I love SBSK! And yes, Chris’s message with this channel is pretty much that no matter how different we are, we all want and deserve human connection and friendship. This video with Cecilia is when she’s very deep into the symptoms of schizophrenia. There are follow videos with her from later times when her symptoms are better controlled. She is doing a lot of active work in mental health advocacy.
@shalacarter6658 Жыл бұрын
I love them, too! Been following for years. :)
@jeanieolahful Жыл бұрын
She almost looks like an entirely different person! This channel is great, please do your best to share. My friends and their daughter were featured not too long ago, the Einstein family.❤️
@Aster_Risk Жыл бұрын
@@jeanieolahfulI tell everyone I can about SBSK. It's so important and insightful.
@NobodyNobody-ko6dl Жыл бұрын
Today she is even much much better...she looks and very pretty
@pinkcatminht Жыл бұрын
yes! Chris used to work as a special needs teacher and SBSK started with one of his classes, but it's since expanded to highlight people of all walks of life with different mental and physical ailments and disabilities, while allowing the person themselves(or their carers) to speak for themselves.
@caadam87 Жыл бұрын
I remember Cecilia saying later on that the reason why she was looking away and seemed especially uncomfortable in this video is because she was trying to avoid eye contact with a hallucination in the room. That must've been really uncomfortable, for sure.
@chancia8990 Жыл бұрын
she also has autism i believe
@informitas011710 ай бұрын
I don't look in their eyes because I have a problem with people not being real people, and you can tell by looking them in the eye. So, as long as I don't look they both are and are not real and I can have a conversation with them. Sometimes I slip up and catch their eye and it turns out the healthcare worker isn't real and I have to change person.
@eastcoastswiftie Жыл бұрын
Not sure if you saw but Chris recently did an update interview with Cecelia on SBSK. You can tell by her demeanor that she is doing significantly better, which is so great to see. She has clearly been very insightful and hopeful with her diagnosis, and I’m so happy that her dedication resulted in her able to live a healthy and happy life with minimal symptoms.
@adatewithkate Жыл бұрын
Yes!! The update video was heartwarming. She's doing so much better, which gives me hope for others with the same condition. I'd love to see Dr. Syl react to that video and tell us more about how proper treatment guided her to that healthier state.
@CMLee81 Жыл бұрын
I was going to say this as well! I hope he watches it! She is so much better and deserves for more people to see that version of herself.
@annipsy2185 Жыл бұрын
😮awesome❤
@carolcarol3938 Жыл бұрын
Just a shout out for the channel "Special Books by Special Kids"; it is a truly wonderful channel that provides so many diverse people with illnesses/disabilities to express themselves openly and educate others regarding their experience of life. The couple who run the channel are very good at listening, asking suitable questions and being an empathetic audience. It's a great resource. I think, having seen this interview a few years ago, Cecelia addresses the need to look away from him and that he establishes that she is comfortable with where he is sitting in the beginning of the interview (or on another interview he does with her)
@ralsharp6013 Жыл бұрын
Yes I agree. Incredible interviews with people from all walks of life
@shalacarter6658 Жыл бұрын
And I love that later on she had a better interview with Chris.
@francinerosenthal514 Жыл бұрын
I think there’s a later interview with her, where she’s in much better shape mentally (she talks about the difference).
@gianfranco_maldetto_92 Жыл бұрын
Yes! I've also watched that vid. Way better!
@jennyblad1038 Жыл бұрын
I think she said that she was having hallucinations during this interview!
@Hannibanani97 Жыл бұрын
I have schizophrenia, I'm only scared of saying it most of the time, most often people will pronounce their fear of us before I tell them, in which case I just don't interact with them afterwards. And if I could change on thing in my life it would be to erase the stigma of schizophrenia from the world. It's an uphill battle for me because I'm resistant to pretty much every antipsychotic out there but if cecila can make it through life so can I. She's become a huge inspiration for me now. Glad I saw this video so i could learn about our similar stories and have someone I can look up to.
@sebastianliwinski2229 ай бұрын
Have you had vitamin/mineral hair analysis done? It's very helpful tool
@AnxietyRat Жыл бұрын
She explained at some point to the fact that she's looking away from him and is looking anywhere but in his direction and is maybe looking a little bit uncomfortable is because she was having a hallucination that was in his direction like right next to him... I think she said that it was the clown. the clown was like right near him and so she didn't want to look ANYWHERE near her interviewer during the interview. So from what she has said she wasn't uncomfortable with his physical closeness but she was uncomfortable with the hallucination that she was experiencing during that time.
