A Case Study in Schizophrenia

[axilea67]

Schizophrenia is a German word? That is sheer ignorance! It comes from ancient Greek.

[swiyyahnm]

I have similar video on my page. Do you have schizophrenia or depression? How can you tell?

[sizzlefairy]

As a psych major, I really appreciate this video. I am preparing for an exam, and of course, many of the points in this video are exactly what's on my review. Thanks for posting this and helping students learn in a more flexible way.

[cbohar84]

I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and know what its like to have a mind that NEVER shuts up, hearing things, seeing things, the difference is that I know they are not real and the pills dont do much to help. Its not fun at all to go through and the longer it goes on the worse it can get

[illusionick100]

Excuse me the root of the word ''schizophrenia'' is greek, by the words schasis (σχάσις) meaning split and the word phrenon( φρένον ) meaning mind.

[Weston1968]

Bullet in back of head would be the best option for the dangerous ones! They are way too unpredictable!

[sjm8890]

@Weston1968 that amkes them fun, my girlfriend is that severe in her schizophrenia and it is awsome, me and her are both happy because we are never bored, she keeps me on my toes

[userfcukingname]

eminem can make you a schitzophrenia if you offend his daughter, because he has a space station so you will start hear your parents sing you songs all the time and see paranoik comments all over

[soymiguelalejandro23]

Schizoaffective Disorder also works similarly. It is a mix of Schizophrenia and either Major Depression or Bi Polar Disorder - in my case Bi Polar Disorder. 

[ttakli69]

@ Johesingonline: I have a lifelong disease, not this one. You aren't bored with it, you are overstimulated. Stop watching these videos. This video is actually one of the more helpful ones for people who have a loved one who is schizophrenic.

[PAWASHUPA]

Schizophrenia it means "split mind" in greek terminology ;schi-z-o split,phren-y-a-s mind .

[gunskill20]

i was the happiest person in the world...i felt like i could do anything i felt signs that told me stuff that made me feel like i was more closer to god then anyone else but then i fucked up i got an episode and broke everything in the house then my parents shocked me by calling the cops on me! sick basterd cops shouldve killed me then to take me to hell ...mental hospital made me sicker in the head

[ericsbat]

Don't listen to the lies about the new drugs. They suck just as bad.

[andream1985]

It's a sad illness & it seems pretty scary! I don't know how I would live with it.

[5SmashFever]

I am 15 and the symptoms fit me perfectly. I am releived that thats what is causeing schizophrenia.!!!

[PEB979]

MEDICAL WORLD , IT IS THE DEVIL NOT A MEDICAL , HE TORMENTS PEOPLE AND YES GETS THEM TO DO BAD THINGS

[Blindguardian523]

boo, the doctors a fuckin mongoloid

[sclodyone]

that dumbass doctor doesnt realize that stress is physicaL!! if you can feel it than its physical!!!! stress destructs the brain eventually causing it to give up..!! hince the made up worlds that they can adapt too!!! this guys eyes are so closed..this doctor cant see the stress in that individuals life or anybody elses so how would he know!!??? but hey hes got money!! and a degree!! therefore hes right!!!..... not!! amazed that they have any say sometimes..

[almostskater3210]

@sclodyone

Schizophrenia can happen in anyone, not just people with stress, which is why they say that. Although it is true that they really don't know. It seems like the hyperdopamine theory wouldn't fit with socio-enviromental factors however.

[sohltofang]

You heard it, schizophrenia is ingrown toenails!

No, on a more serious note Schizophrenia is a tragedy.

[wwwtotalitaerde]

@sohltofang The whole concept of psychiatry was developed well before 1900 in Germany to get rid of people complaining. During the NAZI time this concept was given up as Germany just murdered oponents. It was relaunched directly after the war to persecute and silence concentration camp survivors. The first use of directed energy weapons can be recognized in psychiatric literature from 1908. You find it in chapter Psychiatrie-->Klinik der Narkolepsie on my homepage.

[LucidDelusion11]

This video is pretty dated.

[Seiferzed]

2:08 there are whispering sounds , wtf are they for ?

[Dbelenit]

DUDE

that whole voices in my head thing is so true about me and i also feel electricity running up my skin very often

[RikkuPaine01]

"Absence of normal human behaviour"? I'm so sick of "normal" and "weird, diseased, and strange" being so clearly defined. I think in a lot of cases, patients are conditioned to believe that the "diseases" are wrong and strange. So they fear it and give in to "normal" authority. But it's proven that patients who are listened to and understood recover at much higher rates. Maybe we should stop telling each other what's wrong or weird about us.

