To bad it's always those you don't know that are compassionate & then your surrounded by people who are uninformed & lesser the severity of the condition. Or at least I am.
like maybe us as humans just are so deep into ourselves and are just stuck in this little bubble of us thinking we are above all other human beings that we just pretend to care about other, when deep deep deeeeeeeep down inside ourselves we are caring or showing we are caring because we wanna be seen as good and humble BUT IN REALITY WE ARE NNOT WE ARE JUST HUMANS WITH WEIRD THOUGHTS AND SCRAMBLED BRAINS THAT WE THINK WE UNDERSTAND BUT WE DON'T
Tooba Saeed Because he isn't going into any detail whatsoever so you thinking your learning more is an illusion because he goes over 100 general topics in a short time
My mother was not diagnosed until she was in her 30's - manic depression, schizophrenia and split personality. Without a diagnosis or treatment she was able to provide us girls with a stable, clean home, regular meals, special birthdays and holidays. No parent is ever perfect but she gave it her all and I am so grateful.
I have schizophrenia and the voices aren't really terrifying most of the time. You get used to them. They can come as a surprise at times and at first they were a bit frightening but I experienced an odd loss of self at the same time for lack of a better way to describe it, so I didn't experience the same types of emotions I probably would have had I not been suffering from schizophrenia. When I'm on my medication the voices are definitely less frequent and I can typically tell what's real and what isn't and filter out the hallucinations but I guess you get used to it. When I need a med adjustment or I forget my medicine for a while or something I usually don't even notice when I begin a psychotic episode. Someone else does and puts me in inpatient in the hospital. It isn't until I get back on the right course of medicine that I can start thinking clearly enough that I can see how oddly I was thinking and acting. I'm still a weird guy though even when I'm properly medicated. It kinda hit me like a ton of bricks when I was 24. Sucks tbh.
Identical [GD] They said it makes them want to murder people, not that they've ever actually killed anyone. I'm sure you've been really angry and wished that someone was dead before. It's like that. Just because you *want* to kill people, that doesn't mean you actually will.
I have dissociative disorder because of my childhood trauma. Derealisation and depersonalisation are tough to live with! It feels like I'm always dreaming and I can't remember most of my life. I know I can get better though! To all those also suffering from it, I hope you find a good therapist, medication, and recovery and relief comes quickly.
There is no medication for it. U can try antipsychotics - lmao They don't work You can meditate - lmao You'll get more dissociated from focusing on your existence. It's true we all get dissociated-ish from time to time. But... Very few stay dissociated 24/7/365. There's a big difference between a headache treatable with time and a neverending pulsing migraine That's me right there. Have been since 7th grade. I'm 21 now and it's still here at base, but it can and does get way worse.
It is a real thing, but it is not underresearched as a whole. It is just mostly researched by the wrong people. Are you familiar with trauma-based mind control?
Agreed. And OSDD is not represented at all (we have that) we have 12 alters and r trying to understand our Disorder. And cuz of no one taking us seriously we cant edit- ...21..alters YAY ......ugh ;c
*My mom had a heart attack* and i thought it was her delusion that she had other than imagining things. I asked her if her back was burning and she couldn't speak what exactly was happening to her as she was on a sedative and I assumed she was feeling better and sleeping like she would daily after the medication and she gave me hints that it was really a heart attack but she always wanted me to not spend money on her and *she had a massive cardiac arrest right in front of me* and she died in my arms while on the way to the hospital. I've been in shock ever since and I have tears while I'm writing this. My mom suffered from schizophrenia for 30 years without treatment but when she got fine after her treatment last year ,she just had a year of quality life and died because of my lack of understanding. My father used to beat her black and blue , hit her ,grab her hairs, break her bones , slap her, hit her while I was a child and I was helpless and he never treated her. When we grew up ,my elder brother started beating and threatening her , and when I grew I thought she was very doing this purposely, I googled what was going on and it was shocking that she was living with this disorder and all her symptoms matched. I got her a proper treatment last year and she would sometimes talk about someone coming to harm us but she improved 99% on medications but I lost her a month ago. I wonder how she lived so many years and raised us by working very hard while our father did nothing. It's a terrible disorder and I pray to God that nobody has it ever. Nobody believes you when you actually need help. My mom's face keep flashing to my mind everyday. I simply didn't understand what happened because she had no signs or symptoms of heart attack and she didn't say anything but hint me because she cared a lot for our financial difficulty and didn't want anyone to bear her expenses. I miss my mother , she was a very important part of my life and she is why I grew up who I am despite she suffered all these years without medications. Thank you for being sensitive on this topic and please get yourselves or those who suffer from it be loved and cared ,that plays a massive role in grooming them and making them feel accepted.
Thank you for this video. I'm currently in a very serious relationship with my girlfriend who is diagnosed as a schizophrenic and this really helped me understand what I can do to help her and how to be more readily responsive to her when something happens. I cannot thank you enough!
I dated a guy for 3 years who had DID. When he first told me that he had multiple selves, I assumed he was either schizophrenic or making it up, but I tried to withdraw judgment. Nonetheless, I'd be lying if I didn't say I was scared. I have diagnosed depression, anxiety, and OCD myself, but this seemed like a whole new ballpark of crazy. It was beyond my ability to empathize with him as I genuinely couldn't imagine what it was like to have multiple personalities at the time. However, that changed when I got to meet his alters. Realizing that this was 100% real to him, and just the sheer complexity of it, was mind boggling, yet extremely eye opening. Each personality inside of him was a fully fledged person, with all the intricacies that comes with it. The way each alter talked, acted, moved, even wrote--it was all that of separate people. The host--the self in charge of the body the most, may have been the person I initially fell in love with, but eventually, I discovered all three of them inside of him captured my heart. I want people to know that multiple personalities, as crazy as it sounds, is completely real, and these people who have it are not messed up. It's definitely not a walk in the park to have DID, that I know from him, but all of him, each self, were just as conceivable as you and I, albeit not as tangible. He sometimes would refer to himself as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ironically, but he wasn't a monster. All of him were--and is, a great man. He has since completed the difficult process of integration, which is where his personalities absorbed into one united self, but I still love the parts that used to be, and the person he is now.
Sage Mirei I really appreciate you sharing your experience! I was in a similar situation. I had a phone relationship with someone and ended up being "Catfished" in a way. I ended up meeting the person who was a girl, but the person on the phone, the boy with a slight accent, was completely there within her. I saw every physically changed you mentioned with your ex. They were their own people. I ended up getting to know both of them extremely well, even going to her doctor together. It was a very interesting time in my life I don't often talk about.
Novelplottingandpeonies Thank you for sharing as well! It's interesting hearing from others with similar experiences on the receiving end of being with someone like that or having a close relationship/friendship, etc. It's one thing to hear someone who has it talk about it and another who has dealt with it in someone else because I think it solidifies the matter even more that they're not making it up, when people like us can vouch for them. It does sound like an interesting part of your life, and I appreciate you commenting!
alex time low We broke up, but were still friends. He stopped talking to me and didn't respond to any form of contact (letters, texts, packages, etc) for 10 months, but coincidentally, he called me last weekend and we're talking again.
I am diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. DID is a result is severe and repetitive chlildhood trauma or abuse that can only develop when these traumatic experiences occur when the individual in question is aged 9 or younger. I've never understood why people want to fake having DID. It's an incredibly difficult disorder to deal with, it can only form under horrible circumstances, and for many it's not possible to integrate (for all personalities to reabsorb into one single person). These sensationalized, inaccurate, and terrible depictions of DID in movies like Sybil, Split, and Identity are so harmful to the DID community, especially since most of us have been harrassed or called "fake" many times before. Also, plenty of research has been done on DID! It's even a recognized disorder in the DSM-5 of the American Psychiatric Association, the manual used to officially diagnose mental disorders.
My grandpa had schizophrenia, it was terrible at the end. He believed that all of the doctors were plotting against him and when my Aunt missed a Christmas because of work, my grandpa somehow linked the two. He cut her out of his life for years. He would hallucinate the sounds of people walking around upstairs and he thought people were breaking in. I really wish I could have gotten to know the sharp, compassionate, witty lawyer he was for most of his life. By the time I was a teenager, things had gotten pretty ugly- he wasn't taking his meds and he also had severe bipolar disorder in addition to the schizophrenia. He's been gone for years now but I really miss him and wish I could talk to him again as an adult. I think he'd be proud of me.
Katie Niekamp I'm sorry to hear that. He will be proud of you no doubt. People from certain occupations like doctors, police, lawyers, psychologists tend to suffer from more mental disorders than other professions because of the daily occurrence of negativity in these jobs, it's sad but that's how it is.
I just read your story about your grandpa so sad it really sounds just like my dad he was also mentally ill never got a diagnose for the disorder but it was so obvious that he was suffering from bipolar and shizophrenia my two sisters have shizophrenia pretty bad. It is really sad how are government are not doing enough to help with mental illness.
THANK YOU for covering mental illnesses, like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia! I'm glad that it's not only me who's out there telling people that they do not understand at all what they mean when they say things like "lol I'm so bipolar"
I understand this, a very close friend of mine has dissociative identity disorder and it always makes me mad how it's portrayed in the media and how people think of it when I know this really sweet guy who is nothing like how the people in the media portray people with this mental illness.
***** well... I'm not lying, there's not much I can do to prove it. so I guess it's fine if you don't believe me. kinda rude to straight up make that accusation though
I didn't know a damn thing about bipolar disorder, never talked about it, and never thought about it until I saw the Crash Course episode on it. The video was posted about a week after I had stepped out onto my porch atop a hill and immersed myself in the vivid perception of having dictatorial authority. When I reluctantly decided to watch the video several days later, I was absolutely shocked to see the degree to which I matched the description of the disorder. I suppose you could say it was until after I had learned about the nature of bipolar disorder that I had thought to exercise the possibility that "I'm so bipolar".
***** calm down man, never said you had to believe me. it's perfectly fine that you don't. being critical of things you hear is a positive thing and I'm not going to discourage you from that. that being said you are still being very rude in your accusations, if what you sate is true and it does not exist (this is not something I believe but for arguments sake) maybe the person I believe has dissociative identity disorder was the one lying to me and I believe them. that would make you wrong in accusing me while still being correct in that it doesn't exist making you look like an ass still. it's much better to assume the best in people in these situations to avoid such situations.
Sad to see depersonalization and derealization not mentioned under the dissociative disorders. Then again he did say "more rare and elusive" when it came to that section. One day, my soul will find me and I'll feel connected again, I hope.
I agree. I think this ought to have been 2 seperate vids. I have experiece with Disassoative dissorder. Ive seen someone reintegrate , with a lot of work and good help. It took years. Personally, I had another person coaless in me and cause me plenty of trouble. Ive never been aware of him, outside of being told what I did. I cant see him. He can , or did, see me. Didnt like me. Far as I know hes been inactive for maybe a year ... ? I recently learned about how Complex PTSD [not yet in the DSM, almost made it in the last revision.] and it explaines everything I have experienced, far as mental health issues are concerned, and makes it possible to fix much of it and deal with most of whats left. If you are going thru the ride that is mental health help, it would be well worth your time to explore CPTSD. It may be helpful. Changed my life so much. Just not soon enough for some of my hopes. Its easy to learn enough about it, to know if it will help, in a couple hours.
I was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder when I was 18. When I recalled being raped (ages 4-12) my mind released whatever part of me had been there for the abuse. She was a stronger version of myself. When I was very stressed from remembering my past, she would take over, and that was frightening. We merged together, as a concious decision.
Chelsey Mathers I know exactly what you mean. I wish I had understood this earlier in my life. My abuse was years of physical violence from my adopted parents. I’m still try to reconcile with younger self. I often have to remind her that the threat is no longer in here. Thank you for sharing your story. I am so sorry that happened to you.💞=💖
My grandmother had Schizophrenia. My dad has OCD and I have panic attacks, what a wonderful family. I just wanted to post this to show that even with all the problems, my family is still pretty great and I love them anyway.
My best friend has schizophrenia, and i have to constantly remind him i love him because 'they' are telling him many horrible things, especially that i'm 'not his friend'. He gets anxious, and has panic attacks, and 'they' constantly abuse him, he feels sharp pains in his body.. its just horrible ;-;
My mom has Schizophrenia and i used to hate her for certain things she did in the past but now i love but i still watch her just in case she falls back into old habits lol also my boyfriend has dissociative identity disorder and i love him very much
I have schizoaffective disorder and while I have experienced many prolonged periods of intense disabling illness, nowadays aside from acting a little weird nobody can tell that I’m hallucinating while talking to them as long as I wear mirrored glasses to cover my eyes. And I’m very lucky to have substantial intelligence and insight on my side so I’ve found many ways to use my mental illness to help me think about issues in ways that others can’t and turn it into a strength.
I actually ran across this video because my client of four years has severe schizophrenia. Numerous of her antipsychotics needed to be discontinued recently because they were poisoning her, and only two weeks without those medications caused her to be so delusional and confused that we had no choice but to admit her to a “mental health behavioral unit”. She’s so paranoid and I hope the doctors can figure out which medication helps to quiet the constant voices so we can take her back home again. She’s been rehabilitated for ten years, and she’s terrified to be in a ward again and she’s mentally handicapped too so she has trouble understanding her disability. It’s so bad, she thinks people can steal her body parts and be invisible and she gets aggressive thinking that people were shooting her and cutting her. She almost opened the door in a moving car because she thought someone was trying to kill her. It’s heartbreaking. I miss my girl.
My mom was diagnosed with schizophrenia and paranoia when I was young. she's doing much better now. it wasn't easy to get her the help she needed, but thankfully she did. This video was very accurate. I think it's good for us to educate ourselves on important topics like this.
cocacoladog10 I legit died of laughter from this comment. "Be on the watch tho" I don't know why I found this so funny. But can I just say that just because her mom has schizophrenia doesn't necessarily mean she will eventually have it. She may be predisposed to it but there are ways you can eliminate some of the environmental factors. Staying away from drugs and alcohol would be the best way. Also keeping your stress levels low.
