I really like this quote, so I'll just leave it here "Remember that everything will be okay in the end. If everything is not okay, it is not the end" :3
Omg that quote will follow me for the rest of my life, thank you so much for taking the time and commenting this, I don't think you realize how much you just changed my world
Interesting that this is a truth that can be universally accepted even with the absence of any immediate evidence when you’re feeling well. I’m a reformed atheist now because of this. However when you’re feeling particularly unwell IMO it’s so hard, again, highlighting the uselessness of having faith in some form or another for some of us.
At 14.07 she smiled in some shy way and Dr Syl comented that her reaction was not normal and it is caused by schizophrenia. I would say she smiled and gigled a bit because she was caught with the question if she has written to her family. In my observation she was shy and embarrassed to say that she did not. She just complained that they dont visit her, but then herself she havent written to her. In my opinion it is a normal reaction. Usually children reacts this way but adults as well.
Nervous laughter is also an incongruent emotion, albeit common, even amongst non-psychotic illnesses. In my opinion, it'd be risky to always categorize it as "normal" in a neurological sense, as it is known to be incongruent, so it can be useful to identify it -- especially if it occurs often. In schizophrenia, any incongruent emotion, including nervous laughter, can be vastly more frequent than in that of someone without it. :)
@@barbaraedgley2634 I believe that the point that Dr. Syl was making is not that any incongruent emotion is a symptom of schizophrenia. Rather, consistent incongruent emotion to a larger extent, is commonly seen in schizophrenia. It does not make someone mentally ill to have incongruent emotions; however, it shouldn't be dismissed if seen in a mentally ill person. It's similar to: everyone gets bruises, but if someone ill (eg. with an autoimmune disease) gets a bruise, it should be carefully monitored.
Pushing a professionals opinion on a subject away to give your own opinion as what is actually happening is a good example of Dunning-kruger phenomenon.
Would you ever consider doing an analysis of mental health portrayed in shows/film? I think it would be interesting to have a professional opinion on how unrealistic or realistic they are.
I’m a support cleaner wanting to go into support for an NDIS provider. I find your video’s highly helpful. We are often not given diagnoses so it’s important to understand possible symptoms and to educate ourselves. Thank you!
That's wonderful! I'm thankful for the day that, just by chance, many years ago I got a job as an Employment Specialist supporting individuals with developmental disabilities. It was the start of a lifetime of deeply meaningful work. All the best to you!
I truly wish that all mental health workers were more like you. I have serious mental problems and the way some of the mental health workers have treated myself and others,is truly beyond words.. I just want too say that your Chanel is fantastic, and has helped me in so many ways. So thank you
I am similar to you watching this 1952 clip every few months. The thought of her being detained there for ten years is very sad as she is not a threat to anyone.
I have ADHD with anxiety and its really interesting to hear how similar functions that are impared with me over lap with things like schizophrenia, such as a lack of motivation. it obviously presents differently and to a vastly different degree, but I find it interesting how subtle differences in the same areas can lead to such different outcomes
I was feeling the exact same thing I have add. I also feel dissociated and nit there, have negative thoughts or no thoughts, very disorganized and chaotic yet empty and full yet overwhelming at the same time. Nothing I could ever really point out. I also have an internal monologue and am sound sensitive. I also have some child like mannerisms and don't even realize it till people mention it. Although this all isn't an episode that's just the way I always am. Every day is different though and I tend to find it difficult to be productive
@@Diesereine-typ I've felt the exact same my entire life. It's really hard to explain, cause there's so many contradictory/ambivalent symptoms. Do you take medications? I feel like life has been easier since I toned in on the right medication and dose.
I don’t know if this is up your ally at all but I would love to see you cover/react to videos about ASD or co-occurrence of ASD with other disorders as it is so common. You bring a positive non-judgmental light to psychosis and really help educate and break down harmful stereotypes. As someone with autism, it would be great to see that done for us as well! There are a ton of autistic UA-camrs who talk about their experience, but I would love to hear the science side of things as I know our brains are different and we experience mental illness at a higher rate. For instance, we are much more prone to PTSD. This is something I have struggled with (and am, but I’m being treated now), even to the point of hallucinations. I had no idea PTSD could even cause that! This is extra jarring for an autistic person as our reality is usually so rooted in logic. I would love to learn more about it! (I’m doing much better by the way- years of therapy and anxiety medication goes a long way for PTSD haha.)
I’m a registered nurse of many years as well as having my own mental health issues, including one involuntary & one voluntary admission to an acute psych ward. Your videos are so good…. But sometimes as a health professional I feel like I’m intruding on this woman’s life…. Because back then there wasn’t the level of patient advocacy and informed consent there is today. I often wonder about the person, what happened to them… were they ever discharged? She may be someone’s mum or sister, daughter. I wonder what family feel….. just me…. It was an excellent video. Thank you
I get in trouble for ignoring people because I can’t tell if someone said something to me or it’s a hallucination voice. Nice to see 😊 I’m not the only one!
Thank you so much for these informative videos! For many years, I worked in the field of community services for people with developmental disabilities. Now I'm working as a grant writer for an organization that predominantly serves individuals with behavioral needs both inpatient and community based. Your videos are helping someone like me, who's not a clinician, better understand the world of my colleagues and the people we serve. All the best as you progress through your career and in life!
I have just found you, thank you so much for helping us understand what's going on with schizophrenia. I've been reading a lot and what you are saying is helping it all shift in my mind so that I'm able to reflect on how and what i's happening with my own son. Cheers
That was really valuable to me, thanks. My son is in the hospital, just gone 5 months. He's still suffering from psychosis (possible diagnosis of schizophrenia..) despite trying a few different meds. It's been such a roller coaster, there were years of struggle prior to his hospitalisation and where we find ourselves now. He'll be 22 next week. Things that make ya go hmmmm.
Another great video Dr Syl. It is hard to watch Psychosis from an outside perspective. Being in it, it's hard to identify, it's so real. But what is real at the end of the day? Living with schizophrenia has really opened up this question for me. Thanks for your kind informative videos. The really help me
I know that I'm late to this vid and probably no one will see this but I gotta say: It's SO awesome to hear someone address the specific things I have always wondered about the vagaries of "hearing voices". Why would someone listen to them, why would someone do what they say if they are saying to do bad things, how much of it is perceived as yourself or external? This is absolutely amazing stuff bro for real. ❤❤❤❤❤
I just finished a placement for my cert in recovery oriented mental health in with residents living w dementia in aged care. It was an excellent learning curve for me to develop alternative verbal and non verbal communication techniques, self reflection, self awareness etc, especially caring for those with limited physical, verbal abilities. Consent cannot always be given in ways we understand.
I long wished to be life-long hospitalized. I don't want that anymore. I just mostly want to be left alone. I hate going out of my house, I barely have any motivation to do my own chores and try to play games. I'm not gonna work. But in hospitals there's too many people and noise, my intimacy feels compromised and the staff keeps poping into my room and I'm forced to have the sunlight in my room and while they don't mind that I live at night I have to be awake during the day in order to take my medication because they won't even trust me with my medication 😫 (they also threw away my loperamide last time I went)
I had a short stay in an old type state hospital.After about a week the psych said that I probably wanted to run away from the place but please stay a few more days.She was wrong I liked being there and would stay happily for a long time but I couldn't say that of course.Now there are no State Hospitals and mental health is only for those who can afford it .