[sclodyone]

@RikkuPaine01 tripple thumbs up bro!!!!

[RikkuPaine01]

Of course, they never mention the possiblity that bipolar patients who are but on cocktails of medication may develop enough symptoms to be classified as schizophrenic. Cases like this /exist/. Of course they don't tell us that a lot of mental "disease" is drug induced. Drug companies and psychiatrists are solely interested in diagnosing and drugging as many people as they can. How do you explain the huge increase of mental disorders from 1950 to present day?

[MachineAmbition]

@RikkuPaine01 Is there an increase in disorders or an increase in their detection?

[RikkuPaine01]

@MachineAmbition Both. And the numbers are staggering. Another result is misdiagnosis and Doctors merely wanting to sell patients drugs. Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker; highly recommended

[LaBellaa1984]

it's organic it's neurological

[necrofagg0t]

disabled or different

[veryfuck]

this video is full of lies!! all made to get you on pills. no im not Schizophrenic

[Mnemomeme]

This video does give some information you won't hear again. "We don't know how these drugs work." <--- schizophrenia is still, over one hundred years later, the catch-all bin for experimental harmful treatments. Guinea pigs. Having taken some of those drugs, I can personally tell you that three weeks into treatment I would say just about anything to make the pain stop. The pills are more disabling than the illness.

[Outsider557]

@Mnemomeme i can vouch for that, and your absolutely right that schizophrenia is still a mystery.

[soymiguelalejandro23]

@Mnemomeme so true ...

[jd6735]

@Mnemomeme I personally know several people who have been significantly aided by the medication. Schizophrenia is a very varied disease with many intrinsic factors varying amongst patients. This makes medication hit-and-miss. But it's impossible to know who will be helped and who won't by which medication.

[Mnemomeme]

@jd6735 You've essentially just tried to justify the brain damage of 80% of patients treated improperly by pointing out that the other 20% are outwardly fine. It's a similar justification as the flouride in drinking water issue. Real medicine bases treatment on reliable testable results. Apparently we are not in disagreement that the treatment of schizophrenia breaks the rules that all other medical treatments have to follow. Many schizos aren't even ill, just politically inconvenient.

[madcowwendy]

I am also a paranoid schizophrenic and i found this video helpful to be people who know nothing about this terrible disease , which has affected me for the last 17 years of my life.

[heterodoxphilomath]

the etymology of the word schizophrenia is greek, and not german as the woman narrates...

[Mnemomeme]

@heterodoxphilomath

actually it was coined by Eugen Bleuler, who ran the asylum on the rhine. It was partially a german play on words, as schizophrenia is startlingly similar to another german word which means 'poo-head' and he made the joke endearingly, as it was the schizophrenic patients that he put into administrative roles in the asylum for which it became famous as "the patients running the madhouse" which worked great for 37 years until the Institute of Racial Hygiene began the pogrom.

[sweetsohhyeahh]

@ DrMBA28 : The voices aren't always negative - a lot of it has to do with the way the person interprets their voices/hallucinations. One type of schizophrenia is paranoid schizophrenia and if the patient is symptomatic, they can view all outside stimulation as an attack, therefore manifesting the negative voices.

[DrMBA28]

Why are the voices are always negative? How come the voices never say "You're great! Give money to the poor!"

[catchaheadache]

a quote from my psychology book says "it is important to keep in mind that brain differences between the brains of healty individuals and those with schizophrenia are surprisingly small (NIMH, 2006). Microscopic studies of brain tissue after death reveal small changes in the distribution or characteristics of brain cells in schizophrenics."

[nopcbinfishoilplz]

Thank you for posting this video.

[SixSick6]

i'm a schizophrenic and so am i!

[LaBellaa1984]

im schizotypal.. yeah its partly in the fam. and stress makes it worse.

[101pinkbunny]

@LaBellaa1984 me too, its like when im stressed out, like before a test, more heavey anxiety...and pain.

[fathersonnholyspirit]

None of you have to live with this anymore. I know the frustration, embarrassment and fear that is involved. Please go to my site. You dont need to buy anything, I promise you its already been paid for fuentesevangelism-.-c-o-m-

[hectorseventy]

There's a growing number of papers and books that explore these ideas: Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion? by Mary Boyle is useful, as is Raising Our Voices by Adam James. Models of Madness, edited by John Read, Richard Bentall and Loren Mosher, is an excellent book which contains a lot of the stats and various papers all in one place.

