3 Traits of Psychosis
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- Psychosis can be confusing and scary. Additionally, it is often confused with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and psychotic depression. In this interview, Dr. Domenick Sportelli, and MedCircle host, Kyle Kittleson, have a discussion about while psychosis is a symptom of some mental health disorders, they are not one and the same.
Here are some behaviors to observe:
- What exactly happens in the brain during a psychotic episode
- What psychosis does and DOESN'T look like (misconceptions)
- The definition of hallucinations and what they feel like
- The definition of delusions and what they feel like
- The different types of hallucinations and delusions
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My husband believed I put something in his drink a few weeks ago and since then has moved to stay with his family, as he doesn’t trust me.
This this a psychotic episode? I don’t know what to do to gain his trust.
Sounds like Democrats using iPhone and cable TV to explain wetiko virus as SARS/COVID19 .🤔
Hey, I have a problem where i think people are talking about me.. and i have noticed that i sometimes read into discussions and then add stuff later in my mind to change the discussion i heard so that they are talking about me and trying to put me down. Is this common?
I have had these problems before and once it lead to a real serious psychosis where i physically and mentally collapsed and needed help.
I am at the point where i realize that these things are probably not real, but it is kind of hard to tell reality from delusion.. So i find myself being very stressed over this.
I have watched a lot of videos and read online but i have not found some really similar case where what people say gets translated into something else in my mind. I think a lot of this comes from shame, since the things i think people talk about me are mistakes i have made or things that would be embarrassing if people knew. These are still non-bizzare delusions, so they could be real, but they probably are not.
Anyway it makes my life difficult at times. So if someone has any input on this i would appreciate it!
hi,please make a video on how to manage bipolar 1 disorder
especially manic episodes
@@LBRall74 I am so sorry about that! My wife ended up with a full blown psychosis and it ended up in the breakage of our family. She blamed it all on me and cannot reconcile with paranoia even two months after she was discharged from a hospital.
as someone with mild psychosis i can say: sometimes we *know* we are hallucinating or having delusions, and it's REALLY WEIRD. it's like a war in your brain and it can be so, so hard to deal with. Especially because there can be a lot of paranoia and fear involved.
Thanks for that explanation. A lot of times people don't realize that the person experiencing psychosis knows there is something wrong but can't "fix" it.
It feels like I've been experiencing on and off psychosis for months. There would days where It's like I know that something's wrong with me, but I get scared feeling as if this problem I'm having is untreatable and that sooner or later, I'll become further out of touch with reality.
Please seek help. There may be a medical condition causing your symptoms or it may be a psychosis, as you suspect. In either case there is treatment. Getting answers and treatment, if you need, it will also help relieve your fears and anxiety. Sometimes not knowing is so much worse than finding out what's going on.
Good luck. ❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
Pretty sure I’m in a psychosis or have psychosis whatever the term is for it as well. It’s been 2 years now and in some ways it’s gotten better and in some ways it’s gotten worse. Pretty sure it’s cause of my drug use but I’ve been sober for a year now. One thing I notice also is if I smell weed or cigarettes my symptoms get worse for a few minutes or maybe an hour and then it’ll go back to normal, whatever “normal” is
Yeah, one could have mild delusions that are amenable to correction
The last part is i think the most important. Don't try to "fix" people with psychosis, just make sure they are getting enough sleep, eating right and feeling secure
Sleep is essential
I cannot express this enough. This is an important role to play in supporting someone who has lost touch with reality. This type of help is overlooked. Overall there's got to be an action plan set because they think they are fine.
@@SusieSynth and can be so hard to come by. A restful sleep does not come like a magic wand but I so wish I had one to help my loved one.
@@annacoats2988 that is what i am looking for long long time. To help person i loved .. but i did not find the way .. and i am in the way losing him
Unfortunstly.
May u share me ur strategy if u never mind
Eating is essential!
I got one because i hungered too much
i am 25 and i was just diagnosed psychosis, currently i am staying in a psychiatric clinic. For me psychosis feels lik you predict what people are thinking, and sometimes in a negative way for example i am talking to someone and they raise their eyebrows and i will think they did that because they think i'm stupid.
😳
@Puggelicious the law changes in every country, i live in germany and our freedom is never violated in that kind of way
Meine psychosen sind ziemlich bizarr und extrem meinst du ich soll auch in eine klinik?
川尻浩作 du sollst mit deinem arzt reden
Puggelicious that’s not true I have been sectioned myself and was allowed access to my phone
The first time I experienced psychosis, I heard a woman sighing and going like: "Mm! Mm!". I thought it was my landlord's mother mocking me above my room (I lived in a basement apartment). I believed this for the longest time until this woman started following me outside of the apartment. The voices will cause paranoia, delusions and fear. Its truly scary.
Have you gotten treatment?
it also could be stress related and not an actual psychosis. again, sometimes family will actually behaving in a manner which is not therapeutic for one family member but is deliberate, stress provoking , and with no empathy at any cost. The rocking or repetitive voice groans are sometimes to be able to maintain during the other family members to spur on more anxiety and depression along with more agitation so that their story is believed by outsiders. Why you ask would an entire family become ok and together for such a ruthless act. Absolutely for a common goal with a common shared agenda to achieve that goal. Need I say more.
@@lisarobinson3099 Wow
I heard a woman wheezing and coughing in my bathroom, talking in my ear once. I thought I was being haunted. I never saw anything until a couple months ago, now I see this same monster follow me around. The monster's in my dreams, too. Though sometimes I wonder if I'm just faking it
@@alfie3.14 That doesn't sound fake. Maybe see a doctor. Those are hallucinations.
This reminds me of when I learned not to "correct" my mother's hallucinations when she had altzheimers. It was difficult for me because I felt that I was lying to her. Eventually though, I understood how hurtful it was from her perspective.
My mother is not diagnosed with alzheimers, but parkinsons-dementia, and in the beginning when I started to notice it, she had the most weird hallucinations. For a long time I misinterpreted it as a very creative, but bored, mind. For example - she pointed to a shadow on the pathway and asked me "Hey do you see the bunny too?" and I was like "Yes I do, its the shape, but you know these are just shadows, right?". It sounds funny, but it isnt funny when she wakes you up at 3 AM because she is frightened as she thinks bugs are eating her skin. When she was admitted to a hospital it made me so so sad because it seemed I was the only one who could interpret what my mother was seeing. It was exhausting to stay sane.
Its hard but you always role play....u go to their mind and participate in whatever era of their life they are in at that moment and sometimes they do come to reality at that moment and sometimes they don't. But dont try and put them somewhere they are not mentally
This. Hurting someone who's going through this kind of illness is the last thing I'd want to do. Support, listen and love them and get them help as soon as possible.
@@2028SM Really Sad. God Bless Her please 🙏
@@theMoldycakemix so many people want to and do hurt us
This guy is so animated, you can tell he's truly passionate about his job. Love that
Or manic lol
And well-paid. Off to a great career. In a respected profession.
he reminds me of myself trying to tell other people about something i’m especially interested in even when they don’t wanna hear it
Thats cocaine
He can treat me any day
I have PTSD but had a psychotic episode due to stress on top experiencing another traumatic experience which triggered a PTSD episode. It’s insane what stress can do to you
How are you doing now! I’m curious because this happened to me as well ♥️
Something similar happened to me ended up In the hospital but for me it was a manic episode + psychosis
could you explain what happened?
Similar here - only that I've CPTSD.
