I’m an icu nurse. And I explain everything to my patients even if they are in a coma. A lot of them don’t know what it is I’m saying because they tell me later they never heard an explanation. Or they were harmed Or even that they were sexually assaulted. But the weird thing is all of them wound recognize my voice and tell me it sounded familiar. My point is do you really think none of the nurses explained to any of these patients. That’s pretty unfair.
if the patients are hooked with the ventilator and was given a muscle relaxant snd sedative to breath smoothly, I think talking to his or her family and letting them know what you do with their love one is also more crucial.
Those people are drugged and barely breathing, you can explain all you want it won't make them understand. It might've been comforting to them to have someone talk to them in a calm voice on a regular basis, but under the circumstances that's simply not going to happen.
The hospitals have Goode drugs , nightmares seam real ; fevers often induce visions ; your body is in crises ,your brain had defenses - I'd half frogotten bout these details , beer works ...one or maybe two.
It’s not only what happens to you that seems so real, I dreamt that my 30yr old police officer Son was killed. I was in tears asking my Daughter how he died. That was only one of my thoughts as I was in a medically induced coma from open heart surgery last December. Horrible, absolutely horrible.
And if you think that the American physical healthcare system is severely unprepared for dealing with this, just wait until you see how painfully unprepared the mental healthcare system is in this country.
And in what country do you think it's good? Having lived in both the US and Sweden, I can tell you that Sweden is a fucking wasteland when it comes to mental/psychiatric help, compared to the US.
I watched my brother die in an ICU in March of this year. I watched the nurses trying to talk to him as he struggled until they had to restrain him to keep him from pulling the tube out. I kept asking if he knows what's happening to him or have any awareness at all, and they told me nothing he would remember. I was so crushed at the feeling that he was trapped inside and suffering, and there was nothing I could do to help him or save him. They assured me that he would remember nothing, and not feel anything. This video has confirmed every nightmare I've had since that day. I wish I had never seen this video, but I will still give it a like, because people need to see it. EDIT to help answer questions below: He suffered a stroke in the last week of Feb. He passed the first week of March. My state was not under lock down yet, and had no reported cases so we were allowed in the ICU two at a time. He had a brain aneurysm while on the tube and was declared brain dead.
As a nurse I can say I wish you hadn’t seen this either. I’m so so sorry for all that you’ve witnessed. I’m deeply sorry for the loss of your brother, stay well. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
I've been in a similar situation once when after a surgery I didn't feel the need to breath and a nurse had to remind me. If you're aware enough, hearing this sentence will likely get you to do your best to breath. In my case I was aware enough to actively try to breath despite not feeling the need, but too drugged to actually stress about it. Telling someone they might die is a good way to get their attention (-:
So sorry. Take care of yourself, as well as your family and friends. If you get to feeling overwhelmed emotionally, or deeply depressed, don't hesitate to seek profession help. Be kind to everyone. Always "look for the helpers."
@@mcscrooge4542 Thank you so much. I'm doing alright though my grandma isn't okay. She recently tore the letters grandpa and her used to send each other when they were young...
My mother thought she had been abducted into a spaceship, because everything was so white, the room was so white. ... My brother thought the nurse had tried to kill him because she'd had to put medicine in his mouth while he was tied down. A few days later when he was recovering he said to the nurse "you know it would work better if first you say 'I'm giving you medicine now' instead of just pinning someone's head down and putting unknown stuff in their mouth"-- he had a point
We almost never give oral medicines to intubated patients except perhaps topical things eg for thrush, it was probably suction of secretions in the mouth or other mouth care like teeth brushing. The vast majority of us try to regularly reassure people about what we're doing but delerium completely scrambles memory and sense of time. If you think the person saying "its fine, just going to brush your teeth" is an alien who has abducted you or a rapist then there's almost nothing you can do that will be reassuring. I hope your mother and brother are doing better now.
@@smithersrob Yes they are currently fine. The nurse had replied to me that it was indeed medications. Now that you mention it, that is indeed odd since he had all the tubes hooked up... (Re her bedside manner, I have wondered if she was inexperienced because she made a number of really bad choices during the days I was there.)
@@LoreleiMission Some time ago my mother was in a hospital with all good nurses but one. A baker who is a dipshit is annoying, a nurse who's a dipshit is dangerous.
This is a very common occurrence in ICU patients. It just isn't talked about because before covid19 we didn't have hundreds and thousands on ICU and on ventilators. "A third to more than 80 percent of ICU patients suffer from delirium during their hospital stay." Before the pandemic, doctors and researchers were already trying to figure out why it's happening. Some people think it may be due to sedation. But how do you choose between sedating a patient so they don't feel pain and causing delirium or having the patient not sedated and feeling intense pain? Either way, it causes trauma.
I believe it has to do with oxygen deprivation. It literally causes intense bizarre hallucinations. That's where many experiences of feeling that they died and came back to life come from. Because their oxygen level in the brain got so depleted their hallucinations were terrifying and real to them. What they call out of body experiences. Many years ago heard about it before due to oxygen deprivation in the brain.
97000 deaths from a 7.5 billion population is 0.0000396% deaths worldwide. They show people suffering from it, well people are suffering from a lot of things every year, influenza is one of them. People are suffering dying from influenza each year but it doesn't make the news or UA-cam videos.. We need to wake up.
I don't understand why there are people out there trying to downplay this pandemic.. I know A lot of people that have passed away.. in different countries.. It's so sad and at times fear can settle in.. It's a reality! People are right now dying because of this.. my cousin lost his grandmother.. he couldn't even say goodbye or anything. My heart goes out to everyone that has been affected by this virus.
I had delirium twice when coming out of a medically induced coma. From the severe torture of the pain from my nerves growing back to the the very real torture of the delirium hallucinations. I am so scarred from the experience and have ptsd from it. I am no longer the same person due to the trauma. This is very real and is pure torture. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. I hope the people who went through this find a way through the darkness.
May God Bless and Heal you in mind , body and spirit 🙏 Thank you for helping others understand this, this is first time I have heard of this condition 😥
Sorry about your experience. But your expressions made me think that people take their lives after certain experiences and it may be because of these thoughts and feeling recurring even after they have survived whatever their medical situation was. But really it kills me to see all these selfish individuals out there who feel it's their right to do or not to do. Many are dying hurting being scared as a result of someone else's selfish act. It's just Sad
I treated a patient who had been in a coma for 10 years at a hospital. We bathed him and changed his gown everyday. I always talked to him nicely. I know that people in a coma can hear but can't respond.
I had my cardiac arrest last year. When I woke up I knew where I was. Just looking out the window you can't mistake beautiful Vancouver. And I was on the ground floor ICU with nice hedges right out my window. But she said I was in a coma for 10 days. I didn't remember anything. And I don't believe coma patients remember any more than we do when we're asleep. But I'm sure we still respond to being taken care of well. Once we wake up. So thanks so much for that.
FatSardine I have been in and out of the hospital since I was a child. I am 45 now, and petrified of the hospital. I never had CoVID, but I have been in the ICU several times, had a nose tube, and was catheterized. I had the nose tube at seven and am still traumatized. I had very similar experiences as those that were described here. Though, not nearly as bad, it was still horrible. A state between life and death is the best way I can describe it. You have experiences that seem so real, but people say did not happen. Things that did happen you don't have a memory of. I try to tell the hospital staff, as well as my friends and family but no one seems to get what I have been through. There have been times where my heart stopped, U had seizures, and only they know what else no one told me or my family. I found out when my insurance company called to find out if I had follow up treatment for the heart failure. Because I had no memory of it, I argued that it never happened they gave me dates and times. Only when I called my hospital roommate up, and she that confirmed yes something happened and they called a code, people came in an rushed me out of the room and brought me back hours later. I vaguely remembered being tolled into my room and realized it was true. The mental health problems that are caused by serious illness are never addressed. I hope this will bring light to the need for mental health aftercare in the aftermath of a serious hospitalization.
There are people going through this every single day of every week of every month of every year this is not just right now. Any time of the year you pass by a hospital imagine there are at least 5 people in that moment on a ventilator in the ICU having ICU delirium inside that hospital it's very sad to think about...
As an RN in the CVICU, no competent nurse would EVER say "You're going to die" to a scared, ventilated patient. Especially since it's simply not true. There are so many things you can do to ensure adequate ventilation without putting it all on the patient's shoulders. Whether that's pain control, paralysis and sedation, or worse case scenario ECMO. So sorry for the man who experienced this. As for ICU delirium, it is hugely prevalent in ICUs (not just COVID patients), but the majority of people don't experience such frightening hallucinations. Agitation and profound confusion yes, but gore and horror are not the usual. It's still frightening, but this video seems to take worse case scenarios, as if trying to instill public fear. Awareness is great, but fear mongering isn't necessary. Edit: Just to clarify, every ICU nurse and doctor will agree that ICU delirium is a major issue that needs support during and after the patient's ICU stay, including me. My issue with this video, as my original comment stated, is that ICU delirium does not only mean you experience terrible, frightening hallucinations, like the people in this video described. It certainly CAN mean that, but it MUCH more often presents as confusion, anxiety, and difficulty sleeping. People with "mild" cases of delirium, who are the majority, need support too, so I don't want this video to discourage people from speaking up to their nurses and doctors about their thoughts because they think they're not "delirious enough." Also, family at the bedside often helps mitigate delirium, so the COVID pandemic definitely exacerbates cases of ICU delirium - not just for COVID patients though: my hospital's policy right now is that NO patient is allowed visitors, with exceptions of 1 visitor allowed for pediatric patients and end-of-life scenarios. EVERYONE feels lonely at this time. The general message of the videos is good - patients who experience ICU delirium need continued support in and out of the hospital, especially now when cases may be more prevalent. But I don't want people to fear hospitals and ICUs just because they think it's the norm to go through living hell, as this video describes. Hopefully that clear up some confusion on my thoughts. Thanks for listening!
Since you’re a nurse, is there another sedation drug they can use that will give patients a more pleasant and happy high? Like nitrous oxide maybe? I just don’t think anyone should have to experience these awful hallucinations
Lauren J it’s all based on the subconscious mind while it is in that state think of it like people having a good or bad trip on a drug like acid. A good example is stories from people who have been in comas for months. I remember one person saying that they heard “demonic chanting” during the coma which turned out to be the family praying near them. Another experience talked about how they’d hear an angel singing which similarly turned out to be a family member singing. Fixing this problem would require mind control technology that we do not currently have
As a mother of 2 children with a lot of medical issues, I can assure you that not all nurses and doctors ARE competent and stupid things ARE said to patients. I'm not saying they are the majority but they do exist. And since you work with them you know this is true.
Is it the disease or the oxygen deprivation? The stories remind me of my first uncontrolled asthma crisis. Upon arrival at the hospital, I was hallucinating, very unpleasantly.
I was in a coma for 12 days in 2010 and I've never been the same since and no one will listen to me but it sounds like I've experienced this. I have nevee slept a full night unless I've been sedated since because of the PTSD. I feel for these people massively amd just want to put my arms around them. So sad 😭
It's truly an imperfect system, you sometimes find yourself choosing the lesser of 2 evils in trying to help someone. Medicine is not very advanced in some ways and these established ways of dealing with things can be traumatizing for everyone. Medicine is quite archaic in many respects and I find myself in conflict over many issues
nursing is a profession, they are free to leave if they cannot handle the stress. a nurse who is emotional is no hero, they are negatively impacting themselves and the people around them.
@@sjuvanet Yeah, that must be it .You must be completely right. Nurses shouldn't be normal people dealing with death. Having emotions when they see people dealing with the loss of a loved one. And then maybe the nurses could be treated by doctors and therapists. Nah, too expensive. 50 percent of nurses quit in the first five years. So the Feds allowed hospitals to hire foreigners. Still short of nurses. I know. The hospitals can hire Super Heros and characters from your video games. I'd like to see the look on your face when told you have the virus. With a hospital staff who are totally uncaring. Hope you can still hear them talking about getting you out of the room and to the morgue quick as possible when you fade away.
My state has opened up last Monday. Some businesses are taking people's temperatures as a safety precaution before they can come in. Why are people ignoring the fact that asymptomatic people are spreading covid19?
QUIT FEEDING INTO THE BS. YES ITS REAL YES IT BAD YES PPL DIE BUT NO ITS NOT AS BAD AS THE MEDIA AND FAUCI N GATES MAKE IT TO BE. THEY HAVE AN AGENDA AND U R FALLING FOR IT AND IN RETURN/ INDIRECTLY ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. . ITS THE MALPRACTICE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN TEACHING US ON HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS VIRUS ...THAT IS KILLING PPL. WAKE UP !!! SORRY JUST MY OPINION FROM WHAT IVE WITNESSED AND OTHERS I KNOW HAVE WITNESS. THEI STANDARD PROTOCOLS WE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING FOR DECADES THAT HAVE WORKED FOR DECADES AND HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO WORK ALSO ON THIS VIRUS HAVE NOT BEEN FOLLOWED!!! WHY????? DO U EVER STOP TO THINK ABOUT THAT??? WHY ARENT THEY FOLLOWING NORMAL PROVEN PROTOCOL THAT WE ALL KNOW AND WE ALL HAVE LEARNED . ESPECIALLY ONE'S 'S IN MEDICAL FIELD SUCH AS ME. I KNOW WHAT LOWERS MY IMMUNE SYSTEM, HOW VIRUSES ARE SPREAD, AND THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO THAT CAN BE COUNTER PRODUCTIVE. WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS TO US AND NOBODY'S SAYING ANYTHING??? AND 2ND OF ALL WHY R WE LISTENING TO FAUCI AND GATES WHO ARE IN BED TOGETHER. GATES HAS THE PATENTS ON VIRUSES, FUNDS THE SCHOOLS, FUNDS THE EXPERIMENTS, FUNDS THE STUDIES, FUNDS THE MANUFACTURING, FUNDS THE DISTRIBUTOR, AND THE CO.. WHO SELL THEM!!! THINK ABOUT THAT. LET IT SINK IN !!! YOU THINK MAYBE CONFLICT OF INTEREST MIGHT COME TO MIND??? AND TO TOP JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OFF...GATES HAS NO MEDICAL DEGREE! FOR GOD WILL...THEY WILL SOON BE FIRED !!!
Healthcare needs to be reformed in the United States of America. If COVID-19 patients were nearly killed by their illness induced delirium, then imaging the living hell people living with mental illness go through. These COVID patients went through only weeks of delirium. Some people deal with DECADES of delirium.
