Well I mean most of the time people that go missing fucking end up dead, so I'm about as afraid of going missing as I am dying, because those two things kinda go hand and hand in my eyes
People always underestimate mental illness and act like it doesn’t develop later in life.. it does. I wish she could’ve gotten the help she needed. Just sad
@@xymoriintus That’s what I thought too! Both drowned in bodies of water, both thought they were in danger and both were acting erratically before their deaths. The saddest part is that while Elisa was at least being treat for her mental illness, Teleka wasn’t even aware herself that she needed mental help.
agree. since i’ve become an adult my mental health has declined severely. i’ve gone thru psychosis and mania and i could 100% picture myself in her shoes if i weren’t on meds and in therapy. it’s absolutely tragic that this happened to her. she seemed like such a sweet girl who just needed a little help
It's also very likely there were signs throughout her life, that went unnoticed or naively ignored, brushed aside. Strange quirks or weird episodes, things like that. That her family looks at everything they've seen and refuse to believe there was no foul play, it seems kinda like they'd be the types to ignore any early symptoms.
Imagine just disappearing one day and nobody knows where you are. Everyone starts thinking you've left to start a new life somewhere when it's actually far from that. That's one gut wrenching thought right there. Edit- I never said that this is what had happened to the poor woman. I know she was schizophrenic. It's just a thought that crossed my mind. Y'all in the replies need to chill tf out.
@@Photom101 nothing has changed except how much we see. Nihilism isn't the answer, and the majority of people who say they'd never bring kids into this cruel world have never lived that hardship, only forming third party opinions. Living in the gutters has a way of making you appreciate more, not the opposite. So get the fck off the internet and go live
@@iceeclair no things have definitely changed. we didn't use to have corporate monopolies, long ago humanity wasn't subjugated by nations, fifty years ago we didn't have as advanced technology as we do, and fifty years ago we weren't being watched as much as we are now. saying nothing has changed is downright stupid. also that's not what nihilism is, learn about it before you talk about it dude. and you telling me to get off the internet and live? i have a job, i go to school, i think i'm very much living.
@@iceeclair funnily enough, you sound to not follow your own advice. To say something so alex jones-esque, then telling others to get off the internet LMAO
I feel so bad for her. She clearly was suffering from erotomania on top possible schizophrenia or an extreme case of bipolar disorder with bouts of psychosis. One of her friends (while she was in med school) told her she needed to get psychiatric help and her response was combative. She accused the friend of trying to ruin her life
@@TheKittensLove yeah yeah I have schizophrenia too but different circumstances than you may. If you know tourettes, I get tics. I also see things, like big blobs with kawaii faces but before you i know it it’s just your imagination going wild. Unless she diagnosed herself or got a doctor too diagnose her then she wouldn’t have schizophrenia. It mostly just grows on you mate
@@Big-bobicles it could vary into audible schiz for her too, maybe. There were a few things in there that could vary in the results. And self diagnosing isn’t valid
As a person who suffers with psychosis; I completely understand this "break" of hers. I almost feel as if she wasn't getting enough sleep. Being a doctor is unimaginably difficult. And the things she may have seen could have contributed to this episode. It's genuinely very common with psychosis to feel as if they are being watched, stalked, intimidated or ridiculed. When my psychosis was incredibly bad, and I was sectioned. I began to think there were people outside my house, people chanting at me and every person that walked by was plotting against me. It got so bad that even when I was watching a football match (soccer), when the crowd were doing their respective teams chants, I could hear the crowd chanting and plotting to kill me. From my own experience, this seems like a telltale sign of someone falling into mental disrepair. R.I.P
I started feeling mentally unwell like that before. I don't know what caused it or what snapped me out of it but I kept thinking the police/government were tracking me, stalking me that they were posted outside my house watching me and everything I did. It was horrible, I felt so scared!
@@gnack420 well of course it’s something more than lack of sleep, but doesn’t mean it’s not a factor in it. Remember Teleka was not only a doctor, but in residency a phase in your medical career where you are always on the clock. Young interns and residents notoriously don’t get a lot of sleep as well as a stigma of mental illness in the medical provider community. Such a tragic case.
Being a resident, yeah, she definitely was not getting enough sleep and would have been under a lot of stress. Even as someone who only experiences very mild hallucinations, I don't want to consider the impact being under that level of strain would have. It really bothers me when people use big platforms like YT to play devil's advocate/imply there's something else going on, based on symptoms of a medical condition that they don't understand. A logically related event is not needed to trigger episodes like this, and the insistence that "something must have happened" feels a little gross, akin to sensationalism.
I think it's clear she had a psychotic break right from the beginning, being a doctor that is not surprising. This poor woman. Sad none of her co-workers noticed.
The guy who gave her a ride is really dumb, ignoring her state instead of actually being supportive. You shouldn't give a ride to someone who's not well and just go "my job is done here, good luck..."
@@Not_Always Never said he had one, either civil nor criminal. Doesn't mean a person who died have you seen you last is a comforting experience or one to be overlooked
The idea of anyone disappearing is odd to me. We're basically tracked everywhere we go, and yet people manage to disappear without a trace with good planning Edit: Sad but not surprised that she was found dead. The case is really strange to me
Especially if u took the shot vaxxx u had a chip inserted amongst the smart dust dumped on us from the chemtrails daily they have heavy metal poisoned us and now everyone is sick ur easily tracked it’s just to much work for them
equally terrifying, we can manage without planning somehow. some people are found in the oddest places decades later, like that kid in the chimney. can't tell which is worse.
That’s exacly what I’ve been thinking. Like how now days when you can track people and phones and there’s basically cameras every where, how can someone just dissapear without a trace.😰
As someone who suffers from manic episodes sometimes you literally don’t need anything to trigger one. I’ve had nights where I have gotten convinced someone was watching me and nothing was there and nothing happened. It’s scary.
@PestoMayo manic episodes can last for a year and can take a year to develop. I huge misconception is that someone “snaps” and something triggers the episode when in reality it’s more common for manic episodes to slowly develop overtime until they hit there peak. And then they slowly come back down.
@PestoMayo very true, I’m a undergrad in psychology and when I learned that I was surprised as well. Manic episodes can come with psychosis such as bipolar 1 disorder. But often they are described as being feelings of great “purpose” like you can do anything and no repercussions will happen which ultimately results in risky behavior and extreme changes in mood. I think the problem is that episode is commonly misused to mean something that “just happens” when actually the real definition of “episode” suggests the opposite. So while I agree with you, I think it’s just a problem with people misusing the word when discussing maniac episodes. Because most people don’t know that a typical maniac episode takes weeks to months to slowly develops and that same amount of time to come down. So people just assume “episode” means short and abruptly.
@PestoMayo that’s why most videos of someone showing there “manic episode” is just completely false. Because you can’t know when it’s going to happen. There are signs but those sings are there for weeks to months. So they would have to be recording everyday to accurately catch it. If you ever see a video of someone trying to show what a maniac episode is and they just start acting weird out of nowhere. Then they are lying. You can see someone gradually build up but often times it’s overlooked as well. That’s why I’m so shocked people where trying to find telekas “trigger” because there doesn’t have to be one for Bipolar, ESPECIALLY one as bad as hers (assuming she has this of course which I think it’s safe to say she does).
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Poor Teleka... she really seemed like a genuinely kind and intelligent person. I'm not saying what she did to Marvin was in any way correct, but it's so sad that she fell into that mental state and had all this happen. I wish she'd been able to get help.
It seems like she wasn't treated well in her marriage, so maybe that could be why she retreated into fantasy where she couldn't get hurt. I could see the preacher's songs and sermons helping get her through some dark days and her latching onto that. However, because she was unwell, she took the fantasy too far. She was a pretty young woman who was very intelligent, sweet, and had a great job. She was going to be someone more. And it's all the more tragic because it didn't need to happen and she could have had the resources to stop it. I so wish she'd not forgotten her money but had checked into the hotel instead (though not absolutely certain she didn't meet with foul play).
This case reminds me of my stalker. When you are the stalked, you feel helpless. There's nothing you can say or do to get stalkers to think differently. No one takes it serious until something happens. They think stalkers are harmless but they're not.
I think what freaks me out the most is knowing that perfectly healthy stable people with no personal or family background in mental illness suddenly start to inexplicably lose their minds, freak out and disappear without a trace. And it can happen to anyone. Anytime. That thought TERRIFIES me that it'll happen to me or someone I love.
These people are rarely ‘perfectly healthy and stable’, there were more than likely warning signs that their friends or families dismissed or didn’t notice, or they are incredibly good at masking. Breaks like this rarely happen suddenly and inexplicably out of the blue.
@@iamjackspyramidshapedhelmet I never said it's a common thing, but it does happen. I don't like using anecdotal evidence, but just to make an example it happened to a guy I knew, Max. Perfectly normal middle aged man, married with kids, living happily in Alaska. Suddenly over the course of a few days he just started acting super bizarre and sometimes violent. By the third day he disappeared without any of his belongings. He was found some months later in California as a crazy bum rambling about Jesus. His family said nothing happened to set him off that they're aware of. He never went back to his family. Instead he made his way to Michigan where he continued his crazy antics and once tried choking me in a gas station. Apparently according to his cousin who moved around with him, the county psychologists said he had some late onset schizophrenia. They believe one of his parents had it. (They also suspected other disorders too, perhaps borderline personality.) He was just a rare case that didn't experience it earlier in life. So at this point anything could've set it off. My point is, while it's not common, it does happen. And sometimes it happens without much explanation. At least Max was able to get diagnosed.
this type of story, as well as the very famous one of the young man who started acting paranoid and bizarre who ran away from an airport and then was never seen again, are the first 50% of a story that we actually hear all the time -- that someone has an underlying mental illness and left the house one day, are too mentally ill to find their way back or choose to return on their own, become homeless, and eventually years later their family finds out they have bipolar with delusions or schizophrenia and are still battling homelessness or addiction to this day. it's just that sadly sometimes when someone has a psychotic break and runs, they get into an accident or find themselves in unsafe circumstances and don't ever pop up again for their family to find.
Having had a couple breaks, one of which resulted in an official search and rescue effort, I remember the terror I felt. I think your theory makes sense.
@@ShermThursby I had no break, but got lost in the woods. Man, the rescue team couldn't find me, but once I got back, the firemen had me for a long talk and I was tired as hell, having to explain myself to them...
I don’t know why but this video hit me differently. She seems so lonely and just wants love. She’s going through a psychotic break. She deserved so much more 😢
Why? Because she is pretty? She is a stalker who showed up to a guy's house, across the country. She is so out of touch with reality she is dangerous. Obvious a danger to herself right? That's half-way to danger-to-others.
This is genuinely one of the saddest things I've seen in a while. I don't agree with stalking, but 2 things makes me have some sympathy: 1. I've not heard of her sending threats to the man/his family (if she did, I stand corrected), 2. She didn't have a good marriage and said her husband was abusive, making me wonder if she listened to the preacher's songs and sermons to get her through, grew fixated, and (because of her condition) latched onto that. Even people who are mentally altogether can obsess, so her condition exacerbated it. But at the core, she seemed very sweet (and was reportedly so by those who knew her), she was smart, she seemed to want someone to take care of and share sweetness with. It's so doggone sad!