Similar happened to me too. Insomnia played a large part. My dad's schizophrenia/alcoholism plus having to have an abortion, a relationship breakdown & bad cptsd flashbacks to childhood sexual abuse (dad being the 1st) plus sepsis led to 2 psychotic episodes in 2010 & 2014. Still learning self care! Thing is, in the darkness I also experienced elements of spiritual awakening. Peace to you all 🙏🏽🙏
My mom and I was heartbroken when we noticed a dramatic change in my brother's behavior. He went through all the symptoms yet we had no idea what we were dealing with. It was so horrible to see him in that way. Recently, he has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has been in a hospital to help him get better. As my mother say, it's a "road of recovery," I am so lucky to have my brother in my life and I let him know how much I love him and that no matter what, he will always be my best friend. I have unconditional love for him and he has family support.
Thank you for this video because it helps me understand why my mom and I couldn't reach him and why he was acting the way he was. I do believe everyone should get educated on what schizophrenia is so they can hold sympathy for anyone who is going through this. They need to know that they are not alone and that others go through this. And people who doesn't have this mental illness, should understand that schizophrenia people are no different than. Yes they are going through something but put yourself in that person's shoes. How would you like to be treated if you were going through this? ❤
I hope you and your family are well.
I feel like my brother in law is going thru the same thing he’s picking fights with any an everyone he only believes what he thinks is true he’s doing things he doesn’t normally do for example today he picked up a friend who he swore he doesn’t like & the other day he lost something an was so sure my cousins bf stole when he insured him he didn’t an he wanted to fight him ! He wakes up earlier then usual he was a very quiet to him self person now he’s always talkin about Makin it out how he’s gonna be a rapper all types of things he never thought about rapping b4 to my knowledge.
@@kobea8199 that sounds a bit like he's going through a phase or some problems, try to find out
Did your brother willingly go to the hospital?
Thank you for your compassion towards your brother. Your love and support helps him more than you know 💜
The conviction makes me feel like I’m being gaslit 😭
Some people do gaslight
My older sister has been recently diagnosed with Physcosis and these videos are helpful for me so I can better understand what my sister is going through. I'm from the Philippines and unfortunately mental illness isn't taken seriously here. I explained what I thought was paranoid schizophrenia to my my parents and we got help and this was her initial diagnosis. I'm glad that we sre getting the help we need. I will never give up on my sister because I love her no matter what. ❤️
It will be different for everyone for me my pyrosis lasted 2 weeks. All I wanted was to know where some stairs were in my hospital but nobody was taking me to them as I thought I was trapped so make sure you treat your sister and if she asks for anything such as where stairs are to what the date is always help her. Mine was caused through eating a weed of a magic cookie.
I had to sneak out the hospital room to discover the stairs as I truly thought I was trapped as I thought I went back in time thankfully I then saw stains and my phone with the charger and my mind started to come back around. Just stay with her always and possibly show her old videos of her it could help her remember.
God bless you and your sister I pray she gets better
I have mild delusions and I know I'm crazy but my mind is fighting to make me believe it. I dont have hallucinations but I get really anxious and have to distract myself from the thoughts entirely or I get stuck in it.
I have similar situation is like once u get stuck in it u keep on repeating it ??
@@AmiraAmira-wb6wj guys keep yourselves busy and grounded in reality. After a while it gets better trust me
@@sonylolz11 thank you man im doing good after following your advice . 😃💫💫
Amira Amira how do you feel now has the problem came back smoked a lot of weed on 420 and have been feeling like this recently
@@KHYONMARZ777 For me it's almost gone trust me it gets better when i moved to live with my cousins same my age and we would Play , eat hangout together and there were like 6 cats n stuff to keep u constantly busy and it could be distractions as well? Let me also mention that especially if you are underweight you need to fix your diet and eat more meats bread greens All these r necessary as much as Getting enough vitman D wether from Vitman D supplements or Sunshine ☺ .
I remember when I was experiencing psychosis, I was convinced that everyone around me was fake. And that I was in the wrong reality. And I was at my ex friends apartment and I was so lost, and couldn’t find her apartment and started crying and yelling. And then the cops came and it was so trippy. I had to hide from them because I didn’t want them to see me in that state and send me to a mental hospital
I hid from the cops too they came for me bc I was outside running naked with my pjs as my cape
Have u ever considered the possibility that most ple really are fake and brainwashed by the media?? Have u ever thought there is no “normal”??? Do your research about the government and how big pharma is a billion dollar indrustry
@@nerdymom2 well yeah but these facts are not helpful to a person suffering from psychosis lol. So sure in a sense society is a mass mutual delusion. Like religion. But there’s a huge difference between an active psychosis and waking up to the ills of society.
that is derealization, not psychosis. derealization is feeling like the world is fake and you are somewhere else. it is a high anxiety symptom)
@@TheKensei777 What does it mean for a person to think they are somewhere else? Let's say a person lives in North Korea, is exposed to a lot of propaganda and believes none of it is real. They realize they live in a social world that is fake. So far, that person would be considered sane. If they think of how much better life will be when they escape (perhaps to South Korea?) and keep their thoughts on a future life in South Korea, is that considered being somewhere else?
I really really hate auditory psychosis. Especially when in public. I try my best to ignore them and hope i look/act normal as possible as i make my way out the establishment I’m in.
What if you're actually telepathic?
@@milkyway-ol7lx that’s what I think
i felt that way when high. i was in the lunch room kept saying "do you hear that?" and i didnt feel that way anymore lol and im like idk am i crazy or somtething and i became so self aware like derealization and i see ymself as i am and i feel the world is a movie and i get scared the film will end or nothing matters or that i have a reason for being and i have done nothing with it. then i try to behave normal and sometimes i talked to myself in my head like i dind realize it but i do it and i end up looking creepy.
Aspergers, NPD, PTSD it’s not just for soldiers, anxiety issues, and don’t forget doing ones for kids also. Great content.👍🏻
EXACTLY, abused kids have so many issues they have to try to deal with and hide but it bubbles up to the top.
Soldiers don't develop aspergers
Demon possessed.
Aspergers is similar to autism. Nothing to do with bad experiences.
Really taking this 6ft apart seriously, even when it comes to zooming in
My mother suffering from psychosis 10 years ago.. and it breaks my heart everytime she speaks
It's very difficult. I hope all the best for you and your mother. Virtual hugs for you and your mom💞
I love the way this Dr talks it's very professional....
This opened my eyes. I need reminders that I have delusions and hallucinations for my psychosis. I want to heal
Jonathan Tuitasi god be with you😊
@@zachfryar1820 God bless you all.
Definitely, If you wanna heal, Jesus is your man❤
Research the benefits of lions mane fruiting body mushroom and case studies to treat depression, anxiety, psychosis, dementia etc and even the benefits of microdosing on psilocybin. There’s always a way. May you heal.
Yea I went through a strong psychosis after a 1000mcg trip, thought I had found enlightenment. Even though I was delusional and insane the peace I found myself in and the insane intelligence I gave to myself greatly helped me see reality in a much better way than I did
Not sure if I experienced psychosis or not on a trip, it was a pretty low dose of edibles but it was my first time. I took the edibles to try to feel calmer after undergoing a lot of stress/ anxious moments. But during the trip, my heart was beating fast, I was crying uncontrollably, words starting coming out of my mouth uncontrollably, I was saying the same thing over and over again- then I grasped onto my mind and remembered I had taken an edible- then my mind wanted to take control of me and I felt like running out of my apartment. Then I was able to gather my thoughts again and tell my boyfriend i was having a bad affect from the edibles and to please take me to the hospital. At the hospital I was paranoid that the doctors and nurses were calm because they already had a plan to transfer me to a psychiatric hospital. After throwing up uncontrollably at the hospital I was given meds to stop that as well as anxiety meds to calm nerves. I fell asleep for a few hours and felt better when I woke up.