I would like to see Dr Syl's analysis on GAD & PD. Since I've been conducting my own research to understand my comorbid anxiety better, I've been flabbergasted at the lack of information and awareness surrounding this topic. I'd enjoy hearing about his thoughts or personal experiences in the ward
Watching your videos and seeing how these internal experiences are being interpreted are making me realize why I was so frustrated during my hospitalization. The physical queues of the patient are being identified via titles/words that are symbolic to the perspective of the OBJECTIVE viewer. In my experience, schizophrenia is a narrative/language issue and therefore more conceptual and tied into the greater schemas of conscious and unconscious experience. We break away from the neural pathways that have been prescribed to us via a broken society and run haphazardly through what is left. Sometimes our paths cross with other accepted narratives, ones that help us describe the meaning of our experience. Usually we are frightened and alienated from society long before. Which is why we become paranoid, because we know we have no ultimate autonomy or safety. There are greater powers at play. In a hierarchy, in a world of social consensus, there are always others that can hurt us. Always. And which is also why we can find humor where others can not. The entire experience is a joke and we know it. Plus, laughter alleviates the weight of stress. Anyway, the described narrative is taken seriously via both the delusional and those caretaking, because it is the only way to meet in the middle and make sense of those feelings/experiences. What is really happening is there are no better words/symbols to convey the meaning of the experience, and so the overarching narratives win out. Which leads, in my experience, to the meaning or symbol behind my words not being understood. Then becoming so frustrated that these people (MDs, RNs) are in such a different world that you want to verbally lash out but knowing it is unkind, you stay silent.
Thanks for this great video und your explanations. I am in psychological training right now and it helped me to understand the illnesses... And your voice and talking speed is perfect 😊
My biological father had schizophrenia which because of the genetic aspect made me very interested. The one thing I have always been curious about is the nature of the voices themselves. Are the voices akin to a malfunction of the natural interior monologue in some cases? Fortunately at least in regards to symptom management I'm on the Autism spectrum and suffer from severe recurrent depression which requires far less unpleasant medication to treat. Even though I'm at an age where the chance of an onset of schizophrenia is nearly impossible I never lost the interest.
You noted a child-like nature in a response, and I’d just seen it as a sense of humor. Maybe there’d been a bit of both there. She really seemed to light up in moments of levity. I’m kind of curious about the mechanism in the inappropriate smiling. Is it possible a person may subconsciously call upon different feelings as a defense against undesirable feelings?
Wow, she speaks so softly that auto captions doesn't even recognize it as speech most of the time. (Sometimes I struggle with hearing both physically and neurologically I guess, so I like closed captioning).
Thank you for your work, it helps me to better understand different human conditions. Would be great to hear more advice on how to respectfully interact with people who are struggling. For instance, there's a 90 year old woman who suddenly stopped hearing anything and lost a sense of time. But when she's happy and relaxed, she suddenly hears and then hearing disappears again. This old woman also has a mania that some individuals want to steal from her, so she's hidden the money and now can't find it. One day she agrees to take medication and go visit a doctor, another day she refuses any help and throws away the drugs. She also refuses to move to her daughter's place. It's very hard for her family to deal with this. What would you recommend to this granny's family? Especially since she's avoiding being seen by a doctor. What her diagnosis might be, Dr.?
Thank you, Dr. Syl! This was interesting. At one point, however, I may have been projecting. After she said she had not had visitors recently, and was ask if she had written anyone, when she smiled inappropriately, I took it as a reasonable response to having been called out for not keeping up her end of those relationships.
Doctor I was misdiagnosed with psychosis and was put on many antipsychotics for 5 months. And I lost my imagination because of that. I stopped taking antipsychotics 5 and half months ago. Do I get my imagination back? How long does it take?? And why did it stop working??
Simple schizophrenia was a form of schizophrenia, or is one, it is not a current diagnosis in the DSM, yet it survived longer in the international system, which was for people with the negative symptoms of schizophrenia but not the positive ones. So, the person in the video wouldn't be diagnosed with Simple Schizophrenia anyway, if they hear voices. The video shouldn't be labeled that and the reviewer, Dr. Syl should know this RIGHT AWAY. Why would they not???
I have a friend whose daughter developed schizophrenia at age 19. Her initial symptoms were romantic delusions related to Korean K-pop singers. She was self aware about the delusions at first. But her illness has progressed to the simple type as shown in this video. Interestingly she occupies her time scanning through TikTok and instagram reels for hours at a time. This seems to keep her happy. She is on anti-psychotic medication and has been hospitalized several times.
She is so sweet and has a very dry sense of humour. Her giggles are not displaced she’s incredibly smart and knows it . She has hallucinations but she is a very wise soul and so content
My apologies I did not want to make anyone uncomfortable. Since this is a Mental illness reaction channel I shared my previous msg. I only shared because there is a lack of support groups in my area or nearby, where we can get educated about the illness so we can know what to expect as newly diagnosed individuals and know what to avoid so we don't find ourselves in problems like the ones I talked about in the previous message. And immediately seek help when we encounter these episodes because unfortunately as Dr Syl said even after taking treatment these episodes can still continue. So the more we talk about this the better for us. What I wrote was my experience, my reality with the illness and desire to hear about other people's experiences so I can get educated. Thank you.
Dr Syl Can you please do a video on psilocybin and the difference approaches to therapy like The Usoma Institute or Compass Pathways use? This looks super promising and it’s really exciting. I really really want to hear what you think. Also could you address in your video people who take magic mushrooms and how they could have similar impacts to their mental health. And where people who take magic mushrooms won’t have the same impact to their mental health. Thank you
I love your content. Its good to get an understanding of how psychiatrists are thinking when I speak with them. I was wondering if you could do a video on the toxicity of antipsychotics? I am a part of several different schizophrenia forums and support places and I see a lot of discussion on how anti psychotics are equivalent of chemical lobotomy. I've seen some videos on this subject from other medical professionals who believe it is as I say but I was wondering what the Australian view is as I am also Australian.
Have you watched Daniel Macklers video about this? It's called Take Those Broken Wings, and it's here on UA-cam. You have more change of recovering from schizophrenia without medication tjan with medication, says the film - but I haven't read the study about it yet. There's better results at treating schizophrenia without heavy medication tjan with it.
Your the first person I've found that seems too have a very good understanding about simple schizophrenia Where could I find out more about this condition.... anything would be of great value too me....any study's etc you could recommend or anything at all would mean a great deal thanks in advance
I’ve just been diagnosed with schizophrenia but I’ve always been aware that my delusions are just delusions and can always reason with them, i actually thought it was just anxiety but now know what it actually is, I don’t have auditory hallucinations though I get psychosis when very stressed but I’m struggling to come to terms with the diagnoses and now that I have a name to it I feel I’m able to reason with the delusions even more and have been able to push them away easier. I’m worried it’s going to get worse as I get older and start hearing voices, my psychiatrist started me on a antipsychotic but I’m getting terrible side effects and have now stopped them. If I’m not experiencing symptoms daily. I’m on the spectrum I know that but I feel I may have been miss diagnosed
Hi Elle , can I ask you what kind of delusions you have ? how do you distinguish delusions from "normal" paranoia ?what do you mean by "I get psychosis "??? what do you feel when you are in it? thanks for your answers in advance! I wish you a stable and healthy future !!! :)
I am Schitzophrenic female aged 34. And started being psychotic when I was aged 3 years and it became worse after visiting a Christian assembly one time, I saw the pastor of that church psychotically bewitched me with her faces, multiple snakes and voodoo. After that day I became seriously ill and they would torture me psychotically demanding me to do this and that. Creating trouble for me. Where am I now? I am in a deep whole and there are no support groups in my area or nearby or any form of help. No one is willing to help me because I am exhausted of these people. The behaviour of my tormentors psychotically and physically is no different to make me think I am seeing my own things. Kindly advice.😢
13;16 to me just seemed she was trying to look for answers in her memories, as one tends to do. Then maybe a flash of a happy memory or something. You cant assume its psychotic unless you know /why/ she smiled. You cant assume you know the truth like that without asking with a followup question.