[hectorseventy]

Part 2, the usual suspects: the enlarged brain ventricle issue has been shown to derive from meds that suppress dopamine. Heritability is attributed to genes because that's what researchers are looking for, not 'learned' behaviour that has been shown to be a significant factor (see the UCLA study); most damning of all, traumatic past experiences (sexual abuse in childhood, for e.g.) are discounted and professionally dissociated from the 'delusions' that 'schizophrenics' experience.

[greenwoodonearth]

@hectorseventy

thanks for your comments. Maybe you could give me some resources where you got that information from. I agree with you. Add me, if you want.

[KAENLM]

The guy is very cute....I had major depression/ which now turned into a psychosis (not because of drugs)--it was a combination of stress, death of my son, reactions to allergy shots, hereditary in my family, my brain aging, menopause etc....(so this stuff can be hereditary--and triggered)-and also I was abused as a child-I think this was a major trigger, I hear crackling noises now all the time-nausea all the time

[jofa117]

why does the interviewer look so damn irritated lol

[RiaTapioca]

if someone with schizophrenia could imagine negative comments and frightening hallucinations... could they hallucinate positive things too?

[jaken17]

Have they ever thought that those voices are outside from their patients head? If not, it would mean that the patient has 2 minds, but why the other mind never takes control?

Nothing in brain chemistry/biology makes those goddamn voices, especially to make them to sound anyhow intelligent, doesn't matter what they say.

And yes I hear these voices, just whispers, but nothing like you smell bad or such and they told me what they are and sometimes telling smt useful too.

[EvanescentIcee]

@jaken17 '''

[himrawkz]

are u a doctor/ neuro scientist by any chance?

[herrapikkarainen]

I don't think a mental disorder is ever 100% biological because being biologically predisposed to it does not necessarily mean one will get it. Social factors may contribute to the onset of psychosis and emotional disorders. I know a person who was definitely pushed over the edge by social conditions. She was a single mother recovering from an abusive relationship and a student who held two jobs, one day and one night job. She became psychotic and was later diagnosed as schizophrenic.

[artdietrich]

Hey ,,, family is not all,,, you cannot change them... it is theyr problem!

[californicator]

@DeadSea000

If you had schizophrenia, then you wouldn't be able to type on your fucking faggot computer, you attention whore. I am a psychiatrist, so don't try to pretend, you faggy try-hard.

[emekonen]

That english psychiatrist seems like a good doctor, it seems like he really feels what the patient does, we need more like this!

[ScrapChild1979]

I have been diagnosed with partial-schizophrenia. I am very conscience of my turbo-thoughts, and find at times, that thoughts that I do not condone or have any heart behind, come from no where. This developed after I started smoking... I give my sympathys to you. I have been on the same road as you... without any attempted support from family or others.

[californicator]

@ScrapChild1979

What's "partial-schizophrenia"? Is that a new diagnoses that you invented?

What are "turbo-thoughts"?

You are a needy attention whore. And you don't have SCZ. Have a nice day.

[ScrapChild1979]

@californicator

Man... thinking just isn't your thing..

since you have not heard of partial-schiz, that usually means, that you should look into it's existance before attempting to sound intelligent. (Which you failed in.)

Get a life.

[californicator]

@ScrapChild1979

Feel free to show me where in the DSM-IV is "partial-schiz" described.

You are an attention needy whore.

[ScrapChild1979]

@californicator

Since your opinion does not matter to me, (I had better response from an un-flushed toilet,) I will at least say, that the term speaks for itself. Why don't you tell US what it means 'Mr. Psychology'?

[californicator]

@ScrapChild1979

First of all, I am psychiatrist. Psychologists can't diagnose schizophrenia. Secondly, you are an attention seeking whore.

When you post on youtube about your "partial schizophrenia", which is something you've invented, I just writhe because I know that your real diagnosis is "attention seeking whore".

Thanks!

[ScrapChild1979]

@californicator

You are no more a psychiatrist then I am a ghynocologist. (Although we may wish.)

By the sounds of you, you are trying to stick the 'psychiatrst' tag to yourself, but with your dry and unoriginal mind, that fucker just won't stick. Try to be cool somewhere's else bozzo, I think you have made it clear on how lame you really are.

[californicator]

@ScrapChild1979

Well first of all, you can't spell "gynecologist".

Second, I am a psychiatrist.

Third, you don't have "partial-schizophrenia" because such a diagnosis doesn't exist.