@gianfranco_maldetto_92 Жыл бұрын
Psychosis is triggered by stress. Being physically close to her most probably was a stressor that led to the clown appearing.
@junbh2 Жыл бұрын
@@gianfranco_maldetto_92 Possibly, but she also said she has hallucinations almost constantly... and knowing Chris' interview style he would have asked her first where she wanted him to sit.
@gianfranco_maldetto_92 Жыл бұрын
@@junbh2 You can easily tell the constant terror in her face. Hallucinations are usually triggered by stressors. The expected stress everyone experiences at the beginning of an interview in her case caused the clown to appear. The lingering effect does not mean that a schizophrenic truly experiences hallucinations 24/7.
@lilbatz Жыл бұрын
Chris worked as a special education teacher, so that is why he has that familiarity with the people he is interviewing. ETA, Chris always asks if people are fine or comfortable. If she did want Chris next to her, he'd have no problem honoring her wishes.
@Viky-l1r Жыл бұрын
I was diagnosed as schizophrenic at 36. Previously I had been diagnosed as Bipolar with psychotic features. At 36 something changed. At first it began as delusional thinking and then declined into auditory, visual, and tactile hallucinations and it was very much like being in a waking nightmare. It wasn't until I became catatonic that I was sent to hospital. Thank you for showing Cecilia.
@shalacarter6658 Жыл бұрын
I hate that it took so long for you to be diagnosed. But, not surprised.
@Viky-l1r Жыл бұрын
@@shalacarter6658 It's ok. I am actually doing a lot better now. I talked with my doctor about tapering off of haldol after being on it nine years because new research has shown that a certain diet can decrease symptoms. So right now I take it as needed. I would not recommend this for everyone, and certainly not without supervision. I still see my doctor monthly. While haldol helped, it also kept me in a zombie like state and did not deal with the negative symptoms. Now I experience a full range of emotions.
@gianfranco_maldetto_92 Жыл бұрын
Your condition is probably in the schizoaffective spectrum.
@johnkim6447 Жыл бұрын
Did u ever try any of the atypicals? Theoretically it should help with negative symptoms with D1 receptor partial agonism in the mesocortical pathway
@isaaccardenas8829 Жыл бұрын
@@johnkim6447I’m sure their doctor is doing a great job with their medication management. They don’t need armchair psych
@rebeccalyons1327 Жыл бұрын
Cecilia did an incredible TedTalk as well
@deepbluehue37 ай бұрын
I remember that ... She got the ted staff to change the Ted talk stage decor as they are typically her triggers : a lot of the colors RED and WHITE ... ( she joked about it at the beginning of her talk ) ...
@amandahankins2731 Жыл бұрын
I love how he listens so well when she never even looks over at him. I find it hard to look at people and get my words out.
@LoveLee_Dreamer Жыл бұрын
SBSK is an incredible channel. The man doing the interviews is uniquely kind-hearted.
@heyhousecat Жыл бұрын
In the update she mentions that she was looking away to avoid looking in the direction of a specific hallucination. Its a really great update and she seemed to be more comfortable.
@littlewoodchopper2659 Жыл бұрын
Everytime ive gone into psychosis and started hallucinating, it begins with flashbacks then a tsunami of memories then escalates to not eating and sleeping
@susannesonnenschein2878 Жыл бұрын
If you follow Cecillia's story you will be amaized how she develloped since this interview. She is now a speaker and group leader for students with schizophrenia. She can connect with people and found a lot of friends. She is very intelligent and reflected.
@CheeseLoversUnited Жыл бұрын
hey Dr Syl. I'm a mental health crisis nurse who enjoys watching your stuff in my free time bc i can't turn my work brain off lol. Cecilia actually has an update on this channel where her presentation is a lot different, and I think it'd be interesting for you to watch and see how she's changed :)
@edenelodie8558 Жыл бұрын
You have such a soothing voice and a really respectful way of talking about the people you watch. Loved getting that insight of a Dr's perspective.
@Psychotic.in.Seattle Жыл бұрын
I love Cecelia! She’s been such a huge inspiration for me as an advocate.