But I still wonder if it was psychosis or a panic attack.
@@Kira-vz7eh panic attack
How long did it last
I still remember when nurses would get mad at me for thinking I was hearing a low hum in certain areas of the building. Eventually I figured there must have been something sinister going on, as there would be no other reason for them to deny something so obvious. I know better now, but I can definitely see how much more care needs to be taken when dealing with a delusional patient.
oh my goodness
What can a mother or family member do to convince… my .son…to seek help..as he truly believes he’s ..ok…and ..his seeing and..hearing ..things…is true…really there…happening…..but it’s not really happening…how do I get him to go see a psychiatrist..or psycologist……
Delusion cannot exist in a brain that formally studies logic. It is scientifically impossible.
@@ninaa8592 you’re a great mom! i know it’s been a long time now, but i hope you and your son got the help needed! but really, you’re doing a great job
this is fascinating Quicksilver!!! so the paranoia aspect of the delusion or hallucination symptom is NOT from the disease itself but from an incorrect or insensitive reaction of a neurotypical to your symptom of just hearing something!!!
because then your thought of "what the fuck is going on the only explanation could be something sinister" was A DIRECT RESULT of these under-educated healthcare workers unwisely denying it to you instead of being like " oh dang that sucks well I wonder what we should do abt it?"
And then you know making sure you are sleeping, nutritioning, and all that other good shit oh my gosh neurodivergents they really have the hardest fucking time and I should say WE really have the hardest fucking time because I mean I have diagnosed depression so I guess I'm in the same boat with people with schizoaffective disorder or schizophrenics etc
My brother is going through this. My mom says he’s been talking to himself at night, breaking things, burning things, making holes in the wall. He claims someone put a “Voodoo” on him and he needs to find it.
That sounds absolutely terrifying.
Is he doing okay now?
Adrian: mine too. Is yours much better at times too? I could help mine get at least much netter, maybe heal, but he is fearful, exhausted, weak-willed from decades in passivising psychiatry without ever getting therapy and proper support and response to his positive endeavours (I have witnessed his care-givers , coming along . They have been hostile to me for my engagement, one would think they could appreciate and support instead.
CAn you gain your bros trust? I have studied some medicine and natural healing, but am quite traumatized not getting health care mýself and worn down by it, and he doesn't seem to trust me or believe I do have knowledge and tools. MAybe since i am not whole myself. Would you have some suggestions for me? We are going on camping holiday together, great - but I am not sure how to cope if he gets crazy-stubborn-aggressive or dangerous. I am weakened and harmed by society myself, withheld assistence, so don't have energy and health for more burden really. At least not unless we do a constructive, dedicated work togehter, which he has not wanted so far. i tend to get co-dependently over-engaged and somewhat compulsive about it, in my fear of him dying of heart attack soon, or getting severly sick(er).
@@Medietos My son as well had a severe phychotic episode. He's still not right. Can't find any one to help the situation. All the medicos want to do is to give meds or if he doesnt take them, stick a needle into him. He is only 19 and an aspiring tennis player.
@@mainipetersen846 That is too bad, best thing might be to take things into your own hands. Start now before he gets sucked into Psychiatry mindset and before you (maybe) break downwards from sorrow, withheld help how to meet his psychosis, powerlessness and possibly co-dependence (I don't know you, maybe no risks).
Do you know if the cause is drug-induced or not?
My research +work shows that most psychoses can heal without drugs natural ways and with calm safety.
@@mainipetersen846 "Can't find" - whom have you asked? Alternatives is the way to go, and if you want to seek the free 12-step programs CoDa or Alanon. They have helped many. For if you fell good and strong, you can help and be an example.
I have been there for 20+ years. Tell me if you would like my help/ support/ coaching for his getting well from his psychosis.I am free to contribute with my work.
This Doctor is absolutely PHENOMENAL.
If only every patient who is struggling, would have the opportunity to meet with him. We need more doctors just like him.
This video was a massive help. My grandmother had psychosis (undiagnosed but I think schizophrenia). I’ve experienced some weird things like derealization and panic attacks and have wondered if I’m next in line, but after hearing these examples I now know it was just anxiety and that since I’m 27 (well past the typical onset) I can rest easy knock on wood. Nothing but sympathy for those who suffer from it. Thanks you for the clear cut examples
I am dealing with my son who is an addict and also is having psychosis episodes. He went and started to cutting his legs. Can’t help him and I’m so lost. So thank you for this.
I know they say about not trying to argue with him, but something I found really helpful was talking to someone with phycosis (hers was she thinks she’s being watched mine is I think people from hell are talking to me and I can read peoples minds) and hearing her believes made me realise that mine where infact just believes too, because of course there’s not people watching me. And that kinda brung me back down to reality. I’m an ex addict and in recovery, coming off those hard drugs has an insane effect on our brains, it certainly was the cause of my phycosis, far too much stress on the brain, and it literally starts shutting down while you’re still alive it feels with phycosis. I hope you get to see this and I honestly do wish you the best
@@claircollins920 thank you very much, and I’m so proud you were able to accept help. It’s been a hard road because of it all. I keep praying one will come around.
I can totally relate with this. I had to leave my husband of 25 years because he exhibited these tendencies. He became very unapproachable and his behavior got abusive. Unfortunately his family never believed when I tried telling them that he needs help.
I feel so sorry for you 😢 it's so hard to lose his love to this sickness. I hope that you're fine and that you take care of yourself
Having experienced psychosis, I'm nervous of ever having it again. I'm on medication once a month and find that it is working well. But please talk about the medication and how long someone may need to take it. Thank you for all the wonderful vids.
What kind of symptoms did you have like were you hearing voices, delusional thoughts and hallucinating? And how did they diagnose you cause I went to the er and told them I was hallucinating and had delusional thoughts and they said I didn’t need medication?
I can understand that i suffered with psychosis in school and it’s scary
@@joshovo307 I had delusional thoughts, voices and some hallucinating. I think I had a little of this in my teen years, but mostly it happened last year very severely and I almost committed suicide - i was completely not my usual self and I call my suicide attempts x 2, accidental. Can't believe what happened to my mind! I have been ok on the medication. I was just hoping to find out that I won't need to be taking it for the rest of my life.
What are beggining signs in phycosis
Gelemy Hernandez paranoia I believe don’t quote me on that please
Man, watching this made me realize that I was in an active psychotic episode for 5 months because I truly believed I was pregnant despite taking various tests telling me I was not
😳. Uh oh. May be me next
My first time going through psychosis I believed I was pregnant and I wasn't. No one could convince me otherwise. Not even the nurses or doctors at the hospital. Pretty scary.