Lastly, you are an attention needy whore for trying to pretend online that you have a significant psychiatric illness when you clearly don't.

Thanks, have a nice day.

[ScrapChild1979]

@californicator

I can't believe that some loser has bugged me enough to have me check his/her replies on uTube, when all 'it' has to say, is pathetic, and pointless things. I have wasted too much time on you... I would be better entertained by watching a dog chace it's own tail... which in respects to you, is all you are doing with your concepts.

[californicator]

@ScrapChild1979

The concepts I refer to exist in the DSM-4. The "concepts" that you refer to are invented by yourself.

Thanks!

[greenwoodonearth]

@californicator

A psychiatrist from algeria thats interesting. How do you treat schizophrenia in your country? I suggest the people are merely demonized, because religion still has a strong influence in algeria!

[californicator]

@greenwoodonearth

Treatment here is no different sir. Antipsychotics are your friend.

[greenwoodonearth]

@californicator

How sad. I not only feel sad for the patient. I also feel sad for the psychiatrists. Was this your goal, when you started to study medicine? All this side effects...

[californicator]

@greenwoodonearth

actually, with the rise of antipsychotics (thorazine), there was a great liberation of schizophrenics from asylums in the 1960s. They hold jobs like you and I, tend to their families and live independently.

[greenwoodonearth]

@californicator

Staple someones labial angels to his temple and be happy for him that he can work now as a McDonalds waiter/waitress being such a nice and happy person. I don't think we have normal jobs, dear californicator.

[californicator]

@greenwoodonearth

The functional level of a patient depends on what types of jobs and level of education that person held previous to their schizophrenic onset.

[greenwoodonearth]

@californicator

I partly agree. You could also say it depends on the social cohesion the person obtains in its system.

[clinique8701]

i REALLY HOPE YOU FIND SOMEONE TO TALK TO. I dont know about the illiness. But would want to learn. I hope your people come around. I will keep you in my prayers. stay strong' and may god protect continue to watch over you

[Jonesingonline]

I'm a paranoid schizophrenic....frankly I'm starting to get bored with the whole subject.Some times you just gotta live your life.

[Outsider557]

@Jonesingonline very well said man. you are strong just like me with this ilness. its just about not dwelling on the pain. a person just has to move on. :D

[sclodyone]

@Jonesingonline please do!!!! you need to reach out to others.. that is the cure for this!!!!

[MsLAB24]

@Jonesingonline so... you jus wantedto tell.. how are you doing now?

[ciaran1123]

schizophrenia doesn't just mean you hear voices. it can mean hallucinations, self glorification. It's a myth that u just hear a voice in your head

[SixSick6]

@ciaran1123 EVERYONE HEARS VOICES. RIGHT?

[veryfuck]

@SixSick6 no i read them.

[holaliljazzy]

@ciaran1123 It is actually not a myth that you just hear a voice in your head. Schizophrenia manifests in a variety of ways; some milder than others; a person can suffer from auditory illusions and other psychotic behavior....a trained psychologist could diagnose a person such as this as schizophrenic.

[publicenemy1010]

It would suck to be schizophrenic I just had an experience where I could feel myself losing my sanity, it is a very scary experience and I feel for anyone who has a mental disorder. It's fucked up what your mind can do to you

[DrFishNips]

I proved a few times that they were in my head it was pure fluke how that happened I kept trying testing them and the more I'd test them the more I thought they were real disembodied entities messing with me. We were talking about neuroscience and the voice was trying to convince me it was severing brain connections but since I didn't even know anything about the brain it couldn't name the area it was messing with and it said "occupital discharge" which I'd read about but thats not even a part.

[healthyliving88]

Mace1180 lol easy for u to say mate, imagine talkn with mate and every time the convo stops and u mite just say go to the bathroom on ur way their hes muttering stuff about ya.....

[DrFishNips]

I used to think hearing voices wouldn't be that bad at all but I've had a few speed induced psychotic episodes and every time I've had voices in my head. Theres nothing really worse than that I don't think. They wanted me to get outta the house for some reason. They kept saying "you've 5 minutes to get outta the house then we're coming in". Its mad shit I don't get scared easy but the voices would get me at the right moment and scare the living fuck out of me.

[infrasomnia]

I think I have it

[Mace1180]

Lose the ability to socialize? WTF. What you do is go up, and talk. Like, you know... talk. Tell someone what's on your mind.

... God, some times I wonder that someone having a mental illness should give them excuses to do nothing important. Who do you people think you are? God really did ABANDON y'all??!

