Schizophrenia Documentary (HBO) "Bob"

[oldtl345]

I am Schizoaffective which means. Which means I am Schizophrenic and have a mood disorder..I have clinical depression. Living with it can be a night mare.

[FistedBlister]

I don't know about the rest of you... But my schizophrenia is the best thing that could've happened to me. Maybe I was lucky to not have a severe case... But, I am a firm believer that schizos have a mind that can grasp this universe more than the human capacity... And a mental "disorder" becomes diagnosis. I struggle with my confusion, and delusions, but I have gained a form of insight that most cannot even conceive. *hugs and kisses with riches of grins*

[0xD201d]

Don't care what anyone says, bob is the fucking man. This lady speaking over bob in the documentary needs to stfu.

[ZachTommyGunThompson]

@thatonehonky Not a solution it would make things far worse ask any psychiatrist.

[ZachTommyGunThompson]

@74jailbreaker That is the most ignorant comment I've read all day.

[ZachTommyGunThompson]

I'm 18 years old and I'm not schizophrenic. After watching this I hope I do not become schizophrenic...

[74jailbreaker]

Smoke some weed so you can focus on whats really important.

[barneyronnie]

Bob's a genius ahead of his time, so he just isn't understood and branded schizophrenic. This is what you bastards did to me!!!

[thatonehonky]

1 solution. smoke some weed.

[37rod37]

It's almost as if he'd had a stroke, (the way he talks I mean) My dad had a stroke and when he called and said he wanted to come home..his words were all over the place, he was so frustrted, but it got better....weird

[37rod37]

My God poor guy...

[James25H]

i dont think he will ever screw a woman in his life because hes crazy thats one bad thing about it u cant get with any girls or get laid...id rather be sane

[brendaeileen]

@James25H my dad obviously got laid!

[EmoBoiii93]

10:13 AC/DC GRAFFITI 1989 WOOO I live for that lol

[DolceVita]

"there is no such thing to believe in straighthood"

[EmoBoiii93]

@DolceVita yeah wtf does that mean ... actually i don't wanaa understand.

[PompousPreacher]

Who should he take those drugs when he can just go to one of Benny Hinn's faith healing and be cured, or just drink some of Peter Popoff's FREE Miracle Spring Water®?

[sraphael]

The ending narration just broke my heart! That poor man and his family. What a debilitating, horrifying illness. It's been 23 years since this documentary was made.... I hope Bob is as okay as he can be. God be with him :(

[MajorisVYCanis]

i really think schizophrenia has to do with the overstimulation and overactivation of the right side of the brain

[gBaBbLeZ]

god. bless u jaco0bx I saw my grandma suffer from this disease (I pray they find a cure!!!!) god be with us :(

[king13shodaieEEE1]

he liked politics. he found out just how corupt the government is and they fried him

[johnsain]

@king13shodaieEEE1 hahaha,.....i believe it.

[MrBellender]

i think his grandma almost bust out laughing when he asked to bless our loved ones for hearing and seeing and smelling purposes. schiz is frustrating and very lonely, especially when loved ones aren't loving at all. he already is a man dad.

[illegalsmirf]

'Screw a woman' lol :D

[scrap222666]

By god, this guy should replace Chris Hitchens. He has the look, he smokes, he was a debater and while his schizophrenia might distract him he will still be ten times better than anyone religious he debates.

[9Iamthewalrus]

I'd hang out with bob. Sometimes I wish I had a different mindset

[brendaeileen]

@9Iamthewalrus my best friend is Schizo- never boring!

[IggyGhost]

he's actually so sweet.

[yahmana]

my psychiatrist told me that I have a high chance of becoming a schizo, I am almost 30 years old and yet nothing happened. I am still wondering about the possibilities

[imelda4jesus]

@yahmana please, i hope u were not joking about what ur doctor said, if u are serious then remember JESUS CAN DELIVER YOU. Alot of mental illness are demons who hate the human race and want to torment us with the motive of leading us to suicide. If this ever happens remember to call out to JESUS. HE IS VICTOR.

[yahmana]

@imelda4jesus no I was not joking. when I was a teenager about 17 years old I had family problems, lived on the street, got depressed, had chronic panic attacks and spent lots of time with professional psychologist and psychiatrists. anyways thanks for the advice

[schizobipolarjoe]

@imelda4jesus mental illness are demons, you can't fucking be serious can you?

