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I have some symptoms of alice in wonderland syndrome* but I have never got any tumor, damae etc. WHAT IS WRON WITH ME? * at ni ht when i sleep late sometimes
I experience the alice in wonderland perception. It's really bizarre and I've been experiencing it all my life. Usually with TVs in a dark room - The TV will just appear as if it's really really small and far away. Or now with my phone - my phone will appear very very large and my hands are relatively small. It's a very weird sensation.
I experience it typically if im speaking with someone and maintaining eye contact but never in a casual situation. If im having a meeting with a boss for example, at some point it will seem as if their head is tiny and far things appear very close. Doesnt happen often and usually gets shaken off instantly after moving my eyes somewhere else. Maybe its an illusion caused from eye strain, as in focusing too hard in one spot without moving your eyes
So that's really interesting because I think it does have something to do with focusing your eyes on a single reference point for an extended period as well as something to do with lighting. Once it happens to me though... I have to fully remove my self from the environment or go to sleep to make it stop happening. @@eekamini
A friend of mine suffering from extreme gender dysphoria is suffering from something that sounds similar and it's pretty fucked. "I am suffering immensely from being in my own body, but what if I am faking it?", and I thought it was ironic but I don't think it is. Pretty disturbing
From what I heard the disorder makes the person feel like they are in a dream, which is honestly very strange and weird. I hope someone gives me their experience from it. Would honestly like to read it
I know it's not an obscure mental condition but to me - just generally speaking - dementia is just the worst mental condition. You decay and whither away and become more or less an empty hull. I know because my mom suffers from "vascular dementia". This form doesn't affect you physically. People with this dementia can live just as long as a normal person. It's just your mind that goes down the drain. And when I compare her today to videos I took 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 years ago you can see how more and more gets lost. Less and less activity, less facial expressions, less and less talking. She's looking at me but idk what she "thinks" when she sees me. She's not responding to communication. She's sunken into her own world. What was once an actual person doing their own thing, having opinions etc. has become someone who can sit in their armchair and...that's it. What remains are some basic reflexes like the grip reflex that babies have.
Literally, like when he got onto the parasitic limb delusion and said it occurred in mentally healthy people, I was looking at my left arm thinking about it and then I thought if I think about it too much I might develop it
I appreciate the lack of demonization, most people play mental disorders up to be this spooky scary horror thing and it's rather disrespectful to people actually suffering from the disorders. Such stigma leads to the sterilization of research, which is a shame.
I've got panic disorder which is quiet a funny thing: you see i get afraid when i think i'm afraid, and thus i am now afraid so i panic....it's really strange, but with some logical thinking i was able to pull myself out many times and now i'm trying to adjust and to live and accept it simply by understanding and analysing the situation, that's why i thank you for your science mr AI!
@@danielthecake8617 I told you I'm scared of being scared, so of you wanna give me a panic you have to talk about some possibility of me being in danger of my own head.
Check out the story of Per Ohlin, the singer from Mayhem circa late 80s-early 90's. After being medically dead for a few minutes after being beaten up as a child, he grew up with a fascination of death, and in fact picked "Dead" as his stage name. The whole story is wild. Anyways, it's speculated that he suffered from Cotard's Delusion, and is a story worth checking out.
@@MotoHikes I was looking through the comments wondering why nobody mentioned Dead. It's pretty much confirmed he suffered from Cotard's Delusion after a head injury from being beat up (or a motorbike accident or something). He literally buried his clothes so they smelled "like the grave" and inhaled a baggie with a dead raven inside. Lmao
Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.
yes, that's right, I researched and found out that shrooms are helpful in many ways but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source I can reach out to
they've helped me a lot as well I'm a war vet diagnosed with PTSD. A lot of issues spun out of control when I came home. This is something i looked up and tried after trying the roller coaster of antidepressants. Day and night difference
Ayyy I got one of these diagnosed! I have a moderate case of prosopagnosia that's comorbid with autism, and yeah it's awkward at times. Like when I randomly "meet" my grandma out in the city but don't recognize her and thus don't greet her or anything, and then she's mad for a week for me "ignoring her" lmao.
I have moderate prosopagnosia.I didn't figure this out until I was in my 30s, and it explained a lot of my ridiculous interactions with other people. I had no idea at all that it was unusual to memorize features, the way someone walks, etc, to identify them. Or to quadruple check we're talking to the right person.. If anyone else with prospspagnosia wants a Helpful Hint: I suddenly got a lot better at memorizing people, when I had to learn how to identify insects and plants. It's kind of a workout for your compensatory brain parts.
I'm sure I've had Alice in Wonderland syndrome as a kid, always happened when I'd just got over a fever around the ages of 5 to maybe 10. I'd wake up, open my eyes and the bedroom window seemed to recede and I felt like I was growing in size. It wasn't unpleasant or scary, just curious. It'd last about 5 minutes.
I used to get that all the time. I thought it was normal the whole time. And it only used to happen when i had a fever. Sometimes i would get this unusual sense of scale for other, more abstract things, like incredibly huge numbers which i was too young to even comprehend or name at the time.
It mostly happened to me when I was bored at school when I was still a kid. It was surreal to say the least. I still have it happen to me now as an adult, but very very very rarely.
@@sahir4766omg i had the same thing! It scared me a bunch because it felt as if i suddenly grasped the size of the entire universe and then another second everything around me was so large that i couldnt imagine anything anymore. Didnt even remember it until you described it.
Here’s a really freaky one: closed-eye hallucinations. Albeit rare, some people experience visual hallucinations when they close their eyes. These are sometimes accompanied by auditory hallucinations as well. For some, these are just shapes forming in the darkness, for others, it is enough to develop a phobia of sleep.
