as a mental health technician at a psych hospital, it is fascinating to understand the why behind my psychotic patients behavior. it just makes me have even more empathy for them, bc they really can't control all the tricks their brains play on them. thanks for the great video!
Except you guys dont have empathy at all you just slap on the psychosis tag and thats it give them chemically induced parkinsons and are completely fine with it and pretend that everything is totally ok, and you do the same for bipolar patients too
Psychosis is when the internal thoughts become external. You think your mind, or conciousness is represented in the external world. But is it never like that? What about the jungian "synchronicities"? Can it be that sometimes the inner world of a person conjuncts with the external, and if this happens a lot you get confused and start to see conjunctions too often, even when there is none. With dopamine blockage you lose interest, become dull and sedated. You start having problem to focus and keep attention.
Alienation refers to the feeling of disconnection or estrangement from oneself, others, or society. It is often described as a psychological state in which an individual feels disconnected from the values, beliefs, and social norms of the culture or society to which they belong. Alienation can be caused by various factors, including social, economic, and political conditions, as well as personal experiences and feelings of isolation or exclusion. It can have a negative impact on an individual's mental and emotional well-being and can lead to feelings of depression, anxiety, and hopelessness.
yo this is the best explanation of psychosis and dopamine ive ever heartd. Great job. Bro seriously, thank you. I've watched countless hours of videos and not a single one explain it better than this. I recently suffered a psychotic break and I am trying to put back together the pieces and all. Great stuff man.
On a certain level, we have a drug store in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.
I really like your video, very well explained, and as a ADHD guy that uses Vivance and start feeling crazy and losing my head more than ever before, I can’t help but relate with that and that lifts me up because it gives me a better glance of comprehension of my case, hope I’ll get out of this unbarrable doubt of my existance one day. Btw, if I don’t take my pills, can’t work or do anything, I need to face the dilemma, getting crazy is not even a choice, I can’t escape this reality…
please make more! i have schizophrenia and i've never believed in the dopamine theory because the meds never worked to get rid of my voices, but when i listened to your explanations, i could see how dopamine could affect delusions.
Totally not Me, realizing at 1:30 am that I have psychosis triggered by 3 different things, and its been unrecognized and untreated for the last 15 years😬😬😭 Thank you for this video!
@psychofarm, what has happened with the dopamine levels for a person with BPD who's amygdala has been fired up like in a rage event, or even in rumination? Is it that the prediction errors are not entirely, contextually irrelevant? In other words, it's maybe a little deal, but it becomes a big deal because too much dopamine is released?
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Fly lands on a politician, crazy people have theories. Eighty flies land on the politician during the same speech, crawling all over his face while he ignores them, everyone develops psychosis to explain.
