Anosognosia

The inability to recognize one's own illness is the leading reason that people with severe mental illness do not adhere to treatment. In this video, learn about the condition, see how it looks and hear what is needed.

[@jack94960]

Some of the comments to this excellent video are horrifying. My son is mentally ill and I deal with anosognosia EVERY DAY. Those of you who deny its existence are simply ignorant. Anosognosia is THE MOST DIFFICULT symptom to treat. Wake up deniers!

[@darkspiritak4798]

your a horrible mother... god knows it 2

[@neitherseven223]

DarkSpiritAK47 shut the fuck up

[@helenshg4580]

WALK IN BEAUTY A blessing for you Beauty in front of me, Beauty behind me, Beauty Above me, Beauty below me, Beauty all around me, I walk in Beauty….. In the house of long life, there I wander. In the house of happiness, there I wander. Beauty before me, Beauty behind me, Beauty above me , Beauty below me, Beauty all around me, In old age traveling, with it I wander. On the beautiful trail I am, with it I wander. In beauty, it is begun, In beauty, it is finished. WALK IN BEAUTY is a Navajo prayer & song & blessing.

[@helenshg4580]

I agree with you. I think it is very important to IGNORE THE IGNORANT & others who have dark spirits and like to make rude remarks which are nothing more than false allegations. Those rude ppl can be compared to snarled dead trees near a river when you take a scenic boat ride down the river. We only need to remember the beautiful scenery & not ugly trees & certainly not rude mongers who like to inflict emotional pain and stupid crap.

[@______638]

are people denying the phenomenon is real?

[@garyschaefer6008]

This is a very real problem! This illness along with a lack of Healthcare for the individuals suffering from mental illness is crippling to whole families!

[@caringlady222]

I'm appalled at the commenters. This is a real condition. My sibling has it. She was over 50 yrs old when it peaked. She rents cars, forgets where she puts them, then rents new cars. She thinks CSIS are trying to get her. She thinks her own children are clones. She thinks family members who are alive are dead. She is homeless though she has money to pay for a home. She won't stay anywhere because everywhere she goes she doesn't trust the place or people around it. She keeps getting cell phones and loses them. She opens post boxes and forgets where. Because she has lost so many cars she is wanted for car theft. She says, "There's nothing wrong with me. I'm not crazy." Most of the time she is missing and can't be found by her own children. This is SERIOUS and she needs medication to become whole again if possible. The law supports her so no one can force drugs on her. So she is left to her own destruction. It is very sad and very difficult for her family to not be able to help.

[@bobby8012]

Why doesn't someon care for her instead

[@acab020186]

capgras and fregoli at the same time?

[@RichardCox0]

🤔

[@KevinSalim]

@@bobby8012 because she doesn't want anyone to take care of her. She thinks she's fine

[@TheSapphireLeo]

@@KevinSalim Anyone would be better off without these likely n*zi?

[@savarin_yt]

I cam from Vsauce and I'm not from reddit... What's your point?

[@thesarcasticguy936]

woow i am about to reply to a 7 year old comment but yeah me too

[@conor4444]

KZbin recommended has revived the basics video lool

[@lilraination7264]

I’m from vsauce too

[@RainYoChannel]

same the consciousness vid

[@danchisholm1]

hah... and here's another. and I haven't watched a vsauce video in years but yeah I came from there

[@dianamorales7335]

This totally makes me cry...my loved one...she DON'T see she needs help....this hurt me to see the poor victims from this terrible mental illness they have....its to real....they cant wake up...they can't simply "wake up"... I miss my baby... What does a person like myself even do when ur loved wamt jist refuse help? Just let them continue with their delusions? How can a person lile me b able to live and have a relationship with them without feeling scared or over whelmed? Why do i do?

[@lornadoone8887]

Seek help (no cost to you) through the closest NAMI chapter if you can or your local community mental health services. Find out what resources are available to YOU as a family member to help you figure out how you can get help for your sick loved one, even if she is unwilling to get or comply with treatment. NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) is a life saver for many families with an afflicted loved one.

[@virginiagarr]

Thank you for your work and dedication to share this information with the public. Our family experienced this with our son who suffered from schizoaffective disorder which was the depressive type. He ultimately took his life rather than seek voluntary treatment and medication. We spent months locating, advocating, loving, encouraging our son who did not have insight into his illness and believed his delusional thoughts and psychosis. The legal system did not support AOT, although he had been suicidal they released him with only 5 days of medication and no agreement to continue treatment outside of the hospital. One week later he took his own life. It is a crime that families cannot intervene on the patient's behalf in such cases. Please continue your work and I will continue my quest for policy change.

