My son suffered from schizophrenia and I had no idea. The part about the unchanging beliefs hit me hard. He truly believed he did not have a problem. I took him to 12 doctors (therapists and psychiatrists) in a 3 year span all of whom let me know that if he wasn't willing to accept the help, there was nothing they could do for him. This disease is the worst mental illness in existence. He refused standard medicine in favor of illicit drugs and died of a fentanyl overdose last summer. My heart is broken, but I want to help educate people on this disease as I literally had no idea what was happening to my son till it was too late. Thank you for putting this video up. You are helping more people than you know. Wish I could have seen something like this 16 years ago, may have saved my son.
I’m really grateful for educators like this person, i never comment this enough but I’ve spent years on the internet looking for ways to cope and I’m always able to find people spreading helpful information in the muck
I spent many years in weekly therapy sessions to recover from Psychosis and overcome my intrusions but sadly, i never processed the trauma that led to my psychosis or the trauma that came from the psychosis. I now feel like i am relapsing because i never processed or dealt with the cause. Luckily i can avoid the drug-induced nature of my psychosis because i no longer do drugs. But even being sober i have to choose to relapse into psychotoc-type behaviour or instead do the trauma work and heal from my childhood complex PTSD. Thankfully, i have found a great psychotherapist to help me heal from my trauma. Thank god 🙏 please pray for me if you wish. My hope is thin
Same boat. I hope things are going good for you. Sending you strength 🫶 what type of therapy? I recently started with EMDR and have heard amazing things about it when it comes to trauma
That is wonderful for you, I am so glad that you have found some help. I wish I had had the ability to do so, many year's ago. Hearing stories like this offer me an alternate reality, a fantasy, how different my life could have been. Best of luck to you❤️
my boyfriend has autism and was abusing meth for a while which led to a lack of sleep, decline in self care, etc… he went through psychosis for about 8 months. as soon as he stopped doing drugs, the next day his delusions and hallucinations just stopped. he went to a mental hospital during that period, and he still came out thinking that way. he also had a troubled childhood and spent all his teenage years abusing opiates which later turned into worse drugs. these videos are very helpful and help me understand his situation better. im doing anything to prevent/avoid something like that happening again, and i appreciate what you’re doing!
@@priscillalerma5830 please please be sure to learn the difference between Enabling and Helping him, compassion must be tempered with logic or it’s just enabling… if you’re feeling sorry for him then any action you’re taking to help him would most only be enabling him… don’t get stuck for years putting your all into a man who may not ever be ready to fix himself!
Thank you for explaining such a model. How the past trauma effects our current behavior and a possible psychosis. I was able to plot what lead to my psychosis on it. Although a bout of epileptic fits one evening is what actually gave me the psychotic episode.
It's so true that it ties in with the past. I cope really well with my schizophrenia symptoms, when they arise I do what I can to distract myself healthily with resources such as friends or person resource. Great video! Thanks for spreading awareness.
Thank you so much. I've been having strange experiences these past two weeks and I would like to bring this up with my therapist. I was worried I was going insane. It's comforting to know it may be related to my PTSD.
I am glad you found this video comfortable, and I hope you feel the courage to discuss this with your therapist at some point to explore these experiences more. Wishing you all the best x
Not to worry! If you were actually going insane, you would not question the absolute reality of your perceptions, no matter how irrational or delusional your experience becomes.
I was diagnosed a couple years ago and while maybe it’s not practical in a clinical setting, I would’ve loved for someone to walk me through research/models in a careful way like this. Makes me feel less powerless when I understand it better so I really loved this. Great video 😄
@@kyrazimmerman22 My son was recently diagnosed and this is all new to me. But his phycosis was severe he had all the negative and positive symptoms and we're still unsure if his ptsd caused it. The doctor told us some people only get it once but like I said this is all new to me and we've been devastated by the diagnosis.
@@Isa-tw1ly the last time I had psychosis was because of PTSD. I too had all the symptoms! PTSD Psychosis in my opinion is worse than the others I've experienced because.... The reason your brain goes in psychosis is because your mind literally cannot handle what happened. I went in to psychosis because my ex husband tried killing me a long with some other huge stressers that was also traumatizing. I'm glad you got him help, go you! Try not to remind him of his habits or how he acted in his impaired mental state. it's embarrassing and it triggers the PTSD, at least it did for me. My family kept telling me how I acted, what I did etc. When someone is in psychosis or just got out recently it's a lot on the brain. Think of it as the most intense exercise you can and multiply by 3. That's what the brain is like during recovery. I smoke weed like mad and it helps. It helps those with PTSD by removing the huge intense memory and replaces em with not as bad memories. It's a life saver. I wish you and your family well and healthy lives!
Be easy on yourself my friend, it's a difficult road. Keep doing whatever calms you, however small. It will slowly get easier if you find your calm. And well done for reaching out. Much love
This video, especially those two vignets, have really helped me understand my own psychosis and the strong links to my childhood and complex trauma. Thankyou 🙏 for example.. as a child I always thought my parents could read my mind, and in my early-adulthood psychosis i would drive around seeing hallucinations of helicopters, planes, and UFO's following me.. but in reality my parents were just overbearing and intrusive people, making me feel like i couldnt get away from their opinions and judgements.
Diagnosing psychotic illnesses in autism is really complicated, there's so much overlap in symptoms I often have a hard time to tell if its just my autism or if I'm getting psychotic again.
Very very helpful!!! Thank you! Please continue to share videos such as this… The link between trauma and psychosis is something very important for people to be aware of! Thank you!