Holy cow, this is my hometown. My mom works at that hospital. I'll have to ask her about this because I've never heard of this before! It was so surreal seeing stuff like the Radisson and Borgess pop up; these are places I pass every single day. It's crazy what goes on right beside you without you even knowing.
I'm about an hour or two from Kalamazoo, so it didn't hit me nearly as personally as you, but it's still wild to hear a story THAT CLOSE to me, like within driving distance
I lost a close friend around 10 years ago in a situation similar to this. Unfortunately after going through some tough times, he got himself mixed in with a bad crowd and the group had stolen a car, crashed it and left it abandoned on the side of the road, the group had split up to get away from the police and that was the last time anyone had seen him. One month later his body was found in the ocean. To this day there are so many unanswered questions. RIP 😢
I believe this to be a case of the condition “erotomania”. A condition where the effected believes that someone is in love with them and possibly thinks that the target person communicates with the effected through code. Usually the effected targets someone of a higher social status. She probably genuinely believed that the pastor loved her and was trying to, or succeeding in communicating with her. It also explains why she seemed “normal”, as this was likely one of her only delusions. As for her death, that’s a whole different story.
This is often a symptom of schizophrenia. Talika tweeted about hearing 2 voices and was trying to handle it on her own. The sad thing is schizophrenia can't be self-treated and the fact her family was in denial of how she passed could be an example of the stigma around mental health in the black community (I myself am black before anyone reading takes this the wrong way). It's sad they didn't notice what was wrong because she had moved away from home. I don't blame them though, there's no way they could have known how bad it was
The death reminds me of another "mysterious death" that sounds like a mental health episode. I wish I could remember her name. But before her death she was acting very strange. She called 911 saying people were in her apartment. You can hear her roommate in the background saying "no one is here, look, there's no one here". She believed people had broken in and that she could hear them talking and going through things while on the phone with 911 but no one was there and her roommate was trying her best to show her no one was there. Then one day she went missing. Security cameras showed her walking her dog, and it looked like she was talking to someone who wasn't there. She then took off. Her body was found in the water. They believe she thought someone was after her and she went to the water to hide then died. Her family is in denial, doesn't think she had any mental health disorders and thinks she was murdered. Another similar death was Elisa Lamb. Another one that sounds very similar to this, Mitrice Richardson. She ran up a restaurant bill then tried to leave without paying, which was odd behavior for her. They noted other odd behavior from her. She was arrested for it, never gave her a psych evaluation and just released in the middle of the night in freezing temperatures and went missing.
It’s so creepy how she was behaving and no one in her family noticed her behavior as not normal? Like it is crazy how people will lose touch of reality
I’m sure people close to her had to notice a change in her behavior. I believe she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia which my mom has the same condition. Once you’re in a maniac state your condition rapidly declines. from my experience with my mom she would always display signs so it’s sad no one noticed or maybe they did . Either way it’s so unfortunate.
As someone who experiences mild psychosis, I can say that it actually can be really hard to notice. Not to mention she was a doctor and therefore already would have been showing signs of stress, which some people might have attributed to that. Sometimes I have no idea what I should and shouldn’t say to people, but sometimes I’m aware enough to understand that even though I KNOW what’s happening is true, other people wouldn’t believe me. Sometimes I avoid telling people about my delusions because I know they’ll say it isn’t real (even though at the time I believe it is), or sometimes because I’m scared they may call the police or my family to inform them of my delusional state. It isn’t always easy to spot, especially if you don’t live with the person or if the person is always busy while you interact with them (work).
@@abbywolf5805 not true at all coming from a person who is schizophrenia who lives in state hospital 8 years I can pin point my ppl with out knowing them just imagine wat I can do knowing them. If u see a person on a regular basic and they are having a breakdown u can notice the little things. Before the big things come in place
i used to know a girl who’s delusional beyond help, there’s a certain character that she’s madly in love with to the point she bought a wedding dress just so she can get marry with him and then she would insult and sent death threats to people who claim to love this character as well because that character is hers and hers alone … so when i saw Talika’s pattern of behavior right away i felt a sudden deja vu … whenever i watch case where someone gone missing, it always gave me chills …
There's even a word for it. I forgot what they call it, but it's common enough that there's an actual label for it when you fall in love with a celebrity and you are convinced they love you back even though they don't know who you are
I feel bad for the hotel worker who asked if she was okay. I feel like it would be easy for them to feel an unfair amount of guilt about noticing she was unwell but not doing more somehow to get them help.
I wish more people had a realistic mentality. Why would he, of all people, feel guilt? He literally did everything he could. What was he supposed to do in that context, he had no reason to call the authorities- the lady was simply acting a bit nervous, not like her behavior really warranted any action. He asked if she needed help, she replied no. What else was he supposed to do? Like, of all the people involved in this tragedy, I think it's her family and coworkers who could feel guilt, because they can be haunted by this idea that they didn't notice these changes in her. Or even the Gospel singer, I can kinda see how he would be bothered. It's a terrible tragedy and I feel really bad for this poor lady and her family. At the end of the day, though, it's nobody's fault. But the hotel manager? Come on.
@@Krisinger I did say it was an unfair amount of guilt as in they shouldn't really feel guilty about it, but people aren't always rational when it comes to things that are shocking or depressing like this case.
@@Krisinger Exactly. This is very prominent in true crime-type videos. All those "empathetic" people saying "X and Y should've done this", "They should and could have done more," and "If I were those people, I'd do this and that." When in reality, we know it's all just big talk. The good thing is, OP isn't one of those people.
I feel so much for this woman, regardless or whether she had a manic episode or was a victim of foul play. She was so beautiful and intelligent; yet obviously so lonely and in turmoil.
Right she’s really pretty like seriously she had huge potential on becoming a doctor, etc but mental health absolutely ruined her, May she rest in peace.
I really don’t think she was kidnapped and killed… I really think she was suffering from some kind of a mental break and ran into the lake in a delirious state thinking she was being pursued. That’s incredibly sad 😔 I feel for her family, I can understand why it’s hard for them to believe it wasn’t foul play
@@citizenvulpes4562 You’re not certain though because it’s not possible to be certain in this context. It cannot be proven or disproven if foul play was involved
I had a close friend and her mom would be having a fool blown conversation for hours with no one. She would be talking, sometimes yelling, sometimes crying and nobody was there. She is a good woman, I know it’s so hard for people who go through similar things and I’m sending my prayers to anyone who has family or been through things like this. Mental illness is a battle we don’t always win
Sometimes it's mental illness, sometimes it djinn possession. Every individuals case is unique & should be examined & investigated. Even the lady in the video admit it in the messages to the church singer!
@@3-Kashmir possession? really? with all due respect i dont think its "sometimes mental illness, sometimes djinn possession", it will *always* be mental illness, people have visual/auditory hallucinations and sometimes their delusions can seem so real that their reality warps to whatever the delusion is please do not mystify mental illness to be a possession thing, many people suffer enough from being forced into exorcisms for their disorders rather than therapy, and we dont need more
They are just thought in her head like our conscious. When i talk to myself in my head its in my voice too. But i guess if you’re mentally ill you can believe your thoughts no matter how crazy they are or that voice in your head you think its actually someone talking out loud. We all have crazy thoughts but we know they are thoughts not reality that is the difference.
This reminds me of Elisa Lam. Both brought on a lot of conspiracy, but the unfortunate reality is most of them were probably psychotic induced suicide :(
Yeah, Elisa Lam's case is very tragic too. When it first happened, I was just a teen, so I got swept up in the conspiracy too, but then not only did I get older, but I began suffering my own mental problems, and it become do sad to me how much media was exploiting a mental break down for money, mostly so they could push the paranormal angle and make shows about it.
You did a good job on bringing Teleka's tragic story back to light. We need for more people to realize how anyone can be stressed enough to have a break from reality and how to recognize the signs. I prayed for this young lady's safe return although I had already guessed what had happened. She was an intelligent young lady who had a bright future ahead of her. There is one issue that needs to be corrected, Marvin Sapp & his church , at the time, were in Grand Rapids, MI an hour or so north of Kalamazoo.
@Moist Loaf You don't have to be an ass about it. You don't know me and I'm not pushing my beliefs off on anyone, no need for the snide remarks. Whatever your beliefs are, you need to learn some common decency. A young woman lost her life it's not something for you to troll about.
@Linda Irvine I don't know if you're being serious or not. Where in my post did I say she should have turned to God? I said I prayed for her, me. What I believe is my business, what you believe is yours. I don't try to push my faith off on anyone, but I dont hide it either
So many people misunderstand mental illness. I was diagnosed with quite a few mental issues years ago as I age they are getting worse, mental illness is not a joke or something to point at millions are affected, including the families.
This is what I always find so interesting about smaller channels. Given how obscure they are, most people would never bat an eye at this. But had this happened to a channel with 100k to a million subscribers, people would be holding search parties all over the internet.
There’s a UA-camr named floridapie08 or something like that, I worry about her mental health because it’s obvious. She was making hella videos for years like she was with Anderson cooper and she’s overall become increasingly disoriented
I have a friend who ACTS JUST LIKE THIS. She is obsessed with this actress, constantly messages the actress and the actresses friends and family on Instagram, insists the actors posts are coded messages to her, insists they are in love and soul mates, believes they have some telepathic bond, all that. We are internet friends so I honestly don't know what I can do. It's been like 2 years into this fixation now.
So, if you watch at 00:25, she says she got "dressed up" and "bought flowers", so when she says later in the video "here are the flowers from last time", she's referring to a previous video, not an in person date. Just thought I'd clear that up. Thanks and great video.
@@Not_Always Yeah... it's unfortunate. This isn't the only video, either. See, I forgot why I stopped watching this channel, but now I remember, sadly. The "analogue horror" treatment is also, kinda, disrespectful, I think. Oh well. Hey, look, new Wendigoon!
@@RedSpade37 I stopped watching a few channels who do true crime and stuff like that for these very same reasons. It is annoying when they get things wrong, or add their own spin which is in contrast to all available evidence. It's annoying, tbh.
Her obsession with Marvin Sapp is called erotomania, the belief that someone -- often a famous person -- is in love with you and that you are in a relationship. This delusion is usually accompanied by another psych disorder such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. There's an Oscar-nominated movie about this called "The Story of Adele H" in which Adele Hugo, daughter of the famous French writer Victor Hugo, develops erotomania for her former fiance even though he had married someone else and moved to a different country. She spent the last 40 years of her life in a mental institution. Teleka's deterioration also reminds me of Olympic skater Debi Thomas, who became a brilliant surgeon, but then lost everything due to bipolar disorder and is now living in a rundown trailer. As the saying goes, "The struggle is real." My heart goes out to her and her family.
Also a 2002 TV movie called "Obsessed" starring Jenna Elfman. It's based on the real-life case of Diane Schaefer who was convinced a local married surgeon was in love with her. She stalked and harassed him for years, and was ultimately sentenced to 2 years in prison.
One of the scariest examples is the moment when Pfizer´s current CEO started to think that people were plotting against him who had no interest in doing so. This can happen to anybody´s mind including mine. It´s so scary but it happens.
