When Your Brain Can't Accept Reality: Anosognosia

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    If patients seem to be unaware of their obvious conditions and symptoms, it might not be that they're in denial, but their brain might actually prevent them from realizing their disabilities.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 658

  • @SciShowPsych
    @SciShowPsych  4 роки тому +58

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    • @Mcwollybob
      @Mcwollybob 4 роки тому +4

      Can you do a second part to this video specifically about the mental side? I wanted to know if this condition had any relation to dementia or personality disorders in general. I wasn't sure if denying a personality disorder/dementia could be contributed to this condition, and if so then in what circumstances.

    • @AzunaTheDragonStone
      @AzunaTheDragonStone 4 роки тому +1

      Fay-La-Mii I second this.

    • @rolfs2165
      @rolfs2165 4 роки тому

      Hank seems to be a bit … unfocused.

    • @cellogirl11rw55
      @cellogirl11rw55 4 роки тому +1

      @@Mcwollybob I would love that, too! I actually experienced autosognosia when I was dealing with Conversion Disorder, which is where the brain responds to stress by converting it to physical symptoms in order to disconnect from it. On top of that, I was also dealing with undiagnosed Bipolar 1 Disorder and a very painful physical ailment. It was scary at times because I sometimes completely lost track of reality and had no control of my body. Furthermore, it was actually nice to escape from reality sometimes, but, the hard part was coming back. Luckily, my dad is a hypnotherapist, so, he knew how to meet me in my subconscious mind and coach me through facing whatever triggered the reaction and regain control of my body so I could go on with my day. He also taught my boyfriend, who loved me so much that he was willing to do anything to help me through those episodes. We have since tied the knot, I am receiving proper treatment, and, although I still have Bipolar Disorder, I have not had any CD symptoms in four years.

    • @cellogirl11rw55
      @cellogirl11rw55 4 роки тому +1

      @@rolfs2165 Hank has ADHD. That's why. 😁

  • @Khazeous
    @Khazeous 4 роки тому +1195

    'Tis but a scratch

    • @DrymouthCWW
      @DrymouthCWW 4 роки тому +75

      Its just a fleshwound!

    • @OphiuchiChannel
      @OphiuchiChannel 4 роки тому +30

      Just an arrow in the knee.

    • @VariantAEC
      @VariantAEC 4 роки тому +16

      As I imagine: A talking head of a cleaved torso with limbs scattered about.
      Yup, just a scratch.

    • @thelizzievb
      @thelizzievb 4 роки тому +3

      Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch!

    • @the___dude
      @the___dude 4 роки тому +7

      So what's the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

  • @carissstewart3211
    @carissstewart3211 4 роки тому +1093

    Doctor: Sir, you have anosognosia.
    Patient: No, I haven't.

    • @holaamigo3399
      @holaamigo3399 4 роки тому +9

      well you should have said no i dont cuz grammer

    • @carissstewart3211
      @carissstewart3211 4 роки тому +25

      @@holaamigo3399 you mean "don't," because grammar.

    • @holaamigo3399
      @holaamigo3399 4 роки тому +3

      @@carissstewart3211 well its because of vocab because thats not grammer,thats spelling

    • @Walkerbtween
      @Walkerbtween 4 роки тому +23

      This entire set of comments is a Monty Python skit...No wonder I can't process what is real anymore....(*help*)

    • @holaamigo3399
      @holaamigo3399 4 роки тому +2

      @@Walkerbtween yeet

  • @gavart4509
    @gavart4509 4 роки тому +515

    “You’re blind”
    “What? No I’m not”
    “Is the light on?”
    “Tis”
    “‘Tis not, youre in the dark”
    “Ahh, forgot my glasses”

    • @Mii.2.0
      @Mii.2.0 4 роки тому +2

      Y u noo mak vidoes?!

    • @ricegrain1809
      @ricegrain1809 4 роки тому +1

      Nobody like it no more, it has 420 and if y'all ruin it then you're a sinner

  • @aliperry2521
    @aliperry2521 4 роки тому +437

    I’ve actually seen this first hand. I’m a nurse on a neuro critical care unit and we deal with a lot of large strokes that cause complete paralysis and neglect of one side of the body. I had a lady tell me over and over than if we would just unhook her from the monitors that she could walk to the bathroom, when in reality she couldn’t move or feel the left side of her body at all. When I asked her how her left side was doing, she would tell me it was working just fine. The brain really is fascinating.

    • @KILLRXNOEVIRUS
      @KILLRXNOEVIRUS 4 роки тому +7

      Damn

    • @Aereto
      @Aereto 4 роки тому +36

      In other words, there is a dissonance in bodily and neural feedback.

    • @aliperry2521
      @aliperry2521 4 роки тому +35

      Aereto Basically yeah. A lot of times with these big one sided strokes, the brain kinda “forgets” the affected side, since a lot of times they aren’t getting any kind of sensory feedback from it.

    • @Slarti
      @Slarti 4 роки тому +14

      Interesting, I can think of a lot of people who have risen to leadership positions who have huge cognitive dissonance.

