The parents should be charged, as well. They ignored their child's mental health for so long that it came to what happened. Those parents should absolutely be fucking ashamed.
What're you talking about? He was a legal adult. It's incredibly difficult to get someone forced into therapy. Even if you could get a 5150 or whatever the parents were trying to do, it's usually very traumatic for the person. And you absolutely cannot force them to actually take therapy seriously and try. They were in a very tough situation. Just like family members of addicts. You have no good options and it's ultimately on the person afflicted to put the work in
@@heatherlynn4652 yeah, except the person themselves said several times that they need help. Idk what the parents were thinking, when it was that obvious. When a person is mentally unstable, it's not a good thing to trust them to make rational decisions.
THE TAZER DIDN'T DO ANYTHING? HE ATE HIS FACE? omg I can't with this story, it's so fucking infuriating that his family didnt do anything for him god damn
Honestly, you can find plenty of videos of completely sober (or at least lucid) people tanking tazers like they didn't even feel it. If it doesn't make a strong enough connection to shock them, it's basically just a small barb or two poking their skin.
@@Judgement_Kazzy I don’t think any connection would be strong enough, man had his arm bitten by a dog and he brutally maimed himself in an effort to get back to it. But yes very true
It's sad because it wasn't even the drugs, the underlying mental health conditions were exacerbated by the drugs in previous months. Even when he was off of them, mental health conditions are so misunderstood by the general public.
@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 Because of a very specific Floridian law, reporters and journalists cannot use a suspect's name in publications about most crimes or cases that have not gone to trial yet. Hence all the "Florida Man" or "Florida Woman" headlines
@@lilithium3940 iirc we also have a law requiring we publish all crimes, no matter how seemingly ridiculous. The two in tandem land you things like this, things like the pizza assault case (my birthday case lol,) the live gator in the pants and the deceased gator in the dorm, etc etc
As somebody who has dealt with/is dealing with severe anxiety and depression, as well as a personality disorder, I definitely recognize a lot of the early signs Austin was experiencing--dissociating, feelings of inadequacy, derealization, abrupt and severe mood/personality shifts, some symptoms of psychosis. To me this sounds like a really tragic story of a person who needed help EARLY ON so his symptoms could be treated before his condition escalated so severely. Please please find help if you're feeling any of these things, especially if you're a student. It's hard to feel these things in such a stressful environment, with so much pressure on you.
thanks for this comment. I recently have been having an anxiety OCD spike and was having trouble grounding myself. Reading your first sentence is helpful and grounding. All the best for us!
Ya I question my sanity and have definitely road the edges of psychosis and also can relate to this guys early symptoms. Don’t think I’d kill anyone tho, worse case senecio is I blow my brains out but I’m at peace with going out like that. Fun times, fun times
All the drugs he took fried his brain and twisted his anxiety and depression into a full blown schizophrenia. Especially those concentration drugs are really bad drugs and the reason the US has school shooters since they manipulated parents giving them to their children because they made it look like a problem if a kid can stay focused all the time which actually is quite normal to not be able to stay that concentrated. Especially at a young age.
The first time I had a psychotic episode- completely sober- my parents instantly had my ass baker acted lmfao. I (barely) remember sitting in the visitation room of the psychward with my sister and parents, and I kept hearing this clock on the wall saying my name, like "ai... den" instead of "tick... tock", and after a little bit of trying to hold it back, I finally pointed at the wall and asked my sister, "is that clock saying my name?", and she responded with "what clock?". . In the absolute scariest break I've had, I hallucinated my own friends coming into my room and ruthlessly beating me while holding me down to my bed- which was the first time I realized it's possible to hallucinate physical pain (in tactile hallucinations). Even taking antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, I still sometimes see things like shadowy figures jumping out in front of my car while I'm driving at night, and I'll have a split second to make the decision of whether I should slam on the brakes/swerve and risk crashing, or to keep going and risk actually hitting someone. I feel like people who haven't experienced psychosis or delirium have missed out on an entire plane existence that I have been forced to live in. To "normal" people my perception of reality is skewed, like there are visual and auditory hallucinations just pasted in front of my senses and there should be some way to know that they aren't real, but to me that is my reality. I've been convinced that I can mind control my cat, because she is obviously also bipolar and therefore I can sync up our manic episodes and influence her energy using my mania. It sounds so absurd in hindsight, but in the moment I didn't even question it. Not a single part of me thought "hey, that's fucking crazy and can't be real", it just was my reality. Anyways, I'm very glad my parents acted so quickly when I first started presenting symptoms of mental illness. My mom's dad was bipolar and died as a result of his mental health, which was the same fate his grandfather (my great grandfather) also faced. I was diagnosed with depression and general anxiety at the end of middle school, and then type 2 bipolar disorder, and eventually type 1 bipolar disorder with psychosis when I was 18, during my second or third visit to a psychiatric hospital (when the clock story took place, up until then I had been baker acted a couple of times for trying to hurt myself). Mental illness is fucking crazy. Psychosis is incomprehensible. The euphoria of certain stages of mania makes me despise the idea of taking my mood stabilizer and antipsychotic, but I know logically the risk of continuously not taking them are huge. But damn does that euphoria feel good, a better high than any drug alone can produce. God this is a long ass comment oopsiez swag
such a terrifying story, I hope you are doing ok. The brain is so hard to understand, so complex, and sooo many people don't care about mental health, it's horrifying
Glad im not the only one whos experienced these things. I hallucinate daily, and always have to double take. Im lucky, I dont have it very bad. The worst that mine gets is that sometimes somebody will walk up behind me, put their hand on my shoulder and ask me a question, then ill turn around to answer and nobody will be there, and i wont remember the question. What is this actually classified as when its a daily thing? Its not super obtrusive for me, and ive only had 1 real break
I blame the family 100%, his parents should be charged, not him, he's a victim in this situation. Imagine finding out you did some absolutely horrible stuff like that and having to live with it.
INSANE that this guy was able to do all that without any drugs and just literally being in a psychotic state. Something REALLY should have been done before he got this bad, oh my god. The best explanation for him not getting shot that I can think of is that they were worried they'd hit the guy he was EATING, but that might be giving cops too much benefit of the doubt :/
Yea it was said in the video they couldn’t get a clear shot and it would run the risk of shooting and killing the man on the ground, though you never know
thats exatcly why and i got pissed that people were blaming the cops for not stopping it sooner. this man was on top of a man from the very start and wouldn't stop it. honestly, i am glad they didn't because we would have never gotten austins point of view and have people realize their mental issues. the cops couldn't shoot because there was innocent people involved.
As someone who was a straight A student, that kind of pressure can for sure break you. Just a month before school ended I completely snapped. I became aggresive towards everyone that I locked myself inside my room to prevent outburst, I stopped eating 3 meals a day and barely ate on time, did nothing but stay in bed on my phone or cry and sleep. Stopped responding to my friends and distanced myself from them. At the time I was dealing with a lot but I didnt really have anyone to talk to about it, add that to the pressure of becoming consistent with my studies, I had to pretend I was okay when I was really mentally exhausted, and becoming more and more exhausted because I had to do a bunch of stuff with a smile on my face. It just happened so suddenly too, I was at home doing my homework, then all of a sudden I just started crying, threw everything off the bed and just cried there for hours until I fell asleep. Next day I didnt bother to get up, just laid there staring at the ceiling.
I went to a super competitive highschool and anything less than a 90% was considered a fail to us younglings...I'm STILL trying to break out of that mindset we had carved into our brains that you have to be the best, you have to compare yourself to others, you have to be giving your all... To anybody struggling in uni after being a straight A student: you're there to learn. Do you feel like you're learning? That is what you need to focus on. That is why you are there. That is all you need to do. Just learn. Think of small assignments and quizzes as side quests. They help you gain experience for the main storyline. I wrote this to myself as much as I wrote it for anybody else. Good luck!
