Vintage Psychiatric Interview | Psychosis/Hallucinosis Caused by Alcoholism

Subtitled in English. This 47 year-old woman required emergency admission after a psychotic episode where she was fleeing imaginary attackers: "the Gauls"
The character and content of a delirium or psychosis can help determine it's etiology (although of course not specific enough to be diagnostic on it's own). In this alcoholic, the psychosis possesses a story like quality, albeit with a lack of continuity. Cause and effect, before and after, are loose concepts.

[@kripptonite7457]

Very sad for her & she's only 47. I learned that when alcoholics never seek treatment, etc., they die of one of two things, alcohol related dementia/alzheimers, or cirrhosis of the liver.

[@cherylcampbell7495]

My mom said I quit drinking when I started seeing spiders on the wall. I was around 12. She never quit drinking.

[@ghostlylover99123]

What a sweet soul, see how she praised the staff!

[@hebneh]

Since she'd been in the hospital for some days before this film was shot, she couldn't have been drinking during that time - yet the hallucinations were still real to her.

[@Tam_Tam24]

C’est tres tres interessant!

[@ThinkerGoneMad]

This makes my heart hurt for her so much. She is experiencing a very real reality and she is so certain.

[@christinamarie8352]

I was getting that vibe too - like she was able to witness her house being torn down in the future or something. When she talked about how they pulled out a device and played music. I wonder if any construction workers had any ghost experiences where her house is/was at.

[@fleshgordon6190]

She's fucked

[@lucielrg1680]

Ce genre de personne sont si persuasifs dans leurs sorte de délire que parfois on a envie de les croire, elles arrivent à en quelques sorte nous faire croire leurs histoires. C'est très intéressant, merci beaucoup.

[@MarieSoularue]

Elle ne cherche à convaincre personne, elle est juste persuadée que ça lui est bien arrivé... elle croit en son délire à 100%

[@erniebuchinski3614]

She reminds me of about every fourth passenger on the number nine bus in Southeast Portland, Oregon, lumbering and meandering its way up and down Powell Blvd.

[@BamBabyBrenda]

There's a 70% death rate from DT and alcohol withdrawal that's for current time. As in now.

[@Rick_Cleland]

😔😔😔 It's very bad.

[@Duvmasta]

Where do you get the French psychiatry films?

[@TabTab51]

It's from "medical film" realized by Eric Duvivier. He mad hundreds of documentary but they are reserved for medical study.

[@matox01tekk]

Fascinating story how do you come up with the Gauls from 5th century there must have been some popular stories in france about the Gauls at that time, im from czechia and i just tried to imagine how the scenario would be for me i guess the Hungarians started to attack my house Tuesday continue entire week till shit go down at friday

[@ericconnor8419]

It might have been the comic 'Asterix' it was released in 1959

[@JakobHill]

@@ericconnor8419 You're almost certainly right. Only other thing would be the Gaullists (people who supported France's imperialist President at that time).

[@Eyeamthewitness]

I am wondering if sobriety and recovery over a time she will realize what is true and what is not...?

[@e.s.t.e.r.a3311]

So she imagined that she saw those people coming for her? Because she said her husband saw them too but couldn’t do anything, but he actually didn’t see anything right?

[@mikephelps1924]

@Isabel Koenis lol yes.

[@BamBabyBrenda]

She's delusional as well. She has no idea what reality is anymore

[@realisthmong]

No. She imagined those people coming for her but her husband imagined them. So since they were imagined by her husband, she believed that she must have been imagining that she did not manage to see them. So she believed she imagined everything but in reality it was her husband imagining the imagination.

[@homeblankingK]

who said the husband was real?

[@KAdams-dr4pc]

@@homeblankingK And .... maybe something DID happened to her and she's telling the truth. Just a thought ..... 🤗 Edit: Back than a spouse can make up a situation just to get people to think their spouse is crazy just to get rid of them. Watch the movie, " The Changeling ". This movie was a true story!! She comments that she was a nervous child .... maybe her parents thought she had a mental problem. If the doctors prescribed drugs to her at such an early age could be another piece of the puzzle that affected her thinking. Also ... maybe her husband told her the intruders were "Gauls".

[@klrdrawings2205]

I felt soo identified with the 1st one lol. All she said.

[@billf7062]

No doubt there was alcohol abuse over the years, however, the question must be considered, did she have mental illness first and use alcohol as an excuse to cover up unexplainable behavior.

[@a.nniejm]

It's sad to know that she was saying all of this so somebody could help her or maybe get inspired by her story and they were only recording to show others how someone with hallucinations is like.

[@RoyalBeach_]

It's a learning tool used to educate and in turn help her and people like her. She would not be wrong in her belief, her story has probably helped and inspired many

[@user-xx5vz2nj5y]

She is so sure about it all

[@PittheadX]

Carlo Gambino before SRS

[@DominionFenrir]

Is it bad that I laughed when she said the enemy were 'the Gauls'?

[@rofl.connoisseur]

Very sad

[@charlieclark3127]

Me when I don't take my medication for a week

[@erniebuchinski3614]

Three days for me . . .

[@dagrun3821]

Haha

[@AllyWhiteArtist]

Fun random fact: The French are decedents of the Gauls.

[@toughsuga2]

Wow

[@billpelican2773]

I want what she has been drinking

[@maxi-me]

Paul McCartney with a ponytail

[@piper2521]

LMAO

[@jenniferthompson6280]

😂

[@vladimir907]

Il n’y a pas que l’alcool là !

[@princessedelu]

J'ai l'impression d'entendre parler une vieillarde, et elle n'a que 47 ans, c'est triste... Après peut-être que les accents de l'époque y sont aussi pour quelque chose

[@KAdams-dr4pc]

Just a thought .... maybe something DID happen to her.

[@marcellinechoisne5627]

ahaha Larry Boisiere was fun...

[@rockyvarkhond2269]

Call me!

[@kostadinkostadinov923]

Everything opposite to the SUN is gay after all folks...