    • @seguebythesea
      @seguebythesea 4 роки тому +45

      My mother had a stroke wherein she lost the use of her left side, and the entire concept and experience of “left”. She once saw her own left arm lying across her body and accused me of leaving my arm in her bed. She then attempted to throw the arm at me. She also would eat only the food on the right side of her plate, look only to the right even if someone on her left was calling to her, etc. She suffered many other strange mental weirdnesses including believing that “they” had replaced her home (and, indeed, her entire neighborhood) with a cleverly identical copy, taking the original for themselves.

  • @rahmahmohamed1598
    @rahmahmohamed1598 4 роки тому +317

    So many weird conditions in this world!!!

    • @jrewt1
      @jrewt1 4 роки тому +8

      Order in chaos

    • @rahmahmohamed1598
      @rahmahmohamed1598 4 роки тому +12

      @@jrewt1 Do you mean chaos in order?

    • @sdfkjgh
      @sdfkjgh 4 роки тому +26

      Chaos in order in chaos, with a side helping of entropy.

    • @BIONICLECLAYPOKEMON
      @BIONICLECLAYPOKEMON 4 роки тому +3

      @@jrewt1 Well, what is a measure of order? What is a measure of chaos?
      What is the standards that we must use here?

    • @TheBackyardChemist
      @TheBackyardChemist 4 роки тому

      @@BIONICLECLAYPOKEMON a well ordered system can be defined with relatively few bits of information, whereas something irregular takes much more bits. Random noise is incompressible, repeating patterns compress well.

  • @ziqi92
    @ziqi92 4 роки тому +560

    Can't accept reality you say?
    *POLITICAL COMMENTARY INTENSIFIES*

    • @violet-trash
      @violet-trash 4 роки тому +18

      _When your mother bakes you science-chip cookies but it's actually politics_ 🍪

    • @jacob2359
      @jacob2359 4 роки тому +29

      It sounds like... *read smudged hand* Demopublicans have that!

    • @zyfigamer
      @zyfigamer 4 роки тому +18

      Demopublican is what the demoman votes for

    • @jacob2359
      @jacob2359 4 роки тому +15

      @@zyfigamer Vote Demopublican, because they took our jugs (of whisky)

    • @annonimooseq1246
      @annonimooseq1246 4 роки тому +1

      Jacob or with a side of US history: vote Democratic-Republican because the federalists taxed our whisky!

  • @KimberlyLetsGo
    @KimberlyLetsGo 4 роки тому +340

    As a teen, I worked at a local, small town restaurant. There was a visiting older couple that came in and the wife probably had had a stroke. She couldn't talk but just make noise. So when she ordered, I expected her husband to at least interject what she wanted to order. He never did. I just would order for her what he ordered. But, that was a really tough position to put a small town teenager in.

    • @rickjames5998
      @rickjames5998 4 роки тому +40

      and.... other people around you didnt be like.... How did you know what she wanted? O_o

    • @charlieangkor8649
      @charlieangkor8649 4 роки тому +14

      if she made only noises, she ordered nothing.

    • @KimberlyLetsGo
      @KimberlyLetsGo 4 роки тому +12

      @@rickjames5998 It was a small town. I bet there were not any other customers.

    • @KimberlyLetsGo
      @KimberlyLetsGo 4 роки тому +30

      @@charlieangkor8649 They were their to eat. It was obvious. Plus, I brought them a dinner and the husband didn't say no.

    • @daphne4983
      @daphne4983 4 роки тому +21

      You did well!

  • @Henchman_Holding_Wrench
    @Henchman_Holding_Wrench 4 роки тому +576

    Sounds like the people who can't stop arguing on Twitter and UA-cam comments.

    • @violet-trash
      @violet-trash 4 роки тому +21

      The problem is that the other side think they're always right!

    • @adm0iii
      @adm0iii 4 роки тому +35

      But they can't be always right, because they disagree with me, and I'm never wrong. Sad.

    • @ArawnOfAnnwn
      @ArawnOfAnnwn 4 роки тому +14

      No, it isn't. Stop trivializing serious medical conditions just to attack people you don't like. Remotely 'diagnosing' your opponents (ex: accusations of gaslighting or stockholm syndrome) is just the modern form of demonization.

    • @Raylen_Fa-ield
      @Raylen_Fa-ield 4 роки тому +4

      Or Republicans, jk but only sorta

    • @UnoriginallyChrisLPs
      @UnoriginallyChrisLPs 4 роки тому +21

      @@ArawnOfAnnwn Hey look, found one!

  • @daphne8406
    @daphne8406 4 роки тому +36

    Reminds me also a little of a dementia/alzheimers lady I met a long time ago when I had a little summer job as a teen in a retirement home. She would ask me everyday if we would be so kind to let her stay one more night and if she could please keep te same room (she thought she was in a hotel). The first time I naively corrected her and said "this is a retirement home and you live here of course you have the same room". She seemed panicked and upset after that and said to me "but this is not where I'm supposed to be! I'm going to stay at my sisters place" and she walked out. (I found later her sister had already died some years prior and did not even live in the same town). She came back a little later after walking around for a bit and asked the same thing again, if she could please stay one more night in the same room. This time I did not want to cause her upset and told her "madam, you are our honoured guest we will prepare the same room for you". She was so happy when she walked of that time. Completely unable to see the reality, or interpret it, around her. Though she did seem to recognize the building and could find her way back by herself. The brain is very weird sometimes.