I feel like there’s still a possibility it could have been both a mental health episode + foul play. All it takes is a sadistic person to be at the right place at the right time to see her frantic on the side of the road and to realize she was in a vulnerable state, and they would be able to take advantage of it
So do I. It seems like she was having a forbidden affair with someone and they only communicated through diffrent Twitter accts, and also whenever they met up at that hotel, which is why she didn't take her own car. She fell in love. He didn't. That's when a forbidden relationship becomes dangerous for the married party. He had ignored her for 2 days. She felt used and probably threatened him with exposure. She worked around doctors who are trained to recognize mental illness. Her coworkers said on that particular day she was acting strange. She was scared. She knew he was powerful enough to have her killed.
I totally agree with this. Sniffer dog's are amazing at their job, more so than most people realize, and the fact her scent stopped at the side of the road irks me. Plus crimes like these are often ones of opportunity, and as you said, all it takes is being in the wrong place, at the wrong time. It'd be even more opportune considering her mental state at the time.
@benjaminollis7621 There is no physical 'evidence' in 90% of the cases that flow through US courts. Most people are convicted on circumstantial evidence which really isn't 'evidence' at all. If Marvin Sapp was just another John Doe, they would have used everything I said to try to convict him which is all circumstantial. He is guilty as sin. That's the only time they quickly sweep a murder under the rug.
I was curious who this would be about when I saw the title, but I remember this case! It’s so baffling - it’s really crazy it hasn’t gotten more coverage. Glad to see you are talking about it!
As a person who had a psychosis event, this is the most disturbing video I've watched in a while. What that poor woman saw must have been really terrifying. In my case i turned into completely different person, and if wasn't for the help of my brothers and the hospital, of course, i would've committed some madness.
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I feel bad for the coworker that gave her a lift to the hotel. That must have destroyed them, knowing they were the last person that actually knew her to see her alive and they couldn't do anything. Just a sad situation all around.
Im not blaming the coworker at all, but them being a hospital worker I assume, should have noticed her manic episode she seemed to be going through, Surely I think. And should have helped further, speaking to any colleague at their work, who knew of mental issues, or taking her to a police station.. Not taking her to a hotel in the same city she lives in, thats very abnormal to ask to be left at a local hotel when she actually lived in a home near by.
Yes please don’t ever take people suffering a mental health crisis to a police station unless absolutely necessary. Not only are most law enforcement, in any country, are very unequipped to handle mental health crises but it can also escalate a situation very quickly to those having a break. A hospital is almost always a better safer place for everyone involved.
as for "what triggered her manic episode," there isn't always a trigger at all. often it just happens. I think it's pretty obvious that she was in a different state of mind (mania or psychosis, not drugs) during this - it's pretty easy to spot when you've been in a similar state of mind yourself. mental disorders are nothing to scoff at, and a lot of the time peoples' struggle goes completely unnoticed until it gets too big to ignore, such as what seems to have happened here.
She was in her residency for her MD. You don't get a lot of sleep, and lack of sleep is hard on the human mind period, but way much so for people with mental illness. If people without mental illness can become mentally ill by lack of sleep, it's not surprising that severe mental illness will get triggered.
This situation absolutely screamed psychotic break from the moment she walked into the hotel lobby. Poor woman. Also... I think it's possible the wrong person picked her up, but it was chance, not someone targeting her specifically.
This is tragic....this is a perfect example of how stressful life really gets. we have no idea what people are dealing with. the saddest part our society is far from empathetic. Its so easy for people to say "they should have done this or that". But none of us know what they going thru. Also shows money don't buy you happiness or peace of mind.
What a horribly dark and tragic story all-around. It's absolutely terrifying what your own mind can put you through, especially when the illness or condition is left untreated. Rest In Peace, Taleka. You deserved so much better.
It’s scary to me how one day some people just snap, maybe there was a reason for her manic episodes but it’s scary to think there wasn’t at all. Usually with cases like these families see mental health deteriorating over time but sometimes you never know what someone is going through.
I love UA-cam, and I love horror… thats why I LOVE your videos, the environment of your videos is creepy and comfortable, its hard to explain… thank you for your videos, Crowley! Excited to watch this!
i hate how in mystery cases like these no one will ever know what really happened but the victims, it makes me feel so unsatisfied like there's no justice for them.
@@user_343 i know but we will never know what she experienced.. we don't know what she was feeling, what triggered it and what she had been going through and that's what gets me.
It’s so upsetting to me that this type of behavior is seen in a lot more of the popular “disappearing” persons cases. It makes me wonder if anyone would have recognized the behavior as erratic, they could’ve done something to stop it.
A lot of times, family cannot accept the fact that a relative has a mental illness, so they ignore it. My sister developed psychosis in recent years, I was the only one in the family concerned about her, our mother didn’t want to believe it. Things got very severe and eventually our mother accepted the fact that something was wrong, we did an intervention of sorts and my sister finally was put on appropriate medication. No doubt in my mind that she would be dead in a ditch somewhere if she hadn’t gotten treatment.
People who are psychotic tend to have absent parents sadly. Many reasons why the disorder goes out of control because no one cares enough to get them help.
Someone should have done something as soon as the restraining order was filed against her. No one mentally well stalks others, especially to the degree that she did. Someone should have stepped in.
This is horrifying. I live right near all of this and I’ve heard about her story. Knowing the details behind her disappearance is absolutely disturbing.
First, I do want to say that my heart, thoughts and prayers go out to Teleka’s family and friends. To have a loved one go missing, not knowing why they disappeared or where they disappeared to, must be the most horrendous thing to go through. This is why we, as a society, must stop stigmatizing mental illness as taboo. Mental illness does not discriminate, does not care about the person’s financial status, does not care about the ethnicity of a person, does not care about the gender of the person, and does not care about the age of the person. Mental illness can occur in anyone at anytime, so we must be more vigilant about our loved one’s mental health, and about our own mental health; and, we must do everything possible to make sure that our mental health is taken care of, just like we take care of our physical health. I think that there’s a high probability that she had one or more of the following: Erotomania, Obsessive Love Disorder, Celebrity Worship Syndrome, and/or schizophrenia. I honestly think that she did believe that Reverend Sapps was in love with her, and she was incredibly frightened for her life. There are going to be many, many unanswered questions about Dr. Patrick, and why her mental health deteriorated in a quick manner. Why didn’t her coworkers witness her erratic behavior? Why didn’t any of them report her erratic behavior to their superiors? Was she able to “hold” it together in front of her colleagues and patients? I just hope and pray that she’s resting peacefully in her eternal slumber, and is helping to take care of the angels in Heaven. Teleka sounded like a sweet, superbly kindhearted, highly intelligent, extremely talented - her voice was that of an angel, and very beautiful on the inside as well as the outside.
I believe she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. My mom suffers from it once she stops taking her meds her behavior and routine drastically changes almost identical to signs that’s she’s displaying. Fortunately family always steps in to assist her getting medical attention but it’s extremely difficult once you’re in a manic state . I feel bad cause it doesn’t appear that she had immediate family or friends who noticed her condition which caused this tragedy. Mental health is very serious and for anyone whose suffering from it or knows someone battling it please never give up no matter how difficult it gets.
One of my mom’s grandfathers went missing. It was in rural Mexico in the late 50s. He had mild dementia yet was still functional. He boarded a train to go visit family elsewhere but he never made it. They never found him.
She was such a good cook, her smile was beautiful and she had a wonderful personality, it's so sad she went through so much mental turmoil, it's also sickening that she went missing due to some evil person, rest in peace
Ffs this is hands down one of the scariest cases I've heard of. The fact that she was battling a serious mental illness without anyone else's knowledge, the fact that she hid her stalking from her family and friends so well. I definitely don't suspect any foul play, it seems pretty forward that she did this to herself.
Absolutely. It's one of the most clear cut cases of mental illness related death you will ever see. The only people who will still see this as a mystery at this point are those who simply refuse to accept the facts of the tragedy and choose to believe otherwise.
I have a cousin in her 50’s one day just had a psychotic break after living a normal life for 50 years. She told us things we couldn’t believe and even ran away from what she was perceiving as threats. Once we couldn’t find her for over a week. Mental health is a very fragile thing. She even started to be paranoid against us, her family. We have to keep an eye on our loved ones 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 I don’t know how recent this case is but I’m praying for her and her family
Trauma in someone’s life can set off an illness does it mean the person is a bad person that’s why a lot of people don’t get help because people judge and it’s wrong
This whole situation makes me feel like it’s more likely that she was going through some sort of episode making her jittery, paranoid and highly depressed, potentially leading her to drive to the lake and drown herself. Now I know not much of the evidence 100% lines up whatsoever but I wouldn’t rule this possibility out as it would easily explain the videos and also why she seemed to be believe that she was being chased. EDIT: I just finished the video and just realized my genius
That's the most terrifying part. Like the officer said, this case is as close to solved as it is going to get right now. Nothing short of someone confessing to the murder could truly solve this. After all, opportunity killers usually get away with their crimes for the longest.
She definitely had psychosis, the connecting patterns, erratic behaviors, moving to be with someone, obsessions, delusions…it’s sad how no one noticed…I’ve had psychosis before and luckily it got caught early and my family noticed as none of my classmates did. I always check up on ppl to see with they are okay bc of this experience. It’s sad that no one could help her before it was to late…
Care to expand upon your experience with psychosis? Have meds fully helped you? What do you struggle with still? I hope you have found peace as the people who I know have these issues struggle greatly with staying out of jail & prison.
What's wrong with you people in the comments? People are not going to notice something a lot of time because people with MI can hide things well. Not only that, but just because you try to check up on someone doesn't mean you know if they're well. They can hide that and lie about it as well.
Teleka was a beautiful and intelligent young woman, who I believe (like many who've commented already) had an untreated mental health condition. I feel deeply for her family and hope they are able to find some measure of peace. Thank you for covering her story.
With a lot of families and such -when they see someone may be going through something....they usually brush it off or tell the person to "suck it up" and "get over it quickly". Especially if the person is someone who most would deem to have "nothing to be depressed about/ affected by".
I hope if people take away anything from this heartbreaking video, they understand that psychosis and mental illness can happen to anyone. Teleka was a doctor, she worked and studied hard and was obviously incredibly smart. If something seems off in your loved ones life, please pay attention. This type of stuff can happen out of nowhere, but there are usually at least some signs leading up to such an event.
I can see from her videos that she already looked unwell :( Even though she smiled and spoke cheerfully there was something unsettling and vacant in her gaze, as if she was battling an inner turmoil which she tried to mask with her smile. RIP Teleka
That’s what I thought too. Besides if she was really in a relationship with someone she would have sent those videos to them personally instead of uploading here for millions to possibly see.
@@damianplasencia2708Her eyes are vacant, they don’t move around just still, there’s some spirit that overcame her: her face expressions don’t match her eyes. Smile seems happy, eyes seem still and fake!
its so sad how if she had gotten help this could have all been prevented!, this wouldn't just be another story for the internet bc she was such a gifted, loving individual and deserved so much more.
Man, there's something so uncomfortable about her own videos feels so intimate and specifically for one person, feels like you're watching something you're not meant to see.
