Great videos. I am schizoaffective. I've had it all my life and am 37 right now. I have a couple episodes this week and have been reaching out to others that have my issues just to let me feel less alone. You make me feel less alone.
I think you can't figure out how much your videos are helping me to accept my disorder and don't panic every time I hear entities or voices. You have saved part of my life, a big part. Thank you really much.
Hey. I'm a psychiatrist and I just wanted to say that what you are doing is incredibly meaningful and impactful! You will be able to touch the hearts of many whom mental health providers will not be able to connect with. It is great to hear someone talk about the positives and negatives of psychiatric treatment. The only thing that I disagree with is completely coming off medications, though depending on the individual, i would be willing to do so (with more frequent sessions). More often I will lower the dose to a fraction of the original dose, sometimes even lower than a typical starting dose and monitor since many of the side effects are dose dependent. All-in-all, keep up the great work. Who knows, maybe you'll be the next Elyn Saks :-)
People have recovered from this illness through vitamins and nutrients and fruits and vegetables without the needs of medication. This is why doctors don't tell you this crap. You know the fact that medication can shrink the brain volume and cause problems with side effects. You're probably paid by the big pharma companies to report them how the drug reacts like every doctor out there and in fact you do NOT study the brain. You only study the mind and behavior. Most people never realize they are supposed to get a brain scan and stuff like this. I researched a boat load of info and it turns out people can cure themselves without medication. It all has to do something with your brain lacking Vitamin C and B3 plus more. Instead of exaggerating you're killing people and shortening their lives by prescribing them dangerous meds. It's like getting a lobotomy. No excuses.
Kal-El oh, you have schizophrenia? and you cured it through eating oranges? oh yeah, sure. you, in fact, do NOT study the brain, nor psychiatric medication, hell you probably don't know shit about psychiatry. you think this person went through what, 10 years of school for nothing? just to mindlessly prescribe pills? get down from the clouds babe, ain't no antipsychotic physically addictive. sure, I guess you can become dependent on them, and you might have withdrawals if you quit them out of the blue, but they're not like oxycontin dear. man, while you're at it, tell us about them damned autism-causing vaccines. maybe you need some meds.
from my experience I don't have that feeling you mentioned, but what I do instead of relaxing is ignore it, I figure out if something is fake, and if it is I try to ignore it, its hard to tell sometimes, but I try to ignore it when I can and I just have stopped caring about everything and I more or less treat the world in its entirety as fake, I joke around constantly and I enjoy everything and I laugh at terrible things and I just float through and joke around with it. I also laugh at my own hallucinations, especially the voices in my head
Dude, you're so awesome! You figured it out :) ... just a word of advice and warning, getting off the medication, any medication, needs to be very gradual to avoid withdrawal symptoms.
Thank you for making this, there are loads of vids on how to spot the symptoms but not how to deal with them. Its also nice to have someone to relate with, this helped alot
I've watched mostly all your videos from a while back ago and it really helped me to learn and relate to it and felt like I wasn't alone even though I have quite different symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. I still have these broken tissues or whatever is broken in my brain and also feel them on my hands and plus fatigue when I go over my limits like going for shopping for 3 or 4 hours or talking to people for a long amount of time continuously. But your videos just help me, I can't explain how but I really like watching them so thank you!
thank you for being so light about this topic, despite it's hardships dealing with it. you are a lovely person and i love your outlook! hope you, your girlfriend, and family are well ♡.
I'm glad that you're positive about it, I have a cousin who is schizophrenic, always been curious about the illness then found your videos. You're a pretty stable person, sometimes it doesn't seem like you have the illness I know that's weird to say, but its true you're aware that you're having hallucinations, you're aware that you have delusions, as long as you're aware of whats real and whats not then I feel you've got it under control. I've met many schizophrenic's who aren't as stable.
Sorry to hear that you going through psychosis at the moment. Just know that the bizarre thoughts that you are having aren't real and don't under any circumstances listen and do what the voices tell you to do. They like to f*ck with a person. They have been f*cking with me for years and they still doing it to this day but I don't believe what they say nor believe the outlandish thoughts that enter my brain... The voices told this one girl that she was the messiah and that she had to sacrifice her life for the sins of others and she tried to kill herself too. It's so messed up how the voices screw with a person...