  • @cdmurray88
    @cdmurray88 4 роки тому +153

    is there a name for when your dreams are so realistic you have trouble figuring out what actually happened and what was a dream?

    • @TheCimbrianBull
      @TheCimbrianBull 4 роки тому +8

      It's called 'lucid dreaming'.

    • @cdmurray88
      @cdmurray88 4 роки тому +45

      @@TheCimbrianBull I was under the impression you know you're dreaming when lucid, I'm talking more about waking up and not being sure if you saw, did, said that thing IRL

    • @TheCimbrianBull
      @TheCimbrianBull 4 роки тому +12

      @@cdmurray88
      Oh, yes. You are correct about being self aware in a lucid dream. I don't know the name of having difficulties with discerning between dream and reality, though. I have also experienced what you are describing.

    • @daphne4983
      @daphne4983 4 роки тому +7

      Madness

    • @cdmurray88
      @cdmurray88 4 роки тому +1

      @@daphne4983 probs

  • @Joshwism
    @Joshwism 4 роки тому +82

    "for your brains to keep doing their job, they need sleep"
    HEY STOP THAT

  • @omermagen824
    @omermagen824 4 роки тому +140

    im so early my brain cant accept it

    • @signesartandanimation
      @signesartandanimation 4 роки тому

      good for you

    • @TerraCAD
      @TerraCAD 4 роки тому +4

      Yeah same here but high

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 4 роки тому

      Your brain also can't grasp the concept of grammar.

    • @nenidetic
      @nenidetic 4 роки тому +3

      @@slappy8941 why do you have to be so rude? their grammar isn't even bad. this isn't an English essay.

  • @Mandiness
    @Mandiness 4 роки тому +31

    This is pretty fascinating. You've given me something to research later this evening!

  • @Emiliapocalypse
    @Emiliapocalypse 4 роки тому +5

    Welp, woke up feeling fine, but now I’m convinced I have a disease I’m convinced I don’t have.

  • @thestateofalaska
    @thestateofalaska 4 роки тому +20

    I reject your reality and substitute my own

    • @robertmoore3982
      @robertmoore3982 4 роки тому

      SAO Abridged nice

    • @SwedishMeatball972
      @SwedishMeatball972 4 роки тому +2

      I legit clicked on this because I was raised by narcissists...wanted to see if this somehow commented on how they, well, reject consensus reality and substitute their own.

  • @coffeecat086
    @coffeecat086 2 роки тому +7

    Anton-babinski syndrome is a weird one. As someone who is blind… Without my glasses, I only see colors at about 2 feet away. It’s not enough to really distinguish what an object is. Before they did a surgery to remove a cataract which had grown so thick it ruptured my lens and caused me to basically not have any light perception, I began to suffer from Charles bonnet syndrome. I’ve heard some people say the hallucinations frightened them. They didn’t for me. I knew what I was saying wasn’t real. It was in far too much detail to be something I was actually seeing. They did not speak to me, it was as if I was just watching some sort of a movie. It was a very odd experience. Now that the cataract is removed and the pieces of my lens removed from my eye, I still see stuff. Now though it’s kind of like purple and green and a weird shade of blue TV static. Before the things I saw were animals walking across the room. Some blue and turquoise squares that stretched and moved oddly, I saw people pacing back-and-forth, streams of them like they were two big wines I’ve never ending travelers going One Direction or the other in my room. It was definitely a strange experience.

  • @Vanyx1000
    @Vanyx1000 4 роки тому +109

    we have a anosognosia epidemic

    • @lovely-mk4rt
      @lovely-mk4rt 4 роки тому +11

      Yes 40% of Americans can’t accept facts.

    • @raygivler
      @raygivler 4 роки тому +6

      @@lovely-mk4rt But 60% can accept alternative facts...

    • @bruhd4560
      @bruhd4560 4 роки тому

      *no we dont*

    • @lazergurka-smerlin6561
      @lazergurka-smerlin6561 4 роки тому +2

      @@raygivler You mean 70%?

    • @FatheredPuma81
      @FatheredPuma81 4 роки тому +1

      Eh yea it's been going on for a really long time. I'd say just accept it. Soon Europe will be "fixed" so it won't matter.

  • @MrWombatty
    @MrWombatty 4 роки тому +26

    Not surprising that after someone has a head-injury or a stroke, that they may experience a perception problem (rather than it being denial issue)!