You may not see this comment due to it being a year old but my mother also has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. It was pretty tough back then without her having the proper medication. It's nice to find someone who's going through the same thing as I am
dissociation is a conditioned response to chronic trauma, meaning, your brain learns to separate or split from your body because the trauma you are experiencing to too much for the mind to process. it is most common in people with complex ptsd. when you are experiencing trauma over and over your body learns to separate from your mind and it becomes a reaction to everyday stress or trauma occurs again. the reason people with borderline develop dissociative symptoms is because they experience emotions at such high frequencies that things can feel traumatic and overwhelming even if they are not necessarily stereotypical trauma like sexual abuse or physical abuse. the same goes for people with schizophrenia and bipolar 1 and 2
+gracelikesbooks As a sufferer of Depersonalization Disorder, I have to agree with the above comment. I often dissociate/depersonalize/derealize when I'm feeling overwhelmed. A traumatic event from my childhood may have triggered the first episode, but since then it has (like you said) become a subconcious coping mechanism of mine to fall into a dissociative state.
***** Gee whiz thanks for completely invalidating my experience. You're rediculous. Have you ever been formally diagnosed with this? I have. I've had brain scans done, I've had to meet with doctors, I have been examined by theraputical and psychiatric specialists. I have depersonalization/derealization disorder, a form of dissociative disorder. At first they thought I was having epileptic seizures, but nope. I have a thought disorder used for COPING called depersonalization/derealization disorder. It's taken years to diagnose, so thanks for invalidating all my years of suffering as well :). To continue on, my experiences seem to differ greatly from yours. My symptoms closely follow all the other symptoms you'll find with this disorder. I have lapses in conciousness... phases where I forget what I did. Everything will feel fake, like I can't feel anything. Sometimes this drives me to self-harm just to see if I'll still bleed. I have no emotions in this state. All it feels like is a dull throb of discomfort. I feel very separated from my body, like I'm watching from above. My head feels like it's full of cottonballs. Sometimes, when it's really bad, everything I percieve is in slow motion and foggy around the edges. I have tunnel vision. My thoughts are so far within. I can barely function. I've been pulled out of games/classes because of these catatonic lapses. But mostly what I feel above all else is that previously described feeling of nothing. I do not exist. I can't feel. You could slap me across the face and I would ask you to do it again just to bring back the sensation-- any sensation. It can last from a couple hours to a couple days, these episodes. What you describe sounds like a bad trip. I'm not saying your experiences aren't real, but perhaps you should meet with a psychologist to discuss other diagnoses. Perhaps you have Depersonalization Disorder? I don't know, but you should be formally evaluated.
We got diagnosed with DID of July this year. We're trying to learn more about it to understand our experiences better. It happens due to repeated childhood trauma that felt impossible to escape. Thank you for this video.
My brother is schizophrenic. The most terrifying part of it was that he could see in the beginning that he was loosing his mind. Looking back it seems to have started around 15-16 but it really didn't get bad until the summer after his first year of college. I remember him telling me that he was loosing his mind. That eventually went to someone was controlling his mind. Now he's just completely gone, he lives in a group home and spends his time watching game shows and playing sudoku. He thinks I'm an actor playing his brother (or something like that I haven't really been able to figure out exactly what he thinks I am) so I don't see him often because it upsets him. He was pretty smart to, such a waste of life.
lennonforever40 schizophrenic patients usually get delusional, as in having thoughts that just make no sense and are not plausible. one of those delusions can be that he thinks you're a actor, or a clone. that you're not the person you portray yourself as (a delusion,), sounds like your brother needs help.
My older brother is schizophrenic but it seems like my younger brother is starting to develop his schizophrenia too. He tells me that he feels like he’s turning “into” my brother and he says he has parasites that are causing medical issues that have never been diagnosed. He doesn’t trust doctors in diagnosing him. What would you wish you did different when you were younger to get your brother help?
My son has schitzophrania, and he has almost every type of it. He graduated high school 2 years ago with honors. He moved out n moved in with a older female started being depressed, stressed and just down n out.well he became psychotic about a year ago, with several episodes of thinking I wasn't his mom, that I was jumping in n out of bodies. He also said he worked for God suckling up lost souls n sending them where they belong. He was talking to about 9 different voices n they beat him down day in n day out. He threatened to take his own life on a daily basis. He would think someone spit in his plate , n start lifing. He thought I plotted against him , he also thinks he has put out lots lots of music, like he believes he is a rapper and that real rappers have stolen some of his music n it's on the radio, they use his lyrics in their music the ones that someone stole. His taste buds, smelling senses are totally diffrent. He sometimes feel his brain is only working from one side. He thinks he reads other minds n that when their brain connects they know what he thinks. He handwriting has gotten so bad he can't read it, n if u can make it out there is really no sense made of it. He thinks he can pass out super powers, he says he is blinf. He also say that some parts of his body isn't his like these legs ain't my legs, these r little. This ear right here isn't my ear, I think I may cut if off. You never know what's next . Anyway my heart goes out to all who suffer from diffrent types of mental illnesses. This has Ben one of the hardest things in my life to deal with as a mom of a 21 year old. I feel like this is not my son sometime. The change in him has Ben so rapid n dramatic. I pray for you all, I pray for those suffering from schitzophrania n other mental illness, I pray for the families, n I also pray for the caregivrs. I would like , if you have taken the time out to read a very few things about my son, would you say a small prayer n Jesus name that he will overcome this, n get his sane mind back. I thank you in advance. God Bless
I sure appreciate this discussion. My brother has been paranoid schizophrenic for 40 years. He has, at one time or another, exhibited every single symptom of schizophrenia. He's been violent, abusive, ranting and raving, extreme delusions of grandeur, extreme hallucinations, word salad, blames me for everything, can't pay attention to anything, he tried to kill my mother several times, he's cost me friends, jobs, even a house. Yet all the focus has been on him, always. There was no help for me ever, even when I repeatedly asked. My relatives (all dead now we're old) hounded me for decades to "fix" my brother. Now I'm old and tired (he's younger) and he hounds me to death non stop. He just can't accept that I'm not able to do everything for him any more. I'm lazy, selfish, a scapegoat. He's literally killing me with this abuse. My point is that you shouldn't ignore the family of the mentally ill, but you should support them. I can no longer help my brother; I'm having a hard time taking care of myself. If someone would have helped me 30 or 40 years ago when I asked, then it would have been a whole lot better for my brother and me too.
I know this is from 11 months again but its true nobody thinks about the family of the schizophrenic. It really can wear you down hard like get mental problems yourself hard. Please know i understand what your going through and i hope you and your brother are doing alright.
This was the most informative and sensitive video on schizophrenia you kept it positive and not something to fear or dehumanise having a mental illness or any other disability doesn't render you useless I have spent most of my life in fear that I am a waste of space. Thankyou for your really positive talk bravo
I had a girlfriend like this before. Her main personality liked me but, her other personality had no feelings towards me. I had no idea which one was in control at any given time. The worst part was that we were best friends for years and yet some how her second personality literally did not care about my feelings or if I even died. This stuff is very real.
My doctor just told me I had this I have to go to the hospital today and this really helped me understand what I'm going threw thank you for making this
Hey, I just wanted to recommend the youtube channel DissociaDID, it has a lot of information on Dissociative Identity Disorder, and is a really interesting channel made my a system (a body containing several personalities/alters) who have DID
Multiplicity and Me is also a good channel and shows a DID system with good information The Entropy System also provides a lot of DID information as well as their story with battling the condition
im professionally diagnosed with schizophrenia and ptsd and this is the most informative and accurately represented video ive seen on my disorder (also not demonizing at all, thank you so much)
This video helped me understand what happened to a close friend a few years ago. I was living with three other guys in an apartment, and after I went home for a month over a school break one of my roommates was acting strangely. While he acted like he normally would most of the time, he would have episodes where he would talk continuously about anything and everything. He would change topic mid-sentence, and wouldn't give us personal space like he usually would. He even woke me up one night at 3 AM the night before he knew I had a test to chat about tacos. After a few days of this he was gone from the apartment, and my roommates told me the police had taken him to a mental hospital. Apparently he had made comments comparing himself to the Sandy Hook shooter (this was right after the shooting), in that they were both misunderstood. He never made any threats to himself or others, and later complained to me about how bored he was in the hospital. He had previously mentioned that he had a family history of schizophrenia, although he never told me if that was his diagnosis. I also learned that over that break when I was gone he experimented heavily with hallucinogenic drugs and may have had a bad breakup that could have triggered the episodes. When the episodes were over he said he had little recollection of anything he'd done or said and was extremely embarrassed when we told him how he'd acted. The whole time I stuck with him and tried to do whatever I could to help, although he ended up telling me that he didn't feel it was my business. He ended up dropping out of school, and now is living with his family. I know that schizophrenia is misunderstood, but the entire time this happened was was never scared of him. I was scared FOR him. He was still the nice guy I knew, in his more lucid moments told me how scared he was. I suppose what I'm saying is that if anyone you know shows any signs of this or any other mental illness, please PLEASE be there for them.
Separately, a recent study looked at schizophrenia in Westernized countries vs the rest of the world and there is a significantly higher amount of violent and paranoid delusions in Westernized countries, whereas less developed countries (especially those that tend to be more religious) had more gentle, supportive voices. People with delusions were much more often seen as Oracles or felt that God (a god, etc) was talking through them. As a result there was little to no negative stigma associated with it in the culture as well. Just an interesting tidbit. I can probably find link to the article for anyone interested.
AntonymousRecon bjp.rcpsych.org/content/early/2014/06/17/bjp.bp.113.139048.full.pdf+html and the associated PR piece - news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614.html
One of the worst things that can ever afflict a human being. My mother has suffered with this since she was 28. Just a horrible existence, hearing voices, incoherent speech and unpredictable behavior. Crying one minute, laughing the next. Talking loudly for hours in a room when there's no one else around. It doesn't just break one emotionally but exhausts those around such a person as well. No permanent treatment, none. Hope no one ever has to experience this ever.
+Barney “Riddick47” Ross just because a disease is herediatry doesn't mean you'll definitely get it, there are many enviournmental factors that also come in to play
Having DID though (I do have a diagnosis), you can be very likely to suddenly think it was all fake and you dont have the disorder. I think this is because the idea of having the disorder is stressful, and my mind seems to be really good at making me believe that a stressful event either was not stressful or simply did not happen. Even when compiling evidence, pieces of the evidence in my own head can simply disapear. The belief leads to me trying to explain the symptoms in other ways, which definitally can be done as it can just look a little like amnesia. Then my internal filter starts to work really hard at making personalities that believe this try really hard to act the same, and then they will brush the difference in behavior off saying it had to do with mood to my therapist. For personalities that would occasionally have this belief, the belief would go away and come back. They seem to work really hard to make themselves act the same, and then loose most of the memory of trying to do that, but have this "feeling" that they need to do specific things. This whole thing made me contradict myself to my therapist a bunch of times, sometimes in the same session, or within as short as like a few minutes apparently. There can also be internal communication with us as well. This is not unusual and is normally developed by continuous external communication. Internal communication can lead to some hard to translate thoughts, it is almost like we think fundamentally different.
I have DID. I myself am bipolar, and OCD. I wish you went a little more in depth on DID. Its very complex and can cause people a lot of trauma. All you basically talked about was the sybil story and how it's hard to tell if someone is faking.....
@@Phoenix_7568 DID is literally characterized by extreme dissociation. a personality disorder is one that affects your one personality in many ways; DID is a condition that affects your brain in such a way as to cause many personalities. literally basically the inverse, though you can have DID and personality disorders such as BPD.
At my age, I did not know the movie and book, SYBIL, were discredited as fake. Not only that but only 1% of the population has the mental disorder. Today, I'm glad there are medications to help but only if they're taken properly and that requires supervision. Crash Course, you've done it again. I've learned something new today. Thank you!
wysiwyg43 Cited: Link to poverty. Those who don't have money for things aren't going to spend any of it on doctors, especially with judgement affected by disorder. So, yeah.
I was introduced to crash course through ap world history in highschool, and stayed throughout college to learn about psychology on my own time. This is the best educational channel ever! 💕
1:00 Want direct experience? Spend enough time sleep deprived and you might get what you’re looking for. Sufficient lack of sleep can cause symptoms in otherwise mentally healthy people. Of course, getting that sleep deprived and staying up to experience is in itself likely to be torturous. Not really recommended.
Did you know that Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder aren't the same thing? Did you know that we don't call it Multiple Personality Disorder anymore? In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, ***** takes us down the road of some very misunderstood psychological disorders.
I'd really like to learn about BPD (borderline personality disorder) it effected my life immensely and it is a difficult concept for me to grasp considering I am not the one suffering, if you could even point me in the right direction for some good literature that I could read it would be greatly appreciated, (although the dissociation disorders you just taught us about seem to be more accurate to describe what I see but what do I know.
***** I agree, I myself have ADHD, real ADHD, and find that often people don't take me seriously or assume I am part of the mass that uses it as an excuse to get away with certain things. It is so often misdiagnosed that I no longer know how to judge if someone actually has ADHD. Good episode none the less.
Yodarules2 Yeah I’ve been diagnosed for 2 years now and no one wants to talk about dp/dr and it makes me feel alone. Reading this comment puts a smile on my face.
Thanks for making this video! As a mental health nurse, I’m glad to see an accurate, evidence-based, and stigma-free educational video like this. You videos always present the information in such an easily digestible way. Keep them coming! More in the mental health field please!
I met a woman in the park yesterday when I was walking my dog. She started talking to me and before I knew she was going on about these "creatures" that had wings (either white and gray or black and brown, she didn't remember) and that were kind of spying on her. One of them was kissing her in her sleep and she said it was like a bat. She started having an infection around her teeth, maybe because of those beeings. She said souls come first and that she remembers the light and that all we see is only a projection. All of her beliefs didn't really line up with each other, first it was a different dimension, then a projection and then other times these creatures lived among us. I thought she might have schizophrenia but I'm not one to diagnose her. She was in her early to mid fourties and also told me she has a daughter and boyfriend, so I'm not worried that she's alone. But i hope that she get's help maybe, she just didn't seem quite "right".
Dissociative identity disorder is real and sometimes scary as a person that has the disorder, im lucky to have two other people in my life with this disorder because i dont feel so alone anymore, even though this disorder comes from a traumatic past its good to have other people like me in my life, we help each other a lot. Im glad this talks about DID in a good way and not the way the media makes it out to be something bad.