I was a straight A student almost my whole education until high school. my mom would always tell people how good of a student i am and that my grades are amazing. and well covid had just hit at the time and i was recently in a car crash almost killing my mom. my grades dropped to failing, to where people were saying i was going to be held back. my mental state back then got so bad that i didn't even want to wake up to go to online school. it was as if my mind was always stuck in a anxiety attack. i would break down in the middle of class after getting a wrong answer and say that something is wrong with me. that my brain is broken. I'm still somewhat in that mind space but going much better. back then i was begging myself to admit into therapy but after my school talked about therapy that i ended up pushing through it myself. school can screw with your head. and when you have low self esteem it sucks. i don't think anyone in my life right now will ever understand what I went through but its a pain so bad that i hope no one around me feels.
You can tell whenever Ballen is talking about people who will die because he's always talking about them in the past tense. If anyone makes it out alive he mixes in present tense words.
32:35 From the way it was described, it sounds like they couldn’t shoot him while he was attacking the victim, because there was a high likelihood of injuring the victim as well, and once they have him off the victim, they didn’t have any need to shoot him, because he was in a situation where he could be detained easily without injury to others. It’s not the crime committed that dictates whether you are arrested or shot, it’s your actions while the police are in front of you.
^ exactly, $20 says that if they had a clean shot it would have been made rather then have him dragged off like they did. They didnt have a clean shot so they scrapped the idea but still had them drawn to be ready to fire if they did get that shot. If he lunged away at anyone else then Im 99.99% positive they would have used them. It doesnt matter about any of these perceived notions or any of this crap people try to play on cop shootings. Its what the situation was and how the actors of this situation played it out. These people aren't just going to shoot you for funnsies or no given right to use force, sure a few bad apples will sure but most of them are trained EXACTLY for high stress situations similar to this and will follow through with that training to a t.
@@Vfbmax1795 there are genuinely bad people in the world that are bad at their jobs, these cops were not them, the cops in this scenario did their job to the best of their ability and diffused the situation without use of lethal force, which should be the outcome of all situations like this unless it warrants lethal force, there are absolutely cases were lethal force has be used and it wasn’t necessary in any case that is NOT something we should pretend doesn’t happen.
As I said I believe these cops did their job and did everything down to a t and properly defused this situation in the best way possible and I’m just glad that most cases turn out this way not all but most
This is one of the saddest stories I've heard. It's hard for me to feel bad for attackers but I feel so bad for Austin, and so much more for the victims. He honestly just needed someone that cared about him. His parents didn't, friends or sister. Who ever was selling him the drugs really didn't care about him, I hope he wasn't buying from friends who laced his stuff. It happens a whole lot more then we think.
Denial of mental health, denial of drugs (almost always a SYMPTOM of underlying issue, NOT the cause). Parent's needed counseling for the denial before they could admit HE wasn't okay. Sad.
I honestly think the family was in denial. Idiotically, they don’t want to think that their son is crazy, or psychotic. My dad was like that. My sister told him she was depressed and anxious, and his reaction was “what are you depressed about? I give you anything you need and try my best to provide for you.” Instead of asking her what he could do to help or help her get mental health help. A family’s worst mistake is to be in denial about their kid’s mental health.
They were worried enough to lock the doors but they still didn't "take action"? Dang, why in the world?! I know they didn't know he'd been on shrooms, but guys, if your child is acting strange, don't ignore them! Good grades are nothing! Pay attention to them!
What upsets me most is all of this could've been avoided. It's not a case where the person seems normal and its a oh i would've never guessed he had issues. This guy was showing all the red flags, even the father recognizing something isn't right. Yet they never took him to get help. Those people would've still lived their happy lives, if one family took action rather than be so nonchalant about their son screaming about demons.
I think the punishment they can live with is knowing the basically let this happen and they lost their son. Hopefully this shows people that mental health is important
i feel he should be in jail but isolated. as for the parents, no one survived to sue them. unless jeff wanted to but he put himself in that situation so it wouldn't have been passed i feel.
@@neenayannelli2334 no, he should get treatment and go through rehabilitation. jail time would do nothing but make him worse. the prison system isn't equipped for people with mental illness; and he didn't even know what he was doing. cmon.
@@slowdives851 I'm not saying he shouldn't get treatment. But he should also be in jail. He killed people. Imo, it doesn't matter. If I was in a messed up mental state and killed people, I'd wanna be put in jail. Not saying treatment isn't the better route. I don't think I'd be able to live knowing I got free after killing people just because of mental illness.
@@neenayannelli2334 ?? you know there are mental facilities for people who have committed crimes right? if *you* would want to be put in jail, alright. but the fact is that if someone is mentally ill, and was incapable of knowing what they were doing, they shouldn't **deserve** to go to jail. they deserve treatment with heavy security. there is a difference between jail (rotting until your sentence is over, if ever) and attempted rehabilitation.
Austin was definitely going crazy but it looks like he just wanted to see if his loved ones would give him the attention he craved. Even with the police he had to tell them “Hey this is a bad thing I’m doing and you’re still just letting me do it.” especially being expected to be one of the best. Drugs and bad mental health don’t mix.
@@ΆγγελοςΜορίκης-ζ2ω Honestly they might’ve WANTED him to stop (weather it’s the cops or his family) but no one stopped him for the LOOONGEST. His family didn’t do much about his drug abuse or the psychosis he was going through. He literally had to say “I’m eating him and you won’t kill me” or something like (I watched this vid awhile back) I’m just saying there were way too many opportunities to stop him that were never taken.
@@KrucialKenn- cops only kill someone when their lives or someone’s live is in danger. John was already dead and bitting his face isn’t really a life threatening situation either, on the other hand when BLACKS resist arrest cops are forced to do what they have to do
My family made me feel that way. They pushed and pushed me to be one of those straight A students and it was so much pressure. Especially since I’m the first to graduate high school in my family and to not get pregnant at 14-17. Eventually I crashed and just had a breakdown. All I did was cry and destroy things. Luckily my family wasn’t mad and apologized for it. They helped me clean up my mess and they’re helping me through college. I love my family even if they can be difficult.
Chat sincerely pissed me off(well, some of them) with how readily they tried to shove it all to drugs. Drugs cannot explain the whole gamut of behavior, they probably exacerbated the problem but I have done drugs recreationally, with other people, and the one thing I can say is we all have different thresholds and reactions to certain substances. But no one just suddenly does one drug and goes insane, there's always some other underlying cause
"um guys i'm gonna move my bed into the garage because the house is full of demons + i'm immortal and half horse + i'm gonna test my immortality by walking into oncoming traffic + i'm drinkin straight vegetable oil and washing it down with parmesan cheese" and NO ONE thought that was stange
This is infuriating, not only for the victims, but also Austin, he was practically begging for help and his family just decided to ignore it. Ffs, the demon part was should already been enough for his parents to get professional help
I used to never study in high school and I was top 16 in my entire class, all advanced classes, in the STAR reading system in kindergarten (1995) tested me for reading comprehension it said I could read 12th grade books. When I got to college it sucked. I had zero ability to cope suddenly I was in an environment where I had to meet deadlines and gather information for myself outside of class. It wasn't all handed to me where all I had to do was remember it. So I can confirm that after three mental breakdowns 4 failed attempts to go to college it's not a good thing to be the smartest kid in class.
It's also been found that there's a family history of schizophrenia on his dad's side and he happened to be the general right age for schizophrenia to begin appearing in a man. The drugs exaserbated the issue and made it worse, faster. If he had gotten help sooner, none of this would have happened, and I stand by that 100%
I can see the family's thought process. It's like a dog you don’t like. Leave the front door open and it will run away and will no longer be your problem. You're not a bad person. It left on its own free will.