  • @megara83
    @megara83 4 роки тому +2

    I too check into the hospital “for a rest”

  • @coryman125
    @coryman125 4 роки тому +31

    "Our brains work really hard for us, and to do their job they need sleep"
    Wow Hank, it's like you just know it's 3:35 AM and I'm here watching this when I should have been asleep a good two hours ago or more D:

    • @ThatAnArchyDude
      @ThatAnArchyDude 4 роки тому +3

      Lightweight.
      It's 5:49am here, and I'm supposed to get up for work in 5 hours. lol

  • @omerk1860
    @omerk1860 4 роки тому +8

    Hank sometimes learning is just scary. Knowing so many ways that my life can get sooo out of its track is not easy. 😱

  • @blackswan1983
    @blackswan1983 4 роки тому +6

    anosognosia is common during manic episodes as well.
    Full-on mania is the only time I have to deal with anosognosia.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 роки тому +82

    I can't accept that I'm in an Egyptian river!

    • @brokenacoustic
      @brokenacoustic 4 роки тому +12

      I am in denial about da Nile joke lol

    • @brokenacoustic
      @brokenacoustic 4 роки тому +1

      @John Hillman ...huh?

    • @katiehowe3764
      @katiehowe3764 4 роки тому +2

      I'm in de nile

    • @anonb4632
      @anonb4632 4 роки тому +4

      You're in Seine. You're French.

    • @NR-fg2qc
      @NR-fg2qc 4 роки тому +2

      Your pic is giving me anxiety 😂

  • @GaryThanosHudson
    @GaryThanosHudson 4 роки тому +10

    Just like when Pinocchio had a fit when he found out he wasn't a real boy, but a carved imitation from a puppeteer.

    • @yoonmikim5663
      @yoonmikim5663 4 роки тому

      But there is something also called Pinocchio Syndrome: Gelotophobia. (Fear of being laughed at)
      Incidentally, there is also Peter Pan Syndrome... never wants to grow up or engage in adult behavior.
      Though I kinda think Truman Syndrome is the most interesting.

  • @richardschuerger3214
    @richardschuerger3214 3 роки тому +3

    One of my cats died, and when I called in the other cat to see/get closure, it acted like the dead cat's body wasn't even there. I was witnessing a cat go through denial. This kind of emotional defense mechanism is very old.

  • @KerbalHub
    @KerbalHub 2 роки тому +1

    "Move your leg"
    "I can't. I just want to rest"
    "Sir, your leg is missing"

  • @Ngamotu83
    @Ngamotu83 4 роки тому +82

    No mention of how squirting ice cold water in usually the left ear, temporarily diminishes anosognosia in patients? That to me, makes it a truly weird condition.

  • @Internetshadow0000
    @Internetshadow0000 4 роки тому +2

    That is less lack of self-awareness and more lack of awareness of a condition afflicting one's body. There seemed to be nothing regarding their awareness of their personhood.

  • @MissusSnarky
    @MissusSnarky 4 роки тому +13

    Your brain is able to piece together missing visual information. It's fascinating.

    • @adm0iii
      @adm0iii 4 роки тому +4

      It is. What we "see" is manufactured by our visual cortex in the back of our brain. Yes, it takes input from our eyes, but on the way from there to the back, that input has chances to be "improved" by other senses and memories, and that's all brewed and stewed together by our visual cortex. And actually, most of all this consists of editing things _out._ Babies can get entranced by a spot on the wall for hours. As we grow older, we learn more and more to block what isn't new and significant. This is all good, in that it makes the best use of our abilities, but it does make the eyes very much _unlike_ a camera that accurately records video.

    • @BigUriel
      @BigUriel 4 роки тому +3

      @@adm0iii It's also how we process memories. Our brains just save the gist of it, the bits it considers relevant, and when you recall a memory imagination just fills in the missing bits. This is why people can often remember things that didn't happen or happened very differently, and while they might be saying something that's not true, they're not lying and they genuinely "remember" it like that.
      Not only that, but when you recall a memory you "update" it, ie your brain had stored what it considered the important bits, you recreated a scenario in your head from those with help from your imagination, and then when you're done with that memory your brain does it again - takes the important bits from that new scenario based on the old memory, and replaces the old memory with the new one from that. That's why over time memories become distorted and further and further away from what actually happened. Watch a video of something that happened yesterday and it's exactly how you remembered it, watch a video of something that happened ten years ago and you'll probably find it's not quite as you remember it.
      Our brains have different parts for short term and long term memory too, and when we create or update a memory it stays in our short term memory until we go to sleep, and it's during sleep that it gets compressed into the important parts only and stored in long term memory, where it's harder to get and tends to fade away and become corrupted the longer we leave it there.

    • @adm0iii
      @adm0iii 4 роки тому +2

      Agreed. The very act of remembering _alters_ the memory; apparently new associations with one's present situation is the _reason_ we remember things, and those new associations are imprinted, allowing the memory to be more useful in future related situations. Brains are not like books or cameras that just record things that never change. That's great for living and learning, but bad for when we're witnesses in court cases.