Poor baby😢 she was so pretty and had such a promising road ahead. I hate that it seemed as if she had no close friends or family that tried to help her get psychological and medicinal help to control her mental issues and lead a productive life.
I feel for Taleka 😢 I fell in love with a girl who I cared about deeply. Her mother had schizophrenia and was hospitalized. The girl I talked to didn’t show any signs of it until….one day she started manifesting the signs and symptoms. You see, some mental health illnesses don’t manifest themselves until a certain age. It broke my heart, her whole personality changed it was like I was dating a completely different person. I really miss the woman from back then she’s gone for good 😢
Wow! I didn't expect this story to end the way it did.. Absolutely heartbreaking. Thank you for telling her story. Awareness is the only way to help prevent anyone else's family members sharing the same fate with their own loved ones in similar circumstances. Please take care of your mental health and wellbeing.. It's so important to seek out help or create an early intervention to help someone else as soon as possible before it's too late. No one ever enjoys seeing their loved ones being used as an example of how vulnerable one can be regarding their mental health struggles.
Nick Crowley just casually got to Nexpo level at some point.. Been following the channel since very early on, when the production quality wasn't nearly as high as this. Nowadays, when I go on YT and see that Nick has posted a new video, I go get my popcorn (or whatever snack is available), crack open my favorite drink and just indulge in the videos. Thanks for all the great content, Nick! I appreciate you.
Something tells me that Telekla may have had a psychotic break and she probably pretended to be put together in front of her family and friends and people at her work place but that final day, she finally couldn't hold it together any longer and just succumbed to the mental break...
I’ve known several people with schizophrenia and this is 100% exactly how they manifest on social media. One of my friends I follow on socials posts stuff exactly like this every day. Not fixated on a specific person, but carrying on full conversations with no one else being present. It’s really sad especially when there’s not much you can do aside from involuntary commitment into an in patient program.
I have gone through a traumatic experience that made me lose touch with reality so I can say that it sucks she didn't have anyone close to her to help her. During my episode, I was lucid enough at one point to call the police from a motel room and I got treated in a hospital. I don't have total memory of what happened but I remember thinking I was on a Greyhound bus going to hell and that everyone with me was going to hell too. Luckily I never really got violent but I was really close to walking out into the cold in Wyoming.
People who have family members go missing has to be terrifying. I think the not knowing where they are has to be the most difficult thing a family member goes through.
Families don't like to admit when it's a mental break for some people. And for that some see signs and still don't help their family members get the help that could save them. I didn't want to admit my son needed help until it was almost too late. I'm blessed that I was able to get him the help he needed. And for this he has done a 180 degree change over these past years
This is so sad and so tragic! What a beautiful and very bright woman Teleka seemed to be. So scary how one day your mind can be your worst enemy, I can't imagine what she must've thought was really going on with her.
There are so many UA-camrs that disappeared without a trace that it's alarming. This reminds me of The Pararnomalana Case where she disappeared 7 years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Though looking at this girl it's even more alarming as her disappearance wasn't as documented or spotlighted as Ana's given her size
I like to think Paranormalana just retired. It was around the time that youtube channels were getting more professional looking and maybe she didn't have the time to improve quality and she just decided to try something else. At least that's what I hope.
Yes, because they aren't celebrities, they are just regular people putting videos on the internet. That's like saying that so many people who have cell phones go missing. It's so commonplace it's not even notable. Also, Teleka made video for no one that no one watched. That hardly made her a "youtuber"
@@Nightman221k I think her just simply retiring is unlikely. Iirc, she had been emailing back and forth with another youtuber who she planned to collab with around the same time of her vanishing. I feel like if it was just a normal retirement she would have at least notified them if not her audience
Nick I love the way you structure your videos, going through the case chronologically so as not to spoil the conclusion, or sometimes lack thereof. great work as always
She was a beautiful person. Rest in peace Teleka. Thank you for covering these cases Nick. These cases that deal with mental health involved are very important ❤
It's really sad, she was really pretty and I liked her voice. It's kind of bizarre how she was caught stalking the singer and no one in her life tried to get her help. It seems like a suicide/accidental death with her not realizing what she was doing and jumping into the water.
as someone who has put myself in dangerous situations during manic episodes, this one really hurts me. i wish she could have gotten the help she needed.
Some people don't realize just how easy it is to hide how much you are suffering or to miss or dismiss signs of mental illness that end up being obvious down the road. Hindsight is 20/20.
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The fear of disappearing is haunting to me. Nobody but you knows where you are.
Not even you might know where you are too
Right?! Sooooo many disappear every year…..it’s creepy.
This is why we should all be microchipped. Like our pets.
This is obviously a video diary of a mad woman. One day a hunter is gonna go out in the woods and wind up pissin on her bones
Well I mean most of the time people that go missing fucking end up dead, so I'm about as afraid of going missing as I am dying, because those two things kinda go hand and hand in my eyes
People always underestimate mental illness and act like it doesn’t develop later in life.. it does. I wish she could’ve gotten the help she needed. Just sad
Forreal. This chick was 1000% struggling with severe mental illness. Hate to say it like this but it's exactly like the Elisa Lam case in my eyes
@@xymoriintus That’s what I thought too! Both drowned in bodies of water, both thought they were in danger and both were acting erratically before their deaths.
The saddest part is that while Elisa was at least being treat for her mental illness, Teleka wasn’t even aware herself that she needed mental help.
agree. since i’ve become an adult my mental health has declined severely. i’ve gone thru psychosis and mania and i could 100% picture myself in her shoes if i weren’t on meds and in therapy. it’s absolutely tragic that this happened to her. she seemed like such a sweet girl who just needed a little help
It's also very likely there were signs throughout her life, that went unnoticed or naively ignored, brushed aside. Strange quirks or weird episodes, things like that. That her family looks at everything they've seen and refuse to believe there was no foul play, it seems kinda like they'd be the types to ignore any early symptoms.
Seems like she was able to hide it from her family thou, so she would’ve had to try and get help herself
Imagine just disappearing one day and nobody knows where you are. Everyone starts thinking you've left to start a new life somewhere when it's actually far from that. That's one gut wrenching thought right there.
Edit- I never said that this is what had happened to the poor woman. I know she was schizophrenic. It's just a thought that crossed my mind. Y'all in the replies need to chill tf out.
@@440-fishermandrock8 try getting off the internet and going outside, literally none of that sht is happening in your daily life. All an illusion
@@iceeclair perhaps not in your life but it certainly does happen
@@Photom101 nothing has changed except how much we see. Nihilism isn't the answer, and the majority of people who say they'd never bring kids into this cruel world have never lived that hardship, only forming third party opinions. Living in the gutters has a way of making you appreciate more, not the opposite. So get the fck off the internet and go live
@@iceeclair no things have definitely changed. we didn't use to have corporate monopolies, long ago humanity wasn't subjugated by nations, fifty years ago we didn't have as advanced technology as we do, and fifty years ago we weren't being watched as much as we are now. saying nothing has changed is downright stupid.
also that's not what nihilism is, learn about it before you talk about it dude.
and you telling me to get off the internet and live? i have a job, i go to school, i think i'm very much living.
@@iceeclair funnily enough, you sound to not follow your own advice. To say something so alex jones-esque, then telling others to get off the internet LMAO
I feel so bad for her. She clearly was suffering from erotomania on top possible schizophrenia or an extreme case of bipolar disorder with bouts of psychosis. One of her friends (while she was in med school) told her she needed to get psychiatric help and her response was combative. She accused the friend of trying to ruin her life
Agreed. Maybe not schizophrenia but yes.
@@Big-bobiclesas a schizophrenic, I’ve been told and realised myself that I look ALOT like this
@@TheKittensLove yeah yeah I have schizophrenia too but different circumstances than you may. If you know tourettes, I get tics. I also see things, like big blobs with kawaii faces but before you i know it it’s just your imagination going wild. Unless she diagnosed herself or got a doctor too diagnose her then she wouldn’t have schizophrenia. It mostly just grows on you mate
@@Big-bobicles it could vary into audible schiz for her too, maybe. There were a few things in there that could vary in the results. And self diagnosing isn’t valid
@@TheKittensLove yeah yeah I guess so but self diagnosing is always available
As a person who suffers with psychosis; I completely understand this "break" of hers. I almost feel as if she wasn't getting enough sleep. Being a doctor is unimaginably difficult. And the things she may have seen could have contributed to this episode.
It's genuinely very common with psychosis to feel as if they are being watched, stalked, intimidated or ridiculed.
When my psychosis was incredibly bad, and I was sectioned. I began to think there were people outside my house, people chanting at me and every person that walked by was plotting against me. It got so bad that even when I was watching a football match (soccer), when the crowd were doing their respective teams chants, I could hear the crowd chanting and plotting to kill me.
From my own experience, this seems like a telltale sign of someone falling into mental disrepair.
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I started feeling mentally unwell like that before. I don't know what caused it or what snapped me out of it but I kept thinking the police/government were tracking me, stalking me that they were posted outside my house watching me and everything I did. It was horrible, I felt so scared!
I think this is a little more serious than her just not getting enough sleep...
She was in her residency. She wasn't even a full fledged doctor yet
@@gnack420 well of course it’s something more than lack of sleep, but doesn’t mean it’s not a factor in it. Remember Teleka was not only a doctor, but in residency a phase in your medical career where you are always on the clock. Young interns and residents notoriously don’t get a lot of sleep as well as a stigma of mental illness in the medical provider community. Such a tragic case.
Being a resident, yeah, she definitely was not getting enough sleep and would have been under a lot of stress. Even as someone who only experiences very mild hallucinations, I don't want to consider the impact being under that level of strain would have.
It really bothers me when people use big platforms like YT to play devil's advocate/imply there's something else going on, based on symptoms of a medical condition that they don't understand. A logically related event is not needed to trigger episodes like this, and the insistence that "something must have happened" feels a little gross, akin to sensationalism.
I think it's clear she had a psychotic break right from the beginning, being a doctor that is not surprising. This poor woman. Sad none of her co-workers noticed.
The guy who gave her a ride is really dumb, ignoring her state instead of actually being supportive.
You shouldn't give a ride to someone who's not well and just go "my job is done here, good luck..."
@@ruffusgoodman4137 bruh you dont know how she acted
@@jacekstankiewicz1594 good point. Still, I don't wanna be this guy for sure, would be banging my head against the wall
@@ruffusgoodman4137 and what responsibility did he have
@@Not_Always Never said he had one, either civil nor criminal.
Doesn't mean a person who died have you seen you last is a comforting experience or one to be overlooked
The idea of anyone disappearing is odd to me. We're basically tracked everywhere we go, and yet people manage to disappear without a trace with good planning
Edit: Sad but not surprised that she was found dead. The case is really strange to me
Especially if u took the shot vaxxx u had a chip inserted amongst the smart dust dumped on us from the chemtrails daily they have heavy metal poisoned us and now everyone is sick ur easily tracked it’s just to much work for them
equally terrifying, we can manage without planning somehow. some people are found in the oddest places decades later, like that kid in the chimney. can't tell which is worse.
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That’s exacly what I’ve been thinking. Like how now days when you can track people and phones and there’s basically cameras every where, how can someone just dissapear without a trace.😰
@@eveliinaniilivuo7329 believe me you can in the right places. I live in Europe and 💯 doable. Just leave your phone behind, hop on a train and boom.