I am in great trouble because of this illness and its episodes. I only wish that something quickly be done for those who are having symptoms of mental illness but are not aware they have the condition to quickly receive help. I was unfortunate and never receive education about this illness or help with my condition until i was 30 years old.(even though i had symptoms from age 3years). So i wish there could be more awareness campaigns about this illness. I have severe command hallucinations. I have these episodes 24/7, and there is no rest. I thought immediately when i was diagnosed i was going to live in a hospital 24/7 which would make sense although it would'nt have been nice but had that happened it would have spared me alot of problems i am in because of these command hallucinations. Yes treatment helps but still the episode's are always there nonetheless. Most of the times it becomes so unbearable that it becomes impossible to concentrate or be present in the real world let alone partake in things/tasks going on around because i am heavily tolerating & enduring severe battering, beatings and torture from my tomentors and the creator and his angels. This was my major problem in school, had i been told i was schitzophrenic at a young age i would have quit like I once had because I couldn't concentrate and never understood what was wrong with me because i was enduring battering & beatings in these episodes. My tormentors in these episodes are my immediate family my mother, her daughter, her two sons , her family, my father's family and worse my child's father with the God of Israel they call him when they address him. With their deception command hallucinations it ensures them that people riot against me and harm me so they can then loot/plunder my life & then enslave me like how their God with his people always come to people's lands and strip them of their wealth, land, possessions, especially if its a country rich with gold and diamonds(mineral resources.). They set their foot there are then strip the people of their land & possession and then enslave them oppressing them. When I asked them why they are doing this they said it is God answering their bargain in trade for them to serve him. Like a dowry for them to be his servants/people. This creator told me he is and his servants are going to drag many more people from their homes to pay the price for his people deception as they advance and loot people's lives. They said they, did with Canaan, they did with African countries including South Africa whereby their God & his people stole land & wealth(natural resources) from black African community and then enslaved & oppressed them. They said their God is continuing in his quest by granting his people whatever land/people's wealth or possesion they bargain with their God. And their God grants them those things because he wants them to serve them by standing on the pulpit and strip peoples lives who congregate with them who have signs of mental illness and those who don't congregate with them. People are in for a shocker. The Christian community are the ones responsible for the episodes the mentally ill face. They are the cause rather. They are not the gospel they preach: 1. love- but they batter & torment me 24/7 inflicting serious physical pain via these psychotic/episodes 2. do not lie - they constantly tell me lies via their command hallucinations telling me to say or do A, B & C to people or organisations. They are SERIEL DECEIVERS. 3. They say do not covet - but my mother's daughter is. There is nothing she has not stolen from My career choice, she got jealous I wanted to study medicine and forsook her physio therapy first choice option. Has stolen my business plans, has stolen my baby daddy/ex fiencee, child, the list goes on. If they did not covet Esau would still be having his birth right, Canaan would still have his land. [Important thing to note i am not raising warefare i am merely informing those behing me since i have reached this stage of the illness that this is what is ahead of their journey with schitzophrenia & what is likely to be happening to them now so they make better choices when they encounter these episodes because there was no one there for me to guide& advice me about this illness/its episodes I feel I must let others know. So i am not picking fights lest anyone is thinking that. Schitzophrenia itself is a fight itself I am dealing with daily as i endure its blows after blows that i am eternally exhausted & drained. I am sharing my reality/my experience hoping it will help somebody out there with the same mental health condition as me.]. So this is not about pointing fingers but warning the people who are victims of this illness to avoid doing this and that for their benefit e.g. going to a christian assembly is the worst mistake they will ever make or their will reach level 1000% percent of the severity in their illness in no time just by attending. I warn people with schitzophrenic symptoms to stay away kindly, I am speaking from experience. They will bewitched you while standing on the pulpit like they gid me and will then experience severe command hallucinations and will did up a victim of those. 4. do not kill - they killed the cannanites. 5. do as you would love other to do unto you - they strip people of their land & enslave people. Countries affected by this are trying to recover from their blows even today and some have not. I guess the question that should be asked is do all humans have equal rights? If this question can be answered to a Mentally health affected individual/s that would be nice or those who have encountered the evil of those who strip people of their land. My tormentors my mother, her three children and her family and my child's father say they are doing this so they can be pastors enjoying the luxury of my life/land and what it offered. Yet all five of them they behave as if they are righteous but their actions speak against them, they all even criminally purchased drivers lincence all five of them. What righteous message can ever come out of them. I caught my sister/mother's daughter praying for me to get raped by the public and her siblings to even impregnant me. She "covets" my ex fiencee/child's father. So it was not enough that her mother organized a daily molester & rapist for me from age 1-5 years. I feel mentally affected individuals should live in their own towns free from mentally stable people. If this could be done for our community there would be lesser problems. Besides birds of the same feathers flock together, they understand each other better no one will be abusing who or discrimination who because we all have the same illness. My family members treat me like a dog and call me names especially my sister who is studying to be a doctor she is constantly making fun of mentally ill people saying crazy people ought to live in East London where all crazy people live.
It doesn’t seem to me that there’s all that much wrong with this lady. The doctor, by contrast, is wooden, monotonous and spoke in a grating and extremely irritating tone. By harping on about ‘being lonesome’ he is putting ideas into her head. She almost leapt at the chance of drinking coffee which shows she can anticipate potentially pleasurable futures.
Have you heard of the January (Jani) Schofield and Bodie her younger brothers case? I can't find the documentary on UA-cam, perhaps Netflix has it. Very interesting case.
I think that the only place that disorganised thought would be an issue is in the operating theatre... we have such high expectations of being perfect, compared to how perfect is depicted to us from birth. Its a mould that many cannot conform to. Life itself is not perfect, if it were, we would all live forever...
I barely watched whole video. In my country schisophrenia simplex is not recognised. But i have problem even to do simple thing like to watch movie. It started as a mania, but i never had minus phase. I was allways rocking forth back withe daydreaming and euphoria and thincing abstract cosmoslike ideas. My organisation was always poor, never could even take medicine, only before sleep. Bit last year i burn out. Now my negative simptoms are visible. I have 33 and i'm chained to bed for years. Even is uncofortable to cut nails. I'm hypersensitive and disturbed by presence of people that's why cannot endure hospitalisation. I'm ultra sensitive. My room is in chaos and i cannot force myself to do anything. I want euthanasia. Please, tell me what to expect? I hope to die earlier becouse i'm imosible organisme. Everything aches me. How long one live with this schisophrenia and how to make easyer to me.
