Schizophrenia

[Soup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEXyqe85cuA

 

Last year, Janssen pharmaceutical company tried to make mentally healthy people feel like they were having a psychotic episode. As the manufacturer of both Invega Sustenna and Risperdal Consta, two of the most prescribed drugs for paranoid schizophrenia, Jassen has a stake in making people understand the pain and confusion attendant to this mental illness. To give doctors and psychiatrists a glimpse into the mindset of a paranoid schizophrenic, Jassen brought an 11 seat multi-sensory, virtual-reality theater dubbed “Mindstorm” to 11 mental health and psychiatry conferences around the US. The video above comprises just the visual element of Mindstorm’s fully immersive environment.

 

If you want to know what it feels, smells, and tastes like to make a break with reality, contact Jassen for a demo. They are headquartered in New Jersey.

[CALIgula]

wow...that video was really weird.

 

the only thing i could think of though, is do people who speak another language hear voices in that language?

like when the weatherman is talking to you, do you hear him speaking in say spanish for example?

[armand hammer]

if its the only language you know then id imagine so..mind you they could be speaking meaningless sound words mashed up making you go a bit cuoo ca choo.

[TRANNYHANDJOBSONER]

im before the voices

[CALIgula]

do the voices also really tell the people NOT to take their meds?

how do physicians get their patients to take them then?

i can't imagine all schizophrenic patients being sent to a psych ward.

[armand hammer]

i think the brain just crashes pretty much and each section splits off and it like a permanent acid trip..i think.

 

force feed them inject them drug them etc.

[CALIgula]

i remember sitting in on a medical school lecture one day, at a very prestigious medical school, and the topic of that lecture was schizophrenia.

 

it was interesting.

 

they spent a good half an hour talking about how cannabis can worsen the effects of schizophrenia.

[Classified]

how many of ya got it....................................................................

[Soup]

thats an interesting comment about the weed Calig. I read somewhere that schizophrenics naturally have higher levels of dopamine. Same with Tourette's and ADHD. Marijuana is known to boost levels of dopamine, so it makes sense.

[Decyferon]

It is a really interesting subject, my mum worked in the mental health field for quite some time and schizophrenia is such a general word for peoples different conditions.

 

Any sort of drug/alcohol can really make the mental health of a patient go down hill, as for taking meds, it depends on what sort of state the patient is in. If they have been off their meds for a while then their grip on reality is going to be much worse then getting them to take them is a lot harder because they are probably in the stages of a full blown psychotic episode. However some patients come of their meds because of the voices or whatever, but they also know they should be taking the meds so they have that whole internal struggle going on.

 

But this is definitely a interesting subject, I watched the video from the first post but wasn't impressed with that, it seemed so tame, that sort of shit wouldn't bother me at all, they should have had more sense of panic/urgency and more visual interuptions to the thought process. That just seemed like a normal video with some highschool kids being bitchy in it.

[Violent Gangbanger]

Dude's wife was kinda being a beezy.

[fat ralphy]

My uncle is schizophrenic....he brought it on thru crazy pyschedelic/stimulant use.

 

It basically ruined his life, no job in the last 30 years, been on disability.

 

There was a year that he spoke onlyh in gibberish rhyme....for a wile he thought keith harrington from the rolling stones was following him.

 

I can't imagine it, pretty sad. I wouldn't take anything to simulate mental illness, seems like a bad idea.

[423894]

I have a cousin in the UK who is schiz.

 

Thats it, thats the end of the story.

 

I think this would go well with the E-high whale music.

[prawn laksa]

chris barnes should have done the vox...

[where]

He's gonna pick up the phone........................................don't eat.

[Important]

fuck that video

3 different people i went to high school with now have schizophrenia. i know pot and using psychedelics can help trigger this. young adulthood is the time when it kicks in.

[grove rat]

my aunt was a paranoid schizophrenic but luckily she never flipped out around me when i was younger. she has to live in a hospital now it is so bad

[where]

I kept thinking Digital Undergroud -Dooowutchyalike.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raIxMrXQ9ps

[autoteller]

chris barnes should have done the vox...

 

[NightmareOnElmStreet]

[publicenemyno.3]

that's kinda how i feel on acid.

[wisetuxedo]

ive always been almost too interested in these kind of things. All through highschool i tried to do projects on it but wasant allowed because it would have offended people or something.

cool story bro

 

 

 

but thanks for the vid,

[Miss Carcass]

Annnnnnnd THIS is why I quit smoking weed.

I feel a lot like that when I'm stoned.

I used to think I had a weed induced anxiety.

Now I'm terrified I may be borderline schiz.

Oh noes,

[MedicineCabinet]

should have done the vox...

...

[MedicineCabinet]

wonder how that guy schizophrenia is doing...

[Aikr]

I have schizo tendencies shit was passed down through my family

It dosn't mean you're crazy honestly.

I know other schizophrenics who go out and do they're part for society just like any other person.

It's just a different mind state

It's hard to adapt to.

[Pfffffffffft]

this was an interesting video..

 

[ManyCrimes]

There's an old man in my neighborhood named Chris who is a schizo. All the kids know him in the area so they use him to buy beer and to hang out at his house, party, or whatever. Many of the times I've been around him, he talks to someone named gary in his head who he says is his dad and "Gary" is trying to "fuck him in the ass" as he put it. He also has a woman in his head and he tells us that he wants to take a knife to his brain and cut her out of his skull.

 

However, this dude has had a rough life, he did acid and speed every other day for a year and a half, that definitely could have added fuel to his fire, but I think he's always been like this, it just keeps getting worse. I mean fuck the dude hates drinking but he slams a 30 pack to himself every day in 2 hours to make him pass out cold so he doesn't have to hear voices for 4-5 hours until he wakes back up. I also think he has multiple personalities, when he's passed out he talks in a scottish accent which is weird, and he keeps repeating,"Aye! You Fucking Cocksucker!!!!" I think schizophrenia has a "schedule" too. I've noticed that he changes multiple times throughout the day at specific times. He says at 12:00 he won't know where he is and that at 12:07 the air is going to turn off and that the sky will close in on the ground.

 

The dude is a trip, I'll try to film him and show you guys what he's all about.

[!@#$%]

my old roomie was paranoid schizophrenic with psychotic features.

they kept in under control with meds, until he would decide he hated the way they made him feel dead inside and would go off em.

he didn't have multiple personalities. MPD is something different. usually schizophrenics hear voices, and in my experience, the voices tell them all sorts of shit. basically whatever you could imagine.

 

mental illness is fascinating and terrible.

people in the throws of a psychotic episode are fuckin scary.

[SystemFailure]

"I'm kinda like a schizo, I have tendencies."

 

Nah bitch, what you got is daddy issues that aren't really issues your just puttin on a front to be "different"