  • @meemoo7
    @meemoo7 4 роки тому +7

    meanwhile i‘m too aware of my existence

  • @o76923
    @o76923 4 роки тому

    The ways that your sense of agency can fail are just so fascinating. Agency is your perception that you are the one controlling what your body is doing because you will it to. It can fail in little inconsequential ways or catastrophic ways. When it does fail, we are really really good at confabulating an explanation for why it didn't fail. Studies on people who have had their corpus collosum severed or have damage to their parietal lobe have found really fascinating stuff.
    This reminds me a lot of that. Their sensory information is failing but they aren't aware that it has failed so an explanation is confabulated.

  • @EmmaSmith-nn1ui
    @EmmaSmith-nn1ui 4 роки тому +3

    Does this apply to dementia too? My dad insisted he could do all sorts of things like sign his name, for example. Then when given a pen, he could not sign and even said that he didn't know what to do. When asked again if he could sign his name, he said that he could having just proved that he could not.
    Inability to assess own ability in dementia was also raised when a local bus driver ploughed into shoppers, killing 2 people. He was found to have dementia and be unaware of any impairment.

  • @thecreature7608
    @thecreature7608 4 роки тому +4

    When he said Roku near the end my mind instantly jumped to avatar. I got really confused for a second

  • @vaibhavtripathi4951
    @vaibhavtripathi4951 4 роки тому +1

    I watched Shutter Island yesterday and today you uploaded video about anosognosia,
    what the luck.

  • @jonechong6003
    @jonechong6003 4 роки тому +7

    "What do you mean the reality where Hank is single and eligible is not real?"

  • @ryleejane8373
    @ryleejane8373 4 роки тому +3

    Waiting for the day that we have enough information on aphantasia that this channel can make a video on it too

  • @thekatt...
    @thekatt... 4 роки тому

    Thank you, I learned something today. ❤️🇨🇦☕️☕️

  • @jplabs456
    @jplabs456 4 роки тому

    Wait, there’s ANOTHER SciShow besides the normal one and space?
    WHY DID I NOT KNOW?!

  • @ericcarabetta1161
    @ericcarabetta1161 4 роки тому +3

    I can think of someone who almost certainly qualifies for this disorder, and unfortunately he’s “in charge” of our country.

    • @Commanderhurtz1
      @Commanderhurtz1 4 роки тому

      What on Earth does Trump have anything to do with this? And how does he qualify for this?
      Also, the economy has been booming ever since he took office. Obumer was a failure, so I'll pick Orange man any day of the week than Mr empty promises.

  • @miss0jode
    @miss0jode 4 роки тому +2

    “I’m a good sportsman” awww 🥺😭

  • @DarkNia64
    @DarkNia64 4 роки тому +4

    I thought this was going to be a video about living in denial of the consequences of one's thoughts and behaviors.

  • @jeromeriedl
    @jeromeriedl 4 роки тому +1

    I experienced some of these things when I had a bad reaction to intrathecal chemotherapy. I was frustrated that I couldn’t recall words or guide myself through doorways but I was more worried about making it to my next appointment on time. It still confuses me that my dad took me to my appointment the next day instead of the ER but I think he just didn’t know who knew how to take care of me. I was 23 at the time btw so it wasn’t like I should have been confused

  • @broodypie2216
    @broodypie2216 4 роки тому +6

    I know a stroke victim that swears he cant walk yet I've seen him hobble out on the porch for a smoke

    • @matthewharris-levesque5809
      @matthewharris-levesque5809 4 роки тому

      *points to the Tobacco industry*
      "Damn, we should buy that man an electronic wheelchair, help him out. "

  • @MissFoxification
    @MissFoxification 4 роки тому +76

    I wonder how they would experience virtual reality. After gaming for hours on end the real world feels alien to me. I adapt to the virtual world, I get my "VR legs", my brain is used to movement without the vestibular stimulation. Perhaps it would help people suffering anosognosia as in VR you learn to adapt and observe your "self" without the normal inputs and perceptions. It would certainly be an interesting study.

    • @suicune2001
      @suicune2001 4 роки тому +20

      Or it could possibly make it worse. If the character can do something the real body can't, that could enforce there isn't anything wrong. They are already confusing reality as it is. It's worth trying though. You never know.

    • @sarahd1250
      @sarahd1250 4 роки тому +19

      suicune2001 i think perhaps putting them in a vr world where they have their real condition it may click that in real life they do have it. For example, putting someone in a vr body where they’re missing their leg because in real life they don’t understand they’re missing their leg. Idk ?

    • @suicune2001
      @suicune2001 4 роки тому +5

      @@sarahd1250 Ohhh ok. That could possibly work. It would be interesting to try.

    • @Agaettis
      @Agaettis 4 роки тому +2

      Vr legs, Sort of like sea legs? I've never used vr

    • @MissFoxification
      @MissFoxification 4 роки тому +4

      @@Agaettis Yep. Your body doesn't handle movement very well at first. "Teleporting" which is basically point and click to move is a lot easier on the brain. Walking in the VR world without movement can cause something akin to sea-sickness.. but most get used to it quickly.
      Your propioception adapts to the virtual world. You don't need to see your arms or limbs to know exactly where they are.