Heinze Lehman was great as a therapist.He wasn't Jewish but felt he had to escape nazi Germany in the 30:s and so he went to Canada.very fortunate for Canada.
You have to realize Doc, as much as I admire your through review and insight into these conditions there has been NO meaningful treatment for this population of people in psychiatry in terms of restoration of their life, and that is a fact. Be honest that the medicines you prescribe can control acute psychotic symptoms SOMETIMES and that is really about it. Psychiatry desperately NEEDS to move the needle and they haven’t. Low carb or Ketogenic diets are looking very promising as these disorders are being seen as metabolic mitochondrial based dysfunction disorders of the brain.
You are very empathetic, I enjoy that about your videos. I think however there is a danger in empathising too much with past practitioners- yes they may have been ‘good’ for their times, however they are still placed within the social contexts of their time. I wouldn’t say ‘obviously this is a nice one’ regarding the asylum she’s in- we don’t know that from the video. For starters over 70% of women in psychiatric hospitals experience sexual assault- that we know of, and while I don’t know the statistics over time (it hasn’t been recorded) it is unlikely given women’s history generally that things were better in the past. It is unlikely she hasn’t received any trauma from her hospitalisation. In terms of NDIS- that system is notorious for not accepting mental health clients. There are specialised organisations who fight for their rights to be accepted- and yet most are denied. ‘Wanting’ to be in full time care is fraught with issues of abuse, particularly for women and especially as care is in a unit with men in hospitals (and this is aside from the issues of some mental health professionals perpetuating abuse). As a mental health professional myself (in Melbourne) it would be interesting to have a cross professional discussion about what we see day to day (and year by year!). Love your channel, thank you.
Well I think this lady is much more fortunate to have been in the asylum for ten years than today where she would dumped out on the street with no one to help her.
@@HughBond-kx7ly , I was just asking for clarification about your comment, what informed it, but I didn’t want it to be a thing. All good, we can disagree! 🙂
At the MH day centre a new arrival takes her seat, and sits staring into space, not reacting or taking any interest in where she is. I take a seat near to her, and a ripple of laughter goes around the room because people have seen this before... After 10 minutes of sitting in silence I turn to the new arrival and ask "Are you bored ?". The second tick by, and gradually the new arrival realises that somebody has spoken to her, remembers what I said, and processes it. "No". Then in puzzlement "Why?" "Oh nothing. It's just that if you were bored I would have invited you to run away with me. But since you are not bored...". And then I resumed my silence. The new arrival, as with the rest of the room bursts into laughter.... 😂😊
I have schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. I don't know if you've done any videos on that but can you do one? I don't think there are any examples of anyone that i even know with it. It's pretty lonely tbh
Hi! I believe the youtuber "living well with schizophenia" has your disorder: schizoaffective with bipolar type. maybe you can watch her videos! she is doing pretty well, she is married with kids. ;) I hope you are well! ;) !
Hi Dr Syl, I have a friend who has served in the military. He is a well- adjusted adult who has now retired. Since the time that I met him, he has had this belief that he is under constant surveillance. He sometimes gets very angry at random strangers thinking they are spying on him. He is otherwise a very nice and loving person. But he hasn't been married and doesn't plan to. What do you think his issue could be?
It sounds like possibly some form of PTSD, although I'm not a dr and only a thorough examination and proper assessment can diagnose that. Unfortunately it would have to be up to him and if he's having these delusions then getting him to see a doctor might be difficult.
@@alien.aryn88 Thanks so much for your reply, I think I will keep trying to help him whichever way I can. Only if I could get some direction it would be great.
Schneiderian symptoms were first thought as schizophrenic, but nowadays are thought to be more likely dissociative... She has many of them, so I don't really think there is a great difference. Maybe she is both dissociative and schizophrenic.
I’m not disagreeing with the incongruent affect but my thought was she has ent received visitors or revived letters but at the same time She has ent sent letters,I could see a smile in that scenario. Just my take.
If your parent had schizophrenia make sure you don't tell anyone including doctors because they will automatically assume you are a chip off the ole block.
I thought age regression was a trauma response that brought your identity back to the age of trauma, i didn't know it could also be a part of a psychotic disorder, Is it the same thing or are they two different things?
Third alternative thinking - I think she doesn't like writing letters because deep down she knows that computers are going to take over everything and and she will be verbally able to write letters using voice 2 text technologies lol
To bad she had to live in a noisy hospital, she seems so sweet 😢 i think you get a bit introvert and weird living with other people who have mental illness.
Would you be my psychiatrist? I do live in America. Could you diagnose if not prescribe? Live the videos Doctor! I like you manner, style, and intuition.
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He's compassionate. But how comfortable is she talking to a stranger, a man, asking personal questions? Yes, re his basically invading her personal space
I really like this quote, so I'll just leave it here
"Remember that everything will be okay in the end. If everything is not okay, it is not the end" :3
Omg that quote will follow me for the rest of my life, thank you so much for taking the time and commenting this, I don't think you realize how much you just changed my world
Interesting that this is a truth that can be universally accepted even with the absence of any immediate evidence when you’re feeling well. I’m a reformed atheist now because of this.
However when you’re feeling particularly unwell IMO it’s so hard, again, highlighting the uselessness of having faith in some form or another for some of us.
Sweet lady, I’m so glad she feels safe where she is.
At 14.07 she smiled in some shy way and Dr Syl comented that her reaction was not normal and it is caused by schizophrenia. I would say she smiled and gigled a bit because she was caught with the question if she has written to her family. In my observation she was shy and embarrassed to say that she did not. She just complained that they dont visit her, but then herself she havent written to her. In my opinion it is a normal reaction. Usually children reacts this way but adults as well.
Nervous laughter is also an incongruent emotion, albeit common, even amongst non-psychotic illnesses. In my opinion, it'd be risky to always categorize it as "normal" in a neurological sense, as it is known to be incongruent, so it can be useful to identify it -- especially if it occurs often. In schizophrenia, any incongruent emotion, including nervous laughter, can be vastly more frequent than in that of someone without it. :)
I laugh/giggle when nervous, when being lectured/scolded by authority figure, just a personal reaction, not a sign of nental illness.
@@barbaraedgley2634 I believe that the point that Dr. Syl was making is not that any incongruent emotion is a symptom of schizophrenia.
Rather, consistent incongruent emotion to a larger extent, is commonly seen in schizophrenia.
It does not make someone mentally ill to have incongruent emotions; however, it shouldn't be dismissed if seen in a mentally ill person. It's similar to: everyone gets bruises, but if someone ill (eg. with an autoimmune disease) gets a bruise, it should be carefully monitored.
Pushing a professionals opinion on a subject away to give your own opinion as what is actually happening is a good example of Dunning-kruger phenomenon.
I agree with your take on the smile at that one question. She was reacting with embarrassment to the irony of her answers
Would you ever consider doing an analysis of mental health portrayed in shows/film? I think it would be interesting to have a professional opinion on how unrealistic or realistic they are.
That would be very interesting! Shutter Island and beautiful mind!!!
@@Diesereine-typ And " Snake pit".
I’m a support cleaner wanting to go into support for an NDIS provider. I find your video’s highly helpful. We are often not given diagnoses so it’s important to understand possible symptoms and to educate ourselves. Thank you!