Really glad you brought this up. Being in a psychotic state is indeed a similar state and can last a very long time. Especially when given medication that can keep you from resolving the process and keeps you confused (for some decades until they die). People with severe mental illness are often written off as if they have no chance of a happy life. It's a real crime against humanity at a large scale what is being done to people by Psychiatry. :(
This is what should be on the news so that people won’t show up with their guns wanting a haircut!! I can’t believe they’re saying that it’s a conspiracy ! Ignorance is what truly killing us all!
Theres this one thing about Americans that urks me, they always seem to politicize things that aren't political and they love to indulge in conspiracy and all because "The media is lying", when all their evidence is from some unreliable website or person. Then when all of these real people from all around the world talk about the experiences with having COVID-19 they just reply with some nonsense about they're a part of the "Democrat Socialist Agenda / New World Order". They're so desperate to believe that they're the bearers of truth and the rest of the world is being deceived that they refuse to believe in reliable evidence and facts.
Right wing people don't see this content in their news feeds thanks to the algorithms that cleanly separate us in two. I only know this because I was put on that side of the algorithm simply for being anti-establishment. I had to deliberately click on left wing things to gradually bring balance back to my algorithm. The divide is what's killing us by keeping us ignorant. And it's not our fault. It's them. The algorithm is designed that way. And for all we know, truly, they want right wing people to go get haircuts and die. That way the people who are loyal followers of establishment media, such as yourself, will outnumber them and swing the next election. Think about it.
Not to mention those patients who already have PTSD from previous trauma such as war, torture victims, sexualt assualt survivors including those still dealing with trauma suffered as children,etc. This delirium adds a whole lot more insult to injury - more salt to the wound. Some won't survive that.😞 Personally, I would choose NOT to be ventilated or INSIST on tracheostomy instead.
We need a medical breakthrough and instant cures/remedies for serious illnesses. Eventually future health care professions will be overly disgruntled because the world is not working towards solving the root of the problems. It's only going to get worse in this century with newer and newer viruses and possible future pandemics. We are losing so many in health care workers as well. When you look at these issues as a person you think how could we have been so unprepared. The uppers in charge are now trying to pin the blame but in reality we only have ourselves to blame. Our greediness kills more people than anything because it affects everyone. It doesn't matter if you're a child and you're going to die from a disease that they could possibly come up with a cure for in the knick of time. Everything is done in the interest of the payoff. If it's going to payoff and more than likely to make that payoff last. Cures aren't made instead medicines to only keep you healthy. But without insurance and money, you are definitely a goner if you have such an illness. It sucks but there is no system that is standalone and separate from the money making one to guarantee that professions that do work towards cure do get payed in something different but also that their "cure" is a freedom which any human suffering from such a disease has the liberty to be able to take that cure without being a slave to a failing system. We all know this already. That it's not perfect but it's not like its a good thing even to begin with. It's asinine that the world is so divided and that the world is still a pretty bleak place. Back when I was younger I used to hear stories of how in earlier times they though world hunger and that we would really be attacking the poverty issues in not only the parts of the world that are suffering the most but here within our own nations respectively for our own people by our peoples work. Watching the news and just seeing how the world is. It feels like we had a ball in our hand but suddenly dropped it and went we went to go get it feel into a deep ditch and so we jumped face first into the ditch to get it.
@BraveBlueRaven Art and Craft thank you! I have been dealing with dreams almost identical to these, for 24 years, along with sleep paralysis, fucking awful. One of the scariest ones was; my arms were chopped off by an unidentifiable axe murderer, almost a Jason Goes To Hell looking man but scarier, when I awoke, my arms were numb and I literally thought it was real, delightful when you’re 12 years old. That’s just one of sooooo many. I deal with these on a bi weekly basis. I do have PTSD, from my past trauma, now it will be undermined and minimized. For this exact reason, prior to the coverage of this being an additional side affect, I am petrified. You have no idea how bad this has made my PTSD kick in high gear just going to the store. I am sick to my stomach and lose time for days on end after a trip for groceries.
In my delirium I thought they were going to skin me or remove my organs to sell, and that my family had betrayed me!! Fortunately I was able (with prayers and faith) to realize these were all hallucinations and have no PSTD. Very happy now.
Now I understand what my mother went through years ago after her heart attack and time in ICU. I feel so guilty. At the time, this was the 1990s, she obsessed over some "nightmares" she had, terrible events that took a couple of years for her to stop re-living. She climbed over her bed rails, pulled out tubes, and so on. Over and over again she told me her nightmares. She had always been a panicky person, so I gave her somewhat impatient reassurances that the events weren't real. She is gone, now, after 93 years of a good life. I wish I could hug her and apologize.
You release it when you share with others. In early 90's I cared for a relative with dementia. It was dark ages, no internet or support information. Ashamed to say how I lost patience. Figured it out over time, she died peacefully at home with loving family. Now I say to others .....remember this one thing, and remember it was me who told you so I can get out of jail....when you talk to a dementia patient---Everything you say, you have said for the first time. Would that I have known that simple thing....everything you say, you have said for the first time. Remember that, tell others. Forgive yourself as your mother does. She needed to hear what you told her......events are not real. Like when you, as a child, told her there were monsters under the bed. You then thought what she came to think about no monsters ....oh yeah? You sleep here.💕
Don’t blame yourself for something you would of ever known to of been occurring. Life is too short to spend any worrying about the past, I’m sure your mother would both understand, and prefer you to spend that time doing something that brings you joy. ❤️🕯
Probably unfathomably scary. If it's enough to give a sizable enough portion of the population PTSD, probably not fun to say the least. Like a 3 month salvia divinorum trip.
Wow!! It just keeps getting worse and worse. There will be so many post-pandemic pandemics. Including the denial of survivors' suffering. Thanks for allowing patients and providers to share their truth before politics tries to bury it.
Post-pandemic denial of healthcare workers and survivors?! That's going on right now. Haven't you seen any video from the stay at home protests? These people learned nothing from the 1918 pandemic, and are forcing everyone to suffer for their selfishness. They are too stupid to realize that "normal" is over and this is the world now.
P. Spit Actually it’s the opposite. Many deaths are labeled as heart issues and complications of....... not covid-19. Where hospitals are filling up patients are dying before treatment. No test no diagnosis. Heart failure
@P. Spit "The system is labeling every death as “covid19” Just so they can get more money for diagnosing and putting them on ventilators." Proof? Not just fantasy, but proof?
I'm a retired RN and I'd be terrified to be put on a ventilator. They need to use paralyzing drugs so you don't kick, or fight the ventilator, but your mind keeps going. As these folks describe, it's a living hell. It pains me to know they went through that.
Let me guess ... Propofol , Ketamine , Nitrous etc , etc ... delirants , strong tranquilizers which in the right amounts have the side effect of producing these Hallucinations .
@@JaneenDaniellCain And the settings ... we all know that " ´ Deadly virus diagnose` + ´ Hospital ` + ´ Intubation ( perceived as the closest to death you can be )` " ... ever experienced " sleep paralysis " ? - That is in and of itself a trip , a very distressing one mind you ... add some Ketamine to the experience ... and yes , combine all of the above and you have a recipe for Hell Protocol .
@@thomasa4239 So , what else would you reckon would transport you to these type of delirious states ? Besides Psychedelics, dissociatives and delirants what could it be ?
Well I’m screwed because somehow my friend is coming over today, and my intuition is saying that I should really avoid her. My parents invited her and now I’m really worried
@antiami I so not meeting people > Lower risk of catching *anything* > Lower risk of going in to the ICU > Lower risk of getting ICU delirium. Not meeting people > good Meeting people > bad
@red pill Prove it's fake rather than just spouting contrarian nonsense. Since you've already identified yourself as a conservative, I'm sure your whole argument is going to be some incoherent ramble about how Democrats are trying to create a police state, backed with weak evidence and attaching strings loosely to form a hyperbolized narrative. So please, elaborate
A friend of mine’s father was in a medically induced coma after a car accident a few years back & this is exactly how he described it. I was there when he woke up & he instantly jumped into fight or flight mode. He ripped his tube out & tried to bolt out the door because he thought he was being tortured. Pretty sad stuff.
my mom is a nurse and she’s taking care of multiple Covid patients this second, and she told me that most of them when they get of the vent they have horrible hallucinations and some can’t even speak. it’s really sad because even though they survived, they’re not who they were before they got the illness.
Yeah if only i knew at 15 yrs old. To just tell my great great grandmother who was in a coma "it's gonna be ok grandma. If your having bad images its not real. Its a form of delirium. Your gonna be ok". Perhaps she would've woken up eventually instead of dying. As i got older i did notice certain positive words are reassuring to those who can possibly die or get head trauma.
Coma isn’t fun-those memories stay with you even if you’re in a coma at a young age. Trust me-I’ve had memories come back decades later from my week and a half in a coma when I was almost 2. It’s trippy!!
Tony Stony Rizzle I completely get you. Have you ever tried EFT tapping? Check out Brad Yates’ channel on YT. He’s amazing and I’ve used his scripts to help me with anxiety. You can learn to tap at thetappingsolution.com . Millions around the world use it and it’s free. I wish you the best. I’ve suffered with severe anxiety all my life. I’m also agoraphobic. It’s horrendous. 🧡
I've had serious anxiety since I was a child. I never told my wonderful parents because my sibling was severely ill.. It has caused many problems in my life but I manage it. Fight on and good luck to you. ❤️
I once went down an dark rabbit hole online reading stories of coma patients who’d been sedated for weeks and months. I DO NOT RECOMMEND READING THEM. I’m not the same since
@That Guy James If you're going to make such inflammatory statements at least provide some sources to back up your position. Just because you can yell loudly doesn't make you right.
My mom has Covid right now and she’s definitely experiencing this. It’s scary. She thought my dog was talking to her. Our family is sick as fuck right now.
I was in the ICU on life support (ventilator/ECMO) for 3 weeks due to Covid and I can assure you this is all so real. I will never be the same person I was before getting sick. I had dreams that I was so convinced were real it took me days to realize they weren't. When I woke up I thought I was in another country being studied in a research hospital. After therapy you return home and go back to work and everyone is the same, but you are not and no one really understands. From the time I woke up everyone has been telling me I should just be lucky to be alive. Survivors are grateful, but many of us have this dark place looming in the corner of our mind that I can only pray time will heal. God bless the healthcare workers who are keeping people alive and the physical therapists who are teaching people to get their mobility back after weeks of laying in bed.
I've had a Near Death Experience before. The day afterwards, you see everyone going through their day like normal. You feel like you had a chance to see what life would be like after you died, except you survived. It's an out-of-body experience. Anyway, wear a mask.
Masks don't protect you from contracting the virus, they protect the people around you. Even then you still need to maintain your distance from people.
@Serge Handsome idk how much it stresses people out in general but me and family felt fine about wearing masks, and there are countries where it's completely normal to wear masks, people wear for fashion, or they aren't wearing makeup or just want to hide their face, so also depends on country. Some find masks comforting because they feel safer than being exposed or feel they could be sharing the virus. Id say wear one if you feel comfortable and safer, because masks do reduce how much of the virus you let out, and some can protect you from the virus like N95 masks, but also wear something to protect your eyes, wash your hands and know how to safely take off and put on a mask, that's very important if your goal is to not get sick. If not a mask then covering your mouth and nose with some fabric is the next best thing
My dad had delirium after his liver transplant. He didn’t sleep and he thought the building was going to collapse and he was going to end up in the morgue. Crazy what goes on in people’s heads during trauma.
This is why I stay home! I already have depression and anxiety with other health stuff and if I were to have this happen it could be catastrophic. It is catastrophic for anyone who goes through it of course but what will it be like for people who already have issues going in?! This is just horrible and terrifying. I hope we can get through this soon so no one else has to suffer, we have all suffered enough. Stay safe everyone and Bless You all!
Spike Flea I WASN'T! I left the hospital this past Weds., and my mental symptoms are so much WORSE now, including these continual "out-of-body happenings" that I've become sucicid
Spike Flea..I am NOT a paid anything. I left the hospital just this past Wednesday, and now my Mental situation is so much worse than the ICU delirium was, including "Out-of-body happenings", that my Neurologist is considering checking me into the a different facility for treatment of PTSD. So, unless YOU are a PAID WRITER of some sort that needs the dough to feed your family, you should not speak of things you can't understand, and write ME with any further questions about this new form of delirium. And that is putting my thoughts as nicely as possible on your questioning of what I'm going through now, and what I've put my family through for weeks. I will truly do my best to answer your questions, provided that they don't sound like accusations about me OR especially my family! Got it? Thank you...awaiting your questions any time. J.T.
@@JTsteelblu I hope and pray that you recover. I've had OBE experiences while sleeping for the most part of my life. Some were scary and some pleasant. In any case, the scary parts outweighed the fun parts eventually so I ultimately found a way to stop them when it became scary and, eventually, they stopped altogether. Save for a few now and then, I rarely get any anymore and if I do and it's unpleasant I know how to get out of that state. I went from having 4-6 per night on average when at 16 to 1 stoppable one every 4-5 months now and I am 47 now. Please feel free to write if you want me to explain how you can do this (it is a bit lengthy). Again, I sincerely hope you get better.
This so sad. So the people that did not survive, were they in this state of delirium before dying?? Were they in this much emotional and physical pain before dying? And does this happen when you die of other conditions? I am asking but really I don't want to know .This too sad.
Years ago when going to chemo I got an infection through my picc line. A month in a containment unit I didn't remember anything but I was delirious. I kept feeling like I was falling but cognitively i knew i wasn't but i couldn't understand. I could also smell things like burning stuff.
My mom survived another illness with a respiratory issue. She was in the hospital under induced coma for months, the nurses noted she hadn't slept for days. I watched her very closely, terrorized myself -and found the best things for her was calming music via headphones and putting on a sleep mask at night. I know these families have no access to their loved ones which is terrible. We can't expect people on heavy drugs, brain racing, to do well under constant noise and lights, never sleeping. She is ok now but tells stories of her coma dreams.
Back in Feb I was sick and alone. I thought after only 5 days in my OWN bed that I was losing my mind. I can't IMAGINE what this may be like! No one even talks about this aspect of covid
My father passed away four years ago after a stroke and a bout of pneumonia that had him intubated for 12 days. I remember the nurses telling us he had to be pinned down so he wouldn't pull the tubes out in the moments he was conscious. It kills me to know he suffered so much and had no one he knew there to comfort him when he needed it.
I can’t even imagine someone who already suffers panic disorder or anxiety and going thru this while on a ventilator. I’m sure the virus won’t kill u at that moment what would kill u is having a panic attack, blood pressure going up the roof and your heart just stops.....Pure hell.