My cousin is severely schizophrenic and, while new studies have been showing this to be true, it's definitely: "You have the genes for it + the environment". I do feel bad for the sister because she probably had little power to do anything. Mine was a cousin, and because we have no guardianship over her it's almost impossible to get help, because we'd be blocked by people who do have guardianship over her. And I know with her mom there was always whitewashing and covering it up. Now she depends on the money she receives from the government for taking care of her daughter, so her daughter will remain in the same environment and never get the treatment she needs, while no one else can really help her because we have no rights when it comes to her and it's pretty damn hard to prove something like her mother being the problem to an outsider (when frankly, anyone you report to likely doesn't care that much). It really comes down to the parents.
while i agree that his parents put an extreme amount of pressure on austin, i would like to make note of the fact that schizophrenia usually appears in males during their early 20s. it is possible that this tragedy would still have happened without the academic stress, but hallucinogens and other drugs definitely did not help if he was burgeoning into a psychotic mindset. i do still think it is very irresponsible for his parents not to have him forcibly admitted, considering his prior actions, let alone just get him the bare minimum of a psychologist or therapist.
sad how this was completely preventable... also him having any recollection of the events especially considering his state is incredible. he was in organ failure and seemingly weeks or days into a psychotic break. how anyone would be able to comprehend anything through the psychotic haze and past the pain of your organs shutting down is beyond me and people really said he should’ve remembered more?
I understand the families of the victims want a heavy sentence but this kid need so much therapy and the parents are wholly responsible for this happening, at any stage that could have taken him to a psyc ward but didn’t. This was entirely preventable and on the parents. Obviously he did the act of killing those people but he was not in any state to be anywhere but a ward. This is so unbelievably upsetting
This was just, SO DUMB, as someone who went through the same thing as a kid MY parents IMMEDIATELY got me meds AND therapy. The meds work, and this could have all been prevented if this poor kids parents had just medicated him and gotten him therapy.
This story made me feel so sick. this is just all around a terrible situation. Like every bit every turn was just horrible the denial of his mental health, the lack of caring from his family and the gruesome murders that I feel like could have def been avoided if his parents gave a shit about his health.
I was one of those straight A students and honestly, a lot of issues that come from that would not happen if other people minded their own business. My parents never pressured me, but my classmates were really obnoxious about it.
lmao, this semester my dad's being like "if u don't get straight A's your out of the house" and by golly gosh if that isn't making my brain do some funky, funky shit
Before watching: I think its about the frat boy who killed another one by making him wayyy too drunk during a hazing. The really popular one where they dragged his body down the hall and let him die on the floor. Nope not it. Also Baker Act its very very expensive and made me just wanna die even more after receiving the bill
id really like to know if they just did a simple blood/urine test for drugs or if they also did a spinal tap, which is im pretty sure the only way to detect LSD in the body. i had a very similar experience to this when i took a fuck ton of acid and went to breakfast with a friend. i was already distraught and dissociating and just wanted to be happy so i took it. i don’t remember ever leaving my house that morning. ive been told i ran away from the restaurant after saying i was going to smoke, i ran a 30minute drive in an hour and i have no clue if i was on foot or if someone picked me up. they found me in a different city at a veterinary office trying to pet people and attacking them when they wouldn’t let me. i only came to in glimpses. sometimes i only had my sight but i couldn’t hear anything and sometimes i came to completely blind. everyone looked terrifying and i couldn’t tell if i was dreaming or if it was reality. acid paired with poor mental health management can very easily cause severe psychosis like this so it makes me wonder
Lsd actually only stays in your body for as long as you're actually high on it. The process of tripping itself is basically your body trying to flush it all out. Once you've sobered up from it, it's completely out of your system, but psychological effects can last
LSD doesnt go into your spine. Please stop spreading this "spinal tap" misinformation man. Also while we're talking about LSD, theres no such thing as retripping from popping your back, or being "perma fried"
@@zackcash4941 LSD is detectable in Urine, 2 hours after ingestion, and blood 8 hours after. There are tests for it, but theyre way more expensive than theyre worth so most places wont test for it, especially since the window for catching it is basically "are they tripping balls still?"
@@zeallust8542 yeah it just makes some things more believable and if you go into psychosis while on it, you end up just embracing it thinking nothing is wrong. It’s not really the LSD doing that, it’s more bringing out a problem that was already there.
I was starting to shut down mentally from a horrible work environment that I endured 4 years of verbal abuse to find a good job out of the blue and my mental health has been so good after quitting the toxic job. I haven't cried in my car, I have been able to go back on my meds for ADHD (because my new check is insanely good) and I haven't had a breakdown in those 3 weeks!! Mood swings are WAY less violent and I haven't had any "unalive" thoughts since either!!! Taking care of your mental stability is so important. I was starting to scare my family because I was spending all of my money, my impulsivity was getting to where it would become a little violent, and my mood swings would go from happy to raging mad over anything in a 5 second span. My husband almost 5150d me but thankfully I had a bad heart scare and my ER doc was able to give me a 2 week leave that really helped. After that, a new job presented itself and I've been back to my medicated, HAPPY, normal. I see my therapist in 3 months after my health insurance clears it and I can get help for my BPD as well.
I’m from palm beach county this happened when I was young and I remembered everybody saying “oh he was a crazy drug head” I had no idea the entire story
Sounds like a manic episode with psychotic features. Delusions of grandeur and invulnerability are a little more common in manic episodes with psychotic features than schizophrenia.
I had a friend who had parents that pressured her to get perfect grades all the time. It was so bad that if she didn’t get an A+ she would break down and had to be pulled out of class.
Nick Crowley just made a new video about darkest channels (the sixth one) where this story is presented. I thought some of the stills from the Nick Crowley vid looked familiar until I remembered the thumbnail for this one. Hope when you react to that Nick vid that you release it to UA-cam
@@SamanthaSmith-mw7hi Unfortunately, my parents are making me pay to live with them, so I have no money to use towards moving out, a new car, or college atm.
Dude his family made him call Dr Phil lmfao what the fuck is wrong with them???? I wish his family could be charged for neglect as it was VERY apparent they knew he had issues mentally and needed help and he never got.... Holy shit.. All this failure that caused two people to die??? What...
Thanks for this reaction video. I recently have been having an anxiety OCD spike and was having trouble grounding myself. Reading the comments was helpful and grounding. Actually this whole video was helping in bits. I was worried about psychosis but my psychologist and psychiatrist ruled it out as it was more to do with heavy OCD. I wish all the best for anyone going through such things. Please try and remember that it's only the 'lower level' thinking being dominated as in this condition, access to 'higher level' cognitive functions (eg rational thinking) is severely blocked. Hoping to become a registered psychologist one day to assist others.
oh and on the grades thing, my parents give us money for grades. That way we WANT an A or a B or a C, etc. Now that I'm in college, I get a decent chunk of money for my grades and sometimes a separate item that I've been wanting, like furniture or this semester, my dad promised me if I got all A's and B's I would get a mini dishwasher since depression and hand washing dishes do not go hand in hand.
its a rough life, when i was growing up i would abuse drugs at a really young age because of my parents trying to control my life so badly. I can see how its very easy to fall down the path if your family just abandons you and you feel like all you have is yourself. His parents could have prevented so much pain if they just actually gave a fuck.
I don't know if you know this, but Austin was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He's been committed to a psychiatric facility indefinitely. It's such a sad and frustrating story.
wth dude... if I said I see demons, or I take drugs and act weird or jump into traffic, my parents would be crazy worried and take me to a doctor asap. What is wrong with all these people?? And the court actually considered the death penalty?? This guy is clearly sick and his family couldn't care less... sad story man.
In case people forgot or didn't see the trial, well, because there was no trial. Both prosecution and defense team both agreed that he Austin is insane and the judge declared not guilty due to reasons of insanity
Sometime around April of 2023 I was going through psychosis. I had just been released from the pych ward (I was there due to suicidal thoughts) and they had given me some meds that kinda messed me up for a bit. I’m really sensitive to meds since I’m autistic, and they started to make me hallucinate and hear things. I was convinced that someone was stalking me and looking through my window, it was horrifying. I remeber locking myself in my room with my curtains closed for weeks because I thought the “stalker” was trying to kill me. I’m so glad I’m better now and I’ve found the right meds, take mental health seriously guys.
In the photos his smile is very tight and his eyes are vacant. You can’t always tell from photos but it’s very obvious here. Very sad story, bet he knew that his parents would never help him, so he was just trying to hold it in until he finally reached the day where it got so bad that he lost it. Preventative measures are possible people, waiting until your child is beyond help is abuse.