[@dmoneil100]

I’m so sorry for your loss

[@jocelynfaille1991]

I have 2 sisters that have this condition. I seriously believe we really need to reopen mental institutions where they can be safe as well as the safety of family and friends who live with them.

[@Kristinapedia]

oh my gosh I'm so sorry for your loss. :(

[@cassandralight6754]

As any qualified neurologist would tell you, anosognosia is usually found in people with unilateral neglect, and finding it indicates that the person is thinking clearly in all other respects and aware of their surroundings, all other aspects of their thought processes, etc. They are not "confused". I thought people who were have schizophrenia were not thinking clearly during psychotic states, and therefore couldn't remember their own behavior, while psychotic, clearly. I guess I stand corrected.

[@Twinkie989]

I was threatened with involuntary outpatient. It isn't roses and sunshine like they suggest here. Doctors can be incompetent, and narcissistic, as well as abusive. My doctor threatened to commit me to an eating disorder program (which are only voluntary in my area) as well as get a court ordered surgery for a feeding tube to be surgically installed through my abdomen against my will- meanwhile, I was eating just fine but nobody bothered to check my tray. He said my blood sugar crashing after an involuntary Haldol injection was evidence I wasn't eating- despite my normal blood sugar upon admission crashing to 45 with the shot. These bad doctors have too much power. I have PTSD now as a result and would absolutely have lost the will to live if he had gotten his way.

[@TheSapphireLeo]

*Hugs* #Fuck and #Boycott these #nazi, too?

[@RandyeKaye]

Thanks as always to Dr. Torrey and the wonderful Treatment Advocacy Center. When I speak to audiences about our story (my son is in treatment for schizophrenia - even though he says he "doesn't need it" he is still doing it - and now is on the Dean's list in college as well as gainfully employed part-time), many still seem unconvinced about anosognosia. Thanks! Randye Kaye, author "Ben Behind His Voices: One Family's Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope"

[@wellyness7047]

Incarceration or forced drugging, according to Russian prisoners who were forced to take anti psychotics, the drugs were worse torture than incarceration. Forced permanent brain damage, with 'help' like that, who needs enemies.

[@tHeartBreaKid]

Yea? What Russian prisoners have you been hanging around to get these stats???

[@alexanderleatherman]

the frontal lobe is a hot word in trendy neuroscience, such as what you might read in the AP. what research has shown us is that anxiety, adhd, depression, basically many problems do show brain activity in this area, however, it is not this simple.

[@Vojife]

This is a very intriguing video and a serious subject. But... wait... did she say "Over the course of repeated breakdance"?

[@MrAvocadoMan]

breakdowns

[@elisabethlatimer1550]

Oh lol I heard breakdance too

[@moieme19]

I heard that too hahah

[@ChinmayaNagpal]

A beautiful mind?

[@deannhampton1390]

Trust that one will not be overmedicated for their metabolism must be established. Protections within the body are destabilized, thereby showing signs of psychosis. There is always a root physical cause or trigger for these developments. The answer does not lie in forced treatments, but in love, compassion and mutual trust. Prevention is rooted in understanding the needs of all Humanity starts with the formative years, ages 0-6. We live in a toxic world. Solve the toxicity and solve the preponderance of sickness and dis-ease at it's root.

[@baased2761]

5 people deny the fact that anosognosia exists.

[@madnessnetworknews5094]

The reason you're not seeing the correct number is because you're only seeing those comments that weren't deleted like mine's were. Why would they (the TAC) delete my comments if according to their pseudo-diagnosis (which is not found in the DSM) I don't know that I'm sick. Wouldn't they want everyone to see and read my "sick" comments? Or is it more likely they were afraid of being exposed?

[@holyhelena2]

MNN Redux i'm not buying the fear of being exposed. . .i work in mental health, and progressive companies promote the questioning of psychiatric assumptions. it may be cynically taken on because they want to be the most competetive, but still, the freedom to question diagnostics is definitely in place. i sat on a gurney on the med floor explaining alternative understandings of hearing voices to family members who were beyond frustrated with traditional psychiatry. the mother was trying to get her son an anorexic diagnosis (he was hyper-religious and felt he had to fast and in renal failure) rather than continuing to force schizophrenic labels and meds on him. (he did end up getting into an eating disorders clinic after a week of waiting.) of course, he may not even have anorexia, but may just have been fighting off the horrible weight gain of anti-psychotics, but it was a step away from psych diagnosis, a step away from being forced to be sick forever, which is what happens a lot once the process starts (the drugs make a person stay sick). this is becoming common knowledge, and the push was to get people down from the meds and away from diagnostic labels - sanctioned by the largest mental health provider. point is, if i was being paid to challenge psychiatry while working in psych emergency, then the conspiracy to shut down disagreement would have to be coming from somewhere else - you may have a point for BigPharma or the APA or something, but not everywhere in mental health. . .

