Coping with Schizophrenia: My Experience in the Psych Ward

I was mental have the same problem and go to cardiology hospital to fix hart valve witch was damage now I file normal😊

This woman is not schizophrenic. Perhaps it’s “something else”

❤all my love 💓 to you ❤

Thank you so much for making this video. It’s helped me process my recent psychotic break

Thank you so much for sharing ❤ I wish you get better .. I really want to know how schizophrenia makes person aggressive or hostile ?

Good Heavens, well spoken. Thank you

I really wish there was a way for neurotypical people to experience just how terrifying psychosis and mixed states are. They might have a little more empathy and compassion for people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder.

Sure, take a heavy psych sedative then go drive, that doesn't usually lead to loss of life or loved ones including animals or the super tragic baby's/children.

Thanks for be so open with your illnes ❤❤❤❤❤ thansks for share your history

they treated me like shit in the psych ward please it was a nightmare

I just want to say that "Rob" is so lucky! I wish more than anything that I could meet a beautiful, smart woman such as Ms. I work hard, care about all others but all the women I date seem to lose interest & cheat on me! I like helping people but keep getting super-hurt myself.

Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s very courageous !

You are a brave and amazing person . God bless you and Rob for what you are doing to help people deal with this .

"Your reality is real to you." - Very important for people to know this.

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I'm trying to put myself into Rob's shoes. The man is ostensibly working a full-time job, paying bills, caring for 3 kids, and on top of that he has to run around the city all day and night playing a macabre game of hide-and-seek, involving the police, social services, doctors, and anyone else who will help. How do you keep YOUR sanity, brother? Who is there for you when you need support?
I ask because I've seen men go through this, and it takes so much. They end up completely broken from the experience. I don't want that to happen to you ❤

She sounds like she has cotton mouth when she talks

I can understand how you took the statement "I'm trusting you" because there is an inkling of not being trustworthy and he is choosing to trust against his better judgement. At least in a psychotic state... I used to go driving around as well when my mind was out of control. I also used to ride motorcycles. And I think the comfort of at least part of my mind being so preoccupied with not crashing and driving keeps that much more of my mind that isn't being unruly kind of quieting the background noise and letting part of myself to talk with myself without that much extra struggle from the preoccupied part of my mind. Not sure if that sounds coherent.

My brother had schizoaffective disorder. He consistently ebbed and flowed with his consistency of medication intake, willingness to accept help, and ultimately with the ability to recognize that he needed help. We lost him this September due to a drug problem and poor unintentional decisions. Watching the past few videos on your channel have really given me a great light and understanding with what he might have experienced, even if it just a fraction. Thank you for allowing me to have this healing journey in my grief. Understanding how profound this mental health disorder can be, you are working so hard for your stability. You have put in so much work to be where you are today. It is inspiring.

I visited my mom in many psychiatric hospitals and facilities from a young age on and off till 1999 I was 11 when she took her own life because I wasn't in her care, I was in child services care and I begged my foster parent to bring me to my mother's house, I tried calling all hospitals, the police and the morgue at hospitals, the police said don't worry, it was three days of my mother no answering the land line phone, and I called everywhere she could possibly be, I did get my foster to bring me home because of my mother's mental illnesses, I wasn't lucky enough to beg sooner, I had to break into my own trailer home we lived in and I found her passed away on the the floor from an od on her medication and I was too late by 3 days, this was my last time seeing her ever again, being bagged up by the corner and ambulance was so traumatic and I never got adopted I became an orphan at that moment and I have never been put together since, but I now have the strength to share my side of what living as a child who's parent had schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and Hysteria back in the day, I'm greatful for you and your videos help me see her side a bit better, I feel for her each day now, but I couldn't be her caregiver and my own at such a young age. I would visit at any chance I was allowed to visit her, she was never a voluntary stay for admissions against her will and her paranoia was real and scary. Just know that kids are very understanding if you explain to them what you are going through, so us kids at the time could help as much as I could. But mental illness looks invisible and really affects everyone around the sick parent or partner and family. My mother didn't have many friends in the end and took her life and I'm so sad still because I was always afraid of her being alone and for good reasons, I knew she would overdose one day but not on purpose, I broke that March 29th 1999 and I was than property of the Canadian government and I wasn't allowed anything from my mother's home, not even a stuffed animal, I didn't get to say goodbye, just heard the zipper bag and stretcher she was brought out on will haunt me always, please take care of yourselves if you are feeling off in any sort of way, it can be life or death, I had a gut feeling and I wished I could have gotten to her sooner but, she was in a different type of pain and scared of the world, be kind to all you never know what anyone is going through, even people who you think look heathy may not be so be kind to all, and maybe you can save a life or be a friend to help out others who struggle with mental health, you would never know my mother was so sick until she was, in psychosis, manic and very paranoid, the scary part was the multiple personalities she had and one was a child, and I was her care giver since my father passed away from an od on March 29 1993, there's a pattern of death dates and its so hard for the ones who try their best as kids to help our parents but it's not possible without adults, I was her advocate and when I was put into foster care she would have to placed into the quiet room for days to calm down, those were very scary and sad days for me, the hospital let me come visit as much as I could, since I was the only one who was able to get her to eat or drink, it was hard on all, but she was my mother it's not her fault for being sick and I still feel alone now as an adult I was never adopted by anyone because of my parents story and the foster homes were afraid I may have had mental illness as well, but I keep up with therapy still and Im always checking on people in my life to make sure they are doing ok, it's the quiet, looks so put together people who need support more than we think. Thank you for you channel and this video, sending love and light your way to all. ✌️ 💛 🕯️🇨🇦