@athena95068 ай бұрын
I am Not a Monster: Cecilia McGough - TEDx Cecilia McGough is an astronomer, activist, and writer as a Penn State Schreyer Honors College scholar pursuing a major in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Cecilia is the founder and current president of the Penn State Pulsar Search Collaboratory. She has been participating in pulsar research continuously since December of 2009, co-discovering pulsar J1930-1852 with the widest orbit ever observed around another neutron star, competing in the International Space Olympics held in Russia, and co-authoring her research in the Astrophysics Journal. Cecilia is a mental health activist in fighting against the negative stigma towards mental illness. She is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of the soon to launch non-profit Students With Schizophrenia which is the only non-profit in the United States focused on empowering college students with schizophrenia.
@gomar_trano7 ай бұрын
Este es el claro ejemplo de un psiquiatra que no comprende que las enfermedades mentales no hacen al otro ser la etiqueta de la enfermedad mental sino que son parte de su ser. Por desgracia son pocos los especialistas de esta rama que son integradores. Saludos
@laurieberry48142 ай бұрын
Thank you for your honesty, Dr. Syl.
@karenk24099 ай бұрын
I am so impressed with Cecilia. She is incredibly self-aware and articulate. She has also convinced me to avoid horror movies lest they show up in my dreams ... or worse. What we put into our brains contributes to how we see the world.
@fenzirulfr Жыл бұрын
She has such insight that only comes from deep introspection. She's
@tiggercampbell6198 Жыл бұрын
i love the way cecilia is so in control and is able to share her reality..
@LilachLavy-Emanuel9 ай бұрын
I love your proposed way of reacting to someone setting boundaries in communication.
@Agnes_B96 Жыл бұрын
She is doing sooo much better now. And she is doing a really amazing advicat and peer support work
@asiyaheibhlin Жыл бұрын
Could you do the newest Cecilia interview? It would be interesting to see your input in her current update, as well as comapring and contrasting her past and present body language, speech, and mental state.
@masonbaker2377 Жыл бұрын
What an incredible woman.
@puturro5 ай бұрын
great analysis! You should check Cecilia's follow up video with SBSK, she's doing very well. She does reflect back on this interview and how she was doing back then. Very interesting.
@dankmemesdeaddreams2309 Жыл бұрын
Cecilia said in a later interview, that her lack of eye contact with Chris was because of a hallucination on that side of the room
@nikolajovanovic7419 Жыл бұрын
This is so fascinating. Im really impressed how well her personality is developed around her disorder. My first impression was that she obviously faking, but then when she told us how long she experiencing those symptoms, I realize that she actually developed a lot of defensive mechanism which keeps her in reality so to speak. She seems to be very introspective and she is able to tell the difference between her hallucination and real life. I wonder is it that product of intense psychotherapy, or she did all the work by herself ?
@LillianChasteau Жыл бұрын
There are some other videos of Cecilia in a much more balanced mental state, worth watching to see the difference. She presents vert differently when she's not so symptomatic. And she is a wonderful mental health advocate!
@nikolajovanovic7419 Жыл бұрын
@@LillianChasteau i saw. Thnaks
@アキコ2003 Жыл бұрын
Faking? Faking what
@alexanderjohnson8333 Жыл бұрын
Try to unlearn thinking people are faking things. It is ablest and really harmful to lots of people. SO many of us have invisible disabilities and judging us is not helpful. Learning to be better and do better will make you a better ally.
@nikolajovanovic7419 Жыл бұрын
@@alexanderjohnson8333 I thought that this is one of those training videos without real patients. Pleas forgive me, I didn't wanted to offend anyone
@tamaradries2229 ай бұрын
Dr. Syl, you have a very calm and soothing voice which I believe will help all your patients! Thanks for the videos which have opened my eyes to seeing the patient’s side of their illness!
@alexanderjohnson8333 Жыл бұрын
All that chris is done is heavily consent based. Please no one worry hes making her uncomfortable by sitting next to her, he would not do it if it was not okay
@qualifiedarmchaircritic Жыл бұрын
This is the second video of yours I see and I just want to tell you that your demeanor is so impressive. You seem so friendly, understanding, respectful, and comforting, which is extremely pleasant and interesting to watch. I'm glad you showed up in my recommendations!
@smizz19893 ай бұрын
Cecilia complete transformed on her other interview. Almost unrecognizable.
@hrfvandermeer Жыл бұрын
Cecelia is highly intelligent and expert in science. Watch her TED talk.