I thought I was pregnant many years ago and it ended up I had a huge mioma. I was scared I had cancer because besides the negative testing I had many symptoms I never had before. We, women, have to live sometimes with many hormone issues that no one would understand. My mood changed so much I felt it wasn't me. Now I am older and no longer have those issues, I feel liberated. Every month I had awful bleedings, pain and mood changes. It came out I was not producing progesterone. It wasn't psychosis, it was chemical and hormones imbalance. Hormones imbalance can make you feel nuts and you look nuts to everyone who has not suffered it. No matter if is a woman or a man.
yknow whats stranve i was 16 i wanted to get preg by my bf cause i dreamed of our future, thing is i wasnt pregnant i wanted to be and i acted like i was pregnant i couldnt do anything because i felt pregnanta te a lot so id believe it. now i dont feel pregnan t but in the back of my head now i put weight on i feel preg but not. its not like i believe it but tis a tiny feeling of i am when im not. im 19 now and like idk why i pretend to behave liek a preg wman
When he said „your shirt is pink“ I almost had a panic attack thinking I have psychosis lmao
It seems to me when a person or possibly people do a real good job of gaslighting someone and when that someone learns ways to defend themselves, they can bring out the worst in others that are only a little bit narcy. Before long it can feel like a good v's bad fight and become hard to know who's friend or foe. I've seen the psychological damage some people have endured and I find it astounding just how cruel some people can be and sometimes literally feel sick to see them enjoy doing it.
This is why I'll never be in a relationship
oh great point.
great point on what she said a message up re it being confusing at times people fight etc
Sounds like workplace bullying that I'm currently a victim of. I feel pretty traumatised about it because it sent me into depression and suicidal.
A "friend" who had attached to me for a very specific purpose, managed to gaslight and abuse me into a state of paranoia. She knew that I had been raised by a narc, and being one herself she knew exactly how to exploit the trauma.
Told me many lies about a wonderful girl I had met to stall our growing relationship, all the time pretending to have my interests in mind. As she saw us getting closer (neighbours) she became increasingly abusive and manipulative, told me the police were staking out my home, and any time I caught her in a lie she would act hurt and ask me how i could think such a good friend would lie.
As the problems she was causing behind my back. and the doubts about my new relationship, which i now realise she was fuelling, grew and became a problem, she is the one who offered "advice."
She even enlisted her daughter to help, had her pretend that my romantic interest had told her I was taking up too much time, that she had told her she wasnt interested in me , it was all my imagination etc.
In the end it turned out that she had been gathering information about what this girl loved about me, what interested her, what excited her etc, AND FEEDING IT TO A MALE FRIEND SO THAT HE COULD FAKE CHANCE MEETINGS AND GET CLOSE TO HER HIMSELF. he pretended to share her interests and so on, with this evil narc's help, mirroring what had made her fall for me.
Then the narc then inserted herself between us, started hanging out with the girl, and telling her lies and bad things about me, slowly slowly.
I had a nervous breakdown when i realised how i had been exploited, and also that it was my closeness and understanding of the girl, shared with the narc, which allowed this nasty little man to take advantage.
I had asked for help and advice because, due to narc abuse as a child, i freeze up whenever someone tries to share affection with me, and kept turning away when my interest tried to kiss me. This probably sounds absolutely pathetic and like a teenager problem, but i am a grown man.
Finally I met someone after years of loneliness, we shared so many interests and beliefs, and she was the most beautiful girl i ever laid eyes on. She told me wht she wanted and never hid her attraction, and in fact she did all the chasing, but i just couldnt believe i had won the relationship lottery after so many years of misery.
I told the narc my hangup, she could have helped me with one sentence, a little encouragement or advice on what to do next time my friend wanted to kiss, she knew how much of a difference that would have made to my life, how much joy it would have brought.
But she chose to feed my doubts and mentally torture me with abuse , ridicule and lies instead, while helping someone else.
Narcs are inhuman, i just wish that i had trusted my instincts instead of letting words of lies affect me.
I always gave the narc another chance and benefit of the doubt, because i thought.. who could be so evil and heartless to desteoy someone's happiness after a decade of isolation and sadness. Now i know, a narc will not only think nothing of that, but will relish your pain like sweet honey.
In the end, no one believes me, the narc is socially connected and has primed everyone to think i am just some crazy guy who fell for a beautiful girl, and got jealous at the other guy for nothing. oh yeah, they pretended not to know one another so she wouldnt make the connection as to where the guy got all his information, but in fact hang out plotting and scheming.
If a narc unmasks and shows him or herself, BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAW THE FIRST TIME IT HAPPENS and BREAK OFF ALL CONTACT ASAP.
Mine is now harassing me and spreading slander because i stopped running after her like a servant. Simply saying no, triggered a criminally vicious campaign of threats and abuse. Her goal now is my suicide, she has admitted it.
These narcs are demons in human form.
This is a FANTASTIC video for anyone supporting or caring for a loved one with psychosis symptoms. It would be great if you make a video directed to people experiencing psychosis and want to learn about what is happening to them. THANKS for the work you do!
My spouse starts his psychosis and always come in crying, holding his head and saying his crazy but quickly talks himself out of the hospital. He also believes that Me and the Kids are the reason he is depressed and that he needs to run away and start a new life with new friends. He has even been found walking down the street naked and talking to his dead dad.
So when he talked himself out of hospital, he was rational to s point where they believed him???
I was in a psychosis in 2020-2021, and you don’t really remember much of it. I was completely out of my own soul
From Sept 2020- Jan 2021, I also suffered from psychosis. It was the WEIRDEST. I remember everything that happened.
@@saralukasavitz1647 what did you take to cure it?
A great way to express it! Out of my own soul.
What helped?
I had psychosis from Feb. 2020-about Dec. 2020 Had no clue I was having delusions, etc.
As a caregiver, I've witness the severe phases and its all too overwhelming. Its too scary to the point I can't help anymore!
Dealing w/ crazy ppl is EXHAUSTING AND DRAINING! They drain the hell out of you and vex your soul. They need to be locked up in mental wards - the majority of these ppl - esp those who become abusive and beat you down w/ their ambivalence and mind games and splitting and Dr Jeckyl, Mr Hyde nonsense. I could never be a psychiatrist! God help those who can !!
"Their senses are picking up things that aren't there" PREACH. That happened to me, but in a different way.
Thought I had telepathy at first, and it only got worse from there. The hallucinations were so real.
People were talking to me, having full conversations. I wouldn't have thought my brain was
capable to make that shit up on the fly.
How did you recover? My father is currently in psychosis and getting treatment from a psychiatrist, but as his daughter I feel so lost, I don’t know what to expect next. I feel sad seeing him go through this
I agree, it is a shock if you've only ever heard that it might be possible for you to absolutely lose track of reality; for it to slip through your fingers as you try desperately to weave it all together into a cohesive whole. 'A shock' is such an understatement. It's like a gd horror movie that you're living within while no one else has even bothered to watch the trailer, denying that any such movie plot exists.
It's super bizarre to be having a psychotic episode and know it's happening. An amusing episode: I woke up one day and all the plants were pink. I knew something wasn't right, but I wasn't sure if it was that plants were really pink or if they were supposed to be a different color. I called my best friend who verified that plants are supposed to be green. I simultanious believed her and was skeptical, but I was comforted because I know my friend won't lie to me. There were questions in my head as to whether or not the call had been real, so I called the next day (the plants were green again) to ask if I'd called. While I can't control the episodes, therapy has helped me become more comfortable with reachng out to people I trust to verify reality. I may not fully believe them in the moment but the firm trust I have in this small group of people still helps provide an anchor. What's really scary for me is that it's more often small things, so I can go a little bugnuts wondering what information my brain might be deleting or adding to the world around me.
I've created a sort of comfort story to help deal with it. The story is that the things I see and hear could be real in another universe. My brain experiences slices of those other realities from time to time. My therapist is actually supportive of me doing this, based in part on the studies showing the brain does light up as if the hallucinations are real. The really cool thing is it works as a more gentle way for my friends to let me know my perceptions may be off. It doesn't happen as often as it used to anymore because I'm on meds that work well and am still seeing a therapist regularly.
