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I’m gonna be starting a new over night shift in a casino. I’ve been diagnosed with schizophrenia for 3-4 years now . I stopped working because I’d get mad or upset cause I’d feel people were watching or talking about me . I really need the money so I’m standing up for myself and trying again .
This is why we need a living wage in society and also why Mental Health funding needs to focus of re-education and employment. It is absolutely necessary that people with Schizoaffective Disorder are able to work in a supportive environment.
I know no ones life is “perfect”, but I’ve been watching your channel since the very first video and the happiness that has seemed to slowly wash over you as your family has grown is really beautiful. You’re a totally different woman and I’m really happy for you!!
Also when my form of schizophrenia took hold at university, certain cognitive exercises which I found easy to do in high school, became opaque to me. In math and physics for example, in high school I knew math and physics vectors backward and forward. But at university, the concept of vectors became impossible for me to grasp or recall. The weird aspect of this was that I had memories of knowing how to manipulate vectors, but not the memories or recall to actually do vector math. I remember breaking down in tears and frustration, pounding my head almost yelling "What is going on?! I used to know this! Why can't I do it now?" This was over 30 years ago -- mental health awareness wasn't as prominent as it is today, and even less so for schizophrenia. At the time, I didn't know what was happening. It sort of felt like that short story "Flowers for Algernon" where the researcher knows he's losing cognitive ability. The difference being I didn't know why it was happening to me. But now I know.
I am also diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and I have a lot of problem in doing anything remotely related to studies . I suffer a lot due to my voices and my tendencies of inattention . Is there any way you could suggest by your experience to try being fine with them
You are brave & beautiful for explaining this. I didn't understand this being a little girl 25 years ago. I thought it was so foreign when my mom was diagnosed. Thanks for standing up!
I can't wait to see the next video. They help me a lot to understand why I am the way I am. When it comes to negative symptoms I am experiencing social withdrawal, which I find really annoying. By following your story, I feel like there's hope to overcome these obstacles! Congratulations also on your family, it is really nice to see that you found your personal luck :) 💕
Seeing someone verbalize their symptoms is so beautiful for me. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia 3 years ago after a drug induced psychosis. Seeing your strength gives me the hope that one day I can overcome these symptoms and go back to being the best me that I know Im capable of. Thank you so much !
My son was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at 15. Five years later and he is struggling hard at the moment. Thank you for your channel and the Hope you bring to me. So much love sent your way. ❤
@@kristymarie6065 that's exactly what he is takes. Once a month shot. It's taken a lot of different ones before this one was tried. It has been a lifesaver. It's the use of (heavy use of marijuana) and meth that has thrown him off this time. It takes months for his poor brain to recoup. He's currently psychotic after being out of the hospital since Monday.
Do you realize that you discuss your serious cognitive symptoms in a way that is more organized and articulate than most people, not suffering from any impairment, ever could?
I noticed that, too! I don't have schizophrenia, but I have had associations with those who do. Before I actually knew what it was, I used to think about how fascinating it was and how they connected things to meet together. My stepfather and a boyfriend I had were, I was in my teens then. A few years back, I was in a drug rehab that had clients with schizophrenia. I learned a lot by asking questions. Like the previous post, it says how articulate you are on talking about it! Thank you for this opportunity to learn more!!!!❤❤❤❤
When you're having trouble keeping up with a conversation, would you prefer that the people you're talking with check in with you, try to go at your pace, or just keep going?
Would you consider showing us an un edited video ? I would be intrested to see how the flow goes. Your channel is so real so helpful and si needed. I am not personally dealing with Schizophrenia but trying to support a homeless person who is . Thank youa million times for your honesty and sharing.
Well, it’s true! I had schizo-affective disorder when I was younger before I ever took medication, but from what I have heard and understood is that giving pharmaceuticals to children is inappropriate and can actually do harm. As I listened to all of the symptoms explained I kept nodding and remembering from my childhood experiences all of the associated difficulties that can and do arise when I was young, but with that being said as the years went on have to say the medicine has help, but what has also helped is understanding how to transform adverse conditions into a path that brings peace, clarity, compassion and even wisdom, and I feel a greater inclusiveness to everyone else. My Buddhist faith, and no disrespect to other faiths, but my faith and spiritual friends have helped me navigate this crazy freaking world that can be so brutal that it’s hard to function from day to day. When I had my breakdown and the inception of the administration of medicine it was still very hard, but I couldn’t kill myself, I couldn’t end it. I was still young and couldn’t bear leaving it all behind, because that would be selfish! Thank you for this video and may all of the suffering know it can and does get better!
i am definitely struggling with cognitive symptoms at the moment starting a new job where i have to learn new things. it's so frustrating it makes me want to just break down and cry
Thank you Lauren. So many of these symptoms are quite common things. But it’s the positive symptoms that seem to clearly distinguish schizophrenia from other ailments. I notice you don’t mention anxiety or related feelings. Is anxiety not characteristic of schizophrenia?