I have SO MANY comments that I could make as i watch this in agreement with him. It's just so nice to know that someone else GETS IT, like right on the nail so similar to what i deal witj
This is good to be shared, i applaud you, and similar to you playing music loud, i get auditory hallucinations predominately so i always have one earphone in and always play something to block it out and it helps a lot, for me support wise, theres few but they are great
Gotdamn! I ❤ you, Jacob. I'ts like I'm watching myself w/o the girlfriend. I loss my girl-friend(s) because I was trying to get by without meds. Your family, girlfriend, and others giving you love and support is excellent. DO NOT brush them off what-so-ever!
Loved this video!!! Can you maybe make a video about how you deal with the paranoia that comes with it? (People are out to get you and not feeling safe)
Watched your vids for years. My ex wife had a Sczphrnc Dad and she always was scared of hospitals and dr. She always held bizzare delusions but if she talked through I could talk her out of them. She suddenly changed and became withdrawn and we split up, the next 3 years I was helping her every 6 months as she could not hold down a job, and every one of her housemates called me to explain she needed help. Can't live with the guilt that my leaving her made her stressed and much worse. I tried to get her treatment but she refused and accused me of all sorts. Such a tough condition but I am glad you are doing well.
I was in the foster system and started showing signs near the end of high school. I told them why i wouldn't come out of my room for 6 months. They said i was lazy and kicked me out. I was able to get my license, get through 2 years of college, and get a internship at a big tech company on my own. During that I've been homeless multiple times,and currently in a bad place. I let my illness get the best of me time to time. Its hard for me to keep a job. But even now I know I'm capable, happy to be alive, and proud of what i have achieved. Support is harder to find without family, but mostly not giving up on myself is what keeps me going.
Your video is really helpful. My son is diagnosed with schizophrenia back in the beginning of august of this year he's been to hospitals after hospitals nothing seems to be helping him. He's getting violent now. This new medicine seems to work somewhat. But your video gave me good info on what he's dealing with, thank you for sharing.
Thanks, this really helped. I do find with my schizophrenia when i'm goofing off about my hallucinations and delusions it's a lot easier. ohhh and stress, the whole thing about relaxing is majorly true. god, i hate it though
Well said Jacob 👍👏👏👏 btw, you look very clean! I saw one of your video talking about hygiene, that it's hard and all, but you are looking great and fresh! 👍
Thank you for this so glad to know I’m not alone I got my schizophrenia around 17 or 18 my parents have also helped greatly I’m having a hard time picturing a love life I’m glad you’ve found one gives me hope but like I said I’m just so glad I’m not alone
Thank You For this for the longest time I didn't wanna believe I had this mental health issue. I would just take the meds to make my parents happy, I tried coming off the meds when I felt stable but it didn't end up working out in my favor but my personal experience i need the meds in order to live a normal life.
Dam jacob u really know wat i feel n how to feel better ..I have a lot of delusions too 😔i wrote u on google i feel like u dont wanna answer me for some reason maybe I'm wrong or paranoid but it's ok love ur vids can't wait to see more👍🏼
Thank you very much for making this video I have the illness and I will definitely try your coping mechanisms with mine because it's starting to hit me really bad RN. I'm a struggler ;-;
I just have schizophrenia, I got lucky with it, but by what I have learned, just don't take anything seriously and you don't get depressed as easily or as much.
You look a lot like Cillian Murphy. Reading, blasting music (headphones) and video games are also my coping mechanisms. My issue isn't mental, although I have probably developed an anxiety issue over time. Anyway, watching your videos right now because a neighbor of mine knocked on my door last week asking if I wanted to hang out. For the first time in his two years of being my neighbor, and he's schizophrenic. My mother was bipolar and schizophrenic, and that was impossible for me to deal with growing up. But her situation was a lot different, as was the way she personally dealt with it.
Hey quick question for yea. I beileve my dads schizophrenic I've told him several times that,that's what I think he has and he refuses to believe me (Which is part of being schizophrenic) but yeah I was wondering if you'd know how I can help him to beileve me?
