A True Madness: Schizophrenia (Mental Illness Documentary)

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Produced by Richard Broad, this educational documentary examines the nature of schizophrenia through conversations with mentally disordered patients and the psychiatrists who treat them. When schizophrenia is active, symptoms can include delusions, paranoia, hallucinations, disorganized speech, trouble with thinking and lack of motivation.
Schizophrenia remains one of the most common mental disorders affecting the world. Over the course of the last 50 years, the treatment of this disorder has advanced to the point of allowing a normal lifestyle. However, the stigmas surrounding schizophrenia have persisted despite these advances, often producing an unfair treatment of those affected with mental illness.
The only effective way to combat these stigmas is to educate the population on the details of schizophrenia so that we can make educated decisions regarding the ways in which we interact with those suffering from mental illness. Please watch and share this important documentary because these sweet people deserve to be heard as well.
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[@sumofme1]

Please have Dr. Judy Mikivits she is a scientist she has a lot of cures. God bless you and everyone

[@regina-ip8by]

what year was this made??

[@jwilcox4726]

@@regina-ip8by My guess the 70's I remember it being this way. Reagan freed all the mental health people who didn't need to be there. So around or right after the Regan Administration was in the White House as our President. Stupid he was a movie star not a politician or a government official at all. Never should we do this, laws should be passed about having to know enough to run the country if you win. Even tRUMP never thought he would win. Now he knows how gullible/ignorant we are. Why he stays down south in TX. Most ignorant of education in all fifty states. Fifth poorest from the bottom. So 45 states are smarter, better weather, safer, smarter. There ya go on why the fools never want any regulations so they can rip us another new asshole over and over and over and over again. I sure hope Mother Nature wins over all the wicked humans who have joined in in destroying the world for their own personal gain. No mercy Lord no Mercy.

[@ellie698]

So fascinating to see this time capsule of television!

[@thetwitchywitchy]

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

[@adelekelly455]

Yes, I try to explain that the thing you are relying on to think doesn't work properly, so you can't think yourself better or even have insight at times of severe mental illness.

[@johnvonlove2734]

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

[@foxwoodjones9831]

Yes! I have both physical & mental illnesses. I’ve told my parents that if I was given a choice, I would pick a physical disability over a mental one every time. The brain is so powerful and it’s crazy to sit there and rationally know something is one way, but your brain is telling you that it is something completely different.

[@m.h.3108]

I figured something out. Your subconscious is not you. It's up to you to decide who it is.

[@jdjones4825]

​@@m.h.3108 gonna try and remember that one 👍❤️

[@Chaotic_Witch616]

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.

[@StanCat4]

That’s exactly why I’m here. 😃 I think this is one of the most difficult mental illnesses

[@mariahconklin4150]

Did you see Danial Mackler documentary on it on youtube? I never understood it really until I saw that documentary. I know smoking can cause it also and I've seen two people in my apartment complex that have scizophrenia and they both smoked. One lady was kicked out it was so bad.

[@Chaotic_Witch616]

@@StanCat4 there is one that is worse than this. My oldest daughter has this BPD. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. ❤️‍🔥

[@adelekelly455]

​@@Chaotic_Witch616yes my niece has it and I myself had traits of it when I was younger. DBT has best results, but hard to access and because of nature of illness it is hard to get patient to engage in treatment.

[@adelekelly455]

Yes, I have bipolar disorder. I take my meds so don't have many episodes. Schizophrenia used to scare me but since I've had psychosis from mania I understand it more. My son has just started suffering from delusions which is hard for me to see.

[@blackswan1983]

As a schizophrenic I'm looking forward to this.

[@GeGe-fg3hx]

I have it constant fear I have always it sucks and people love to take advantage of that unfortunately

[@msimmons2]

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.

[@fc-zy5pm]

I feel sorry for him. Poor boy! From mathematicians to criminals, schizophrenia has affected everyone.

