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I suffered from drug induced psychosis. Coming off of heroin, I snapped. I was violent and not in reality. I really appreciate your openness and the education u give us
Yes drug induced psychosis, depression w/ psychotic features, Etc. Also secondary psychosis from thyroid disorder, infection, autoimmune disease, dementia, etc.
Thank you for your explaination of the difference between psychosis and schitzophrenia. I've heard another explaination that I've found helpful too, which is psychosis is a symptom, just like a fever is a symptom. In theory, psychosis can be caused by what they call "organic" causes, like a brain tumour or some other physical cause. This is why they first try and rule that out, by sending people for CAT scans, EEG, blood tests ect. Once they've ruled out those causes, its all about what mental illness category that your symptoms fit best. I guess nobody fits in a box exactly, and even people with the same diagnosis are individuals with a lot of differences. I have read somewhere that it is possible to have transient psychosis in PTSD or personality disorders too, but not everyone with such diagnosis will experience it.
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I have another question. If psychosis is a symptom, then what makes schizophrenia different from other mental illness? What's what makes schizophrenia schizophrenia?
hey there, i just wanted to say cause my comment got hijacked by an asshat. what i wanted to say was that medications make up to 10% at most of your recovery. you can rely on them but not as a silver bullet to solve all your problems. many many many people think that medications are the only way you can get better and this is incredibly wrong and harmful to your wellbeing if you take this falsehood as truth. you have many ways which can be getting help from non clinical workers (support workers,case managers, social workers etc.) which can help you in day to day life and working through some of your difficulties that way. there are so many different ways you can try to make your mental health better which is fantastic and please try to remember that you need to keep hopeful and find another provider if you aren't getting the supports and treatment you need to get better.
I understand your point but unfortunately for some people, recovery only goes so far... I used to know a guy with longstanding paranoid schizophrenia and I'm afraid to say the medication made up about 100% of the recovery that he hadーthat and natural remission. He'd been on 2-weekly depot shots for a very long time, and even years later had no real understanding that he'd ever been mentally ill, and even less understanding that he still had symptoms now... Even years after the fact he'd talk about hallucinatory experiences as weird things that had happened to him with no insight or understanding. It's sad because he was a nice guy... But! He was able to live an independent life outside of hospital and halfway housesーand, for the most part, he seemed happy with life. He had huge ambitions which were frankly delusional (thinking he was going to make billions, etc). Speaking as his friend I was just glad that he was able to cope with life day to day, because not everyone does by any means... I was just glad that something made my friend happy, even though most of it was based on delusions....
@@ZadenZane horseshit, if you see a good psych these days they will tell you that medication only makes up to 10% of your treatment to recovery. Most of the best strategies are with non clinical mental health staff who help you with everything else which can make a much bigger impact to how you get better and manage your illness. I've had mental health problems most of my life and I can tell you that you aren't always going to get care and treatment that works all the time and the key is finding what combination of different services works for you.
@@FamousByFamily I agree. I read that famous book An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison and she talks about these extended manic and depressive episodes she had and how horrible it was having to take lithium which made her brain fuzzy and she really needed a clear head for her career as an academic... (weirdly she does mention antipsychotics and being prescribed them, but never in any detail) anyway she said very clearly that even though bipolar is a brain disease she never would have recovered as well as she did without years of therapy on top of these drugs they gave her. I knew someone who had pretty bad borderline personality disorder. I've met a few people who said they had it but this person was by far the most extreme, she used to have psychotic-like episodes (I don't know what a dr would call them but they looked like psychosis and she was very paranoid) guess what after years of counselling which she really needed AND was open to, not just someone who would talk talk talk and do nothing, come back and talk talk talk do nothing she genuinely worked on herself and they cut her off! I told her about dialectical behavioural therapy and we couldn't find it anywhere in London... maybe if you have money you can pay a lot and get it, but she didn't have a lot of money. I just thought it was crazy that the one person I knew more open to counselling than probably anyone else, someone who definitely needed ongoing support, they cut her off! The psychiatrist said it was so they could establish whether she needed it again or some such BS. I went to a few medical appointments with her and was there when he said this. She was quite a dramatic personality and I can understand how some of the professionals found her challenging but I think they let her down.