He was trying to self medicate with drugs and it's so sad the parents thought just getting him drug free was gonna fix everything. Lots of people with health issues use to drugs bc "reality" is so scary. He needed real help
When you have great intelligence you have to deal with that and you can't really think cause you get depressed from thinking about everything I realize that the beginning of this it hard to say.
Imagine walking in on your son drink olive oil straight from the bottle when he’s not supposed to be home and not only let him walk out of the house but getting in your car and going somewhere completely different instead of following him to make sure he’s ok. 🙃 Insanity 😱
When the moment of realization hits too hard... Fun Fact About Me - I had a hyper case of ADHD and I was prescribed Methylphenidate by my doctor. It helped me focus on my studies. Am I the ONLY ONE who got Resident Evil 1 flashbacks with the zombie eating the dude's cheek?!? Another Fun/Horrifying Fact - I ACTUALLY saw a kid from my swimming class, try to eat one of my best friend's neck!!! That's how I know this mental illness. It was a terrifying experience. He still jumps at any sign of surprise...
This is why I don't live alone. I suffer from depression, anxiety and ptsd and my mom allows me to live with her and her fiance as long as I let her know when I leave and where I am and help out around the house and pay rent. I lived by myself before and it was terrifying. Especially when the apartment complex was known to have a bad history. I would be so paranoid that someone ( at time I had a ex who was obsessed and scared me so bad that I stopped online dating) was going to break or sneak in so I would push a table to the patio door and push the couch to slightly block the front door. And one time my mom came home from shopping and I was home and she asked why I locked the front door, noones gonna try to sneak in or steal anything... 😑 and she watches crime documentaries!! I would hope she'd be just as cautious.
I'm sure it's already been said several times, but "take him to a doctor!!!" does not apply to legal adults. you have to consent to that shit, it isn't like a parent neglecting to take a toddler to a pediatrician. I can say this as someone was institutionalized (via handcuffs by the police) after years of my parents begging me to get help and offering to pay for it. It wasn't on them, it was on me. They couldn't "take me to the doctor". Institutionalization was after a partner made the hard decision i was a threat to myself and others.
Also, by "call a doctor" what you are really saying is, "call the police on your adult son" ETA: you can't "take" an unwilling adult to a doctor. You really think the parents are going to say, "get in the car or your Playstation is going to be taken away"? You cannot force an adult to get psychiatric help, my guy. You can't. It's either their decision to oblige or force via cops.
thank you for bringing up the pressure of high expectations on ‘gifted’ kids. after being told i was 2nd in a class of 1,250, i ended up being 5th and it felt like someone kicked me in the balls and stole all of my savings. not only does the expectation come from everyone around you, that ideal becomes a part of your identity, and when you can’t meet it, it feels like a moral failing
the reason, that the responding officers give, as to why they didn't shoot austin when he was on top of john was because they didn't want the bullet(s) to go through and hurt or kill john..
I mean they literally said in the video they would’ve shot him at first it had the chance but there wasn’t a shot due to the person being on top of another person the didn’t have the shot
As a person who almost got sent to a psych ward a couple of times due to psychotic episodes and depression, I can't help but just feel bad for this guy. It just feels too close to home. I have so much luck to have supportive parents who looked for professional help when they noticed I was acting weird. People who don't suffer from what the guy in the video and I suffer will never understand how bad we feel after we do stuff we normally wouldn't... Most of the times when I have panic attacks is due to feeling bad/guilty for things I do when I lose all reason and can't think straight. Not even my close friends believe me when I say it wasn't -me-
Watching this was so incredibly scary as I apparently have a high IQ with a brain that doesn't process well giving me things like the obsessives thoughts and feeling crazy. I would think this guy is the same way. I have been in the emergency room twice for it, and I'm only 16. It causes things like schizophrenia, sensory processing disorders, and ALOT more. Part of this ADHD and OCD which I take Vyvanse for. I feel AMAZING when I'm on Vyvanse but the second I'm off of it I fell much more irritable and I have to lock myself in my room. Im going to get help tomorrow, but the last few years I've been an actual danger to myself and my family. I was forced to quit my job even though I wasn't being treated badly or anything and the working conditions were fine, I could barley go 4 hours without having a breakdown. I found myself multiple times one day raising my fist to punch my manager, the sweetest lady and my favorite coworker and I dont even know why. This life is scary and I haven't watched the full video yet, but I already feel for the mental health crisis this guy is going through. Shoutout to the McDonald's on Goshen in Visalia, they let me walk out of the store so many times when I was having issues and I'm sorry I had to quit which they even made easy for me. Good working conditions, only 2 coworkers I genuinely disliked (One of them was a middle school bully) and they never put my in a place to serve customers because of some social issues apart from me being batshit crazy lol. If you live in Visalia and can get there, apply. It was easy, and they are always looking for new people. Also, they pay $15 an hour which is pretty damn good lol. (Sorry for the really long rant)
Also, my parents, like these parents. Ignored my clear signs of mental illness. I barely ate, spent all my time in my room loudly crying, preformed very poorly in school, and had no friends. I had also been self harming for years (and they knew). Some parents just dont give a fuck.
Can speak from experience, one time I had so much pressure on me to get good grades, mostly my own fault, that I had a mental breakdown in my room when I got an F on a math test, pressure can break you.
He was trying to walk into traffic youd think his family and friends would at LEAST have an eye on him so he doesnt walk out of the restaurant
Yeah I kept thinking he was going to get hit by a car when he left the restaurant
Thats what I was thinking
@@CheerUp2 Ironically, that would have been probably for the best
nice Remus pfp 👌
I thought he was going to go kill his mother until I got to the part of the random couple, then I remembered who Austin was.
The parents should be charged, as well. They ignored their child's mental health for so long that it came to what happened. Those parents should absolutely be fucking ashamed.
Wow, if the parents just got him help when he first showed signs of possible psychosis (the demons) they could have prevented this whole situation.
If u watch a deep dive in it there’s even MORE strange things the parents choose to ignore
they indirectly caused all this pain, what the fuck is wrong with them?
What're you talking about? He was a legal adult. It's incredibly difficult to get someone forced into therapy. Even if you could get a 5150 or whatever the parents were trying to do, it's usually very traumatic for the person. And you absolutely cannot force them to actually take therapy seriously and try. They were in a very tough situation. Just like family members of addicts. You have no good options and it's ultimately on the person afflicted to put the work in
@@heatherlynn4652 yeah, except the person themselves said several times that they need help. Idk what the parents were thinking, when it was that obvious. When a person is mentally unstable, it's not a good thing to trust them to make rational decisions.
@@heatherlynn4652 it’s still their son. They saw him do all this shit and he even said he needed help.
THE TAZER DIDN'T DO ANYTHING? HE ATE HIS FACE? omg I can't with this story, it's so fucking infuriating that his family didnt do anything for him god damn
I know right!?
Honestly, you can find plenty of videos of completely sober (or at least lucid) people tanking tazers like they didn't even feel it.
If it doesn't make a strong enough connection to shock them, it's basically just a small barb or two poking their skin.
@@Judgement_Kazzy I don’t think any connection would be strong enough, man had his arm bitten by a dog and he brutally maimed himself in an effort to get back to it. But yes very true
Parents: Do you use drugs son?
Son: Yes, ALL OF THEM (PLEASE HELP ME and be my parents)
Parents: Guess it's the drugs. (Can't be us)
It's sad because it wasn't even the drugs, the underlying mental health conditions were exacerbated by the drugs in previous months. Even when he was off of them, mental health conditions are so misunderstood by the general public.
His father asking "What's wrong with you?" might've made Austin finally snap.
"Uh, Mom, there's demons in the house, I'm gonna keep my bed in the garage."
