Jo's story: "I'm disgusting"

A young woman with schizophrenia characterised by tactile (haptic) hallucinations and secondary delusions as well as delusions of reference is interviewed by her psychiatrist

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Education

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• psychiatry
• education
• schizophrenia
• tactile
• haptic
• hallucinations
• delusions
• reference
• persecutory

[psychiatryteacher]

An actor. All the videos posted are using role players to portray the patient and real psychiatrists interview them

[superluser]

@psychiatryteacher From what your site says, the scenarios are fictional as well. So these are not based off of interviews, right?

(I guess I got a bit confused when in one of the videos, the psychiatrist thanks the actor for agreeing to the videos--I would have expected that that was part of a real interview, or at least a real transcript)

[psychiatryteacher]

@superluser We use scenarios that are culled from real cases but changed so that they are not identifiable. Most are combinations of elements of a number of cases.

The psychiatrist thanks the 'patient' so that is as close to a real experience as possible. We aim to simulate reality.

Thanks for your feedback.

[mmamidget]

@TheBoliCatt The Chinese poet Li Bo once said' I Just had a dream. I thought I was buterfly flying around. I was enjoying the flowers and the smell of the summer breeze. Loving and taking in the beauty around me. Taking in simplicity in joy and love and truth.' Now I konw it's only in a dream. Now I wake up. As a man I know greed hatred vanity and pride. This is a dream I have often. Or maby my life as a man is the fantasy dream. Am I a man or a buterfly?

[mmamidget]

Thank you. I'll shall seek this out. The hollywood movies the Matrix Trilogy. Much influenced by Joseph Campbell and Plato speak of the same things. My favorite movies. In our modern world they tell us to speek for our selves. Question authority. Our Authorities, Religious, political, educational, scientific, psycoligical and social drag us along. We never question but obey. If mental divergence is a sickness than "Finding Jesus" by "born agains" is a Psychotic episode.

[TheBoliCatt]

@mmamidget (Final) You can visit the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's website and read, at no charge, the literature by Professor Marvin Minsky; my favorite book by him is "The Emotion Machine"...he clearly explains with incredible detail the processes of the human brain and the value of emotional growth and thinking, from birth to adulthood, at least in his opinion and hypothesis of course, but it is very fascinating indeed! Take care and feel free to contact me anytime.

[TheBoliCatt]

@mmamidget (Continued) Could it be possible that we are all connected together by an actual "higher consciousness" netowrk, much like a computer wireless network sharing information and experiences, similar to the synaptic connections in our brain. I believe that we will come to realize soon that mental illness is nothing more than mental programming viruses which we will learn to fix. Once we can truly understand how our brain is programmed and how it works, we can then evolve.

[TheBoliCatt]

@mmamidget I was contemplating upon these subjects you are bringing up, regarding the human brain vs "the human spirit". I truly believe that we are only now beginning to comprehend what we have always called our "soul", thanks to our sociological evolution, being magnified by technology and the internet. Physicists to this day cannot say where the "self" is exactly in the human brain...what we call our conscious sentient self awareness...in my opinion, is a fraction of a whole.

[mmamidget]

@TheBoliCatt >Well said. I went to University for Philosophy. I believe it is the gray area between Religion and Psychiatry. We have Souls and Brains. Sprit and Conscience. We as Humanity will never find our selves till we achieve enlightment or the vision divine. Or on the scientific side, The 46 and 2 chromosome theory or the next step in evolution, the 3rd Genome concept. We will find happiness and fullfillment. But we need to let go of all pre exisiting notions of self. 

[JMS06723]

isnt that paranoia?

[TheBoliCatt]

@mmamidget The next step will be to compare ourselves to biological mechanisms and realize that the problem is a "software" problem, not a "hardware" problem...and that we need to learn to reprogram ourselves and others who are having a problem with their thinking; an error in logic. The next step will be...human brain reprogramming.

[mmamidget]

Funny. To think, in the middle ages she would have been told she is possed by deamons, and given a long brutle exercism. Now were told god is dead and deamons don't exist. Wonder what the next step will be?

[Redrumhydro]

@psychiatryteacher well where can i see the real thing?