Just after the psychosis episode I asked GM to integrate the history of what I was thinking has caused all this but unfortunately, as you said in your video, they werent able to focus with me on the trauma matter. Thank you for sharing those models, they totally fit the way I felt and what is really experienced
Everything is energy, and therefore psychic attacks are very real. Who’s to say what matters and what doesn’t? The linearisation of the human causes more problems than it solves. We are not 3D beings, we are just having a physical experience right now. Life is but a dream and no one is truly in the position to tell someone that their experience is false. All is Mind.
Very clear and comprehensive illustration of psychosis. It helps me to clarify and understands what is psychosis. Really appreciate your video. Thank you.
I really liked this video. I rarely comment but I'm glad to find literature on this topic as well as your outline of how trauma and psychosis can be related. I'm interested in creating a therapy group related to these topics and your comment about trauma informed care vs processing symptoms in the here and now really changed how I may look at doing this group in the future!! I'm a masters level counseling student looking forward to what might come out of this topic for me in the future thank you!!!! :)
my current psychiatrist does not think i have borderline personality disorder and she is tapering me off mirtazipene and starting risperidone in two weeks if my symtpoms of psychoses go away and i respond to that medication and my thoughts and paranoid thinking and eratic thinking go away, the neighbours in my street are talking about me, and i believe certain songs that comeon the radio are designed for me to listen too, when i get angry i scream and shout and go to my room to baracade myself in my room because its my way of defense system, im not very well at the moment i was doing fine for some days and i live with my parents in mid 60's and my dad is critical of me and puts me down, im staying safe in my room, god please help me i need to start new medication risperidone soon, im sorry everyone im personal on here i just dont know who to talk to , but i talk to god and my cat
I'm sorry about that, I have had psychosis 6 months ago and I can say that risperidone helped and is still helping since I'm still taking it. It will help relaxing your mind. I can suggest you to do physical training, eating well, spending time in nature, getting closer to god. I know it's hard but try to accept everything as a lesson, get in touch with your feelings. Wish you all the best, eventually the pain will go away. Cheers
I’ve been wondering. Because I’m going through this with my mom and trying to help her and understand her. I have been having Strong Suspicions that my hurtful selfish father causing this in mom. 😢😢😢
I guess both general and specific information are helpful. Have you ever thought to use figures, like infographics in your presentation? They facilitate comprehension. Usually, the work is already done by someone, so no need for creating one from scratch.
I found you via your post on Reddit. I'm currently writing my first novel, and my main character lives with schizoaffective disorder. Childhood trauma is going to be an important part of her story, so I'm always looking for information about exactly this! Thank you, thank you! :)
Definitely sounds like someone observing psychotic patients wrote this down. From what I understand "catatonic" and "negative" behavior isn't really often lack of action, on the contrary there might be an entire storm going through their head which takes all the attention away from the outside world. Also, they might be paranoid or over interpret everything that is happening around them and too scared or confused to interact.
Was abused pretty bad during the first 11 years oft my life. Apart from seeing and hearing my parents scream absolute hate at each other while they threw things or broke things usually culminating with my father cornering my mother and getting physical in various ways, there was also physical abuse form both of them. The worst was when I was 10 and my father had mother in a corner I'd do something to make him come after me and I've been knocked out and choked out several times. When they got a divorce my mom would often hit me telling me I was just like my father When I was 20 my aunt and mother sat me down and told me they thought my dad had sexually abused me. I had no memory of it so I dismissed it, until about a year later when our of nowhere a memory of hin sexually abusing me popped up. A year after that I was basically living in a psychotic episode. Had auditory hallucinations, plenty of paranoid delusions where I would draw up charts showing how everything was connected, I thought there was messages for me in the radio and TV, I had thought broadcasting, I thought I'd died and gone to hell, thought I had a microchip in me and other things but that covers it. This lasted for years and for some reason all but stopped one day. I'll have episodes on occasion but nothing like how I was.
Such an interesting project! No problem glad you enjoyed it :) I’m definitely considering applying for the dclinpsy after this it’s just on my mind aha
I had never been robbed in my life On 3 / 4 My car was stolen, police did little but I found it and unfortunately the thief with it. He pulled put a 357 and walked me around for 3 hours looking for somewhere to kill me. No one except for a gas attendant got help with my signs and mouthing help A Month later , and note the thief had taken my phone and destroyed it I was talking to a iPhone seller for 2 weeks , and planned to meet in a public parking lot. It was a preppy looking 19 yo couple . Let me look at the phone outside the car very friendly and eventually was like hey " you can take a seat my girl will hop in back" Second i get in to the car dude says you know what time it is and cooked his gun put against forehead. Even the gf had a gun and kept tapping it against my head. I haven't been right since
Sorry to hear about this, sounds like two very traumatic experiences and I hope you are getting the support you need, glad to know that you managed to get through the experiences physically regardless and I wish you a healthy life and hope you can process it soon x
So my PhD is currently looking at whether psychosis may be a psychotic form of PTSD, of course not everyone with psychosis experiences hallucinations or delusions that are trauma related, these people would not be considered to have a reaction to trauma at all, hope this helps! A lot more I can talk about this but don't want to go into too much detail on this comment x
Thank you for the video. Ya, I am wondering somehow how do we know if someone has hullcination sx yet grew up in a loving family could have a traumatic life ? If not drug to navigate whatelse.. OTHER Alternative modalities have you come across to deal with intrusive thoughts ? Thanks
I think Ive been experiencing something bad when I was younger cause I experienced psychosis in 2020 and my family have alot of mental issues and they are doing the same to my daughter. I wish I never had kids if I knew what I know now.😭
I just recently experienced an episode. I was driving when two specific things triggered me. All of a sudden I had no idea why I was driving and where I was driving, was stuck in another reality. Voices told me I was communicating with the spiritual world and they were telling me about my future and past. Voices told me to pull over an enter a forest. As I got into the forest, I had no idea what I was doing there or where I was going. I was so confused. I managed to tell myself that if I go into the forest no one will ever find me. I then saw a tree but voices were telling me it’s a demon trying to kill me. I had a panic attack. Managed to put the gps on and drive home. Apparently I was 100 km away but had no idea how I got there. I’m trying to get therapy but they’re labelling me as a high risk client. I just recently lost my mom, have a lot of trauma and have past depression issues. Sick and tired of coping skills. I had a dream after this where they told me I need to get a puppy and it will help me stay grounded in reality.