@stregawormwood1107 Жыл бұрын
i really like her voice. It's really soothing to hear her talk
@KitchenWhimsy Жыл бұрын
I am enjoying your channel. Thanks!
@rachelk2457 Жыл бұрын
I used to work with adults with mental health especially schizophrenia and bipolar as an admin person. I tried to understand and treat equally our clients with schizophrenia but it was sad when another department with our agency that was not educated in mental health would be afraid of our clients with schizophrenia because society still stigmatizes and sees them as scary. Cecilia is right, people with schizophrenia are not monsters and the sad thing is a few of our clients with schizophrenia unintentional killed themselves when I was only at that outpatient clinic for only 2 years. I loved the clients but the management sucked.😅 The ironic thing is serial killers with antisocial personality disorders act Super normal so I am more afraid of super normal people than anybody who has schizophrenia.😊
@CookiesCritterCare8 ай бұрын
Schizophrenic people do murder
@nathanaelmyer5121 Жыл бұрын
This is interesting. I don’t know much about this issue but thank you for helping me learn.
@Linsmith5719 ай бұрын
I had hallucinations for a while after a trauma and coming out of a coma. Most of mine were what I called smoke animals. I thought they were real at first and then realized they weren’t and later they faded away. I can’t imagine dealing with that for an extended time.
@tamashee6871 Жыл бұрын
Cecilia is great, she has newer videos too. 😊 (FYI: you mentioned her active hallucinations during this interview and commented that further workup may be needed: lates she shared in another video that during this time she was struggling.. I think with substance abuse issues. So this is why her symptoms are “worse”)😊
@hstewart5629 Жыл бұрын
i love your videos mate love from northern ireland 💙
@KayosHybrid Жыл бұрын
Love SBSK and their wide ranging advocacy and collaborating with really cool folks with different life situations like disability and mental illness, folks we otherwise wouldnt get to meet.
@judithwerner5301 Жыл бұрын
Very intelligent and insightful lady dealing with a complex, hard to treat illness.
@katespellxx95294 ай бұрын
Gosh good on her! That was great. I've been spending a lot of time on the ward visiting my son (5 mths) and I often wonder about the other patients and what might be happening for them... as I try to understand what is happening for us, and interact with staff too. It is a whole other world. My mother spent a yr in a asylum, back in the day. (We're in Australia). I really appreciate your content. Cheers
@SkinCareLuver Жыл бұрын
I wish I would've got help for my anxiety and depression when I was younger or removed from the school I was abused that caused me a nervous breakdown
@DavidBowman-mq1bm Жыл бұрын
When I was six years old I thought after watching the movie Body Snatchers that my grandmother was trying to send me home with avocado 🥑 and I thought she was trying to make a symbiote out of me. I thought it was a pod from that movie.That sounds like my first delusions with hallucinations. The Blob and the movie Poltergeist did a true welcoming introductions to schizophrenia for me. I believe I hallucinated from fear and stress after viewing those movies. Intense visual tactile and auditory hallucinations. They looked like computer graphic animations. Sometimes you do see monsters under the bed or spirits emanating from clothes closet. I had insomnia start then as well. About the same time-line.
@shalacarter6658 Жыл бұрын
OH, you poor thing! I wish we paid better attention to what our children see.
@barbaraedgley26347 ай бұрын
Wouldnt it be vetter to avoid scary movies & never watch them or be influenced by them? My father never let me watch anything scary & to this day i never watch horror flicks or violent movies
@kathygeorgiou7687 Жыл бұрын
Wow just happened to come across this interview randomly. But I found really interesting & really informative & easy to Understand how a person with this condition feels.
@Joy_Mission Жыл бұрын
Cecilia has a wonderful Ted talk and updated video with Chris. Please review those too!
@Spurz166 Жыл бұрын
I love SBSK. Chris used to be a teacher for children with different disabilities. I started watching him years ago after my own son was dx with Autism and GDD. ❤
@Sidraughen Жыл бұрын
My very good friend has schizophrenia. He was very good at hiding it. Only thing that was weird at first was him moving to different apartments because he said that his neighbors were bothering him, banging on the roof, spying on him etc. But we didn't think much of it as he was pretty poor at the time and lived in very poor neighborhoods. Not until I got a call from my other friend that he was at a psych ward did I eventually started to put 1 and 1 together. His mannerism is often weird and sometimes he kinda zones off. I'm not sure if he's hearing voices or otherwise hallucinating at those times. We have asked only bare minimum about his symptoms. Basically only thing he has said is something like "yeah I guess it's schizophrenia." We have left it at that. He's obviously ashamed of it, but he shouldn't be. It might have something to do with his very religious family not understanding his illness.