Rest in peace, Teleka Patrick; I hope you finally found what you were looking for, and ultimately, that you're loved.
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As someone who suffers from manic episodes sometimes you literally don’t need anything to trigger one. I’ve had nights where I have gotten convinced someone was watching me and nothing was there and nothing happened. It’s scary.
I was thinking the same. I'm bipolar, and sometimes I just... wake up manic. Doesn't have to be triggered.
I get manic. But its financial irresponsibility. I cant imagine the paranoia.
@PestoMayo manic episodes can last for a year and can take a year to develop. I huge misconception is that someone “snaps” and something triggers the episode when in reality it’s more common for manic episodes to slowly develop overtime until they hit there peak. And then they slowly come back down.
@PestoMayo very true, I’m a undergrad in psychology and when I learned that I was surprised as well. Manic episodes can come with psychosis such as bipolar 1 disorder. But often they are described as being feelings of great “purpose” like you can do anything and no repercussions will happen which ultimately results in risky behavior and extreme changes in mood. I think the problem is that episode is commonly misused to mean something that “just happens” when actually the real definition of “episode” suggests the opposite. So while I agree with you, I think it’s just a problem with people misusing the word when discussing maniac episodes. Because most people don’t know that a typical maniac episode takes weeks to months to slowly develops and that same amount of time to come down. So people just assume “episode” means short and abruptly.
@PestoMayo that’s why most videos of someone showing there “manic episode” is just completely false. Because you can’t know when it’s going to happen. There are signs but those sings are there for weeks to months. So they would have to be recording everyday to accurately catch it. If you ever see a video of someone trying to show what a maniac episode is and they just start acting weird out of nowhere. Then they are lying. You can see someone gradually build up but often times it’s overlooked as well. That’s why I’m so shocked people where trying to find telekas “trigger” because there doesn’t have to be one for Bipolar, ESPECIALLY one as bad as hers (assuming she has this of course which I think it’s safe to say she does).
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Poor Teleka... she really seemed like a genuinely kind and intelligent person. I'm not saying what she did to Marvin was in any way correct, but it's so sad that she fell into that mental state and had all this happen. I wish she'd been able to get help.
Yeah, it's really awful she wasn't able to get help earlier. Just a sad situation for everyone involved.
It's so scary that she was literally a doctor and nobody around her noticed her delusions.
It seems like she wasn't treated well in her marriage, so maybe that could be why she retreated into fantasy where she couldn't get hurt. I could see the preacher's songs and sermons helping get her through some dark days and her latching onto that. However, because she was unwell, she took the fantasy too far.
She was a pretty young woman who was very intelligent, sweet, and had a great job. She was going to be someone more. And it's all the more tragic because it didn't need to happen and she could have had the resources to stop it. I so wish she'd not forgotten her money but had checked into the hotel instead (though not absolutely certain she didn't meet with foul play).
Not sure why you guys keep saying she was intelligent...
@@Suba932 they jus be talking bro
This case reminds me of my stalker. When you are the stalked, you feel helpless. There's nothing you can say or do to get stalkers to think differently. No one takes it serious until something happens. They think stalkers are harmless but they're not.
And everyone implies you are ill. Look at the comments. Sending you love.
@@narcissisticstatisticmonst4390 taleka was in fact ill. idk if you watched the video before commenting but SHE was the stalker in this scenario
I think what freaks me out the most is knowing that perfectly healthy stable people with no personal or family background in mental illness suddenly start to inexplicably lose their minds, freak out and disappear without a trace. And it can happen to anyone. Anytime. That thought TERRIFIES me that it'll happen to me or someone I love.
These people are rarely ‘perfectly healthy and stable’, there were more than likely warning signs that their friends or families dismissed or didn’t notice, or they are incredibly good at masking. Breaks like this rarely happen suddenly and inexplicably out of the blue.
@@iamjackspyramidshapedhelmet I never said it's a common thing, but it does happen. I don't like using anecdotal evidence, but just to make an example it happened to a guy I knew, Max. Perfectly normal middle aged man, married with kids, living happily in Alaska. Suddenly over the course of a few days he just started acting super bizarre and sometimes violent. By the third day he disappeared without any of his belongings. He was found some months later in California as a crazy bum rambling about Jesus. His family said nothing happened to set him off that they're aware of. He never went back to his family. Instead he made his way to Michigan where he continued his crazy antics and once tried choking me in a gas station. Apparently according to his cousin who moved around with him, the county psychologists said he had some late onset schizophrenia. They believe one of his parents had it. (They also suspected other disorders too, perhaps borderline personality.) He was just a rare case that didn't experience it earlier in life. So at this point anything could've set it off. My point is, while it's not common, it does happen. And sometimes it happens without much explanation. At least Max was able to get diagnosed.
@@iamjackspyramidshapedhelmet yea especially in the black community. Anything that deals with mental illness we brush it off and hope “god” heals it
@@iamjackspyramidshapedhelmet not true. I had one last year and Im not even psychotic.
@@Brandiisbeloved I found the lady that vanished I’m commenting on her comment right now. 🤯
this type of story, as well as the very famous one of the young man who started acting paranoid and bizarre who ran away from an airport and then was never seen again, are the first 50% of a story that we actually hear all the time -- that someone has an underlying mental illness and left the house one day, are too mentally ill to find their way back or choose to return on their own, become homeless, and eventually years later their family finds out they have bipolar with delusions or schizophrenia and are still battling homelessness or addiction to this day. it's just that sadly sometimes when someone has a psychotic break and runs, they get into an accident or find themselves in unsafe circumstances and don't ever pop up again for their family to find.
Having had a couple breaks, one of which resulted in an official search and rescue effort, I remember the terror I felt.
I think your theory makes sense.
She’s deffo schizo
The lack of closure would be the worse, but also a small sliver of hope that you’ll find em one day
@@ShermThursby I had no break, but got lost in the woods. Man, the rescue team couldn't find me, but once I got back, the firemen had me for a long talk and I was tired as hell, having to explain myself to them...
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Omg literally same I wish he had a podcast I love his voice
@@_pachycephalosaurus_ without him, I'd probably not even know about any of these mysteries. Really fascinating stuff.
It’s funny cause IRL he has so much charisma it’s so strange to hear him talk like that
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This is so tragic. What also blows my mind is that the mental health of a medical doctor would slip through the cracks like that.
She just didn’t pray enough
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@@ve_rbprayer did not prevent you from being a dumb pos
@@ve_rb dont think praying cant help psychotic episodes..No hate.
@@randiegordon444 yes Jesus will protect you
I don’t know why but this video hit me differently. She seems so lonely and just wants love. She’s going through a psychotic break. She deserved so much more 😢
Why? Because she is pretty? She is a stalker who showed up to a guy's house, across the country. She is so out of touch with reality she is dangerous. Obvious a danger to herself right? That's half-way to danger-to-others.
This is genuinely one of the saddest things I've seen in a while. I don't agree with stalking, but 2 things makes me have some sympathy: 1. I've not heard of her sending threats to the man/his family (if she did, I stand corrected), 2. She didn't have a good marriage and said her husband was abusive, making me wonder if she listened to the preacher's songs and sermons to get her through, grew fixated, and (because of her condition) latched onto that. Even people who are mentally altogether can obsess, so her condition exacerbated it.
But at the core, she seemed very sweet (and was reportedly so by those who knew her), she was smart, she seemed to want someone to take care of and share sweetness with. It's so doggone sad!
Yea this was just so so sad. I can relate to her loneliness and wanting to be loved. I hope she resting at peace and free from any mental pain.
It hit you differently as opposed to how? Normally?
@@DavidKen878 Fair question. But we know what they meant!
Holy cow, this is my hometown. My mom works at that hospital. I'll have to ask her about this because I've never heard of this before! It was so surreal seeing stuff like the Radisson and Borgess pop up; these are places I pass every single day. It's crazy what goes on right beside you without you even knowing.
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I'm about an hour or two from Kalamazoo, so it didn't hit me nearly as personally as you, but it's still wild to hear a story THAT CLOSE to me, like within driving distance
Same my mom knew her and it’s crazy seeing one of the youtubers I watch talk about this case.
SAME, it’s so strange not only being at those places but knowing the area well
I live about an hour from there. Blows my mind.
I lost a close friend around 10 years ago in a situation similar to this. Unfortunately after going through some tough times, he got himself mixed in with a bad crowd and the group had stolen a car, crashed it and left it abandoned on the side of the road, the group had split up to get away from the police and that was the last time anyone had seen him. One month later his body was found in the ocean. To this day there are so many unanswered questions.
RIP 😢
Dear lord, that sounds horrifying. I'm so sorry for your loss
Dang
Damn RIP
what’s his name ??
Wow, that is incredibly sad! I’m sorry about your friend, but that is a lot different than this story here.
i’ve heard so many disturbing stories about people’s bad mental health, but this one really hit me, may she rest in peace🕊️❤
I believe this to be a case of the condition “erotomania”. A condition where the effected believes that someone is in love with them and possibly thinks that the target person communicates with the effected through code. Usually the effected targets someone of a higher social status. She probably genuinely believed that the pastor loved her and was trying to, or succeeding in communicating with her. It also explains why she seemed “normal”, as this was likely one of her only delusions. As for her death, that’s a whole different story.
This is often a symptom of schizophrenia. Talika tweeted about hearing 2 voices and was trying to handle it on her own. The sad thing is schizophrenia can't be self-treated and the fact her family was in denial of how she passed could be an example of the stigma around mental health in the black community (I myself am black before anyone reading takes this the wrong way). It's sad they didn't notice what was wrong because she had moved away from home. I don't blame them though, there's no way they could have known how bad it was
She probably found out about the protective order against her from the pastor, and that likely sent her already fragile mental state into a frenzy.
@@JazzyJazz9119 is her twitter still active ? Or UA-cam channel?
The death reminds me of another "mysterious death" that sounds like a mental health episode. I wish I could remember her name. But before her death she was acting very strange. She called 911 saying people were in her apartment. You can hear her roommate in the background saying "no one is here, look, there's no one here". She believed people had broken in and that she could hear them talking and going through things while on the phone with 911 but no one was there and her roommate was trying her best to show her no one was there. Then one day she went missing. Security cameras showed her walking her dog, and it looked like she was talking to someone who wasn't there. She then took off. Her body was found in the water. They believe she thought someone was after her and she went to the water to hide then died. Her family is in denial, doesn't think she had any mental health disorders and thinks she was murdered. Another similar death was Elisa Lamb.
Another one that sounds very similar to this, Mitrice Richardson. She ran up a restaurant bill then tried to leave without paying, which was odd behavior for her. They noted other odd behavior from her. She was arrested for it, never gave her a psych evaluation and just released in the middle of the night in freezing temperatures and went missing.
yes, but it's "affected"
It’s so creepy how she was behaving and no one in her family noticed her behavior as not normal? Like it is crazy how people will lose touch of reality
I’m sure people close to her had to notice a change in her behavior. I believe she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia which my mom has the same condition. Once you’re in a maniac state your condition rapidly declines. from my experience with my mom she would always display signs so it’s sad no one noticed or maybe they did . Either way it’s so unfortunate.
