworld overdefining and/or ESG-andjectant influence.
And that's also precisely why the worst types of personalities are so heavily into tainting said field with both.
The more you know about our modern psychology, the more you know how full of BS and ignorance-concealing jargon it is - which isn't a reason to discard psychology as a whole, but surely a reason question the established institutions, whose primary function is more often than not, pure self-preservation at the expense of genuine scientific and philosophical progress ofhumanity.
Absolutely terrifying
Also can we just say the intro is just awesome!
ah yes, the Amygdala. the bad guy of the brain, the fear centrum. I'd wish I could get one or both removed as I've lived with anxiety for most of my life and need to take a ton of pills.
I have the opposite problem, I am not scared of anything or anyone. That gets me into trouble sometimes because I don't respect or acknowledge the authority of others. And honestly, why should I? LOL
@@Willy_TepesThis comment made me lol
I was 15 years old when I sustained a traumatic brain injury. To my knowledge, I have thankfully never experienced Capgras Syndrome, though my brain has created plenty of memories that I can prove never occurred, and altered others beyond recognition.
Capgras Syndrome seems less surprising than my (non- existent) horse that lived in the bathtub (!) of my personal bathroom (?) in the house that my dad (never got around to) built on the property that he (actually did) owned at the time. Simpler than my red sports Fiero (distortion of Ferrari?), which I drove all over the place though I didn't have my driver's license yet.
I remember meeting a former boyfriend years before I actually met him, at a banquet that may or may not have happened, but that I surely wouldn't have been invited to, because of the tattoo of his mother's maiden name across his belly in 6-inch block letters. Wait, why would I recognize that particular tattoo from a banquet at a school he never even visited? He was actually in the area at that time, but since he was incarcerated at a facility that took about 45 minutes to drive to from campus, there's no way I would have met him or seen his tattoo prior to our actual meeting in 2003. So confusing, since I remembered it so clearly!
When I saw the video title, my dyslexic brain read it as “Living with Imposter Syndrome”. I was like “huh, not the usual type of content for this channel, but it’s still an interesting topic” 😂 great video though ❤️
I also felt that the topic would be something along those lines, imagine my surprise when it took a very quick, dark turn.
Sus syndrome
I read that too
I've had an experience with this of sorts- it was slightly terrifying and traumatic and worse, as I've got some neuro degenerative conditions, I am at a higher risk of this occurring again as the one experience I have had was caused by acute inflammation in my brain and the neuro degenerative conditions are prone to cause inflammation in the brain.
In my experience I believed that my mom and aunt (sisters) switched bodies. Luckily a few days of intensive treatment with steroids given both by IV and epidural straightened out my experience. While it in the end was pretty funny, I'm always fearful that it could happen again.
6:10 - Chapter 1 - Symptom
8:40 - Chapter 2 - The brain on capgras
11:00 - Chapter 3 - Cases ,causes & triggers
14:55 - Chapter 4 - Treatment
From an episode of Scrubs:
Howie: Mr. Swick, I want to commend you for not disclosing what you injested before because, well, you were actually talking to my imposter.
Patient with Capgras Syndrome: I knew it.
Howie: I'm impressed because the differences are subtle. My voice sounds like this (using his normal voice) while his voice sounds like this (still using his normal voice).
Patient: I heard it.
wooooow. that is a DANGEROUS thing to do outside of tv. DON'T.
@@AnimeShinigami13well, Scrubs was/is a comedy. Most medical shows are dramas.
I don't think I have this syndrome but I do remember not trusting my mom for weeks when I was very young. I thought she had been replaced. It was most definitely caused by watching tons of horror movies at my friends.
How old were you at the time? Did you ever tell anyone that you were having those kinds of paranoid thoughts?
@@Badass_Brains Must've been 8-10 and no I told no one
I've dealt with this due to psychosis induced by mania. It is terrifying to experience. I'm on antipsychotic now, and it helps me with the psychosis, so it's more manageable and less severe when it happens.
Love your show. Please make an episode on the tranq epidemic.