I have schizophrenia and I hear voices and see demons , as I type this comment there is a demon on my ceiling trying to bite me. I get very paranoid and I also have other disorders like OCD,ADD, and depression. I had to be hospitalized a month ago and I also have to apply for disability because I can't do manual labor. People need to be grateful they have a healthy mind because people like me just can't have that. Although I hope I can become a marine biologist and an author one day but it won't be easy. I wish I was normal 😥
Lunastre oh :( I’m sorry. Your last line really hit me. Feeling so isolated from the experiences of “normal” people, and instead having to suffer with a mental illness- I just want to hug you. There is a TED talk about someone with schizophrenia, whose astrophysicist. Shes gone though suffering only you and the people that have this can understand completely- and still, she did it. I’m sure you can too, okay? I know you can. I promise, I promise. Try, and try as hard as you can. You can become whatever you’d like to be, and you can become a marine biologist. It won’t be easy, you’re right, but living with schizophrenia isn’t easy either, and you’re managing. Though some days are harder, you’re still going. Use your willpower inside you that gives you the strength to live, to *really* live, to reach for your dreams. Do what you dream of- you really can do it. You have something that makes you different from many other people, but you also share a lot with everyone. You’re a human being, with goals, wishes and desires. And you’re no different in that you deserve to let yourself have them. So go get them! Please take care of yourself. I hope things are going okay, or maybe they’re better than before. However things are, you’re beautiful. And you can, with all my heart I mean it, do the things you’d like to do. You deserve that :)
If you think she imagines parasites you might be doing her harm! SCABIES does exist in cities in the US and other places and happens in crowded conditions and men who are nasty do take advantage of these women!
Hi all, she recently turned 18 and is out of her parents house (where they rufused to treat her) and I'm going to try and get her to go to a counselor.
Pleaaaassseeeee do an episode just for DID. there's so much stigma surrounding this complex disorder. . . (Diagnosed DID, ptsd, bulimia) Unfortunately... I've been hospitalized for mental health nine times. It took until the 8th time in the 3rd hospital for me to get the proper diagnosis of DID,, because even trained mental health workers doubt the illness. I've even called a liar to my face by experienced doctors because they're simply ignorant about this far side of the dissociative spectrum. Unfortunately this is really common for people living with this incredibly stressful traumagenic disorder... To all you multiples: ily and I hope you receive the help you deserve
I got diagnosed at my first psychiatric appointment, but when I was hospitalized less than a week later, and constantly tried to express it, nobody cared at all. It was really horrible to only have each other but not be able to even talk about it.
My brother is suffering from schizophrenia from last 12 years, there has been a lot of improvement through medicines but still a lot of improvement need to happen..... Still there are delusions, false beliefs like being the worlds richest man, unorganized thinking, unsocial life,..... we family are too depressed and losing hope as we are not getting any sure shot solution
After taking a cross cultural psychology course, I think you should really revise this! Only in western cultures are these symptoms displayed as you've mentioned. The categories stay the same but how they're manifested are differently. I recently read an article that was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry by Luhrmann that compares individuals from California, Ghana, and India. The Ghanaian and Indian participants reported positive voices while absolutely none of the Californian participants did. How cool is that! In these eastern cultures, schizophrenic patients actually do much much better than American patients do. It's a really good read and I would LOVE to see some videos on universal psychological syndromes and culture bound syndromes
That's such an interest case you present. I am European by blood but was born and raised on an island in the Pacific and eventually settled in Australia as a young child. Having studied criminology and psychology for years as I was diagnosed with PTSD, depression and more recently DID - due to the fact I felt compelled to learn more about my parents, with the hope of ultimately understanding myself - i find it fascinating your contribution here as I too experience the more positive aspect of auditory hallucinations. The thing with me is, I've always heard them and always saw them and knew they were external. Even though for a length of time i was prescribed antipsychotics, thankfully I am no longer on them, I still believe in what they are and say because to me, I believe they are my spirit guides. I also feel like I'm a highly-functioning depressive. One day I'll work it out. Either way, great point you made. I think the culture we grow up in makes a huge difference. The fact my parents are white and European living in a predominantly black, low-socioeconomic society has had an effect too.
i theorize that the answer to that simply boils down, as expected, to the cultural differences between the individuals with this disorder. in the western societies, especially america, there is a high level of societal pressure and stress and depression due to the artificial need to be perfect. in other societies, such as eastern, the society and "celebrity" scene is not as shoved upon them, so they end up being more comfortable with themselves (maybe not fully but just more than americans), so the voices in their head manifest in more positive ways due to the lack of constant negative pressure that other cultures experience. c:
Thank you for talking in such a way that isn't too slow that i don't want to listen. You speak at a speed that I can keep up with and what you say is succinct, I appreciate it.
paranoia and auditory + visual hallucinations here, i appreciate how this channel seriously and compassionately talks about issues like these without demonizing them, its a nice time.
I met two different, homeless men, both with schizophrenia, over a year apart. Neither had ever met each other, but both described the same hallucinations! The first one described a "demon" that he would regularly see, and the second guy, over a year later, described a demon he also saw often, with the same, exact details! That's the point where I decided it was not cool for me to ever again tell someone that what they saw wasn't actually there just because I couldn't see it. Before my father died, he hallucinated a lot. He was often confused why we didn't see what he was seeing. I was always able to comfort him by telling him that he was in a special place where he gets to see things that we don't. That always seemed to work, but one time, after he was seeing giant bugs and I wasn't and I gave him the usual explanation, he replied, "Well aren't you lucky!"
This video in particularly makes me feel better. I haven't told anyone this yet but I need to get it off my chest. Sometimes I see stuff out of the corner of my eye, like an ink blot, but when I try to look at it, it (of course) disappears. I can't think nearly as clearly as I used to, its kind of like my mind is filled with cobwebs. When I talk to people, what they say causes me to, naturally, come up with an idea or reaponse but almost as soon as my idea appears it disappears. Sometimes I can find it again but most of the time its gone forever. I heard a voice once for sure when I was around 14 years old. I don't trust myself enough anymore to remember correctly if that was the only time or not. I have a doctors appointment in a couple weeks and I plan on bringing it up but, honestly, I feel so defeated and terrified. I've had clinical depression for as long as I can remember and I contracted lyme disease a couple years back. When it started happening I just thought it was cuz I smoked too much weed but I remember my mum telling me years ago that her grandfather (my great grandpa) was a schizophrenic. I've always felt disconnected to other people and the world. I almost always feel alone even though I'm around people every day. Everything in my life just seems to pile on top of each other and no matter how hard I try I can't seem to catch up. I doubt the production company will read this but thank you for that info about the Pink Floyd members. It helps a lot knowing that I still have the chance to do what I really want. I want to be a writer and finding out I may be schizophrenic is like a marathon runner finding out he may have muscular dystrophy. So yeah, thanks for the encouragement. I really appreciate it.
It sounds like you have brain fog ("it's kind of like my mind is filled with cobwebs"), which is a common symptom of chronic lyme disease. Yes, it's a real thing- I know because I've had it. If you've gone through the regular course of antibiotics, it's highly possible you still have lingering infections. New research has revealed that conventional treatment doesn't completely get rid of lyme symptoms, confirming the experiences of many, many people. I would recommend visiting a naturopath (or several) and seeing what they can do for you. The two that were able to help myself, family members, and friends were practitioners of the Cranio-Biotic Technique and Magnetic Resonance Testing. Best of luck.
An incredibly amazing contribution. Taking away stigma and panic about schizoprenia. Explaining in an objective, helpful way. Making schizophrenia understandable so that emphathy is possible. Taking away the fight. Good job. Thank you.
People fear what they don't understand, true a friend of mine has this I watched him slowly go from normal about a month ago to fully delusional and it was scary to see him change he just went to mental hospital last night I feel like I lost a friend like someone died. I hope he will be ok
Lol the people in the comments going like 'I had a nightmare once and sometimes I talk to myself about the boogeyman therefore I have schizophrenia feel bad for me"
It makes me angry because my friend is always blaming things on her "schizophrenia ".She has not been diagnosed with it, she doesn't have delusions or lose sense of reality in any way, she doesn't lose focus, all she has happen is when she's afraid she imagines things like "oh someone's following me" and sometimes says she sees things out of the corner of her eyes.Everyone has that happen sometimes,she's making a joke out of the actual illness.
So... I am going to write a piece about this video. It's very long, but if you're interested in my stance on and experience with Dissociative Identity Disorder, read on, please... I understand why it's hard to believe DID exists, with the terrible, terrible case of Sybil leading the discussion. Yet I think most people with DID just want to stay hidden. It's the main reason for developing the alternate personalities after all, to escape from a reality in which there is danger (starting with severe childhood trauma, mostly). The alters are there for protection from certain feelings or triggers associatied with the trauma, and they can develop to occur when the person doesn't want them to, or some people don't even realise there are alternate personalities until they find out what happens when they don't remember what they did in the past hours or day... Other alters are destructive and copy the person who inflicted the trauma. Other abusive alters can tell a person to do things, similar to schizophrenia, but the thoughts are surrounded by characteristics of a personality the person often doesn't recognise as oneself (the voices have a name, you could say). For me, the world is a very dangerous place, and I would never tell anyone in real life, with my real name, that I have DID. I don't have any childhood memories before the age of 11. Other memories are very fragmented, depending on the alter that was there when I experienced certain things. Sometimes, only the emotion surrounding an event disappeared, sometimes only a conversation with a person. Through the 13 years I've consciously lived with DID, I have learned to cope better and control the switches between alters better. It's NOT AT ALL like Sybil, who has distinct 'types' of people, almost like a cartoon. My alters try to fit in with my behaviour, even though that doesn't work in many situations. If I switch to an alter who is a child, another alter reacts when needed and helps the younger alter through a tough or confusing situation. I've had alters study for me and fail miserably, because the last course they ever consciously attended was in high school and I'm a university student by now. I then had to retake all those exams. Yet, I keep silent. I don't tell anyone at university and somehow, with a lot of trouble, I get there. I will try to have a job and live a life as normal as possible. DID shouldn't be popular, or exciting, or exotic. It's a silent disorder. That is why it exists. For a mind to live on after severe trauma. I know something very bad happened to me, but only through flashbacks and my alters. My DID is the reason I'm still alive and I'm going somewhere with my life, although it's also the reason my life is very difficult and stressful. I am almost never alone, since that's often dangerous, and I will need psychiatric help throughout my entire life. Yet I'm here. And I exist... DID exists, the real deal, but it stays in the shadows. And maybe that's the safest option. Because I don't want to be compared to anyone living the life: making money of a serious condition because apparently it's possible to fake it... I'm absolutely not like that. You have to know me to notice the switches immediately, and I don't have a completely different look every time. That would be ridiculous and useless. The alter experiencing the trauma is rather an emotionless, empty version of yourself who got a name after a while and got cut of from your mind, got a name, a place in what is called a 'system' of alters. Each has their preferences for clothes, food and hobbies, yes. But that happens mostly in what is called the 'inner world', where personalities are allowed to be more clear without the risk of getting noticed. An alter could tell me they dream about being a mermaid and I can try to get as close to that dream as possible by letting them save money for a mermaid tail, but the alter has to understand that in the outside world, the tail will be fit around the body of an adult, instead of a child... It's hard on them, and on me. But the system has to keep functioning, and learn to cope with giving up on things in order to keep alive and somewhat 'normal' (but what is normal anyway). The outside world is not the place for other looks and dreams and things like that. There, my alters have first priority of protecting me. Smoking a cigarette in public while people know I never smoke, would not help that case at all. It happened, but my mind got better at using the good parts of DID and coping with the bad parts. I wish I would live in a world where it wasn't sensationalised and because of that, unbelievable... Because it feels relieving to tell my story. I just can't get it out there with my real name, in my own surroundings. Not even my parents know (but to be fair, they are not a big part of my life unfortunately, because they can't cope with how different I am). I think four people know about my condition (professionals left aside), and even that sometimes scares me, because I want them to treat me like any other person and sometimes they get too protective, or... distant. But I'm so lucky to have friends with who I am, instead of being locked up in a psychiatric facility... I hope someone reads this comment and thinks about DID in a different way. (I'm sorry about my English, it's not my native language, and also, you can clearly see how disorganised my thoughts are here, even though I tried very hard, I hope it's somewhat okay to read. I reread it three times... Feel free to reply with your thoughts or questions, but please refrain from telling me this disorder is some kind of hoax. What I experience is real and has been diagnosed, unfortunately.)
I know you wrote this a long time ago, but i just wanted to say that i really appreciate the fact that you took your time to write this. DID is such a complex disorder and i truly hope that the stigma around it will loosen soon. You don't deserve to constanlty feel like you would be judged badly for something that you cant controll. I hope you're doing well today and that you're getting on with your life the way you want to.
Did you have to willingly create the alters? Or did they create themselves? Did it start as an escape habit of the mind and now it's automatic? Is it out of your control or do you set the stage? I'm trying to understand this condition because my daughter has it. She seems to suffer less when she's not having anxiety.
I just read Nate Powell's book Swallow Me Whole and realized I know nothing about Schizophrenia. Thank you for making this video it really helped give me context to the book.
I needed this video! Thank you so much! It was so helpful in helping me understand how my schizophrenia has manifested. I'm beginning to wonder if my "schizophrenia" is really that but might be something else. As a survivor of childhood abuse and a school shooting I absolutely have PTSD, depression and anxiety but I have not experienced voices or hallucinations but I have experienced episodes where I destroyed myself with my own thoughts in depression. I'm still learning and I appreciate your efforts to put this out there. Thank you!
I watched this video years ago during a difficult time in my life. Today I have a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, and understand myself far better now and manage it well. Thank you for making this video, it helped immensely with identifying symptoms and causes 💗💗 You are right, understanding is the key to compassion. And with compassion we can heal from the things that disturb us :) thank you again!
There was an Indian mathematician who died in 2019, he had schizophrenia, he was considered one of the greatest scientists and had contributed a lot in America's appollo mission. It's rumoured that his own wife, had burnt his thesis paper because she thought it was the reason her husband couldn't love her, and this caused the schizophrenia.
(I'm open for questions about my condition if anyone wants to ask them.) My extreme Social Anxiety led to my Disassociation Disorder (specifically Depersonalization disorder). And it's, unfortunately, one I live with every day but can do nothing about. It's like hell. I know it's happening, I "see" it happening but it's from a third person perspective and thus, I can't do anything about it. For the first time in about 15 years, I had a few days where I was disassociation free (I had been out of a job for three months and basically was stuck at home all the time- no social interaction outside of close friends and family and thus no social anxiety for my brain to "fix" with disassociation) and it was like, the world was brighter and I felt connected and it was the best feeling I had ever felt. I had never felt happier in my life. But, then I got a new job and the very first day, I felt my dissociation take over and it never left. I think the scariest thing about my disorder is the robotic feeling, as if i'm programmed to deal with the world around me. On one hand, i've gotten very, VERY good at reading body language and voice tone. On the other hand, I am 'programmed' to become a person that fits best with the person i'm dealing with and not simply being myself.