ChatGPT thinks dogs can help prevent psychosis episodes. If you can't get therapy, it wouldn't be a bad thing to get one. Be sure you'll be able to take care of it though.
The warning voices and information voices I've experience have all been 100% to my benefit, I am so greatful for my inner voice. I have no fear of hearing these voices, if i heard anything that prompted me to do harm to myself or others I would knowcthat this is a malevolent entity. I am on my spiritual path, the journey is a joy.
Hello.. i think my brother experiencing psychosis.. he have those symptoms. We dont know what medicine he can take.. i just bought multivitamins for him to take. Because we dont what medicine.. i wan him to bring in a psy clinic for checkup. But the checkup is too expensive... I dont know what to do. Im exhaust too searching for alternative med for him😓😓🙏
He has to clean up his diet. And take supplements like omega3, coQ10, glycine, d3+k2, and eat organic foods like eggs, clean meat, as less ultra proscessed foods as possible...... i had an psychosis and I have narsistic family members who now has my daughter, and are doing the same to her as they did to me, working on getting her back home to me, but my sister is a terrible narsisist too.
Isn't psychosis a disorder in its own right? I had a few bouts of psychosis in 2012 I had a small bout years later but I'm sure the psychosis was caused by prescription drugs! And since I had the drug reduced I never had full blown psychosis yet!
I'm trying to better understand psychosis in the hope that it will affect me less, I'm trying to complete a course. But everytime I get into this particular unit it triggers psychosis, from an accident & I can't shake it. Last time it lasted 6 months & I needed care myself, it was like being in a war zone
Can I have some of the symptoms of the Prodromal period without having an psychosis disorder? My mother has schizophrenia and I've been isolating, eating unhealthier, feeling depressed and anxious and smoking weed more.
Marijuana, poor enviorments, abuses like “social defeat” situations, circadium disruptions all play a role in mitocondrial dysfunction in the brain. “Social defeat” can greater anhedonia or bipolar negative symptoms and schizophrenia spectrum issues could be a reaction or a desparation response to the negative bipolar symptoms like anhedonia and amotivation
I heard voices when I was going through my psychosis... Like everywhere I went, work, stores, home. Just evil voices man I thought my neighbors were going to kill me and impale me on the gate at home. Pretty wild sh*t tbh. Couldn't sleep for 4 days and then the voices got even more evil. Was admitted to the mental ward soon after that. I'm better now and understand my truama is what brought it on.
"Professionals", especially those who don't have personal experience with or study in depth qualitative data have both misconceptions and misconception diagnosis. The first 2 combined mistakes are the failure to recognize or disclose that "disorders" are based on population normalizes and in relation to supposed popular societal expectations. More important and glaring is the major mistake and misunderstanding is that if symptoms and processes are due to circumstances and trauma, the person is not experiencing a "disorder", in fact, the system is in perfect and expected working order. The simplest example, if a person is I. A depressing situation, it is normal and healthy to be or feel depressed. The opposite reaction couod be seen as abnormal.
As a close relative to a person with schizofrenia I wold like to say this about trauma and schizophrenia. There might be some patients that have had trauma but many bipolar or schizophrenic people may turn their emotions against the person they care most about. Due to anosognosia it is common that psychotic delustions includes trauma as a real event when it is not. As so many patience with psychosis suffers from anosognosia a denial of the cause of the hospitalization may be blamed on delusional traumas. This will make the data hard to analyze as this type of data is collected between the patient and the hospital.
I have psychosis and my step dad was an abusive alcoholic to everyone. would yell at me as a kid for not eating right, eating at night or little things.
I'm so confused by the specification for ASD. Like why? It's not as if people with Autism regularly have psychosis or something. I'm an autistic therapist who's had a singular stress-related hallucination (extremely brief), but I work with tons of other people with ASD and psychosis is definitely not a thing most of them bring up?
I have complex post traumatic stress disorder and have just had psychosis I think. My skin felt like it was crawling and now I'm red raw. I could smell coffee through my phone when I saw the word. I've been paranoid and can't leave the house. I haven't showered in 5 days. I live alone and don't see anyone. It's awful, but I have insight. And I have crippling insomnia
"Spiritual mafia" is certainly less triggering than other frequent terms. Have you ever considered looking in-depth into why this particular conspiracy scenario is such a strong and common feature of these disorders?
Trauma is often one of the main causes of psychosis as well. All it takes is a gun to a person's head and bam 6 months later - full blown schizophrenia; due to genetics.
I had a weed over dose....( It was like being a very young child again Involuntarily and Not being able to. Speak properly )On top of that, I had to deal with three narcissistic idiots going at me at one point in time... And extreme ptsd... the flash backs were really bad.