@@ZadenZane this is the thing, everything is on a case by case basis. what works for 1 person might not work for you even if you have the same diagnosis and symptoms. everyone who suffers from mental illness needs a healthy dose of skepticism with any advice given because you will be given treatment from time to time that actually does NOT help and sometimes makes you worse. you have to find yourself treatment that works best for you and that is a pursuit which takes time if you haven't done it before. i personally haven't got a psychiatrist that i see regularly because i can't afford it, what i do have is a mental health service at the hospital that i go to when i need a medication review but as far as ongoing treatment i use a psychologist who is fantastic and a support worker. i've had a lot of different services over the years and it's about adapting to what works best for your current circumstances. if you feel like you're becoming more unwell then you need to get more support and organise more treatment for yourself.
Hi hi, just wanted to remind you Jesus loves you :)) and u might want to be careful with the cussing as it is best to not let unwholesome things come out our mouths but He will forgive you if you ask (just a suggestion tho, Ik it is your free will but I should correct people when I can) God bless ❤❤
Here in Australia they don't allow people with addictions in the Psych ward. Everyone gets tested and if you come back positive, you might get a spot in a rehab unit if there vacancies.
Some places use long acting injectables. For schizophrenia. For treatment resistant the drug clozapine is used. There is many pills like abilify, zyprexa or invega in depot injection form. It can improve compliance of anti psychotic therapy. What differences do bipolar and schizophrenia illness have?
Bi polar and sczhiophrenia are nothing alike unless both are experiencing psychosis. Lauren has sczhioaffective disorder bi polar type which is a combination of sczhiophrenia and bipolar. You experience symptoms of both at the same time. Also getting shots instead of pills also differ in side affects. It is not as simple as getting a shot instead of using a pill
@@mymothersdaughter1265 sounds full on. Yeah I got put under the affective banner after trialing a tricyclic and ended up spending 6 weeks inpatient. Plus some people are constantly experiencing symptoms. And it is a mental illness after all.
I'd say it's a bit like the difference between fever and malaria. Malaria causes fever but not all fever is malaria. Not all psychosis is schizophrenia. PS Lauren I'm glad you now correctly refer to your diagnosis as schizoaffective disorder and not schizophrenia because they aren't the same thing, either!
Lauren, i was on zyprexa for ten years and slept half those years. when i got off it my sleep was no good anymore. do you sleep straight through the night without getting up at all? do you have your days and nights reversed? i would like to hear about this and schizophrenia.
I'm not a doctor here but recently asked my daughter (has schizophrenia) doctor about insomnia and he said one of the best non habit forming sleep aids is 2 Benadryl. It works great for her.
If you want to go the herbal route, try ashwaghanda root, valerian, or wild lettuce leaf extract. Just be careful and look it up to see if it interacts with your meds (most likely not but always good to check).
Lauren, Could you do a comparison between Schizophrenia and Borderline personality disorder? It seems like schizophrenia also involves unstable emotions, fear of abandonment, and black and white thinking often!
I've heard it refered to drug induced psychosis, but also once the mental illness is triggered, it does'nt always go away once you remove the drugs out of the equation.
Do we absorb personalities around us and then they don't like? The drs...the bad around them..in society..? Very weird idea...we didn't get to have a personality develop some pick and choose..frimds...moviemstsrs.. scientist s... sucessful ppl? Hopefully by 35 we have our own....coz PPL comfortable with consistency
So, to put it another way, psychosis does not equal schizophrenia. I live with someone who has psychosis but I don’t believe she has schizophrenia because she has none of the negative symptoms. Perhaps she has simple psychosis disorder.