[@michellehitt1976]

That is such a sad situation. Has medication been tried?

[@msimmons2]

@@michellehitt1976 he tries but wants instant results and when he does he shakes all over from the medication and acts like he’s losing his mind. So heartbreaking because he’s such a good person. He just goes nuts

[@msimmons2]

This morning my nephew called in a rage and asked if I was telepathically communicating with him through Netscape and I told him no I wasn’t, he got angry and accused me of lying and hung up. I called him back and he said when he closes his eyes he sees 3 white spots that are connected and he says people are in the room talking with him. It’s so hard not to know how to help him.

[@mariahconklin4150]

That's why I stopped drinking and doing weed. I don't have scizophrenia but I have bad anger the drugs didn't help I already have a learning disability I have to take care of and just trying to survive is enough.

[@SandiByrd]

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

[@charliedupree3110]

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 :(

[@LouiesLog]

Yes, I wonder if they're simply really are just experiencing manipulation from people, being honest and being pinned as "crazy" lol

[@LouiesLog]

Be honest people how many of you want to now call me crazy because you think it would be funny / feed into it 👀 point proven.

[@moosemaster96]

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 🎉

[@CrustyUgg]

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.

[@moosemaster96]

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

[@leonieedson7614]

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

[@lindamcauley4728]

God bless you ❤

[@dutchy187]

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..

[@ashlau007]

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

[@StanCat4]

Connect to NAMI and other mental health support groups

[@pyewackett5]

You are not damaged. You are Amazing.

[@sandrathompson1277]

My son has this illness..all I can say to all suffers is…GOD BLESS YOU…

[@chrismatheson4376]

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.

[@verityowens9638]

They still do not know how to manage this horrible problem

[@argee97]

We have come on a little but a little is not enough.

[@randyw8832]

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

[@weaponizedcatz7469]

Me too….

[@devina1100]

Check out the work of Jerry Marzinski. You'll be glad you did.

[@devina1100]

@pinkdostoyevsky Hey. No worries. 👍😊

[@thatahkabdul]

the feeling of persecution?

[@randyw8832]

@@thatahkabdul yes all the time

[@dmtdreamz7706]

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.

[@christat5336]

Back then there was more honesty

[@oppressednolonger1497]

the way it ought to be :/

[@ingridakerblom7577]

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..

[@luckycarebear9406]

I think the date is apparently obvious! It’s old 1970s 1980s

[@nicoleschrettl7985]

Can we just leave these people alone before they STOP making videos

[@monte68x]

@@luckycarebear9406 Obvious? Your answer is quite vague.

[@omennemo8844]

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?

[@Lillylangtry101]

Money, the FDA was made with big pharma in mind, not the patient

[@stephaniepiazzese2602]

Aren’t we as humans always the EXPERIMENT?? Same as now, 2023,,,,,

[@jameskulevich8907]

Because they work.

[@seheabol]

This applies to much of medicine but especially psychiatry

[@leatonyaking1]

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

[@eliannakrakauer4792]

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

[@blackswan1983]

We are, but it has to be tempered. Religiousity is a problem for many of us during active psychosis. I like to think of it pragmatically.

[@eliannakrakauer4792]

Yes I’m quite aware of that fact. My son is constantly in this spiritual battle between god and Satan. We are not religious though, however we are very spiritually oriented. when I play Bible verses, he mostly gets calm and yet sometimes it’s a big trigger, just depends. I play Eckhart Tolle which he likes, and Mooji, and this music that dispels demons, it’s Hindu and that helps a lot. I burn sage and he can react both ways, peacefully or rage fully, depends on which alter is in charge at the time. I still think it’s important for mental health practitioners to acknowledge the spiritual realm too. Don’t you think?

[@mistressofthewoods5333]

@@eliannakrakauer4792 In moderation👍🏾

[@Fido-vm9zi]

I agree. Some things may be right with them-especially if they were to understand some various information-in a way that would work for them. My mom always said people, especially children, will live up to what you say they are.