This channel is awesome!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Having experienced OCD and still recovering from it opened my eyes to mental ilnesness in totally new way
Like me fully doubting myself if water tap is running or not while im watching it being off but my mind is sending me full alarms that are u sure its not on?
I love these into the shadows Simon. Love all the channels but these the most
Cotard's syndrome (or delusion) is another absolutely bonkers and rare condition in which the sufferer believes they are dead, are rotting, or have never existed.
Will Wood reference
I live 15 minutes from the falls. Crazy to see a photo of it on your show!
My grandad had this before he passed away, he thought my grandma who he'd been married to for 60+ years was an imposter and that his real wife was being kept away from him somewhere else in the nursing home
I am waiting on my doctors to confirm if I am experiencing this or if it's something else. It is the worst of uneasy feelings.
I don't know if you'll read this, but I really like your videos across your multiple channels. I have some suggestions for subjects over which you might be interested in when making future videos:
Suttee, wherein an Indian widow threw herself onto her late husband's funeral pyre.
The horrific practice of female genital mutilation that takes place all over the world.
The bone-filled underground catacombs of Paris.
The Tiananmen Square Massacre.
The Chernobyl disaster.
Oh, I sure do like the new format!! I can't wait to see what he changes in his other channels.
Random thought I had while watching this: if all emotions related to visual stimuli are gone, wouldn't a good test be playing a game you used to love? My thought was video game, but card or board game might work too.
If you feel someone is an imposter, play a game you loved as a child. If it doesn't do anything for you, seek a doctor?
I dunno, just a theory. Maybe someone more qualified can test it.
My mom has developed chronic paranoid schizophrenia after prolonged opioid use for pain relief. One of the add-ons to her condition is Capgras syndrome. She is absolutely and unshakably convinced that I'm not her son, and that her real son was murdered on a specific date that she keps saying. Not even showing her my ID and birth certificate over and over has made any difference. And even in a lucid moment, she'll tell me that I may look like her son and be nice to her like "her son" used to be, but that it's just not true that I'm her son.
It's hell. Especially because we used to be quite close before she became mentally ill.
Being Sus was never an answer.
AMOGUS
What you described as schizotypal personality disorder is not accurate. It sounded like you were describing schizophrenia. They are two different things. I have schizotypal personality disorder along with borderline personality disorder and dysthymia. The effects of these is that when my mood changes my personality changes. As in I will have different wants and needs, and react to situations completely differently. It’s all still me, though I can disassociate and do terrible things in that time. It makes being around me for long periods of time difficult. Especially living with me is a bit like getting whiplash A few times a week. I am not paranoid and I do not believe that there are things going on around me that other people can’t see or comprehend.
when the imposter is sus
Ohhhh! Loving the new cold open, title card presentation! Is this gonna be the new standard across all your channels? Genuinely curious. 😅
This is scary but thank u 4 the video
I love repeating what this guy says to practice my goofy over the top English accent.
I feel bad for the guy. It was very obvious he needed mental help, not to be thrown in prison. It's not a good thing he murdered his wife and I don't think he should go unpunished, but prison will not help his already bad mental state.
@Edward Rich if he had gotten help he might not have committed murder
Keep in mind that's what the majority of the world does to drug users as well. No rehab, just prison. Like a person in Prison could ever get better...
@@tavirosu25 Drug abuse is a choice. This condition is not.
@@darlenefraser3022 Treatment for addicts especially in the past were either expensive, very religious, or just plain unavailable. There are lots of treatments out there for addicts now. Drug abuse might be a choice, but you can't just switch off addiction.
@@darlenefraser3022 having the condition isn’t a choice but bending to it and deciding to murder your wife certainly was, addicts don’t choose to feel the need to use, but they choose to give into the urge
No one cares if you are first. I am quite excited though to have a brand new Into the Shadows! Woo!!!
Love the format
So... all of Fallout 4 had Capgras :D
People searching 'imposter syndrome' are gonna learn something entirely new
Simon! How many channels do you host? I keep finding more! And i keep subscribing...
I’m curious what the response would be if someone who was familiar with Capgras suddenly got it. Would they recognise the situation and be able to get help
This is what happened when Paul McCartney was replaced with an imposter in the 1960s.