That’s probably me I sometimes get weird feelings in my chest or belly and I panic and have anxiety , I never know if I have COVID or not and that’s the thing that makes me worried. The good part is that I don’t have fever or pain but I sometimes panic for not reason.
Hard to watch since my dad is currently in the hospital with this. He didn’t go on a ventilator and today makes a week he’s been there he’s starting to sound so much better. I’m so grateful!!
The Waking Nightmare of decades spent suffering from dementia, alzheimers having your saliva suctioned out because you've forgotten how to swallow. Let's reframe this as a question not about death, but about suffering. It might help us see the nuance instead of standing either side of the black and white divide.
My mom is in the icu right now recovering from COVID and she is experiencing this. She says the nurses call her names and are trying to kill her. This is so scary and very real.
I worked in the ICU as an RN for quite a while. And the vast majority of my patients were vented. And all vented patients are placed in a medically induced coma. Being vented is not a comfortable situation. Depending on the diagnosis patients are weaned and extubated as soon as possible. Practitioners realize that patients need to come off as soon as medically appropriate. ICU delirium has recently been recognized as a complex serious entity especially associated with ICU/intubated patients. Manifestations, risk factors and screening tools are varied and are all components in management of patient care. I have had patients verbalize their experiences and indeed the loss of control they feel is intense. I can only speak to how delirium was approached in my hospital as an inpatient and post discharge. The screening tools were initiated on day one. Care plans were modified daily or hourly as necessary. Management and education are essential in discharge planning. Please make sure to make your voice heard if symptoms continue. The medical community has the tools to ensure that you return to a place of mental and physical health. I'm sending well wishes and hugs to those struggling with COVID and their families.
Melinda Johnson, When my mother developed pneumonia, in the hospital, from complications with choking on a bite of meat she was put on a ventilator. However, she was not placed in a medically induced coma. In your comment, were you speaking about just the hospital you were working at, or should all vented patients in every hospital be placed in a medically induced coma? And you are correct about being uncomfortable (damn near unbearable) while vented. Thank you.
If you where in the ICU are you given an option/a way to ask to be taken of the medically induced coma? I’m curious since some people may rather want to tough it out instead of being in the delirious coma state...how does it work?
@@asylumchoir4586 Hi. Each patient has a care plan tailored specifically for that persons needs. It is not a hospital protocol. Per patient and the diagnosis. It can change daily or hourly depending upon the level of care needed. I'm unsure if your reference is to your mother when you state, "unbearable". I'm so sorry if that was the case.
This is so very important and should be seen and sent to everyone. Since childhood my greatest nightmare was to trapped in my body with no one knowing. Very upsetting
This is literally like the war. After ww2, almost every conversation revolved around “the war”. My brother lost his arm in “the war”..... my father died during “the war”.....I was working long hours in the factory during “the war”. Literally everyone’s lives will be touched by covid19 someway somehow. Truly a horrible monumentous event in human history.
In 1981 I was comatose for four weeks following a car crash, and had hallucinations and delusions during and following the coma. I'm glad that people are beginning to study this phenomenon; it's nothing new.
O.M.G. I haven't had covid-19 (yet) but I went through two bouts of necrotising fasciitis in 2005; during the first bout, I spent about a week in ICU on a ventilator and constantly sedated. The second bout involved 3 weeks in ICU on a ventilator, constantly sedated. During the first bout, I knew my husband was coming to visit me and I waited for his visits because they helped me distinguish reality from dreams or hallucinations. When I was taken off the ventilator and able to talk, the medical staff all assured me that I had been unconscious the whole time, I couldn't have been aware of my husband's visits, etc. The second time (which was just 5 weeks after the first time), the medical staff actually advised my husband to just stay home rather than making the 60 mile drive each way to visit me. I knew he wasn't there, I waited and waited and he just wasn't there. The only thing that got me through that time was one of my regular nurses. She had a strong German accent and she chatted to me whenever she came into my room, telling me about her childhood in Germany, her family's home there, how they celebrated various vacations, etc. I don't know how I knew she was real but I did. When they took me off the respirator that time and notified my husband, as soon as he walked through the door, I said "WHERE WERE YOU???!!!" as loudly as I could with a throat that felt like it had been sandpapered. Again, the medical staff tried to tell me that it was all in my head but this time, I was able to reel off a bunch of info from my German nurse, who confirmed that yes, it was all accurate and yes, she remembered telling me those things. After that, the medical staff didn't have much to say about what I remembered. I already had a longstanding case of PTSD from something that happened in the 1970s, so my ICU experiences didn't give it to me but it exacerbated my PTSD horribly. Tangential note: at one point, I came to in the ICU to find my hands encased in padded mittens and my wrists tied to the bedrails. I knew I was on a ventilator but I did not want to be conscious and I thought I had no way to call for help (tube in my mouth). I rattled the bedrails as best I could, no response. I'm a bit claustrophobic anyway, so being tied up was not something I could tolerate for long while conscious. I finally figured out that if I ground my teeth into my breathing tube, that would probably set off some sort of alarm and bring help. I would have preferred to be untied but if they were going to keep me bound, I wanted to be unconscious. Worked a treat. I've never seen staff pour into my room so fast as when I started to chew through my breathing tube. Then I realised that with the tube in my mouth and my hands tied, I couldn't communicate. Fortunately, I managed to catch the eye of one of the nurses and she was able to read my message clearly. She told the rest of the team I was conscious and panicking due to the restraints, whereupon someone pushed a dose of something through one of my IVs. When I asked later if this had really happened, it was confirmed as a real event. So. If anyone reading this ever ends up in ICU on a ventilator and conscious when they don't want to be, try grinding on the breathing tube. It's amazing how fast the staff responds to that alarm.
You are a warrior , 80% of people that are put on ventilators die due to pulmonary edema. It’s a old trick doctors use to make the patient die. It does not help you at all. Thanks for sharing your story.
@@jeisentheaquarianwolf9542 That is not the lesson you should be taking from this. 80% of people put on ventilators die because 100% of people put on ventilators are already dying. Are you gonna tell me that a person mauled by a bear and then bandaged in a hospital died because of the bandages?
GrainneDhu thank you for the tip with biting the tube! I will remember that if I get this horrible illness. I am one of the people who are vulnerable to getting seriously sick if I catch this. And being put on a ventilator scares me to death. At least now I know what to do to communicate. Thank you! Love from Denmark
@Isaac Dweck I have a friend who has the mild version of covid-19. She says it is way worse than any flu she has ever had and it is lasting way longer. She's constantly fatigued, so lethargic she can't stay on her feet long enough to fix meals and she's spiking fevers every night--after 3 weeks since the onset of symptoms. Part of her fatigue is probably lack of sleep due to the fever spikes but even when she does get some good sleep, she still feels fatigued and worn out.
and, in some cases, OBEs. Someone above spoke of OBEs in his/her case. I have suffered from both for 20 years of my life and SP is horrid and bad trip OBEs too. OBEs can also be pleasant, but at the end you just wanna end both experiences of sleep 'disorder'. It gets tiring to have to deal with it every single night, and most nights it was multiple times. I found a way out of both many years ago on my own (trial and error). I can now sleep soundly and with no nastiness happening.
Delirium is very different to sleep paralysis, it's probably more like being on psychedelic drugs. I had this once when I was sick and it was the worst feeling in the world, definitely worst than sleep paralysis, you feel like everyone is conspiring against you and they are gonna kill you but you can't escape like a bad dream, there's voices telling you things and you believe them because you can't tell what's real and what's not, you don't even trust your family and you hear loud noises. I could hear a plane closer and closer to me and the voice kept telling me it was gonna crash on my house and I was shaking in fear because it just seemed so real.
Much of this happened to me but fortunately they were HAPPY hallucinations. Unfortunately when I was completely taken off the drugs, I couldn't convince myself that I was not married to David Hall, from Hall & Oats! ROTFL! It took me an entire day of reminding myself, everytime I woke from a nap that the man in front of me was my husband....poor guy!💖 27_yrs together and counting! You are my soul mate😘💕
When my mom was very sick a year ago and had to be intubated she developed ICU delirium after she was extubated. She was very paranoid thinking all the nurses were trying to kill her by giving her poison instead of her medicines. She was also seeing antennas on top of our heads including hers and was convinced the antennas were put there by the hospital staff to hear our thoughts and conversations. She didnt want any nurses touching her or getting near her and started hitting them when they did so they had to tie her hands to the bed it was very sad to see her like that.
While I had to watch my father suffer with ICU delirium a few years ago, I never even considered the mental trauma on COVID patients after physically recovering, especially without their families beside them. Blessings to the patients and health care workers, and thank you for telling an important story that is unfortunately relevant.
I lived through a war. This reminds me of the stories they told about soldiers injured in battle, right down to the cheering and the clapping and then the horrible PTSD that follows them for the rest of their lives.
It's so awful what soldiers go through and how poorly they are taken care of after returning home (at least in the US) and so much of it could be avoided. My uncle died a few years back and we only found out after his death that he'd received a Bronze Star during the Vietnam war but he never told anyone because even talking about his time there was too much to bear. My mom couldn't wake him up by touching him or he'd literally try to kill her, that's how bad the PTSD was and it hurts to think about how many soldiers and vets are out there suffering because of something they could not control.
As terrifying as this video is, it's downright BEAUTIFUL to see these survivors talking and looking so healthy, now, physically at least. And now the mental healing. ❤️ This is an important message for people to hear so there is understanding going forward.
Seeing this reminded me when I was on an induced coma ( not Covid) It was a living nightmare, I faintly remember praying and meditating all the time cause of how scared I was, telling myself it wasn’t real, what I felt there and then I will never forget. Ever since that day I try to keep in mind I should meditate and pray (although I’m not religious). So I can prepare myself for that moment when I truly die cause I know someday I will and I don’t want to die having those horrible feelings, u guys have no idea how scary that could be.
The coming financial depression could give you worst nightmares. We are happy in Ga. that our Governor opened up. We have been out and about for about a month. People are doing okay. We take precautions and those who need to remain staying inside are doing so. No reason to become homeless and go hungry especially when Winter is headed our way in 5 months. In Ga. we will not allow a government to take over our lives and once they have most ppl. hungry and homeless they dictate how you will live in exchange for them feeding and housing you. It is like when you were a child and you did what your parents told you if you wanted to live under their roof. You may have missed President after President from Bush to Obama give their sermons on how we are ready for a one world government. If you like being a slave to government then you are free to run scared. There are better more logical ways to handle the problem that does not kill the rest of us through financial suicide. I wonder how you make your money. I wonder if you just get free money. Some of us don't eat if we don't work. Some of us don't have a place to live if we don't go out and work for a place to live. Keep that in mind. Older and less healthy ppl are dying of covid19, lets shelter those ppl. Majority of younger healthy ppl get Corona virus and recover like they do with any flu. Sweden probably took the best route but some kind of suffering on planet earth is unavoidable.
@Überleben people will most likely get the virus eventually during their lifetime, but a lot of people do want to get back to work and very much so soon. Look at Sweden for example. They may get a second wave as bad as we will because of herd immunity. One thing worth noting is the amount of suicide calls the suicide hotline has received these past few weeks, it's insane!
I relate to this video. Years ago while visiting Thailand and Singapore I got extremely sick. Couldn’t keep anything down including water. Had an extremely high fever and started hallucinating. I thought I was going to die I had never been that sick in my life. On the last night before I started to improve I hallucinated that I was sinking into my bed sheets and four what looked like apostles dressed in all black with big black hats and black faces surrounded me. They spoke in an unknown language I couldn’t understand but did comprehend. They were speaking about which would be responsible with the handling of my soul after death. Later my body floated back to the surface of the bed and I threw up. After that moment I began improving. I still remember that very vividly. It was terrifying.
I remember i had a similar experience as a child except i wasnt that sick. The room was dim-lit and there were people in black robes sitting around me. They were just staring at me but I got terrified and tried calling my parents but I couldnt make a sound at all. I've always wondered what it could have been, now I know it was a kind of delirium
Infires Maaan whoa I actually had a similar experience as a child, but I was being carried in a coffin by those figures and I felt like I was floating above
My ICU delirium was profound. I was so frightened and hallucinating. A young nurse came and held my hand, mopped my sweaty brow and sang a lullabye. She was my mother that died when I was 17, over 50 years ago. A month after discharge I saw her in the grocery store. She gave me a huge hug and everything was all right. I'm sure this was a gift from the Holy Spirit.
I experienced this. It’s the worst specially if no one prepares you for it. You see things with your eyes wide open, and if you try to close them to run away, the images get gorier in the dark.
@ahri My delirium included Donald Trump playing a large amount of the awfulness. It included, moving my cooker into my living room, then adding on a fridge in the place of the cooker. I could not lift myself up as both arms were too sore for that. Prior to all of this, I'd been given two separate lots of anti -biotics. They didn't work
I work in a nursing home so our patients were dying but no ventilators or restraints. However when I went to check one of the fellas to see if he needed to be changed he was terrified and fighting me and just 2 days prior he was walking around. I tried to calm him and tell him I just had to check his bottom. He was old but not a dementia patient or anything. The next day another man had diarrhea in his diaper and he was screaming like I had 2 heads. I was trying to calm him and get through to him to no avail. It really freaked me out. They both passed a few days later. I'm home now with the virus and I really dont think I'm getting terribly sick but I am truly traumatized by how the whole thing is playing out. Of course people are downplaying it. My facility has 30 positives last I heard and 7 have passed. It's a real living nightmare
I ended up with covid the 1st of Dec 2020. I stayed at home even though i had fevers at 104.5 degrees and oxygen levels down to 84%. The delirium I experienced was unimaginable. Every bone in my body felt as though it was being broken over and over, then every muscle was being cut and when I thought the pain could not get worse, I felt all my nerves being electrocuted and the migraines were just awful. The brain fog I am still in rectory with, the bone and joint pain, awful migraines continue and the extreme fatigue and muscle weakness continues. I pray this ends at some point in time. I am so thankful I fought to try to sit in a bath tub in Epsom salts, doing Tri pod exercises and sleeping on my stomach. It was a fight to not give up. Some days its one step forward and the next 5 days are walking backward. If this is what hell is like, I can only pray I don’t go there. Never ending nightmare.
I'm too fatigued to write much but I experienced the exact same thing. I had terrible delirium that peaked when I spent 9 hours in the emergency waiting room in a wheelchair after being brought in by ambulance because I was chronically ill before Covid, but when I got it, I simply couldn't breathe. I've barely met anyone else who had the delirium symptom from Covid. Nobody talks about it, nobody.