@Aman Jha it's fucking CREEPY SHE BEHAVING WEIRD ARE U SLOW?
As someone who experiences mild psychosis, I can say that it actually can be really hard to notice. Not to mention she was a doctor and therefore already would have been showing signs of stress, which some people might have attributed to that. Sometimes I have no idea what I should and shouldn’t say to people, but sometimes I’m aware enough to understand that even though I KNOW what’s happening is true, other people wouldn’t believe me. Sometimes I avoid telling people about my delusions because I know they’ll say it isn’t real (even though at the time I believe it is), or sometimes because I’m scared they may call the police or my family to inform them of my delusional state. It isn’t always easy to spot, especially if you don’t live with the person or if the person is always busy while you interact with them (work).
@@abbywolf5805 not true at all coming from a person who is schizophrenia who lives in state hospital 8 years I can pin point my ppl with out knowing them just imagine wat I can do knowing them. If u see a person on a regular basic and they are having a breakdown u can notice the little things. Before the big things come in place
She was in Kalamazoo. We live on the east coast. There was no way for us to know what was happening because we weren’t there physically
i used to know a girl who’s delusional beyond help, there’s a certain character that she’s madly in love with to the point she bought a wedding dress just so she can get marry with him and then she would insult and sent death threats to people who claim to love this character as well because that character is hers and hers alone … so when i saw Talika’s pattern of behavior right away i felt a sudden deja vu …
whenever i watch case where someone gone missing, it always gave me chills …
what happened to her?
That is totally creepy.... And by character, do you mean like a fictional one? Or the creator of a character? 👀
@@Em22-wtf probably sum dumb like a deku stan
What character ?
There's even a word for it. I forgot what they call it, but it's common enough that there's an actual label for it when you fall in love with a celebrity and you are convinced they love you back even though they don't know who you are
This is so sad. Every turn was unexpected.
I really like how you present and structure your videos.
I feel bad for the hotel worker who asked if she was okay. I feel like it would be easy for them to feel an unfair amount of guilt about noticing she was unwell but not doing more somehow to get them help.
I wish more people had a realistic mentality.
Why would he, of all people, feel guilt? He literally did everything he could. What was he supposed to do in that context, he had no reason to call the authorities- the lady was simply acting a bit nervous, not like her behavior really warranted any action. He asked if she needed help, she replied no. What else was he supposed to do?
Like, of all the people involved in this tragedy, I think it's her family and coworkers who could feel guilt, because they can be haunted by this idea that they didn't notice these changes in her. Or even the Gospel singer, I can kinda see how he would be bothered.
It's a terrible tragedy and I feel really bad for this poor lady and her family. At the end of the day, though, it's nobody's fault.
But the hotel manager? Come on.
@@Krisinger I did say it was an unfair amount of guilt as in they shouldn't really feel guilty about it, but people aren't always rational when it comes to things that are shocking or depressing like this case.
ALWAYS CALL THE POLICE IF IN THE VIBE AT ALL.
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@@Krisinger Exactly. This is very prominent in true crime-type videos. All those "empathetic" people saying "X and Y should've done this", "They should and could have done more," and "If I were those people, I'd do this and that." When in reality, we know it's all just big talk.
The good thing is, OP isn't one of those people.
Erica I think it would be normal for a caring person to feel this way although they couldn't have done anything more.
I feel so much for this woman, regardless or whether she had a manic episode or was a victim of foul play. She was so beautiful and intelligent; yet obviously so lonely and in turmoil.
Right? I kinda feel the same. She seems so sweet and loving. It’s really sad.
She’s crazy, if a man did this yous would be hating on him
@@mr.engineear0987 shut up
Right she’s really pretty like seriously she had huge potential on becoming a doctor, etc but mental health absolutely ruined her, May she rest in peace.
@@mr.engineear0987 Oh please you men are always the biggest cry babies while hurting everyone the most.
I really don’t think she was kidnapped and killed… I really think she was suffering from some kind of a mental break and ran into the lake in a delirious state thinking she was being pursued. That’s incredibly sad 😔 I feel for her family, I can understand why it’s hard for them to believe it wasn’t foul play
Can’t really claim it’s not foul play though
@@chaosbeam4654 why
@@chaosbeam4654 I'm pretty certain it wasn't.
@@citizenvulpes4562 You’re not certain though because it’s not possible to be certain in this context. It cannot be proven or disproven if foul play was involved
You can't be certain about shit unless you were there !
this actually made me so sad because i have psychosis and bipolar depression and im willing to bet she did too, im sad that happened to her.
I had a close friend and her mom would be having a fool blown conversation for hours with no one. She would be talking, sometimes yelling, sometimes crying and nobody was there. She is a good woman, I know it’s so hard for people who go through similar things and I’m sending my prayers to anyone who has family or been through things like this. Mental illness is a battle we don’t always win
Sometimes it's mental illness, sometimes it djinn possession. Every individuals case is unique & should be examined & investigated.
Even the lady in the video admit it in the messages to the church singer!
@@3-Kashmir possession? really? with all due respect i dont think its "sometimes mental illness, sometimes djinn possession", it will *always* be mental illness, people have visual/auditory hallucinations and sometimes their delusions can seem so real that their reality warps to whatever the delusion is
please do not mystify mental illness to be a possession thing, many people suffer enough from being forced into exorcisms for their disorders rather than therapy, and we dont need more
They are just thought in her head like our conscious. When i talk to myself in my head its in my voice too. But i guess if you’re mentally ill you can believe your thoughts no matter how crazy they are or that voice in your head you think its actually someone talking out loud. We all have crazy thoughts but we know they are thoughts not reality that is the difference.
What’s Dijinn possession?
Either mental illness or demons possessing you- who knows 🤷 we will never know, unless someone gathers proof but still
This reminds me of Elisa Lam. Both brought on a lot of conspiracy, but the unfortunate reality is most of them were probably psychotic induced suicide :(
Yeah, Elisa Lam's case is very tragic too. When it first happened, I was just a teen, so I got swept up in the conspiracy too, but then not only did I get older, but I began suffering my own mental problems, and it become do sad to me how much media was exploiting a mental break down for money, mostly so they could push the paranormal angle and make shows about it.
@@Allenluvable or like extremely good and intelligent serial killers
INDEED
Yeah but the Elisa Lam incident happened almost exactly like the movie.
@@ArturoGarzaID and Elisa couldn’t have opened the water tank. It needed a crane to remove it
You did a good job on bringing Teleka's tragic story back to light. We need for more people to realize how anyone can be stressed enough to have a break from reality and how to recognize the signs. I prayed for this young lady's safe return although I had already guessed what had happened. She was an intelligent young lady who had a bright future ahead of her. There is one issue that needs to be corrected, Marvin Sapp & his church , at the time, were in Grand Rapids, MI an hour or so north of Kalamazoo.
Cheese is lazy and will not read all and will reply with a simple
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You didn't pray hard enough, shame on you
@Moist Loaf You don't have to be an ass about it. You don't know me and I'm not pushing my beliefs off on anyone, no need for the snide remarks. Whatever your beliefs are, you need to learn some common decency. A young woman lost her life it's not something for you to troll about.
@Linda Irvine I don't know if you're being serious or not. Where in my post did I say she should have turned to God? I said I prayed for her, me. What I believe is my business, what you believe is yours. I don't try to push my faith off on anyone, but I dont hide it either
@@MhzToinette it’s not about that cheese is to dumb to explain hopefully someone else will
So many people misunderstand mental illness. I was diagnosed with quite a few mental issues years ago as I age they are getting worse, mental illness is not a joke or something to point at millions are affected, including the families.
Old videos of criminals or people who disappeared always seem so ominous
Ikr
seriously it’s so eerie
This is what I always find so interesting about smaller channels.
Given how obscure they are, most people would never bat an eye at this.
But had this happened to a channel with 100k to a million subscribers, people would be holding search parties all over the internet.
Favoritism is terrible
Maybe because it is small channel so not many people no about it but when it is a big channel the person has many fans who know him so that helps
@@ronandread5141 It’s hard to show favoritism when you simply don’t know they exist in the first place.
There’s a UA-camr named floridapie08 or something like that, I worry about her mental health because it’s obvious. She was making hella videos for years like she was with Anderson cooper and she’s overall become increasingly disoriented
@@rubyy.7374 Still.
I have a friend who ACTS JUST LIKE THIS. She is obsessed with this actress, constantly messages the actress and the actresses friends and family on Instagram, insists the actors posts are coded messages to her, insists they are in love and soul mates, believes they have some telepathic bond, all that. We are internet friends so I honestly don't know what I can do. It's been like 2 years into this fixation now.
i need to know the actress
@@deceased988 Erica Cerra.
Break contact, you don't need "internet friends"
Especially not delusional ones.
@@mjanny6330 wtf? and what do you say about the people in videos like this? "too bad her friends and family didn't care enough to help her"?
@@mjanny6330 They can have internet friends. Now friends like this? Time to slowly cut losses. SLOWLY.
New subscriber. You know you’ve found a great channel when you binge watch the entire set of work. Good stuff.
So, if you watch at 00:25, she says she got "dressed up" and "bought flowers", so when she says later in the video "here are the flowers from last time", she's referring to a previous video, not an in person date. Just thought I'd clear that up. Thanks and great video.
There are a few errors in this video and things that were not elaborated upon or misinterpreted.
That's what I thought too.
@@Not_Always Yeah... it's unfortunate. This isn't the only video, either. See, I forgot why I stopped watching this channel, but now I remember, sadly.
The "analogue horror" treatment is also, kinda, disrespectful, I think.
Oh well. Hey, look, new Wendigoon!
@@RedSpade37 I stopped watching a few channels who do true crime and stuff like that for these very same reasons. It is annoying when they get things wrong, or add their own spin which is in contrast to all available evidence. It's annoying, tbh.
@@Not_Always y'all are cringe ong
Her obsession with Marvin Sapp is called erotomania, the belief that someone -- often a famous person -- is in love with you and that you are in a relationship. This delusion is usually accompanied by another psych disorder such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
There's an Oscar-nominated movie about this called "The Story of Adele H" in which Adele Hugo, daughter of the famous French writer Victor Hugo, develops erotomania for her former fiance even though he had married someone else and moved to a different country. She spent the last 40 years of her life in a mental institution.
Teleka's deterioration also reminds me of Olympic skater Debi Thomas, who became a brilliant surgeon, but then lost everything due to bipolar disorder and is now living in a rundown trailer.
As the saying goes, "The struggle is real." My heart goes out to her and her family.
this is so wild, thanks for sharing more about this. i’m going down a rabbithole now lolll
Thanks, i forgot the name of the condition and was looking at the comments.
Just added that movie in my letterboxd watchlist :D
theres also enduring love by ian mcewan which tells a great story about erotomania
Also a 2002 TV movie called "Obsessed" starring Jenna Elfman. It's based on the real-life case of Diane Schaefer who was convinced a local married surgeon was in love with her. She stalked and harassed him for years, and was ultimately sentenced to 2 years in prison.