I am conflicted about people who are Afflicted with this mental illness and who have murdered somebody on one hand I know that they're not in their right state of mind but on the other hand they took somebody's life somebody's child, somebody's friend, somebody's parents, somebody's spouse somebody's siblings.
To be fair even if you think your partner is not your partner but imposter it still does not justify killing them...
Then you clearly don't understand all of what he just said then.
It kind've does.
some of these comments are really dehumanizing man
just want ppl to know that people with psychosis as still people and that we aren’t freaks or inherently dangerous (obviously some people with psychosis commit violent crimes, but so do people without psychosis. everyone has the capacity to commit heinous violent crimes)
Dude....the visual center of the brain is the occipital lobe.
You get almost everything right, and somehow made the most simple factological mistake :D Good video none the less.
Anyway, Capgras is usually(more 50%) caused by lesson in the right hemisphere. In my practice as a clinical psychologist, I have seen 3 cases of Capgras syndrome and I have heard of at least 2 more. Considering that I live in small country and I started practice this year, those are not small numbers. Sadly Capgras is far more common than we give it credit for.
If I may ask, what country do you live in?
I wonder if knowing about Capgras Syndrome prevents someone with these theorised “disconnections” between the temporal lobes and amygdala from forming the delusion that their loved one is false? They would experience the lack of emotional response to their loved ones, but never go down the path of thinking they are an imposter, they would seek treatment instead, recognising that their must be an issue in their brains.
‘Harmless’ cannabis use can cause an extreme, rare mental disarrangement.
Makes you wonder how many users are developing or already living with less obvious issues.
It puzzles me as to why this isn’t until he DSM. It makes me wonder if it’s hard to diagnose so they are going more by what the patients and their loved ones are saying then by any scan or test that might definitively diagnose them. So sad though for both the sufferer and their loved ones.
My dad had a psychotic episode about 12 years ago. He never got Capgras Delusion thankfully, but he was convinced he'd murdered some girl back in the 70's and the police were part of a mass conspiracy involving his friends and family members to get him to turn himself in. He thought they had an entire division dedicated to setting him up. He actually DID turn himself in at one point and confessed, only for them to check their records and ask him what the fuck he was on about because they sure as hell didn't know. I explained all this to him to try and get him to reason his way out of it, that if it really did happen and the police were waiting to nab him they would have when he turned himself in, but the delusions persisted for months until we eventually had to have him committed for 6 weeks. Thankfully, after they got him on some new antipsychotics to replace the ones he'd been on for over a decade, he came out of it. Mostly anyway. He's told me since that he still thinks he did it, but doesn't think we're part of a conspiracy anymore.
I mean, I told him even if I thought he did do it I wouldn't give a fuck, he's my dad and I'd help him cover it up if I had to, same as anyone who loved their family would. It was just scary as fuck seeing him in the grip of such strong delusions that he couldn't make sense of reality anymore. The meds he'd been on for over ten years were a pair of older antipsychotics that aren't typically prescribed together, and we think that combined with excessive drinking is what led to the psychotic episode. It's a good thing he never developed full blown Capgras, because the state he was in he'd probably have tried to murder us.
My former spouse had this. I had to spend hours everyday trying to convince her I wasn't an impostor. She attacked me several times and it was really hard to get her psychiatric/psychological help.
I had a schizophanic friend that kept telling me his mom was a transforming lizard alien. he even tried to kill her. she too exception to that.
A constructive comment - The volume of music in the video (intro, in between chapters) is too loud compared to your speach.
I saw a quite tragic video where a well known actor rambled about paranoid religious stuff and how some conspiracy had destroyed his career -mental illness can happen to anybody.
During the last months of my grandmother she accused all of us (my mother and her sister, me, my sister, my uncle and nephew) to be not real and that the hospital she was in feeds her maggots and we are all actors. She even yelled at me asking who I was, since she „never had children“.
it seems he was the imposter all along he's probably been pretending for years to be normal but on the
Inside his brain was a toxic fire of insanity.
I love the new intro, well done!