I am bad but when the authorities publicly made a example of me everyone else believes that I'm bad to understand in my head they would say that it's for your own good to change my ways by shaming me it didn't I was more bothered about everyone gossiping about me in the end I ended up with paranoia and phychosios
I haven't heard this before, psychosis and personality disorders can be quite different so I don't see how they relate- would have to look into this myself more!
@@AvaMason1 it's psychosis because of the main symptoms related to narcissism which is permanent delusional thinking. Similar to someone with permanent psychosis or schizophrenia, the narcissist is unable to distinguish between fantasy reality and humane realities (emotional and compassionate empathy, morality, self awareness, remorse). That's why they act in antisocial manners, their narcissisticly psychotic sense of reality feels real to them and they cannot question it, that's just how they think. There's other similarities between narcissism and psychosis (also related to delusional thinking) - and that is word salad. Everybody knows the narcissistic word salad as well as some patients with schizophrenia, the way they connect contexts and meanings is disturbed by their thought processes. What's also not talked about a lot is that a narcissistic household can create most, if not all personality disorders. Crazy stuff.
@@bobostyle1996 when the psychosis passes you should be displaying less narcissistic traits, as the psychosis just serves as a temporary escape from pain and creates a more defensive personality style while you’re still around chaos
I can see where this theory could definitely pan out. I believe both my bros are malignant NPDs. Their bizarre thinking had to have started over 60-70 years ago.
I have possible narcolepsy and i can't begin to tell you how many medical professionals think i have psychosis. There's patterns to my hallucinations. Before and after sleep. When tired... dr doesn't belive me
Is it just me, or is pretty much everything just stress shutting down the PFC and disinhibiting people? Seems like genetics don't actually make you vulnerable, they just get expressed when you stop being able to inhibit the behavior that they drive? Like, surely partially expressed forms are the only way most disorders could have evolved in the first place?
You don't know the exact percentages regarding the link between psychosis and trauma, so please don't state estimated numbers (that do not account for dissociated trauma that has not yet been remembered) as fact.
My two trauma never go away. First one is a bad car roll over accident. After the accident my driven experience change forever Second I shoot myself in the tight. The gun just went off by itself after a jump by playing basketball. Afterwards I just never trust be around gun. Because my little voice tell me to be careful the gun might go off by itself. What an idiot?
Revenge fantasies and annger i have personally due to being a former child victim of a forced adoption and subsewuent childhood abuse trauma 😐 cmht are useless and side with abusers no use to ppl like myself who NEED intense 121 therapy with an impartial non biased PROFESSIONAL who sympathisers with victims and dosnt blame the victim 😐
Betrayal trauma means bad things happening to you. Your ex betrayed you, that is the bad thing has happened to you. How to come out of betrayal trauma that I will see tommorrow. Let's enjoy now
My son suffered from schizophrenia and I had no idea. The part about the unchanging beliefs hit me hard. He truly believed he did not have a problem. I took him to 12 doctors (therapists and psychiatrists) in a 3 year span all of whom let me know that if he wasn't willing to accept the help, there was nothing they could do for him. This disease is the worst mental illness in existence. He refused standard medicine in favor of illicit drugs and died of a fentanyl overdose last summer. My heart is broken, but I want to help educate people on this disease as I literally had no idea what was happening to my son till it was too late.
Thank you for putting this video up. You are helping more people than you know. Wish I could have seen something like this 16 years ago, may have saved my son.
So sorry for your loss that's terrible!
So sorry for your loss that's so terrible!
So sorry for your loss!
My brother has paranoid schizophrenia due to being molested as a little boy, in addition to the physical and emotional abuse we lived through.
What trauma did he suffer from?
I’m really grateful for educators like this person, i never comment this enough but I’ve spent years on the internet looking for ways to cope and I’m always able to find people spreading helpful information in the muck
I spent many years in weekly therapy sessions to recover from Psychosis and overcome my intrusions but sadly, i never processed the trauma that led to my psychosis or the trauma that came from the psychosis. I now feel like i am relapsing because i never processed or dealt with the cause. Luckily i can avoid the drug-induced nature of my psychosis because i no longer do drugs. But even being sober i have to choose to relapse into psychotoc-type behaviour or instead do the trauma work and heal from my childhood complex PTSD. Thankfully, i have found a great psychotherapist to help me heal from my trauma. Thank god 🙏 please pray for me if you wish. My hope is thin
Same boat. I hope things are going good for you. Sending you strength 🫶 what type of therapy? I recently started with EMDR and have heard amazing things about it when it comes to trauma
That is wonderful for you, I am so glad that you have found some help. I wish I had had the ability to do so, many year's ago. Hearing stories like this offer me an alternate reality, a fantasy, how different my life could have been. Best of luck to you❤️
God is alive for blessing us people like you without greed ,you share this knowledge with utmost good faith
Thank you for taking the time to record these videos and bringing more knowledge to non-professionals and everyone affected by trauma. 💚
No problem, I hope it was helpful :)
my boyfriend has autism and was abusing meth for a while which led to a lack of sleep, decline in self care, etc… he went through psychosis for about 8 months. as soon as he stopped doing drugs, the next day his delusions and hallucinations just stopped. he went to a mental hospital during that period, and he still came out thinking that way. he also had a troubled childhood and spent all his teenage years abusing opiates which later turned into worse drugs. these videos are very helpful and help me understand his situation better. im doing anything to prevent/avoid something like that happening again, and i appreciate what you’re doing!
@@priscillalerma5830 please please be sure to learn the difference between Enabling and Helping him, compassion must be tempered with logic or it’s just enabling… if you’re feeling sorry for him then any action you’re taking to help him would most only be enabling him… don’t get stuck for years putting your all into a man who may not ever be ready to fix himself!