[@madnessnetworknews5094]

ellie rain I think you may have misunderstood my reply. If, as you seem to imply in your reply, the TAC is a "progressive company" and my "freedom to question diagnostics is definitely in place" why then did the TAC immediately delete my comments? According to this video people like me don't know we are sick. Wouldn't it make sense to let the readers of this thread to see and read my "sick" comments? Or am I missing something here?

[@holyhelena2]

MNN Redux No, no, it was my mistaken assumption. I thought TAC was an agency or committee related to mental health because the speaker is a provider. I didn't realize you were talking about the people posting the video, who could delete comments for sure. I could not agree more with you, actually. My first comment in this thread was an angry response to exactly the same thing - that anyone in their position would be stupid enough not to consider their own biases and how damaging they may be. . .

[@Phelan666]

20 people deny the earth is flat.

[@roxyb03]

Depends on your definition of "fat". If a person is so obese that he/she is developing life threatening illnesses but refuses to admit to being overweight I would think the term would apply (mere non-compliance with weight control recommendations would not be anosognosia ,if the person doesn't deny being overweight). If by "fat' you mean someone who you think is unattractive because she/he isn't model thin,if that person has a healthy BMI then you are the one whose thinking is distorted.

[@chrisdoessomestuff4782]

"Crazy people don't know that they're crazy, and that's why they're crazy." -Matthew "MattG124" Gibson 2014

[@adelekelly455]

I had never heard that quote, yet it was exactly what I said after my psychotic episode and realised I had been ill. I said to my psychiatrist "Crazy people don't know they are crazy"

[@kylespratt4072]

Vsauce

[@iWerli]

Michael here

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

Trump had it!

[@msteach3082]

has

[@Kynikoii]

maybe he is a philosophical zombie..?

[@aarongreen3551]

In other words someone can't defend themselves by saying they have reasonable mental capacity without someone else calling it a symptom of mental illness by this fancy name?

[@TheSapphireLeo]

100%! #This!

[@3elperro]

sulezraz actually, if you think about it! we are the brain, the brain is in control of our vision, our hearing, our language, our thoughts, and our body just do what the brain commands depending on the situation. so we (our brains) have free will?

[@sulezraz]

if we are our brains and brains have to follow the laws of cause and effect like any other system then we dont have free will

[@cognizantsapience]

0:52 my ex shared this with me, saying I have the inability to seek treatment or therapy.... that's funny as hell. Because i have put myself into extensive counseling AND therapy, (4×'s) FOUR TIMES, in 6 years.... and funny thing about that? I didnt ever need any kind of therapy before, or ever, before i got with my ex. And mental illness patience are absolutely accurate in their accusations towards those who have contributed to their mental health being weak Lol. I laugh at this because my ex is a grandiose, covert narcissist, who plays victim, but says the most disrespectful and destructive things to someone who has a strong drive to succeed, with self-induced, dopamine highs... Lol I have never laughed so hard and with so much desibles, in a long ass time. .

[@UnintelligibleCourtneyM]

After my Traumatic Brain Injury, my neuropsychologist says I deal with this. Bitch please, I don't have a mental illness. I know I have a TBI but I like to push my limits and get tot where I was before.

[@MrJenssen]

PMS must be a form of anosognosia then. My girlfriend never admits that she's overly angry about something really small and insignificant when we have a fight, coincidentally a few days before it's that time of the month.....

[@QuincyKintay]

repeated break dance?

[@KP-ul2ep]

What if we all have anosognosia? ...

[@sulezraz]

what if we really don't have free will and the brain just fools you to thinking that you have

[@lazurm]

Logically, if we all had anosognosia, we wouldn't be able to function in a way that assures any sort of organized survival. Cooperative organization would be impossible. Since our species is, essentially, organized, we don't "all" have anosognosia.

[@PHanomaly]

I have no idea what im thinking. 😂

[@samz1213]

A biological physical mistake that was created in perfection with error manifested into an emotionally charged out of control being that is run by something that isn’t itself- am I anosogsia?

[@Phelan666]

What if the only people that don't have anosognosia are the people we diagnose with the disorder?

[@snoutysnouterson]

Reconize? 😅

[@joshmartin6677]

My doc said something about this... 😰

[@ChrisOrillia]

Repeated break dance? What? What does break dance have to do with meth? Or did she say break 'downs'?

[@ddeaves64]

Are you taking your medication?