I know this is from over a year ago but I wish you well in life & that one day you become repersonalized. I know how scary depersonalization is as I've experienced it several times since 2006 & I have chronic derealization. You are such a strong individual for going through what you've been through and I'm sure things will get better for you.
Hey how have your symptoms been lately? I’ve been dealing with depersonalization and derealization for about 8 years now. It’s at its worst state right now but I have been able to get better in the past so hoping for the best. But just wanted to say I relate so much to your last sentence. About feeling programmed to become a person that fits best with a person you’re interacting with instead of being yourself. Really hits home for me. I’m terribly self conscious about it because I feel like most people would see it as some sort of fake chameleon like disorder, but it’s an honest response that I feel I can’t control.
@@dannypassenger6234 the social anxiety on top of panic disorder seemed to have caused my dissociation it's very hard but I believe with time it'll get better I hope
I smokes weed and got dpdr I'm don't have social anxiety I think mind is normal like having butterflys in your stomach or something will my dpdr be cured you think?
My interest in psychology has increased since I was a teenager, at my current age it is something that stimulates my brain and gets my attention more. Books,Podcasts, Documentaries etc about the human mind/psychology/psychiatry is my thing.Thank the Lord there are videos on the subject.
I've had a couple of mild disassociation experiences. Just, everything feeling slightly off, as though I was out of step with existence but only half a step, a subtle wrongness that I could not pinpoint or ease. Going to sleep fixed it but it happened again not long after. I haven't had another instance in over a year and I'm rather glad for that.
Thank you SO much for making this video! As someone with a dissociative disorder who already knows a lot about it, this helped me make sense of it even more!
I always feel like I'm being watched. I'm not sure who is watching me but I feel like my life is being documented. I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder type 2, anxiety, and chronic depression. I am getting tested for schizophrenia, so far they have found that I'm not quite like the others and seem to have a very weird chemical imbalance in my brain. I feel like a lab rat and everyone is just handing me pills calling me insane and I'm not sure what to do. Am I the only one feeling like I'm being watched? If you have read through this whole thing then I hope you have a good day.
Vector F thank you for your suggestions. I am currently an artist and live off of it. I will take up your recommendation about documenting my voices, thank you.
masitah kamalrudin yes, sometimes due to stress, paranoia, or other small triggers. I think most of my panic attacks come from my paranoia however because having eyes on you all the time puts me in a venerable state for panic.
My older brother has schizophrenia. My family and I have tried to help him many times. It's been really painful for us to see him that way and and it can be very stressful to deal with him. He is now back on living on the streets. It's a situation my family and I have no control of anymore. Its really sad. I pray everyday for his safety. And I love him very much!
I have schizophrenia. This video is a really good baseline for understanding what's going on. If I were to add something I'd add the less obvious symptoms of delusions - such as being paranoid of people (which people can relate to) as well as a feeling of unreal-ness you can experience sometimes without actually hallucinating. :)
I agree. A family member is in his 5th week of hospitalization, and he is exhibiting these symptoms. I believe the video mentions it around the 3 minute mark. His current problem is with narratives of persecution, but after 5 weeks in his current environment, a normal person may come to the same conclusions. Most of his delusions seem to be rooted in some fact of his past. The therapist refers to it as delusions of reference. But, he still believes that people are reading his mind, that the TV is talking/making fun of him... (BTW, first-episode psychosis I believe induced from withdraw from high THC hash oil. He decided to kick the habit and it kicked him.)
I have dissociative identity disorder and it sucks.i weird ppl out. It's causing me and my family a lot of stress.ill go from a gentle and kind then turn into a monster and I often can't remember things. its scary not knowing yourself or how u may act is a scary way to live.i also have schizophrenia.
I'm glad that dissociative disorders especially DID. My psychiatrist recently diagnosed me with DID & I'm using things such as this video to help educate my family & friends about it. As for the series in general I find it very very helpful as an aspiring psychologist!
This is really useful; I created a character who has DID and I wanted to portray her as accurately as possible. Despite doing some research on the disorder already, I learned a few things, like that people may have different handedness in different alters. Thanks!
I recommend looking at DissoiaDID! I've also got a character with DID and I want to make sure I portray him and the disorder as accurately as I can, and DissoiaDID has helped a lot.
I can confirm through personal experience that dopamine plays a large part in psychosis, I've had psychotic breaks and paranoid psychosis from heavy stimulant binges and not sleeping for days on end. The drugs I was doing at the time all increased dopamine (cocaine and methamphetamine) never had any of those kind of symptoms from any other kind of drugs so I believe it's strongly connected! Thanks for reading
D.I.D was the only dissociative disorder here, I would have loved to hear about Depersonalization as it is most certainly a real thing and though it is rare it is nowhere near as rare and there isnt much support out there for people who suffer with it. Thanks
I've been diagnosed with DID. When I told my boyfriend that I had multiple personalities (this was before my dianogses), he thought I was talking about depression or ocd personified. It took some time to really explain to him what I was talking about, especially since I didn't fully understand it myself. I have distinctive personalities, and they are born out of trauma. When life gets too much for me, an alter can be born or take over.
I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia in remission. Well, at least they pay me social security funds for it, so... I can't really complain. My past is filled with depression, lack of ambition, general incapability to connect to people, and total sense of not matching the society in which I grew up in... All in all, depression and melancholy with an addition of social awkwardness. I am also a very weird person, yet, I do not fit the criteria to be suited to the Schizophrenic type. But, it seems that weirdness alongside other issues, is a part this very serious disorder according to Israeli psychiatric evaluation. Still, I can't complain about free money every month now, can I?
You’re just poorly socialized and neurotic. Getting fixated on how specialists have pathologized your minor problems will only exacerbate them and suppress your ability to still make meaningful connections with other people. That doesn’t mean your problem is any less real. Just clean yourself up and go forth and grab life by the cojones already
I have a professional diagnosis of DID and i denied it for a long time because there are so many stories about it being fake. I thought i was possesed or had early onset dementia. My entire youth was spent in psychiatric institutions. Im now in treatment and accepting my condition. Its hard because I know that many people, psychologists included do not believe it is real. Neither did I, but when i was assessed, diagnosed and had the symptoms explained, i realised It makes sense for what I experience. I know a lot of people fake it in things such as insanity defense, but i hope people can realise that just because some people fake it, and thats whats reported in the media, that there are people like me who actually have it and suffer because of the symptoms and stigma. I am now in treatment and will be for a long time, but im learning to accept this.
I've been psychotic before. My brain sounded like a high school lunch room. Always voices. I got shocked out of it the first time by almost dieing on a car wreck. My aunt Gene wouldn't turn to talk me while looking out a window onto her back yard once. Because she forgot to put her face on. I thought I was a test subject to be studied, and they weren't allowed to let me see what they looked like.
I've had delusions from my anxiety combined with trying Prozac. I thought there were subliminal messages in music, that my college was actually a video game I was trapped in. Or that I was a ghost and no one could see me. Or that the world wasn't real, people walking around were actually coreographed and that if I found out I was in a simulation and not real life, they would start to turn on me and attack me.
I’m probably just worrying myself but sometimes I feel like these symptoms are becoming more and more distinct. Lately I’ve only really been able to write down full and intellectual sentences. My thoughts are rapid and random, sometimes I can’t sleep at all because my mind won’t shut up. I just turned 20 and my father was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I’ve had psychotic breaks in the past and am terrified that it will turn into something worse. My mind isn’t normal, I can barely converse with my own peers. Should I be worried? I don’t want to tell my therapist only to make myself sound crazy.
DID itself, not even taking into account all dissociative disorders, which you didn't mention, like DPDR, affects about 2% of the population, making it more common than schizophrenia, not more rare. Shirley Mason, while it was explained by her therapist that she was faking, and she claimed herself at times afterwards that she thought she might be, the symptoms continued and she wrote about them, even including newly formed alters after the whole ordeal. This is because one of the primary symptoms of DID and OSDD, is thinking and/or convincing yourself(selves) that you're faking. Because the purpose of the disorder, is to rewrite the brain in such a way that the disorder runs covertly, so the primary host(s) (most common alter(s) in front/control) don't realize there are others, or even that they themselves might be more than one host, aside from anyone else in the system. Talking about it as a debate or controversy only serves to sensationalize and perpetuates the stigma against the community. Please don't do that. Finally, it was only known as "multiple personality disorder" during the DSM4. Both before and after that, it was known as and widely considered a dissociative disorder. Conceiving of it as a personality disorder, was basically a test run that was capitalized on as an easier catch to demonize those with the disorder, as villains, especially as killers.
I've always thought that some organization is spying on me and if I will make a big mistake, they would come to me or they would show it to the world....or maybe I would believe my crush is actually watching outside the windows of our house and he is keeping it a secret. I literally believe this sometimes....must be because I barely go outside since I was a child. But hopefully, it's just my delusion...hopefully.
This video has been so helpful for me. I don't have either of these disorders, I just wanted to learn about them. I actually have: panic disorder, an eating disorder and body dysmorphic disorder. However, this video gave me the word to describe some intense dissociation that I experience very often. I have always described it to friends and family but no one could ever relate to my experience. I looked up dissociation experiences and it came up with depersonalization which accurately describes my experiences and turns out to be a common symptom of panic attacks. Everything makes so much sense now and has put my mind at ease. Thank you
Thank you for not demonizing schizophrenia and being incredibly respectful while educating. This is what we need these days.
To bad it's always those you don't know that are compassionate & then your surrounded by people who are uninformed & lesser the severity of the condition. Or at least I am.
u are pretty😍
She’s amazing!! He never judges and is always thorough and engaging.
honey anakuma absolutely
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"Understanding may be the key to compassion." Deep af
not really..its a pretty simple concept that for some reason plenty of people don't want to understand or agree with it
like maybe us as humans just are so deep into ourselves and are just stuck in this little bubble of us thinking we are above all other human beings that we just pretend to care about other, when deep deep deeeeeeeep down inside ourselves we are caring or showing we are caring because we wanna be seen as good and humble BUT IN REALITY WE ARE NNOT WE ARE JUST HUMANS WITH WEIRD THOUGHTS AND SCRAMBLED BRAINS THAT WE THINK WE UNDERSTAND BUT WE DON'T
man how we like to think we understand our brains
m i n d You should learn about the human ego, and the path to losing it
@@dParakeet lol
how does this guy teach me more in 11 minutes than my lecturer does in 1.5 hours?
+ Tooba Saeed because lecturers are paid to flick the slides on a powerpoint, which they probably copied from someone else
+Tooba Saeed the glory of Hank
Because this took a giant team to produce. Read how many people are in the credits for production. And yes, these videos are awesome!
Tooba Saeed Because he isn't going into any detail whatsoever so you thinking your learning more is an illusion because he goes over 100 general topics in a short time
Tooba Saeed coz he is so fast...!!!
My mother was not diagnosed until she was in her 30's - manic depression, schizophrenia and split personality. Without a diagnosis or treatment she was able to provide us girls with a stable, clean home, regular meals, special birthdays and holidays. No parent is ever perfect but she gave it her all and I am so grateful.
I have schizophrenia and the voices aren't really terrifying most of the time. You get used to them. They can come as a surprise at times and at first they were a bit frightening but I experienced an odd loss of self at the same time for lack of a better way to describe it, so I didn't experience the same types of emotions I probably would have had I not been suffering from schizophrenia. When I'm on my medication the voices are definitely less frequent and I can typically tell what's real and what isn't and filter out the hallucinations but I guess you get used to it. When I need a med adjustment or I forget my medicine for a while or something I usually don't even notice when I begin a psychotic episode. Someone else does and puts me in inpatient in the hospital. It isn't until I get back on the right course of medicine that I can start thinking clearly enough that I can see how oddly I was thinking and acting. I'm still a weird guy though even when I'm properly medicated. It kinda hit me like a ton of bricks when I was 24. Sucks tbh.
Charles Burkholder wait... murder people like MINE do?? did you kill someone?????
Identical [GD] dont have schizophrenia myself but i think he means he gets murderous thoughts not necessarily actually acting on those thoughts
How are you doing now? I hope you are doing better.
@Charles Burkholder how are you doing now?
Identical [GD]
They said it makes them want to murder people, not that they've ever actually killed anyone. I'm sure you've been really angry and wished that someone was dead before. It's like that. Just because you *want* to kill people, that doesn't mean you actually will.
I have dissociative disorder because of my childhood trauma. Derealisation and depersonalisation are tough to live with! It feels like I'm always dreaming and I can't remember most of my life. I know I can get better though!
To all those also suffering from it, I hope you find a good therapist, medication, and recovery and relief comes quickly.
Jesus loves you , repent and follow him.
I got it from smoking does that mean I have the disorder now? I hope not I'm only 17 feel like I gotta experience life with this now
Seasorablue how are you doing now ? did your memory improve?
Do you hear voices
There is no medication for it. U can try antipsychotics - lmao
They don't work
You can meditate - lmao
You'll get more dissociated from focusing on your existence.
It's true we all get dissociated-ish from time to time. But... Very few stay dissociated 24/7/365. There's a big difference between a headache treatable with time and a neverending pulsing migraine
That's me right there. Have been since 7th grade. I'm 21 now and it's still here at base, but it can and does get way worse.
"Understanding may be the key to compassion" I like that :)
Dissociative identity disorder is still a real thing, it is underresearched, underfunded and undertaught in psychology school
It is a real thing, but it is not underresearched as a whole. It is just mostly researched by the wrong people. Are you familiar with trauma-based mind control?
What the hell is psycology school?
It's unclear until the research consolidates.
Agreed. And OSDD is not represented at all (we have that) we have 12 alters and r trying to understand our Disorder. And cuz of no one taking us seriously we cant
edit- ...21..alters YAY ......ugh ;c
If I’m not mistaken wasn’t DID first acknowledged for one case in the 60s then the next year like a few hundred?
*My mom had a heart attack* and i thought it was her delusion that she had other than imagining things. I asked her if her back was burning and she couldn't speak what exactly was happening to her as she was on a sedative and I assumed she was feeling better and sleeping like she would daily after the medication and she gave me hints that it was really a heart attack but she always wanted me to not spend money on her and *she had a massive cardiac arrest right in front of me* and she died in my arms while on the way to the hospital.