@sairscreates Жыл бұрын
Being different is hard. I have bipolar disorder and a physical disability and get stared at for my physical disability every day. I wish I could switch that off, the staring. I mean I'm just me. I can't change it but I wish I could. Also when I get psychosis my most common hallucinations are tactile. Great video!
@shalacarter6658 Жыл бұрын
Tactile hallucinations are new to me. Not very happy about that. Yeah, I get the part about being started at. I just smile at ppl staring at me. Makes me feel a bit better. But, I feel like ppl are judging me for using a store scooter. Feel like they are thinking; "Oh, she is just using that because she is fat" instead of the real reason which is I cannot walk very far. Less than a block.
@sairscreates Жыл бұрын
@@shalacarter6658 People can be very unkind sometimes. All I can say is I hear you! It can still hurt though. I have a very rare congenital condition that makes me look like I don't have a neck and people I think are more surprised more than anything when they see me and I can tell they don't mean to do it. I just wish I didn't care about it so much. Yes, tactile can certainly be interesting and not always in a good way.
@AshedotBob7 ай бұрын
7 years ago, Cecelia did a Ted Talk: "I am not a monster: Schizophrenia" Cecelia McGough, TEDxPSU
@danielleroyal29116 ай бұрын
By the way the video looks "filmed"...I believe they merged both people onto one screen from a video chat but just have a neutral background .... because yes... they would be sitting very uncomfortably close for a convo like that! 😄 Especially with his pre‐scripted sounding questions. (I saw a couple of his other interviews a few weeks ago too)
@patmccrutch3927 Жыл бұрын
Really enjoying your content! Thank you for your perspective. Not sure if you know there was a follow up conversation with SBSK, it was another great upload.
@Rivpc Жыл бұрын
Dr. Syl, I love how compassionate you are with the people and subjects in your videos. I’m wondering if you could do a video about BPD, and the difficulty the medical community has in treating it, with all the stigma involved. Just one suggestion! I’m sure you have many we’ll all also love. Thank you so much for your videos!
@alisonnixon Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for these great and informative videos.. I am the mum of a wonderful young man with Hebephrenic Schizophrenia. I love that you talk aabout the illness,.... AND,... could you also talk about the treatment modalities that can be available in different countries, and what is useful for different types of altered states, and what is not ? In particular I so wish that residential Therapeutic Communities such as Gould Farm or Cooper Riis were available world wide. Along with medication, these caring and work based models seem ideal... But sadly,... so expensive
@EeekiE Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic woman.
@sierraforever2954 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for doing these videos they are really educational
@barbmoore6587 Жыл бұрын
So grateful...this helps so much ❤
@henrifischer1119 Жыл бұрын
I love SBSK, but sometimes I find it so so so hard to watch. However I can't imagine a more respectful channel/producer.
@KatJ3st Жыл бұрын
Excellent description of schizophrenic symptoms.
@crazymomlife8885 ай бұрын
I find her interesting because I've followed her and she looks like a different person every time i see her
@matthewcrome5835 Жыл бұрын
Actually, I read that the most common cause of premature death in people with schizophrenia is heart disease. This makes sense because it is also the most common cause of death in ALL people (at least in the West with a heart-disease-encouraging diet) and because antipsychotics can cause obesity and heart disease regardless of diet. I have personal experience with this (I don't have schizophrenia but I have a mood disorder with psychotic features) because I take antipsychotics and gained a lot of weight as a result.
@megsley Жыл бұрын
lots of folks with significant mental health issues also smoke cigarettes, which are super detrimental to cardiovascular health.
@sharonthompson672 Жыл бұрын
I just wanted to say I LOVE her necklace!!! 🥰
@barbaraedgley26347 ай бұрын
People just want to ve accepted. Yes!