It just scares me what the mind is capable of doing to itself.
it isn't the mind it is the brain
One of the scariest examples is the moment when Pfizer´s current CEO started to think that people were plotting against him who had no interest in doing so. This can happen to anybody´s mind including mine. It´s so scary but it happens.
True
it is really is crazy to think it’s all just in the brain
Mental illness is common, but it's able to be treated, she just was one of those who never received adequate treatment. It's a sad situation, really.
This is such a sad story, im glad you were able to cover it because i find you to be one of the more respectful true crime channels around.
I feel like there’s still a possibility it could have been both a mental health episode + foul play. All it takes is a sadistic person to be at the right place at the right time to see her frantic on the side of the road and to realize she was in a vulnerable state, and they would be able to take advantage of it
So do I. It seems like she was having a forbidden affair with someone and they only communicated through diffrent Twitter accts, and also whenever they met up at that hotel, which is why she didn't take her own car. She fell in love. He didn't. That's when a forbidden relationship becomes dangerous for the married party. He had ignored her for 2 days. She felt used and probably threatened him with exposure. She worked around doctors who are trained to recognize mental illness. Her coworkers said on that particular day she was acting strange. She was scared. She knew he was powerful enough to have her killed.
@@fromtheheavenlyrealms8613 yes Marvin Sapp
Yup that’s very true
I totally agree with this.
Sniffer dog's are amazing at their job, more so than most people realize, and the fact her scent stopped at the side of the road irks me.
Plus crimes like these are often ones of opportunity, and as you said, all it takes is being in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
It'd be even more opportune considering her mental state at the time.
@benjaminollis7621 There is no physical 'evidence' in 90% of the cases that flow through US courts. Most people are convicted on circumstantial evidence which really isn't 'evidence' at all. If Marvin Sapp was just another John Doe, they would have used everything I said to try to convict him which is all circumstantial. He is guilty as sin. That's the only time they quickly sweep a murder under the rug.
I was curious who this would be about when I saw the title, but I remember this case! It’s so baffling - it’s really crazy it hasn’t gotten more coverage. Glad to see you are talking about it!
Right! I was very surprised (in a good way) that he covered it
@Bully peter cus it's a Black woman; if it was a white women like Gabby Petino, it'd be all over the news
The stress of a 1st year medical resident, possible undiagnosed mental illness, and unrequited love. It's enough to make anyone go crazy . RIP
not love but obsession actually but I understand where youre coming from
She wasn't a 1st year medical student, she was an actual doctor.
That ain't love, it's an obsession
@@amberrj. They didn’t say medical student, they said medical resident. Medical residents are doctors.
Or stalking an alleged gospel singer.
i love how painfully inconvenient this is
her car tyre bursts in the middle of nowhere right next to a lake at dead night.
This!!!!
As a person who had a psychosis event, this is the most disturbing video I've watched in a while. What that poor woman saw must have been really terrifying.
In my case i turned into completely different person, and if wasn't for the help of my brothers and the hospital, of course, i would've committed some madness.
if it isnt a peoblem, what do you usually see during a psychosis event?
I killed a guy once…..
Wow, that's terrifying. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'm glad you got the support you needed.
@@dr.rockzo are you like serious?
@@hoonlyric_
Like, Like.....
Inchon, Korea, 1950. I was the best cook Uncle Sam ever saw, slinging hash for the Fighting 103rd. As we marched north, our supply lines were getting thin. One day a couple of GIs found a crate, inside were six hundred pounds of prime Texas steer. At least it once was prime. The Use date was three weeks past, but I was arrogant, I was brash, I thought if I used just the right spices, cooked it long enough...I went too far. I over seasoned it. Men were keeling over all around me. I can still hear the retching, the screaming. I sent sixteen of my own men to the latrines that night. They were just boys. Bobby Colby, all that kid wanted to do was go home. Well he went home alright, with a crater in his colon the size of a cutlet. Had to sit him on a cork the eighteen-hour flight home! Anyway....we dropped the bomb and I'll never pick up another spatula again.
I feel bad for the coworker that gave her a lift to the hotel. That must have destroyed them, knowing they were the last person that actually knew her to see her alive and they couldn't do anything. Just a sad situation all around.
Not to mention them in that position made them a prime suspect initially. Probably lost a lot of trust and friendships in an instant.
Im not blaming the coworker at all, but them being a hospital worker I assume, should have noticed her manic episode she seemed to be going through, Surely I think.
And should have helped further, speaking to any colleague at their work, who knew of mental issues, or taking her to a police station..
Not taking her to a hotel in the same city she lives in, thats very abnormal to ask to be left at a local hotel when she actually lived in a home near by.
Or it didn't affect them at all! Don't have to get all in your feelings of you're the last person to see someone
@@loopyluu1 A hospital, not a police station. A hospital is better equipped to take care of her
Yes please don’t ever take people suffering a mental health crisis to a police station unless absolutely necessary. Not only are most law enforcement, in any country, are very unequipped to handle mental health crises but it can also escalate a situation very quickly to those having a break. A hospital is almost always a better safer place for everyone involved.
as for "what triggered her manic episode," there isn't always a trigger at all. often it just happens.
I think it's pretty obvious that she was in a different state of mind (mania or psychosis, not drugs) during this - it's pretty easy to spot when you've been in a similar state of mind yourself. mental disorders are nothing to scoff at, and a lot of the time peoples' struggle goes completely unnoticed until it gets too big to ignore, such as what seems to have happened here.
Shut up anime boy . Are you a doctor ? Don’t think so
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She was in her residency for her MD. You don't get a lot of sleep, and lack of sleep is hard on the human mind period, but way much so for people with mental illness. If people without mental illness can become mentally ill by lack of sleep, it's not surprising that severe mental illness will get triggered.
This situation absolutely screamed psychotic break from the moment she walked into the hotel lobby. Poor woman. Also... I think it's possible the wrong person picked her up, but it was chance, not someone targeting her specifically.
This is tragic....this is a perfect example of how stressful life really gets. we have no idea what people are dealing with. the saddest part our society is far from empathetic. Its so easy for people to say "they should have done this or that". But none of us know what they going thru. Also shows money don't buy you happiness or peace of mind.
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What a horribly dark and tragic story all-around. It's absolutely terrifying what your own mind can put you through, especially when the illness or condition is left untreated. Rest In Peace, Taleka. You deserved so much better.
It’s scary to me how one day some people just snap, maybe there was a reason for her manic episodes but it’s scary to think there wasn’t at all. Usually with cases like these families see mental health deteriorating over time but sometimes you never know what someone is going through.
Most of the time, mental illness can worsen due to stress and external factors. So, it's not no reason, she just was unfortunately never treated.
I just feel bad for her. She was obviously going through something and she needed help. Poor woman. I at least hope shes resting peacefully.
I love UA-cam, and I love horror… thats why I LOVE your videos, the environment of your videos is creepy and comfortable, its hard to explain… thank you for your videos, Crowley! Excited to watch this!
i hate how in mystery cases like these no one will ever know what really happened but the victims, it makes me feel so unsatisfied like there's no justice for them.
Right it’s just so eerie and chilling, they deserved better 😩
As the police stated she probably suffered a psychosis event and accidentally killed herself running away from hallucinations.
@@user_343 i know but we will never know what she experienced.. we don't know what she was feeling, what triggered it and what she had been going through and that's what gets me.
@@ovrmya yes. this is a true mistery considering that.
@@user_343 this happened to me in my early 20s multiple times. It felt so real
It’s so upsetting to me that this type of behavior is seen in a lot more of the popular “disappearing” persons cases. It makes me wonder if anyone would have recognized the behavior as erratic, they could’ve done something to stop it.
Sadly, there's nothing that can be done in the case of a non-violent adult if they don't believe they need help
A lot of times, family cannot accept the fact that a relative has a mental illness, so they ignore it. My sister developed psychosis in recent years, I was the only one in the family concerned about her, our mother didn’t want to believe it. Things got very severe and eventually our mother accepted the fact that something was wrong, we did an intervention of sorts and my sister finally was put on appropriate medication. No doubt in my mind that she would be dead in a ditch somewhere if she hadn’t gotten treatment.
People who are psychotic tend to have absent parents sadly. Many reasons why the disorder goes out of control because no one cares enough to get them help.
@@SkullTaker this, why are people so hard on accepting mental illness, such a common thing rn
Someone should have done something as soon as the restraining order was filed against her. No one mentally well stalks others, especially to the degree that she did. Someone should have stepped in.
This is horrifying. I live right near all of this and I’ve heard about her story. Knowing the details behind her disappearance is absolutely disturbing.
First, I do want to say that my heart, thoughts and prayers go out to Teleka’s family and friends. To have a loved one go missing, not knowing why they disappeared or where they disappeared to, must be the most horrendous thing to go through. This is why we, as a society, must stop stigmatizing mental illness as taboo.
Mental illness does not discriminate, does not care about the person’s financial status, does not care about the ethnicity of a person, does not care about the gender of the person, and does not care about the age of the person. Mental illness can occur in anyone at anytime, so we must be more vigilant about our loved one’s mental health, and about our own mental health; and, we must do everything possible to make sure that our mental health is taken care of, just like we take care of our physical health.
I think that there’s a high probability that she had one or more of the following: Erotomania, Obsessive Love Disorder, Celebrity Worship Syndrome, and/or schizophrenia. I honestly think that she did believe that Reverend Sapps was in love with her, and she was incredibly frightened for her life.
There are going to be many, many unanswered questions about Dr. Patrick, and why her mental health deteriorated in a quick manner. Why didn’t her coworkers witness her erratic behavior? Why didn’t any of them report her erratic behavior to their superiors? Was she able to “hold” it together in front of her colleagues and patients?
I just hope and pray that she’s resting peacefully in her eternal slumber, and is helping to take care of the angels in Heaven. Teleka sounded like a sweet, superbly kindhearted, highly intelligent, extremely talented - her voice was that of an angel, and very beautiful on the inside as well as the outside.
I believe she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. My mom suffers from it once she stops taking her meds her behavior and routine drastically changes almost identical to signs that’s she’s displaying. Fortunately family always steps in to assist her getting medical attention but it’s extremely difficult once you’re in a manic state . I feel bad cause it doesn’t appear that she had immediate family or friends who noticed her condition which caused this tragedy. Mental health is very serious and for anyone whose suffering from it or knows someone battling it please never give up no matter how difficult it gets.
First he’s not a reverend 😂🤣🤣🤣 second - even her family believes he had something to do with this. He can’t be trusted at all
One of my mom’s grandfathers went missing. It was in rural Mexico in the late 50s. He had mild dementia yet was still functional. He boarded a train to go visit family elsewhere but he never made it. They never found him.
So sad mate, sorry for your loss 🖤
that gave me chills n incredibly sad. im sorry 🤍
@@ayybibi literally
srry to hear that ❤️
Very sad she seemed like such a nice person that just needed a little help.
She was such a good cook, her smile was beautiful and she had a wonderful personality, it's so sad she went through so much mental turmoil,
it's also sickening that she went missing due to some evil person, rest in peace
You had her cooking before
It looks tasty
Ffs this is hands down one of the scariest cases I've heard of. The fact that she was battling a serious mental illness without anyone else's knowledge, the fact that she hid her stalking from her family and friends so well. I definitely don't suspect any foul play, it seems pretty forward that she did this to herself.