I've been in shock ever since and I have tears while I'm writing this. My mom suffered from schizophrenia for 30 years without treatment but when she got fine after her treatment last year ,she just had a year of quality life and died because of my lack of understanding.
My father used to beat her black and blue , hit her ,grab her hairs, break her bones , slap her, hit her while I was a child and I was helpless and he never treated her. When we grew up ,my elder brother started beating and threatening her , and when I grew I thought she was very doing this purposely, I googled what was going on and it was shocking that she was living with this disorder and all her symptoms matched. I got her a proper treatment last year and she would sometimes talk about someone coming to harm us but she improved 99% on medications but I lost her a month ago.
I wonder how she lived so many years and raised us by working very hard while our father did nothing.
It's a terrible disorder and I pray to God that nobody has it ever. Nobody believes you when you actually need help. My mom's face keep flashing to my mind everyday. I simply didn't understand what happened because she had no signs or symptoms of heart attack and she didn't say anything but hint me because she cared a lot for our financial difficulty and didn't want anyone to bear her expenses. I miss my mother , she was a very important part of my life and she is why I grew up who I am despite she suffered all these years without medications.
Thank you for being sensitive on this topic and please get yourselves or those who suffer from it be loved and cared ,that plays a massive role in grooming them and making them feel accepted.
Thank you for this video. I'm currently in a very serious relationship with my girlfriend who is diagnosed as a schizophrenic and this really helped me understand what I can do to help her and how to be more readily responsive to her when something happens. I cannot thank you enough!
Hey man how did it go?
I was gonna say how thoughtful and nice of you to do that but idk if you’re still together :(
You already broke up?
I dated a guy for 3 years who had DID. When he first told me that he had multiple selves, I assumed he was either schizophrenic or making it up, but I tried to withdraw judgment. Nonetheless, I'd be lying if I didn't say I was scared. I have diagnosed depression, anxiety, and OCD myself, but this seemed like a whole new ballpark of crazy. It was beyond my ability to empathize with him as I genuinely couldn't imagine what it was like to have multiple personalities at the time. However, that changed when I got to meet his alters. Realizing that this was 100% real to him, and just the sheer complexity of it, was mind boggling, yet extremely eye opening. Each personality inside of him was a fully fledged person, with all the intricacies that comes with it. The way each alter talked, acted, moved, even wrote--it was all that of separate people. The host--the self in charge of the body the most, may have been the person I initially fell in love with, but eventually, I discovered all three of them inside of him captured my heart. I want people to know that multiple personalities, as crazy as it sounds, is completely real, and these people who have it are not messed up. It's definitely not a walk in the park to have DID, that I know from him, but all of him, each self, were just as conceivable as you and I, albeit not as tangible. He sometimes would refer to himself as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ironically, but he wasn't a monster. All of him were--and is, a great man. He has since completed the difficult process of integration, which is where his personalities absorbed into one united self, but I still love the parts that used to be, and the person he is now.
Sage Mirei I really appreciate you sharing your experience! I was in a similar situation. I had a phone relationship with someone and ended up being "Catfished" in a way. I ended up meeting the person who was a girl, but the person on the phone, the boy with a slight accent, was completely there within her. I saw every physically changed you mentioned with your ex. They were their own people. I ended up getting to know both of them extremely well, even going to her doctor together. It was a very interesting time in my life I don't often talk about.
Novelplottingandpeonies Thank you for sharing as well! It's interesting hearing from others with similar experiences on the receiving end of being with someone like that or having a close relationship/friendship, etc. It's one thing to hear someone who has it talk about it and another who has dealt with it in someone else because I think it solidifies the matter even more that they're not making it up, when people like us can vouch for them. It does sound like an interesting part of your life, and I appreciate you commenting!
are you guys still dating?
alex time low We broke up, but were still friends. He stopped talking to me and didn't respond to any form of contact (letters, texts, packages, etc) for 10 months, but coincidentally, he called me last weekend and we're talking again.
Sage Mirei that's good
how's he doing now?
I am diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. DID is a result is severe and repetitive chlildhood trauma or abuse that can only develop when these traumatic experiences occur when the individual in question is aged 9 or younger. I've never understood why people want to fake having DID. It's an incredibly difficult disorder to deal with, it can only form under horrible circumstances, and for many it's not possible to integrate (for all personalities to reabsorb into one single person). These sensationalized, inaccurate, and terrible depictions of DID in movies like Sybil, Split, and Identity are so harmful to the DID community, especially since most of us have been harrassed or called "fake" many times before. Also, plenty of research has been done on DID! It's even a recognized disorder in the DSM-5 of the American Psychiatric Association, the manual used to officially diagnose mental disorders.
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My grandpa had schizophrenia, it was terrible at the end. He believed that all of the doctors were plotting against him and when my Aunt missed a Christmas because of work, my grandpa somehow linked the two. He cut her out of his life for years. He would hallucinate the sounds of people walking around upstairs and he thought people were breaking in. I really wish I could have gotten to know the sharp, compassionate, witty lawyer he was for most of his life. By the time I was a teenager, things had gotten pretty ugly- he wasn't taking his meds and he also had severe bipolar disorder in addition to the schizophrenia. He's been gone for years now but I really miss him and wish I could talk to him again as an adult. I think he'd be proud of me.
Katie Niekamp I'm sorry to hear that. He will be proud of you no doubt. People from certain occupations like doctors, police, lawyers, psychologists tend to suffer from more mental disorders than other professions because of the daily occurrence of negativity in these jobs, it's sad but that's how it is.
don't see anything missable there
schizophrenia is caused by severe stress and traumas mostly from childhood.
Number Number I feel you bro!
I just read your story about your grandpa so sad it really sounds just like my dad he was also mentally ill never got a diagnose for the disorder but it was so obvious that he was suffering from bipolar and shizophrenia my two sisters have shizophrenia pretty bad. It is really sad how are government are not doing enough to help with mental illness.
THANK YOU for covering mental illnesses, like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia! I'm glad that it's not only me who's out there telling people that they do not understand at all what they mean when they say things like "lol I'm so bipolar"
I understand this, a very close friend of mine has dissociative identity disorder and it always makes me mad how it's portrayed in the media and how people think of it when I know this really sweet guy who is nothing like how the people in the media portray people with this mental illness.
***** well... I'm not lying, there's not much I can do to prove it. so I guess it's fine if you don't believe me. kinda rude to straight up make that accusation though
***** are you okay
I didn't know a damn thing about bipolar disorder, never talked about it, and never thought about it until I saw the Crash Course episode on it. The video was posted about a week after I had stepped out onto my porch atop a hill and immersed myself in the vivid perception of having dictatorial authority. When I reluctantly decided to watch the video several days later, I was absolutely shocked to see the degree to which I matched the description of the disorder. I suppose you could say it was until after I had learned about the nature of bipolar disorder that I had thought to exercise the possibility that "I'm so bipolar".
***** calm down man, never said you had to believe me. it's perfectly fine that you don't. being critical of things you hear is a positive thing and I'm not going to discourage you from that. that being said you are still being very rude in your accusations, if what you sate is true and it does not exist (this is not something I believe but for arguments sake) maybe the person I believe has dissociative identity disorder was the one lying to me and I believe them. that would make you wrong in accusing me while still being correct in that it doesn't exist making you look like an ass still. it's much better to assume the best in people in these situations to avoid such situations.
Sad to see depersonalization and derealization not mentioned under the dissociative disorders. Then again he did say "more rare and elusive" when it came to that section. One day, my soul will find me and I'll feel connected again, I hope.
I agree. I really am surprised he didn't mention it . I have DP/DR myself
I know. I thought he would have mentioned it, my dad has Depersonalisation.
Yeah that's why I came. Hopefully another video may be made for it!
I agree. I think this ought to have been 2 seperate vids. I have experiece with Disassoative dissorder. Ive seen someone reintegrate , with a lot of work and good help. It took years. Personally, I had another person coaless in me and cause me plenty of trouble. Ive never been aware of him, outside of being told what I did. I cant see him. He can , or did, see me. Didnt like me. Far as I know hes been inactive for maybe a year ... ? I recently learned about how Complex PTSD [not yet in the DSM, almost made it in the last revision.] and it explaines everything I have experienced, far as mental health issues are concerned, and makes it possible to fix much of it and deal with most of whats left. If you are going thru the ride that is mental health help, it would be well worth your time to explore CPTSD. It may be helpful. Changed my life so much. Just not soon enough for some of my hopes. Its easy to learn enough about it, to know if it will help, in a couple hours.
They all go together, its pretty much the same thing. google dissociative disorder
I was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder when I was 18. When I recalled being raped (ages 4-12) my mind released whatever part of me had been there for the abuse. She was a stronger version of myself. When I was very stressed from remembering my past, she would take over, and that was frightening. We merged together, as a concious decision.
Chelsey Mathers I know exactly what you mean. I wish I had understood this earlier in my life. My abuse was years of physical violence from my adopted parents. I’m still try to reconcile with younger self. I often have to remind her that the threat is no longer in here. Thank you for sharing your story. I am so sorry that happened to you.💞=💖
My grandmother had Schizophrenia. My dad has OCD and I have panic attacks, what a wonderful family. I just wanted to post this to show that even with all the problems, my family is still pretty great and I love them anyway.
aaww sweet 💖💖
Lucky bastard.
My best friend has schizophrenia, and i have to constantly remind him i love him because 'they' are telling him many horrible things, especially that i'm 'not his friend'. He gets anxious, and has panic attacks, and 'they' constantly abuse him, he feels sharp pains in his body.. its just horrible ;-;
My mom has Schizophrenia and i used to hate her for certain things she did in the past but now i love but i still watch her just in case she falls back into old habits lol also my boyfriend has dissociative identity disorder and i love him very much
Emano_Wolf Feeling you on so many levels. Hope your mom is fine! ♥️
Normally I watch videos 1.5X speed, but this guy talks that fast.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dude, right?! Lol- I'm memorized. 🤣
I think John actually talks faster. When I first started watching crashcourse I could barely keep up lol
Listen to his brother John Green, (he is Hank Green)
Oh hun. You need to watch Overly Sarcastic Productions, specifically Red's videos!
I have schizoaffective disorder and while I have experienced many prolonged periods of intense disabling illness, nowadays aside from acting a little weird nobody can tell that I’m hallucinating while talking to them as long as I wear mirrored glasses to cover my eyes. And I’m very lucky to have substantial intelligence and insight on my side so I’ve found many ways to use my mental illness to help me think about issues in ways that others can’t and turn it into a strength.
I actually ran across this video because my client of four years has severe schizophrenia. Numerous of her antipsychotics needed to be discontinued recently because they were poisoning her, and only two weeks without those medications caused her to be so delusional and confused that we had no choice but to admit her to a “mental health behavioral unit”. She’s so paranoid and I hope the doctors can figure out which medication helps to quiet the constant voices so we can take her back home again. She’s been rehabilitated for ten years, and she’s terrified to be in a ward again and she’s mentally handicapped too so she has trouble understanding her disability. It’s so bad, she thinks people can steal her body parts and be invisible and she gets aggressive thinking that people were shooting her and cutting her. She almost opened the door in a moving car because she thought someone was trying to kill her. It’s heartbreaking. I miss my girl.
My mom was diagnosed with schizophrenia and paranoia when I was young. she's doing much better now. it wasn't easy to get her the help she needed, but thankfully she did. This video was very accurate. I think it's good for us to educate ourselves on important topics like this.
be on the watch tho You might get schizophrenia too
cocacoladog10 I legit died of laughter from this comment. "Be on the watch tho" I don't know why I found this so funny. But can I just say that just because her mom has schizophrenia doesn't necessarily mean she will eventually have it. She may be predisposed to it but there are ways you can eliminate some of the environmental factors. Staying away from drugs and alcohol would be the best way. Also keeping your stress levels low.
May i ask if your mother used any medical to help her with her condition, and how long this problem stayed?
You may not see this comment due to it being a year old but my mother also has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. It was pretty tough back then without her having the proper medication. It's nice to find someone who's going through the same thing as I am
Jania Montero even my mom has schizophernia, and oh my god it is so difficult to see her suffer and it affects my life too
My friend's aunt had schizophrenia and her Catholic family apparently tried to exorcise her
ah... classic religion, too stupid to realize the situation. But anyways i hope your aunt is doing better :(
pffffffffffffftttt more like you
+RL Gill In a way, that's hilarious, and in another way, that isn't funny at all.
Im sorry, but thats so funny!
exorcism helped me
dissociation is a conditioned response to chronic trauma, meaning, your brain learns to separate or split from your body because the trauma you are experiencing to too much for the mind to process. it is most common in people with complex ptsd. when you are experiencing trauma over and over your body learns to separate from your mind and it becomes a reaction to everyday stress or trauma occurs again.
the reason people with borderline develop dissociative symptoms is because they experience emotions at such high frequencies that things can feel traumatic and overwhelming even if they are not necessarily stereotypical trauma like sexual abuse or physical abuse. the same goes for people with schizophrenia and bipolar 1 and 2
+gracelikesbooks As a sufferer of Depersonalization Disorder, I have to agree with the above comment.
I often dissociate/depersonalize/derealize when I'm feeling overwhelmed. A traumatic event from my childhood may have triggered the first episode, but since then it has (like you said) become a subconcious coping mechanism of mine to fall into a dissociative state.
***** Gee whiz thanks for completely invalidating my experience.
You're rediculous. Have you ever been formally diagnosed with this? I have. I've had brain scans done, I've had to meet with doctors, I have been examined by theraputical and psychiatric specialists. I have depersonalization/derealization disorder, a form of dissociative disorder. At first they thought I was having epileptic seizures, but nope. I have a thought disorder used for COPING called depersonalization/derealization disorder. It's taken years to diagnose, so thanks for invalidating all my years of suffering as well :).
To continue on, my experiences seem to differ greatly from yours. My symptoms closely follow all the other symptoms you'll find with this disorder. I have lapses in conciousness... phases where I forget what I did. Everything will feel fake, like I can't feel anything. Sometimes this drives me to self-harm just to see if I'll still bleed. I have no emotions in this state. All it feels like is a dull throb of discomfort. I feel very separated from my body, like I'm watching from above. My head feels like it's full of cottonballs. Sometimes, when it's really bad, everything I percieve is in slow motion and foggy around the edges. I have tunnel vision. My thoughts are so far within. I can barely function. I've been pulled out of games/classes because of these catatonic lapses. But mostly what I feel above all else is that previously described feeling of nothing. I do not exist. I can't feel. You could slap me across the face and I would ask you to do it again just to bring back the sensation-- any sensation. It can last from a couple hours to a couple days, these episodes.