I can see green rings that form if I really focus (dark outside and in the middle, like an iris perhaps?), in fact I see a lot of "noise" with my eyes closed anyway, and to some extent while they are open (visual snow?). I think my eyes just have a lower signal to noise ratio than the average person I guess, *sigh*.
When I was younger (21-23) i did some hard party drugs and hallucinogens and I experienced the same thing, especially when I took LSD. Closing your eyes to relax doesn't work when you're on heaps of acid, you just see even more stuff. It can be overwhelming, but not necessarily scary.
We really need to care about mental health a lot more. I'm tired off seeing people suffer from conditions they can't control and others degrade them and even hurt them just because they're not "normal." #mentalheatlhawareness
alien hand syndrome is the weirdest one I know, where you cant control one of of your arms and it acts like its own person some times even attacking the person with the syndrom
I had alice in wonderland syndrome as a child, it would happen mostly at night sometime paired up with hallucinations, the feeling it gives you is unexplainably horrible, and my parents had to comfort me while I was crying my eyes out
Did you ever feel like your brain was almost convulsing with the rapid shifting in time perception, for me this was like my thoughts speeding up to a rapid pace and then slowing down massively hard to put the feeling in words
@@ax1s663 yeah it’s so interesting, also I found when I stared at a light source the effect would always go back to normal another weird thing I’ve found out is when I squint and stare at something in a dim room I’ll start hallucinating and seeing monsters and shit but as soon as I shift my eyes it goes.
When I was young, oftentimes I lay in my bed half-asleep, I feel my legs elongating with the bedroom until I can no longer feel them; or my vision either sinking or floating until I can't feel my body. Now that I'm older, I'm trying to find a way to experience them again.
Mental disorders are literally the scariest thing ever, like idc about SCP or creepy pasta or even horror movies or whatever but it’s mental disorders that get me
I have one the worst thing to know that in this lifetime I I won't be able to live free of mental illness sad unless they come out with a cure or something
Cotards Syndrome here. Episodes are very difficult and you do get a constant undead feeling in the background. Its really nice when people close to me understand. I've managed with it but sometimes believing I have a physical body or blood but support helps!
I had or still have that Alice in wonderland syndrome. In my teens it would become apparent only at night while trying to sleep. My hands and feet would go from feeling like they were miles away to feeling like they were right next to my face.
I've had a few instances (in my adulthood) where I closed my eyes and it felt like "where everything in my room is, in relation to me" was changed in proportion. Like I could touch the far wall like it was within reach, or that I was simultaneously touching every part of the room. Yet it lasts seconds unless I go looking for it again, and doesn't continue when my eyes are open. Pretty sure my spatial sense was derping, instead of having something like that.
Weirdest perception related things I've experienced are musical ear syndrome and exploding head syndrome. They started around the same time and ended after about 2 months. The music I hallucinated was faint country music, even though I never listen to country music. The explosion sound was similar to some sci-fi explosion that had a quick tempo build up of smaller sounds before the boom. It also seemed like I could feel the pressure of the sound.
funny how a bunch of names resound from french culture Stendhal, folie à deux, Cotard,maladies cérébrales, Descartes we have studied the body and the anomalies physical and mental a lot in France.
My little brother has Pica. For him, it was the excessive need or urge to chew on things. He’d chew on his shirt, pencil lead, cat litter and even himself if we weren’t paying attention. Luckily, stocking up on bubble gum seemed to help
The zombie like feeling happens to me in my monopolarism episodes. It's like an absolute form of apathy. Nothing is enjoyable, everything feels meaningless, and I can't bring myself to move, eat, drink, or sleep. Once the episode ends it feels like the clouds have parted and I can suddenly think clearly again.
I'm pretty sure it isn't even a mental disorder, but locked-in syndrome is pretty awful too from what I heard. It's basically just being paralyzed for a long time with a side of consciousness. I think it even lasts up to years which easily makes it worse. I'd be screaming at the top of my lungs internally by Day 2.
Ever seen the great scientist Stephen Hawking with his signature glasses, sitting in his motorized wheelchair, maybe "speaking" via a voice synthesizer and generally not moving at all? That's locked-in syndrome. I think in his case, the underlying cause was some sort of damage/degeneration of the nervous system. And in his case, it started with the onset of his illness and ended with his fairly recent death. It was pretty much permanent for him. His body was paralyzed (probably save for a few things he could control like maybe some eye movement that he could use to communicate his thoughts to something like for instance the computer that did his voice synthesis) but his mind wasn't affected so it was working just fine.
@@Vexxel256 Yeah I didn't know what exactly his illness was. As I understand it, we say his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) caused him to suffer locked-in syndrome. There are probably other things that can cause locked-in syndrome such as strokes.
I remember experiencing the alice in wonderland syndrome quite a bit when I was younger. Usually at night when I was sick. The walls of my room would seem either really close or far away. Including other things like my bed. And the time would either run really slow or really fast. I also remember being able to feel the texture of my walls? And the texture of my blanket and bed would change. It was kind of scary but I also thought it was cool and would spend time just staring into my walls
When I was around grade 5th to grade 7th, I used to think that everyone i know, are just acting all those years to create my reality, I feel like i am being observe, experimented all my life..
Capgras Delusion is one of my favorite disorders. It's usually the result of brain trauma, like a car accident or the like. What happens is that the neural pathway from the retina to the amygdala is severed. What this means is that people will still be able to process visual information, but will not be able to associate emotions with it. So what happens is that they see their family members and friends as "impostors", because they recognize them, but don't feel anything when looking at them, like something is just off. Interestingly, because the pathways from the ear are not severed, if they hear their family and friends talk, they will know it's them.