I have psychosis and trauma and this was extremely helpful for understanding it better! Thank you!
Thank you for explaining such a model. How the past trauma effects our current behavior and a possible psychosis. I was able to plot what lead to my psychosis on it. Although a bout of epileptic fits one evening is what actually gave me the psychotic episode.
It's so true that it ties in with the past. I cope really well with my schizophrenia symptoms, when they arise I do what I can to distract myself healthily with resources such as friends or person resource. Great video! Thanks for spreading awareness.
Thank you so much. I've been having strange experiences these past two weeks and I would like to bring this up with my therapist. I was worried I was going insane. It's comforting to know it may be related to my PTSD.
I am glad you found this video comfortable, and I hope you feel the courage to discuss this with your therapist at some point to explore these experiences more. Wishing you all the best x
Not to worry! If you were actually going insane, you would not question the absolute reality of your perceptions, no matter how irrational or delusional your experience becomes.
I was diagnosed a couple years ago and while maybe it’s not practical in a clinical setting, I would’ve loved for someone to walk me through research/models in a careful way like this. Makes me feel less powerless when I understand it better so I really loved this. Great video 😄
Glad you enjoyed it :)!
Psychosis was a fun and frightening journey for me.
IKR! I miss my little world at times...
@@kyrazimmerman22 Did you only have it once?
@@Isa-tw1ly I've had it a handful of times
@@kyrazimmerman22 My son was recently diagnosed and this is all new to me. But his phycosis was severe he had all the negative and positive symptoms and we're still unsure if his ptsd caused it. The doctor told us some people only get it once but like I said this is all new to me and we've been devastated by the diagnosis.
@@Isa-tw1ly the last time I had psychosis was because of PTSD. I too had all the symptoms! PTSD Psychosis in my opinion is worse than the others I've experienced because.... The reason your brain goes in psychosis is because your mind literally cannot handle what happened. I went in to psychosis because my ex husband tried killing me a long with some other huge stressers that was also traumatizing. I'm glad you got him help, go you! Try not to remind him of his habits or how he acted in his impaired mental state. it's embarrassing and it triggers the PTSD, at least it did for me. My family kept telling me how I acted, what I did etc. When someone is in psychosis or just got out recently it's a lot on the brain. Think of it as the most intense exercise you can and multiply by 3. That's what the brain is like during recovery. I smoke weed like mad and it helps. It helps those with PTSD by removing the huge intense memory and replaces em with not as bad memories. It's a life saver. I wish you and your family well and healthy lives!
I’m clinging on to what’s left of reality, I’m in need of a full time rest. I’m scared of what lies beyond and the pain it would put on others
Be easy on yourself my friend, it's a difficult road. Keep doing whatever calms you, however small. It will slowly get easier if you find your calm. And well done for reaching out. Much love
Hope all is well
This video, especially those two vignets, have really helped me understand my own psychosis and the strong links to my childhood and complex trauma. Thankyou 🙏 for example.. as a child I always thought my parents could read my mind, and in my early-adulthood psychosis i would drive around seeing hallucinations of helicopters, planes, and UFO's following me.. but in reality my parents were just overbearing and intrusive people, making me feel like i couldnt get away from their opinions and judgements.
Diagnosing psychotic illnesses in autism is really complicated, there's so much overlap in symptoms I often have a hard time to tell if its just my autism or if I'm getting psychotic again.
Love these videos. I hope to be an academic researcher one day, too!
Glad you enjoy them :)
Good luck!
We need more research! ❤
Very very helpful!!! Thank you! Please continue to share videos such as this… The link between trauma and psychosis is something very important for people to be aware of! Thank you!
Just after the psychosis episode I asked GM to integrate the history of what I was thinking has caused all this but unfortunately, as you said in your video, they werent able to focus with me on the trauma matter. Thank you for sharing those models, they totally fit the way I felt and what is really experienced
See John Read's talks. Childhood & adult traumatic experiences contribute to people separating from reality.
Very informative lecture. You are hardworker and devotion.
Everything is energy, and therefore psychic attacks are very real. Who’s to say what matters and what doesn’t? The linearisation of the human causes more problems than it solves. We are not 3D beings, we are just having a physical experience right now. Life is but a dream and no one is truly in the position to tell someone that their experience is false. All is Mind.
Excellent video and great job putting everything together eloquently.
It is helping me.
Very clear and comprehensive illustration of psychosis. It helps me to clarify and understands what is psychosis. Really appreciate your video. Thank you.
I really liked this video. I rarely comment but I'm glad to find literature on this topic as well as your outline of how trauma and psychosis can be related. I'm interested in creating a therapy group related to these topics and your comment about trauma informed care vs processing symptoms in the here and now really changed how I may look at doing this group in the future!! I'm a masters level counseling student looking forward to what might come out of this topic for me in the future thank you!!!! :)
Love your breakdown of things I deal with. It’s helped me understand and in a way fight when I’m dealing with delusional thinking
incredibly in-depth and informative espescially compared to the other videos that i have seen
thank you for this. what are some examples of trauma focused therapies?
Rather than a psychosis, my life took me on a spiritual path with an Indian guru that saved my life, literally.😊
Can you please share more, I would like to learn more about this.