What you describe sounds like a bad trip. I'm not saying your experiences aren't real, but perhaps you should meet with a psychologist to discuss other diagnoses. Perhaps you have Depersonalization Disorder? I don't know, but you should be formally evaluated.
Also, another symptom, I can hear people talking but it sounds like it's in a foreign language. I have large troubles processing.
We got diagnosed with DID of July this year. We're trying to learn more about it to understand our experiences better. It happens due to repeated childhood trauma that felt impossible to escape. Thank you for this video.
My brother is schizophrenic. The most terrifying part of it was that he could see in the beginning that he was loosing his mind. Looking back it seems to have started around 15-16 but it really didn't get bad until the summer after his first year of college. I remember him telling me that he was loosing his mind. That eventually went to someone was controlling his mind. Now he's just completely gone, he lives in a group home and spends his time watching game shows and playing sudoku. He thinks I'm an actor playing his brother (or something like that I haven't really been able to figure out exactly what he thinks I am) so I don't see him often because it upsets him. He was pretty smart to, such a waste of life.
lennonforever40 schizophrenic patients usually get delusional, as in having thoughts that just make no sense and are not plausible. one of those delusions can be that he thinks you're a actor, or a clone. that you're not the person you portray yourself as (a delusion,), sounds like your brother needs help.
My older brother is schizophrenic but it seems like my younger brother is starting to develop his schizophrenia too. He tells me that he feels like he’s turning “into” my brother and he says he has parasites that are causing medical issues that have never been diagnosed. He doesn’t trust doctors in diagnosing him.
What would you wish you did different when you were younger to get your brother help?
My son has schitzophrania, and he has almost every type of it. He graduated high school 2 years ago with honors. He moved out n moved in with a older female started being depressed, stressed and just down n out.well he became psychotic about a year ago, with several episodes of thinking I wasn't his mom, that I was jumping in n out of bodies. He also said he worked for God suckling up lost souls n sending them where they belong. He was talking to about 9 different voices n they beat him down day in n day out. He threatened to take his own life on a daily basis. He would think someone spit in his plate , n start lifing. He thought I plotted against him , he also thinks he has put out lots lots of music, like he believes he is a rapper and that real rappers have stolen some of his music n it's on the radio, they use his lyrics in their music the ones that someone stole. His taste buds, smelling senses are totally diffrent. He sometimes feel his brain is only working from one side. He thinks he reads other minds n that when their brain connects they know what he thinks. He handwriting has gotten so bad he can't read it, n if u can make it out there is really no sense made of it. He thinks he can pass out super powers, he says he is blinf. He also say that some parts of his body isn't his like these legs ain't my legs, these r little. This ear right here isn't my ear, I think I may cut if off. You never know what's next . Anyway my heart goes out to all who suffer from diffrent types of mental illnesses. This has Ben one of the hardest things in my life to deal with as a mom of a 21 year old. I feel like this is not my son sometime. The change in him has Ben so rapid n dramatic. I pray for you all, I pray for those suffering from schitzophrania n other mental illness, I pray for the families, n I also pray for the caregivrs. I would like , if you have taken the time out to read a very few things about my son, would you say a small prayer n Jesus name that he will overcome this, n get his sane mind back. I thank you in advance. God Bless
Danie!!e Smith prayers
very sorry hes dealing with that.
I sure appreciate this discussion. My brother has been paranoid schizophrenic for 40 years. He has, at one time or another, exhibited every single symptom of schizophrenia. He's been violent, abusive, ranting and raving, extreme delusions of grandeur, extreme hallucinations, word salad, blames me for everything, can't pay attention to anything, he tried to kill my mother several times, he's cost me friends, jobs, even a house.
Yet all the focus has been on him, always. There was no help for me ever, even when I repeatedly asked. My relatives (all dead now we're old) hounded me for decades to "fix" my brother. Now I'm old and tired (he's younger) and he hounds me to death non stop. He just can't accept that I'm not able to do everything for him any more. I'm lazy, selfish, a scapegoat. He's literally killing me with this abuse.
My point is that you shouldn't ignore the family of the mentally ill, but you should support them. I can no longer help my brother; I'm having a hard time taking care of myself. If someone would have helped me 30 or 40 years ago when I asked, then it would have been a whole lot better for my brother and me too.
sad
I know this is from 11 months again but its true nobody thinks about the family of the schizophrenic.
It really can wear you down hard like get mental problems yourself hard.
Please know i understand what your going through and i hope you and your brother are doing alright.
It's true, it made me glad here in the uk they changed the rules about what it means to be a carer and who could get support
Family helps family.
He needs support and you have helped him.
A+
Well now he's deceased. He died a couple days after Thanksgiving.
This was the most informative and sensitive video on schizophrenia you kept it positive and not something to fear or dehumanise having a mental illness or any other disability doesn't render you useless I have spent most of my life in fear that I am a waste of space. Thankyou for your really positive talk bravo
This sounds unbelievably chaotic and terrifying. I can't imagine how isolating it would feel to have schizophrenia.
I had a girlfriend like this before. Her main personality liked me but, her other personality had no feelings towards me. I had no idea which one was in control at any given time. The worst part was that we were best friends for years and yet some how her second personality literally did not care about my feelings or if I even died.
This stuff is very real.
My doctor just told me I had this I have to go to the hospital today and this really helped me understand what I'm going threw thank you for making this
You’re a warrior, Mychal. Now you don’t have to fight alone
Hey, I just wanted to recommend the youtube channel DissociaDID, it has a lot of information on Dissociative Identity Disorder, and is a really interesting channel made my a system (a body containing several personalities/alters) who have DID
Jeremy an alternate perspective is also quite good and is more personal experience.
I love DissociaDID! They do such a wonderful job educating on a subject that can be hard to grasp.
Multiplicityandme and The Entropy System are two other DID channels that talk about DID.
Multiplicity and Me is also a good channel and shows a DID system with good information
The Entropy System also provides a lot of DID information as well as their story with battling the condition
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I had a family member who thought he was jesus for a while. And that's how we found out he had schizophrenia.
@@horrorncrime555 how ironic and scary
Maybe he's Jesus.
There used to be a guy in my home town who went round telling people he was Jesus.
Lol
@@jacobharris1846 Maybe jesus was schizophrenic
im professionally diagnosed with schizophrenia and ptsd and this is the most informative and accurately represented video ive seen on my disorder (also not demonizing at all, thank you so much)
This video helped me understand what happened to a close friend a few years ago. I was living with three other guys in an apartment, and after I went home for a month over a school break one of my roommates was acting strangely. While he acted like he normally would most of the time, he would have episodes where he would talk continuously about anything and everything. He would change topic mid-sentence, and wouldn't give us personal space like he usually would. He even woke me up one night at 3 AM the night before he knew I had a test to chat about tacos. After a few days of this he was gone from the apartment, and my roommates told me the police had taken him to a mental hospital. Apparently he had made comments comparing himself to the Sandy Hook shooter (this was right after the shooting), in that they were both misunderstood. He never made any threats to himself or others, and later complained to me about how bored he was in the hospital.
He had previously mentioned that he had a family history of schizophrenia, although he never told me if that was his diagnosis. I also learned that over that break when I was gone he experimented heavily with hallucinogenic drugs and may have had a bad breakup that could have triggered the episodes. When the episodes were over he said he had little recollection of anything he'd done or said and was extremely embarrassed when we told him how he'd acted. The whole time I stuck with him and tried to do whatever I could to help, although he ended up telling me that he didn't feel it was my business. He ended up dropping out of school, and now is living with his family.
I know that schizophrenia is misunderstood, but the entire time this happened was was never scared of him. I was scared FOR him. He was still the nice guy I knew, in his more lucid moments told me how scared he was. I suppose what I'm saying is that if anyone you know shows any signs of this or any other mental illness, please PLEASE be there for them.
Separately, a recent study looked at schizophrenia in Westernized countries vs the rest of the world and there is a significantly higher amount of violent and paranoid delusions in Westernized countries, whereas less developed countries (especially those that tend to be more religious) had more gentle, supportive voices. People with delusions were much more often seen as Oracles or felt that God (a god, etc) was talking through them. As a result there was little to no negative stigma associated with it in the culture as well. Just an interesting tidbit. I can probably find link to the article for anyone interested.
Send a link my way, I'm intrigued.
AntonymousRecon
bjp.rcpsych.org/content/early/2014/06/17/bjp.bp.113.139048.full.pdf+html
and the associated PR piece - news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614.html
Yes that's it! Thank you!
Always the chance that we hear the voice of Satan as well...
Well... western countries tend to motivate their people by fear, and smaller peoples generally are motivated to survive.
One of the worst things that can ever afflict a human being. My mother has suffered with this since she was 28. Just a horrible existence, hearing voices, incoherent speech and unpredictable behavior. Crying one minute, laughing the next. Talking loudly for hours in a room when there's no one else around. It doesn't just break one emotionally but exhausts those around such a person as well. No permanent treatment, none. Hope no one ever has to experience this ever.
I’ve been listening to Hank for so long now, that i know he’s got a cold by the sound of his voice in this video.
My dad has Schizophrenia, and it's terrifying to hear him talk about the things he sees. I hope that won't be me some day.
My mom has this too, do you give him any medication?
His Dr. prescribed him some. He scares me to death so I do not live with him.
Pagan Gods With the right supervision, support, and medication he and anybody else who is suffering from this illness could fully recover.
My mum has schizophrenia and it's terrifying
+Barney “Riddick47” Ross just because a disease is herediatry doesn't mean you'll definitely get it, there are many enviournmental factors that also come in to play
Having DID though (I do have a diagnosis), you can be very likely to suddenly think it was all fake and you dont have the disorder. I think this is because the idea of having the disorder is stressful, and my mind seems to be really good at making me believe that a stressful event either was not stressful or simply did not happen. Even when compiling evidence, pieces of the evidence in my own head can simply disapear. The belief leads to me trying to explain the symptoms in other ways, which definitally can be done as it can just look a little like amnesia. Then my internal filter starts to work really hard at making personalities that believe this try really hard to act the same, and then they will brush the difference in behavior off saying it had to do with mood to my therapist. For personalities that would occasionally have this belief, the belief would go away and come back. They seem to work really hard to make themselves act the same, and then loose most of the memory of trying to do that, but have this "feeling" that they need to do specific things. This whole thing made me contradict myself to my therapist a bunch of times, sometimes in the same session, or within as short as like a few minutes apparently. There can also be internal communication with us as well. This is not unusual and is normally developed by continuous external communication. Internal communication can lead to some hard to translate thoughts, it is almost like we think fundamentally different.
I wish I knew you bc we got through the same thing.
I have been schizophrenic and the symptoms feel so real. This is the most touching video on UA-cam ever.
I have DID. I myself am bipolar, and OCD. I wish you went a little more in depth on DID. Its very complex and can cause people a lot of trauma. All you basically talked about was the sybil story and how it's hard to tell if someone is faking.....
Exactly
I think there's another video he made that's specifically about personality disorders, maybe check there?
@@Phoenix_7568 DID is literally characterized by extreme dissociation. a personality disorder is one that affects your one personality in many ways; DID is a condition that affects your brain in such a way as to cause many personalities. literally basically the inverse, though you can have DID and personality disorders such as BPD.
At my age, I did not know the movie and book, SYBIL, were discredited as fake. Not only that but only 1% of the population has the mental disorder. Today, I'm glad there are medications to help but only if they're taken properly and that requires supervision.
Crash Course, you've done it again. I've learned something new today.
Thank you!
Beware 1% is quite a high number, and they are talking about schizophrenia not dissociative disorders.
Carutsu Understood, however, I'm leaning towards a margin of error of mostly undiagnosed cases among the general population.
wysiwyg43 Cited: Link to poverty. Those who don't have money for things aren't going to spend any of it on doctors, especially with judgement affected by disorder. So, yeah.
I was introduced to crash course through ap world history in highschool, and stayed throughout college to learn about psychology on my own time. This is the best educational channel ever! 💕
1:00 Want direct experience? Spend enough time sleep deprived and you might get what you’re looking for. Sufficient lack of sleep can cause symptoms in otherwise mentally healthy people. Of course, getting that sleep deprived and staying up to experience is in itself likely to be torturous. Not really recommended.
Did you know that Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder aren't the same thing? Did you know that we don't call it Multiple Personality Disorder anymore? In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, ***** takes us down the road of some very misunderstood psychological disorders.
I have to take Zoloft daily to keep my emotions regular . Can you explain it to me?
I also had to take therapy for a little while.
I'd really like to learn about BPD (borderline personality disorder) it effected my life immensely and it is a difficult concept for me to grasp considering I am not the one suffering, if you could even point me in the right direction for some good literature that I could read it would be greatly appreciated, (although the dissociation disorders you just taught us about seem to be more accurate to describe what I see but what do I know.
***** I agree, I myself have ADHD, real ADHD, and find that often people don't take me seriously or assume I am part of the mass that uses it as an excuse to get away with certain things. It is so often misdiagnosed that I no longer know how to judge if someone actually has ADHD. Good episode none the less.
As a sufferer of depersonalization/derealization I would appreciate a followup on these, thanks for the video
This episode truly didn’t do DID justice
Angelica Cope I wish it had more stuff like Derealization and Depersonalization in it
Yodarules2 Yeah I’ve been diagnosed for 2 years now and no one wants to talk about dp/dr and it makes me feel alone. Reading this comment puts a smile on my face.
Falcon have you watched Anthony Padilla’s recent video on the subject? I recommend !
Falcon watch the channel DisscioaDID!
They left a tiny portion at the end for it. Not enough time and effort put into it in comparison to the portion on schizophrenia
Thanks for making this video! As a mental health nurse, I’m glad to see an accurate, evidence-based, and stigma-free educational video like this. You videos always present the information in such an easily digestible way. Keep them coming! More in the mental health field please!