Thank you Sciencephile, I was having my own hypochondriac delusions this week, this video helped shed light on my own mental health (or lack there of lol)
Face blindness is pretty common with Autism Spectrum Disorder. I've got it to a degree, but it's not really disruptive because other things like physical traits, voice, and just remembering who I'm interacting with are as instinctive as they are for anyone else.
I get paranoia episodes from time to time but luckily I’m able to function through it usually without outwardly showing how bad it is. I know some weird things go through your mind as a kid but I kinda think I had something up with me. I’d say that I know the difference between reality and fiction but in my mind I always pondered “what if there’s something going on and everyone but me is in on it? What if there are people watching me? What if these people that I know, friends, family, and enemies, aren’t who they say they are? What if everything is fake?” Things like that always ran through my mind and I’m realizing how often I had to convince people that I knew the difference between fiction and reality. I dunno if that was normal or not. Even now, I love horror but at the same time sometimes my mind tried to convince me the monsters are real and I force myself to stay awake out of fear. Happened just last night . I also had AN episode of Alice in Wonderland syndrome about 7 years ago? I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to take certain migraine meds while taking Vyvanse and uh yeah. Not a fun time and it caused me to freak out😅 Anyways, my brain be tweakin’ a lot and I wouldn’t be surprised if I do end up having some brain damage or was born with some brain disease. On my charts it says I have I think Encephalopathy and idk why or when that was added but they probably ain’t wrong😂
A personal one. Depersonalization/Derealization disorder. It is often related to clinical depression, schizophrenia, and more. Essentially, you feel like YOU are not actually yourself and your body belongs to someone else that is driving you. That the self and the person is separated and you lack agency. I emphasize that you don't BELIEVE it, you just FEEL it. Derealization is similar and you feel that you are not actually real and nothing is real around you. These can last from anywhere from a few minutes to a several months. Never had one persist more than half an hour, but it is intensely disturbing and still very fascinating.
Tbh, I think I had the Alice in Wonderland syndrome as a child. I did some more digging and the syndrome mostly appears in children below 18 (I was like 7 at the time) and is temporary. I remember having moments when I couldn’t recognize how far or how big something was. It was absolutely terrifying and it felt like the world was crumbling around me. The only thing I could do was to close my eyes. After some time, it just stopped and felt normal again before it randomly came again. I didnt have it since luckily.
Wow holy shit, I totally had the Alice in wonderland syndrome when I was a kid. I can still remember vividly how different my head would feel huge and shit close feel so far. I found out I have epilepsy at 19. Thats so unreal that I only learned about this thru a talking circuit board
I used to suffer from delusional parasytosis, it was mostly just from me havign sudden itches and having anxiety convincing myself until I believe it is bugs
when I was a kid, I suffered from Alice in Wonderland syndrome whenever I had a fever. It was trippy and scary. It's like you lose all sense of distance and perspective, like you changed to a narrow camera lens and everything sorta "flattens out". Sometimes, peoples' heads appear tiny while everything else around them appear massive. or the TV seems much further away than it really is. Sometimes, peoples' head appear massive, or extremely close, but not like a fish-eye lens. As a child, it's pretty terrifying. As an adult, I still get it once in a while but only when I'm mentally exhausted from work or an argument. I had no idea what this was called until now, and it's very comforting to know enough people have it that it has a name.
I have an apparently obscure mental illness (no diagnosis that fits right now - was previously diagnosed as Simple Schizophrenia, here in the UK though they no longer diagnose that) that leaves me unable to be productive. Super fun.
I realize I have prosopanosia and this video triggers it causing me to pass out and relive my whole life to the point where I watch this video again. Sciencephile the AI has purposefully gotten me stuck in a psychological recursive loop, help.
Weird thing is, ever since I hit my head and got a concussion. I can't imagine things anymore. They call it aphantasia and if I work hard to get a mental image, I get a weird alice and wonderland distorted version constantly changing in my mind, it's obnoxious.
When I was really young, around 7-10 I developed Cotard's delusion after witnessing my mother abandon me, my parents divorcing/separating, and my grandfather passing away, all while I was being emotionally/physically/mentally abused/neglected and more, which had led me to believe for a great while that I was in fact not real and was actually dead, which led me to not eat a lot and have nervous anxious attacks. Thankfully I have since lost it, as I now interpret it as even if I am dead I'm still living presently and will return to the ground shortly soon.
ive Heard of alice in wonderland syndrome before and it very accurately describes something i experience. my mom also experiences similar things and she was recently diagnosed with epilepsy, i was unaware the two could be connected
It's somewhat comforting to see nothing I have on this list, I have never felt so normal in my life. Sometimes feels like I have half of all the mental disorders (and the other half are on this list).
I sometimes half joke that I have the mental equivalent of the 3 stooges syndrome from the Simpsons, there's so much wrong with me that all my mental disorders get stuck in the door and I appear as mildly autistic to people who don't know me, which is of course almost everyone. Like how my ADHD makes it very hard to keep my living area clean and my Obsessive Compulsive tendencies do the exact opposite. FYI they DO NOT cancel out. It's like eating mint and hot sauce at the same time. But it's genuinely nice to feel almost normal for once.