Sometimes, negative symptoms lag behind and show up only later, even years later. She may be in prodromal phase, which can last anywhere from 1yr to 10yrs (during which between 40% and 50% will convert to full-fledged SZ/SZA.
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Thank you!
In a world full of mental illnesses that we have thank you for clarifying the differences and explaining it so we can all understand it better
Bipolar disorder here! Mania can feel a lot like psychosis too and often can lead to psychosis if left untreated
I can't think of anything that is needed more than exactly what you're doing. Thank you.
I appreciate your videos. Any discussion of Schizophrenia is welcome and helpful.
So an analogous question might be "What's the difference between a cold and a sneeze?"
Same question 😹
I suffered from drug induced psychosis. Coming off of heroin, I snapped. I was violent and not in reality. I really appreciate your openness and the education u give us
And let's not forget drug-induced psychosis, which may or may not heal over time.
What to do.
4 months after I did LSD I still get daily psychosis. Even on meds. I'm on Abilify and risperdal and still hallucinate
Learning so much from you. Thank you. Take care.
Thank you for answering my question, Lauren
Yes drug induced psychosis, depression w/ psychotic features, Etc. Also secondary psychosis from thyroid disorder, infection, autoimmune disease, dementia, etc.
Yes very well said❤️🙏❤️
Thank you for your explaination of the difference between psychosis and schitzophrenia. I've heard another explaination that I've found helpful too, which is psychosis is a symptom, just like a fever is a symptom. In theory, psychosis can be caused by what they call "organic" causes, like a brain tumour or some other physical cause. This is why they first try and rule that out, by sending people for CAT scans, EEG, blood tests ect. Once they've ruled out those causes, its all about what mental illness category that your symptoms fit best. I guess nobody fits in a box exactly, and even people with the same diagnosis are individuals with a lot of differences. I have read somewhere that it is possible to have transient psychosis in PTSD or personality disorders too, but not everyone with such diagnosis will experience it.
You can be in there psychosis from simple lack of sleep. Yes ptsd can have psychosis so can bi polar and even depression
Thank you I'm bi polar & didn't know this.
Awesome haircut. ☘️
The joy of trippy living. Imagine being so trippy that you're hyper trippy.
You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be trippy.
I always wanted to be ‘trippy,’ even before I knew what the word was.
Thanks
You are just lovely.
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Also people can get Psychosis due to physical injury and also when a person has a very high fever....... ⚛️☮️🌏
Or lack of sleep , pregnancy and 100 other things
Ptsd as well!!!
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I have another question. If psychosis is a symptom, then what makes schizophrenia different from other mental illness? What's what makes schizophrenia schizophrenia?
hey there, i just wanted to say cause my comment got hijacked by an asshat. what i wanted to say was that medications make up to 10% at most of your recovery. you can rely on them but not as a silver bullet to solve all your problems. many many many people think that medications are the only way you can get better and this is incredibly wrong and harmful to your wellbeing if you take this falsehood as truth. you have many ways which can be getting help from non clinical workers (support workers,case managers, social workers etc.) which can help you in day to day life and working through some of your difficulties that way. there are so many different ways you can try to make your mental health better which is fantastic and please try to remember that you need to keep hopeful and find another provider if you aren't getting the supports and treatment you need to get better.
I understand your point but unfortunately for some people, recovery only goes so far...
I used to know a guy with longstanding paranoid schizophrenia and I'm afraid to say the medication made up about 100% of the recovery that he hadーthat and natural remission. He'd been on 2-weekly depot shots for a very long time, and even years later had no real understanding that he'd ever been mentally ill, and even less understanding that he still had symptoms now...
Even years after the fact he'd talk about hallucinatory experiences as weird things that had happened to him with no insight or understanding. It's sad because he was a nice guy... But! He was able to live an independent life outside of hospital and halfway housesーand, for the most part, he seemed happy with life. He had huge ambitions which were frankly delusional (thinking he was going to make billions, etc). Speaking as his friend I was just glad that he was able to cope with life day to day, because not everyone does by any means...