[@WalidShelby]

Vous pouvez guérir de l'agnosonosie naturellement In Shaa Allah, faites des roqya et salat

[@Babyfacedblackjesus]

i have been diagnosed with schizophrenia but i dont believe in schizophrenia and also dotn believe i have a mental illness. nothing is wrong with my brain and i have zero brain damage to any part of my brain. my argument is that my behaviour is not a mental illness. its just life and im human. just because i speak weird, or believe crazy things or have anxiety, it doesnt qualify it as a mental illness. the idea of mental illness implies that theres something is wrong with you and if makes you feel like you are different from others. some people do crazy things and they go to jail without being deemed as mentally ill and others go to psych wards and are said to be mentally ill. some people scream and nobody bats an eye and others scream and they give them psych meds so they can shut up. whats the difference between a person whos not mentally ill and one who is mentally ill? the one who is mentally ill is a victim of psychiatry and the one whos not mentally ill is not a victim of psychiatry. throughout life, parents will see advertisements of mental illness everywhere and so do children. televison, media, books, schools,church, music....we get alot of pressures to introduce our children to psychiatry thinking its gonna cure their temporary problems they have. your child might be feeling anxious for a couple of days, sad, angry, lonely, or having too much energey(adhd), not able to keep up with school.....it doesnt mean he has a mental illness. most illnesses can be tested through bodily fluids because they are real but i want you to understand that mental illness cant be tested at all. the test they got for it is not a real test. you cant interview a person for 15 minutes and hear that they are not feeling okay since like 2 weeks and decide that they have a permanent and debilitating mental illness that is treated by poisonous medication that causes all kinds of side effects like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hbp, tardive dyskenesia, brain damage, alzheimers...the list goes on. its incurable. taking psych meds is the same as taking tylenol every night until death. if you are 15 years old and start taking it that means you will take the meds for 65 years. you wont even live up to 55 years old. im calling on every parent who loves their children to stay away from psychiatry at any cost and i am asking anybody who wants to see a psychiatrist willingly to stop it right now. these people will ruin your life. these medications will have you craving for harder drugs like crack, heroin, coke,meth,alcohol,smokes,pills and other poison. PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM PSYCHIATRY. ITS AN EVIL FRAUDULENT FAKE SCIENCE AND BUSINESS. thank you. good luck

[@benjamina2711]

My closed captions kept spelling it "Anna's agnosia"

[@kylesundell1554]

Did you come from vsauce?

[@Al7ad]

I cam from الاسبتالية

[@julian11d]

Anosognosia is not lack of awareness but an neurological condition commonly caused by strokes. Not taking psychotropic nerve poisons is not Anosognosia. There has never been an a valid objective clinical Diagnosis of an endogenic Mental illness in human history. There is no valid Nosology in psychiatry, its all made up by humans and has no basis in reality. The recovory rate in treated patients is worse than in untreatet patients. Psychiatry and clinical psychology are both pseudosience and reject the scientific method. 99% of "scientific" papers in psychiatry and clinical psychology are junk science. The Human brain and the psyche are both blackboxes. 10-14% of TREATED so called "severe mentaly Ill patients" kill them self in comparison to untreated 3,6-5%.

[@Kombaiyashii]

Question:Do people who are fat but don't know they are fat suffer from anosognosia?

[@totalcontrol4205]

Kombaiyashii They know they are fat but jackasses like yourself don't know that you're being a jackass. Don't accept that, it's cause you have anosognosia.

[@TheSapphireLeo]

They are mostly in denial, in this case, but yes, fat is not healthy, but depends on how positive they are, and might give them a longer longevity, if so?

[@TheSapphireLeo]

Actually this whole "diagnosis" sounds #harmful, alone?

[@thatoneguyEVAN]

which means your from reddit.... and we what know what /r/ your on... Now I am off to watch LOTR: FotR Pt1

[@carterfisher4445]

How do I know if I have anosognosia

[@numbdigger9552]

You don't.

[@anteater9408]

You don't

[@fatememalmir661]

we should use psyhedelics they can increase consciousness

[@onofomi]

i was thinking the same thing lmao like HUH??

[@PHanomaly]

If only the people whose lives are being manipulated by the abuse they are forced to endure by the inqialified professionals in the rural areas of this country could speak...if only we could speak, we would tell you how this nonsense is being used to shut people up about the way we are mistreated, about the laws that are violated regarding the few that do protect our rights, maybe, just maybe you would understand the truth is not what they are telling you. I work in that field, and could correct the inaccuracies stated by this Fuller guy, but i dont have the political clout to be heard like he does.

[@NessieAndrew]

lol

[@neilamadhava]

Vsauce

[@Catgirl_Online]

Michael here