"Okay honey"
I love the chat immediately saying "Oh, of COURSE it's a florida man"
Is Florida REALLY that controversial?? xD
This shit is still depressing though ngl. 😞
@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 Because of a very specific Floridian law, reporters and journalists cannot use a suspect's name in publications about most crimes or cases that have not gone to trial yet. Hence all the "Florida Man" or "Florida Woman" headlines
I love the chat being like "why don't they just shoot him lol" when he is literally right on top of the innocent victim
@@lilithium3940 iirc we also have a law requiring we publish all crimes, no matter how seemingly ridiculous. The two in tandem land you things like this, things like the pizza assault case (my birthday case lol,) the live gator in the pants and the deceased gator in the dorm, etc etc
@@luci_datum you'd think they wouldnt wanna publicize all this ridiculousness in case it inspires copycats
As somebody who has dealt with/is dealing with severe anxiety and depression, as well as a personality disorder, I definitely recognize a lot of the early signs Austin was experiencing--dissociating, feelings of inadequacy, derealization, abrupt and severe mood/personality shifts, some symptoms of psychosis. To me this sounds like a really tragic story of a person who needed help EARLY ON so his symptoms could be treated before his condition escalated so severely. Please please find help if you're feeling any of these things, especially if you're a student. It's hard to feel these things in such a stressful environment, with so much pressure on you.
thanks for this comment. I recently have been having an anxiety OCD spike and was having trouble grounding myself. Reading your first sentence is helpful and grounding. All the best for us!
Yeah sounds hard I always make sure i never go into depression and things like that than it's hard to get out or it.
Ya I question my sanity and have definitely road the edges of psychosis and also can relate to this guys early symptoms. Don’t think I’d kill anyone tho, worse case senecio is I blow my brains out but I’m at peace with going out like that. Fun times, fun times
Bite John’s face
All the drugs he took fried his brain and twisted his anxiety and depression into a full blown schizophrenia. Especially those concentration drugs are really bad drugs and the reason the US has school shooters since they manipulated parents giving them to their children because they made it look like a problem if a kid can stay focused all the time which actually is quite normal to not be able to stay that concentrated.
Especially at a young age.
The first time I had a psychotic episode- completely sober- my parents instantly had my ass baker acted lmfao. I (barely) remember sitting in the visitation room of the psychward with my sister and parents, and I kept hearing this clock on the wall saying my name, like "ai... den" instead of "tick... tock", and after a little bit of trying to hold it back, I finally pointed at the wall and asked my sister, "is that clock saying my name?", and she responded with "what clock?". . In the absolute scariest break I've had, I hallucinated my own friends coming into my room and ruthlessly beating me while holding me down to my bed- which was the first time I realized it's possible to hallucinate physical pain (in tactile hallucinations). Even taking antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, I still sometimes see things like shadowy figures jumping out in front of my car while I'm driving at night, and I'll have a split second to make the decision of whether I should slam on the brakes/swerve and risk crashing, or to keep going and risk actually hitting someone. I feel like people who haven't experienced psychosis or delirium have missed out on an entire plane existence that I have been forced to live in. To "normal" people my perception of reality is skewed, like there are visual and auditory hallucinations just pasted in front of my senses and there should be some way to know that they aren't real, but to me that is my reality. I've been convinced that I can mind control my cat, because she is obviously also bipolar and therefore I can sync up our manic episodes and influence her energy using my mania. It sounds so absurd in hindsight, but in the moment I didn't even question it. Not a single part of me thought "hey, that's fucking crazy and can't be real", it just was my reality.
Anyways, I'm very glad my parents acted so quickly when I first started presenting symptoms of mental illness. My mom's dad was bipolar and died as a result of his mental health, which was the same fate his grandfather (my great grandfather) also faced. I was diagnosed with depression and general anxiety at the end of middle school, and then type 2 bipolar disorder, and eventually type 1 bipolar disorder with psychosis when I was 18, during my second or third visit to a psychiatric hospital (when the clock story took place, up until then I had been baker acted a couple of times for trying to hurt myself).
Mental illness is fucking crazy. Psychosis is incomprehensible. The euphoria of certain stages of mania makes me despise the idea of taking my mood stabilizer and antipsychotic, but I know logically the risk of continuously not taking them are huge. But damn does that euphoria feel good, a better high than any drug alone can produce.
God this is a long ass comment
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such a terrifying story, I hope you are doing ok. The brain is so hard to understand, so complex, and sooo many people don't care about mental health, it's horrifying
I’m so sorry:( thank you for sharing and I hope you’re doing as well as you can 💕
Glad im not the only one whos experienced these things. I hallucinate daily, and always have to double take. Im lucky, I dont have it very bad. The worst that mine gets is that sometimes somebody will walk up behind me, put their hand on my shoulder and ask me a question, then ill turn around to answer and nobody will be there, and i wont remember the question.
What is this actually classified as when its a daily thing? Its not super obtrusive for me, and ive only had 1 real break
So sorry to hear that. 😟
I hope youre doing alright, i cant begim to imagine how painful it was, wish you the best dude
Austin: I'm protecting you from the demons!!!
The Parents: Just lock him out of the bedroom. It's fine.
I blame the family 100%, his parents should be charged, not him, he's a victim in this situation.
Imagine finding out you did some absolutely horrible stuff like that and having to live with it.
Im sorry but that is absolutely retarded
@@absolutebackfire191 how, he literally had no clue of what he was doing. His mental state was deteriorated and his family did nothing
Um, his parents weren’t the ones eating people
@@arthurmorgan1128 um, his parents were the ones ignoring his psychotic breaks and refusing to get help until someone got hurt.
@@Powersd451 yeah imagine being the guy who was eaten and seeing Austin just out and free. He should be in an asylum getting help but still locked up
INSANE that this guy was able to do all that without any drugs and just literally being in a psychotic state. Something REALLY should have been done before he got this bad, oh my god.
The best explanation for him not getting shot that I can think of is that they were worried they'd hit the guy he was EATING, but that might be giving cops too much benefit of the doubt :/
Yea it was said in the video they couldn’t get a clear shot and it would run the risk of shooting and killing the man on the ground, though you never know
thats exatcly why and i got pissed that people were blaming the cops for not stopping it sooner. this man was on top of a man from the very start and wouldn't stop it. honestly, i am glad they didn't because we would have never gotten austins point of view and have people realize their mental issues. the cops couldn't shoot because there was innocent people involved.
Honestly chat is always stupid
Take a shot every time they should've called a damn doctor.
Do I take a shot for every day of that summer? Because if so I'll have to call a doctor as well.
if u did this u wouldn’t know what “taking a shot” meant by the end of it.
you’d have to call a doctor for yourself if you attempted this
The fact that no one took him to the hospital or even called authorities for his and others safety is disgusting to me
As someone who was a straight A student, that kind of pressure can for sure break you.
Just a month before school ended I completely snapped. I became aggresive towards everyone that I locked myself inside my room to prevent outburst, I stopped eating 3 meals a day and barely ate on time, did nothing but stay in bed on my phone or cry and sleep. Stopped responding to my friends and distanced myself from them.
At the time I was dealing with a lot but I didnt really have anyone to talk to about it, add that to the pressure of becoming consistent with my studies, I had to pretend I was okay when I was really mentally exhausted, and becoming more and more exhausted because I had to do a bunch of stuff with a smile on my face.
It just happened so suddenly too, I was at home doing my homework, then all of a sudden I just started crying, threw everything off the bed and just cried there for hours until I fell asleep. Next day I didnt bother to get up, just laid there staring at the ceiling.
I went to a super competitive highschool and anything less than a 90% was considered a fail to us younglings...I'm STILL trying to break out of that mindset we had carved into our brains that you have to be the best, you have to compare yourself to others, you have to be giving your all...
To anybody struggling in uni after being a straight A student: you're there to learn. Do you feel like you're learning? That is what you need to focus on. That is why you are there. That is all you need to do. Just learn. Think of small assignments and quizzes as side quests. They help you gain experience for the main storyline.
I wrote this to myself as much as I wrote it for anybody else.
Good luck!
I was a straight A student almost my whole education until high school. my mom would always tell people how good of a student i am and that my grades are amazing. and well covid had just hit at the time and i was recently in a car crash almost killing my mom. my grades dropped to failing, to where people were saying i was going to be held back. my mental state back then got so bad that i didn't even want to wake up to go to online school. it was as if my mind was always stuck in a anxiety attack. i would break down in the middle of class after getting a wrong answer and say that something is wrong with me. that my brain is broken. I'm still somewhat in that mind space but going much better. back then i was begging myself to admit into therapy but after my school talked about therapy that i ended up pushing through it myself. school can screw with your head. and when you have low self esteem it sucks. i don't think anyone in my life right now will ever understand what I went through but its a pain so bad that i hope no one around me feels.