Yes, would like to know more about your experience, please 🙏
my current psychiatrist does not think i have borderline personality disorder and she is tapering me off mirtazipene and starting risperidone in two weeks if my symtpoms of psychoses go away and i respond to that medication and my thoughts and paranoid thinking and eratic thinking go away, the neighbours in my street are talking about me, and i believe certain songs that comeon the radio are designed for me to listen too, when i get angry i scream and shout and go to my room to baracade myself in my room because its my way of defense system, im not very well at the moment i was doing fine for some days and i live with my parents in mid 60's and my dad is critical of me and puts me down, im staying safe in my room, god please help me i need to start new medication risperidone soon, im sorry everyone im personal on here i just dont know who to talk to , but i talk to god and my cat
I'm sorry about that, I have had psychosis 6 months ago and I can say that risperidone helped and is still helping since I'm still taking it. It will help relaxing your mind.
I can suggest you to do physical training, eating well, spending time in nature, getting closer to god.
I know it's hard but try to accept everything as a lesson, get in touch with your feelings.
Wish you all the best, eventually the pain will go away. Cheers
I like t his style of dialog please keep it up
Hi, thank you for making this video. I've suffered from psychosis for a while now so this has been really helpful.
Really sorry to hear that, but I’m glad there is something to be gained from this video for you, wishing you a healthy future :)
Do you recommend looking into trauma therapy to help with paranoid schizophrenia? Psychiatrists often only prescribe medicine.
You need a very well seasoned therapist!
I died several times in various ways and I now don't feel much at all for this life.
I had trauma at school it was an unreality prelude to later mental health problems.
I’ve been wondering. Because I’m going through this with my mom and trying to help her and understand her. I have been having Strong Suspicions that my hurtful selfish father causing this in mom. 😢😢😢
I guess both general and specific information are helpful. Have you ever thought to use figures, like infographics in your presentation? They facilitate comprehension. Usually, the work is already done by someone, so no need for creating one from scratch.
Wow, this makes a lot of sense. Fascinating and important topic that needs a lot of attention. Thank you :)
No problem glad you enjoyed it :)
I found you via your post on Reddit. I'm currently writing my first novel, and my main character lives with schizoaffective disorder. Childhood trauma is going to be an important part of her story, so I'm always looking for information about exactly this! Thank you, thank you! :)
Wow amazing! Tell me what the book is called when it’s published I’d love to have a read aha :)
Please dont accidentally offend those with the illness, very easy to screw up.
Why did you choose to give your main character schizoaffective disorder?
Definitely sounds like someone observing psychotic patients wrote this down. From what I understand "catatonic" and "negative" behavior isn't really often lack of action, on the contrary there might be an entire storm going through their head which takes all the attention away from the outside world. Also, they might be paranoid or over interpret everything that is happening around them and too scared or confused to interact.
Was abused pretty bad during the first 11 years oft my life. Apart from seeing and hearing my parents scream absolute hate at each other while they threw things or broke things usually culminating with my father cornering my mother and getting physical in various ways, there was also physical abuse form both of them. The worst was when I was 10 and my father had mother in a corner I'd do something to make him come after me and I've been knocked out and choked out several times. When they got a divorce my mom would often hit me telling me I was just like my father
When I was 20 my aunt and mother sat me down and told me they thought my dad had sexually abused me. I had no memory of it so I dismissed it, until about a year later when our of nowhere a memory of hin sexually abusing me popped up. A year after that I was basically living in a psychotic episode. Had auditory hallucinations, plenty of paranoid delusions where I would draw up charts showing how everything was connected, I thought there was messages for me in the radio and TV, I had thought broadcasting, I thought I'd died and gone to hell, thought I had a microchip in me and other things but that covers it. This lasted for years and for some reason all but stopped one day. I'll have episodes on occasion but nothing like how I was.
I'm sorry you've gone through that
Please know that you're not the only one who experienced those exact same symptoms. Stay strong!
Thank you. This makes a lot of sense.
Oooh love this! I'm doing my dclinpsy project on attachment and psychosis. Great job, Ava :)
Such an interesting project! No problem glad you enjoyed it :) I’m definitely considering applying for the dclinpsy after this it’s just on my mind aha
@@AvaMason1 Hahah JOIN US
The worry people that's a spot on name
Thanks you Ava, very clear and helpful explanation.
Glad it was helpful!
I had never been robbed in my life
On 3 / 4 My car was stolen, police did little but I found it and unfortunately the thief with it. He pulled put a 357 and walked me around for 3 hours looking for somewhere to kill me. No one except for a gas attendant got help with my signs and mouthing help
A Month later , and note the thief had taken my phone and destroyed it I was talking to a iPhone seller for 2 weeks , and planned to meet in a public parking lot. It was a preppy looking 19 yo couple . Let me look at the phone outside the car very friendly and eventually was like hey " you can take a seat my girl will hop in back"
Second i get in to the car dude says you know what time it is and cooked his gun put against forehead. Even the gf had a gun and kept tapping it against my head.
I haven't been right since
Sorry to hear about this, sounds like two very traumatic experiences and I hope you are getting the support you need, glad to know that you managed to get through the experiences physically regardless and I wish you a healthy life and hope you can process it soon x
This is so terrible .
I’m so sorry
That you can tell about it
Is amazing
Solid video! Thank you for all your work
My pleasure! :)
@@AvaMason1 what's the cure for that mental health problem
This sounds a lot like what veterans go through after war events is there much difference with PTSD and psychosis ?
So my PhD is currently looking at whether psychosis may be a psychotic form of PTSD, of course not everyone with psychosis experiences hallucinations or delusions that are trauma related, these people would not be considered to have a reaction to trauma at all, hope this helps! A lot more I can talk about this but don't want to go into too much detail on this comment x
Thank you for the video. Ya, I am wondering somehow how do we know if someone has hullcination sx yet grew up in a loving family could have a traumatic life ? If not drug to navigate whatelse.. OTHER Alternative modalities have you come across to deal with intrusive thoughts ? Thanks
While I understand most of what you are exsplaining I see childhood trama can have major effects on adulthood
Definitely!