  • @zmeekis
    @zmeekis 4 роки тому +4

    Imagine waking up one day to someone telling you that you have schizophrenia and your family you have been "living" with were nothing but figments of your imagination and you had been living alone that whole time like a functioning crazy person lol

  • @targetedplantsguy9481
    @targetedplantsguy9481 4 роки тому

    My mother was in so much pain from have 4 open back surgery's and a total hip she vomited passed out and woke up as her 13 year self. It was very sad and fascinating at the same time. The whole time she no longer felt, but was tied down and sedated so she would not damage the new hip.

  • @eliseintheattic9697
    @eliseintheattic9697 4 роки тому +1

    This is my 81 year old Dad dealing with worsening dementia. It makes it very difficult to help him when he can't even recognize there's a problem.

  • @kaf890890
    @kaf890890 4 роки тому

    Interesting!

  • @RhodianColossus
    @RhodianColossus 4 роки тому

    I think I've just found the next subject to hyperfocus on, this is the most fascinating concept I've learned about in years

  • @imlistening1137
    @imlistening1137 4 роки тому

    I was an Charge nurse in a physical rehab unit, with patients who had strokes or hip/knee replacement. I saw this phenomenon in several stroke patients. They were real safety risks, as they would regularly tried to get out of bed alone, without any function one side of their body. They really did not know they were paralyzed.

  • @jehleauto
    @jehleauto 4 роки тому +6

    Wow, that is so weird!

  • @sunnyd9884
    @sunnyd9884 4 роки тому +3

    I feel like i might be experiencing or have experienced something similar, i have EDS hypermobility aswell as a malformed, asymmetrical brain- I have trouble asking for help doing things even though its often excruciating to do it myself, my parents have to practicslly read my mind else ill start doing too much and end up horribly in pain and weaker for the next several days
    Definitely not in denial of my situation but in actual moments of living I often ignore it and try to be a productive human anyway, I dont know why or how to stop it- and when people confront me to stop me as I do it I often break down into tears and its just allot of confusion.
    Im still trying to figure out what to do about it 😥

  • @mojosbigsticks
    @mojosbigsticks 4 роки тому

    Wow, never heard of that before.

  • @artemis_smith
    @artemis_smith 4 роки тому +1

    Welp, now I'm doubting my reality. Lovely.

  • @smallDbigBs
    @smallDbigBs 4 роки тому

    Might want to bookmark that disorder.

  • @RosesAndIvy
    @RosesAndIvy 4 роки тому +2

    These kinds of conditions are so scary to me! Like, what if I’m actually disabled or blind or something and I don’t even know it

    • @rach478
      @rach478 4 роки тому

      Woahhh... That's crazy 😲

    • @Sashazur
      @Sashazur 4 роки тому

      You would know *something* was weird, since you can’t live the same life you had before. But you would make up an alternate explanation, for instance imagining that you can see - but you would run into trouble when trying to walk around outside, drive, pick stuff up etc. You would make up explanations for that too, but you probably would notice something was unusual.

    • @maranscandy9350
      @maranscandy9350 4 роки тому

      Or aliens live among us harvesting our life giving substances, but they alter our brainwaves so we don’t notice them. It’s an overused movie plot.

  • @suicune2001
    @suicune2001 4 роки тому +2

    Sentience is hard.

  • @anthemlog
    @anthemlog 4 роки тому +1

    Finally a video about Anton's syndrome. How do you know you don't have it?

  • @EduardQualls
    @EduardQualls 4 роки тому +3

    Is it anosognosia that, during this video, I kept wanting to yell, "Focus!"
    Is this vision blurry or bleary?

  • @emilyblythe4618
    @emilyblythe4618 4 роки тому +1

    I work with patients who swear they can get up and walk, when they can't even sit up on their own. No, you ain't falling on my shift.

  • @chillaxter13
    @chillaxter13 4 роки тому +2

    What about how the idea of this might apply to aging? As an example, I'm approaching 40 but in my mind I'm still about 19 or 20, both physically and socially. I still often believe that people see me as a 20-something.

  • @DarckAngel11
    @DarckAngel11 4 роки тому +1

    " I am not crying, you are crying !!"

  • @lou8215
    @lou8215 4 роки тому +7

    The only reality I can't accept is the spelling of that word

    • @cbly
      @cbly 4 роки тому +1

      Probably misspelled due to somebody misreading a doctor's handwriting.

  • @cadechristopher6456
    @cadechristopher6456 4 роки тому +1

    The way the stripes on his shirt are slightly offset to his right drove me crazy.

  • @vonosa6243
    @vonosa6243 4 роки тому +1

    "Man forgets he has Alzheimer's, remembers everything"

  • @colincomposer
    @colincomposer 4 роки тому +2

    I can see perfectly well! (turns and walks off cliff)

  • @Nofxthepirate
    @Nofxthepirate 4 роки тому

    This video is very reminiscent of the findings in the video "You Are Two" by CGP Grey. That video goes into the specific jobs of the left and right side of the brain and what happens when the connection between the sides is severed. Is there any similarity between these conditions or is it just a coincidence that the mental disconnect between whats seen and whats understood is similar in both cases?