Im sorry if my explanation seems hard to understand but With my personal experience with schizophrenia over the past 6 years I havent noticed a large difference than when i was 10-11 to now with anxiety now im not saying im not anxious, i definitely am but Ive had anxiety my entire life. Id consider this anxiety different than the paranoia symptoms since im also autstic and anxiety has been an issue since i was little 😅 Tldr: i havent noticed any real difference in anxiety between when I was younger to now apart from random paranoid thoughts.
i originally really liked her content but i watched another documentary about schizophrenia, and i thought her content is just a bit off and i felt it was made nicer and better for views.
I have a lot of the negative and cognitive symptoms, but I am not sure that I have schizophrenia. All my life I have struggled with depression, but it has never quite explained all my symptoms.
I just want to say, not only are you well-educated and articulate in your delivery, but just an all - around amazing human. Thank you for what you're doing for the Mental Health Community 💚
A lot of the delusions are part of the irrational beliefs in BPD. And a lot of the cognition issues appear in ADHD. That is an awful overlap. What if you have auditory hallucinations since you re a child and all you do to fall asleep is numb out those sounds with Netflix series, once you re an adult? Having been treated for BPD, which is gone, and ADHD, which is mild (got through School, university and my jobs, without medication despite being diagnosed twice with ADHD). Any thoughts? I struggle a lot with organization and normal tasks, I have a time of the year I get a bit hyperactive/ fixated with ten thousand new ideas, hallucinations come and go throughout the whole year.... I am curious. What do I have.
Great video? I’ve been following your channel for such along time your videos are always fresh & informative? I also suffer with your condition? I’ve not seen a doctor or admitted to hospital for 22 years now i take my pills everyday and i’m also a RU-vidr my channels about living off grid in a wooden cabin with my dogs in a remote area of Scotland uk. If you have the time would post more videos of your now expanded family you have an amazing channel? Take care ian….
This is one of your best videos so far. It explains so much about me. I experience several symptoms in all three categories pretty much on a daily basis. I posted a link to this video on my Facebook so that my friends and family can hopefully understand me a little better. Thank you so much for this, Lauren. Have a great day!
- avolition is a negative symptom & it means lack of motivation - there isnt really a treatment for negative symptoms of schizophrenia yet - tardive dyskinesia is a medication side effect that can become permanent & it’s involuntary muscle movements/muscle jerks kinda like parkinsons - antipsychotics can also cause people with schizophrenia to become extra unmotivated because the medications block dopamine - schizophrenia suicide rate is very high (for good reason) - many homeless people have schizophrenia - schizophrenia is a living hell all day every day while medicated or while not medicated
Oh god I've always been *horrible* at just not noticing I need to clean or take care of hygiene or self care. I found that scheduling things strictly, knowing I have to clean everything a certain day whether I think it is dirty or not helps me not piss off people I'm living with... And keeping up with a conversation, not absorbing information people tell you... relate...
You just described my entire (ADHD) life! I can never finish a thought or sentence before my brain has raced off ahead of me and left the words in the dust.
Have you ever done a video on the elderly person who has Schizophrenia? and or How about what is life like when you are stable and getting healthy , Also even people who are "healthy " we have moods and bad days aren't we all similar in some respect. again Thank you for all your education .
It seems like a certain set of these symptoms are going to be really problematic for the sufferer, while another would also have quite an impact on people around you. That’s why I think videos like this are so useful, maybe there is not a lot a loved one can always do, but at least some understanding can make it easier for everybody to get along.
My brilliant, beautiful, errant, difficult friend of 50 years has had schizophrenia all of her life, but l chose to believe it was a dazzling eccentricity, not schizophrenia, until now. And now that l have the understanding to better help her, she has been missing for 7 years - and her 92 year old lawyer mother won't divulge anything, and has told me she doesn't care. What a colossal waste of a life, and l mourn her so much. I wish l had had your insights decades ago.
I do suffer from Paranoid Personality Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. On one hand, I do like the fact that Trinitas has one of the best (available to everyone) mental health care programs. On the other hand, I hate the fact that they rejected me from their DBT (Dialectic Behavioral Therapy program). I did CBT a couple years ago, and I will try to sign up again once it becomes an in-person program, again.