I love his sadness at the beginning being timed with the naruto music.
And the song is literally titled "Sadness and Sorrow" lol
He couldn't handle being cringe
You can tell whenever Ballen is talking about people who will die because he's always talking about them in the past tense. If anyone makes it out alive he mixes in present tense words.
32:35
From the way it was described, it sounds like they couldn’t shoot him while he was attacking the victim, because there was a high likelihood of injuring the victim as well, and once they have him off the victim, they didn’t have any need to shoot him, because he was in a situation where he could be detained easily without injury to others.
It’s not the crime committed that dictates whether you are arrested or shot, it’s your actions while the police are in front of you.
Exactly but of course pig immediately jumped to "oh its because he's rich and white that they didn't shoot him"
^ exactly, $20 says that if they had a clean shot it would have been made rather then have him dragged off like they did. They didnt have a clean shot so they scrapped the idea but still had them drawn to be ready to fire if they did get that shot. If he lunged away at anyone else then Im 99.99% positive they would have used them. It doesnt matter about any of these perceived notions or any of this crap people try to play on cop shootings. Its what the situation was and how the actors of this situation played it out. These people aren't just going to shoot you for funnsies or no given right to use force, sure a few bad apples will sure but most of them are trained EXACTLY for high stress situations similar to this and will follow through with that training to a t.
@@Vfbmax1795 there are genuinely bad people in the world that are bad at their jobs, these cops were not them, the cops in this scenario did their job to the best of their ability and diffused the situation without use of lethal force, which should be the outcome of all situations like this unless it warrants lethal force, there are absolutely cases were lethal force has be used and it wasn’t necessary in any case that is NOT something we should pretend doesn’t happen.
As I said I believe these cops did their job and did everything down to a t and properly defused this situation in the best way possible and I’m just glad that most cases turn out this way not all but most
@@vsclsvr I never said that they did a bad one here. I was agreeing with OP
This is one of the saddest stories I've heard. It's hard for me to feel bad for attackers but I feel so bad for Austin, and so much more for the victims. He honestly just needed someone that cared about him. His parents didn't, friends or sister. Who ever was selling him the drugs really didn't care about him, I hope he wasn't buying from friends who laced his stuff. It happens a whole lot more then we think.
Denial of mental health, denial of drugs (almost always a SYMPTOM of underlying issue, NOT the cause). Parent's needed counseling for the denial before they could admit HE wasn't okay.
Sad.
I honestly think the family was in denial. Idiotically, they don’t want to think that their son is crazy, or psychotic. My dad was like that. My sister told him she was depressed and anxious, and his reaction was “what are you depressed about? I give you anything you need and try my best to provide for you.” Instead of asking her what he could do to help or help her get mental health help. A family’s worst mistake is to be in denial about their kid’s mental health.
They were worried enough to lock the doors but they still didn't "take action"?
Dang, why in the world?!
I know they didn't know he'd been on shrooms, but guys, if your child is acting strange, don't ignore them!
Good grades are nothing! Pay attention to them!
What upsets me most is all of this could've been avoided. It's not a case where the person seems normal and its a oh i would've never guessed he had issues. This guy was showing all the red flags, even the father recognizing something isn't right. Yet they never took him to get help. Those people would've still lived their happy lives, if one family took action rather than be so nonchalant about their son screaming about demons.
I don’t think he should go to jail for obvious reasons, however is it possible to punish the parents for this in anyway?
I think the punishment they can live with is knowing the basically let this happen and they lost their son. Hopefully this shows people that mental health is important
i feel he should be in jail but isolated. as for the parents, no one survived to sue them. unless jeff wanted to but he put himself in that situation so it wouldn't have been passed i feel.
@@neenayannelli2334 no, he should get treatment and go through rehabilitation. jail time would do nothing but make him worse. the prison system isn't equipped for people with mental illness; and he didn't even know what he was doing. cmon.
@@slowdives851 I'm not saying he shouldn't get treatment. But he should also be in jail. He killed people. Imo, it doesn't matter. If I was in a messed up mental state and killed people, I'd wanna be put in jail. Not saying treatment isn't the better route. I don't think I'd be able to live knowing I got free after killing people just because of mental illness.
@@neenayannelli2334 ?? you know there are mental facilities for people who have committed crimes right? if *you* would want to be put in jail, alright. but the fact is that if someone is mentally ill, and was incapable of knowing what they were doing, they shouldn't **deserve** to go to jail. they deserve treatment with heavy security. there is a difference between jail (rotting until your sentence is over, if ever) and attempted rehabilitation.
Austin was definitely going crazy but it looks like he just wanted to see if his loved ones would give him the attention he craved. Even with the police he had to tell them “Hey this is a bad thing I’m doing and you’re still just letting me do it.” especially being expected to be one of the best. Drugs and bad mental health don’t mix.
you think they werent already trying to stop him?
@@ΆγγελοςΜορίκης-ζ2ω Honestly they might’ve WANTED him to stop (weather it’s the cops or his family) but no one stopped him for the LOOONGEST. His family didn’t do much about his drug abuse or the psychosis he was going through. He literally had to say “I’m eating him and you won’t kill me” or something like (I watched this vid awhile back) I’m just saying there were way too many opportunities to stop him that were never taken.
@@KrucialKenn- cops only kill someone when their lives or someone’s live is in danger. John was already dead and bitting his face isn’t really a life threatening situation either, on the other hand when BLACKS resist arrest cops are forced to do what they have to do
My family made me feel that way. They pushed and pushed me to be one of those straight A students and it was so much pressure. Especially since I’m the first to graduate high school in my family and to not get pregnant at 14-17. Eventually I crashed and just had a breakdown. All I did was cry and destroy things. Luckily my family wasn’t mad and apologized for it. They helped me clean up my mess and they’re helping me through college. I love my family even if they can be difficult.
Chat sincerely pissed me off(well, some of them) with how readily they tried to shove it all to drugs. Drugs cannot explain the whole gamut of behavior, they probably exacerbated the problem but I have done drugs recreationally, with other people, and the one thing I can say is we all have different thresholds and reactions to certain substances. But no one just suddenly does one drug and goes insane, there's always some other underlying cause
Always. Drugs bring out the problems that already exist.
"um guys i'm gonna move my bed into the garage because the house is full of demons + i'm immortal and half horse + i'm gonna test my immortality by walking into oncoming traffic + i'm drinkin straight vegetable oil and washing it down with parmesan cheese" and NO ONE thought that was stange
This is infuriating, not only for the victims, but also Austin, he was practically begging for help and his family just decided to ignore it.
Ffs, the demon part was should already been enough for his parents to get professional help
I used to never study in high school and I was top 16 in my entire class, all advanced classes, in the STAR reading system in kindergarten (1995) tested me for reading comprehension it said I could read 12th grade books. When I got to college it sucked. I had zero ability to cope suddenly I was in an environment where I had to meet deadlines and gather information for myself outside of class. It wasn't all handed to me where all I had to do was remember it. So I can confirm that after three mental breakdowns 4 failed attempts to go to college it's not a good thing to be the smartest kid in class.
Literally same thing for me. 😞
Fammmmm....
It's also been found that there's a family history of schizophrenia on his dad's side and he happened to be the general right age for schizophrenia to begin appearing in a man. The drugs exaserbated the issue and made it worse, faster. If he had gotten help sooner, none of this would have happened, and I stand by that 100%
I literally have chills after hearing this, so messed up in so many ways.
the “STOP giving details of their lives i don’t need to know that” 🤣 felt that
I can see the family's thought process. It's like a dog you don’t like. Leave the front door open and it will run away and will no longer be your problem.
You're not a bad person. It left on its own free will.
Damn I’ve never seen someone display such obvious symptoms of Schizophrenia/Bipolar and literally get no help
My cousin is severely schizophrenic and, while new studies have been showing this to be true, it's definitely: "You have the genes for it + the environment".