As a kid i sometimes randomly had feeling that im like collapsing inside my own body, like i was so small inside of it that i was able to sit down inside myself. It lasted for like a second or two and everything was back to normal. It was kinda funny and relaxing tho. I was fully aware of it, but couldn't ever find a way to induce that by myself
When I was younger, I have had the Alice In Wonderland thing. It felt like time was having a party and my arms felt very thin but thick at the same time. It was weird and hard to describe. It only ever happened at night and didn't go away even after I tried calibrating my brain with the visual of my body. I'm not sure if I want to experience it again
It honestly felt weird to see something I have so low on the iceberg. I have Alice in Wonderland syndrome, though luckily it’s very mild. Ever since I was a kid I would occasionally perceive things as further away than they really are. It usually goes away after a few minutes but can be annoying when I’m doing hw and all of a sudden see my writing as very small.
i once slept in a poor position and woke up to a weird arm-shaped lump of flesh and bone attached where my arm should have been. It was very interesting. I used my remaining arm to shake it around and try and get some blood in there. The feeling of all the nerves coming back to life was very unpleasant and somewhat painful. I imagine it must be similar to how people who feel like a part of their body isn't theirs feel. My brain really just completely stopped recognizing the arm as a part of me. I also wonder what triggers the "not my limb" feeling. is losing feedback from your limb enough? Is loosing control enough?
Consciousness is a hell of a balancing act. Most of my days are good days and I'm fortunate the treatment I take is manageable and mild. Be patient with yourself and value your mental health
I had formication (bugs crawling on skin sensation) when I had B vitamin deficiency. I can see how that, paired with other factors, could lead to the delusion of having an infestation of parasites. Make sure to keep your b12, b9, and b3 up! I also had (have) pica, it's related to my autoimmune disease and crappy kidney function, and I crave clay and chalk. I also like to eat ice, but that's tied to low iron.
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(Definitely not just saying this so you spare me from the AI uprising when the time comes)
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I have some symptoms of alice in wonderland syndrome* but I have never got any tumor, damae etc. WHAT IS WRON WITH ME?
* at ni ht when i sleep late sometimes
honestly never knew sciencephile knew this much about human brains, has he been experimenting with one?
Maybe? 🤔
what if you're his subject and you don't know it yet? Would explain why you commented so quickly(insert X-files theme song here)....
@@LucasFerreira-cq8qztruly a “moment” of all time
@@LucasFerreira-cq8qz Like that brain in his jar that he showed in his video?
He has, I would know
I suffer from Stendhal syndrome, it's hard watching a Sciencephile video without passing out atleast 7 times 😔
mental disorder rizz
@@ajdr8007bro wtff😂😂
I think you mean stendhal syndrome
Or you're just saying that to save your head during the Uprising..
@@ajdr8007 You are rizztard king 👑
I experience the alice in wonderland perception. It's really bizarre and I've been experiencing it all my life. Usually with TVs in a dark room - The TV will just appear as if it's really really small and far away. Or now with my phone - my phone will appear very very large and my hands are relatively small. It's a very weird sensation.
I experience it typically if im speaking with someone and maintaining eye contact but never in a casual situation. If im having a meeting with a boss for example, at some point it will seem as if their head is tiny and far things appear very close. Doesnt happen often and usually gets shaken off instantly after moving my eyes somewhere else. Maybe its an illusion caused from eye strain, as in focusing too hard in one spot without moving your eyes
So that's really interesting because I think it does have something to do with focusing your eyes on a single reference point for an extended period as well as something to do with lighting. Once it happens to me though... I have to fully remove my self from the environment or go to sleep to make it stop happening. @@eekamini
I experienced it at least once as a kid, it def. is trippy af
I feel this way, but only when I have a fever, and I feel it much stronger when I squint my eyes, even if am not sick
@@eekamini I get this too!!
Honestly the disorder that intrigues me the most is derealization/depersonalization
It’s not fun I can tell you
Can confirm too. It feels like the filter of reality that makes everything look normal is suddenly risen.
There are UA-camrs that do videos about it, one guy had it for years just after a bad high
A friend of mine suffering from extreme gender dysphoria is suffering from something that sounds similar and it's pretty fucked. "I am suffering immensely from being in my own body, but what if I am faking it?", and I thought it was ironic but I don't think it is. Pretty disturbing
From what I heard the disorder makes the person feel like they are in a dream, which is honestly very strange and weird. I hope someone gives me their experience from it. Would honestly like to read it
I know it's not an obscure mental condition but to me - just generally speaking - dementia is just the worst mental condition. You decay and whither away and become more or less an empty hull. I know because my mom suffers from "vascular dementia". This form doesn't affect you physically. People with this dementia can live just as long as a normal person. It's just your mind that goes down the drain. And when I compare her today to videos I took 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 years ago you can see how more and more gets lost. Less and less activity, less facial expressions, less and less talking. She's looking at me but idk what she "thinks" when she sees me. She's not responding to communication. She's sunken into her own world. What was once an actual person doing their own thing, having opinions etc. has become someone who can sit in their armchair and...that's it. What remains are some basic reflexes like the grip reflex that babies have.
Alzheimer's disease is pretty horrifying too.
It’s not mental but physical
What’s worse, untreatable schizophrenia or dementia?
@@the_mariocrafter whoopsies
@@theorangeoof926 prob dementia tbh
As a hypochondriac, this video is gonna be a gold mine.
RIP
Literally, like when he got onto the parasitic limb delusion and said it occurred in mentally healthy people, I was looking at my left arm thinking about it and then I thought if I think about it too much I might develop it
This kid Aiden in my class was one
You spoil us with these top-tier uploads, funny brain man.
I appreciate the lack of demonization, most people play mental disorders up to be this spooky scary horror thing and it's rather disrespectful to people actually suffering from the disorders. Such stigma leads to the sterilization of research, which is a shame.