@DreamsOfCepheid Жыл бұрын
I had childhood onset, so I've lived with schizophrenia for over 40 years. I'm fascinated by schizophrenia and dreams because sometimes my delusions will bleed into my dreams and rarely I swear I hallucinate in my dreams (is that even possible?). I will wake up and realize the theme of my dream was a long held delusion, or that what I saw in my dream wasn't quite real. No one seems to know what to make of it because of the unreal elements to dreaming in everyone. Maybe it just means I'm really not making this all up... I had no idea internal voices were more of a trauma response. Thank you! I mostly have internal voices but I hear music externally. The Girls came to live in my head when I was 12. They were aliens who could travel between my head and their world. They were mostly nice but most were my age so they acted like tween girls. The Girls left when I was 14, leaving only my alien older sister, April, behind. She comes and goes as she has her own work on her planet.
@trevorhare1815 Жыл бұрын
Hey dr Syl can you do his second interview with Cecelia when she's in better control and comment on the contrast? Great work Doc! Also I was wondering if you listened to dr Puder's podcast and could comment on his episone one schizephrenia spectrum disorders as a neurodevelopmental phnomenon.
@ameliesayshola8854 Жыл бұрын
I wish Chris had given her space during this interview if she was having a hallucination that was appearing right next to him. Maybe Chris asked her if she was okay with him sitting there as she was enduring the hallucination. It’s uncomfortable watching her shrink away from him so much.
@melindusfindus1668 Жыл бұрын
She doing better and has a ted talk!!
@DavidBowman-mq1bm Жыл бұрын
Thank you again. :)
@tirzah9929 Жыл бұрын
I’d highly recommend the video she did with Chris years later. She sheds some light on how she was feeling during this interview.
@reececaldwell7223 ай бұрын
I remember reading a statistic, I can’t remember where, in regards to the content of hallucinations in individuals of different cultures. And interestingly, in less developed countries, the content was generally actually positive or even affirming voices, whereas more developed countries tended to have individuals more likely to hallucinate negative and demeaning voices, or more paranoid thinking. You talking about the cultural approach to what we would call schizophrenia reminded me of that. Just a theory, but I think the content of the hallucinations could be tied to the tight knit-ness of a community. In countries with far more “strangers,” and far less kinship-like support, it makes sense to me that the things ones mind could drum up would be closer to that of paranoia and distrust, and in heavily consumer influenced societies (you’re not good enoigh, buy this!), negative and self esteem reducing hallucinations.
@amberliteNZ Жыл бұрын
She did an amazing Ted talk
@jennasorscia9044 Жыл бұрын
I think I recall in her update that she says she was also diagnosed with autism which explains her lack of eye contact and reciprocal body language and may influence her schizophrenia hallucinations.
@barefootfiona Жыл бұрын
You talked in this video about the heterogenous causes for schizophrenia: on that note, would you be open to doing a response / review video of the book Brain Energy? I am intrigued but also a little concerned by some of the implications of the claim that mental illness is fundamentally reducible to metabolic matters. I’m concerned it places too much onus on the patient to live a perfect, pure life, but I would really like to hear the opinion of you because you are a mental health practitioner who has recently gone through medical school.
@FernandoTorrera Жыл бұрын
I’ve been screamed at my whole childhood You’re taking drugs You want attention You want to be sick so you can be lazy Finally been diagnosed with epilepsy as an adult. My parents have never said sorry not anyone in my life. They just shrug and say how could we have known.
@suegeew9727 Жыл бұрын
Christine has come so far from her original interview. The interviewer does a wonderful job too.
@barbaraedgley26347 ай бұрын
Maternal grandmother & mother-in-law both diagnosed with paranoid schnitzophrenia schizophrenia schizophrenic
@DanDCool10 ай бұрын
1:50 in their 2 new videos she even looks more well put together
@stormdancer0 Жыл бұрын
Hey, Chris asks and interviews in the way that feels better for the person he's interviewing.
@PirateWW Жыл бұрын
Thanks Dr Syl!!!!
@Szzzzx Жыл бұрын
Please do an update video with Cecilia's new video with SBSK :)
@no2402 Жыл бұрын
A hallucination that has the ability to potentially control your actions (passive influence) and internal voices sounds an awful lot like DID/OSDD. Obviously many other things factor into this but it makes you wonder how many people out there have been labelled psychotic when they're actually traumatised
@problemsfan4132 Жыл бұрын
I choose not to apply labels to myself, but I'd been struggling with something like this since I was 14 or 15. It was like my brain shattered into a bunch of distinct pieces, but they were all their own people. We capped at 3, including myself. When a 4th tried to form, everybody else started panicking, and their overlapping voices made me sick-- Which I guess made sense when the whole shebang eventually collapsed on itself and things went quiet again. Slowly but surely, my psyche knitted itself back together. But not completely, random likes/dislikes and some of their physical mannerisms were retained. But in the end... I got stuck in my own head, by myself, dealing with the full-blown delusions that once belonged to an entirely separate entity. Designed to contain those delusions from me. Yayyy. 😐 God I wrote a full blown rant going into more detail about what it's like now, but the time and place for that probably isn't under a random youtube comment. Your words struck a chord with me, though. I don't know what I have, and it's changed a lot since then, but I've been fixating on channels like these and trying to pick at whatever bits could help me. I've definitely ruled out schizophrenia... but that's 1 out of a billion other disorders to sort through.