@@eliotasterforrest5026 I am so sorry you went through this as well. Only a few can truly understand this living hell we went through. I pray you are doing better now. Hugs
In 2015 I was put into an induced coma on three occasions. Each time I suffered hallucinations and for about a year afterwards I was asking my husband questions about the time I was in the ICU. None of the staff reassured us about this PCIS. I was left thinking I was the only one that had ever gone crazy in such a situation. Thank you for clearing this up for me!
I had an aunt who was in ICU for months after having a stroke. She was sedated and hooked up to everything and needed to have restraints because she kept trying to escape and fight the nurses (even while sedated). At least this was pre-covid so she always had a family member with her to calm her down and explain what was happening when she woke up/came around and started to panic. Going through that alone must be terrifying.
Everybody should be told that this happens- I think people who do not realize this happens, and often happens, are traumatized just because they are not aware. I am glad you posted this for this reason.
My beautiful sister had the nurse pray over me daily. I was dieing from covid. In a coma had sepsis pneumonia covid and two blood clots. I remember absolutely nothing. I was home 3 days after my lengthy hospital stay my sister died. I still have no recollection of what happened. I thank God for the blessing of my sister. I wish she was still here. I wish I could be with her. I feel lost.
Most of us will experience this when we die (from any cause). After the heart and lungs stop, the brain is deprived of oxygenated glucose-rich blood, so in the final 4-10 minutes before the brain cells completely die, they will hallucinate. These patients are reporting NDE (Near Death Experiences). Thank you to The Atlantic for bringing us these rare interviews!
No not necessarily. Most NDEs tend to be more about clarity and are positive. This is drug and covid induced delirium mostly in people surrounded by strangers and who are not expecting the end. They are fighting for life with faulty perspective.
@@belliotrungy9107 NDE simply means the person was close to death (or clinically taken to be dead -- heart & lungs stopped, even pupils not responding), yet the person made it back. It has nothing to do with who the patient was surrounded by, their positive or negative experiences, whether drug-induced or spontaneous, or whether they were consciously trying to survive or had given up. NDE is an extraordinary state of the brain and body that results from (obviously) some life-threatening condition.
@@peace4world most reports of NDEs don't match what these people are saying I'm sorry. Plus the brain may release chemicals itself to make it less stressful. These people are highly medicated in an induced coma and on the verge of a shocking death that they are probably fighting. If everybody died in a panicked state the world would be a very strange and dismal state. The reports in this story involve misperceptions of stimulus from their surroundings idk how you post this unless you didn't really watch it 🤷 the chemistry and networks are not the same nor are these reports.
@@belliotrungy9107 You are right that not all deaths will experience such negative hallucinations. Maybe my expression was lacking. My point was only that as the deprived brain cells begin to die after the heart-lungs stop, normal rational thoughts cease and chaotic thoughts take over, the basis of which is likely going to be derived from the state of one's mind at that time. My mom died in a peaceful state so her hallucinations would likely have been very beautiful. Someone living a stressful life and then dying struggling might experience the opposite. These patients were in a very stressful situation (mentally & physically), so their NDE is very negative.
This is a really important video- thanks to all who contributed. To these lovely survivors, most of us would have no idea what you have been going through, but please, make sure you talk about it. Don't suffer alone.
I can only imagine what my poor baby was going through😭😭 ....we've already gone through this before with "human metapneumovirus" now I've gotta worry about him contracting "coronavirus"??!!! I dunno how much longer I can protect him... Dear Lord, pls help me😢
The people that recover from crit are young. Older people/compromised people would not be able to recover from crit condition. Ventilaters are only for people in crit condition
@Zack Macdowell It seems like you might be way too young to even consider those people as young in the video, then. That's a perspective issue on your part. Younger than 50 is deemed young in medicine. Also, that statistic is not surprising at all; what is surprising is that these people with adverse side effects who were interviewed are mostly (notice the use of mostly: some are older, but the majority were not) younger.
My husband was in the ICU for almost three weeks. The delirium he had was unreal. Some really bizarre stuff. I was actually afraid that his brain was cooked.
Fun fact: it’s not known how most anesthesia inducing drugs work in terms of sedating and what what goes on in your brain to cause it. But we continue to use it because it just works.
I was intubated. They tied down my arms to stop me from moving. And I thought the doctor's were torturing me and trying to kill me. Eventually from all my arms flailing around they realized I had woken up from sedation halfway. It was extremely traumatic. I couldn't sleep for days thinking sometime might intubate me again. Even now In scared to sleep. I can only sleep 3-4 hrs and must wake up to see if I'm safe.
Anyone who has cared for anyone who has had major medical procedures done knows about this... Its not always wild psychotic episodes or nightmarish memories. My grandmother had open heart surgery and woke up with the wildest stories ever... My brother was on a ventilator in a hepatic coma for a week and awoke with a most hilarious confusion.... This isnt COVID specific. Happens all the time.
I had ARDS in 2012 (before Covid) and spent a week on ventilator, in induced coma. I fortunately have no recollection of that, no hallucinations from the coma itself, but the week following my coming out of the coma was weird, to put it mildly. That is when I thought all kinds of irrational stuff was happening to me. Fortunately one of the nurses managed to explain the weird stuff in a simple manner: "Look, your brain has been pickled with all kinds of drugs for over a week, all these strange things are only inside your head! Just be patient while your system gets rid of this". Somehow this really made sense and I managed to do as she told me. She turned to be absolutely right.
That's a good nurse, unfortunately there are many doctors and nurses whom doesn't understand that and how important it is to verbalise it to a pasient whom goes through it. Those words can make a huge difference in a positive manner.
The 'slow like falling' feeling is your heart rate slowing down and the feeling when you 'hit the ground' is your body waking you up so you will not die.
This is why it’s so important for us nurses to communicate and document! If it’s seen on the chart, the patient can receive follow up care that they might need.
This is so accurate, and can relate to these patients. I am a heart transplant survivor of 19 years, yet still remember every detail and have PTSD as a result of being in the ICU for two months. I was sedated on a ventilator while on ECMO for two weeks before the transplant and remember hearing nurses and doctors speaking around me, hearing music that was being played in the ICU room to lessen the stress with family, etc. since seeing it was clearly distressing to them too. It is certainly not like being "asleep" yet time was distorted and still felt like those two weeks were just minutes. I had visions of people sitting in a circle with me in the middle, going through caves that were all made of ice, being in a canoe, and feeling warmth all around me that would not stop, and a falling sensation that would come and go. I couldn't help but comment on this as it's so relatable yet a complete different illness.
Another reason it’s so important for healthcare workers to explain procedures to patients, even if you think the patient can’t hear you.
It's pretty much the standard. I talk to my patients all the time and explain everything even if they dont appear conscious.
I’m an icu nurse. And I explain everything to my patients even if they are in a coma. A lot of them don’t know what it is I’m saying because they tell me later they never heard an explanation. Or they were harmed Or even that they were sexually assaulted. But the weird thing is all of them wound recognize my voice and tell me it sounded familiar. My point is do you really think none of the nurses explained to any of these patients. That’s pretty unfair.
Yes!
if the patients are hooked with the ventilator and was given a muscle relaxant snd sedative to breath smoothly, I think talking to his or her family and letting them know what you do with their love one is also more crucial.
Those people are drugged and barely breathing, you can explain all you want it won't make them understand. It might've been comforting to them to have someone talk to them in a calm voice on a regular basis, but under the circumstances that's simply not going to happen.
This means thousands of people have died thinking they were being tortured or in hell. That’s bleak.
The hospitals have Goode drugs , nightmares seam real ; fevers often induce visions ; your body is in crises ,your brain had defenses - I'd half frogotten bout these details , beer works ...one or maybe two.
But hey, I guess in Michigan, it's still worth the risk of a haircut.
New Horizons For Fifty right??? So crazy!
It’s not only what happens to you that seems so real, I dreamt that my 30yr old police officer Son was killed. I was in tears asking my Daughter how he died. That was only one of my thoughts as I was in a medically induced coma from open heart surgery last December. Horrible, absolutely horrible.
until they die and it is over. They are FREE !
And if you think that the American physical healthcare system is severely unprepared for dealing with this, just wait until you see how painfully unprepared the mental healthcare system is in this country.
Our mental health care system is a joke.
There’s a mental healthcare system?
Exactly
This is the scariest part.
And in what country do you think it's good? Having lived in both the US and Sweden, I can tell you that Sweden is a fucking wasteland when it comes to mental/psychiatric help, compared to the US.
This is a tough watch. Stay safe and healthy everyone.
Thx
we must pray for healing✝🛐
And don't watch covid stuff... I feel sorry I did!!!
Thank you! You too!
Dummies say 4 years ago was good
I watched my brother die in an ICU in March of this year. I watched the nurses trying to talk to him as he struggled until they had to restrain him to keep him from pulling the tube out. I kept asking if he knows what's happening to him or have any awareness at all, and they told me nothing he would remember. I was so crushed at the feeling that he was trapped inside and suffering, and there was nothing I could do to help him or save him. They assured me that he would remember nothing, and not feel anything. This video has confirmed every nightmare I've had since that day.
I wish I had never seen this video, but I will still give it a like, because people need to see it.
EDIT to help answer questions below: He suffered a stroke in the last week of Feb. He passed the first week of March. My state was not under lock down yet, and had no reported cases so we were allowed in the ICU two at a time. He had a
brain aneurysm while on the tube and was declared brain dead.
socialgarbage2 I’m so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you ❤️
So sorry for Your loss
socialgarbage2 I’m so sorry 💔
As a nurse I can say I wish you hadn’t seen this either.
I’m so so sorry for all that you’ve witnessed.
I’m deeply sorry for the loss of your brother, stay well.
🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
@@KateCarew Thank you.
"You need to RELAX and BREATHE or you're going to DIE."
Oh ok, well I certainly can relax now, thanks.
I've been in a similar situation once when after a surgery I didn't feel the need to breath and a nurse had to remind me. If you're aware enough, hearing this sentence will likely get you to do your best to breath. In my case I was aware enough to actively try to breath despite not feeling the need, but too drugged to actually stress about it. Telling someone they might die is a good way to get their attention (-:
😂😂😂😂.
@@limiv5272 interesting
@@monkpkey "against"? The machine is helping to breath.
It would be interesting to know who the person was who said "you need to RELAX and BREATHE or you're going to DIE." Odd stuff!
What's even scarier is knowing that people are experiencing this right now.
@Tino you really just compared a virus to rape and murder
imagine not having a voice to say it. That happens to animals every day, but humans torture them. this is raw karma.
EivenKim ちわ:D But the covid 19 patients didnt torture animals tf
@@hayleyy_.j no? They kill baby cows to drink milk, that's indirect murder
@@OnesFan1 it's heartbreaking.
My grandpa died while on a ventilator...I can't even imagine.
I'm so sorry 😭😭😭
He shouldn't have been on the ventilator.
So sorry.
Take care of yourself, as well as your family and friends.
If you get to feeling overwhelmed emotionally, or deeply depressed, don't hesitate to seek profession help.
Be kind to everyone. Always "look for the helpers."
50% death rate wuhanvirus aside.
@@mcscrooge4542 Thank you so much. I'm doing alright though my grandma isn't okay. She recently tore the letters grandpa and her used to send each other when they were young...
My mother thought she had been abducted into a spaceship, because everything was so white, the room was so white. ... My brother thought the nurse had tried to kill him because she'd had to put medicine in his mouth while he was tied down. A few days later when he was recovering he said to the nurse "you know it would work better if first you say 'I'm giving you medicine now' instead of just pinning someone's head down and putting unknown stuff in their mouth"-- he had a point
Ah ! so true !
We almost never give oral medicines to intubated patients except perhaps topical things eg for thrush, it was probably suction of secretions in the mouth or other mouth care like teeth brushing. The vast majority of us try to regularly reassure people about what we're doing but delerium completely scrambles memory and sense of time. If you think the person saying "its fine, just going to brush your teeth" is an alien who has abducted you or a rapist then there's almost nothing you can do that will be reassuring. I hope your mother and brother are doing better now.
@@smithersrob Yes they are currently fine. The nurse had replied to me that it was indeed medications. Now that you mention it, that is indeed odd since he had all the tubes hooked up... (Re her bedside manner, I have wondered if she was inexperienced because she made a number of really bad choices during the days I was there.)
@@LoreleiMission Some time ago my mother was in a hospital with all good nurses but one. A baker who is a dipshit is annoying, a nurse who's a dipshit is dangerous.
Nurses usually do tell you what they are doing though.
This is such an important story that no one else is telling. Thank you.
This is a very common occurrence in ICU patients. It just isn't talked about because before covid19 we didn't have hundreds and thousands on ICU and on ventilators. "A third to more than 80 percent of ICU patients suffer from delirium during their hospital stay." Before the pandemic, doctors and researchers were already trying to figure out why it's happening. Some people think it may be due to sedation. But how do you choose between sedating a patient so they don't feel pain and causing delirium or having the patient not sedated and feeling intense pain? Either way, it causes trauma.
Victims families need to be alerted about what will happen when ICU patients come home
I believe it has to do with oxygen deprivation. It literally causes intense bizarre hallucinations. That's where many experiences of feeling that they died and came back to life come from. Because their oxygen level in the brain got so depleted their hallucinations were terrifying and real to them. What they call out of body experiences. Many years ago heard about it before due to oxygen deprivation in the brain.
@@rumblefish9 interesting. thank you for sharing. 🌺
97000 deaths from a 7.5 billion population is 0.0000396% deaths worldwide. They show people suffering from it, well people are suffering from a lot of things every year, influenza is one of them. People are suffering dying from influenza each year but it doesn't make the news or UA-cam videos.. We need to wake up.
The most heartbreaking thing about this disease is people are dying and their families can't be there to comfort and advocate for them.
I don't understand why there are people out there trying to downplay this pandemic.. I know A lot of people that have passed away.. in different countries.. It's so sad and at times fear can settle in.. It's a reality! People are right now dying because of this.. my cousin lost his grandmother.. he couldn't even say goodbye or anything. My heart goes out to everyone that has been affected by this virus.
EXACTLY
@@michaelsotomayor5001 Dont try. They will not listen. They have a talking point memory from fix news
Cathy I agree, that to me is the worst.
Michael Sotomayor Because of Donald Trump
I had delirium twice when coming out of a medically induced coma. From the severe torture of the pain from my nerves growing back to the the very real torture of the delirium hallucinations. I am so scarred from the experience and have ptsd from it. I am no longer the same person due to the trauma. This is very real and is pure torture. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. I hope the people who went through this find a way through the darkness.