Absolutely. It's one of the most clear cut cases of mental illness related death you will ever see. The only people who will still see this as a mystery at this point are those who simply refuse to accept the facts of the tragedy and choose to believe otherwise.
It reminds me of the girl who was found inside the water drum at the roof of a Cecil hotel. Mental illness.
dude i know the full story
Actually it doesn't
To me the thought of going missing is haunting, I hope her loved ones are doing alright. I feel bad for what she went through.
I have a cousin in her 50’s one day just had a psychotic break after living a normal life for 50 years. She told us things we couldn’t believe and even ran away from what she was perceiving as threats. Once we couldn’t find her for over a week. Mental health is a very fragile thing. She even started to be paranoid against us, her family. We have to keep an eye on our loved ones 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 I don’t know how recent this case is but I’m praying for her and her family
Trauma in someone’s life can set off an illness does it mean the person is a bad person that’s why a lot of people don’t get help because people judge and it’s wrong
She been dead since 2013, found in the icy water. Really sad
@@godlypoet That's so sad
My condolences goes out to her family 🙏
Over a decade
She sadly passed in 2013-2014 🙁
I have been trying to find this case but I couldn’t remember her name!! Thank you for bringing her back to light.
This whole situation makes me feel like it’s more likely that she was going through some sort of episode making her jittery, paranoid and highly depressed, potentially leading her to drive to the lake and drown herself.
Now I know not much of the evidence 100% lines up whatsoever but I wouldn’t rule this possibility out as it would easily explain the videos and also why she seemed to be believe that she was being chased.
EDIT: I just finished the video and just realized my genius
Oh definitely
Imagine if she was killed and the murderer had absolutely no idea of her life/story, they couldn't have picked a more perfect target, damn.
Hahaha right
Damn lol, thats correct as hell. They would be so happy.
That sounds like Scary Movie.
That's the most terrifying part. Like the officer said, this case is as close to solved as it is going to get right now. Nothing short of someone confessing to the murder could truly solve this. After all, opportunity killers usually get away with their crimes for the longest.
@@CHRB-nn6qp What a opportunity.
She definitely had psychosis, the connecting patterns, erratic behaviors, moving to be with someone, obsessions, delusions…it’s sad how no one noticed…I’ve had psychosis before and luckily it got caught early and my family noticed as none of my classmates did. I always check up on ppl to see with they are okay bc of this experience. It’s sad that no one could help her before it was to late…
Care to expand upon your experience with psychosis?
Have meds fully helped you?
What do you struggle with still?
I hope you have found peace as the people who I know have these issues struggle greatly with staying out of jail & prison.
What's wrong with you people in the comments? People are not going to notice something a lot of time because people with MI can hide things well. Not only that, but just because you try to check up on someone doesn't mean you know if they're well. They can hide that and lie about it as well.
@@deleted_account_0530- She was a doctor, so her coworkers may have had some insight...
There's a lot more to this story that we'll never know, sadly.
Yea, it was almost like she was a pretend play girl 👧
Teleka was a beautiful and intelligent young woman, who I believe (like many who've commented already) had an untreated mental health condition. I feel deeply for her family and hope they are able to find some measure of peace. Thank you for covering her story.
Ironically she was doing her residency to be a psychiatrist.
@@Not_Always So heartbreaking.
With a lot of families and such -when they see someone may be going through something....they usually brush it off or tell the person to "suck it up" and "get over it quickly". Especially if the person is someone who most would deem to have "nothing to be depressed about/ affected by".
@@htsunmiku 100%. Sad this is they might be brushing off mental illnesses like this. And they might cause permanent damage.
Yet insane and crazy
I hope if people take away anything from this heartbreaking video, they understand that psychosis and mental illness can happen to anyone. Teleka was a doctor, she worked and studied hard and was obviously incredibly smart. If something seems off in your loved ones life, please pay attention. This type of stuff can happen out of nowhere, but there are usually at least some signs leading up to such an event.
I can see from her videos that she already looked unwell :( Even though she smiled and spoke cheerfully there was something unsettling and vacant in her gaze, as if she was battling an inner turmoil which she tried to mask with her smile. RIP Teleka
I saw that too! Her eyes were definitely.......................off, to say the least.
her eyes look like any other set of eyes...people be reaching lol
That’s what I thought too. Besides if she was really in a relationship with someone she would have sent those videos to them personally instead of uploading here for millions to possibly see.
@@peppermintpetty6766 not if the relationship was supposed to be secret
@@damianplasencia2708Her eyes are vacant, they don’t move around just still, there’s some spirit that overcame her: her face expressions don’t match her eyes. Smile seems happy, eyes seem still and fake!
she seemed so sweet. rest in peace, in another life you'll be loved like you wanted to.
Thank you for covering her case. I haven’t seen anyone do so.
Can't believe it's been almost ten years since this case had occurred. Time sure flies
its so sad how if she had gotten help this could have all been prevented!, this wouldn't just be another story for the internet bc she was such a gifted, loving individual and deserved so much more.
The producer of this video makes it seem like this case happened recently!
About ten years ago
@@dshooter6391 it's been 9 years. I live in Kalamazoo and remember when it first happened.
@@dshooter6391 no he doesn't lol he even says the dates of everything
Oh Teleka, I hope you have found comfort and peace in the afterlife.
Her eyes, it is so unsettling like someone is in there she's trying to suppress.
The shine in them is no longer present, as they look bland and caged.
@@cygnus.const_ that's some Get Out type shit
Man, there's something so uncomfortable about her own videos feels so intimate and specifically for one person, feels like you're watching something you're not meant to see.
What an absolutely tragic situation. You never truly know what is going on in a persons mind.
Poor baby😢 she was so pretty and had such a promising road ahead. I hate that it seemed as if she had no close friends or family that tried to help her get psychological and medicinal help to control her mental issues and lead a productive life.
She was absolutely gorgeous!🥺😔
Pretty people have issues just like everyone else
I feel for Taleka 😢 I fell in love with a girl who I cared about deeply. Her mother had schizophrenia and was hospitalized. The girl I talked to didn’t show any signs of it until….one day she started manifesting the signs and symptoms. You see, some mental health illnesses don’t manifest themselves until a certain age. It broke my heart, her whole personality changed it was like I was dating a completely different person. I really miss the woman from back then she’s gone for good 😢
That sucks.
I'm sorry 2 hear that
Crowley and Nexpo are THEE BEST at the creepy/scary mysteries
Frickin love the content
Wow! I didn't expect this story to end the way it did.. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Thank you for telling her story.
Awareness is the only way to help prevent anyone else's family members sharing the same fate with their own loved ones in similar circumstances.
Please take care of your mental health and wellbeing.. It's so important to seek out help or create an early intervention to help someone else as soon as possible before it's too late. No one ever enjoys seeing their loved ones being used as an example of how vulnerable one can be regarding their mental health struggles.
Nick Crowley just casually got to Nexpo level at some point.. Been following the channel since very early on, when the production quality wasn't nearly as high as this. Nowadays, when I go on YT and see that Nick has posted a new video, I go get my popcorn (or whatever snack is available), crack open my favorite drink and just indulge in the videos.
Thanks for all the great content, Nick! I appreciate you.
@don't be surprised LOL, you just did an air fryer potato wedge Rick Roll on me hahahaha
NICE ONE! :P
Honestly this story gives me chills
Something tells me that Telekla may have had a psychotic break and she probably pretended to be put together in front of her family and friends and people at her work place but that final day, she finally couldn't hold it together any longer and just succumbed to the mental break...
Sometimes mental illness takes a while to present itself i.e. late 20s
I’ve known several people with schizophrenia and this is 100% exactly how they manifest on social media. One of my friends I follow on socials posts stuff exactly like this every day. Not fixated on a specific person, but carrying on full conversations with no one else being present. It’s really sad especially when there’s not much you can do aside from involuntary commitment into an in patient program.
Where the drugs they give them causes parkonism disease, there's barely any hope for people who become unwell.. the side effects are devastating
YES
the fact that she didn't even know she was going through this mental break, breaks my heart..
I have gone through a traumatic experience that made me lose touch with reality so I can say that it sucks she didn't have anyone close to her to help her. During my episode, I was lucid enough at one point to call the police from a motel room and I got treated in a hospital. I don't have total memory of what happened but I remember thinking I was on a Greyhound bus going to hell and that everyone with me was going to hell too. Luckily I never really got violent but I was really close to walking out into the cold in Wyoming.
People who have family members go missing has to be terrifying. I think the not knowing where they are has to be the most difficult thing a family member goes through.
Families don't like to admit when it's a mental break for some people. And for that some see signs and still don't help their family members get the help that could save them. I didn't want to admit my son needed help until it was almost too late. I'm blessed that I was able to get him the help he needed. And for this he has done a 180 degree change over these past years
Mental Illness is still taboo in (some) black communities, unfortunately.
This is so sad and so tragic! What a beautiful and very bright woman Teleka seemed to be. So scary how one day your mind can be your worst enemy, I can't imagine what she must've thought was really going on with her.
Beautiful 🤣
@@Suba932 who hurt you?
@@Suba932 u pathetic.feel bad for ur bitter ass
@@magallanesagustin4952 his father
Lots of UA-camrs want vanished and some of them we don’t have in contact with or even know where they want. Great video.
There are so many UA-camrs that disappeared without a trace that it's alarming. This reminds me of The Pararnomalana Case where she disappeared 7 years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Though looking at this girl it's even more alarming as her disappearance wasn't as documented or spotlighted as Ana's given her size
I like to think Paranormalana just retired. It was around the time that youtube channels were getting more professional looking and maybe she didn't have the time to improve quality and she just decided to try something else. At least that's what I hope.
Yes, because they aren't celebrities, they are just regular people putting videos on the internet. That's like saying that so many people who have cell phones go missing. It's so commonplace it's not even notable. Also, Teleka made video for no one that no one watched. That hardly made her a "youtuber"
Apparently Para C had a stalker and that’s why she left UA-cam
@@Nightman221k I think her just simply retiring is unlikely. Iirc, she had been emailing back and forth with another youtuber who she planned to collab with around the same time of her vanishing. I feel like if it was just a normal retirement she would have at least notified them if not her audience
Nick I love the way you structure your videos, going through the case chronologically so as not to spoil the conclusion, or sometimes lack thereof. great work as always
She was a beautiful person. Rest in peace Teleka. Thank you for covering these cases Nick. These cases that deal with mental health involved are very important ❤
Such an absolutely beautiful and intelligent person, through and through. Tragic doesn’t even begin to describe it. Teleka, wherever you are……
It's really sad, she was really pretty and I liked her voice. It's kind of bizarre how she was caught stalking the singer and no one in her life tried to get her help. It seems like a suicide/accidental death with her not realizing what she was doing and jumping into the water.
Yep clearly a case of accidental death brought on by mental illness delusions.
as someone who has put myself in dangerous situations during manic episodes, this one really hurts me. i wish she could have gotten the help she needed.
Jules Stay safe! Hope you're doing okay.
Some people don't realize just how easy it is to hide how much you are suffering or to miss or dismiss signs of mental illness that end up being obvious down the road. Hindsight is 20/20.