[jezza1789]

@yahmana why can you explain why some one who is perfectly healthy loses his mind

[yahmana]

@jezza1789 I think most likely it's chronic depression. lots of people in college go through depression and they learn to deal with it but some students don't learn how to deal with it and if you can't fix these depression episodes earlier you are likely to loose your mind.

[rakabir1]

@jezza1789 medication. what else? schizophrenia itself is not bad, but the meds are. then you realise your desires, and your expectations. unless you give up listening to your ego, you lose.

[brendaeileen]

@yahmana Me too and im 30- getting a little paronoid and sometimes I sound like my schizophrenic dad- but im still sane, the paronoia only comes when im stressed. Girls often get it later than guys.

[yahmana]

this is a second case I see where the person is usually stressed from school

[yahmana]

another observation: they gain weight because they loose interest in life 

[yahmana]

I didn't know that schizo suffer from memory problems



[bigdintel]

Real nice, God! Make him suffer, horribly for 17 years....then take away WALKING. The only thing he really loved to do. Real nice. You're such a loving god.

And some people wonder why I'm an Atheist.

[dshmechanic]

@11:16 we see Bob's favorite place to walk...K-mart, but not the average K-mart.... the K-mart that says Ames all over the interior.

[mrMumbaify]

AC/DC \m/ 10:09

[404nf1]

"We pray that you will bless our loved ones for hearing, seeing, and smelling purposes" -Bob

Amen.

[RiffinCH88]

Aww this is just heartbreaking. I hope he's doing OK...

[MrNightOwl88]

His parents are amazing though. I give them credit for sticking by their son and helping him.

[mannyste]

@MrNightOwl88 HAHAHA they made him.. this is what could happen when you MAKE a human you know?

[jellydee123]

He looks like such a normal guy..God i feel sorry for him.. and its true, What a waste of life.

[micmackz]

that's just artful oration

[legaspi89]

Very very interesting story. I got the chills at the end on how he had gotten worse in terms of his symptoms. My prayers go out to Bob and his family. Its very interesting and sad how a completely normal person can get mentally sick like this that affects their whole life. I will be taking a psychology course soon and definitely want to learn more about this disorder.

[papillonluv]

Ahh.. smoking in Kmart..those were the days.

[311diamonddoll]

@papillonluv You Could Still Smoke in Kmart... It's Just Frowned Upon (Like Masterbating On An Airplane) It's All the Same... :O)

[raulhawkins718]

bob needs a mmj card

[TheMusicchannel23]

Schizophrenics are just hyper sensetive but high intelligent people..

[jaco0bx]

Hey guys. I'm battling from schizophrenia. I'm not asking for money or views or anything, but just for support and for people to hear me out. My psychiatrist said to let people know about your problem, but everyone thinks I'm weird and my family cannot understand or take me seriously. I made a blog about my problems, and I hope we can talk on there. My blog is battlingschizophrenia.blogspot­­.com . Fellow schizophrenics, you should also come. We can fight the battle together.

[TheMusicchannel23]

@jaco0bx

i just can recommend you some things.

dont feel as a victim.watch some bill hicks.watch positive movies.

you got talents you dont even know about.learn an instrument.do some sports.find something youre good in and do it.

hear good music.try to relax.

dont read much bulsshit on the internet.

peace

[devilgoob]

@TheMusicchannel23 Bill with a schizotype, but he comdedically spawned a change in humanity.

[MaetelUsagi]

00:54-02:14, this is what i think he is saying:I know whats wrong with me and that i'm not like others. I feel bad for what i did to Sue and aunt Ethel, I want them to know, i can distinguish the different things in life but i can't help it. We need to do what is right or it means our lives. Good always wins, but we need to choose which we are going to do. When i walk around kmart I feel i found the cure. but all doctors know there isn't, i just cope with it. Its a shame my father can't help me.

[greenbrf]

Walked from West Virginia to New Jersey.

[Goldshteyn88]

@greenbrf THATS FUCKING CRAZY RIGHT

[hermeschbird]

Haldol is a bitch!

[plachenko]

It seems like he's suffering from time dilation. He just doesn't understand time like most people do. That's why he 'babbles'. These are coherent thoughts he has but the switch is so fast that he doesn't realize it until it happens and when it happens he forgets why he said it at all, so he keeps going to the next thought.