I'm so sorry.🥺
God bless you
May God Bless and Heal you in mind , body and spirit 🙏 Thank you for helping others understand this, this is first time I have heard of this condition 😥
Sorry about your experience. But your expressions made me think that people take their lives after certain experiences and it may be because of these thoughts and feeling recurring even after they have survived whatever their medical situation was. But really it kills me to see all these selfish individuals out there who feel it's their right to do or not to do. Many are dying hurting being scared as a result of someone else's selfish act. It's just Sad
Me too Drew!!! Wouls be great to speak to others who have been through this!! Absolute hell!!!!
This is possibly the worst thing I’ve ever heard.
It’s fake
@@phatcrayonz which part is fake?
Really? This is the worst thing you've heard?
Reminds me of the stories of people being sedated only to find themselves conscious for their entire surgery
Yeah, talk about terrifying and so incredibly sad.
I treated a patient who had been in a coma for 10 years at a hospital. We bathed him and changed his gown everyday. I always talked to him nicely. I know that people in a coma can hear but can't respond.
God bless you, you’re a hero. 💕
That last sentence chilled me to the bone.. what a horrifying thing to go through
I had my cardiac arrest last year. When I woke up I knew where I was. Just looking out the window you can't mistake beautiful Vancouver. And I was on the ground floor ICU with nice hedges right out my window.
But she said I was in a coma for 10 days. I didn't remember anything. And I don't believe coma patients remember any more than we do when we're asleep. But I'm sure we still respond to being taken care of well.
Once we wake up. So thanks so much for that.
Perfect Students 💜
@@clubredken13 wow really? such a beautiful story
MENTAL HEALTH IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS PHYSICAL.
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I’m putting that on a Tee shirt
Stupid quote
@@LOLLYPOPPE no u
No shit.
I can’t believe that people are going through this right now. This is really scary. I sent my prayers for everyone❤️
FatSardine I have been in and out of the hospital since I was a child. I am 45 now, and petrified of the hospital. I never had CoVID, but I have been in the ICU several times, had a nose tube, and was catheterized. I had the nose tube at seven and am still traumatized. I had very similar experiences as those that were described here. Though, not nearly as bad, it was still horrible. A state between life and death is the best way I can describe it. You have experiences that seem so real, but people say did not happen. Things that did happen you don't have a memory of. I try to tell the hospital staff, as well as my friends and family but no one seems to get what I have been through. There have been times where my heart stopped, U had seizures, and only they know what else no one told me or my family. I found out when my insurance company called to find out if I had follow up treatment for the heart failure. Because I had no memory of it, I argued that it never happened they gave me dates and times. Only when I called my hospital roommate up, and she that confirmed yes something happened and they called a code, people came in an rushed me out of the room and brought me back hours later. I vaguely remembered being tolled into my room and realized it was true. The mental health problems that are caused by serious illness are never addressed. I hope this will bring light to the need for mental health aftercare in the aftermath of a serious hospitalization.
There are people going through this every single day of every week of every month of every year this is not just right now. Any time of the year you pass by a hospital imagine there are at least 5 people in that moment on a ventilator in the ICU having ICU delirium inside that hospital it's very sad to think about...
FatSardine,China has another on the way! When will people wake up and realize they intend to rule the world if they have to kill half of us first!
prayers sent back to you❤️
Thank you 😊 🙏
As an RN in the CVICU, no competent nurse would EVER say "You're going to die" to a scared, ventilated patient. Especially since it's simply not true. There are so many things you can do to ensure adequate ventilation without putting it all on the patient's shoulders. Whether that's pain control, paralysis and sedation, or worse case scenario ECMO. So sorry for the man who experienced this. As for ICU delirium, it is hugely prevalent in ICUs (not just COVID patients), but the majority of people don't experience such frightening hallucinations. Agitation and profound confusion yes, but gore and horror are not the usual. It's still frightening, but this video seems to take worse case scenarios, as if trying to instill public fear. Awareness is great, but fear mongering isn't necessary.
Edit: Just to clarify, every ICU nurse and doctor will agree that ICU delirium is a major issue that needs support during and after the patient's ICU stay, including me. My issue with this video, as my original comment stated, is that ICU delirium does not only mean you experience terrible, frightening hallucinations, like the people in this video described. It certainly CAN mean that, but it MUCH more often presents as confusion, anxiety, and difficulty sleeping. People with "mild" cases of delirium, who are the majority, need support too, so I don't want this video to discourage people from speaking up to their nurses and doctors about their thoughts because they think they're not "delirious enough." Also, family at the bedside often helps mitigate delirium, so the COVID pandemic definitely exacerbates cases of ICU delirium - not just for COVID patients though: my hospital's policy right now is that NO patient is allowed visitors, with exceptions of 1 visitor allowed for pediatric patients and end-of-life scenarios. EVERYONE feels lonely at this time. The general message of the videos is good - patients who experience ICU delirium need continued support in and out of the hospital, especially now when cases may be more prevalent. But I don't want people to fear hospitals and ICUs just because they think it's the norm to go through living hell, as this video describes. Hopefully that clear up some confusion on my thoughts. Thanks for listening!
Thank you for your comment...I'm petrified after watching this and your honest opinion calmed me..💕
Thank you
Since you’re a nurse, is there another sedation drug they can use that will give patients a more pleasant and happy high? Like nitrous oxide maybe? I just don’t think anyone should have to experience these awful hallucinations
Lauren J it’s all based on the subconscious mind while it is in that state think of it like people having a good or bad trip on a drug like acid. A good example is stories from people who have been in comas for months. I remember one person saying that they heard “demonic chanting” during the coma which turned out to be the family praying near them. Another experience talked about how they’d hear an angel singing which similarly turned out to be a family member singing. Fixing this problem would require mind control technology that we do not currently have
As a mother of 2 children with a lot of medical issues, I can assure you that not all nurses and doctors ARE competent and stupid things ARE said to patients. I'm not saying they are the majority but they do exist. And since you work with them you know this is true.
this video really helps shed the idea of covid patients being a statistic. they are REAL PEOPLE, and this could happen to any one.
Also shows many people who get it are young, not old, or necessarily in poor health.
There is a small chance that this would happen
It really does
Life is about survival. One will probably be fighting for life at one point.
@Ajgleskorv these people were ill and tested positive...
This is an evil disease. First struggle to survive. Then struggle to live. I feel like whole world will be traumatized for a long time.
It's definitely man made
@@SandMan1998 out of topic.
Better than having universal healthcare though, amirite? 🙂
@@sunstorm4436 okay you are joking.
Is it the disease or the oxygen deprivation?
The stories remind me of my first uncontrolled asthma crisis. Upon arrival at the hospital, I was hallucinating, very unpleasantly.
I was in a coma for 12 days in 2010 and I've never been the same since and no one will listen to me but it sounds like I've experienced this. I have nevee slept a full night unless I've been sedated since because of the PTSD.
I feel for these people massively amd just want to put my arms around them. So sad 😭
Hug to you
What did you feel or see?
Did you hear anything while in coma?
I believe you it happens no one talks about it thank God for revealing this to the public!!🤗🤗
Happened to me too. Lufe altering experience.
I'm sure it's also why nurses showing signs of trauma - trying to help people in hell every day on those never ending shifts - I can't imagine
It's truly an imperfect system, you sometimes find yourself choosing the lesser of 2 evils in trying to help someone. Medicine is not very advanced in some ways and these established ways of dealing with things can be traumatizing for everyone. Medicine is quite archaic in many respects and I find myself in conflict over many issues
nursing is a profession, they are free to leave if they cannot handle the stress. a nurse who is emotional is no hero, they are negatively impacting themselves and the people around them.
@@sjuvanet Yeah, that must be it .You must be completely right. Nurses shouldn't be normal people dealing with death. Having emotions when they see people dealing with the loss of a loved one. And then maybe the nurses could be treated by doctors and therapists. Nah, too expensive. 50 percent of nurses quit in the first five years. So the Feds allowed hospitals to hire foreigners. Still short of nurses. I know. The hospitals can hire Super Heros and characters from your video games. I'd like to see the look on your face when told you have the virus. With a hospital staff who are totally uncaring. Hope you can still hear them talking about getting you out of the room and to the morgue quick as possible when you fade away.
@@sjuvanet If every nurse with emotional investment in their patients and in their job quit, there would be no nurses left.
Letting them die like bitches
ICU psychosis SUCKS. Two weeks in a coma, on a vent, confused and restrained. Truly horrific. It was 5 weeks before I new how demented I was.
Glad you came out of it okay..
That sounds ... your a trooper 💪🏻
The idea of it all is incredibly scary.
What?? That's aweful. I'm so sorry you went through this! Thank you for explaining how you felt.
And people think 12 hour long LSD trip is impressive.. it’s nothing
My state has opened up last Monday. Some businesses are taking people's temperatures as a safety precaution before they can come in. Why are people ignoring the fact that asymptomatic people are spreading covid19?
Agree. Some people are passive carriers
It's all about that 💰
@@dl1129 or it's all about, I don't want to starve to death or get evicted.
@@pavelow235 so let's sacrifice people's life, I suppose you are sure it is not going yours...
QUIT FEEDING INTO THE BS. YES ITS REAL YES IT BAD YES PPL DIE BUT NO ITS NOT AS BAD AS THE MEDIA AND FAUCI N GATES MAKE IT TO BE. THEY HAVE AN AGENDA AND U R FALLING FOR IT AND IN RETURN/ INDIRECTLY ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. . ITS THE MALPRACTICE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN TEACHING US ON HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS VIRUS ...THAT IS KILLING PPL. WAKE UP !!! SORRY JUST MY OPINION FROM WHAT IVE WITNESSED AND OTHERS I KNOW HAVE WITNESS. THEI STANDARD PROTOCOLS WE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING FOR DECADES THAT HAVE WORKED FOR DECADES AND HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO WORK ALSO ON THIS VIRUS HAVE NOT BEEN FOLLOWED!!! WHY????? DO U EVER STOP TO THINK ABOUT THAT??? WHY ARENT THEY FOLLOWING NORMAL PROVEN PROTOCOL THAT WE ALL KNOW AND WE ALL HAVE LEARNED . ESPECIALLY ONE'S 'S IN MEDICAL FIELD SUCH AS ME. I KNOW WHAT LOWERS MY IMMUNE SYSTEM, HOW VIRUSES ARE SPREAD, AND THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO THAT CAN BE COUNTER PRODUCTIVE. WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS TO US AND NOBODY'S SAYING ANYTHING??? AND 2ND OF ALL WHY R WE LISTENING TO FAUCI AND GATES WHO ARE IN BED TOGETHER. GATES HAS THE PATENTS ON VIRUSES, FUNDS THE SCHOOLS, FUNDS THE EXPERIMENTS, FUNDS THE STUDIES, FUNDS THE MANUFACTURING, FUNDS THE DISTRIBUTOR, AND THE CO.. WHO SELL THEM!!! THINK ABOUT THAT. LET IT SINK IN !!! YOU THINK MAYBE CONFLICT OF INTEREST MIGHT COME TO MIND??? AND TO TOP JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OFF...GATES HAS NO MEDICAL DEGREE! FOR GOD WILL...THEY WILL SOON BE FIRED !!!
Healthcare needs to be reformed in the United States of America.
If COVID-19 patients were nearly killed by their illness induced delirium, then imaging the living hell people living with mental illness go through.
These COVID patients went through only weeks of delirium. Some people deal with DECADES of delirium.
Really glad you brought this up. Being in a psychotic state is indeed a similar state and can last a very long time. Especially when given medication that can keep you from resolving the process and keeps you confused (for some decades until they die). People with severe mental illness are often written off as if they have no chance of a happy life. It's a real crime against humanity at a large scale what is being done to people by Psychiatry. :(
It's the drugs inducing this in these people. The drugs need to be changed and made better.
Balzertown Cinema ❤️
Well now this is a new thing to add to my list of fears of getting covid
Induced Anxiety Attack
If I get this virus I will die
omg i never thought about that
This is what should be on the news so that people won’t show up with their guns wanting a haircut!! I can’t believe they’re saying that it’s a conspiracy ! Ignorance is what truly killing us all!
LMAO you are right! I already look weird with this longer hair style now and some people are willing to risk it all!
Theres this one thing about Americans that urks me, they always seem to politicize things that aren't political and they love to indulge in conspiracy and all because "The media is lying", when all their evidence is from some unreliable website or person.
Then when all of these real people from all around the world talk about the experiences with having COVID-19 they just reply with some nonsense about they're a part of the "Democrat Socialist Agenda / New World Order". They're so desperate to believe that they're the bearers of truth and the rest of the world is being deceived that they refuse to believe in reliable evidence and facts.
Its a conspiracy to make Trump look bad! And every nation is working together to fake the virus! -idiot conservatives
Right wing people don't see this content in their news feeds thanks to the algorithms that cleanly separate us in two. I only know this because I was put on that side of the algorithm simply for being anti-establishment. I had to deliberately click on left wing things to gradually bring balance back to my algorithm. The divide is what's killing us by keeping us ignorant. And it's not our fault. It's them. The algorithm is designed that way. And for all we know, truly, they want right wing people to go get haircuts and die. That way the people who are loyal followers of establishment media, such as yourself, will outnumber them and swing the next election. Think about it.
I say let the idiots die, we need to thin out the population anyway.
This will be such a trauma, both on covid survivors and the healthcare workers who witnessed so much death.
@P. Spit it depends which hospital you're talking about.
Not to mention those patients who already have PTSD from previous trauma such as war, torture victims, sexualt assualt survivors including those still dealing with trauma suffered as children,etc. This delirium adds a whole lot more insult to injury - more salt to the wound. Some won't survive that.😞
Personally, I would choose NOT to be ventilated or INSIST on tracheostomy instead.
