What is Schizophrenia? 

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People who are mentally healthy should be grateful .

"Mom is hurting me" ".... we dont have a mom" Me: yeah seems fair...

I honestly love this art style!

When I was 9 years old I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and with medication and therapy I managed to get better but I was lucky some people can't get rid of it. but I'm can happily say that it's been 2 years with out the voices. Edit: Thank you for all the support I wish I would have have it back then

People: *has schizophrenia* Moms: Its bEcAUsE Of thAt dAmn phOnE

*Schizophrenia* can be caused by unbearable stress and I urge all of to be kind towards yourselves and speak up when it's too much.

"I have schizophrenia." -every 14 year old girl after taking a personality test

This is such an important video, if you think you’re suffering from schizophrenia it’s important you seek help right away so you can begin to get the help you need❤️

My son is going through the first stages of this. It is so hard as a mom not to be able to kiss the boo-boo and make it better.

I have schizophrenia- trust me it's not fun- The the hallucinations were probably the worst part especially when they can sometimes sound as your loved ones, what's usually the voices say some pretty negative things and when they're imitating someone you know it's kind of scary when you see them the next time- and it's especially scary when you're questioning if that person is a hallucination or not. There's also many things that can trigger my schizophrenia to get worse such as Windows because I'll see a lot of stuff within the windows- or when someone's laughing I assume its about me and I become paranoid that people are out to get me. Now I don't watch TV so i can't relate to the TV factor. As for the cringy 9 year old that say "i want schizophrenia" or "i have schizophrenia" i would like them to try haven't it for a day.

" I am schizophrenic " - psych2Go viewers 2019

My gorgeous boyfriend has schizophrenia, and it is so, so stigmatised. People can be truly disgusting with the way they decide to talk about it and I’m glad more awareness is being spread about it.

Super excited about this guys, thanks so much for the opportunity to make this script for you. Really appreciated!

Why are her comments being a month old when the video was uploaded today?😂

Why do I feel like, I have that. But I don't want to self diagnose.

My best friend has this. Her sleep and her focus aren’t always good, and sometimes she feels guilty about letting herself have fun. But she has the most gentle and beautiful heart I’ve ever seen. She’s been trying to tackle how she feels and overcome self esteem issues, and I’m so, so proud of her.

What the hell is going on and why am I month late-

My aunt is suffering from schizophrenia. One day she asked my mother something like „so I heard your daughter is pregnant?“. She was referring to my sister that was like 12 years old back then.

I feel so bad for laughing during the delusions part. "Mom is hurting me." "We don't have a mom..." "What's wrong?" *"They're here"*

Glad y’all did a video on this. My older brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and no matter how much I tried to understand, I couldn’t. But this video made it a lot more clear. I hope I’ll be able to see my brother again.

Man I got schizophrenia after being traumatized multiple times and now I feel like it’s irreversible and my life path has gotten very slim.

WHY R THERE COMMENTS FROM A MONTH AGO?!?!

I’m scared I might develop it later in my life.

I recently just met a friend with schizophrenia and knowing what they might be going through breaks my heart.

Im really intrested in schizophrenia ive been reading about it alot. And today i got a notifacation, im really happy THANK YOOUUUU!! and love the art style btw

This is such a nice and well explained video! I've been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for almost three years now. And it is always hard to explain to people what schizophrenia really is. Since there also is a stigma around schizophrenia which sometimes makes it hard to tell people what it really is. Thank you Psych2Go for this incredible video!

Not gonna lie, some times I feel like I'm a whole different person and I lose my mind

Thank you so so sooo very much for listening to my suggestion!! Thank you so much you're the greatest..

I don’t understand how any of these symptoms are “positive”

I once had a friend his name was jeffrey, we did everything together drawing, playing and talking. My parents thought I just had an imaginery friend but I could see him, feel him, hear him and even smell him! One day I woke up looked for jeffrey but he was gone. 2 years later and I still miss him.

how did i only just get this notification 😂

Thanks for these videos: I'm an occupational therapist and often use them as 'reminders' for symptoms I may see in clients at work, just to be sure I stay aware of what people may be displaying...

I used to have a schizophrenic friend. When around her, I only ever saw her have delusions. She once thought that she was going to become a billionaire because of an inheritance from her grandmother. It was actually very sad. Even con artists tried taking advantage of her and I came in and stopped it.