[@stephaniepiazzese2602]

Maybe ,,, but which spirits are they gravitating towards?? There IS A DEMONIC REALM, and there ARE RANKS AND LEVELS,,, 😢

[@Alphonso542]

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.

[@miriamwilson9542]

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!)

[@cybercab]

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.

[@shswnacallison7706]

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

[@joycedurham1729]

They are practicing medii

[@Uninvited72]

So out of date but interesting.

[@SukhdevSingh-ge5rj]

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

[@easypeasy5219]

No one cares pahjeet

[@laurafruhwirth5913]

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.

[@7Melancholia7]

Wow. Wonderful program. Thank you.

[@Over60sowhat]

Such beautiful elocution a generation ago!

[@kr-pm1xg]

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

[@jamesnicholson2503]

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

[@jamesnicholson2503]

What a way to live,poor buggers,

[@jwilcox4726]

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

[@easypeasy5219]

Are you schizophrenic

[@shswnacallison7706]

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

[@RobBenjamin557]

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

[@bella0167]

2021

[@barbarajones9385]

Another commenter researched the date of the film and came up with 1969.

[@1Gibson]

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

[@johnvonlove2734]

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

[@JesgateOnDown]

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

[@MrBelascoaranShayne]

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

[@RealWomenRealStories]

Hello. Thanks for your message. This is the name of the documentary. Sorry if it offends you but we cannot change the name that was given to the film. Thanks for your understanding.

[@msimmons2]

My nephew is definitely mad. Why do words hurt people so much these days.

[@devina1100]

Check out the work of Jerry Marzinski. He has a KZbin channel here and has helped free people from the mental chains of schizophrenia.

[@Lava_Girl-]

This documentary was made many decades ago. Unfortunately, descriptions and the wording used was very different back then.

[@RealWomenRealStories]

@@Lava_Girl- That's correct.

[@paulazemeckis7835]

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.

[@kforest2745]

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

[@stephaniepiazzese2602]

They are always paranoid,, is this correct??

[@kimthomas8717]

How old is this film ??? Whoa

[@RealWomenRealStories]

1969.

[@Chaotic_Witch616]

@@RealWomenRealStoriesthe yr I was born lol

[@moosemaster96]

Its very progressive for its era. Way more a modern perspective than I'd have expected. I think pretty much all of it holds up still too and hasn't been found to be false

[@LarryKnight-nd5xw]

Marc

[@vincentrabbit8497]

SCHIZOPHRENIC = ME MYSELF AND I = INVINCEBLE

[@ChillerBaby]

u good my g?

[@LarryKnight-nd5xw]

Schizophrenia 3 alcohol

[@cuzzaveli]

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

[@jennifermorgan5846]

This is old information

[@RealWomenRealStories]

But still important.

[@eliannakrakauer4792]

i think the old is better

[@chrisnelson76]

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

[@User-rm9cw]

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

[@jwilcox4726]

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.

[@johnvonlove2734]

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

[@Kiki-yw9kc]

Omg they are so posh !!!!

[@LarryKnight-nd5xw]

Alcohol 3

[@barneyronnie]

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

[@alexandrajester6175]

This guy is sick

[@thatahkabdul]

31:15

[@LarryKnight-nd5xw]

Schizophrenic alcohol 666 times

[@carolann3249]

Nothing pleasant or creative about this illness

[@ethiodude9886]

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 !

[@johnvonlove2734]

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.

[@neomaredi5922]

No. Just no.

[@mshaw6836]

It is demonic and Jesus is the answer👍.

[@gs-e2d]

It is technology, they use technology, Jesus can't help you guys don't have any Idea when Jesus can't save himself, he was an ordinary men who learned some ancient knowledge through Gurus from the east, the deep state uses the same knowledge to develop technology to target these people, unless an actual God descends and destroys those demons, very difficult to escape this suffering and Jesus can't do anything.