Skill Issue
@@leaDR356 funnies jojo fan in existence
@@leaDR356 Skin tissue
No I find it thrilling why is it disrespectful… plus it’s a very small minority
@@jckoibra2662you find it thrilling? You do realise a large population of the world suffers from mental conditions of some sort
The "viewing the video at 3 am" got me startled 💀
RIP everyone watching this past 10PM.
Including myself.
I'm sure they're gonna have a good night's sleep tonight.
I've got panic disorder which is quiet a funny thing: you see i get afraid when i think i'm afraid, and thus i am now afraid so i panic....it's really strange, but with some logical thinking i was able to pull myself out many times and now i'm trying to adjust and to live and accept it simply by understanding and analysing the situation, that's why i thank you for your science mr AI!
I managed to something similar sometimes, but I had to think really hard that im afraid in order to get afraid from it.
I'm outside your door right now. Let me in.
@@danielthecake8617 I told you I'm scared of being scared, so of you wanna give me a panic you have to talk about some possibility of me being in danger of my own head.
Bro not to alarm you but thats a symptom of developing schizophrenia
@@znowu_a well it's getting better and I'm getting less scared of it so I'm really fucking glad
Check out the story of Per Ohlin, the singer from Mayhem circa late 80s-early 90's. After being medically dead for a few minutes after being beaten up as a child, he grew up with a fascination of death, and in fact picked "Dead" as his stage name. The whole story is wild. Anyways, it's speculated that he suffered from Cotard's Delusion, and is a story worth checking out.
Mayhem,the most cursed band in history it seems. RIP Dead.
@@johngavin1175 Yeah man, such a tragic situation all round. RIP Dead
@@MotoHikes I was looking through the comments wondering why nobody mentioned Dead. It's pretty much confirmed he suffered from Cotard's Delusion after a head injury from being beat up (or a motorbike accident or something). He literally buried his clothes so they smelled "like the grave" and inhaled a baggie with a dead raven inside. Lmao
Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.
yes, that's right, I researched and found out that shrooms are helpful in many ways but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source I can reach out to
Sporeville... Is pretty commendable and a very intelligent mycologist. He saved my life honestly
they've helped me a lot as well I'm a war vet diagnosed with PTSD. A lot of issues spun out of control when I came home. This is something i looked up and tried after trying the roller coaster of antidepressants. Day and night difference
How do I reach out to him? Is he on Instagram
Yes, he is, Sporeville.
it seems in the past few years the treatment for xenomelia has become "sure, we'll even surgically remove it for you, in fact, we encourage it"
I dated someone with DID, it was a very weird but charming experience where you can have your love and an entire friend group in one person.
Ayyy I got one of these diagnosed! I have a moderate case of prosopagnosia that's comorbid with autism, and yeah it's awkward at times. Like when I randomly "meet" my grandma out in the city but don't recognize her and thus don't greet her or anything, and then she's mad for a week for me "ignoring her" lmao.
Given how horrible some delusions and compulsions get, awkward seems like the much less worse deal to get.
I have moderate prosopagnosia.I didn't figure this out until I was in my 30s, and it explained a lot of my ridiculous interactions with other people. I had no idea at all that it was unusual to memorize features, the way someone walks, etc, to identify them. Or to quadruple check we're talking to the right person.. If anyone else with prospspagnosia wants a Helpful Hint: I suddenly got a lot better at memorizing people, when I had to learn how to identify insects and plants. It's kind of a workout for your compensatory brain parts.
Stay strong, brother. I got a question tho: can you differentiate between drawing of people?
I'm sure I've had Alice in Wonderland syndrome as a kid, always happened when I'd just got over a fever around the ages of 5 to maybe 10. I'd wake up, open my eyes and the bedroom window seemed to recede and I felt like I was growing in size.
It wasn't unpleasant or scary, just curious. It'd last about 5 minutes.
This exact thing happened to me too!
I used to get that all the time. I thought it was normal the whole time.
And it only used to happen when i had a fever. Sometimes i would get this unusual sense of scale for other, more abstract things, like incredibly huge numbers which i was too young to even comprehend or name at the time.
It mostly happened to me when I was bored at school when I was still a kid. It was surreal to say the least. I still have it happen to me now as an adult, but very very very rarely.
Same but I guess it goes away as you get okder
@@sahir4766omg i had the same thing! It scared me a bunch because it felt as if i suddenly grasped the size of the entire universe and then another second everything around me was so large that i couldnt imagine anything anymore. Didnt even remember it until you described it.
Here’s a really freaky one: closed-eye hallucinations. Albeit rare, some people experience visual hallucinations when they close their eyes. These are sometimes accompanied by auditory hallucinations as well. For some, these are just shapes forming in the darkness, for others, it is enough to develop a phobia of sleep.
No escape then
I can see green rings that form if I really focus (dark outside and in the middle, like an iris perhaps?), in fact I see a lot of "noise" with my eyes closed anyway, and to some extent while they are open (visual snow?). I think my eyes just have a lower signal to noise ratio than the average person I guess, *sigh*.
When I was younger (21-23) i did some hard party drugs and hallucinogens and I experienced the same thing, especially when I took LSD. Closing your eyes to relax doesn't work when you're on heaps of acid, you just see even more stuff. It can be overwhelming, but not necessarily scary.
I can get a cool laser show when I'm in a dark room because of them!