There is SOOO MUCH happening all around us and in-between us that most people can not percieve. The commonalities in "psychosis" experiences lend themselves to an idea that "reality" is 100% subjective, so one's alternate perspective of "objective reality," is possibly just certain people tuning in to something that is there, but conditionally unobserved by the average person.
Yo I'm 17 and started to feel like people were following me and that the government found a way to Astral project and read your minds or go into animals and follow you bc these crows started following me even though their known for that and I legit thought I was psychic and accidentally tapped into collective consciousness and while this was all happening for 2 months I still went outside went to school actually felt safe but did not tell anybody didn't write any of it down my thoughts cuz I thought the government would find it cuz I found forbidden knowledge same old crap this btw felt real bizarre signs and big coincidence and I swear my whole life I wondered how could you believe such crazy things if I was like that I'd sat i would be able to see the tell the difference from crazy to reality" and now I'm like oh boy I could were all those people were coming from but this the weird thing even though stress and all that I just prayed and ignored it kind of and it did go away without medications it was almost like I swam to deep and started drowning spiritually but slowly came up after awhile I still am scared and I don't think I'll ever forget that experience.
I'm so glad I live in a time where the internet gives us so much assess to information online in seconds. Yesterday, I had what I believe was a mild psychotic episode (everything looked a movie set made out of plastic, plywood, and props, even the grass and trees, and I thought people were filming me) and I so glad there are resources like this that I can use to educate myself some when I can't immediately speak to a professional
Thank you so much for this. I have a family member who experiences episodes of psychosis, and I have always felt at a loss to deal with it because I always tried to talk her back to reality, which only makes it harder. Now I know to start instead by just being calm and checking into her general well-being and then as you said, to take steps toward getting help.
Great video, great dialogue. The video felt perfected over and over again. I’m satisfied with the knowledge. There is no filler! I’ll definitely be tuning in to this series. Thanks
That dog is such a cutie!😂
The video is good, .. but Callie the dog really goes great with Dr. Sportelli's suit.
What dog? Are you ok?...
@@SnowyElephant he's fine. There is always a white dog of his in the videos
@@moarroz True and the dog is so cute! 😍
The dog wanted to play and was like no? Ok I’m ganna pee and just chill
If you could cover mania, specifically in contrast with depression and perhaps its relation to quarantine (people experiencing increased manic episodes due to the stress from quarantine) thanks!
I've seen them increase their shopping because it is a risk and they are manic. Also going into a store without a mask cuz they forgot it rushing out the door. Also domestic disturbances...ya know?
Definitely shopping and fixation on making life plans etc
@@ew7908 me, after my January manic + psychotic episode.
@@poisonousabsinthe January is The Month for sure. I had a hypo manic episode too
People don’t experience manic episodes unless they are bipolar, most people don’t even know or understand what “mania” is and use the term incorrectly- like your comment. You don’t get mania from quarantine- it’s a genetic mood disorder that you are born with. What you are describing is situational anxiety and a coping response to stress. It’s not mania or manic episodes.
This is really interesting, Dr. Dom is an exceptional speaker/teacher! One of the saddest psychosis imo is the targeted individual stuff... The internet has really reinforced and expanded their delusions. :( Compassion really is the most important thing to learn with mental health. This helped me be more empathetic towards people with this issue.
I had someone very close go through a targeted individual psychotic phase. It enrages me that those videos circulate so widely in the internet, they cause so much suffering and damage in the lives of people and hinder the healing process.
Couldn't quit smelling super glue when I went through psychosis. It would come out of know where and last for about 5-20 minutes. It was the most scary experience to experience psychosis. I have never experienced real fear until I had to deal with that.
Kyle you are doing such a great job I am so proud of you thank you for all you have done to bring mental health awareness and education more available. 💜
Understanding is the gateway to greater compassion. So glad you posted this.
Callie is terrific. Hope she always gets to sit in on interviews. The thing is, she isn't distracting. She's normalising. She contributes so much more than anyone might have guessed.
"Understanding is the gateway to greater compassion..."
~Lyndsey Mac Pherson ❤️❤️❤️💯
I'm happy that we're discussing what psychosis really is and how those experiencing these symptoms aren't dangerous.
Also, great job discerning how psychosis can be part of schizophrenia/bipolar/etc, but doesn't have to be any of them. I'm going through grad school now to become a counselor and I love seeing this real information becoming more mainstream
It can be for me when I was in the hospital I thought I needed to kill myself to go to the spirit world
I had my first psychosis episode last year (late last year). Researching this when I'm more lucid has been such a journey. I totally resonate with how Dr. Described what psychosis feels like. It truly feels like you're going crazy and everyone is tricking you because your beliefs and hearing are so real.
This video helped me understand and confirmed that I hear voices.
I hear the voices of people who have caused me trauma or stress talking at me ALL THE TIME. People say “hearing voices” but you don’t know what that ever means. I feel like my voices attack me and it causes A LOT of problems.
People ask if I hear voices but how can I answer that if I don’t know what your talking about or if they might be thoughts. This video helped me understand they are voices and not just thoughts.
I would love to see a talk about body dysmorphic disorder…seldom discussed …but very lethal. I have lost 2 relatives to this disease. Thank you for all you do!!!
Very useful info! Thank you! Especially to people who are close to those dealing with it! It can be confusing!
This video shows more insight on the signs and symptoms of psychosis. I hope more people with schizophrenia really try to take this video to heart and work through the signs and symptoms of psychosis
I love this videos! Can we please please make a video about derealization and depersonalization disorder and why some people experience it 24/7 for long periods of time months even years? I suffer from this disorder and would love to know more! Thank you so much!
Could you also explain the difference between psychosis, paranoia, and schizophrenia please?
This series is so welcome. So informative. Thank you
My wife has bipolar and we currently dealing with this. She left me and the kids in the middle of the night and had been living out of her car with some homeless guy for several weeks. She would tell me how controlling and abusing I was for trying to keep her on her meds and restricted access to family savings. She also called me to ask if I was sending her curses. She got herself arrested twice and blames me for that as well. I really wish she would come back home...
She’s no longer yours brother. Only the other half of your children. Stay safe
If she won't help herself stay on meds, I'm not sure there's much that can be done; don't force your kids to interact with her just because you miss how she used to be - I'm glad my mom ditched my dad, and even though she never prevented him from seeing us and whatnot, he never showed that he cared enough about me or my siblings to make the effort to see us and believed my mom poisoned us against him, when he would be physically abusive to my mom in front of my siblings and I. All because he won't take responsibility for his illness.
Now I've been diagnosed with bipolar 1 after a psychotic break, and I've stayed on my meds since and haven't had another issue, and I try to make sure I don't fuck up on my treatment for it because I know what it looks like when you don't take responsibility for it and take the treatment seriously.
I crossed methadone with Xanax and had a severe case of psychosis. Was the most real and most scariest experience in my life. I couldn't sleep or eat for weeks.. the delusions were so real that I was incredibly terrified everyone was out to get me. That literally everyone was trying to kill me. I'm so glad that during this time I found God and he guided me back to my reality. I can't imagine how it must be to live like that for their entire life..
The struggle before the awakening. I'm glad you reached out to our Heavenly Father ❤️🙏🏿
You are lucky to be alive. My brothers best friend and best friend’s father overdosed and passed away on Xanax and methadone.
My brother in law has just started going thru some sort of psychosis and it is the most scariest thing I have ever faced...my heart bleeds for these poor souls🙏🏽he is taking my whole family down with NO FAULT of his own😢
How is your brother doing?