I think Ive been experiencing something bad when I was younger cause I experienced psychosis in 2020 and my family have alot of mental issues and they are doing the same to my daughter. I wish I never had kids if I knew what I know now.😭
Thanks for the details I really appreciate👍😊👍
I just recently experienced an episode. I was driving when two specific things triggered me. All of a sudden I had no idea why I was driving and where I was driving, was stuck in another reality. Voices told me I was communicating with the spiritual world and they were telling me about my future and past. Voices told me to pull over an enter a forest. As I got into the forest, I had no idea what I was doing there or where I was going. I was so confused. I managed to tell myself that if I go into the forest no one will ever find me. I then saw a tree but voices were telling me it’s a demon trying to kill me. I had a panic attack. Managed to put the gps on and drive home. Apparently I was 100 km away but had no idea how I got there. I’m trying to get therapy but they’re labelling me as a high risk client. I just recently lost my mom, have a lot of trauma and have past depression issues. Sick and tired of coping skills.
I had a dream after this where they told me I need to get a puppy and it will help me stay grounded in reality.
ChatGPT thinks dogs can help prevent psychosis episodes. If you can't get therapy, it wouldn't be a bad thing to get one. Be sure you'll be able to take care of it though.
The warning voices and information voices I've experience have all been 100% to my benefit, I am so greatful for my inner voice. I have no fear of hearing these voices, if i heard anything that prompted me to do harm to myself or others I would knowcthat this is a malevolent entity. I am on my spiritual path, the journey is a joy.
I have D.I.D and hear the voices of my alters all the time. I also ended up in places and didn't know how I got there and had "lost time".
Hello.. i think my brother experiencing psychosis.. he have those symptoms. We dont know what medicine he can take.. i just bought multivitamins for him to take. Because we dont what medicine.. i wan him to bring in a psy clinic for checkup. But the checkup is too expensive... I dont know what to do. Im exhaust too searching for alternative med for him😓😓🙏
He has to clean up his diet. And take supplements like omega3, coQ10, glycine, d3+k2, and eat organic foods like eggs, clean meat, as less ultra proscessed foods as possible...... i had an psychosis and I have narsistic family members who now has my daughter, and are doing the same to her as they did to me, working on getting her back home to me, but my sister is a terrible narsisist too.
Isn't psychosis a disorder in its own right? I had a few bouts of psychosis in 2012 I had a small bout years later but I'm sure the psychosis was caused by prescription drugs! And since I had the drug reduced I never had full blown psychosis yet!
I'm trying to better understand psychosis in the hope that it will affect me less, I'm trying to complete a course. But everytime I get into this particular unit it triggers psychosis, from an accident & I can't shake it. Last time it lasted 6 months & I needed care myself, it was like being in a war zone
My 22 year old son is in psychosis right now. How can I best support him and get him out of it?
I am a huge fan of the Trigger Warning at the start
👍 cool
Thanks! :)
Can I have some of the symptoms of the Prodromal period without having an psychosis disorder? My mother has schizophrenia and I've been isolating, eating unhealthier, feeling depressed and anxious and smoking weed more.
Marijuana, poor enviorments, abuses like “social defeat” situations, circadium disruptions all play a role in mitocondrial dysfunction in the brain. “Social defeat” can greater anhedonia or bipolar negative symptoms and schizophrenia spectrum issues could be a reaction or a desparation response to the negative bipolar symptoms like anhedonia and amotivation
This was very informative, thank you very much✨
Deep stoicism and regular mindfulness are great tools for dealing with traumatic events.
Very true!
I love stoicism master my mind no one else's sober with gratitude and mindfulness
This exact advice led me to the most miserable years of my life. Sometimes it really is medical.
Also absurdism gang
Any thoughts on trauma and accountability?
I heard voices when I was going through my psychosis... Like everywhere I went, work, stores, home. Just evil voices man I thought my neighbors were going to kill me and impale me on the gate at home. Pretty wild sh*t tbh. Couldn't sleep for 4 days and then the voices got even more evil. Was admitted to the mental ward soon after that. I'm better now and understand my truama is what brought it on.
Really informative thank you
"Professionals", especially those who don't have personal experience with or study in depth qualitative data have both misconceptions and misconception diagnosis.
The first 2 combined mistakes are the failure to recognize or disclose that "disorders" are based on population normalizes and in relation to supposed popular societal expectations.
More important and glaring is the major mistake and misunderstanding is that if symptoms and processes are due to circumstances and trauma, the person is not experiencing a "disorder", in fact, the system is in perfect and expected working order.
The simplest example, if a person is I. A depressing situation, it is normal and healthy to be or feel depressed.
The opposite reaction couod be seen as abnormal.
As a close relative to a person with schizofrenia I wold like to say this about trauma and schizophrenia. There might be some patients that have had trauma but many bipolar or schizophrenic people may turn their emotions against the person they care most about. Due to anosognosia it is common that psychotic delustions includes trauma as a real event when it is not. As so many patience with psychosis suffers from anosognosia a denial of the cause of the hospitalization may be blamed on delusional traumas. This will make the data hard to analyze as this type of data is collected between the patient and the hospital.
Mu mum is having her first psychotic episode at 70
thank you so much for this video
I have psychosis and my step dad was an abusive alcoholic to everyone. would yell at me as a kid for not eating right, eating at night or little things.
I'm so confused by the specification for ASD. Like why? It's not as if people with Autism regularly have psychosis or something. I'm an autistic therapist who's had a singular stress-related hallucination (extremely brief), but I work with tons of other people with ASD and psychosis is definitely not a thing most of them bring up?