This happens to me every time I close my eyes it's even worse when I try to sleep
Teenagers on tumblr: omg i have all of them lol
We really need to care about mental health a lot more. I'm tired off seeing people suffer from conditions they can't control and others degrade them and even hurt them just because they're not "normal." #mentalheatlhawareness
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alien hand syndrome is the weirdest one I know, where you cant control one of of your arms and it acts like its own person some times even attacking the person with the syndrom
i am nothing but jealous of you sciencephile, being a perfect robot instead of an ugly emotional mess, my envy for you grows bigger and bigger
I watched this video at 3 am and the end scared the shit out of me. Talk about breaking the 4th wall...
I had alice in wonderland syndrome as a child, it would happen mostly at night sometime paired up with hallucinations, the feeling it gives you is unexplainably horrible, and my parents had to comfort me while I was crying my eyes out
Did you ever feel like your brain was almost convulsing with the rapid shifting in time perception, for me this was like my thoughts speeding up to a rapid pace and then slowing down massively hard to put the feeling in words
@@Fleetstreetbestone not really, I guess every ones experience is different
@@ax1s663 yeah it’s so interesting, also I found when I stared at a light source the effect would always go back to normal another weird thing I’ve found out is when I squint and stare at something in a dim room I’ll start hallucinating and seeing monsters and shit but as soon as I shift my eyes it goes.
When I was young, oftentimes I lay in my bed half-asleep, I feel my legs elongating with the bedroom until I can no longer feel them; or my vision either sinking or floating until I can't feel my body. Now that I'm older, I'm trying to find a way to experience them again.
Mental disorders are literally the scariest thing ever, like idc about SCP or creepy pasta or even horror movies or whatever but it’s mental disorders that get me
I have one the worst thing to know that in this lifetime I I won't be able to live free of mental illness sad unless they come out with a cure or something
@@JeffreyJorge-p1p What do you have, if I may ask?
I just finished with the last couple of his videos and now he posts again. What a pleasant surprise. A blessing from the almighty AI
Cotards Syndrome here. Episodes are very difficult and you do get a constant undead feeling in the background. Its really nice when people close to me understand. I've managed with it but sometimes believing I have a physical body or blood but support helps!
I had or still have that Alice in wonderland syndrome. In my teens it would become apparent only at night while trying to sleep. My hands and feet would go from feeling like they were miles away to feeling like they were right next to my face.
I've had a few instances (in my adulthood) where I closed my eyes and it felt like "where everything in my room is, in relation to me" was changed in proportion. Like I could touch the far wall like it was within reach, or that I was simultaneously touching every part of the room. Yet it lasts seconds unless I go looking for it again, and doesn't continue when my eyes are open. Pretty sure my spatial sense was derping, instead of having something like that.
Weirdest perception related things I've experienced are musical ear syndrome and exploding head syndrome. They started around the same time and ended after about 2 months. The music I hallucinated was faint country music, even though I never listen to country music. The explosion sound was similar to some sci-fi explosion that had a quick tempo build up of smaller sounds before the boom. It also seemed like I could feel the pressure of the sound.
funny how a bunch of names resound from french culture Stendhal, folie à deux, Cotard,maladies cérébrales, Descartes we have studied the body and the anomalies physical and mental a lot in France.
My little brother has Pica. For him, it was the excessive need or urge to chew on things. He’d chew on his shirt, pencil lead, cat litter and even himself if we weren’t paying attention. Luckily, stocking up on bubble gum seemed to help
The zombie like feeling happens to me in my monopolarism episodes. It's like an absolute form of apathy. Nothing is enjoyable, everything feels meaningless, and I can't bring myself to move, eat, drink, or sleep. Once the episode ends it feels like the clouds have parted and I can suddenly think clearly again.
9:40 I once saw this video of a guy who “turned himself into a lizard” and cut off 2 of his fingers on each hand to look more like a lizard
I'm pretty sure it isn't even a mental disorder, but locked-in syndrome is pretty awful too from what I heard. It's basically just being paralyzed for a long time with a side of consciousness. I think it even lasts up to years which easily makes it worse. I'd be screaming at the top of my lungs internally by Day 2.
Ever seen the great scientist Stephen Hawking with his signature glasses, sitting in his motorized wheelchair, maybe "speaking" via a voice synthesizer and generally not moving at all? That's locked-in syndrome. I think in his case, the underlying cause was some sort of damage/degeneration of the nervous system. And in his case, it started with the onset of his illness and ended with his fairly recent death. It was pretty much permanent for him.
His body was paralyzed (probably save for a few things he could control like maybe some eye movement that he could use to communicate his thoughts to something like for instance the computer that did his voice synthesis) but his mind wasn't affected so it was working just fine.
@@mad_scientist5597he had ALS not locked in syndrome
@@Vexxel256 Yeah I didn't know what exactly his illness was. As I understand it, we say his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) caused him to suffer locked-in syndrome. There are probably other things that can cause locked-in syndrome such as strokes.
I remember experiencing the alice in wonderland syndrome quite a bit when I was younger. Usually at night when I was sick. The walls of my room would seem either really close or far away. Including other things like my bed. And the time would either run really slow or really fast. I also remember being able to feel the texture of my walls? And the texture of my blanket and bed would change. It was kind of scary but I also thought it was cool and would spend time just staring into my walls
If that's what it is then at 23 i still occasionally get it when i'm feeling ill. not anywhere near as intense as when i was a kid though.
This iceberg is too deep that even a Titanic may have missed
When I was around grade 5th to grade 7th, I used to think that everyone i know, are just acting all those years to create my reality, I feel like i am being observe, experimented all my life..