Thank you for making this video. As someone who has schizoaffective disorder this is super helpful for people to understand schizophrenia and stop the stigma that we’re “psycho” “crazy” and “insane” Thank you so much

The worst is not knowing whether something actually happened. It's so frustrating not knowing what is reality.

I am homeschooling myself in psychology and criminal psychology and this video was of great help. Efficient explanation and descriptive detail.

My mum is schizophrenic, so this video was really helpful to get a better grasp of what it’s like for her. Plus, the visual representations made it easier to follow along! Thank you!

Schizophrenic here just want to remind everyone to break the stigma. We aren't evil, we don't want to hurt anyone. We have lots of love to give 💕

Great video! This information is very helpful. I'm aware of Schizophrenia and the more I learn about it I see the reality for what it is. Keep making awesome videos!

the animation in this video was really nice. I like it whenever you all do videos surrounding certain mental disorders, they really fascinate me!*

I am paranoid schizophrenic for over 20 years hospitals medications you name it. But throught it all Yeshua in hebrew ( Jesus ) has been with me in my life. He has died for my sins on the cross. He is my hope of eternal life as this current life is quite short and full of problems. Did my schizophrenia get better a little but my faith in God has grown which is more precious than Gold. God bless

I was diagnosed when I was 17 and have been taking medication. There were some times in my university life when I stopped taking them 'cause I thought I didn't need them anymore but then when I would get really stressed in acads and there were a few times that I had relapses. I told my psychiatrist about it and she encouraged me to take my meds even on small doses for maintenance. My family and I had emotional times when I was having difficulty but they were there for me. I'm 22 now and my mental health got better thanks to the people who care for me.

Thank you so much for making these beautiful videos, I love watching them!!

Amazing video been waiting for this!!!

I've been dealing with it for many years. I work on my art everyday, and find it better therapy than going to the psychiatrist. :)

The way you illustrate through drawings is hella CUTE 😁 ❤️

These videos are so helpful in putting building blocks on characters I write with different disorders. It gives me a base for research and let’s me adjust some traits I wrongfully gave them.

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia about 7 months ago, and yeah these are all the things that have been happening to me. It affected my college life too. And having a toxic relationship just made it worse. But now, I'm getting better. I escaped from that toxic relationship, I regularly see my therapist and I even feel better now that I met this guy who constantly makes me feel happy. Everyone deserves happiness, you'll find your own happiness in so many ways. Just don't ever give up.

Schizophrenia is very misunderstood concept. Thank you for sharing.