I was just glad that something made my friend happy, even though most of it was based on delusions....
@@ZadenZane horseshit, if you see a good psych these days they will tell you that medication only makes up to 10% of your treatment to recovery. Most of the best strategies are with non clinical mental health staff who help you with everything else which can make a much bigger impact to how you get better and manage your illness.
I've had mental health problems most of my life and I can tell you that you aren't always going to get care and treatment that works all the time and the key is finding what combination of different services works for you.
@@FamousByFamily I agree. I read that famous book An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison and she talks about these extended manic and depressive episodes she had and how horrible it was having to take lithium which made her brain fuzzy and she really needed a clear head for her career as an academic... (weirdly she does mention antipsychotics and being prescribed them, but never in any detail) anyway she said very clearly that even though bipolar is a brain disease she never would have recovered as well as she did without years of therapy on top of these drugs they gave her.
I knew someone who had pretty bad borderline personality disorder. I've met a few people who said they had it but this person was by far the most extreme, she used to have psychotic-like episodes (I don't know what a dr would call them but they looked like psychosis and she was very paranoid) guess what after years of counselling which she really needed AND was open to, not just someone who would talk talk talk and do nothing, come back and talk talk talk do nothing she genuinely worked on herself and they cut her off! I told her about dialectical behavioural therapy and we couldn't find it anywhere in London... maybe if you have money you can pay a lot and get it, but she didn't have a lot of money. I just thought it was crazy that the one person I knew more open to counselling than probably anyone else, someone who definitely needed ongoing support, they cut her off!
The psychiatrist said it was so they could establish whether she needed it again or some such BS. I went to a few medical appointments with her and was there when he said this.
She was quite a dramatic personality and I can understand how some of the professionals found her challenging but I think they let her down.
@@ZadenZane this is the thing, everything is on a case by case basis. what works for 1 person might not work for you even if you have the same diagnosis and symptoms. everyone who suffers from mental illness needs a healthy dose of skepticism with any advice given because you will be given treatment from time to time that actually does NOT help and sometimes makes you worse. you have to find yourself treatment that works best for you and that is a pursuit which takes time if you haven't done it before. i personally haven't got a psychiatrist that i see regularly because i can't afford it, what i do have is a mental health service at the hospital that i go to when i need a medication review but as far as ongoing treatment i use a psychologist who is fantastic and a support worker.
i've had a lot of different services over the years and it's about adapting to what works best for your current circumstances. if you feel like you're becoming more unwell then you need to get more support and organise more treatment for yourself.
Hi hi, just wanted to remind you Jesus loves you :)) and u might want to be careful with the cussing as it is best to not let unwholesome things come out our mouths but He will forgive you if you ask (just a suggestion tho, Ik it is your free will but I should correct people when I can) God bless ❤❤
Me and some of my close ones think i got skitsofrenia instead of bipolar so idk what to do. These videos are helpful tho ty
I had psychosis
I have been diagnosed with adhd
Social worker, here. Interestingly enough, elderly persons who have a UTI can experience psychosis. I don’t know the why, I just know it does.
Stress can make you break
I’m sorry but I haven’t seen you for awhile. I hope you’re well and life is good.
PTSD
CPTSD
BD1
BD2
SZ
SZA
BPD
SAD
ASD
Antihistamines
Antibiotics
Other meds
Brain injuries and illnesses
can all cause PSD.
Bi polar, depression, pregnancy, lack of sleep
What about non specified f29 psychosis?
I was in a mental hospital and 2 girls where in phycosis bc of drugs
Here in Australia they don't allow people with addictions in the Psych ward. Everyone gets tested and if you come back positive, you might get a spot in a rehab unit if there vacancies.