We need a medical breakthrough and instant cures/remedies for serious illnesses. Eventually future health care professions will be overly disgruntled because the world is not working towards solving the root of the problems. It's only going to get worse in this century with newer and newer viruses and possible future pandemics. We are losing so many in health care workers as well. When you look at these issues as a person you think how could we have been so unprepared. The uppers in charge are now trying to pin the blame but in reality we only have ourselves to blame. Our greediness kills more people than anything because it affects everyone. It doesn't matter if you're a child and you're going to die from a disease that they could possibly come up with a cure for in the knick of time. Everything is done in the interest of the payoff. If it's going to payoff and more than likely to make that payoff last. Cures aren't made instead medicines to only keep you healthy. But without insurance and money, you are definitely a goner if you have such an illness. It sucks but there is no system that is standalone and separate from the money making one to guarantee that professions that do work towards cure do get payed in something different but also that their "cure" is a freedom which any human suffering from such a disease has the liberty to be able to take that cure without being a slave to a failing system. We all know this already. That it's not perfect but it's not like its a good thing even to begin with. It's asinine that the world is so divided and that the world is still a pretty bleak place. Back when I was younger I used to hear stories of how in earlier times they though world hunger and that we would really be attacking the poverty issues in not only the parts of the world that are suffering the most but here within our own nations respectively for our own people by our peoples work. Watching the news and just seeing how the world is. It feels like we had a ball in our hand but suddenly dropped it and went we went to go get it feel into a deep ditch and so we jumped face first into the ditch to get it.
@BraveBlueRaven Art and Craft thank you! I have been dealing with dreams almost identical to these, for 24 years, along with sleep paralysis, fucking awful. One of the scariest ones was; my arms were chopped off by an unidentifiable axe murderer, almost a Jason Goes To Hell looking man but scarier, when I awoke, my arms were numb and I literally thought it was real, delightful when you’re 12 years old. That’s just one of sooooo many. I deal with these on a bi weekly basis. I do have PTSD, from my past trauma, now it will be undermined and minimized. For this exact reason, prior to the coverage of this being an additional side affect, I am petrified. You have no idea how bad this has made my PTSD kick in high gear just going to the store. I am sick to my stomach and lose time for days on end after a trip for groceries.
I can't even. The horror of being *convinced* they are putting you in an oven.
Taylor Craig Newbold Right! I’m claustrophobic so I can just imagine how I would behave if it was me!!!
In my delirium I thought they were going to skin me or remove my organs to sell, and that my family had betrayed me!! Fortunately I was able (with prayers and faith) to realize these were all hallucinations and have no PSTD. Very happy now.
Morphine can cause hallucinations
Ur lucky ur not jewish if thats ur nightmare
@@tylerjdavis is that a racist remark?
oh god, I’m autistic and the world is already so overstimulating to me this sounds like a horrendous nightmare
Most people are insensitive to things, until they have to face the truth. Welcome to the real world.
Now I understand what my mother went through years ago after her heart attack and time in ICU. I feel so guilty. At the time, this was the 1990s, she obsessed over some "nightmares" she had, terrible events that took a couple of years for her to stop re-living. She climbed over her bed rails, pulled out tubes, and so on. Over and over again she told me her nightmares. She had always been a panicky person, so I gave her somewhat impatient reassurances that the events weren't real. She is gone, now, after 93 years of a good life. I wish I could hug her and apologize.
You didn't know. She is ok now. Forgive yourself. 🙏
You release it when you share with others. In early 90's I cared for a relative with dementia. It was dark ages, no internet or support information. Ashamed to say how I lost patience. Figured it out over time, she died peacefully at home with loving family. Now I say to others .....remember this one thing, and remember it was me who told you so I can get out of jail....when you talk to a dementia
patient---Everything you say, you have said for the first time. Would that I have known that simple thing....everything you say, you have said for the first time. Remember that, tell others.
Forgive yourself as your mother does. She needed to hear what you told her......events are not real. Like when you, as a child, told her
there were monsters under the bed. You then thought what she came to think about no monsters ....oh yeah? You sleep here.💕
Don’t blame yourself for something you would of ever known to of been occurring. Life is too short to spend any worrying about the past, I’m sure your mother would both understand, and prefer you to spend that time doing something that brings you joy. ❤️🕯
She knows you were trying your best and that you loved her. Wherever her consciousness is, she knows. She was your ma.
You had no idea. We do the best we can with whatever we have at the time. Just know that you're an even better person now for figuring it out.
Can't even imagine what it's like to be in that state for a month, alone and afraid..
Time flys , your sedated ; pain free Hassel free and they got good cable -tunes to. It's about equal to jail. Not bad. Do able
@@garymingy8671 you are still alive and conscious to a point, so you could be totally awake, and they wouldn't even know.
It’s like a bad trip. It sucks but you get through it. I’m shocked that the doctors didn’t know they were delirious and didn’t try to help them
Probably unfathomably scary. If it's enough to give a sizable enough portion of the population PTSD, probably not fun to say the least. Like a 3 month salvia divinorum trip.
@@JohnFKennedy420 Exactly! It's literally a bad trip.
Wow!! It just keeps getting worse and worse. There will be so many post-pandemic pandemics. Including the denial of survivors' suffering. Thanks for allowing patients and providers to share their truth before politics tries to bury it.
Post-pandemic denial of healthcare workers and survivors?! That's going on right now. Haven't you seen any video from the stay at home protests? These people learned nothing from the 1918 pandemic, and are forcing everyone to suffer for their selfishness. They are too stupid to realize that "normal" is over and this is the world now.
P. Spit Actually it’s the opposite. Many deaths are labeled as heart issues and complications of....... not covid-19. Where hospitals are filling up patients are dying before treatment. No test no diagnosis. Heart failure
@P. Spit "The system is labeling every death as “covid19” Just so they can get more money for diagnosing and putting them on ventilators." Proof? Not just fantasy, but proof?
Christy A nice joke 😃
@Christy A There is one simple data point that can prove that this is a deadly disease. Excess deaths in comparison to monthly to annual death rates.
I'm a retired RN and I'd be terrified to be put on a ventilator. They need to use paralyzing drugs so you don't kick, or fight the ventilator, but your mind keeps going. As these folks describe, it's a living hell. It pains me to know they went through that.
Let me guess ... Propofol , Ketamine , Nitrous etc , etc ... delirants , strong tranquilizers which in the right amounts have the side effect of producing these Hallucinations .
@@delhidelirium9091 Exactly!
@@JaneenDaniellCain And the settings ... we all know that " ´ Deadly virus diagnose` + ´ Hospital ` + ´ Intubation ( perceived as the closest to death you can be )` " ... ever experienced " sleep paralysis " ? - That is in and of itself a trip , a very distressing one mind you ... add some Ketamine to the experience ... and yes , combine all of the above and you have a recipe for Hell Protocol .
@@delhidelirium9091 actually ketamine and nitrous would be great but,,,,. No!
@@thomasa4239 So , what else would you reckon would transport you to these type of delirious states ? Besides Psychedelics, dissociatives and delirants what could it be ?
Alright I’m cutting ties with people completely.
I ain’t catching no COVID-19.
Well I’m screwed because somehow my friend is coming over today, and my intuition is saying that I should really avoid her. My parents invited her and now I’m really worried
*Laughs Maniacally* say that you’re sick
@antiami I so not meeting people > Lower risk of catching *anything* > Lower risk of going in to the ICU > Lower risk of getting ICU delirium.
Not meeting people > good
Meeting people > bad
Imagine living in a house of 8
quit worrying. just stay 10 feet apart
This is utterly horrifying and so sad.
@red pill
Prove it's fake rather than just spouting contrarian nonsense. Since you've already identified yourself as a conservative, I'm sure your whole argument is going to be some incoherent ramble about how Democrats are trying to create a police state, backed with weak evidence and attaching strings loosely to form a hyperbolized narrative. So please, elaborate
@@arturomorales698
Thanks. I'm a Christian, but I'm sure someone else could find it
A friend of mine’s father was in a medically induced coma after a car accident a few years back & this is exactly how he described it. I was there when he woke up & he instantly jumped into fight or flight mode. He ripped his tube out & tried to bolt out the door because he thought he was being tortured. Pretty sad stuff.
my mom is a nurse and she’s taking care of multiple Covid patients this second, and she told me that most of them when they get of the vent they have horrible hallucinations and some can’t even speak. it’s really sad because even though they survived, they’re not who they were before they got the illness.
Thats really sad bruh hope this pandemic ends soon
My mom is currently in hospital with covid, was on ventilator for one week. And is experiencing just this. This is horrible.
Hope Real I hope your mom gets better 🙌🏻
@@mariev4875 I hope she's ok now.
Hope Real hope shes ok x
This made me re-think my stance on people in a coma
imagine 10 years of tripping balls.
Yeah if only i knew at 15 yrs old. To just tell my great great grandmother who was in a coma "it's gonna be ok grandma. If your having bad images its not real. Its a form of delirium. Your gonna be ok". Perhaps she would've woken up eventually instead of dying. As i got older i did notice certain positive words are reassuring to those who can possibly die or get head trauma.
@impeachchange hi hip I'm lips
Very good point
Coma isn’t fun-those memories stay with you even if you’re in a coma at a young age. Trust me-I’ve had memories come back decades later from my week and a half in a coma when I was almost 2. It’s trippy!!
So much respect to all those people I just got a new perspective of the entire pandemic
@Spike Flea the only paid actor is the "brain" that you have
@@Antanaxis underrated
Ppl might wanna wear masks now...not trump, don't tell him
bro these are crisis actors🤣
As someone with agoraphobic ptsd and severe anxiety this is the scariest possible scenario. I started crying halfway through the video.
Tony Stony Rizzle I completely get you. Have you ever tried EFT tapping? Check out Brad Yates’ channel on YT. He’s amazing and I’ve used his scripts to help me with anxiety. You can learn to tap at thetappingsolution.com . Millions around the world use it and it’s free. I wish you the best. I’ve suffered with severe anxiety all my life. I’m also agoraphobic. It’s horrendous. 🧡
I've had serious anxiety since I was a child. I never told my wonderful parents because my sibling was severely ill.. It has caused many problems in my life but I manage it. Fight on and good luck to you. ❤️
I have housebound agoraphobia too.
Me too
I have severe anxiety! Very severe!😭😭😭😭
Sounds like a bad acid trip. Can’t imagine being in one of those for days or even weeks.
I can just imagine being on that for 2 months straight
yeah 10hrs in a bad trip is enough, been threw a few of those. i wonder if so many ppl have these bad hallucinations cause its fear induced.
Lots of vitamin D and UV light from getting sunshine is what will help you a lot to make you get back to healthy.
I started having a bad trip(on LSD) on an emotional level once..thank God I got myself over it quick and kept enjoying it.
@Mo Khan but it can FEEL like it'll never end..like being stuck on a roller-coaster
Why is this the first time hearing about this??? Oh my God, these poor people!
I once went down an dark rabbit hole online reading stories of coma patients who’d been sedated for weeks and months. I DO NOT RECOMMEND READING THEM. I’m not the same since
Does this happen to everyone who gets covid 19? Or just people who have lung issues...
@@aldubm2234 it can be worst for ppl who already have lung issues. But if you don't have any issues, covid can still damage YOUR LUNGS
@That Guy James If you're going to make such inflammatory statements at least provide some sources to back up your position. Just because you can yell loudly doesn't make you right.
@That Guy James o great another gullible tin foil parrot 🦜
My mom has Covid right now and she’s definitely experiencing this. It’s scary. She thought my dog was talking to her. Our family is sick as fuck right now.
Prayers for you brother
I hope things get better speedy ❤️
i'm really sorry Angus.. is she any better and is your family getting any better yet?
Take 3,000-10,000 mg of vitamin c, zinc and some antibiotics like azithromyacin. Prayers and healing to your family!💕
Miss Jarvis how are antibiotics supposed to help? It’s a virus, not bacteria
Wow this is so scary. I can’t imagine how terrifying it must be for them
Oh, you're gonna find out after the next wave of inevitable infections as the world tries to open society back up for the sake of production/money.
Nah they are dying for other things. Not CORONAVIRUS o. Its a panic thing to cause
@@herbertcumberbatch7323 don't be a douche Herbert
@@CreeperSlenderman you, you're defintely a douche. You've got no choice.
Why do we hv to go through all of these things in this life 😭
I was in the ICU on life support (ventilator/ECMO) for 3 weeks due to Covid and I can assure you this is all so real. I will never be the same person I was before getting sick. I had dreams that I was so convinced were real it took me days to realize they weren't. When I woke up I thought I was in another country being studied in a research hospital. After therapy you return home and go back to work and everyone is the same, but you are not and no one really understands. From the time I woke up everyone has been telling me I should just be lucky to be alive. Survivors are grateful, but many of us have this dark place looming in the corner of our mind that I can only pray time will heal. God bless the healthcare workers who are keeping people alive and the physical therapists who are teaching people to get their mobility back after weeks of laying in bed.
I've had a Near Death Experience before. The day afterwards, you see everyone going through their day like normal. You feel like you had a chance to see what life would be like after you died, except you survived. It's an out-of-body experience.
Anyway, wear a mask.
I did as well. A very dream like out of body experience...
Lol anyway wear a mask 😆👍
Lol, no thanks. I’d rather not make myself sick.
Masks don't protect you from contracting the virus, they protect the people around you. Even then you still need to maintain your distance from people.
@Serge Handsome idk how much it stresses people out in general but me and family felt fine about wearing masks, and there are countries where it's completely normal to wear masks, people wear for fashion, or they aren't wearing makeup or just want to hide their face, so also depends on country. Some find masks comforting because they feel safer than being exposed or feel they could be sharing the virus. Id say wear one if you feel comfortable and safer, because masks do reduce how much of the virus you let out, and some can protect you from the virus like N95 masks, but also wear something to protect your eyes, wash your hands and know how to safely take off and put on a mask, that's very important if your goal is to not get sick. If not a mask then covering your mouth and nose with some fabric is the next best thing
My dad had delirium after his liver transplant. He didn’t sleep and he thought the building was going to collapse and he was going to end up in the morgue. Crazy what goes on in people’s heads during trauma.
This is why I stay home! I already have depression and anxiety with other health stuff and if I were to have this happen it could be catastrophic. It is catastrophic for anyone who goes through it of course but what will it be like for people who already have issues going in?! This is just horrible and terrifying. I hope we can get through this soon so no one else has to suffer, we have all suffered enough. Stay safe everyone and Bless You all!
Sending you big hugs.
I have Anxiety as well.
Girl, I'm with you on this. God bless!🙏❤️
May Jesus protect you.
I wish I could stay home.......I already had influenza A this March but I don't want to get sick
So basically you’re stuck in a fever dream for days/weeks!? Holy crap.
I'd rather go to war than see the worst our own brain can offer
Why is the scariest part of this virus the part that absolutely no one speaks about??
Because this is one in a small percentage of diseases where in severe stages visits with friends and family in hospitals is not allowed.