I just had my first psychosis episode last year I am 26 years old, there's limited information on psychosis... I now have PTSD because of psychosis... this video is where my research on what happened to me begins...
-Thank You! 🖤
Hello I had psychosis 2 years ago but I feel like I had a demon in me did you feel like that?
I love things like this. Often the only to learn is to go through it, either yourself or with someone going through it.
Pls discuss about OCD disorders, how to control it naturally, I mean through food, excercises, etc
I'm no professional, but I'm and a person whom is dealing with it. And what I do to relive the thoughts is breathing in slowly out slowly afew times praying, self counsel, meditation, music, and just keeping your mind occupied cause when your not doing nothing that's when your mind wonders and starts the think and them intrusive thoughts come.
This is a great way of explaining what psychosis feels like its hard to explain the fear feelings and how real it is i would be interested in videos helping carers and family as well as sufferers they are really helpful especially in this changed world
Amazing video with some very valuable information. Well done, thanks.
This is ground breaking,and I’m talking about early childhood trauma!!!
When I had to deal with my mom's psychotic hallucinations and dementia, there were times when I felt that I was going insane myself. She had totally forgotten about the current reality and her brain had taken her back to her teenage days and decided to make her stay there forever. She could hear and see my deceased grand parents, her long deceased brothers, her deceased cousins, her childhood home. It was fucking scary as I had never experienced psychosis in a loved one, ever, before that. Since the people she saw were all deceased, for a brief period of time I wondered if she was being visited by their spirits. Not that I personally believe in that stuff but I come from a culture that has deep reverence for the spirits of dead family members and a concept that you may see dead loved ones when you are about to die. It almost drove me mad with anxiety. I tried to correct her all the time, I tried to fix her memories to bring her back to the current reality forcibly. I had no idea how to deal with it and the doctors just kept on giving advice that I couldnt implement. How the hell was I supposed to watch my own mother be like that? Thats what I told myself. But trying to correct her only aggrevated her. Later I decided to play along with her and kept on adding self made stories to match her distorted memories. That made me feel like I was a party to her hallucination. It was such a nightmare. I would really appreciate detailed sessions on how to deal with the whole experience of having to live with and care for a loved one with psychosis and how family members of such patients are supposed to deal with this new reality in their lives. Its no childs play, accepting that your parent will never remember or recognise you, that you do not even exist in their distorted reality, that your collective memories dont exist for them. My mom has passed on from her mortal life but I can say my experience has left me with a whole lot of guilt and emotional scars and a strange fear of "what if I become like her when I am old". I dont know how to cope with it and would like to learn more about it.
Think about it like this. You couldnt control it. So you did your best to make her final moments comfortable. Even if it wore you down, just know you got to help her in her own world, and you shouldnt worry about things out of your control.
One more thought.. can you educate people on the affects of meth abuse, damage it does, how to support these addicts and life after meth.
I'm curious about the effects of meth and what it does to the body, brain and how it effects someone who has a mental illness such as schizophrenia as well
i have borderline personality disorder and i am an addict in recovery. when i would do meth it would exacterbate my bpd paranoia and perception symptoms so bad. it was hell
Yes please
@@schismjizzum Update?
@@schismjizzum thank you. We need more ppl talking about how terrible that drug can actually feel for some. It does not make everyone feel good. Hell is the exact word I would use.
This is so helpful to understand the situations which nomally seem so complicated... Thank you.
Thanks so much for a doctor giving advice to family etc as in the UK the NHS seems very reluctant to do this. I've had to find most of my answers online and I'm so pleased to find this channel. I have recently seen, after about 2 years that trying to put it right really isn't useful and like you say , try To be as normal as possible.
I really appreciate this type of video! I currently work in a hospital emergency department. I have created several videos on the topic of psychosis to help other security guards recognize psychosis and how to address the issue from a security standpoint. It is my opinion that the interactions a patient has with security can really impact the direct their care takes. I took Dr Xavier Amadors LEAP method of communicating and adapted it for security.
I would love to see some videos directed toward hospital security especially as it pertains to behavioral anomalies due to various medical issues. I.e. detoxing, overdose, etc. I think it's important to note that psychosis can be temporarily induces by something as seemingly benign as an infection. I think security has a tendency to not recognize what's going on behind the scenes and focus on the behavior.
That's a great idea. It would be awesome if they were used as training
A parasitic infection can also cause these symptoms,, or a brain tumor
as well as something they call 'electronic harassment' which is being documented more and more. I'll be happy to see this become a more mainstream diagnosis.
I know of people who have been suffering because of this yet it's rarely discussed outside of specific forums..
I had phsycosis 10 years ago due to taking a lot of drugs too early in my life when my brain hadn't developed. Recently it's come back so I have found this info helpful and wish everyone well. Seeing a phsyciatrist this week so hopefully that can help.
@Mervyn Ronald I've not had any stress or taken any drugs for a long time in my life but I do have depression and anxiety. I think I am either bipolar with phsycosis tendancies or I am skizophrenic but that's just an opinion I have concluded through researching self-help online. Hopefully I can get a diagnosis and get put on anti-physcotics. I've been having persecutory delusions, hearing voices and having visual hallucinations. I am able to differentiate what is real with the hallucinations but I seem to get sucked in with the delusions and lose my sence of reality. Good luck to everyone and keep the faith.
I love how Dr. Dom explains things 💯🤗I learn so so much from your videos ❤Thank you for sharing these videos 🙏
This helped me to better understand psychotic episodes and how I can help. Thank you.
I literally know when things are in my head. The guy I’m in love with I have visions but I know they aren’t real. Because I’m typically sleeping when it happens
I think i’ve been experiencing this or something that looks a lot like it. I don’t want to go into detail here because idk if it might be triggering for others, but at the beginning it was exceptionally scary. It’s become easier to differentiate between what’s real and what’s not but at the same time it’s getting harder not to react to what’s not real.
It has been a long time since I had a full-blown phycosis episode. Mine present in auditory hallucinations. They are stronger when I'm in a deep depression, but they don't go away completely. I have bipolar 1, so my mood stableizers keep me out of depression. But because they are stronger in this mood, my voices are almost always negative. I believed the voices were deamons when I first started hearing them, I was 11 or 12. They knew the difference between when I was alone and when I was around others. They kept quiet when other people were around and would become so loud that nothing could drown them out when I was alone. 30+ years later, the voices are still with me, but they are much weaker. I know it is all in my head, but that doesn't mean I can control them. They are still very negative, but now I have to be alone and not have visual or audio stimulation. An issue I still deal with is an involuntary audio answer to the voices or having the voices use me to speak. Yes, this is hard to understand it is so hard and embarrassing to go through. Think about your worst trait, then in the middle of a meeting because there is 5 minutes of silence you blurt out how you should die because of .... your worse trait. It's not something I wish for anyone to go through. Luckily, now I'm retired. It's just my husband who has to deal with me. He lets me know if I start to slip. If it is happening to offten, well, it's time for therapy again. (I've been in therapy for a combination of 15 years, and I do have copping mechanism and action plans. Just living with a diagnosis for 30 years and not having either a manic or depressive episode in 8 years, I don't need therapy right now. I'll just stick to my meds.)
Have you searched for iyhere herbal Naturals on UA-cam, I used his herbal Medication and it cured me completely from Psychosis
As a psychosis patient myself, I can confirm that I have experienced the brain talking to me and telling me to do stupid things. I know that I am hallucinating, I panic and make sure not to follow the hallucination. The brain is a natural trickster.