@@lundsweden is it a minor facility? Also it wasn't addictions it was girls being forced at party's and things like that
Such pretty eyes
Extremely strong religious beliefs
So what do people mean when they say that they’ve reached the final stage of psychosis. What’s the final stage? Schizophrenia?
Some places use long acting injectables. For schizophrenia. For treatment resistant the drug clozapine is used. There is many pills like abilify, zyprexa or invega in depot injection form. It can improve compliance of anti psychotic therapy. What differences do bipolar and schizophrenia illness have?
Bi polar and sczhiophrenia are nothing alike unless both are experiencing psychosis. Lauren has sczhioaffective disorder bi polar type which is a combination of sczhiophrenia and bipolar. You experience symptoms of both at the same time. Also getting shots instead of pills also differ in side affects. It is not as simple as getting a shot instead of using a pill
@@mymothersdaughter1265 sounds full on. Yeah I got put under the affective banner after trialing a tricyclic and ended up spending 6 weeks inpatient. Plus some people are constantly experiencing symptoms. And it is a mental illness after all.
Hi Lauren
Do you know anything about scratching yourself in your sleep - waking up with scratches on face and body. Thanks
It can also be a symptom of chronic stress
I'd say it's a bit like the difference between fever and malaria. Malaria causes fever but not all fever is malaria. Not all psychosis is schizophrenia.
PS Lauren I'm glad you now correctly refer to your diagnosis as schizoaffective disorder and not schizophrenia because they aren't the same thing, either!
Lauren, i was on zyprexa for ten years and slept half those years. when i got off it my sleep was no good anymore. do you sleep straight through the night without getting up at all? do you have your days and nights reversed? i would like to hear about this and schizophrenia.
I'm not a doctor here but recently asked my daughter (has schizophrenia) doctor about insomnia and he said one of the best non habit forming sleep aids is 2 Benadryl. It works great for her.
If you want to go the herbal route, try ashwaghanda root, valerian, or wild lettuce leaf extract. Just be careful and look it up to see if it interacts with your meds (most likely not but always good to check).
@@warrend114 for me, it usually leaves me with a hangover the next day and eventually you need more to work as time goes by.
Magnesium threonate.
Pyschosis is the female version of Psychobro. lol sorry, had to.
wow..
I have mental illness. This is funny
Lol, you gotta laugh sometimes!
Lauren, Could you do a comparison between Schizophrenia and Borderline personality disorder? It seems like schizophrenia also involves unstable emotions, fear of abandonment, and black and white thinking often!
What?! They are nothing alike! I have sczhiophrenia
Psychosis can also be drug-induced, not sure if that’s necessarily a symptom of a mental illness
I've heard it refered to drug induced psychosis, but also once the mental illness is triggered, it does'nt always go away once you remove the drugs out of the equation.
I feel like I'm always on psychosis
Lack of sleep can also cause a psychosis
I always go away from reality !
Can you explain psychosis a little more, please?
I believed that there were rats living in my head. I could hear them walking around in there.
Do we absorb personalities around us and then they don't like? The drs...the bad around them..in society..? Very weird idea...we didn't get to have a personality develop some pick and choose..frimds...moviemstsrs.. scientist s... sucessful ppl?
Hopefully by 35 we have our own....coz PPL comfortable with consistency
So, to put it another way, psychosis does not equal schizophrenia. I live with someone who has psychosis but I don’t believe she has schizophrenia because she has none of the negative symptoms. Perhaps she has simple psychosis disorder.
Sometimes, negative symptoms lag behind and show up only later, even years later. She may be in prodromal phase, which can last anywhere from 1yr to 10yrs (during which between 40% and 50% will convert to full-fledged SZ/SZA.
You can have psychosis from so many illnesses. You are right psychosis does NOT equal sczhiophrenia however sczhiophrenia always involves psychosis
@@Burevestnik9M730 what! Negative symptoms happen first and usually disregarded as usual teenage behavior
A lot of people refer to it as dissociating also.
unless you're- a psychiatrist🛑