Spike Flea I WASN'T! I left the hospital this past Weds., and my mental symptoms are so much WORSE now, including these continual "out-of-body happenings" that I've become sucicid
Spike Flea..I am NOT a paid anything. I left the hospital just this past Wednesday, and now my Mental situation is so much worse than the ICU delirium was, including "Out-of-body happenings", that my Neurologist is considering checking me into the a different facility for treatment of PTSD. So, unless YOU are a PAID WRITER of some sort that needs the dough to feed your family, you should not speak of things you can't understand, and write ME with any further questions about this new form of delirium. And that is putting my thoughts as nicely as possible on your questioning of what I'm going through now, and what I've put my family through for weeks. I will truly do my best to answer your questions, provided that they don't sound like accusations about me OR especially my family! Got it? Thank you...awaiting your questions any time. J.T.
@@JTsteelblu what medication had they put you on? Just curious
@@JTsteelblu I hope and pray that you recover. I've had OBE experiences while sleeping for the most part of my life. Some were scary and some pleasant. In any case, the scary parts outweighed the fun parts eventually so I ultimately found a way to stop them when it became scary and, eventually, they stopped altogether. Save for a few now and then, I rarely get any anymore and if I do and it's unpleasant I know how to get out of that state. I went from having 4-6 per night on average when at 16 to 1 stoppable one every 4-5 months now and I am 47 now. Please feel free to write if you want me to explain how you can do this (it is a bit lengthy). Again, I sincerely hope you get better.
This so sad. So the people that did not survive, were they in this state of delirium before dying?? Were they in this much emotional and physical pain before dying? And does this happen when you die of other conditions? I am asking but really I don't want to know .This too sad.
I don't want to know, either...what a tragic end, if that's how it is.
so gullible ua-cam.com/video/XPZvQBRepB8/v-deo.html at 12 minutes
Yes. My mom just experienced delirium a few days before her death. It’s very tragic.
Years ago when going to chemo I got an infection through my picc line. A month in a containment unit I didn't remember anything but I was delirious. I kept feeling like I was falling but cognitively i knew i wasn't but i couldn't understand. I could also smell things like burning stuff.
mo stupidest video.idiotic protesters. To scared to face the facts and adapt to life.
My mom survived another illness with a respiratory issue. She was in the hospital under induced coma for months, the nurses noted she hadn't slept for days. I watched her very closely, terrorized myself -and found the best things for her was calming music via headphones and putting on a sleep mask at night. I know these families have no access to their loved ones which is terrible. We can't expect people on heavy drugs, brain racing, to do well under constant noise and lights, never sleeping. She is ok now but tells stories of her coma dreams.
Glad your mom is okay. Stay safe 💗
So even in her comatose state they could tell she was not getting any sleep? That’s horrible. Sorry
Back in Feb I was sick and alone. I thought after only 5 days in my OWN bed that I was losing my mind. I can't IMAGINE what this may be like! No one even talks about this aspect of covid
My father passed away four years ago after a stroke and a bout of pneumonia that had him intubated for 12 days. I remember the nurses telling us he had to be pinned down so he wouldn't pull the tubes out in the moments he was conscious. It kills me to know he suffered so much and had no one he knew there to comfort him when he needed it.
It gets difficult when you don't get a chance to say goodbye. Be strong.
My husband went through this after 5 weeks in a medical coma.
I'm so sorry, this heart breaking💔
😢🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏
Wow, I hope he feels better soon.
I can’t even imagine someone who already suffers panic disorder or anxiety and going thru this while on a ventilator. I’m sure the virus won’t kill u at that moment what would kill u is having a panic attack, blood pressure going up the roof and your heart just stops.....Pure hell.
This is exactly what I think would happen to me. The thought scares the hell outta me.
Unless you have a weak heart, a panic attack won't kill you though. Just scares the crap out of you and hospitals have benzos for those.
A panic attack doesn’t make your heart “just stop” lol... does not work that way.
That’s probably me I sometimes get weird feelings in my chest or belly and I panic and have anxiety , I never know if I have COVID or not and that’s the thing that makes me worried. The good part is that I don’t have fever or pain but I sometimes panic for not reason.
Mel C ever heard of a heart attack? Stroke? Just sayin
Hard to watch since my dad is currently in the hospital with this. He didn’t go on a ventilator and today makes a week he’s been there he’s starting to sound so much better. I’m so grateful!!
The Waking Nightmare of decades spent suffering from dementia, alzheimers having your saliva suctioned out because you've forgotten how to swallow. Let's reframe this as a question not about death, but about suffering. It might help us see the nuance instead of standing either side of the black and white divide.
This video is so important. People NEED TO KNOW. This is horrible!
Rich Evans is LOVE.
I`m just a newbie starting my rotation at the ICU and this sheds so much light.
Don't be a killer like your co-workers
Lee Van Cleef 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💀☠️
Amy you hella sus
Doctors in California are being told to let them die
My mom is in the icu right now recovering from COVID and she is experiencing this. She says the nurses call her names and are trying to kill her. This is so scary and very real.
I worked in the ICU as an RN for quite a while. And the vast majority of my patients were vented. And all vented patients are placed in a medically induced coma. Being vented is not a comfortable situation. Depending on the
diagnosis patients are weaned and extubated as soon as possible. Practitioners realize that patients need to come off as soon as medically appropriate.
ICU delirium has recently been recognized as a complex serious entity especially associated with ICU/intubated patients.
Manifestations, risk factors and screening tools are varied and are all components in management of patient care.
I have had patients verbalize their experiences and indeed the loss of control they feel is intense. I can only speak to how delirium was approached in my hospital as an inpatient and post discharge. The screening tools were initiated on day one. Care plans were modified daily or hourly as necessary. Management and education are essential in discharge planning.
Please make sure to make your voice heard if symptoms continue. The medical community has the tools to ensure that you return to a place of mental and physical health.
I'm sending well wishes and hugs to those struggling with COVID and their families.
Melinda Johnson, When my mother developed pneumonia, in the hospital, from complications with choking on a bite of meat she was put on a ventilator. However, she was not placed in a medically induced coma. In your comment, were you speaking about just the hospital you were working at, or should all vented patients in every hospital be placed in a medically induced coma? And you are correct about being uncomfortable (damn near unbearable) while vented. Thank you.
If you where in the ICU are you given an option/a way to ask to be taken of the medically induced coma? I’m curious since some people may rather want to tough it out instead of being in the delirious coma state...how does it work?
@@asylumchoir4586 Hi. Each patient has a care plan tailored specifically for that persons needs. It is not a hospital protocol. Per patient and the diagnosis. It can change daily or hourly depending upon the level of care needed.
I'm unsure if your reference is to your mother when you state, "unbearable". I'm so sorry if that was the case.
Not a comfortable situation ? Hell it’s far worse than that. I’ll be sure to make my wishes known- I choose to die at home thank you.
Melinda Johnson Thanks so much for your explanation. This was so hard to watch.
This is so very important and should be seen and sent to everyone. Since childhood my greatest nightmare was to trapped in my body with no one knowing. Very upsetting
This is literally like the war. After ww2, almost every conversation revolved around “the war”. My brother lost his arm in “the war”..... my father died during “the war”.....I was working long hours in the factory during “the war”. Literally everyone’s lives will be touched by covid19 someway somehow. Truly a horrible monumentous event in human history.
During Quarantine...
I'm going to be seeing movies centering around Covid 19 from doctors to patients.
I took a big fat fap during the pandemic. My brother did too, we all fapped and played video ganes during the pandemic.
Don’t forget to hate those who started this
Andy Bradford how is that helpful?
In 1981 I was comatose for four weeks following a car crash, and had hallucinations and delusions during and following the coma. I'm glad that people are beginning to study this phenomenon; it's nothing new.
O.M.G. I haven't had covid-19 (yet) but I went through two bouts of necrotising fasciitis in 2005; during the first bout, I spent about a week in ICU on a ventilator and constantly sedated. The second bout involved 3 weeks in ICU on a ventilator, constantly sedated.
During the first bout, I knew my husband was coming to visit me and I waited for his visits because they helped me distinguish reality from dreams or hallucinations. When I was taken off the ventilator and able to talk, the medical staff all assured me that I had been unconscious the whole time, I couldn't have been aware of my husband's visits, etc.
The second time (which was just 5 weeks after the first time), the medical staff actually advised my husband to just stay home rather than making the 60 mile drive each way to visit me. I knew he wasn't there, I waited and waited and he just wasn't there. The only thing that got me through that time was one of my regular nurses. She had a strong German accent and she chatted to me whenever she came into my room, telling me about her childhood in Germany, her family's home there, how they celebrated various vacations, etc. I don't know how I knew she was real but I did.
When they took me off the respirator that time and notified my husband, as soon as he walked through the door, I said "WHERE WERE YOU???!!!" as loudly as I could with a throat that felt like it had been sandpapered. Again, the medical staff tried to tell me that it was all in my head but this time, I was able to reel off a bunch of info from my German nurse, who confirmed that yes, it was all accurate and yes, she remembered telling me those things. After that, the medical staff didn't have much to say about what I remembered.
I already had a longstanding case of PTSD from something that happened in the 1970s, so my ICU experiences didn't give it to me but it exacerbated my PTSD horribly.
Tangential note: at one point, I came to in the ICU to find my hands encased in padded mittens and my wrists tied to the bedrails. I knew I was on a ventilator but I did not want to be conscious and I thought I had no way to call for help (tube in my mouth). I rattled the bedrails as best I could, no response. I'm a bit claustrophobic anyway, so being tied up was not something I could tolerate for long while conscious. I finally figured out that if I ground my teeth into my breathing tube, that would probably set off some sort of alarm and bring help. I would have preferred to be untied but if they were going to keep me bound, I wanted to be unconscious.
Worked a treat. I've never seen staff pour into my room so fast as when I started to chew through my breathing tube. Then I realised that with the tube in my mouth and my hands tied, I couldn't communicate. Fortunately, I managed to catch the eye of one of the nurses and she was able to read my message clearly. She told the rest of the team I was conscious and panicking due to the restraints, whereupon someone pushed a dose of something through one of my IVs. When I asked later if this had really happened, it was confirmed as a real event.
So. If anyone reading this ever ends up in ICU on a ventilator and conscious when they don't want to be, try grinding on the breathing tube. It's amazing how fast the staff responds to that alarm.
You are a warrior , 80% of people that are put on ventilators die due to pulmonary edema. It’s a old trick doctors use to make the patient die. It does not help you at all. Thanks for sharing your story.
I am petrified to go under, never have been put under and I am terrified to have it done
@@jeisentheaquarianwolf9542 That is not the lesson you should be taking from this. 80% of people put on ventilators die because 100% of people put on ventilators are already dying.
Are you gonna tell me that a person mauled by a bear and then bandaged in a hospital died because of the bandages?
GrainneDhu thank you for the tip with biting the tube! I will remember that if I get this horrible illness. I am one of the people who are vulnerable to getting seriously sick if I catch this. And being put on a ventilator scares me to death. At least now I know what to do to communicate. Thank you! Love from Denmark
@Isaac Dweck I have a friend who has the mild version of covid-19. She says it is way worse than any flu she has ever had and it is lasting way longer. She's constantly fatigued, so lethargic she can't stay on her feet long enough to fix meals and she's spiking fevers every night--after 3 weeks since the onset of symptoms. Part of her fatigue is probably lack of sleep due to the fever spikes but even when she does get some good sleep, she still feels fatigued and worn out.
So this is basically a long term interactive sleep paralysis...
and, in some cases, OBEs. Someone above spoke of OBEs in his/her case. I have suffered from both for 20 years of my life and SP is horrid and bad trip OBEs too. OBEs can also be pleasant, but at the end you just wanna end both experiences of sleep 'disorder'. It gets tiring to have to deal with it every single night, and most nights it was multiple times. I found a way out of both many years ago on my own (trial and error). I can now sleep soundly and with no nastiness happening.
@@silverprincessstar what does OBE stand for?
Delirium is very different to sleep paralysis, it's probably more like being on psychedelic drugs. I had this once when I was sick and it was the worst feeling in the world, definitely worst than sleep paralysis, you feel like everyone is conspiring against you and they are gonna kill you but you can't escape like a bad dream, there's voices telling you things and you believe them because you can't tell what's real and what's not, you don't even trust your family and you hear loud noises. I could hear a plane closer and closer to me and the voice kept telling me it was gonna crash on my house and I was shaking in fear because it just seemed so real.
@@tomlolo1849 out of body experience
I cant even handle my sleep paralysis for 5 minutes...i can't imagine the suffering
Much of this happened to me but fortunately they were HAPPY hallucinations. Unfortunately when I was completely taken off the drugs, I couldn't convince myself that I was not married to David Hall, from Hall & Oats! ROTFL!
It took me an entire day of reminding myself, everytime I woke from a nap that the man in front of me was my husband....poor guy!💖 27_yrs together and counting! You are my soul mate😘💕
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daryl hall lol
Do u think u hallucinated happy because u went through this with an overall positive mindset?
I am glad you are doing better, if its not too personal may I ask what if any long term effects you may still be experiencing?
Nice to see a funny happy one amongst all the sadness, but seriously? Hall & Oats ? 🙂👍😂
When my mom was very sick a year ago and had to be intubated she developed ICU delirium after she was extubated. She was very paranoid thinking all the nurses were trying to kill her by giving her poison instead of her medicines. She was also seeing antennas on top of our heads including hers and was convinced the antennas were put there by the hospital staff to hear our thoughts and conversations. She didnt want any nurses touching her or getting near her and started hitting them when they did so they had to tie her hands to the bed it was very sad to see her like that.
That its not delirium maybe she saw the truth, rest in peace.
@@elizabethbeatriztellezvazq1582 its delirium. its ok if you believe in what u want to believe but the nurses were human
While I had to watch my father suffer with ICU delirium a few years ago, I never even considered the mental trauma on COVID patients after physically recovering, especially without their families beside them. Blessings to the patients and health care workers, and thank you for telling an important story that is unfortunately relevant.
I lived through a war. This reminds me of the stories they told about soldiers injured in battle, right down to the cheering and the clapping and then the horrible PTSD that follows them for the rest of their lives.
It's so awful what soldiers go through and how poorly they are taken care of after returning home (at least in the US) and so much of it could be avoided. My uncle died a few years back and we only found out after his death that he'd received a Bronze Star during the Vietnam war but he never told anyone because even talking about his time there was too much to bear. My mom couldn't wake him up by touching him or he'd literally try to kill her, that's how bad the PTSD was and it hurts to think about how many soldiers and vets are out there suffering because of something they could not control.
As terrifying as this video is, it's downright BEAUTIFUL to see these survivors talking and looking so healthy, now, physically at least. And now the mental healing. ❤️
This is an important message for people to hear so there is understanding going forward.
