A True Madness: Schizophrenia (Mental Illness Documentary) 

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When your own brain turns on you, it’s fucking terrifying. Most people have never been confronted with the feeling of not being able to trust what they see or hear or think, it’s an incredibly scary feeling

I had to google it because I couldn't see it documented anywhere here - so for anyone interested - this documentary was made in 1969.

do you know what I’ve noticed about schizophrenics they seem genuine… I don’t find them manipulative or cunning they just want to feel safe :(

As a schizophrenic I'm looking forward to this.

As a schizophrenic I like watching documentaries like this. I'm lucky to not be that bad. I think more people should watch things like this. Just to educate them a bit.

I have a nephew whose in real bad shape and mad is a good description. Last week after talking to demons(his words) he came out of his room and began destroying everything around him. Flipped the table busted plates, dumped water jug, holes in walls. He literally screams at them. There is no help for these people suffering. His brother overdosed his sister is similar to him and his little sister was taken away at birth. All of them have issues. His mom is severely mentally I’ll and extremely vindictive. It’s a horrible scenario. We love him but we’re afraid one day he will just snap. He was looking for a pow pow one day and said he had to hurt me because his sick mother feeds his mind. So heartbreaking because he’s the kindest sweetest young man and I know he wants to be well. He taught himself to shred the guitar. So talented.

I know the feeling I live with it every damn day!

I didn't know that compounds similar to psychedelics are excreted and detectable in the urine of schizophrenics that's a revelation to me. An uncontrollable psychedelic experience certainly would have the potential to be terrifying

I'm thinking this old information is actually more progressive, like talking about schizophrenia being a "mystical journey and a religious experience". Nowadays, psychiatry is only about drugs and they don't think deeply, they don't consider the spiritual nature o what's going on. I think the schizophrenic is much more spiritual than ordinary people

It reminds me of return to Oz. Mk ultra records show this in a different light.

Wow. This is so dated. Blaming the mother is I’ll advised beyond the genetics. I wonder where we will be in another 50 years.

I think it's REALLY important that you state how old this docu is (the original realise date should be in the description box).. bcs there has been a lot of progress since this has been made. In what we know, understand & treatment..

They still do not know how to manage this horrible problem

I like that the doctors throw in their own ideas about the causes of it but they clearly state what's empirically proven and whats conjecture. Like the dr talking about dreaming, clearly states he "suspects" but doesnt potray his hypothesis as facts. Brilliant documentary thanks guys 🎉

You lock the door... And throw away the key... There's someone in my head.. ...but it's not me. -P Floyd.

I was addicted to heroin, fentanyl and crack and was an escort to support my habit. The longest I was up was 9 days. That was in April of 2016. By day 4 I was hallucinating. By day 7 they became absolutely terrifying. I'm glad I was with someone else at that time to keep me somewhat grounded.

I draw the line at a bucket over my head, but dark sunglasses do the job for me. That and keep the head down (sunglasses allowing!)

The narrator states "no one knows how these drugs work". Why are they giving drugs to patients if they don't know how it works?

Back then there was more honesty

The old dramatic music, the fuzzy talking enhanced with early technology from this time period, over 70 80 years ago, the advances of mental illness as a subject itself was only beginning to come to light really, the stigma is always bred in the dark. I am diagnosed schizoaffective, as of a few months ago. I'm in Mt 30's now, and I can look back sometimes and see how this diagnosis lay dormant, waking up in spurts throughout my entire life-it is something I have to learn to manage and I dont want to be viewed at as damaged, crazy, but I isolate alot...and sometimes I don't even realize it...still learning. Always learning

So out of date but interesting.

This expresses that you believe the true way to heaven !! : Lord Jesus, I have admitted I'm a sinner being sorry. Therefore, I do not trust in my own works to go to heaven because I realize, being a sinner, I cannot offer the perfect blood sacrifice that you require to pay for sin. Instead, I fully trust, believing in my heart, that your finished work on the cross, your one perfect blood sacrifice; when you bled, suffered and died, in my place, paid for my sins in full, past, present and future ! And I believe that you rose from the dead and that you are God Almighty, God the Son, alive for evermore !!! And I fully trust that you have forgiven me by cleansing me from all sin in your precious blood, which purified my soul. Thank you Lord Jesus for greatly loving me, for forgiving me, saving me from hell and giving me eternal life and sealing me with the Holy Spirit dwelling within me forever! Rom.3:25,5:8,9,10:9, Rev.1:5, Ephes.1:7,13, 4:30, Heb.10:10-14,19,38,39,I John 5:7,13,20

They "Guess" they don't know for sure.

I will say the doctors back than listened better vs throwing pills down the patients throats.

They looked forward to that madness with joy, but without haste, not pining for it, but seeming to have a foretaste of it in their hearts, of which they talked to one another. But when they looked at me with their sweet eyes full of love, when I felt that in their presence my heart, too, became as innocent and just as theirs, the feeling of the fullness of life took my breath away, and I worshipped them in silence. Their children were the children of all, for they all made up one family.

I’m so glad laws have been passed since then that make it illegal to film animal cruelty. I feel so sorry for that poor rabbit.

2 relatives that suffered with this mental illness.Very bad.Only prayer for them.

Well done! Thank you for digitally enhancing this documentary footage for the purposes of our increased enjoyment and assistance in further informing our understanding of what it means to experience live through the mind of the schizophrenic. Every blessing 🙏to you all for future videos.