Negative or cognitive symptoms sometimes simply are side effects of sedating medication on antipsychotics. I know this for sure, because formerly I sometimes stopped medication at once, and then these symptoms disappeared within next day. Probably there also are persons in which these really are symptoms of disease itselfes, but additionally it often can arise from medication.
I've never taken antipsychotics before but I definitely struggle with these symptoms, especially the cognitive ones. It's extremely frustrating because I know I'm not stupid but sometimes I feel so deng slow and it's hard to explain this to people. I've had supervisors accuse me of playing dumb to avoid participating because he said I did really well with whatever we were doing and asked what I did and what my thought process was and I couldn't remember any of the 2 minute exercise we just did, kept egging me about it and making jokes like "well did u just black out or what" kinda e.e The keeping up with conversations bit is another hard one to explain to people too. Sometimes it's like my brain just shuts down my ex would yell at me for it and say things like "what u mean I can't talk? Is that what you're saying you don't know how to talk?" Which made the issue significantly worse. That's why sitting in isolation sounds so appealing so often because everything's just too much sometimes
Over the course of my illness I've struggled with executive dysfunction and I tend to be really harsh on myself for it and call myself lazy, but the validation that it's a legitimate thing helps. Like something can drop on the floor and a neurotypical person will just pick it up, but that thought doesn't really connect in my head.
You have grown alot in the last year. I watched one of your videos from a year ago and I see you are much more grounded now. Not sure if I worded it correctly.
🐉Was diagnosed with Schizoaffective Bipolar type until a later DID diagnosis. Then was changed to Schizoaffective Depressed type, turned out no bipolar, just Alters with different baselines so that that it seemed like bipolar when it wasn't.
Currently in hospital for schizophrenia.. about 5 months by now. They changed 3 different type of medication. (paranoid) I have too much dizziness in the same time, every morning and numbness feeling in my legs still they told me i have to stay at least 6 weeks in the hospital because of the medication.. Do you think my dizziness can coming from my sickness ? (schizophrenia) It does not want to stop, always i feel myself dizzy, and bothered from this feeling sometimes i feel like a demon possessed me, thats why i have physical pain in my body... greetings
I have more trouble with the negative and cognitive symptoms since getting my illness under control with medication. The positive symptoms are well controlled by meds, but the other symptoms not so much. Is this other people's experience?
@@aaymathebest4705 Well , i am paranoid schizo for years now , slightly psychotic always , meds touch only the pos symptoms, the negative ones are usually untouched, i tried haldol, zyprexa , abilify , seroquel , now on solian . Doc said its the best for neg symptoms, i am well aware of my illness and what it can do to me , mostly i take the meds , the delusional parts and the paranoia go away , i am left with crippled voices low visions , and mostly neg symptoms, lack of motivation no drive , lack of emotional side if things , no speech just yeas and nos , solian so far made me a bit more talkative so did abilify, in general depression is a silent killer , being chemicaly restrained and slowly drying up as a human being isn’t cool , if i had motivation i would do soo much , but i force myself to do basic stuff and just photo synthesis on the couch.
I know this isn't the standard, but I find it more helpful to call them additive, subtractive and cognitive symptoms, rather than positive and negative
Thank you for making this very clear, on what schizophrenia is, and the symptoms. Some of the ethnic movies I watch with my husband is very inaccurate depiction of this illness. (India, multiple languages and cultures within the country.) Even getting it from Europe, they get so much wrong about mental health.
From an autistic/Asperger perspective: - Physically sensitive senses (hearing, smell) finer than many other people can perceive are not "hallucinations". Same with insufficiently filtered natural perceptual flaws (floaters, afterimages, blood flow sounds etc). - Misunderstanding other people's intentions may not be "paranoia". It depends. Being aware of and cautious about possible real threats is just that. - Strong fact-based convictions may not be "delusions" even if being in a minority of people. - "Negative and cognitive" symptoms mostly seem just executive dysfunction and its consequences and yes, it's a major overlap with autism (and AD(H)D too). - Social-environment induced mood fluctuations (withdrawal, fatigue, anxiety, elation) due to pressures or opportunities may not be "bipolar". - An autistic baseline complicated with traumatic life events may well lead to PTSD and at times psychosis on inescapable re-exposures to stimuli. The practical difference is that neuroleptics worsen many of these. So, both patients and specialists, be aware!