Seeing this reminded me when I was on an induced coma ( not Covid) It was a living nightmare, I faintly remember praying and meditating all the time cause of how scared I was, telling myself it wasn’t real, what I felt there and then I will never forget.
Ever since that day I try to keep in mind I should meditate and pray (although I’m not religious). So I can prepare myself for that moment when I truly die cause I know someday I will and I don’t want to die having those horrible feelings, u guys have no idea how scary that could be.
The need to make mental health care more accessible and affordable is becoming more and more apparent!
Lool duuuuh
LORENNA they not ready for that
Wrong. The mental “healthcare” causes this
And that shouldn’t include drugging them up with psych meds either! The meds are what partially cause this!
Still eager to open up the economy? Get the kids back in school, go to the gym, eat at a restaurant. Yay.
And what the fuck is the alternative? Watching people starve on the street? Kicked out of their homes?
Go on, what's your brilliant alternative?
StarWarFan exactly
The coming financial depression could give you worst nightmares. We are happy in Ga. that our Governor opened up. We have been out and about for about a month. People are doing okay. We take precautions and those who need to remain staying inside are doing so. No reason to become homeless and go hungry especially when Winter is headed our way in 5 months. In Ga. we will not allow a government to take over our lives and once they have most ppl. hungry and homeless they dictate how you will live in exchange for them feeding and housing you. It is like when you were a child and you did what your parents told you if you wanted to live under their roof. You may have missed President after President from Bush to Obama give their sermons on how we are ready for a one world government. If you like being a slave to government then you are free to run scared. There are better more logical ways to handle the problem that does not kill the rest of us through financial suicide. I wonder how you make your money. I wonder if you just get free money. Some of us don't eat if we don't work. Some of us don't have a place to live if we don't go out and work for a place to live. Keep that in mind. Older and less healthy ppl are dying of covid19, lets shelter those ppl. Majority of younger healthy ppl get Corona virus and recover like they do with any flu. Sweden probably took the best route but some kind of suffering on planet earth is unavoidable.
@Überleben people will most likely get the virus eventually during their lifetime, but a lot of people do want to get back to work and very much so soon. Look at Sweden for example. They may get a second wave as bad as we will because of herd immunity. One thing worth noting is the amount of suicide calls the suicide hotline has received these past few weeks, it's insane!
@Zack Macdowell that's something I wish the mainstream media would point out.
I relate to this video. Years ago while visiting Thailand and Singapore I got extremely sick. Couldn’t keep anything down including water. Had an extremely high fever and started hallucinating. I thought I was going to die I had never been that sick in my life. On the last night before I started to improve I hallucinated that I was sinking into my bed sheets and four what looked like apostles dressed in all black with big black hats and black faces surrounded me. They spoke in an unknown language I couldn’t understand but did comprehend. They were speaking about which would be responsible with the handling of my soul after death. Later my body floated back to the surface of the bed and I threw up. After that moment I began improving. I still remember that very vividly. It was terrifying.
Do u now believe it was psychosis? Or does part of u still believe it was real?
I remember i had a similar experience as a child except i wasnt that sick. The room was dim-lit and there were people in black robes sitting around me. They were just staring at me but I got terrified and tried calling my parents but I couldnt make a sound at all.
I've always wondered what it could have been, now I know it was a kind of delirium
Infires Maaan whoa I actually had a similar experience as a child, but I was being carried in a coffin by those figures and I felt like I was floating above
Infires Maaan could it have been a form of sleep paralysis maybe
Those are demons, the one you said black with black hats. They will take your soul somewhere no one knows. Lucky that was not your time or else
The struggle for a grown up can u imagine a kid going thru this??? You all please be safe and your loved ones too.
This goes for just about any reason to place someone on a ventilator for any length of time and not just COVID.
My ICU delirium was profound. I was so frightened and hallucinating. A young nurse came and held my hand, mopped my sweaty brow and sang a lullabye. She was my mother that died when I was 17, over 50 years ago. A month after discharge I saw her in the grocery store. She gave me a huge hug and everything was all right. I'm sure this was a gift from the Holy Spirit.
I experienced this. It’s the worst specially if no one prepares you for it. You see things with your eyes wide open, and if you try to close them to run away, the images get gorier in the dark.
@ahri My delirium included Donald Trump playing a large amount of the awfulness. It included, moving my cooker into my living room, then adding on a fridge in the place of the cooker. I could not lift myself up as both arms were too sore for that. Prior to all of this, I'd been given two separate lots of anti -biotics. They didn't work
Jennifer Rodriguez, I hope you're doing better now.
Jennifer, i am happy you are doing well now. May God bless and keep you.
I work in a nursing home so our patients were dying but no ventilators or restraints. However when I went to check one of the fellas to see if he needed to be changed he was terrified and fighting me and just 2 days prior he was walking around. I tried to calm him and tell him I just had to check his bottom. He was old but not a dementia patient or anything. The next day another man had diarrhea in his diaper and he was screaming like I had 2 heads. I was trying to calm him and get through to him to no avail. It really freaked me out. They both passed a few days later. I'm home now with the virus and I really dont think I'm getting terribly sick but I am truly traumatized by how the whole thing is playing out. Of course people are downplaying it. My facility has 30 positives last I heard and 7 have passed. It's a real living nightmare
@@jomama8984 I wish you a great recovery and stay strong ♥️ You are doing amazing work
I ended up with covid the 1st of Dec 2020. I stayed at home even though i had fevers at 104.5 degrees and oxygen levels down to 84%. The delirium I experienced was unimaginable. Every bone in my body felt as though it was being broken over and over, then every muscle was being cut and when I thought the pain could not get worse, I felt all my nerves being electrocuted and the migraines were just awful. The brain fog I am still in rectory with, the bone and joint pain, awful migraines continue and the extreme fatigue and muscle weakness continues. I pray this ends at some point in time. I am so thankful I fought to try to sit in a bath tub in Epsom salts, doing Tri pod exercises and sleeping on my stomach. It was a fight to not give up. Some days its one step forward and the next 5 days are walking backward. If this is what hell is like, I can only pray I don’t go there. Never ending nightmare.
I'm too fatigued to write much but I experienced the exact same thing. I had terrible delirium that peaked when I spent 9 hours in the emergency waiting room in a wheelchair after being brought in by ambulance because I was chronically ill before Covid, but when I got it, I simply couldn't breathe. I've barely met anyone else who had the delirium symptom from Covid. Nobody talks about it, nobody.
@@eliotasterforrest5026 I am so sorry you went through this as well. Only a few can truly understand this living hell we went through. I pray you are doing better now. Hugs
In 2015 I was put into an induced coma on three occasions. Each time I suffered hallucinations and for about a year afterwards I was asking my husband questions about the time I was in the ICU. None of the staff reassured us about this PCIS. I was left thinking I was the only one that had ever gone crazy in such a situation. Thank you for clearing this up for me!
I had an aunt who was in ICU for months after having a stroke. She was sedated and hooked up to everything and needed to have restraints because she kept trying to escape and fight the nurses (even while sedated). At least this was pre-covid so she always had a family member with her to calm her down and explain what was happening when she woke up/came around and started to panic. Going through that alone must be terrifying.
Everybody should be told that this happens- I think people who do not realize this happens, and often happens, are traumatized just because they are not aware. I am glad you posted this for this reason.
My beautiful sister had the nurse pray over me daily. I was dieing from covid. In a coma had sepsis pneumonia covid and two blood clots. I remember absolutely nothing. I was home 3 days after my lengthy hospital stay my sister died. I still have no recollection of what happened. I thank God for the blessing of my sister. I wish she was still here. I wish I could be with her. I feel lost.
Most of us will experience this when we die (from any cause). After the heart and lungs stop, the brain is deprived of oxygenated glucose-rich blood, so in the final 4-10 minutes before the brain cells completely die, they will hallucinate. These patients are reporting NDE (Near Death Experiences).
Thank you to The Atlantic for bringing us these rare interviews!
No not necessarily. Most NDEs tend to be more about clarity and are positive. This is drug and covid induced delirium mostly in people surrounded by strangers and who are not expecting the end. They are fighting for life with faulty perspective.
@@belliotrungy9107 NDE simply means the person was close to death (or clinically taken to be dead -- heart & lungs stopped, even pupils not responding), yet the person made it back. It has nothing to do with who the patient was surrounded by, their positive or negative experiences, whether drug-induced or spontaneous, or whether they were consciously trying to survive or had given up. NDE is an extraordinary state of the brain and body that results from (obviously) some life-threatening condition.
@@peace4world most reports of NDEs don't match what these people are saying I'm sorry. Plus the brain may release chemicals itself to make it less stressful. These people are highly medicated in an induced coma and on the verge of a shocking death that they are probably fighting. If everybody died in a panicked state the world would be a very strange and dismal state. The reports in this story involve misperceptions of stimulus from their surroundings idk how you post this unless you didn't really watch it 🤷 the chemistry and networks are not the same nor are these reports.
@@belliotrungy9107 You are right that not all deaths will experience such negative hallucinations. Maybe my expression was lacking. My point was only that as the deprived brain cells begin to die after the heart-lungs stop, normal rational thoughts cease and chaotic thoughts take over, the basis of which is likely going to be derived from the state of one's mind at that time. My mom died in a peaceful state so her hallucinations would likely have been very beautiful. Someone living a stressful life and then dying struggling might experience the opposite. These patients were in a very stressful situation (mentally & physically), so their NDE is very negative.
These are not at all like NDE stories that have been documented and described. They are hallucinations.
What a freaking nightmare!😰
There is a nurse who claims Covid-19 patients are being murdered In NY hospitals...YT video here: ua-cam.com/video/Kd7RvUraG4c/v-deo.html
Wow, the video was just taken down, just like all the others have been. Surprise, surprise....
This is a really important video- thanks to all who contributed. To these lovely survivors, most of us would have no idea what you have been going through, but please, make sure you talk about it. Don't suffer alone.
I can only imagine what my poor baby was going through😭😭 ....we've already gone through this before with "human metapneumovirus" now I've gotta worry about him contracting "coronavirus"??!!! I dunno how much longer I can protect him...
Dear Lord, pls help me😢
It's interesting that most of these people are relatively young.
Liuhuayue
In part because older patients on vents have a high mortality rate, or could be still hospitalized, or at a rehab or nursing home.
The people that recover from crit are young. Older people/compromised people would not be able to recover from crit condition. Ventilaters are only for people in crit condition
Tim Downey ... or the older don’t get a vent. That’t what’s happening Sweden. +70 = no health care for Covid19.
@Zack Macdowell It seems like you might be way too young to even consider those people as young in the video, then. That's a perspective issue on your part. Younger than 50 is deemed young in medicine. Also, that statistic is not surprising at all; what is surprising is that these people with adverse side effects who were interviewed are mostly (notice the use of mostly: some are older, but the majority were not) younger.
@@walter-vq1fw they shouldn't put them on ventilators, nothing is better than hell.
My husband was in the ICU for almost three weeks. The delirium he had was unreal. Some really bizarre stuff. I was actually afraid that his brain was cooked.
Fun fact: it’s not known how most anesthesia inducing drugs work in terms of sedating and what what goes on in your brain to cause it. But we continue to use it because it just works.
Well that’s scary
Most people don't know where their own personal details and information is stored online, and they're fine with it too
I saw somewhere that anesthesia doesn't actually stop pain, just block the brain from creating memories of said pain.
Well shit
the gov. knows good and God dam well what happens.. they researched many things about it . its been documented .
I was intubated. They tied down my arms to stop me from moving. And I thought the doctor's were torturing me and trying to kill me. Eventually from all my arms flailing around they realized I had woken up from sedation halfway. It was extremely traumatic. I couldn't sleep for days thinking sometime might intubate me again. Even now In scared to sleep. I can only sleep 3-4 hrs and must wake up to see if I'm safe.
Anyone who has cared for anyone who has had major medical procedures done knows about this... Its not always wild psychotic episodes or nightmarish memories.
My grandmother had open heart surgery and woke up with the wildest stories ever... My brother was on a ventilator in a hepatic coma for a week and awoke with a most hilarious confusion....
This isnt COVID specific. Happens all the time.
Correct.
I had ARDS in 2012 (before Covid) and spent a week on ventilator, in induced coma. I fortunately have no recollection of that, no hallucinations from the coma itself, but the week following my coming out of the coma was weird, to put it mildly. That is when I thought all kinds of irrational stuff was happening to me. Fortunately one of the nurses managed to explain the weird stuff in a simple manner: "Look, your brain has been pickled with all kinds of drugs for over a week, all these strange things are only inside your head! Just be patient while your system gets rid of this". Somehow this really made sense and I managed to do as she told me. She turned to be absolutely right.
That's a good nurse, unfortunately there are many doctors and nurses whom doesn't understand that and how important it is to verbalise it to a pasient whom goes through it. Those words can make a huge difference in a positive manner.
This is really disturbing.
Everyone please stay safe. 🇬🇧🌈
Y’all lucky to be inside home all day safe while USA people not.
Daniel Hover
Not everybody is. Some of us are still furloughed.
It is very scary though.
I understand what you mean.
Please stay safe. 🇬🇧🌈
Ha gay
You stay safe as well✌🇧🇻
The 'slow like falling' feeling is your heart rate slowing down and the feeling when you 'hit the ground' is your body waking you up so you will not die.
This is why it’s so important for us nurses to communicate and document! If it’s seen on the chart, the patient can receive follow up care that they might need.
Erin W oh. That sounds like an easy solution.
This is so accurate, and can relate to these patients. I am a heart transplant survivor of 19 years, yet still remember every detail and have PTSD as a result of being in the ICU for two months. I was sedated on a ventilator while on ECMO for two weeks before the transplant and remember hearing nurses and doctors speaking around me, hearing music that was being played in the ICU room to lessen the stress with family, etc. since seeing it was clearly distressing to them too. It is certainly not like being "asleep" yet time was distorted and still felt like those two weeks were just minutes. I had visions of people sitting in a circle with me in the middle, going through caves that were all made of ice, being in a canoe, and feeling warmth all around me that would not stop, and a falling sensation that would come and go. I couldn't help but comment on this as it's so relatable yet a complete different illness.
How are you now? I'm curious about your story
Poor baby🥺 How you feeling now?🙏🏽🙏🏽
My poor mother, breaking my heart.
Same here man 😪
Wow what an eye opener. Thank u for giving us an insight to how much more is needed in the mental and trauma recovery of this pandemic’s survivors.