Look up V2K or Voice To Skull. What if you were victim to that? Many people being targeted in various ways besides what i mentioned. No telling how many people were deceived to think and believe they were losing their mind when they werent. In prayers.
Yes, our brains are the greatest story tellers imaginable. Only, sometimes they want to deceive us for different reasons 😓
Topic suggestion: "The human shadow" And why it need to be integrated ?
Idk if this counts as psychosis but I tend to have delusional beliefs. I have OCD and it causes me to think delusional things. Also I have experienced paranoia where I thought people were poisoning my food (they weren’t) I also used to think my mom was an imposter. Idk if this is psychosis but it’s scary.
yeah it’s ocd. ocd sucks balls. i have it too
When it happened to me I felt the television was directly talking to me, I was switching channels and was sweating heavily.
For example:
*I stand up abruptly*
Commercial: sit down and have mcdonald's burger.
*I sit down* in shocked and frightened of what I just heard
Another commercial: you wouldnt be scared if you had Assured alarms home security.
*Changes channel*
Some horror Movie: *somebody is getting stabbed multiple times*
*Quickly Changes channel*
*My Mother walks in the room*
Tv show: *a person is holding a baby* saying "it's okay, it's okay, no need to worry"
At that point I just turned off the TV and went to smoke a cigarette then laid down.
It’s so hard being on the receiving end of someone’s delusions , my ex used to believe that he’d seen me with people or he’d seen me doing things that I hadn’t done , and because he believed it so strongly there was no way that I could change his mind or prove to him otherwise . It doesn’t sound like a big deal but he was very controlling so when he believed these things it made my life hell . I was young at the time so I never understood properly what was happening with him . So he went through our whole 3 year relationship believing and accusing me of things that I hadn’t done, he would never get help and his family didn’t bother to get him any help either
Hey MedCircle!
I would love to see you produce a video about Asperger. I think it’s something that is often confused with other things on the spectrum and it’s easy for the effected to confuse his mentale state with a lot of other illness if left undiagnosed!
Thank you for reading.
Why would medcircle do a video on aspergers? It's not an illness
@@ClaireFrances and to add in to what you’ve said, as of the DSM-5 Asperger’s syndrome no longer exists and the diagnosis has been changed to autism spectrum disorder
@@panicattheeverywhere8878
Aspergers is still a "recognised" condition, you just can't be diagnosed with it anymore.
I found it interesting to learn that a layman trying to convince them of the delusion won’t do anything, but being calm and helping them move to the next step for help.
Yes, unfortunately you can see it on almost any of these videos online, on youtube and elsewhere. There are almost always psychotic people in the comments section, with the most impossible delusions. They gather together online to encourage each other's delusions, reinforce the paranoia, and accuse the rest of the world of conspiring against them. It's very sad.
I have a cousin who is recovering from a delusion that he was being "targeted", who is in recovery now and doing great. His experience, and being able to help him, made me want to come online and interact with people with similar issues. I was hoping to help, but it was not really a good idea. I try to talk to them, but half the time they get angry, accuse me of being part of the "conspiracy", and I end up with 15 comments with several paragraphs of abuse in each one (hypergraphia, for sure). I've definitely woken up to the reality that my cousin was very lucky. Most people don't recover in the same way that he did.
@@linusp9316reading this 3 years later... Wondering if you can explain how you got your nephew help? I can't move to that next step because the help I'm offering is constantly rejected. They refuse to see a doctor and living with them is becoming unbearable.
I felt exactly this way yesterday after a friend of mine made me smoke a strong weed with him.
Never ever will I ever be around him….Hated the feeling and even thought I was dying.. Horrible state I have ever been. I just pray it doesn’t happen again.
Losing your mind is the worst experience a human can ever experience.
Thanks for sharing more details about this, I didn’t know what it was and now I know.
this guy is spot on. thanks for encouraging people to help support them to help because its not like people wanted to choose this suffering.
I tend to think about my schizophrenia is like
I’m a 400 pound Kenyan Woman chained to a wall, suffering from schizophrenia
Instead of I’m a European living in NZ watching this.
It’s seems like a lsd trip.
I hoping one day to find the difference between psychosis and just a ruminating anxiety disorder
I also experienced psychosis I was hearing voices and now on medication for 3 years . I thought i was crazy for hearing voices and nobody understood me.my mental health is better now
Spot on about how people can help the situation Thanks Dom.
Thank you for this. My husband of 16 years recently sent a long letter to our church that was 100% complete psychosis, a delusion of grandeur and it was basically out of nowhere. It's never happened before though he has had moments of writing oddly and I thought nothing of it because of his Autism. He hid it from me, but of course my church told me about it. I couldn't believe it. I am dealing with the fallout now, and it is awful. We are financially strapped (I believe this may have triggered this psychosis) and he doesn't have a PCP so I am desperately trying to convince him to go to the ER. It's been 3 weeks now and I am certain he is manic. Boundless energy, "in a spending mood" constantly, not sleeping a lot, etc. I have no idea how to handle this but I do know not to try to convince him it's not real. He is on the Autistic spectrum, and does not process auditory conversations very well. So it is paining me not to talk with him about this. Everything is through writing, including the psychosis. He is otherwise functioning normally in his job. I am hopeful that going to the ER will mean we get connected to some psychiatric care. I am doing my best to make sure he gets rest and slows down at the end of the day and eats well and is functioning as best he can. I don't think he thinks he's got psychosis, but everyone else can see it. He is willing to get help for my sake. The church has excommunicated him. He hasn't interacted with any of our family or friends since. Everyone is surrounding me and that's awesome. But I'm the one surrounding him, and I am trying so hard just to keep it together. This video was encouraging to me, somehow. I will keep fighting for him. I don't feel he is a lost cause even though everyone thinks he is.
As someone with a family member who has frequent psychotic bouts, I think yall did an excellent job at explaining delusions. I had to learn the hard way, unfortunately that you can't simply "correct" people regarding their delusions, and it is seldom helpful to try.
One note that I would like to add from my own experience (with this family member) is that delusions are not always confined to just a sensory hallucination. The Dr alluded to this with the location (i.e. "We are in NY right now") but delusions can often be complex or abstract. As an example, my family member believes that there is a government conspiracy to spy on them. This may sound run-of-the-mill for schizophrenia or whathaveyou, but my point is that they believe it so deeply that literally nothing can seem to convince them otherwise.
In a normal person, even if you believed this for some reason, if you were presented with enough facts and the problem was broken down logically, it should slowly start to make you question whether or not your beliefs are true. In someone with psychosis, there isn't even a question of whether what they believe is true.
Best of luck to all of you out there dealing with this. I know its a rough ride, but you can make it through
Fortunately my son was 17 when his episodes began to worsen and I was able to have him committed, but being over 18 brings a different perspective to the situation whereas an intervention usually only occurs if the one facing these delusions has tried to cause harm to himself physically, my son just turned 18 and had been doing better but he was around his narcissistic brother over the holidays and this triggered a severe downward spiral to the point of actually bringing former delusions back up that he had not spoken of in over 6 months, now I'm not sure how I will convince him to get the hell he needs. He does speak with a counsellor every other week and talks to his psychiatrist once a month but I'm not sure what my next move will be. His is so bad that he has not received a driver's license because he can't focus for any length of time😔😔😔 he also has not graduated high school, I am totally stressed from dealing with thoughts in his head that are totally absurd but he firmly believes these things have, or still are happening.