Hey i was wondering if anyone else experiences this? Sometimes my thoughts will start zooming everywhere and everything starts getting super disorgnized and everything starts going super duper fast like SUPER fast and then all of a sudden the volume inside of my head will just surge and itll get super loud? and lately a couple times this has happened where it got so loud that i actually heard it like an auditory hallucination. Havnt been diagnosed with schizophrenia or anything but ive been wondering just a little lately and- yeah. this normal?
If I make my speech plain I can talk easier. In my case, I could not face reality and indulged in my own world, until I realized facing reality was easier and my own thoughts brought me pain. I still lack discipline but it's not possible to make me work, my crazy mind is too weak. I think schizophrenia is a bad case of time distortion. Reading books that have a linear time line can teach you to think logically. The word REASON is the most important word I know.
oh my jesus .. i have this undiagnosed but i checked all the sysmptoms. its very akin to a spiritual life so i kinda identify myself with that yet i know its something more than 'spirituality'. the lack of zest and motivation is very hard to deal with and scary. the poverty of speech is hard too because the mind seems like being engulfed more with negative thoughta than positive ones
I only experience the negative symptoms on my medication. I have some lack of motivation. A little flat on emotion. But I feel better on Welbutrin. My articulation in communication I think is ok but could use some work.
What I don't understand about the DSM is if I have all these symptoms and I previously smoked cannabis, I get diagnosed with a drug induced psychosis. Yet if I drink alcohol or take pharmaceutical medication, it's an organic psychosis or schitzophrenia 🤔
Hi Lauren,am happy you looking good,my comment will go with negative symptom,since I started doing exercise like push up while holding my breath I concentrate the whole day,I think we people with schizophrenia need to start campaigning and make the world understand that with our treatment we are better people
well couple of those symptoms I've probably rightfully developed by a definite mistreatment by my peers at a very young age. Definitely no delusion to mistrust people. And yes, they DO talk about ''us''.
@@duckthetunafish1000 nah rather some of these symptoms aren't exclusive to schizophrenia. A ton of schizophrenia symptoms can be seen in neurotypical people, or those with other disorders.
Can I ask you a serious question. When were you diagnosed? My mom was diagnosed at 45, but I found that odd because wouldn't you experience this earlier on?
i know it sounds stupid, but is there a thinking halucinations? To be precise - i have moments of "what if" and there I lurk in with literaly second of time and create whole world around it, really whole chains of coonections, decisions and consequences (sometimes like a loop - over and over again)...world i live for 1-5, sometimes i think max 10 secs, sometimes it is hard to snap out of it until it finished thinking
It's important to recognise that current and previous language, culture and religion can significantly influence content of positive symptoms. Religious delusions of people that change from one culture, especially highly religiously involved and move into another country often increase in symbolism. All positive symptoms are influenced by the knowledge and conscious and unconscious memory one has - for this reason too being kind to yourself, working in therapy on your fears and traumas+ surrounding yourself with good experiences , sounds, views and positive people is so incredobly important. Even consuming darkly themed media can negatively influence symptom's content. This is also one of the reasons why positive symptoms can be very debilitating for people with significant trauma, experiencing or having experienced homelessness and addiction.
Well done for being so brave to talk so candidly about yourself. I have seen how people struggle with schizophrenia first hand and you have given a clear insight into their, and your thought processes. I stand in admiration of you
ur being to real girl stoppp shdkjfhj 😭😭😭 lately ive been having a lot of auditory hallucinations, and even one tactile hallucination, where i was in bed and felt my dogs nose rub against my thigh, but she was in my brothers room.
Does this all have to happen by a certain point? I feel like I've had some worrisome symptoms but I think I'm too old to have not already developed a disorder per say
What I like most about your videos are how relatable you make them. It’s so easy to see video’s of the extremes of these symptoms like the ones of people with word salad or who are catatonic, or who have no affect whatsoever, or who are so far gone and lost that full blown psychosis seems to be their permanent state of life. And though this is sometimes a reality, seeing your story makes the connection easier between the extremes and what the threshold is for less extreme circumstances.
I was just diagnosed with schizophrenia, and I have no emotions at all anymore and I don't even feel attached to my body and I hide away from family and hear voices/see things. I'm terrified of taking the meds because of side affects.
Plz go to your doctor 🙏 my son is transformed and all his relationships. He described it as being reborn. Plz don't believe remaining in the confines of your illness is your only option 🙏 vitamins Bs complex high dose ,Omega 3 ,magnesium citrate and magnolia bark,this helps with anxiety instead of the pregablin he was on.