That's wonderful! I'm thankful for the day that, just by chance, many years ago I got a job as an Employment Specialist supporting individuals with developmental disabilities. It was the start of a lifetime of deeply meaningful work. All the best to you!
I get the feeling this 'junior doctor' would be admit everyone to the mental hospital. Not realistic.
I truly wish that all mental health workers were more like you. I have serious mental problems and the way some of the mental health workers have treated myself and others,is truly beyond words.. I just want too say that your Chanel is fantastic, and has helped me in so many ways. So thank you
The phrase, 'its all in your head' is true and both comforting and terrifying at the same time...
I find these older interviews fascinating. Thank you for sharing your insights.
I’ve been watching this video of this woman since it’s upload. Almost weekly I’ll rewatch it. I just find her so comforting in some way. So familiar.
I am similar to you watching this 1952 clip every few months. The thought of her being detained there for ten years is very sad as she is not a threat to anyone.
I have ADHD with anxiety and its really interesting to hear how similar functions that are impared with me over lap with things like schizophrenia, such as a lack of motivation. it obviously presents differently and to a vastly different degree, but I find it interesting how subtle differences in the same areas can lead to such different outcomes
Same! I'm feeling slightly convoluted of my recent ADHD diagnosis, as to why I landed on this video. Awesome video and awesome take, Dr Syl!
I was feeling the exact same thing I have add. I also feel dissociated and nit there, have negative thoughts or no thoughts, very disorganized and chaotic yet empty and full yet overwhelming at the same time. Nothing I could ever really point out. I also have an internal monologue and am sound sensitive. I also have some child like mannerisms and don't even realize it till people mention it. Although this all isn't an episode that's just the way I always am. Every day is different though and I tend to find it difficult to be productive
@@Diesereine-typ I've felt the exact same my entire life. It's really hard to explain, cause there's so many contradictory/ambivalent symptoms.
Do you take medications? I feel like life has been easier since I toned in on the right medication and dose.
It's all part of some multidimensional spectrum.
I agree . I can read her because I am her. No hallucinations but adhd and the triggers for common anxiety
I don’t know if this is up your ally at all but I would love to see you cover/react to videos about ASD or co-occurrence of ASD with other disorders as it is so common. You bring a positive non-judgmental light to psychosis and really help educate and break down harmful stereotypes. As someone with autism, it would be great to see that done for us as well! There are a ton of autistic UA-camrs who talk about their experience, but I would love to hear the science side of things as I know our brains are different and we experience mental illness at a higher rate.
For instance, we are much more prone to PTSD. This is something I have struggled with (and am, but I’m being treated now), even to the point of hallucinations. I had no idea PTSD could even cause that! This is extra jarring for an autistic person as our reality is usually so rooted in logic. I would love to learn more about it! (I’m doing much better by the way- years of therapy and anxiety medication goes a long way for PTSD haha.)
I’m a registered nurse of many years as well as having my own mental health issues, including one involuntary & one voluntary admission to an acute psych ward. Your videos are so good…. But sometimes as a health professional I feel like I’m intruding on this woman’s life…. Because back then there wasn’t the level of patient advocacy and informed consent there is today. I often wonder about the person, what happened to them… were they ever discharged? She may be someone’s mum or sister, daughter. I wonder what family feel….. just me…. It was an excellent video. Thank you
I get in trouble for ignoring people because I can’t tell if someone said something to me or it’s a hallucination voice. Nice to see 😊 I’m not the only one!
Thank you so much for these informative videos! For many years, I worked in the field of community services for people with developmental disabilities. Now I'm working as a grant writer for an organization that predominantly serves individuals with behavioral needs both inpatient and community based. Your videos are helping someone like me, who's not a clinician, better understand the world of my colleagues and the people we serve.
All the best as you progress through your career and in life!
I have just found you, thank you so much for helping us understand what's going on with schizophrenia. I've been reading a lot and what you are saying is helping it all shift in my mind so that I'm able to reflect on how and what i's happening with my own son. Cheers
That was really valuable to me, thanks. My son is in the hospital, just gone 5 months. He's still suffering from psychosis (possible diagnosis of schizophrenia..) despite trying a few different meds. It's been such a roller coaster, there were years of struggle prior to his hospitalisation and where we find ourselves now. He'll be 22 next week.
Things that make ya go hmmmm.
Another great video Dr Syl. It is hard to watch Psychosis from an outside perspective. Being in it, it's hard to identify, it's so real. But what is real at the end of the day? Living with schizophrenia has really opened up this question for me. Thanks for your kind informative videos. The really help me
I know that I'm late to this vid and probably no one will see this but I gotta say: It's SO awesome to hear someone address the specific things I have always wondered about the vagaries of "hearing voices". Why would someone listen to them, why would someone do what they say if they are saying to do bad things, how much of it is perceived as yourself or external?
This is absolutely amazing stuff bro for real.
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I am studying catatonia/schizophrenia for an acting role. I have found your comments and analyses of this old footage extremely helpful. Thank you.
You should watch an old 1948 film called "The Snakepit" with Olivia De Havilland which is very realistic.
I just finished a placement for my cert in recovery oriented mental health in with residents living w dementia in aged care.
It was an excellent learning curve for me to develop alternative verbal and non verbal communication techniques, self reflection, self awareness etc, especially caring for those with limited physical, verbal abilities.
Consent cannot always be given in ways we understand.
while i’m not in the medical field, i find your videos super informative and interesting! :)
I long wished to be life-long hospitalized. I don't want that anymore. I just mostly want to be left alone. I hate going out of my house, I barely have any motivation to do my own chores and try to play games. I'm not gonna work.
But in hospitals there's too many people and noise, my intimacy feels compromised and the staff keeps poping into my room and I'm forced to have the sunlight in my room and while they don't mind that I live at night I have to be awake during the day in order to take my medication because they won't even trust me with my medication 😫 (they also threw away my loperamide last time I went)
I had a short stay in an old type state hospital.After about a week the psych said that I probably wanted to run away from the place but please stay a few more days.She was wrong I liked being there and would stay happily for a long time but I couldn't say that of course.Now there are no State Hospitals and mental health is only for those who can afford it .
I would like to see Dr Syl's analysis on GAD & PD.
Since I've been conducting my own research to understand my comorbid anxiety better, I've been flabbergasted at the lack of information and awareness surrounding this topic. I'd enjoy hearing about his thoughts or personal experiences in the ward
Watching your videos and seeing how these internal experiences are being interpreted are making me realize why I was so frustrated during my hospitalization.
The physical queues of the patient are being identified via titles/words that are symbolic to the perspective of the OBJECTIVE viewer.
In my experience, schizophrenia is a narrative/language issue and therefore more conceptual and tied into the greater schemas of conscious and unconscious experience.
We break away from the neural pathways that have been prescribed to us via a broken society and run haphazardly through what is left.
Sometimes our paths cross with other accepted narratives, ones that help us describe the meaning of our experience.
Usually we are frightened and alienated from society long before.
Which is why we become paranoid, because we know we have no ultimate autonomy or safety. There are greater powers at play.
In a hierarchy, in a world of social consensus, there are always others that can hurt us. Always.
And which is also why we can find humor where others can not. The entire experience is a joke and we know it. Plus, laughter alleviates the weight of stress.