My mom (81) has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and has been given haldol and now clozapine but it doesn’t help. She still believes that people sneak in her house and take away her stuff; random cars honking means they are signaling “the others” to go inside her house; strange spots on food means it is injected; random items she has used over the years suddenly are not hers anymore because of wear and tear deliberately caused by “the others” and so on… The drugs make her drowsy, dizzy and ability to have a conversation has declined dramatically. Besides her mental illness she used to be a lot more active and self supporting without the drugs but then she also was a lot more aware of her surroundings and suspicious. Her version or “reality” of how she sees the world did not match the one we as her kids or neighbours experience it. But she presents her version as the truth and as facts. This causes a lot of discussions and it’s mentally draining our energy levels..

I have seen this before; British documentary from the 60s.

As a non-native speaker of the English language I found it helpful to reduce the playback speed to 0.75.

all of the people making these schizophrenia videos. have adhd or add i should make a video about that huh

I think is quite offensive youre calling that people mad. I thought your mission was to make people more empathetic about human suffering.

In fact she seems to be looking better if she had a bucket on her head.

No,disrespect, omg,lost it big time.I would rather live like my life is.

Never came across this illness but had a friend with a sibling who had this illness would wander across the countryside looking for payphones hearing god giving him orders lol I don’t know why they can’t learn to ignore it but the rise in feeling is obviously the problem

What a way to live,poor buggers,

Such beautiful elocution a generation ago!

I have people, who medicate me outside of the hospital. Whenever I find something about my body, which is ok or feels at least not that terrible or I achieve something, they make it go bad. My breast is their favourite target. I got raped, impregnated and in public harassed. They will never ever stop and nobody helps me. It’s like getting violated on the main square - and the people, who do it, have relatives in several institutions plus my family is involved. I just have to tell them that I am schizophrenic without compliance and they treat me like the lunatic my diagnose is supposed to be. My mother? Well, she just wanted the baby to herself. The childcare services? At first pretty much fine with it, now they have accepted that I had a BAD childhood. I am still the mother of that child, they tell me, but the boy isn’t mine. I haven’t hold him ten times in my whole life and wanted to place him not into foster care but a caring family. I feel not only like a fool, but imprisoned and mocked. I loose centimetres of my brain regularly, but nobody makes any tests hence I am classically poisoned. I didn’t have sex, but they injected me with strange of herpes and even tripper. I went to another city for help, but the hospital got the test tubes back negatively. Luckily the gynologocist was brave and told me boldly that she sees that something is off. So she prescribed me medication anyways, which helped. Today I had another injection in the thigh. The rapists aren’t even told criminal anymore hence the boy turns two, so the time went out with his first birthday. I didn’t even get photos and they nicknamed him without asking me wrongly. I am completely alone in this city whilst every second person knows something about my story. I can’t make friends and therefore have no way out anywhere. People get paid to treat me like shit. I feel trapped and being treated like a case for the police would be nice. But before they tell me that they are going to do something…I mean, I case being tortured and drugged against my will isn’t enough. They need my corpse - otherwise they just tell me to go to hospital and take my schizophrenia meds and I am going to be fine again. Nice. The terror is real. Loosing my womanhood is real.

This is old information

Wow. Wonderful program. Thank you.

The monotone voices are very difficult for me to listen to. Anyone agree?

SCHIZOPHRENIC = ME MYSELF AND I = INVINCEBLE

What town was the documentary set in, and what year? If anyone knows

This guy is sick

Am disappointed that this clip is so old. I understand that some scihizophrenics now live a close to a productive life with meds and under the care of a mental health doctor.

How old is this film ??? Whoa

Nothing pleasant or creative about this illness

I don't think these chain-smoking doctors are as smart as they think....

Put the year this documentary was made in the description. 🤷

Schizophrenic alcohol 666 times

They are always paranoid,, is this correct??

When pregnant I never worked with the first two boys. But with my daughter I worked till the day I had her in USA so I could have her/home with her for six weeks till back to work. No way I breast fed, used cloth diapers always even traveling. The landfills had a serious problem with an explosion of paper diapers so I never did that. I never had an a/c in my car if it was to hot we went when the weather was better. I always hurt with being pregnant with my daughter at 34 years old. When I got home I always had to get into a warm bath, to stretch out for her & stop all the pain down very low in my abdomen/also across lower back. At work I was paying people to go do or get something for me so I didn't have to walk a two minute walk. It hurt to stand to much, sit I could barely stand. Laying is all I did after work till I had to cook dinner. My dad would come over to help with the boys while I fixed dinner. After she was born Dad still came over & would rock & sing to her while helping the boys with homework, chores, showers, setting table. I lost my parents at 50 years old. I was by far way way way to young. They were teenage parents that I began training on reality once I was twenty & learning about parenthood before I had my kids. Bought a set of encyclopaedias "Students" for them also. Parents magazine. I babysat all the time since eleven so I knew I would be good at it. But I wanted to know the best/newest ways of doing things right when raising humans. Made in the image of God. My parents totally changed learning about how things are now, not how they were that there are great changes being made all the time. See you someday again I hope, take care of yourselves mom & dad. xoxo

Schizophrenia 3 alcohol

Omg they are so posh !!!!

Alcohol 3

Marc

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My daughter does this say one thing mean another, she's a Amber Heard mother. So I have never left living with them & my grandson. He's not safe or taken care of with his parents. I am a holy woman of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Pray for me, I have two ulcers in my stomach from last five years living with her, to keep my gson safe, alive, it's awful. Only one witness me so I'm out why they keep a phone of mine, my card #'s, the devil will NOT win. My Will is the same as God's. I know how to pray effectively not amiss as the H.B. says (Holy Bible)Om Om Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Namaste' Pronam. Sri Yogini Jeanie. Peace, be kind.

wake up people, It's a devil !!! pray hard , read bible , ask God(Jesus) help request holy sprit a guidance then u will get answer. but do it everyday ! be consistence !

When people hear voices everyday those are demons talking to them. It's a spiritual problem andJesus and the Bible is the answer to confront the demons. Ephesians chap.6.