You live life once, to be or not be something. You have the will, the power to do 'it'. We were only born like yesterday, why give in to pity, now? Think about it.

[tattleboad]

yeah thats easy for you to say

i think if you had a personal experience relating to schizophrenia or another serious mental illness you'd think differently about the subject

[ScrapChild1979]

That was an ignorant assessment. You meant well, but you were out of context.

[TarantulaHandlers]

been on all of the last drugs

[caden311]

meds work for the positive symptoms such as delusions, paranoia, hallucinations however they don't help with the negative ones. For that I am waiting.

[Techboy211]

Physical? What a nut.

[ericsbat]

meds are the way to go for me

[MurderDeathKillDie]

I stopped taking my meds and admiteddly for the first week I went insane but thats because your body thinks it needs them and you go into withdrawal much like a drug addict(technically all medications are the same as street drugs,temporary happiness and a comedown). Now though I feel alot better, things are gradually getting better. Pills are the easy way out, but remember life is hard you gotta work for what you want.

[PsychosisUnitFM2]

What was with the poor guy at the end of the programme - the medication looked like it had bad side-effects as he was rocking up and down

[banffspring72]

Thanks for this, A real documentary, there is only three that I know that are worth watching. This one , Heather and the other documentary called. Gerald S. Other than these, there are very few that are note worthy of being the real deal. Thanks .

[ccross112233]

so, 1 in 100 ppl have this. but i only see about 3 vids about schizo on here.

.........

[Fintinobrien]

Schizophrenic symptoms are exactly the same as hypnotic phenomenon,

hallucinations delusions etc.....

[Fintinobrien]

There's no proof that it's genetic

[blarson12]

These professionals that work in the field say it's partially genetic so it probably is. I would rather believe the professionals that have degrees than a dumb ass like you.

[Fintinobrien]

ok don't believe me but don't believe the "professionals" either.

Research and find out for your self. A good place to start is by doing a search on Human Givens

[blarson12]

Well there's no proof that it's not genetic. I was diagnosed with depression and psychosis and believe me it's God damn fucking real as shit. So don't get me fucking started or i will verbally assault you.

[Fintinobrien]

That's like saying your presumed guilty and have to prove your innocence.

You will even find Human Givens videos on youtube.

Take care

[blarson12]

If i were you i would take your pills laddy cause it can get allot worse if you don't keep things in check. BTW this humans givens guy is a crack pot who should also take his pills before he kills someone. He is just like L.Ron Hubbard, a money grubbing con artist who declared himself God and wants to see how many suckers there are in the world. Don't get brain washed by that garbage.

[ManicSkates]

thats bullshit, schizophrenia most definitely develops because of the way people are treated, parents being the most significant people in a persons life. these fuckin doctors make this out to be as though its written in your genome and you will develope it indefinately if its "there"

[blarson12]

You can get schizophrenia if you sustain brain damage by for example a psychically or verbally abusive parent. Genetics are only half the equation the rest depends on life experiences and bodily changes.

[gefftom]

good point

[Soozit]

I disagree.

Schizophrenia is due mostly to genetic influences (not just handed down, but also genetic mutations). My mother has two other siblings who were all raised under the same conditions as she was. My grandmother was also schizophrenic, though she went through several electroshock treatments. The other two turned out fine. My mother is a paranoid schizophrenic.

[Soozit]

I, on the other hand, was raised solely by my mother. I could tell you practically a million stories about how she constantly made me fear my own household. I've been hit with just about every object you could possibly imagine--from a phone to a phone book. She'd also tell me that the house was being videotaped, and at age 6 or 7, I believed it. When I became older, I started to realize that nothing was happening. Nothing was wrong (except her mental state).

[Soozit]

If it was the way you were treated, I would have CERTAINLY still held those thoughts. It's without a doubt genetic.

[greenwoodonearth]

@Soozit

Not without a doubt. If it would be without a doubt there would be no discussion about it. Certainly.

[terratagONE]

I also have heard its a greek word for split mind.

[gefftom]

split meaning from reality

[lalo1218cholo]

This was a VERY good video! It had alot of good information. Thank you rctctom for putting it up! Lately iv been very interested in how the mind works and mental illnesses. Thanks again!

[greenwoodonearth]

@lalo1218cholo

there was not one information about how the mind works. Just telling you in case you missed it.

[oalejis]

a german word? thought it was a greek word.

[neostryke]

According to my dictonary, its a Greek word... this video seems to be wrong in stating its German... :S