Anyway, the described narrative is taken seriously via both the delusional and those caretaking, because it is the only way to meet in the middle and make sense of those feelings/experiences.
What is really happening is there are no better words/symbols to convey the meaning of the experience, and so the overarching narratives win out.
Which leads, in my experience, to the meaning or symbol behind my words not being understood.
Then becoming so frustrated that these people (MDs, RNs) are in such a different world that you want to verbally lash out but knowing it is unkind, you stay silent.
P.S. Plz read Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Thank you for your gentle analysis of the videos in this series. Absolutely heart breaking. Beautiful woman beautiful soul .
Thanks for this great video und your explanations.
I am in psychological training right now and it helped me to understand the illnesses... And your voice and talking speed is perfect 😊
My biological father had schizophrenia which because of the genetic aspect made me very interested. The one thing I have always been curious about is the nature of the voices themselves. Are the voices akin to a malfunction of the natural interior monologue in some cases? Fortunately at least in regards to symptom management I'm on the Autism spectrum and suffer from severe recurrent depression which requires far less unpleasant medication to treat. Even though I'm at an age where the chance of an onset of schizophrenia is nearly impossible I never lost the interest.
You noted a child-like nature in a response, and I’d just seen it as a sense of humor. Maybe there’d been a bit of both there. She really seemed to light up in moments of levity.
I’m kind of curious about the mechanism in the inappropriate smiling. Is it possible a person may subconsciously call upon different feelings as a defense against undesirable feelings?
Wow, she speaks so softly that auto captions doesn't even recognize it as speech most of the time. (Sometimes I struggle with hearing both physically and neurologically I guess, so I like closed captioning).
I was just diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder I would like to see you react to that please
Thank you for your work, it helps me to better understand different human conditions. Would be great to hear more advice on how to respectfully interact with people who are struggling.
For instance, there's a 90 year old woman who suddenly stopped hearing anything and lost a sense of time. But when she's happy and relaxed, she suddenly hears and then hearing disappears again. This old woman also has a mania that some individuals want to steal from her, so she's hidden the money and now can't find it. One day she agrees to take medication and go visit a doctor, another day she refuses any help and throws away the drugs. She also refuses to move to her daughter's place. It's very hard for her family to deal with this. What would you recommend to this granny's family? Especially since she's avoiding being seen by a doctor. What her diagnosis might be, Dr.?
Thank you, Dr. Syl! This was interesting. At one point, however, I may have been projecting. After she said she had not had visitors recently, and was ask if she had written anyone, when she smiled inappropriately, I took it as a reasonable response to having been called out for not keeping up her end of those relationships.
Doctor I was misdiagnosed with psychosis and was put on many antipsychotics for 5 months. And I lost my imagination because of that. I stopped taking antipsychotics 5 and half months ago. Do I get my imagination back? How long does it take?? And why did it stop working??
I feel restless (unbearable suffering) and I have schizophrenia
Simple schizophrenia was a form of schizophrenia, or is one, it is not a current diagnosis in the DSM, yet it survived longer in the international system, which was for people with the negative symptoms of schizophrenia but not the positive ones. So, the person in the video wouldn't be diagnosed with Simple Schizophrenia anyway, if they hear voices. The video shouldn't be labeled that and the reviewer, Dr. Syl should know this RIGHT AWAY. Why would they not???
I have a friend whose daughter developed schizophrenia at age 19. Her initial symptoms were romantic delusions related to Korean K-pop singers. She was self aware about the delusions at first. But her illness has progressed to the simple type as shown in this video. Interestingly she occupies her time scanning through TikTok and instagram reels for hours at a time. This seems to keep her happy. She is on anti-psychotic medication and has been hospitalized several times.
Love the videos! As a student it is so helpfull!
I think she smiled beacouse he said she could write to her family and she liked the idea
She is so sweet and has a very dry sense of humour. Her giggles are not displaced she’s incredibly smart and knows it . She has hallucinations but she is a very wise soul and so content
Simple type is void of hallucinations.
@@blue10880 can you imagine how well she would be treated in today's mental health regime. Not nearly as well I think.
My apologies I did not want to make anyone uncomfortable. Since this is a Mental illness reaction channel I shared my previous msg. I only shared because there is a lack of support groups in my area or nearby, where we can get educated about the illness so we can know what to expect as newly diagnosed individuals and know what to avoid so we don't find ourselves in problems like the ones I talked about in the previous message. And immediately seek help when we encounter these episodes because unfortunately as Dr Syl said even after taking treatment these episodes can still continue. So the more we talk about this the better for us.
What I wrote was my experience, my reality with the illness and desire to hear about other people's experiences so I can get educated. Thank you.
I would love to see a video from you about depersonalisation and derealisation Dr Syl
Dr Syl
Can you please do a video on psilocybin and the difference approaches to therapy like The Usoma Institute or Compass Pathways use? This looks super promising and it’s really exciting. I really really want to hear what you think.
Also could you address in your video people who take magic mushrooms and how they could have similar impacts to their mental health. And where people who take magic mushrooms won’t have the same impact to their mental health.
Thank you
You should interview Loren on "Living Well with Schizophrenia."
I also have it... usually i get all of this from memory. Trauma and so on.
I love your content. Its good to get an understanding of how psychiatrists are thinking when I speak with them.
I was wondering if you could do a video on the toxicity of antipsychotics? I am a part of several different schizophrenia forums and support places and I see a lot of discussion on how anti psychotics are equivalent of chemical lobotomy.
I've seen some videos on this subject from other medical professionals who believe it is as I say but I was wondering what the Australian view is as I am also Australian.
Have you watched Daniel Macklers video about this? It's called Take Those Broken Wings, and it's here on UA-cam. You have more change of recovering from schizophrenia without medication tjan with medication, says the film - but I haven't read the study about it yet. There's better results at treating schizophrenia without heavy medication tjan with it.
It’s not the equivalent of a chemical lobotomy. That’s exaggeration.
@@gigahorse1475 It's equivalent in a sense that it only makes people more manageable and most cases doesn't really heal the person.
Your the first person I've found that seems too have a very good understanding about simple schizophrenia Where could I find out more about this condition.... anything would be of great value too me....any study's etc you could recommend or anything at all would mean a great deal thanks in advance
But did you know that simple schizophrenia is no longer diagnosed in the DSM.
Awesome video Dr Syl!
I've definitely seen these symptoms in someone I know, very interesting
I’ve just been diagnosed with schizophrenia but I’ve always been aware that my delusions are just delusions and can always reason with them, i actually thought it was just anxiety but now know what it actually is, I don’t have auditory hallucinations though I get psychosis when very stressed but I’m struggling to come to terms with the diagnoses and now that I have a name to it I feel I’m able to reason with the delusions even more and have been able to push them away easier. I’m worried it’s going to get worse as I get older and start hearing voices, my psychiatrist started me on a antipsychotic but I’m getting terrible side effects and have now stopped them. If I’m not experiencing symptoms daily. I’m on the spectrum I know that but I feel I may have been miss diagnosed
Hi Elle , can I ask you what kind of delusions you have ? how do you distinguish delusions from "normal" paranoia ?what do you mean by "I get psychosis "??? what do you feel when you are in it? thanks for your answers in advance! I wish you a stable and healthy future !!! :)
Hi Dr Syl! Would you consider making a video about non-psychotic hallucinations?