I do feel bad for the sister because she probably had little power to do anything. Mine was a cousin, and because we have no guardianship over her it's almost impossible to get help, because we'd be blocked by people who do have guardianship over her. And I know with her mom there was always whitewashing and covering it up.
Now she depends on the money she receives from the government for taking care of her daughter, so her daughter will remain in the same environment and never get the treatment she needs, while no one else can really help her because we have no rights when it comes to her and it's pretty damn hard to prove something like her mother being the problem to an outsider (when frankly, anyone you report to likely doesn't care that much).
It really comes down to the parents.
while i agree that his parents put an extreme amount of pressure on austin, i would like to make note of the fact that schizophrenia usually appears in males during their early 20s. it is possible that this tragedy would still have happened without the academic stress, but hallucinogens and other drugs definitely did not help if he was burgeoning into a psychotic mindset. i do still think it is very irresponsible for his parents not to have him forcibly admitted, considering his prior actions, let alone just get him the bare minimum of a psychologist or therapist.
sad how this was completely preventable...
also him having any recollection of the events especially considering his state is incredible. he was in organ failure and seemingly weeks or days into a psychotic break. how anyone would be able to comprehend anything through the psychotic haze and past the pain of your organs shutting down is beyond me and people really said he should’ve remembered more?
I understand the families of the victims want a heavy sentence but this kid need so much therapy and the parents are wholly responsible for this happening, at any stage that could have taken him to a psyc ward but didn’t. This was entirely preventable and on the parents. Obviously he did the act of killing those people but he was not in any state to be anywhere but a ward. This is so unbelievably upsetting
This was just, SO DUMB, as someone who went through the same thing as a kid MY parents IMMEDIATELY got me meds AND therapy. The meds work, and this could have all been prevented if this poor kids parents had just medicated him and gotten him therapy.
This story made me feel so sick. this is just all around a terrible situation. Like every bit every turn was just horrible the denial of his mental health, the lack of caring from his family and the gruesome murders that I feel like could have def been avoided if his parents gave a shit about his health.
I was one of those straight A students and honestly, a lot of issues that come from that would not happen if other people minded their own business. My parents never pressured me, but my classmates were really obnoxious about it.
lmao, this semester my dad's being like "if u don't get straight A's your out of the house" and by golly gosh if that isn't making my brain do some funky, funky shit
i’d probably turn into a zombie too if i had such a shit family dear lord this is one of the most preventable cases ever
32:50 because the cops dont want to blast the victim near him as well
Before watching: I think its about the frat boy who killed another one by making him wayyy too drunk during a hazing. The really popular one where they dragged his body down the hall and let him die on the floor.
Nope not it. Also Baker Act its very very expensive and made me just wanna die even more after receiving the bill
had to leave early during this stream so I didn't see how this ended, it's so so so much worse than I thought when I was in chat oh god
this could have been completely prevented. those parents and family members didn't give a single shit about their kid.
id really like to know if they just did a simple blood/urine test for drugs or if they also did a spinal tap, which is im pretty sure the only way to detect LSD in the body. i had a very similar experience to this when i took a fuck ton of acid and went to breakfast with a friend. i was already distraught and dissociating and just wanted to be happy so i took it. i don’t remember ever leaving my house that morning. ive been told i ran away from the restaurant after saying i was going to smoke, i ran a 30minute drive in an hour and i have no clue if i was on foot or if someone picked me up. they found me in a different city at a veterinary office trying to pet people and attacking them when they wouldn’t let me. i only came to in glimpses. sometimes i only had my sight but i couldn’t hear anything and sometimes i came to completely blind. everyone looked terrifying and i couldn’t tell if i was dreaming or if it was reality. acid paired with poor mental health management can very easily cause severe psychosis like this so it makes me wonder
LSD doesn't go to your spine. It leaves the body completely in a day and is too small to have any tests that can detect it.
Lsd actually only stays in your body for as long as you're actually high on it. The process of tripping itself is basically your body trying to flush it all out. Once you've sobered up from it, it's completely out of your system, but psychological effects can last
LSD doesnt go into your spine. Please stop spreading this "spinal tap" misinformation man.
Also while we're talking about LSD, theres no such thing as retripping from popping your back, or being "perma fried"
@@zackcash4941 LSD is detectable in Urine, 2 hours after ingestion, and blood 8 hours after. There are tests for it, but theyre way more expensive than theyre worth so most places wont test for it, especially since the window for catching it is basically "are they tripping balls still?"
@@zeallust8542 yeah it just makes some things more believable and if you go into psychosis while on it, you end up just embracing it thinking nothing is wrong. It’s not really the LSD doing that, it’s more bringing out a problem that was already there.
I was starting to shut down mentally from a horrible work environment that I endured 4 years of verbal abuse to find a good job out of the blue and my mental health has been so good after quitting the toxic job. I haven't cried in my car, I have been able to go back on my meds for ADHD (because my new check is insanely good) and I haven't had a breakdown in those 3 weeks!! Mood swings are WAY less violent and I haven't had any "unalive" thoughts since either!!! Taking care of your mental stability is so important. I was starting to scare my family because I was spending all of my money, my impulsivity was getting to where it would become a little violent, and my mood swings would go from happy to raging mad over anything in a 5 second span. My husband almost 5150d me but thankfully I had a bad heart scare and my ER doc was able to give me a 2 week leave that really helped. After that, a new job presented itself and I've been back to my medicated, HAPPY, normal. I see my therapist in 3 months after my health insurance clears it and I can get help for my BPD as well.
I 100% blame the parents and have no problems doing so
I’m from palm beach county this happened when I was young and I remembered everybody saying “oh he was a crazy drug head” I had no idea the entire story
This guy was only tased?? Nowadays people are mag dumped over an acorn….
Also I like how some in the chat said, “it’s nuts” 💀
His family really let him down. Holy fuck.
Sounds like a manic episode with psychotic features. Delusions of grandeur and invulnerability are a little more common in manic episodes with psychotic features than schizophrenia.
I had a friend who had parents that pressured her to get perfect grades all the time. It was so bad that if she didn’t get an A+ she would break down and had to be pulled out of class.
This is really freaking tragic, but ngl, I kinda chuckled when the captions said "real artistic representation of a werewolf"
Worst parents ever I feel so bad for him nobody seems to care
The ending song is always so good to hear
Parents will literally do anything but admit their kid has a mental issue
Yassss the nature of soundtrack as background music gotta love it
"we're gonna watch something funny after that"
youtube: ಥ_ಥ
Nick Crowley just made a new video about darkest channels (the sixth one) where this story is presented. I thought some of the stills from the Nick Crowley vid looked familiar until I remembered the thumbnail for this one. Hope when you react to that Nick vid that you release it to UA-cam
I lock the door to my room so my crazy parents don’t walk in during the night.
I used to do that when I lived with my crazy family, so glad I moved it was a nightmare...
@@SamanthaSmith-mw7hi Unfortunately, my parents are making me pay to live with them, so I have no money to use towards moving out, a new car, or college atm.
Dude his family made him call Dr Phil lmfao what the fuck is wrong with them???? I wish his family could be charged for neglect as it was VERY apparent they knew he had issues mentally and needed help and he never got.... Holy shit.. All this failure that caused two people to die??? What...
Thanks for this reaction video. I recently have been having an anxiety OCD spike and was having trouble grounding myself. Reading the comments was helpful and grounding. Actually this whole video was helping in bits. I was worried about psychosis but my psychologist and psychiatrist ruled it out as it was more to do with heavy OCD. I wish all the best for anyone going through such things. Please try and remember that it's only the 'lower level' thinking being dominated as in this condition, access to 'higher level' cognitive functions (eg rational thinking) is severely blocked.
Hoping to become a registered psychologist one day to assist others.
oh and on the grades thing, my parents give us money for grades. That way we WANT an A or a B or a C, etc. Now that I'm in college, I get a decent chunk of money for my grades and sometimes a separate item that I've been wanting, like furniture or this semester, my dad promised me if I got all A's and B's I would get a mini dishwasher since depression and hand washing dishes do not go hand in hand.
its a rough life, when i was growing up i would abuse drugs at a really young age because of my parents trying to control my life so badly. I can see how its very easy to fall down the path if your family just abandons you and you feel like all you have is yourself. His parents could have prevented so much pain if they just actually gave a fuck.