It so hard to have schizo people don't understand what I'm passing through even my parent if i have argument with them they call me crazy i have shizo scince i was 17 it was was hard super hard in that day i was shocked from many things and i woke up having schizophrenia the man i loved said he just simply don't love me mum and dad devorced... And till nkw they are having argument... and left my friends and when i left i realized i was not important to them it dosnot chane anytying And now the one who i loved is now with a girl so on i heard they engaged then i realized how hard life is i woke jp hate my self donot love it anymore but it's hurt i just said everything
I wonder how it would be to have a job when someone has schizophrenia. Would it be possible to work with symptoms like yours, because for example you need to cool down when you are going to have a hallucination and work isn't really a place where you have the opportunity . Do you have a job right now or are you looking for a job?
Stress is beyond awful for OCD as well. I suffered from OCD for over 8 years and whenever I was stressed out or nervous (mostly because of school) oh my god it got so bad... i couldn't even function. So I kind of know what you mean
how do you deal with the delutions and visions and halutions and yeah sometimes the world just change and I'm schizophrenia but why do I get visions of a lot of things I see before the time and i m schizophrenic
I have all of those synpthoms , but im able to controll them , most likely Im a person that my mind cant stand quietly i keep thinking bullshis and voice on my head , is really makes me to suffer but i dont show any external reacions , its very hard to live with it
It's rough when you live with a family that just doesn't even want to comprehend what's going on in my head. No support has made mine really bad lately
I have got a couple of questions : can you keep schizophrenia under control by using Prozac? Also how difficult is it to deal with stress, any kind of stress for a schizophrenic? many thanks.
This is an old video but I want to know if I really have it or not.. I know most if not all people will suggest therapy or refer a psychiatrist or something but I can't afford it right now. I'm 17 male and I've been having hallucinations for 3 months now, I see dark figures and stuff in my periphery but everytime I see towards its general direction it disappears and it is happening daily now.. I only used to have hallucinations when sleep deprived before I thought it was normal but now idk.. and secondly I hear weird clicking noises that nobody hears, I hear voices and every night I start feeling watched and hear voices.. usually female but sometimes male. Because of these terrors I haven't been able to get much sleep now since these have been occuring daily now. Nobody in my family knows yet btw. And I am really paranoid about being watched.. like really REALLY paranoid. Unnecessarily sometimes. I started to believe that my house is haunted or something.. but after researching bout schizophrenia, idk
Just within the first literally 34 seconds (currently have it paused @ 34 second rn) i can see feel what this guy goes through. Key words and how he's saying things certain ways, facial expressions etc. Damn i hate being schizophrenic man. Ok, pressing play now...
Everything starts to grow a glow like in a dream or exactly how a movie would depict that its now a dream. Thats just me though, i'm sure some people cant feel it.
Bro the problem with me is that I think people can hear my thoughts, I don't get any hallucination or anything but I get paranoid and I don't know what to do, I think of all the things I am not supposed to and then I think everyone know it and I get more paranoid. I just don't know what to do. Help
Im not sure if i have an mental illness - but im feeling sad i look in the mirror and get paranoia over what i see my eyes are wiggling (dont know the word) and staring like i look ive been possed or something. I feel like i do it to feel special/important bcs i dont even know if i would feel happy if i wasent struggeling with this since i dont even feel like life is that awesome bcs breakups and stuff. Im scared of allways being sad and mad about my life and that i didnt accomplish anything and my life was a failure which i could have been so much better if i just did this or that. I find playing video games good as an distraction of the mind jatter but whenever i have to do something like family gatherings or something i just get so anxious and its like a fight against myself everyday fuk mannnn... wtf am i doing
i think something important you brought up is the therapy, verry important! everyone should seek the professional help they need. its as if u break a leg! go to the doctor ya know! seeking help is the hardest step for some people
I would love to see you and your girlfriend go hiking or go to an amusement park together. Kinda like a travel video. Thank you for sharing your story Wendy
Stress triggers me. I don't even like to listen to music or watch tv cause I will hear voices more with entertainment. Hear fewer voices when I'm outside smoking. Try to quit smoking, but the schizophrenia keeps me stressed which keeps me smoking. I'm tired of hearing voices that always bring me down. For some reason 99% of the time it's voices of celebs dead or still alive.