I met a woman in the park yesterday when I was walking my dog. She started talking to me and before I knew she was going on about these "creatures" that had wings (either white and gray or black and brown, she didn't remember) and that were kind of spying on her. One of them was kissing her in her sleep and she said it was like a bat. She started having an infection around her teeth, maybe because of those beeings. She said souls come first and that she remembers the light and that all we see is only a projection.
All of her beliefs didn't really line up with each other, first it was a different dimension, then a projection and then other times these creatures lived among us.
I thought she might have schizophrenia but I'm not one to diagnose her. She was in her early to mid fourties and also told me she has a daughter and boyfriend, so I'm not worried that she's alone.
But i hope that she get's help maybe, she just didn't seem quite "right".
most likely schizophrenic but could have been on drugs, and she may not really have a daughter or bf.
Sounds like she didn't brush her teeth.
Dissociative identity disorder is real and sometimes scary as a person that has the disorder, im lucky to have two other people in my life with this disorder because i dont feel so alone anymore, even though this disorder comes from a traumatic past its good to have other people like me in my life, we help each other a lot. Im glad this talks about DID in a good way and not the way the media makes it out to be something bad.
I have schizophrenia and I hear voices and see demons , as I type this comment there is a demon on my ceiling trying to bite me. I get very paranoid and I also have other disorders like OCD,ADD, and depression. I had to be hospitalized a month ago and I also have to apply for disability because I can't do manual labor. People need to be grateful they have a healthy mind because people like me just can't have that. Although I hope I can become a marine biologist and an author one day but it won't be easy. I wish I was normal 😥
Things get better, going to see a therapist and taking medicine will make your life much more pleasant. You can be normal :)
I think you can try to read about teachings of ramana maharishi as it helped me immensly.
Jesus loves you, follow him.
Lunastre oh :( I’m sorry. Your last line really hit me. Feeling so isolated from the experiences of “normal” people, and instead having to suffer with a mental illness- I just want to hug you.
There is a TED talk about someone with schizophrenia, whose astrophysicist. Shes gone though suffering only you and the people that have this can understand completely- and still, she did it. I’m sure you can too, okay? I know you can. I promise, I promise. Try, and try as hard as you can. You can become whatever you’d like to be, and you can become a marine biologist. It won’t be easy, you’re right, but living with schizophrenia isn’t easy either, and you’re managing. Though some days are harder, you’re still going. Use your willpower inside you that gives you the strength to live, to *really* live, to reach for your dreams. Do what you dream of- you really can do it.
You have something that makes you different from many other people, but you also share a lot with everyone. You’re a human being, with goals, wishes and desires. And you’re no different in that you deserve to let yourself have them. So go get them!
Please take care of yourself. I hope things are going okay, or maybe they’re better than before. However things are, you’re beautiful. And you can, with all my heart I mean it, do the things you’d like to do. You deserve that :)
OnlyJesus Saves if “Jesus” loved them, they wouldn’t have to go through this.
My best friend has most of these symptoms and I want her to go to a doctor but she refuses to but I'm worried for her well-being.
Tuel awwww it’s been year since this has been posted has she improved? You can offer to go with her to the docto
If shes still not doing better tell her parents
If you think she imagines parasites you might be doing her harm! SCABIES does exist in cities in the US and other places and happens in crowded conditions and men who are nasty do take advantage of these women!
Hi all, she recently turned 18 and is out of her parents house (where they rufused to treat her) and I'm going to try and get her to go to a counselor.
Sheila Stutz what...
I have DID, and was lookin to understand "myself" more. thank you CrashCourse, you really have taught me something new
Pleaaaassseeeee do an episode just for DID. there's so much stigma surrounding this complex disorder.
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(Diagnosed DID, ptsd, bulimia)
Unfortunately... I've been hospitalized for mental health nine times. It took until the 8th time in the 3rd hospital for me to get the proper diagnosis of DID,, because even trained mental health workers doubt the illness.
I've even called a liar to my face by experienced doctors because they're simply ignorant about this far side of the dissociative spectrum. Unfortunately this is really common for people living with this incredibly stressful traumagenic disorder...
To all you multiples: ily and I hope you receive the help you deserve
Sunlight System it took me four psychiatrists to get diagnosed. And a lot of hospital visits. It’s good to know we’re not as alone as we think
I got diagnosed at my first psychiatric appointment, but when I was hospitalized less than a week later, and constantly tried to express it, nobody cared at all. It was really horrible to only have each other but not be able to even talk about it.
i love you
My brother is suffering from schizophrenia from last 12 years, there has been a lot of improvement through medicines but still a lot of improvement need to happen..... Still there are delusions, false beliefs like being the worlds richest man, unorganized thinking, unsocial life,..... we family are too depressed and losing hope as we are not getting any sure shot solution
I knew someone with scizophrenia, and he/she was one of the greatest writers I've ever met.
*schizophrenia
Thank you for making this video. We're definitely going to use it when trying to educate my family on whatever the hell is wrong with us.
After taking a cross cultural psychology course, I think you should really revise this! Only in western cultures are these symptoms displayed as you've mentioned. The categories stay the same but how they're manifested are differently. I recently read an article that was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry by Luhrmann that compares individuals from California, Ghana, and India. The Ghanaian and Indian participants reported positive voices while absolutely none of the Californian participants did. How cool is that! In these eastern cultures, schizophrenic patients actually do much much better than American patients do. It's a really good read and I would LOVE to see some videos on universal psychological syndromes and culture bound syndromes
Christina +
Christina I hope this can be studied more in the near future.
That's such an interest case you present. I am European by blood but was born and raised on an island in the Pacific and eventually settled in Australia as a young child. Having studied criminology and psychology for years as I was diagnosed with PTSD, depression and more recently DID - due to the fact I felt compelled to learn more about my parents, with the hope of ultimately understanding myself - i find it fascinating your contribution here as I too experience the more positive aspect of auditory hallucinations. The thing with me is, I've always heard them and always saw them and knew they were external. Even though for a length of time i was prescribed antipsychotics, thankfully I am no longer on them, I still believe in what they are and say because to me, I believe they are my spirit guides. I also feel like I'm a highly-functioning depressive. One day I'll work it out. Either way, great point you made. I think the culture we grow up in makes a huge difference. The fact my parents are white and European living in a predominantly black, low-socioeconomic society has had an effect too.
That's super interesting
i theorize that the answer to that simply boils down, as expected, to the cultural differences between the individuals with this disorder. in the western societies, especially america, there is a high level of societal pressure and stress and depression due to the artificial need to be perfect. in other societies, such as eastern, the society and "celebrity" scene is not as shoved upon them, so they end up being more comfortable with themselves (maybe not fully but just more than americans), so the voices in their head manifest in more positive ways due to the lack of constant negative pressure that other cultures experience. c:
Thank you for talking in such a way that isn't too slow that i don't want to listen. You speak at a speed that I can keep up with and what you say is succinct, I appreciate it.
paranoia and auditory + visual hallucinations here, i appreciate how this channel seriously and compassionately talks about issues like these without demonizing them, its a nice time.
"It's Okay, That's Love" and "Kill Me, Heal Me" are two kdramas that cater these two mental disorders.. they're worth your time, I swear.
I met two different, homeless men, both with schizophrenia, over a year apart. Neither had ever met each other, but both described the same hallucinations! The first one described a "demon" that he would regularly see, and the second guy, over a year later, described a demon he also saw often, with the same, exact details!
That's the point where I decided it was not cool for me to ever again tell someone that what they saw wasn't actually there just because I couldn't see it.
Before my father died, he hallucinated a lot. He was often confused why we didn't see what he was seeing. I was always able to comfort him by telling him that he was in a special place where he gets to see things that we don't. That always seemed to work, but one time, after he was seeing giant bugs and I wasn't and I gave him the usual explanation, he replied, "Well aren't you lucky!"
People often have the same delusions bc a lot of delusions are common
@@lavenderdemons
But WHY are they common. What's the neurological reason?
jeaniebird idk
This video in particularly makes me feel better. I haven't told anyone this yet but I need to get it off my chest. Sometimes I see stuff out of the corner of my eye, like an ink blot, but when I try to look at it, it (of course) disappears. I can't think nearly as clearly as I used to, its kind of like my mind is filled with cobwebs. When I talk to people, what they say causes me to, naturally, come up with an idea or reaponse but almost as soon as my idea appears it disappears. Sometimes I can find it again but most of the time its gone forever. I heard a voice once for sure when I was around 14 years old. I don't trust myself enough anymore to remember correctly if that was the only time or not.
I have a doctors appointment in a couple weeks and I plan on bringing it up but, honestly, I feel so defeated and terrified. I've had clinical depression for as long as I can remember and I contracted lyme disease a couple years back. When it started happening I just thought it was cuz I smoked too much weed but I remember my mum telling me years ago that her grandfather (my great grandpa) was a schizophrenic.
I've always felt disconnected to other people and the world. I almost always feel alone even though I'm around people every day. Everything in my life just seems to pile on top of each other and no matter how hard I try I can't seem to catch up.
I doubt the production company will read this but thank you for that info about the Pink Floyd members. It helps a lot knowing that I still have the chance to do what I really want.
I want to be a writer and finding out I may be schizophrenic is like a marathon runner finding out he may have muscular dystrophy.
So yeah, thanks for the encouragement. I really appreciate it.
Hey I think we should get to know each other xD
You can experience positive symptoms while being severely depressed or manic, that would upgrade you to "diagnosis X with psychotic features".
It sounds like you have brain fog ("it's kind of like my mind is filled with cobwebs"), which is a common symptom of chronic lyme disease. Yes, it's a real thing- I know because I've had it. If you've gone through the regular course of antibiotics, it's highly possible you still have lingering infections. New research has revealed that conventional treatment doesn't completely get rid of lyme symptoms, confirming the experiences of many, many people. I would recommend visiting a naturopath (or several) and seeing what they can do for you. The two that were able to help myself, family members, and friends were practitioners of the Cranio-Biotic Technique and Magnetic Resonance Testing. Best of luck.
You can live a wonderful life with this disorder and you are not alone ❤️
Thanks for the love, wonderful humans ♥️
An incredibly amazing contribution. Taking away stigma and panic about schizoprenia. Explaining in an objective, helpful way. Making schizophrenia understandable so that emphathy is possible. Taking away the fight. Good job. Thank you.
My mother has schizophrenia. And after watching this video I'm stunned that my family didnt knotice her odd behavior sooner.
People fear what they don't understand, true a friend of mine has this I watched him slowly go from normal about a month ago to fully delusional and it was scary to see him change he just went to mental hospital last night I feel like I lost a friend like someone died. I hope he will be ok
Lol the people in the comments going like 'I had a nightmare once and sometimes I talk to myself about the boogeyman therefore I have schizophrenia feel bad for me"
+Garen Crownguard ikr lol
+Garen Crownguard They do not know.
+Garen Crownguard temmie
Aleceya Eddings hoi
You mean, the entirety of Tumblr users who glorify mental illnesses by pretending to have them alongside with their 333 genders??
It makes me angry because my friend is always blaming things on her "schizophrenia ".She has not been diagnosed with it, she doesn't have delusions or lose sense of reality in any way, she doesn't lose focus, all she has happen is when she's afraid she imagines things like "oh someone's following me" and sometimes says she sees things out of the corner of her eyes.Everyone has that happen sometimes,she's making a joke out of the actual illness.
Dreamy Days that sounds like anxiety. it could still be severe..but I doubt it's schizophrenia
Dreamy Days Prob just an anxiety disorder
Anxiety and paranoia
Dreamy Days that's called a dilution
That sounds more likes OCD
My best friend had schizophrenia when she was 5/6/7, I’m glad she’s recovered mostly. She’s a great person
So... I am going to write a piece about this video. It's very long, but if you're interested in my stance on and experience with Dissociative Identity Disorder, read on, please...
I understand why it's hard to believe DID exists, with the terrible, terrible case of Sybil leading the discussion. Yet I think most people with DID just want to stay hidden. It's the main reason for developing the alternate personalities after all, to escape from a reality in which there is danger (starting with severe childhood trauma, mostly). The alters are there for protection from certain feelings or triggers associatied with the trauma, and they can develop to occur when the person doesn't want them to, or some people don't even realise there are alternate personalities until they find out what happens when they don't remember what they did in the past hours or day... Other alters are destructive and copy the person who inflicted the trauma. Other abusive alters can tell a person to do things, similar to schizophrenia, but the thoughts are surrounded by characteristics of a personality the person often doesn't recognise as oneself (the voices have a name, you could say).
For me, the world is a very dangerous place, and I would never tell anyone in real life, with my real name, that I have DID. I don't have any childhood memories before the age of 11. Other memories are very fragmented, depending on the alter that was there when I experienced certain things. Sometimes, only the emotion surrounding an event disappeared, sometimes only a conversation with a person. Through the 13 years I've consciously lived with DID, I have learned to cope better and control the switches between alters better. It's NOT AT ALL like Sybil, who has distinct 'types' of people, almost like a cartoon. My alters try to fit in with my behaviour, even though that doesn't work in many situations. If I switch to an alter who is a child, another alter reacts when needed and helps the younger alter through a tough or confusing situation. I've had alters study for me and fail miserably, because the last course they ever consciously attended was in high school and I'm a university student by now. I then had to retake all those exams. Yet, I keep silent. I don't tell anyone at university and somehow, with a lot of trouble, I get there. I will try to have a job and live a life as normal as possible.
DID shouldn't be popular, or exciting, or exotic. It's a silent disorder. That is why it exists. For a mind to live on after severe trauma. I know something very bad happened to me, but only through flashbacks and my alters. My DID is the reason I'm still alive and I'm going somewhere with my life, although it's also the reason my life is very difficult and stressful. I am almost never alone, since that's often dangerous, and I will need psychiatric help throughout my entire life. Yet I'm here. And I exist... DID exists, the real deal, but it stays in the shadows. And maybe that's the safest option. Because I don't want to be compared to anyone living the life: making money of a serious condition because apparently it's possible to fake it...
I'm absolutely not like that. You have to know me to notice the switches immediately, and I don't have a completely different look every time. That would be ridiculous and useless. The alter experiencing the trauma is rather an emotionless, empty version of yourself who got a name after a while and got cut of from your mind, got a name, a place in what is called a 'system' of alters.