  • @rebel7417
    @rebel7417 4 роки тому

    Think I had a version of this once leaving prison

  • @kylieeeeep
    @kylieeeeep 4 роки тому +22

    Is hank speaking more slowly or somehow differently from normal or am I going insane

    • @adm0iii
      @adm0iii 4 роки тому +8

      No, everyone _but_ you is going insane.

    • @adm0iii
      @adm0iii 4 роки тому +2

      At this rate, next year, he'll look and act like Winston Churchill. It's a good thing... I think.

    • @aidanwallace9519
      @aidanwallace9519 4 роки тому +1

      You should see him on microcosmos, very calming

    • @alexandertownsend3291
      @alexandertownsend3291 4 роки тому +1

      I am not a doctor, but maybe it is both. Lol. On a more serious note if you do actually start to question your sanity, seek medical help. .

  • @maxcovfefe
    @maxcovfefe 4 роки тому

    I had a dog with this condition, sort of. He had cancer under his front leg (what humans would call their arm pit area), and it was too big to remove by the time it was correctly diagnosed. Eventually he didn't know where his foot was. He could lift the leg, but didn't know how to place his paw on the ground, so he would try to walk on the toes pointed down... Long, tragic story, but he refused to acknowledge he couldn't walk like that. Rather than raising the limb and using 3 legs, he wouldn't stop trying to use that leg. The idea the vets had was that he might've had a stroke.

  • @nopopkrap4
    @nopopkrap4 4 роки тому

    my mind is really fucked up now, im so confused ????, i couldnt remember I of those five syllable words you were talkin about ? THANKS SCISHOW PSYCH !

  • @darlinglarin3884
    @darlinglarin3884 4 роки тому +2

    this is so interesting, I think my grandma had this condition, so here is my story, she was 85 y/o at the time and one of his sons died ( my uncle) of a heart attack, she went to the funeral and everything however after a week she asked my mom when my uncle was coming from work, my mom thought that she was forgetting things and she explained to her that he passed away, but my grandma refused to belive it, and she used to pretend that he was alive and that he was going to come back from vacation, that last almost 6 moths until she accept it. Very scary is like the pain was a lot for her so her brain pretend it like it didn't happen.

    • @richardriguard1394
      @richardriguard1394 4 роки тому +2

      That's terrifying, hope shes doing better now

    • @darlinglarin3884
      @darlinglarin3884 4 роки тому

      @@richardriguard1394 Aww! thank you for your wishes Tyler, unfortunately my grandma passed away at the age of 87, 6 years ago. But she was fine in her last years.

  • @isaaclopez-eb6yg
    @isaaclopez-eb6yg 2 роки тому

    I don't know if this is what my father has but I just learned he is unable to accept the times he was a domestic abuser and physically and/or verbally abusive toward his family. He believes he never did any of those things. It saddens me but also makes me furious and I have no idea what to do

  • @cherubin7th
    @cherubin7th 4 роки тому +1

    How to find out if you have it yourselve?

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore 4 роки тому

    I wonder if my late grandmother had this? She would make these ludicrous conclusions about normal things for no real reason. Stuff like thinking there was a cloud in the room when it was actually her cataracts or seeing the streetlight outside and thinking it's a ufo. She would also try and give things away that were meant to help her medically.

  • @Urdalibertine
    @Urdalibertine 4 роки тому

    Do one on PTSD next

  • @Titanic-wo6bq
    @Titanic-wo6bq 4 роки тому +1

    People on the Titanic be like until the bow starts going under:

  • @laurenzparsons5315
    @laurenzparsons5315 4 роки тому

    Their brain creating reasons for their predicament sounds exactly like when someone has had the left and right hemispheres of their brain separated. When you isolate each eye's field of view and you put something in the hand on one side and blind that same side's eye, then remove the separation, the person will sometime's make up a reason as to why they are holding that object.

  • @theoverseer393
    @theoverseer393 4 роки тому +3

    Garfield’s bad ending irl

  • @dcllaw677
    @dcllaw677 4 роки тому +1

    Maybe it’s a blessing

  • @benjamintan2733
    @benjamintan2733 3 роки тому

    I think I have this symptom when I was young. I had a fever, but I didn't realised it. I thought everyone's hand is cold, including mine, and I didn't feel warm at all, even when my hand is touching my fore head. Though I only experience that one time only.

  • @charliekezza
    @charliekezza 4 роки тому

    After I got nerve damage and complex regional pain syndrome in my right arm, my brain just kinda forgot that I even had an arm. I kept running into things and dropping things. So its not quite the same but it's the brain playing tricks on ur body.