@joceelee Жыл бұрын
I saw her follow up interview. She couldn’t look at him because he did not appear to her to be a person. She was hallucinating, but wanted to continue with the interview.
@egarncarz804 Жыл бұрын
Hello. I would like to find out about agitated depression. I have it. I dont know how to dealing with agitation episode.
@shalacarter6658 Жыл бұрын
Yes! Her spiders! I feel that where you don't know it's an hallucination/.
@DavidBowman-mq1bm Жыл бұрын
Spiders big theme. Insects too for me.
@informitas011710 ай бұрын
I have commands and derogatory voices almost always. I'm diagnosed with schizophrenia and I say the same as Cecilia when they talk about voices, I don't want to give them power by confirming them. I can ofc just say this now as I'm medicated, but they are still there. As I'm talking about that they start. Right now.
@meganwaters7772 Жыл бұрын
That is so great that you say you're in charge and you can leave at any point!
@NoMoJo Жыл бұрын
Hey, there's a KZbinr who recorded himself having a manic episode than taking some drug (I can't remember the name of the drug) to stop the manic episode. His name is jreg and the name of the video is how I cured my mental illness Love to see you react to that
@shalacarter6658 Жыл бұрын
you mean a legal or illegal drug?
@NoMoJo Жыл бұрын
I don't know if it was illegal but I do think it was a drug the person had found on their own that worked for them he goes over it in more detail in the video
@nebula1oftheseven488 Жыл бұрын
He took high dose of some type of vitamin B .
@carynmartin6053 Жыл бұрын
I studied and lived with quite a few schizophrenic ppl in my life and ive seen all different types of symptoms displayed in all of them, and all different kinds of m3ds for it. Its the most complicated and confusing mental illness there is!😮 Its encouraging to know that its still being studied
@gianfranco_maldetto_92 Жыл бұрын
Schizophrenia is not a single disease, but a plethora of different brain pathologies. The people you have dealt with are not necessarily all the people that suffer from schizophrenia.
@HeyJoeHaze Жыл бұрын
Cecelia did say in an update video she was on recreational drugs during that interview with Chris.
@amyjones8613 Жыл бұрын
I feel like I should've gotten help earlier. I did have symptoms in 20s not diagnosed until 30s. I agree with her. Her journey is important and similar
@shalacarter6658 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, it can be hard to diagnose when someone only sees you for twenty minutes.
@shalacarter6658 Жыл бұрын
this was the first I had heard of touch hallucinations. They suck!
@KayosHybrid Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure hallucinations can occur with any sense- your brain is producing a false stimuli and perceiving it as real. Phantom pain that amputees experience is a tactile hallucination for example
@shalacarter6658 Жыл бұрын
@@KayosHybrid Exactly! But no one told me that you can hallucinate with all senses until fairly recently. Even then it was something I learned over on "Living Well with Schizophrenia."
@cathyjoy9214 Жыл бұрын
I just want to again thank you so very much for these videos. Your compassion gives me hope for the future of Mental Health Care in Australia.
@TGFMusic Жыл бұрын
Two things: one, like everyone else said, watch the update, it’s such a positive change, and she’s so awesome. Two, you have like puppy dog eyes, which I think will work ridiculously well for you in psychiatry 🤣 you just look and sound like a very calm person, I’m sure part of that is your education, but it works well lol.
@Ralph_W8 күн бұрын
My sense is that a lot of the people on KZbin who have been diagnosed with or claim to have a diagnosis like schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder actually have personality disorders.
@armeyyyy Жыл бұрын
You should watch the newest video he did with her. Very inspiring.
@hypernova9363Ай бұрын
Please react to her newest interview, she’s improved so much and she looks awesome