@@footballfan7771 I’d suggest, if you haven’t already, don’t let his brother around him often. Continue to do what you’re doing, giving him your love and support most of all.
I have PTSD, and I'm bipolar. I consistently have thoughts that I am everything. I sometime believe that I control reality through thoughts, but they almost always take time to manifest. I have thoughts my wife is here to distract me, and to imprison me. I see connections in things, and when I see information in these symbols such as the all seeing eye I feel anxious. Worst part is I know I'm feeling these feelings but I teater on the line of this psychosis is real, and reality is real.
But isn’t this what every spiritual person think. How is this psychosis
@@NattyByNature- I don't know what everyone else thinks; I only know what they tell me. I know what I think because I tell myself without traditional dialog. I honestly have no fucking idea what is real and what is fake. Anything and everything I know could all be wrong and I could be making all this shit up. At the end of the day whatever happens I won't be surprised.
Well I believe the same and I’ve seen it work. When my thoughts and actions are aligned my manifestation come through very quick. I can literally speak things into reality but I have to be vibrating at a high frequency. But hey man, we could connect and talk more. There’s hardly anyone I can speak to about this stuff without judgement
@@NattyByNature- you're welcome to connect but can't guarantee you're gonna like what I have to say all the time.
That means you would have a mind of your own. Good!
Here searching for info/points of view helping my son. Has talked to himself since 9, always believes everyone wants to get him in trouble, stays by himself and only joined siblings in play as a way to hurt them and now at 16 ran away at 4 am because he heard screaming and a black shadow was trying to get him. Currently undiagnosed. We do not have mental health professional in my area beyond trauma therapists. When I had him in councelling he always responded appropriately and denied problems. These videos and the comments really help me understand him and gives me tools to lessen my own feelings of failure as a parent.
I’ve got psychosis and on meds for it. The guy is absolutely right.
I’d like to see some help on how a loved one can get their adult child to leave an abusive relationship with kids.
As a non professional, but having been in a bad situation, any help that empowers is appreciated. For example, finding an affordable place to stay, finding a new job. Often one stays because of dependency. If not that, then they are just not ready to give up hope it will work out
Melissa send her info-vids to confirm it's not her, she'll have to get out/away, she won't be the first to need to! Blessings!
Hi Melissa, thanks for reaching out with feedback. You may find value in this series: www.medcircle.com/series/ptsd-domestic-violence-53572
There is a lady youtuber that talks about narcissistic abuse etc. Her name is ange i think. Type "Ange narcissist" in search bar on here and she should pop up. Or for better understanding on abuse and relationships watch dr.ramani. she specializes in it, and i find her very helpful. She puts out content almost daily. Take care
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This is a good doctor who has a lot of diff vids and she is going live this friday. Look at her channel and set a reminder on her live stream chat on here. She will be taking questions and I'd love to see your question asked. To see her response and learn myself
My first full on psychotic episode I thought I'd heard two people downstairs on the middle of the night as I was coming down for a drink. My dad sleeps downstairs but he was snoring and one of the voices was very clearly female and I heard her say "shhh we'll wait till she's gone" never bolted up those damn stairs so fast in my whole life. Ended up putting my TV hella quiet, locking my bedroom door and sitting on my bed gripping a metal bat up until I heard my dad get up at 7am
I went down with the bat, checking every room, closet, under the bed, the doors and windows whole holing that bat like I could swing any moment. My dad's following me around super lost asking wtf I'm doing. I said I heard people so clearly and that I can't stop feeling anxious until I could convince myself I was hearing things
Lol this isn't psychosis these are demons
Mine was very similar to yours. The first time I experienced psychosis, I heard a woman sighing and going like: "Mm! Mm!". I thought it was my landlord's mother mocking me above my room (I lived in a basement apartment). I believed this for the longest time until this woman started following me outside of the apartment. The voices will cause paranoia, delusions and fear. Its truly scary.
In my psychotic episode, about ten years ago, I was driving home from work at night. I was a bartender and had a normal good shift, make money etc. I even stood outside talking to my friends like I always did before I departed. On the ride home, I went the way I always did on a straight highway. But this time I noticed, it was curvy. I was swerving trying to keep up with the road. Then in the trees on both sides of the highway, I saw purple people floating up from them. I drove a little longer and then got off the highway, too out of sorts to drive.
My heart was racing out of my chest and I felt like I didn't know where I was. I decided to walk home. (Had been to this gas station hundreds of times and was about 40 mins from home, by the way). Because I could not figure out how to get my seatbelt off, I totally panicked..called my mom somehow..
Struggled to tell her where I was. She told me to stay there and that she was coming. The police and ambulance that she called got there before her.
I was still fighting with the seatbelt in my parked car. Hyperventilating. They asked me what day it was, who was the president, did I know my name. I struggled in my head for the right answer for every question, and had to ask them what I correct or not. Struggled to even guess. I got all the questions wrong.
I started getting violent with them once they got me to the ambulance but they were patient and kind, calming. My mom arrived. I kept screaming I was having a heart attack because my heart was racing so fast. The paramedic hooked me up to the machine and show me my pulse rate and heart rate. Totally normal!!
They laughed it off and assumed I was on some type of drug or something and my mom begged them to release me to her instead of arresting me or taking me to the hospital. They comply.
She took me home and I wailed crying for the rest of the night, convinced that they had committed me and she just did not want to tell. I probably begged her to tell me 1000 times. I became more paranoid once we got to her house and hide under the kitchen table. Screaming, crying, wailing about the fact that I just wanted her to tell me the truth, she could admit that I was really at the hospital and she was pretending we were not. Mom remained calm the whole night. She is a nurse.
Eventually, I fell asleep and she convinced me to sleep In a recliner. The next morning, I woke up fine.
Weird, huh?!
Maybe you have psychic abilities- omg people are so dismissive of having real abilities it’s annoying😢 so they think every single psychic in the world is bipolar? I think not n it’s not fair to pin “ psychosis” as a delusional thought if you do have these abilities
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I worked with a person suffering from schizophrenia that had a number of psychotic delusions. For months I patronized their delusions and never challenged their perception of reality. One of their delusions revolved around Dr's. In an attempt to get this person to a medical appointment I tried to ease in a suggestion they give this one new Dr a chance just to see what the Dr says. Well lets just say I was plopped in their "enemy" camp and placed on a kill list with several other case managers and clinicians. When the list was discovered It shook everyone up a little. I saw him about 3 months later and he greeted me, shook my hand and seemed genuinely happy to see me. that whole episode seemed to be forgotten. One thing I take from this video is never waist time trying to talk someone out of psychosis out of the "realness" of the delusion they are seeing.
I finally had severe manic episodes this year and experienced hallucinations for the first time.
I get the tapping on my back feeling a lot. (Not muscle movement, like a poke)
And I literally caught myself last week telling my mother I was hearing a voice and she said “you are hearing voices?” I was like UH NO but I realized after the way I responded that I absolutely was. Scary AF
I would like to see a series from both the perspective of health care professionals and patients regarding how it feels to be hospitalized, to in some cases lose the ability or power to make choices for themselves, and specific things the staff at all levels can do to make that person as comfortable as possible. I LOVE Med Circle and your content is great, but I would like to see more content on those who are not as compliant with treatment, medications, etc and how to best serve that population.
A video on how to express your mental health difficulties to a family member would be great from a personal point of view :)
So well explained. We need to ask people that at the time of talking with someone who presents psychosis, to not contradict the person, as that behaviour is what usually starts violent reactions that can escalate..
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