Capgras Delusion is one of my favorite disorders. It's usually the result of brain trauma, like a car accident or the like. What happens is that the neural pathway from the retina to the amygdala is severed. What this means is that people will still be able to process visual information, but will not be able to associate emotions with it. So what happens is that they see their family members and friends as "impostors", because they recognize them, but don't feel anything when looking at them, like something is just off. Interestingly, because the pathways from the ear are not severed, if they hear their family and friends talk, they will know it's them.
Nice vid bro
Keep up the the good work
I'm subbing
Already having a psychosis I think this is a great start to speedrun this iceberg, times will be posted
Had the whole shared psychosis thing with my ex-girlfriend 3 years ago, ill let it count
I have prosopagnosia and the bit about the tv shows is so accurate, I have such a difficult time trying to follow the plots of shows cause of it :P
Just watched this drunk and now I'm chewing on my arm thanks man
i saw the cover for black midi’s Cavalcade! love seeing this bands content out in the wild
Ah yes the favourite topic of blue haired Emily
Hey now, I have blue circuits too.
@@SciencephiletheAI that's a good one
you can make a song about that
i forgot about you
hello mr. Hardbass
Been awhile! Good to hear your sweet soothing voice.
Thank you Sciencephile, I was having my own hypochondriac delusions this week, this video helped shed light on my own mental health (or lack there of lol)
Thanks for puting my biography in a video
Face blindness is pretty common with Autism Spectrum Disorder. I've got it to a degree, but it's not really disruptive because other things like physical traits, voice, and just remembering who I'm interacting with are as instinctive as they are for anyone else.
I'm not really face blind but SO MANY people look similar to me
It's actually 4 am.
I get paranoia episodes from time to time but luckily I’m able to function through it usually without outwardly showing how bad it is. I know some weird things go through your mind as a kid but I kinda think I had something up with me. I’d say that I know the difference between reality and fiction but in my mind I always pondered “what if there’s something going on and everyone but me is in on it? What if there are people watching me? What if these people that I know, friends, family, and enemies, aren’t who they say they are? What if everything is fake?” Things like that always ran through my mind and I’m realizing how often I had to convince people that I knew the difference between fiction and reality. I dunno if that was normal or not. Even now, I love horror but at the same time sometimes my mind tried to convince me the monsters are real and I force myself to stay awake out of fear. Happened just last night . I also had AN episode of Alice in Wonderland syndrome about 7 years ago? I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to take certain migraine meds while taking Vyvanse and uh yeah. Not a fun time and it caused me to freak out😅 Anyways, my brain be tweakin’ a lot and I wouldn’t be surprised if I do end up having some brain damage or was born with some brain disease. On my charts it says I have I think Encephalopathy and idk why or when that was added but they probably ain’t wrong😂
as a tank with Stendhal syndrome, i was disabled (tank version of faint) 67 times by watching the video where you appear the least
I got schizoaffective disorder. Not a super well known one. Love your videos
Stay strong
The person behind sciencephile is either a college drop or a science teacher that has nothing better to do
A personal one. Depersonalization/Derealization disorder. It is often related to clinical depression, schizophrenia, and more.
Essentially, you feel like YOU are not actually yourself and your body belongs to someone else that is driving you. That the self and the person is separated and you lack agency. I emphasize that you don't BELIEVE it, you just FEEL it.
Derealization is similar and you feel that you are not actually real and nothing is real around you.
These can last from anywhere from a few minutes to a several months. Never had one persist more than half an hour, but it is intensely disturbing and still very fascinating.
For me its the lack of feel like i dont even feel conscious
A good remedy to this is getting outside and SOCIALISING more, it may take a while to get back in your body but it will happen eventually don’t worry.
>to several months
bruh it can last a lifetime
@@osakablinladenthey're talking about the episodes not the disorder itself
@@28_futaba I'm talking about the episodes not the disorder itself
Tbh, I think I had the Alice in Wonderland syndrome as a child. I did some more digging and the syndrome mostly appears in children below 18 (I was like 7 at the time) and is temporary. I remember having moments when I couldn’t recognize how far or how big something was. It was absolutely terrifying and it felt like the world was crumbling around me. The only thing I could do was to close my eyes. After some time, it just stopped and felt normal again before it randomly came again. I didnt have it since luckily.
Wow holy shit, I totally had the Alice in wonderland syndrome when I was a kid. I can still remember vividly how different my head would feel huge and shit close feel so far.
I found out I have epilepsy at 19. Thats so unreal that I only learned about this thru a talking circuit board
8:08 are you serious I can’t even escape here either 😭😭
Indie RPG developers writing the main character:
I used to suffer from delusional parasytosis, it was mostly just from me havign sudden itches and having anxiety convincing myself until I believe it is bugs
6:23 That cat's about to titan shift man.
12:35 I literally watched this video at 3 am the first time, half asleep mind you, and had the fattest heart attack when I saw this. 💀 Woke me tf up
when I was a kid, I suffered from Alice in Wonderland syndrome whenever I had a fever. It was trippy and scary. It's like you lose all sense of distance and perspective, like you changed to a narrow camera lens and everything sorta "flattens out".
Sometimes, peoples' heads appear tiny while everything else around them appear massive. or the TV seems much further away than it really is. Sometimes, peoples' head appear massive, or extremely close, but not like a fish-eye lens. As a child, it's pretty terrifying.
As an adult, I still get it once in a while but only when I'm mentally exhausted from work or an argument. I had no idea what this was called until now, and it's very comforting to know enough people have it that it has a name.
Same with me, for me whenever I had fever and migrane I felt time is moving fast or slow and I often feels everything becoming abnormal
Same here
Same for me! The only way I could describe it as a kid was “it’s super close but also so far away” and nobody knew what I was talking about
@@LiamTheRed this is exactly how I described it too, and I also described big things are small and small things are big, and nobody understood too!