Each has their preferences for clothes, food and hobbies, yes. But that happens mostly in what is called the 'inner world', where personalities are allowed to be more clear without the risk of getting noticed. An alter could tell me they dream about being a mermaid and I can try to get as close to that dream as possible by letting them save money for a mermaid tail, but the alter has to understand that in the outside world, the tail will be fit around the body of an adult, instead of a child... It's hard on them, and on me. But the system has to keep functioning, and learn to cope with giving up on things in order to keep alive and somewhat 'normal' (but what is normal anyway). The outside world is not the place for other looks and dreams and things like that. There, my alters have first priority of protecting me. Smoking a cigarette in public while people know I never smoke, would not help that case at all. It happened, but my mind got better at using the good parts of DID and coping with the bad parts.
I wish I would live in a world where it wasn't sensationalised and because of that, unbelievable... Because it feels relieving to tell my story. I just can't get it out there with my real name, in my own surroundings. Not even my parents know (but to be fair, they are not a big part of my life unfortunately, because they can't cope with how different I am). I think four people know about my condition (professionals left aside), and even that sometimes scares me, because I want them to treat me like any other person and sometimes they get too protective, or... distant. But I'm so lucky to have friends with who I am, instead of being locked up in a psychiatric facility...
I hope someone reads this comment and thinks about DID in a different way.
(I'm sorry about my English, it's not my native language, and also, you can clearly see how disorganised my thoughts are here, even though I tried very hard, I hope it's somewhat okay to read. I reread it three times... Feel free to reply with your thoughts or questions, but please refrain from telling me this disorder is some kind of hoax. What I experience is real and has been diagnosed, unfortunately.)
Kira Kitsune You are such a strong beautiful person, I hope you and your alters are doing well.
I know you wrote this a long time ago, but i just wanted to say that i really appreciate the fact that you took your time to write this. DID is such a complex disorder and i truly hope that the stigma around it will loosen soon. You don't deserve to constanlty feel like you would be judged badly for something that you cant controll. I hope you're doing well today and that you're getting on with your life the way you want to.
That's why strippers have a stage name.
Did you have to willingly create the alters? Or did they create themselves? Did it start as an escape habit of the mind and now it's automatic? Is it out of your control or do you set the stage? I'm trying to understand this condition because my daughter has it. She seems to suffer less when she's not having anxiety.
Miss Michelle ohmygosh lol
I just read Nate Powell's book Swallow Me Whole and realized I know nothing about Schizophrenia. Thank you for making this video it really helped give me context to the book.
I needed this video! Thank you so much! It was so helpful in helping me understand how my schizophrenia has manifested. I'm beginning to wonder if my "schizophrenia" is really that but might be something else. As a survivor of childhood abuse and a school shooting I absolutely have PTSD, depression and anxiety but I have not experienced voices or hallucinations but I have experienced episodes where I destroyed myself with my own thoughts in depression. I'm still learning and I appreciate your efforts to put this out there. Thank you!
I watched this video years ago during a difficult time in my life. Today I have a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, and understand myself far better now and manage it well. Thank you for making this video, it helped immensely with identifying symptoms and causes 💗💗 You are right, understanding is the key to compassion. And with compassion we can heal from the things that disturb us :) thank you again!
There was an Indian mathematician who died in 2019, he had schizophrenia, he was considered one of the greatest scientists and had contributed a lot in America's appollo mission. It's rumoured that his own wife, had burnt his thesis paper because she thought it was the reason her husband couldn't love her, and this caused the schizophrenia.
(I'm open for questions about my condition if anyone wants to ask them.)
My extreme Social Anxiety led to my Disassociation Disorder (specifically Depersonalization disorder). And it's, unfortunately, one I live with every day but can do nothing about. It's like hell. I know it's happening, I "see" it happening but it's from a third person perspective and thus, I can't do anything about it. For the first time in about 15 years, I had a few days where I was disassociation free (I had been out of a job for three months and basically was stuck at home all the time- no social interaction outside of close friends and family and thus no social anxiety for my brain to "fix" with disassociation) and it was like, the world was brighter and I felt connected and it was the best feeling I had ever felt. I had never felt happier in my life. But, then I got a new job and the very first day, I felt my dissociation take over and it never left. I think the scariest thing about my disorder is the robotic feeling, as if i'm programmed to deal with the world around me. On one hand, i've gotten very, VERY good at reading body language and voice tone. On the other hand, I am 'programmed' to become a person that fits best with the person i'm dealing with and not simply being myself.
I know this is from over a year ago but I wish you well in life & that one day you become repersonalized. I know how scary depersonalization is as I've experienced it several times since 2006 & I have chronic derealization. You are such a strong individual for going through what you've been through and I'm sure things will get better for you.
That's exactly what I'm going through how are you doing now?
Hey how have your symptoms been lately? I’ve been dealing with depersonalization and derealization for about 8 years now. It’s at its worst state right now but I have been able to get better in the past so hoping for the best. But just wanted to say I relate so much to your last sentence. About feeling programmed to become a person that fits best with a person you’re interacting with instead of being yourself. Really hits home for me. I’m terribly self conscious about it because I feel like most people would see it as some sort of fake chameleon like disorder, but it’s an honest response that I feel I can’t control.
@@dannypassenger6234 the social anxiety on top of panic disorder seemed to have caused my dissociation it's very hard but I believe with time it'll get better I hope
I smokes weed and got dpdr I'm don't have social anxiety I think mind is normal like having butterflys in your stomach or something will my dpdr be cured you think?
Hank, you're pure genius. You my friend, have a beautiful mind.
My interest in psychology has increased since I was a teenager, at my current age it is something that stimulates my brain and gets my attention more. Books,Podcasts, Documentaries etc about the human mind/psychology/psychiatry is my thing.Thank the Lord there are videos on the subject.
I've had a couple of mild disassociation experiences. Just, everything feeling slightly off, as though I was out of step with existence but only half a step, a subtle wrongness that I could not pinpoint or ease. Going to sleep fixed it but it happened again not long after. I haven't had another instance in over a year and I'm rather glad for that.
Thank you SO much for making this video! As someone with a dissociative disorder who already knows a lot about it, this helped me make sense of it even more!
I always feel like I'm being watched. I'm not sure who is watching me but I feel like my life is being documented. I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder type 2, anxiety, and chronic depression. I am getting tested for schizophrenia, so far they have found that I'm not quite like the others and seem to have a very weird chemical imbalance in my brain. I feel like a lab rat and everyone is just handing me pills calling me insane and I'm not sure what to do. Am I the only one feeling like I'm being watched? If you have read through this whole thing then I hope you have a good day.
Over the Moon I hope you're able to cope in the future, you're not alone. Have a wonderful day!
Vector F Yes, yes I do. Usually I wake up with a very bad mood.
Vector F thank you for your suggestions. I am currently an artist and live off of it. I will take up your recommendation about documenting my voices, thank you.
Over the Moon have you ever experienced panic attacks? Some people say paranoia causes panic attack.
masitah kamalrudin yes, sometimes due to stress, paranoia, or other small triggers. I think most of my panic attacks come from my paranoia however because having eyes on you all the time puts me in a venerable state for panic.
My older brother has schizophrenia. My family and I have tried to help him many times. It's been really painful for us to see him that way and and it can be very stressful to deal with him. He is now back on living on the streets. It's a situation my family and I have no control of anymore. Its really sad. I pray everyday for his safety. And I love him very much!
did he just add a cartoon of when kanye took the mic from taylor swift looool
I have schizophrenia. This video is a really good baseline for understanding what's going on. If I were to add something I'd add the less obvious symptoms of delusions - such as being paranoid of people (which people can relate to) as well as a feeling of unreal-ness you can experience sometimes without actually hallucinating. :)
I agree. A family member is in his 5th week of hospitalization, and he is exhibiting these symptoms. I believe the video mentions it around the 3 minute mark. His current problem is with narratives of persecution, but after 5 weeks in his current environment, a normal person may come to the same conclusions. Most of his delusions seem to be rooted in some fact of his past. The therapist refers to it as delusions of reference. But, he still believes that people are reading his mind, that the TV is talking/making fun of him... (BTW, first-episode psychosis I believe induced from withdraw from high THC hash oil. He decided to kick the habit and it kicked him.)
I have dissociative identity disorder and it sucks.i weird ppl out. It's causing me and my family a lot of stress.ill go from a gentle and kind then turn into a monster and I often can't remember things. its scary not knowing yourself or how u may act is a scary way to live.i also have schizophrenia.
I'm glad that dissociative disorders especially DID. My psychiatrist recently diagnosed me with DID & I'm using things such as this video to help educate my family & friends about it. As for the series in general I find it very very helpful as an aspiring psychologist!
This is really useful; I created a character who has DID and I wanted to portray her as accurately as possible. Despite doing some research on the disorder already, I learned a few things, like that people may have different handedness in different alters. Thanks!
I recommend looking at DissoiaDID! I've also got a character with DID and I want to make sure I portray him and the disorder as accurately as I can, and DissoiaDID has helped a lot.
I can confirm through personal experience that dopamine plays a large part in psychosis, I've had psychotic breaks and paranoid psychosis from heavy stimulant binges and not sleeping for days on end. The drugs I was doing at the time all increased dopamine (cocaine and methamphetamine) never had any of those kind of symptoms from any other kind of drugs so I believe it's strongly connected! Thanks for reading
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D.I.D was the only dissociative disorder here, I would have loved to hear about Depersonalization as it is most certainly a real thing and though it is rare it is nowhere near as rare and there isnt much support out there for people who suffer with it. Thanks
I've been diagnosed with DID. When I told my boyfriend that I had multiple personalities (this was before my dianogses), he thought I was talking about depression or ocd personified. It took some time to really explain to him what I was talking about, especially since I didn't fully understand it myself. I have distinctive personalities, and they are born out of trauma. When life gets too much for me, an alter can be born or take over.
I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia in remission.
Well, at least they pay me social security funds for it, so... I can't really complain.
My past is filled with depression, lack of ambition, general incapability to connect to people, and total sense of not matching the society in which I grew up in... All in all, depression and melancholy with an addition of social awkwardness.
I am also a very weird person, yet, I do not fit the criteria to be suited to the Schizophrenic type.
But, it seems that weirdness alongside other issues, is a part this very serious disorder according to Israeli psychiatric evaluation.
Still, I can't complain about free money every month now, can I?
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You’re just poorly socialized and neurotic. Getting fixated on how specialists have pathologized your minor problems will only exacerbate them and suppress your ability to still make meaningful connections with other people. That doesn’t mean your problem is any less real. Just clean yourself up and go forth and grab life by the cojones already
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This video was from 6 years ago!!! What the hell, where was this when I needed it! Thank you for keeping this posted ❤️
Would love to see an update and separate video for dissociative identity disorder, as many insights have occurred since 2014
I have a professional diagnosis of DID and i denied it for a long time because there are so many stories about it being fake. I thought i was possesed or had early onset dementia. My entire youth was spent in psychiatric institutions. Im now in treatment and accepting my condition. Its hard because I know that many people, psychologists included do not believe it is real. Neither did I, but when i was assessed, diagnosed and had the symptoms explained, i realised It makes sense for what I experience. I know a lot of people fake it in things such as insanity defense, but i hope people can realise that just because some people fake it, and thats whats reported in the media, that there are people like me who actually have it and suffer because of the symptoms and stigma. I am now in treatment and will be for a long time, but im learning to accept this.
I've been psychotic before. My brain sounded like a high school lunch room. Always voices. I got shocked out of it the first time by almost dieing on a car wreck. My aunt Gene wouldn't turn to talk me while looking out a window onto her back yard once. Because she forgot to put her face on. I thought I was a test subject to be studied, and they weren't allowed to let me see what they looked like.
I've had delusions from my anxiety combined with trying Prozac. I thought there were subliminal messages in music, that my college was actually a video game I was trapped in. Or that I was a ghost and no one could see me. Or that the world wasn't real, people walking around were actually coreographed and that if I found out I was in a simulation and not real life, they would start to turn on me and attack me.
I’m probably just worrying myself but sometimes I feel like these symptoms are becoming more and more distinct. Lately I’ve only really been able to write down full and intellectual sentences. My thoughts are rapid and random, sometimes I can’t sleep at all because my mind won’t shut up. I just turned 20 and my father was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I’ve had psychotic breaks in the past and am terrified that it will turn into something worse. My mind isn’t normal, I can barely converse with my own peers. Should I be worried? I don’t want to tell my therapist only to make myself sound crazy.
Well when you gaslight people who arnt into thinking they are the mind may break but the strong mind stays strong 💪🏾
DID itself, not even taking into account all dissociative disorders, which you didn't mention, like DPDR, affects about 2% of the population, making it more common than schizophrenia, not more rare. Shirley Mason, while it was explained by her therapist that she was faking, and she claimed herself at times afterwards that she thought she might be, the symptoms continued and she wrote about them, even including newly formed alters after the whole ordeal. This is because one of the primary symptoms of DID and OSDD, is thinking and/or convincing yourself(selves) that you're faking. Because the purpose of the disorder, is to rewrite the brain in such a way that the disorder runs covertly, so the primary host(s) (most common alter(s) in front/control) don't realize there are others, or even that they themselves might be more than one host, aside from anyone else in the system. Talking about it as a debate or controversy only serves to sensationalize and perpetuates the stigma against the community. Please don't do that. Finally, it was only known as "multiple personality disorder" during the DSM4. Both before and after that, it was known as and widely considered a dissociative disorder. Conceiving of it as a personality disorder, was basically a test run that was capitalized on as an easier catch to demonize those with the disorder, as villains, especially as killers.
Syd Barrett. The man in my profile picture. Former Pink Floyd guitarist, took too much acid in a short period of time and gradually slipped away =\.
signoguns Syd's sister Rosemary believes that he had Asperger's, and later found out that their family had a genetic predisposition for that syndrome.
I've always thought that some organization is spying on me and if I will make a big mistake, they would come to me or they would show it to the world....or maybe I would believe my crush is actually watching outside the windows of our house and he is keeping it a secret. I literally believe this sometimes....must be because I barely go outside since I was a child. But hopefully, it's just my delusion...hopefully.
GlowCityBlue I.S. I have felt exactly that. it sucks
This video has been so helpful for me. I don't have either of these disorders, I just wanted to learn about them. I actually have: panic disorder, an eating disorder and body dysmorphic disorder. However, this video gave me the word to describe some intense dissociation that I experience very often. I have always described it to friends and family but no one could ever relate to my experience. I looked up dissociation experiences and it came up with depersonalization which accurately describes my experiences and turns out to be a common symptom of panic attacks. Everything makes so much sense now and has put my mind at ease. Thank you