I am Schitzophrenic female aged 34. And started being psychotic when I was aged 3 years and it became worse after visiting a Christian assembly one time, I saw the pastor of that church psychotically bewitched me with her faces, multiple snakes and voodoo. After that day I became seriously ill and they would torture me psychotically demanding me to do this and that. Creating trouble for me. Where am I now?
I am in a deep whole and there are no support groups in my area or nearby or any form of help. No one is willing to help me because I am exhausted of these people. The behaviour of my tormentors psychotically and physically is no different to make me think I am seeing my own things.
Kindly advice.😢
Its cruel why do some people have such a hard life and a nasty brain. It is so unfair.
Russepp crow from a past era 😮😂 , your very good at analysis, interesting to watch and explain very precise & clearly
Get this guy to 100k!
I like it when its quiet too but I like to read.
Daydream.
I have schizophrenia and i went to a program that really helped called atds which is a school where we have therapy meds and education
13;16 to me just seemed she was trying to look for answers in her memories, as one tends to do. Then maybe a flash of a happy memory or something. You cant assume its psychotic unless you know /why/ she smiled. You cant assume you know the truth like that without asking with a followup question.
Absolutely fascinating. More of the same please
I am in great trouble because of this illness and its episodes. I only wish that something quickly be done for those who are having symptoms of mental illness but are not aware they have the condition to quickly receive help. I was unfortunate and never receive education about this illness or help with my condition until i was 30 years old.(even though i had symptoms from age 3years). So i wish there could be more awareness campaigns about this illness.
I have severe command hallucinations. I have these episodes 24/7, and there is no rest. I thought immediately when i was diagnosed i was going to live in a hospital 24/7 which would make sense although it would'nt have been nice but had that happened it would have spared me alot of problems i am in because of these command hallucinations.
Yes treatment helps but still the episode's are always there nonetheless. Most of the times it becomes so unbearable that it becomes impossible to concentrate or be present in the real world let alone partake in things/tasks going on around because i am heavily tolerating & enduring severe battering, beatings and torture from my tomentors and the creator and his angels. This was my major problem in school, had i been told i was schitzophrenic at a young age i would have quit like I once had because I couldn't concentrate and never understood what was wrong with me because i was enduring battering & beatings in these episodes.
My tormentors in these episodes are my immediate family my mother, her daughter, her two sons , her family, my father's family and worse my child's father with the God of Israel they call him when they address him. With their deception command hallucinations it ensures them that people riot against me and harm me so they can then loot/plunder my life & then enslave me like how their God with his people always come to people's lands and strip them of their wealth, land, possessions, especially if its a country rich with gold and diamonds(mineral resources.). They set their foot there are then strip the people of their land & possession and then enslave them oppressing them. When I asked them why they are doing this they said it is God answering their bargain in trade for them to serve him. Like a dowry for them to be his servants/people. This creator told me he is and his servants are going to drag many more people from their homes to pay the price for his people deception as they advance and loot people's lives. They said they, did with Canaan, they did with African countries including South Africa whereby their God & his people stole land & wealth(natural resources) from black African community and then enslaved & oppressed them. They said their God is continuing in his quest by granting his people whatever land/people's wealth or possesion they bargain with their God. And their God grants them those things because he wants them to serve them by standing on the pulpit and strip peoples lives who congregate with them who have signs of mental illness and those who don't congregate with them.
People are in for a shocker. The Christian community are the ones responsible for the episodes the mentally ill face. They are the cause rather. They are not the gospel they preach:
1. love- but they batter & torment me 24/7 inflicting serious physical pain via these psychotic/episodes
2. do not lie - they constantly tell me lies via their command hallucinations telling me to say or do A, B & C to people or organisations. They are SERIEL DECEIVERS.
3. They say do not covet - but my mother's daughter is. There is nothing she has not stolen from My career choice, she got jealous I wanted to study medicine and forsook her physio therapy first choice option. Has stolen my business plans, has stolen my baby daddy/ex fiencee, child, the list goes on. If they did not covet Esau would still be having his birth right, Canaan would still have his land.
[Important thing to note i am not raising warefare i am merely informing those behing me since i have reached this stage of the illness that this is what is ahead of their journey with schitzophrenia & what is likely to be happening to them now so they make better choices when they encounter these episodes because there was no one there for me to guide& advice me about this illness/its episodes I feel I must let others know. So i am not picking fights lest anyone is thinking that. Schitzophrenia itself is a fight itself I am dealing with daily as i endure its blows after blows that i am eternally exhausted & drained. I am sharing my reality/my experience hoping it will help somebody out there with the same mental health condition as me.]. So this is not about pointing fingers but warning the people who are victims of this illness to avoid doing this and that for their benefit e.g. going to a christian assembly is the worst mistake they will ever make or their will reach level 1000% percent of the severity in their illness in no time just by attending. I warn people with schitzophrenic symptoms to stay away kindly, I am speaking from experience. They will bewitched you while standing on the pulpit like they gid me and will then experience severe command hallucinations and will did up a victim of those.
4. do not kill - they killed the cannanites.
5. do as you would love other to do unto you - they strip people of their land & enslave people. Countries affected by this are trying to recover from their blows even today and some have not.
I guess the question that should be asked is do all humans have equal rights? If this question can be answered to a Mentally health affected individual/s that would be nice or those who have encountered the evil of those who strip people of their land.
My tormentors my mother, her three children and her family and my child's father say they are doing this so they can be pastors enjoying the luxury of my life/land and what it offered.
Yet all five of them they behave as if they are righteous but their actions speak against them, they all even criminally purchased drivers lincence all five of them. What righteous message can ever come out of them. I caught my sister/mother's daughter praying for me to get raped by the public and her siblings to even impregnant me. She "covets" my ex fiencee/child's father.
So it was not enough that her mother organized a daily molester & rapist for me from age 1-5 years.
I feel mentally affected individuals should live in their own towns free from mentally stable people. If this could be done for our community there would be lesser problems. Besides birds of the same feathers flock together, they understand each other better no one will be abusing who or discrimination who because we all have the same illness.
My family members treat me like a dog and call me names especially my sister who is studying to be a doctor she is constantly making fun of mentally ill people saying crazy people ought to live in East London where all crazy people live.
It doesn’t seem to me that there’s all that much wrong with this lady. The doctor, by contrast, is wooden, monotonous and spoke in a grating and extremely irritating tone. By harping on about ‘being lonesome’ he is putting ideas into her head. She almost leapt at the chance of drinking coffee which shows she can anticipate potentially pleasurable futures.
Have you heard of the January (Jani) Schofield and Bodie her younger brothers case? I can't find the documentary on UA-cam, perhaps Netflix has it. Very interesting case.
I think that the only place that disorganised thought would be an issue is in the operating theatre... we have such high expectations of being perfect, compared to how perfect is depicted to us from birth. Its a mould that many cannot conform to. Life itself is not perfect, if it were, we would all live forever...
Great video as usual.❤
Thank you so much 😀
Dr Syl I have so many questions. My adult son has been experiencing psychosis since 2020. I can’t get past his defensiveness & I’m scared for him.