English, unfortunately, isn't simple enough for him to translate what he thinks out loud. But I'm sure his mind thinks beautiful things.

[jblucio3177]

@plachenko I agree with the time dilation but also sound like he is speaking with metaphors.

[MoonSyde]

@plachenko i understand what hes trying to say he just cant catch up with how fantasticly fast his mind is going .. vocals only go so fast

[notoriousm]

@plachenko if you've ever done acid, you understand this train of thought completely

[bigdintel]

@plachenko Wow, thanks for that, but let's leave the diagnoses to the doctors, okay? Thanks.

[plachenko]

@bigdintel Haha, just an observation. I assure you, I don't know why schizophrenia occurs and how to deal with it.

Also, not to seem snarky, but a doctor's diagnosis gets you Thorazine. Doctors are educated people but they see schizophrenia, first and foremost as a chemical imbalance simply because that's how they view the body. Schizophrenia is a multi-faceted 'disorder'-- you can't look at it through a microscope and say 'this is why things are happening, so do this instead'.

[rakabir1]

@plachenko you are wrong so wrong man. i know first hand what this guy is going thru. English is a pretty language and perfectly alrite to express what we feel with it. Its just that you wont have patience to listen to what a classified schizophrenic has in his mind will u/? tell me, what gives you a drive to talk to the next person?? :) peace

[plachenko]

@rakabir1 Have you been diagnosed with schizophrenia?

This may seem silly, but do you actively try to remember your dreams? Have you suffered from insomnia? Schizophrenia fascinate me-- the conscious mind melding along with the subconscious seems irrational but it happens.

As a universal language, English blows. Bob wouldn't have so much trouble dissecting and putting together words from pure thought if we had a better standard of input/output.

Instead we hold on to dead tradition.

[rakabir1]

@plachenko Exactly. If the normals would have a better standard of i/o. We should leave the dead old tradition of not-following our hearts. and yes, i have been diagonised with schizophrenia in 2009. The doc said what I had was the very extreme form of schizophrenia. I never thought so. :) Anyways, ever since the neuro meds that I only took for 3 months, i have had trouble sleeping.

[rakabir1]

@plachenko and buddy, dont take this otherwise but if schizophrenia fascinates you so much, try taking those meds that they made me take. the schizo-meds. I think the classification of being a schizo comes after you take the meds and starts acting weirder than before. Before the meds, you are weird coz you choose to. After the meds, you are weird coz the rest of them are the same. I am a little stressed tonight from a day's work. I don feel like talkin bout this now. later maybe? :)

[schizobipolarjoe]

@rakabir1 yep, I was diagnosed bipolar and because of the "not normal behavior" when I was just being weird, and had a few hallications of colors. I was diagnosed schizoaffective.. most people don't understand sub-contious mind, and contious mind. I got better when I got older and away from religious and main scream crap.

[WeirdTree]

@schizobipolarjoe main scream

[schizobipolarjoe]

@plachenko that can also be part of word salad... exp. I need to go to the store, it's raining out side, the dog pooped on the floor. sara willburn was my friend in 5th grade. I like fish.. thoughts are complete but they jump around to make a complete paragraph of though. I got to go to the store and to the doctors office... so I woke up an hour early, then took a shower. then dried off and dressed my self, and got to the doctors appointment, it went good, and that's what I did today.

[TickleMehNancy]

it seems like he has some sort of dementia...

[miles2057]

Clozapine was introduced with some trials in the US around 1975 for a few years so it gives you an idea of when this doco wasmade,mid to late 70's.

[jpf3082]

this is not my world. don't ask for help. the dreams are real. we will stop the noise.

[mArIsSaNdRa23]

poor guy! weiird desease

[DotsOnALine]

This guy sounds like almost all youtube commenters.

[zazfilm]

thanks for posting. i'll have to find out if a follow-up was ever produced...?

[zazfilm]

thanks for posting. i'll have to find out if a follow-up was ever produced...?

[zazfilm]

thanks for posting. i'll have to find out if a follow-up was ever produced...?

[momoville100k]

thank you for posting this video the previous video of this interview with bob was deleted over a year ago

[MaetelUsagi]

i first saw this in psychology class.