@DixieNormous I'm not rich, far from it.
I don't know if you know this, but Austin was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He's been committed to a psychiatric facility indefinitely. It's such a sad and frustrating story.
wth dude... if I said I see demons, or I take drugs and act weird or jump into traffic, my parents would be crazy worried and take me to a doctor asap. What is wrong with all these people?? And the court actually considered the death penalty?? This guy is clearly sick and his family couldn't care less... sad story man.
You know if I heard a scream and saw a stranger. Assaulting a old lady I would have automatically called the police.
I loved that Pig added saddness abd sorrow OST as he realized the paradox of his Tik Tok situation.
In case people forgot or didn't see the trial, well, because there was no trial. Both prosecution and defense team both agreed that he Austin is insane and the judge declared not guilty due to reasons of insanity
Sometime around April of 2023 I was going through psychosis. I had just been released from the pych ward (I was there due to suicidal thoughts) and they had given me some meds that kinda messed me up for a bit. I’m really sensitive to meds since I’m autistic, and they started to make me hallucinate and hear things. I was convinced that someone was stalking me and looking through my window, it was horrifying. I remeber locking myself in my room with my curtains closed for weeks because I thought the “stalker” was trying to kill me. I’m so glad I’m better now and I’ve found the right meds, take mental health seriously guys.
Psychedelics aren't as bad as everyone says they are, but everything is bad in super large amounts.
In the photos his smile is very tight and his eyes are vacant. You can’t always tell from photos but it’s very obvious here.
Very sad story, bet he knew that his parents would never help him, so he was just trying to hold it in until he finally reached the day where it got so bad that he lost it.
Preventative measures are possible people, waiting until your child is beyond help is abuse.
I think the video that exposed how toxic the family was was when the dad asked what was wrong with him
He was trying to self medicate with drugs and it's so sad the parents thought just getting him drug free was gonna fix everything. Lots of people with health issues use to drugs bc "reality" is so scary. He needed real help
When you have great intelligence you have to deal with that and you can't really think cause you get depressed from thinking about everything
I realize that the beginning of this it hard to say.
Imagine walking in on your son drink olive oil straight from the bottle when he’s not supposed to be home and not only let him walk out of the house but getting in your car and going somewhere completely different instead of following him to make sure he’s ok. 🙃
Insanity 😱
I woke up to this video while searching for electrolytes after 2 days of drinking. Can confirm this guy had something else going on.
bro really just needed a hug and to be told that all of his achievements mattered and he's the best dude
yk, before the murdering
When the moment of realization hits too hard...
Fun Fact About Me - I had a hyper case of ADHD and I was prescribed Methylphenidate by my doctor. It helped me focus on my studies.
Am I the ONLY ONE who got Resident Evil 1 flashbacks with the zombie eating the dude's cheek?!?
Another Fun/Horrifying Fact - I ACTUALLY saw a kid from my swimming class, try to eat one of my best friend's neck!!! That's how I know this mental illness. It was a terrifying experience. He still jumps at any sign of surprise...
This is why I don't live alone. I suffer from depression, anxiety and ptsd and my mom allows me to live with her and her fiance as long as I let her know when I leave and where I am and help out around the house and pay rent. I lived by myself before and it was terrifying. Especially when the apartment complex was known to have a bad history. I would be so paranoid that someone ( at time I had a ex who was obsessed and scared me so bad that I stopped online dating) was going to break or sneak in so I would push a table to the patio door and push the couch to slightly block the front door. And one time my mom came home from shopping and I was home and she asked why I locked the front door, noones gonna try to sneak in or steal anything... 😑 and she watches crime documentaries!! I would hope she'd be just as cautious.
That poor police dog has no idea how to process what he saw this human do
I'm sure it's already been said several times, but "take him to a doctor!!!" does not apply to legal adults. you have to consent to that shit, it isn't like a parent neglecting to take a toddler to a pediatrician. I can say this as someone was institutionalized (via handcuffs by the police) after years of my parents begging me to get help and offering to pay for it. It wasn't on them, it was on me. They couldn't "take me to the doctor". Institutionalization was after a partner made the hard decision i was a threat to myself and others.
Also, by "call a doctor" what you are really saying is, "call the police on your adult son"
ETA: you can't "take" an unwilling adult to a doctor. You really think the parents are going to say, "get in the car or your Playstation is going to be taken away"? You cannot force an adult to get psychiatric help, my guy. You can't. It's either their decision to oblige or force via cops.
thank you for bringing up the pressure of high expectations on ‘gifted’ kids. after being told i was 2nd in a class of 1,250, i ended up being 5th and it felt like someone kicked me in the balls and stole all of my savings. not only does the expectation come from everyone around you, that ideal becomes a part of your identity, and when you can’t meet it, it feels like a moral failing
the reason, that the responding officers give, as to why they didn't shoot austin when he was on top of john was because they didn't want the bullet(s) to go through and hurt or kill john..
I mean they literally said in the video they would’ve shot him at first it had the chance but there wasn’t a shot due to the person being on top of another person the didn’t have the shot
Why didnt they shoot him he says after they said if he shot him it would risk killing the other guy too lmao
As a person who almost got sent to a psych ward a couple of times due to psychotic episodes and depression, I can't help but just feel bad for this guy. It just feels too close to home. I have so much luck to have supportive parents who looked for professional help when they noticed I was acting weird. People who don't suffer from what the guy in the video and I suffer will never understand how bad we feel after we do stuff we normally wouldn't... Most of the times when I have panic attacks is due to feeling bad/guilty for things I do when I lose all reason and can't think straight. Not even my close friends believe me when I say it wasn't -me-
I got a small cut when I was a little kid and I went to the doctors like bruh
*you're talking 0N the richest upscale neihborhood, *where they most know everyone
Watching this was so incredibly scary as I apparently have a high IQ with a brain that doesn't process well giving me things like the obsessives thoughts and feeling crazy. I would think this guy is the same way. I have been in the emergency room twice for it, and I'm only 16. It causes things like schizophrenia, sensory processing disorders, and ALOT more. Part of this ADHD and OCD which I take Vyvanse for. I feel AMAZING when I'm on Vyvanse but the second I'm off of it I fell much more irritable and I have to lock myself in my room. Im going to get help tomorrow, but the last few years I've been an actual danger to myself and my family. I was forced to quit my job even though I wasn't being treated badly or anything and the working conditions were fine, I could barley go 4 hours without having a breakdown. I found myself multiple times one day raising my fist to punch my manager, the sweetest lady and my favorite coworker and I dont even know why. This life is scary and I haven't watched the full video yet, but I already feel for the mental health crisis this guy is going through. Shoutout to the McDonald's on Goshen in Visalia, they let me walk out of the store so many times when I was having issues and I'm sorry I had to quit which they even made easy for me. Good working conditions, only 2 coworkers I genuinely disliked (One of them was a middle school bully) and they never put my in a place to serve customers because of some social issues apart from me being batshit crazy lol. If you live in Visalia and can get there, apply. It was easy, and they are always looking for new people. Also, they pay $15 an hour which is pretty damn good lol. (Sorry for the really long rant)
0:41 your words cut deep pig. Deeper than any blade
Parents inadvertently created an irl zombie
This was definitely drug induced psychosis. Psychosis is a horrible thing. Living with it is hard as fuck.
Also, my parents, like these parents. Ignored my clear signs of mental illness. I barely ate, spent all my time in my room loudly crying, preformed very poorly in school, and had no friends. I had also been self harming for years (and they knew). Some parents just dont give a fuck.
Interesting stories told in the most interesting way possible
Severe unattended, eight year depression here. Uh.
About the grade thing, I would put way to much pressure on myself to get A, and it was terrible
Can speak from experience, one time I had so much pressure on me to get good grades, mostly my own fault, that I had a mental breakdown in my room when I got an F on a math test, pressure can break you.