What are the Symptoms of Schizophrenia?

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currently in hospital for schizophrenia. your channel makes me feel less alone. sending love Lauren

I’m gonna be starting a new over night shift in a casino. I’ve been diagnosed with schizophrenia for 3-4 years now . I stopped working because I’d get mad or upset cause I’d feel people were watching or talking about me . I really need the money so I’m standing up for myself and trying again .

Slow thinking in conversation: When you think of something to add to the conversation, but it's already moved on to a different topic.

I know no ones life is “perfect”, but I’ve been watching your channel since the very first video and the happiness that has seemed to slowly wash over you as your family has grown is really beautiful. You’re a totally different woman and I’m really happy for you!!

My son was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at 15. Five years later and he is struggling hard at the moment. Thank you for your channel and the Hope you bring to me. So much love sent your way. ❤

Also when my form of schizophrenia took hold at university, certain cognitive exercises which I found easy to do in high school, became opaque to me. In math and physics for example, in high school I knew math and physics vectors backward and forward. But at university, the concept of vectors became impossible for me to grasp or recall. The weird aspect of this was that I had memories of knowing how to manipulate vectors, but not the memories or recall to actually do vector math. I remember breaking down in tears and frustration, pounding my head almost yelling "What is going on?! I used to know this! Why can't I do it now?" This was over 30 years ago -- mental health awareness wasn't as prominent as it is today, and even less so for schizophrenia. At the time, I didn't know what was happening. It sort of felt like that short story "Flowers for Algernon" where the researcher knows he's losing cognitive ability. The difference being I didn't know why it was happening to me. But now I know.

Oh, my goodness! A lot of these symptoms are EXTREMELY similar for people with ADHD! I had no idea the overlap was so great.

Seeing someone verbalize their symptoms is so beautiful for me. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia 3 years ago after a drug induced psychosis. Seeing your strength gives me the hope that one day I can overcome these symptoms and go back to being the best me that I know Im capable of. Thank you so much ! <3

You are brave & beautiful for explaining this. I didn't understand this being a little girl 25 years ago. I thought it was so foreign when my mom was diagnosed. Thanks for standing up!

i am definitely struggling with cognitive symptoms at the moment starting a new job where i have to learn new things. it's so frustrating it makes me want to just break down and cry

Would you consider showing us an un edited video ? I would be intrested to see how the flow goes. Your channel is so real so helpful and si needed. I am not personally dealing with Schizophrenia but trying to support a homeless person who is . Thank youa million times for your honesty and sharing.

My brilliant, beautiful, errant, difficult friend of 50 years has had schizophrenia all of her life, but l chose to believe it was a dazzling eccentricity, not schizophrenia, until now. And now that l have the understanding to better help her, she has been missing for 7 years - and her 92 year old lawyer mother won't divulge anything, and has told me she doesn't care. What a colossal waste of a life, and l mourn her so much. I wish l had had your insights decades ago.

Thank you for telling me what happened to my sister Saba

I just want to say, not only are you well-educated and articulate in your delivery, but just an all - around amazing human. Thank you for what you're doing for the Mental Health Community 💚

Oh god I've always been horrible at just not noticing I need to clean or take care of hygiene or self care. I found that scheduling things strictly, knowing I have to clean everything a certain day whether I think it is dirty or not helps me not piss off people I'm living with... And keeping up with a conversation, not absorbing information people tell you... relate...

Very engaging and articulate, as always. I'm sure your videos have done many people a lot of good.

Well, it’s true! I had schizo-affective disorder when I was younger before I ever took medication, but from what I have heard and understood is that giving pharmaceuticals to children is inappropriate and can actually do harm. As I listened to all of the symptoms explained I kept nodding and remembering from my childhood experiences all of the associated difficulties that can and do arise when I was young, but with that being said as the years went on have to say the medicine has help, but what has also helped is understanding how to transform adverse conditions into a path that brings peace, clarity, compassion and even wisdom, and I feel a greater inclusiveness to everyone else. My Buddhist faith, and no disrespect to other faiths, but my faith and spiritual friends have helped me navigate this crazy freaking world that can be so brutal that it’s hard to function from day to day. When I had my breakdown and the inception of the administration of medicine it was still very hard, but I couldn’t kill myself, I couldn’t end it. I was still young and couldn’t bear leaving it all behind, because that would be selfish! Thank you for this video and may all of the suffering know it can and does get better!

I love what you are doing to educate us about mental illness and I admire your spirit and wish you well. Thank you.

Do you realize that you discuss your serious cognitive symptoms in a way that is more organized and articulate than most people, not suffering from any impairment, ever could?