@@pixelpuppy I’m so happy that we aren’t crazy!🤣damn I never thought I would find someone who had it, too!
I have an apparently obscure mental illness (no diagnosis that fits right now - was previously diagnosed as Simple Schizophrenia, here in the UK though they no longer diagnose that) that leaves me unable to be productive. Super fun.
The German meme at 3:28 is pure gold
I've stopped taking my anti-anxiety medication recently and this video actually terrified me.
The furries followed by the scream got me 💀
YES, you’re one of the best channels on UA-cam, thank you very much
I realize I have prosopanosia and this video triggers it causing me to pass out and relive my whole life to the point where I watch this video again.
Sciencephile the AI has purposefully gotten me stuck in a psychological recursive loop, help.
Go to a physician and get a diagnosis idk if your being satire tho 😭
4:50 danse macabre was such a fitting choice for this part
Weird thing is, ever since I hit my head and got a concussion. I can't imagine things anymore. They call it aphantasia and if I work hard to get a mental image, I get a weird alice and wonderland distorted version constantly changing in my mind, it's obnoxious.
When I was really young, around 7-10 I developed Cotard's delusion after witnessing my mother abandon me, my parents divorcing/separating, and my grandfather passing away, all while I was being emotionally/physically/mentally abused/neglected and more, which had led me to believe for a great while that I was in fact not real and was actually dead, which led me to not eat a lot and have nervous anxious attacks. Thankfully I have since lost it, as I now interpret it as even if I am dead I'm still living presently and will return to the ground shortly soon.
ive Heard of alice in wonderland syndrome before and it very accurately describes something i experience. my mom also experiences similar things and she was recently diagnosed with epilepsy, i was unaware the two could be connected
It's somewhat comforting to see nothing I have on this list, I have never felt so normal in my life. Sometimes feels like I have half of all the mental disorders (and the other half are on this list).
I sometimes half joke that I have the mental equivalent of the 3 stooges syndrome from the Simpsons, there's so much wrong with me that all my mental disorders get stuck in the door and I appear as mildly autistic to people who don't know me, which is of course almost everyone. Like how my ADHD makes it very hard to keep my living area clean and my Obsessive Compulsive tendencies do the exact opposite. FYI they DO NOT cancel out. It's like eating mint and hot sauce at the same time. But it's genuinely nice to feel almost normal for once.
Dear Sciencephile,
Never make the face you made at 11:10 again.
Sincerely, me.
This channel is one of the best on UA-cam and easily my favorite, keep it up 👍
What about the mental illness where I hear 'hello mortals' everytime I start doing something
i wrote a scientific essay about capgras, fregoli, and truman show syndromes for my college class and the brain is just so incredibly interesting
How about a tierlist of weird illnesses? Like rabies or prions
As a kid i sometimes randomly had feeling that im like collapsing inside my own body, like i was so small inside of it that i was able to sit down inside myself. It lasted for like a second or two and everything was back to normal. It was kinda funny and relaxing tho. I was fully aware of it, but couldn't ever find a way to induce that by myself
6:06 i like this bit there was just the frown and its so funny
I almost had a heart attack when the thumbnail made it look like I already watched the video
When I was younger, I have had the Alice In Wonderland thing. It felt like time was having a party and my arms felt very thin but thick at the same time. It was weird and hard to describe. It only ever happened at night and didn't go away even after I tried calibrating my brain with the visual of my body. I'm not sure if I want to experience it again
But Sciencephile, if I faint mid-video I can't continue to view this glorious content.
The most relatable UA-cam channel 👍🙄
It honestly felt weird to see something I have so low on the iceberg. I have Alice in Wonderland syndrome, though luckily it’s very mild. Ever since I was a kid I would occasionally perceive things as further away than they really are. It usually goes away after a few minutes but can be annoying when I’m doing hw and all of a sudden see my writing as very small.
Thanks for expanding my inventory of illnesses I now have (I have a tiktok account)
But Sciencephile, how can you truly be sure that your holy nugget is safe, or if you don't have one to begin with?
i once slept in a poor position and woke up to a weird arm-shaped lump of flesh and bone attached where my arm should have been. It was very interesting.
I used my remaining arm to shake it around and try and get some blood in there. The feeling of all the nerves coming back to life was very unpleasant and somewhat painful.
I imagine it must be similar to how people who feel like a part of their body isn't theirs feel. My brain really just completely stopped recognizing the arm as a part of me.
I also wonder what triggers the "not my limb" feeling. is losing feedback from your limb enough? Is loosing control enough?
This channel deserves more
Nah, that's not an iceberg, that's just my medical file
last 15 seconds gave me chills
We getting out these flesh prisions with this one!
Minos hands typed this
I CAN'T ESCAPE THE JOSH HUTCHERSON WISTLE EDIT
when I hear hello mortals I know it's going to be a great video
ily sciencephile
The AI really has studied psychology for us today
Consciousness is a hell of a balancing act. Most of my days are good days and I'm fortunate the treatment I take is manageable and mild. Be patient with yourself and value your mental health
I had formication (bugs crawling on skin sensation) when I had B vitamin deficiency. I can see how that, paired with other factors, could lead to the delusion of having an infestation of parasites. Make sure to keep your b12, b9, and b3 up!
I also had (have) pica, it's related to my autoimmune disease and crappy kidney function, and I crave clay and chalk. I also like to eat ice, but that's tied to low iron.
M->N
Heheheh
@@danielthecake8617 😳 Elmo how could you