This video was helpful to understand why DID is so often misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. It must be so difficult for someone who doesn't live with alters to think they're "real". People often mistaken the alters for "hallucinations" since they're not physical. The differences between voices and alters "speaking in your mind" is : Alters don't vanish through time. When they start to exist, they develop their own personnality. Alters can control the body of the person and speak to you as any normal person would do. (PS: there are exceptions, and there are also alters that are not willing to speak to other people). Alters can control the body by a process called "switching". Alters have their own will, their own desires. They also have their own memory in common DID (In an OSDD-1B, alters live together at the same time, and usually share the same memory of facts, yet, they don't feel the same way those memories). Alters can live in an innerworld inside the common mind which is certainly not physical, but certainly not an hallucination. People with DID (or osdd) are aware it only exists in their brain. It's useful for communication between the alters, and only communication between the alters can lead to some synergy. It's not really an "imaginary world". The system (=all alters together) use its imagination to create the innerworld, imagination is the tool, not the product ^^. When someone imagine a world for fun, it vanishes through time and its an imaginary world. When someone creates an innerworld for life, it doesn't vanish, it can be transformed at will but it's sometimes difficult to modify it completely since it is "a part of your mind". Singlets (normal people with only one person inside on body ^^) can also create an innerworld. It can be used for meditation, for exemple. Young systems however tend to create an innerworld without any idea of what they're doing, because it's useful for inner-communication. In most of DID cases, DID appeard during the childhood, facing a traumatic event. When the child's personality is so fragile it can break into pieces, or when a child thinks "i can't be living this, I wish it was someone else" or when a child's personality is so broken that an other personnality has to exist. In most of cases, DID exist to protects the brain from being totally broken. Like "I can't face it alone" so "We're facing it together" in a way. I say "in most of cases" because some systems starts from "nothing" or "apparently nothing", some events can be traumatic for a mentally fragile child when you think these events shouldnt be traumatic at all ; and sometimes, it can also be "imaginary friends" becoming something more serious. I have talked to many systems, most of them faced traumatic events, but some did't, and feel rejected by the community so I like to speak for them ^^ Mental multiplicity is a complexe subject. Since it's not something "visible" for other people's eyes, and since it's so easy to think people "only imagine sharing their life with other people", it's common for systems to be insulted, or to meet people faking DID, or to suffer from being mis-diagnosed. Imagine meeting a psychologist who thinks you have schizophrenia, but it's not, and you take pills for years that you don't need. That's what many people I've met (in forums or helping facebook groups ) had to live. Some can live in an psychitric hospital before learning it wasn't helpful. Some just take pills when they's need to go to hospitals (mostly to treat amnesia problems, or traumas suffering) Loosing your memory while some other alter switch is difficult. Not being able to communicate with your alters is difficult too. And when you take pills to "avoid hearing voices" thinking it's schizophrenia when it's not, and when these "voices" are "parts of your mind".... you can easily destroy yourself. That's why I'm posting a soooo long comment under this video. Schizophrenia symtoms can look like DID symtoms. If you think you have schizophrenia, please ask your psychologist about DID. You have many chances to still be a schizophrene, but in case you have DID, learning it as soon as possible is better for your health. Our experience : I grew up 11 years with people in my head, I never saw a psychologist cause I was afraid of it. It took us beween 2009 and 2017 to find our peace of mind, fighting only by ourselves, only for ourselves. Now we are living in some "harmonic system", we still have problems, but at least we never have been misdiagnosed. I used to call myself "schizophrene" when I was a teenager because I didn't know what Schizophrenia really is, and didn't know what my "inner family" was either.... Meeting people having DID made us think we can have OSDD1B. We'll see for the 1st time a psychologit on 15th september. I've learned a lot about DID, but I still have to find what we are. Except of being a "mental family finally working together for a common happiness" I really don't know if we faced a trauma. Some trauma helped developping our multiplicity but there were " inner voices" before the trauma occured. (My parents divorced when the body was only 1 year old, and our mother was quite violent, so our "original alter" might have suffered from things which are not in our memory. Only psychology can help us, I think.) I don't know what exactly we are, but I know we all want to help other people living with mental multiplicity (regardless of if it's DID or something else). I hope my comment can help people distinguish Schizophrenia from DID, since symtoms of "hearing voices" or "bad sleep" or "loss of interest" or "lack of concentration" are shared by both of theses mental issues. It's so easy to mistaken the two. And it's easyer with people facing lot of amnesia since they can be unaware of having people sharing their body and mind. Hope it helps. Thank you for this video ! I was wishing to see something short but detailed about schizophrenia to be able to understand why so many of systems are misdiagnosed with it ^^

Great video! I've heard of this condition for a while but I've never really known much about it.

I’m seeing therapy right now, and my friends and doctors believe I have schizophrenia. It’s really upsetting for me, as it would be for anyone, as very recently I have begun to shorten my attention span. My ability to read and write has become a task for me, and the person I love the most, though they’re behaving as they normally would, feel like they are testing my patience and it’s a task to speak to them. I’m usually having auditorial conversations with myself whereas voices answer back and so much more. It’s scary and I hope that anyone else suffering besides me also gets the help they need to tackle their problem.

"Do you know anyone who is suffering from this?" Yes, i do. That person is me.

My father had Schizophrenia, and I get hallucinations and voices in my head. And I automatically think I was just over imagining it. I also have THE WORST sleeping pattern, and usually zone out in conversation, replying with randomness. I've had this for as long as I can remember. Should I get tested?

Not long ago I found out about my wee brother's illness and as always psych2go never fails to help me understand.

your videos are so helpful and I enjoy listening to them a lot. could you do a video explaining the differences between paranoid personality disorder and schizophrenia.

Can u guys do a video on selective mutism? It's not very well know, I would love to get some more info on it. Love ur channel btw!

My dad has this. He would and still does mutter to himself.

Thanks for the informative video. You're definition of schizophrenia is easy to understand and I thank you.

great video and great presentation (love the visuals)

- "My neighbour is controling my thinking via the wall electrical sockets. I can tell because my heaters and stove snap and crackle occaisonally ..." - A comment of a customer in the days i worked as an electrician.

Based on things I’ve learned I think Schizophrenia is like a form of sleep walking while dreaming while being awake simultaneously.