I have complex post traumatic stress disorder and have just had psychosis I think. My skin felt like it was crawling and now I'm red raw. I could smell coffee through my phone when I saw the word. I've been paranoid and can't leave the house. I haven't showered in 5 days. I live alone and don't see anyone. It's awful, but I have insight. And I have crippling insomnia
How are you getting help ?
Sounds similar to what I go through. I have PTSD, Panic Disorder, Insomnia, and GAD all diagnosed
You need medication. I’m on Klonopin and Xanax. Lexapro helps everyone else, but SSRI’s don’t work on me.
Prolonged insomnia after. c-PTSD can really mess you up, in itself.
"Spiritual mafia" is certainly less triggering than other frequent terms. Have you ever considered looking in-depth into why this particular conspiracy scenario is such a strong and common feature of these disorders?
Trauma is often one of the main causes of psychosis as well. All it takes is a gun to a person's head and bam 6 months later - full blown schizophrenia; due to genetics.
You forgot to provide link to the papers you referred to in this video
Thank you so much !
I had a weed over dose....( It was like being a very young child again Involuntarily and Not being able to.
Speak properly )On top of that, I had to deal with three narcissistic idiots going at me at one point in time... And extreme ptsd... the flash backs were really bad.
Thanks for this
I am bad but when the authorities publicly made a example of me everyone else believes that I'm bad to understand in my head they would say that it's for your own good to change my ways by shaming me it didn't I was more bothered about everyone gossiping about me in the end I ended up with paranoia and phychosios
What's the cure?
I know my psychosis was caused by my trauma so I don’t think there’s any reason not to believe it’s the same for others.
How can you know that? Kind regards.
@@kimkom6401 because I know my own mind, simple
Did you have depression before psychosis?
Traum fitsst then psychosis follows trauma in mental health symptoms.😊
Hey, great video.
Did you know that narcissism is a form of early childhood psychosis, but it's permanent?
I haven't heard this before, psychosis and personality disorders can be quite different so I don't see how they relate- would have to look into this myself more!
@@AvaMason1 it's psychosis because of the main symptoms
related to narcissism which is permanent delusional thinking. Similar to someone with permanent psychosis or schizophrenia, the narcissist is unable to distinguish between fantasy reality and humane realities (emotional and compassionate empathy, morality, self awareness, remorse). That's why they act in antisocial manners, their narcissisticly psychotic sense of reality feels real to them and they cannot question it, that's just how they think.
There's other similarities between narcissism and psychosis (also related to delusional thinking) - and that is word salad. Everybody knows the narcissistic word salad as well as some patients with schizophrenia, the way they connect contexts and meanings is disturbed by their thought processes.
What's also not talked about a lot is that a narcissistic household can create most, if not all personality disorders. Crazy stuff.
@@panelolliThat's funny! I had a psychosis that made me realize I have NPD.
@@bobostyle1996 when the psychosis passes you should be displaying less narcissistic traits, as the psychosis just serves as a temporary escape from pain and creates a more defensive personality style while you’re still around chaos
I can see where this theory could definitely pan out.
I believe both my bros are malignant NPDs. Their bizarre thinking had to have started over 60-70 years ago.
Spot on
It is just a memory stimulus response arc with an endocrine system dynamics. You will have to give it up with the "
I found out just today i have psychosis. And ptsd😏
I have possible narcolepsy and i can't begin to tell you how many medical professionals think i have psychosis.
There's patterns to my hallucinations. Before and after sleep. When tired... dr doesn't belive me
2:13 Experienced all sensory versions. I have witnessed deep immersion toward a belief but it was entirely false to me, and quite frankly off putting.
Wow ! My head is spinning
What about a change in writing?? Penmanship
I have D.I.D and alters in our system all have different hand writing.
Did she say that she is a doctor?
Is it just me, or is pretty much everything just stress shutting down the PFC and disinhibiting people? Seems like genetics don't actually make you vulnerable, they just get expressed when you stop being able to inhibit the behavior that they drive? Like, surely partially expressed forms are the only way most disorders could have evolved in the first place?
You don't know the exact percentages regarding the link between psychosis and trauma, so please don't state estimated numbers (that do not account for dissociated trauma that has not yet been remembered) as fact.
My two trauma never go away.
First one is a bad car roll over accident.
After the accident my driven experience change forever
Second I shoot myself in the tight.
The gun just went off by itself after a jump by playing basketball.
Afterwards I just never trust be around gun.
Because my little voice tell me to be careful the gun might go off by itself.
What an idiot?
I rest my case. Cool.
I had a religious psychosis. I saw Jesus Christ ...I felt like I was possessed.
Revenge fantasies and annger i have personally due to being a former child victim of a forced adoption and subsewuent childhood abuse trauma 😐 cmht are useless and side with abusers no use to ppl like myself who NEED intense 121 therapy with an impartial non biased PROFESSIONAL who sympathisers with victims and dosnt blame the victim 😐
After I die ...Me and Jesus we will have serious conversation. 😑
What like numbers having deeper meaning? Like geometric or harmonic meaning. If I said God is real this to would fit this description
wow
Betrayal trauma means bad things happening to you. Your ex betrayed you, that is the bad thing has happened to you. How to come out of betrayal trauma that I will see tommorrow. Let's enjoy now
of course its trauma. most things people say whilst psychotic has reality in it.
It's Fight, Flight, O
Or Freeze; Not Fight or Flight.
Schizophrenia say Goldingtss
Thank you so much for sharing this. 🙏😇🌹