I barely watched whole video. In my country schisophrenia simplex is not recognised. But i have problem even to do simple thing like to watch movie. It started as a mania, but i never had minus phase. I was allways rocking forth back withe daydreaming and euphoria and thincing abstract cosmoslike ideas. My organisation was always poor, never could even take medicine, only before sleep. Bit last year i burn out. Now my negative simptoms are visible. I have 33 and i'm chained to bed for years. Even is uncofortable to cut nails. I'm hypersensitive and disturbed by presence of people that's why cannot endure hospitalisation. I'm ultra sensitive. My room is in chaos and i cannot force myself to do anything. I want euthanasia. Please, tell me what to expect? I hope to die earlier becouse i'm imosible organisme. Everything aches me. How long one live with this schisophrenia and how to make easyer to me.
Heinz Lehman is a boss. Classic psychiatrist that brings us the older videos.
Heinze Lehman was great as a therapist.He wasn't Jewish but felt he had to escape nazi Germany in the 30:s and so he went to Canada.very fortunate for Canada.
She reminds me of my cousin who has schizophrenia. My son has it too 😢
You have to realize Doc, as much as I admire your through review and insight into these conditions there has been NO meaningful treatment for this population of people in psychiatry in terms of restoration of their life, and that is a fact. Be honest that the medicines you prescribe can control acute psychotic symptoms SOMETIMES and that is really about it. Psychiatry desperately NEEDS to move the needle and they haven’t. Low carb or Ketogenic diets are looking very promising as these disorders are being seen as metabolic mitochondrial based dysfunction disorders of the brain.
You are very empathetic, I enjoy that about your videos. I think however there is a danger in empathising too much with past practitioners- yes they may have been ‘good’ for their times, however they are still placed within the social contexts of their time. I wouldn’t say ‘obviously this is a nice one’ regarding the asylum she’s in- we don’t know that from the video. For starters over 70% of women in psychiatric hospitals experience sexual assault- that we know of, and while I don’t know the statistics over time (it hasn’t been recorded) it is unlikely given women’s history generally that things were better in the past. It is unlikely she hasn’t received any trauma from her hospitalisation.
In terms of NDIS- that system is notorious for not accepting mental health clients. There are specialised organisations who fight for their rights to be accepted- and yet most are denied. ‘Wanting’ to be in full time care is fraught with issues of abuse, particularly for women and especially as care is in a unit with men in hospitals (and this is aside from the issues of some mental health professionals perpetuating abuse). As a mental health professional myself (in Melbourne) it would be interesting to have a cross professional discussion about what we see day to day (and year by year!). Love your channel, thank you.
Well I think this lady is much more fortunate to have been in the asylum for ten years than today where she would dumped out on the street with no one to help her.
@@HughBond-kx7ly - think? Why?
@@adem6371 I'm not sure what your comment means but maybe I should have said I'm certain.
@@HughBond-kx7ly , I was just asking for clarification about your comment, what informed it, but I didn’t want it to be a thing. All good, we can disagree! 🙂
Well I'm assuming that Canada followed the US trend and closed their State run asylums in the 80's and 90's @@adem6371
I feel like I’ve spoken to you at the crisis team in Camperdown. Is that you by chance?
Negative symptoms of psychosis can be treated to some extent with 50mg Amisulpride - with most research being carried out in Italy and India.
At the MH day centre a new arrival takes her seat, and sits staring into space, not reacting or taking any interest in where she is.
I take a seat near to her, and a ripple of laughter goes around the room because people have seen this before...
After 10 minutes of sitting in silence I turn to the new arrival and ask "Are you bored ?". The second tick by, and gradually the new arrival realises that somebody has spoken to her, remembers what I said, and processes it.
"No". Then in puzzlement "Why?"
"Oh nothing. It's just that if you were bored I would have invited you to run away with me. But since you are not bored...". And then I resumed my silence.
The new arrival, as with the rest of the room bursts into laughter.... 😂😊
Why are symptoms categorized as positive or negative? Is it how they impact the individual or is it like a technical term?
Hi,what Is
residual schizophrenia?
Why are the delusion symptoms Positive?
What are you meaning by positive and negative symptoms?
Not positive and negative as in "good" and "bad," but positive means an added, or extra behavior and negative means a lack of behavior.
@@aoiahiru670 thanks
I’ve never heard them described like that before they all just fallen under “systems”
I have schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. I don't know if you've done any videos on that but can you do one? I don't think there are any examples of anyone that i even know with it. It's pretty lonely tbh
Hi! I believe the youtuber "living well with schizophenia" has your disorder: schizoaffective with bipolar type. maybe you can watch her videos! she is doing pretty well, she is married with kids. ;) I hope you are well! ;) !
Your going to be a great psychiatrist 😊
Hi Dr Syl, I have a friend who has served in the military. He is a well- adjusted adult who has now retired. Since the time that I met him, he has had this belief that he is under constant surveillance. He sometimes gets very angry at random strangers thinking they are spying on him. He is otherwise a very nice and loving person. But he hasn't been married and doesn't plan to. What do you think his issue could be?
It sounds like possibly some form of PTSD, although I'm not a dr and only a thorough examination and proper assessment can diagnose that. Unfortunately it would have to be up to him and if he's having these delusions then getting him to see a doctor might be difficult.
@@alien.aryn88 Thanks so much for your reply, I think I will keep trying to help him whichever way I can. Only if I could get some direction it would be great.
Sir I need your help!!!!
Please help me. We recently found that my brother is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Help help help
This is me. Except for the voices, I don't have positive symptoms (fortunately) but that means it is all no-fun.
How is this different from DID?
Schneiderian symptoms were first thought as schizophrenic, but nowadays are thought to be more likely dissociative... She has many of them, so I don't really think there is a great difference. Maybe she is both dissociative and schizophrenic.
I’m not disagreeing with the incongruent affect but my thought was she has ent received visitors or revived letters but at the same time She has ent sent letters,I could see a smile in that scenario. Just my take.
If your parent had schizophrenia make sure you don't tell anyone including doctors because they will automatically assume you are a chip off the ole block.
I thought age regression was a trauma response that brought your identity back to the age of trauma, i didn't know it could also be a part of a psychotic disorder,
Is it the same thing or are they two different things?
I also thought many of her symptoms are currently seen as possibly dissociative due to childhood trauma
She might of smiled cus she realised something - specifically that she was partially at fault for her not visiting - her not writing them.
Third alternative thinking - I think she doesn't like writing letters because deep down she knows that computers are going to take over everything and and she will be verbally able to write letters using voice 2 text technologies lol
To bad she had to live in a noisy hospital, she seems so sweet 😢 i think you get a bit introvert and weird living with other people who have mental illness.
I had a patient who said her “voices” only said stupid things
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Jesus is the healer I pray God heal my mother from this lie . My mother love when it quits as well sometimes I have to quit her and pray for her .
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13:27 Seems as if she had an inappropriate thought of him and her getting 😜
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This video needs subtitles,couse I hardly understand the woman...
I have the volume on full blast and i cant hear you well when u speak
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I wonder if they gave her a grave
"Simple" schizophrenia??? 🤔
It's supposed to be a SZ without psychosis but only negative symptoms
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He's compassionate. But how comfortable is she talking to a stranger, a man, asking personal questions? Yes, re his basically invading her personal space
I would be guarded, defensive, relyctant to answer prying questions
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