YES! I was waiting for a video of this

I just got diagnosed this video is very helpful for a description since the doctor didn’t do a very good job explaining

I'm laughing at those comments from a month or weeks ago just because it's from a month or weeks ago

I love the art style of this video!

I went through most of these symptoms. I am debilitated. Thank you for making this video❤❤

I'm grateful for this video. It sure is helpful for how can I approach a friend of mine who has it. Learning this will show her love and understanding what she's dealing with will make her feel not alone. Thank you! Feel late to discover this video.

I've been hearing voices that told me to do things that I don't want to do and I've been looking into this so thanks for making this easy to understand:)

I saw my cousin biking around talking to himself like he was on a phone call

My older brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia for a long time. It's really hard to talk to him because of how childish and hard to understand he is, and I often get mad at him. I understand I shouldn't. Thank you for this video. I never actually asked what schizophrenia is to my mom because I didn't want to upset her.

Thank you so much for this video!

i am honestly kind if scared that i might have this, i always have hallucinations and hear things that arent there, i also have other people in my head who talk to me, some are nice, some are mean, i have tried multiple therapists but i hate them, i dont like talking about myself which is why i made this youtube account, so i could rant icognito

A friend of mine got diagnosed with paranoid Schizophrenia and I was one of the first people to experience the harsher symptoms first hand but over Skype. This video made me curious what’s the difference between paranoid and normal schizophrenia? Great video either way can’t wait to hear more!

I don't have Schizophrenia but thank you for making this video so that me & other people can understand it better.

Again, very educational video. And beautiful animation too.

Good vid! 😁

Please always remember that schizophrenia has to be diagnosticated. You that saw the video and believe that you have schizophrenia, I can tell you that you can rest easy. You see all humans can hear, smell and see things that are not there, it has to do with the memory of our senses . Schizophrenia is more intense, you don't have to worry because you feel the same everybody else does. I could try to explain you how it feels because I experience schizophrenia through drugs, but it's something that it's only understanded when you live it. I'm saying this because if I haven't experienced schizophrenia I would believe that I have at the very least some minor type of schizophrenia and that's not true.

great video!

I do appreciate the chosen voice, art, and tone though. Usually this stuff is presented in a dark way, and many of us are sensitive.

There’s a reason I look behind myself frequently while watching this video.

I've been experiencing these symtoms but I'm seeing a physiciatrist and a therapist and they haven't diagnosed me with anything yet but I've been doing better with the medication im taking

Thanks I needed this

Thank you for sharing❤️

when i first found this video it made me realise that I might possibly have schizophrenia it’s been a long year but I’m finally diagnosed and getting the proper medication thanks to psych to go

Hey there! Another very great and informative video, thanks! ^^ I was wondering if possibly you could make a explaining Borderline Personality Disorder? I just want to know if I show any traits or anything, because that would probably be a pushing point for me to go into therapy or something. But I'm still having trouble understanding what are the definitive traits of it, and how it's different from bipolar disorder? Sorry if this is offensive to anyone, and if you are skills in this topic please feel free to reply and explain it to me!!

Omg im so happy to see a mental illness video on this channel again!! Its been so long!! (No offense) but the whole"signs your ____" or "10 reasons___" was honestly starting to seem like buzzfeed videos. Please contuine more on mental illness/health awareness like this!!!

I’m a gachatuber. I want to make a series about a teen with schizophrenia, so I’m trying to find out as much as I can about the disorder so I portray it correctly. This helped, thank you.

am i the only one who cant find the comments from a month ago? yh i edited my comment...

If you see this comment says "2 weeks ago" (or longer) that means I'm a time traveler

ur voice is so calming bro

Thank you for your content

I got schizophrenia, but im so grateful that im able to control it. Becoming discipline could help to reduce it... just eat healthy food, get a good sleep, work out and do what you love such as hobbies or sports, and dont forget to surround yourself with positive people

The intuition The gut feeling The voice

Thank you for your videos

I'm suffering from schizophrenia , it's been couple of years already.... Sometimes I feel like I should go die cuz I really don't have anyone in my life;my thoughts are not same as my family members, so it's hard to explain everything to my family. Also I don't like to talk,it's more painful when I actually wanna talk n at the same time I don't wanna...... Etc etc .... GOD BLESS YOU 🙏

I had disorganised thinking and speaking during my childhood 🤔 I usually got lost in a long conversation and lost concentration.

0:41 For some reason that Doctor looks like Onion from Steven Universe.

4:43 WHOAA, that 'sleeping less' illustration scared me.