  • @YukiDemonOfHell
    @YukiDemonOfHell 4 роки тому

    So question, in the manga Kodacha by Miho Obana, after experiencing a traumatic experience the main character Sana loses the ability to express emotions on her face or with her voice. But she thinks she still has the ability to the point that even while looking into a mirror her brain tricks her into seeing her face make expressions. She refuses to believe anyone when they tell her she's not making any expressions even the person she trust the most. Eventually someone takes a polaroid of her (its from the 90s) and somehow that lets her realize there is a problem though she still sees herself making expressions in the mirror. She eventually recovers with therapy and support from the people around her. Would this be a case of Anosognosia? It'd be so cool if it was!

  • @SaucerJess
    @SaucerJess 4 роки тому +2

    I had this when I had my stroke. It was really detrimental in starting my recovery 💙

  • @RosheenQuynh
    @RosheenQuynh 4 роки тому

    This sounds like DPDR to the extreme.

  • @MrGrim
    @MrGrim 4 роки тому +14

    Is this a reactionary thing only? Or could it be a symptom of something degenerative?

    • @o76923
      @o76923 4 роки тому

      It appears to be caused by damage to specific areas of the brain. In theory that means almost any type of damage to the brain can cause it but it usually is associated with acute conditions like a stroke.

  • @mrmimeisfunny
    @mrmimeisfunny 4 роки тому +6

    I'm a good sportsman

  • @pianobooks42
    @pianobooks42 4 роки тому

    Is Anton’s syndrome basically acquired cortical visual impairment (CVI)? That’s what it sounds like to me?

  • @teresasummers8421
    @teresasummers8421 Рік тому

    My husband experienced this when he had a large stroke that left him paralyzed on the entire left side of his body. Anosognosia made rehabilitation and physical therapy impossible. He would say, "they tell me that I had a stroke". It made caring for him miserable.

  • @Kags
    @Kags 4 роки тому +2

    Not gonna name names but i can think of one orange politician with incredibly small hands who definitely has this.

  • @GeFeldz
    @GeFeldz 4 роки тому

    Number of the beast

  • @absinthespoons
    @absinthespoons 4 роки тому

    When it comes to anosognosia due to acquired brain injury (including stroke, TBI, etc) with respect to impaired cognitive functions, it's actually not rare at all. I worked on an ABI unit in a rehab hospital for a while and it was more surprising to encounter a patient with intact insight, than to encounter one with anosognosia. Very tricky to get anywhere with rehabilitative therapy when a patient doesn't believe any of their intervention goals are relevant or necessary. Paired with post-traumatic amnesia, especially in the agitated phases of recovery, and you can get some very unwilling hospital residents. As I worked with cognitive communication disorders, I mostly saw anosognosia with respect to impaired cognitive functions, so the description in this video of it being mainly to do with not recognizing impaired motor function seems unnecessarily narrow to me.

  • @Julia_BH
    @Julia_BH 2 роки тому

    Omg I think this is what my mother has. She has a severe subtype of a pretty serious personality disorder and she’s completely unaware and has never sought help. I used to think she was aware and just lying to me bc of guilt/shame/etc but no… after years of this I genuinely don’t believe she remembers the past or is aware of her own behavior. It’s really sad tbh. She’s abused me my entire life and is totally confused as to why I went NC with her 4 years ago. I tried to explain but of course whenever I do, she says I’m the delusional one. Okay…
    Also interestingly enough, she has had many episodes of vertigo and other inner ear issues. I truly thought she was in denial! Unfortunately she’s also a narcissist so she certainly won’t listen to any of her friends or family when it comes to treatment… the combination is horrifying.

  • @sarahd1250
    @sarahd1250 4 роки тому +8

    This is like the opposite of psychosomatic disorders. Hmmm

  • @joshuajackson4742
    @joshuajackson4742 4 роки тому

    It sounds like it could be a good thing

  • @markr5212
    @markr5212 4 роки тому +1

    This world probably a matrix to ease you into the reality that you'll wake up too.

  • @lemonblossom0
    @lemonblossom0 4 роки тому +1

    i'm way too aware of my reality

  • @Michael-lc8yl
    @Michael-lc8yl 4 роки тому

    I had a paralytic and experienced this.

  • @Junosensei
    @Junosensei 4 роки тому +1

    Hank, are you aware of communication between the two hemispheres in the brain? This sounds like patients who have had the hemispheres separated from each other. Since speech and cognitive recognition are on different sides, it means these patients with a separated brain whose vision is separated will often understand what they see with the cognitive side, but they will say something nonsensical, and then make up an excuse as to why they said it.
    My uncle had a stroke this year and at the hospital, he couldn't recognize my aunt as his wife, or so he said. He's much better now and remembers everyone (has to go through speech therapy), so I mentioned at the dinner table that he probably knew who she was, but said he didn't because he couldn't communicate it well. His eyes lit up and he affirmed what I said, which made my aunt feel better.

    • @Junosensei
      @Junosensei 4 роки тому +1

      Strokes often target pieces of the brain rather than whole parts, but if you know what piece is functioning improperly, you can find ways to communicate that don't require that piece's input. If speech shuts down, but motor function is decent, they can write or point at responses. If motor and speech aren't functioning, you can still talk to them if their cognitive gears are in tact.