Thank you for the video, the psych ward is no fun and being mentally ill is pretty awful. I've had the same experience just languishing at a hospital. Nobody paid me any attention whatsoever, people barely acknowledged my existence, just waited and waited until a bed opened up on a ward. The white background burns my retina fyi 😂😂

God bless you and praying for God to place his healing hands on you

Were
you ever put in a state hospital?

I have no insight as to what happened exactly....This is painful to watch .... painfully boring that is...

Going by the video date, the "head cold" was probably Covid. Sars-cov2 is neurotropic and heads straight for the limbic system. It's capable of triggering many neurological conditions including psychotic episodes, mood disorders emotional dysregulation etc.

Lauren thank you for allowing your self to be so open on camera. I struggle to talk about my 3 hospitalisations. They were traumatic and I felt a lot like you described. It does help me process / heal from these experiences hearing your stories. It's horrible not being able to trust your own mind. ❤ 🙏Xx

You're impressive.

I think from the prospective of that schizophrenia is a monster
we all have our monsters we are afraid of but part of slaying the monster is reaching out for help we need to slay our monsters by reaching out for help and being the monster slayers we all can be your very brave for doing so 💗💓

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Thank you for this video. YOU and only this videos made me see and understand what my daughter goes through..love from Taunton mass 🙏🍀☮️ your amazing for sharing,and educating . please keep it up .God bless

I have never known much about this illness. This was so eye opening as to what a schizophrenic person goes through on a daily basis.
Sweetheart you are beautiful inside and out, may God Bless you.
Prayers for strength

Going thru the er for mental issues is so degrading. This is a feeling I've experienced this many times, too. I have bpd with phychotic traits.

first of all, I would like to thank you very much for sharing the entire visit to the hospital and the components of your psychotic episode. I have been through this with my daughter who’s grown for many many many years she’s never had a complete diagnosis she’s had several other diagnoses, major depression complex, PTSD bipolar, borderline personality disorder. I’d love to see some type of video where you can speak to the parents particularly when there is a delusion and the paranoia my daughter has been paranoid of me often on in her life as long as I can remember, she disappeared three years ago with the grandchildren because she’s grown I do not have any type of access to her or understanding of where she is in her mental health journey except that she’s charging numerous people in her life with sexual abuse and I’m not saying I don’t believe it I didn’t know of one particular incident when she was very young, but she received help through her entire life and it was a very open conversation between us. Her paranoia has reached a state I’m guessing because now she has me under investigation for horrendous crimes that did not ever happen. It’s hard to explain and speak to the police about this without a complete diagnosis, and with me, not knowing where she is in her mental health, I’m terrified for her, terrified for the children and devastated internally that she is so ill. Thanks again for your time I see many similarities in your story and hers and it’s a complete blessing that you have received help and that you navigate through your symptoms and that you understand what is going onand that you have a supportive partner, I think you will and I will continue watching your channel

I'm struggling with it right now, starting to see the world as something else right now.

My dearest, sweetheart! If you find yourself open for consideration that there are other than chemical means of help, actual, lasting and effective means of recovery from this, please let me know. I'm not going to say more before you reply, than that it is definitely achievable.

What a great explanation. It hit me when she spoke of not being able to trust her mind. That's deep.

this is important for other sufferers the detail and less than flattering aspects

I don’t know you but you are in my heart.

Thank you for speaking your truth and sharing how hard this can be to go through. Sending you love and just know you are incredibly strong. I've recently come out of a episode myself...it's been 7 years since my last one. I also have 4 small daughters, and knowing they could tell I wasn't okay was what helped me decide to get help as well.

You're turning ourill ess into a month ey making sharade man. Sheesh you should see me in psychosis full ball you'd never see a video of it

She's a itching for likes and subscribers

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I am a resident doctor in psychiatry working in Sweden. Here, we have a specific "Psych-ER", which is completely physically separate from the general ER, more tailored for our patients, and with staff that is trained in mental health care. Of course, even so, the ER experience can be stressful and hard, but I am pretty sure it is the lesser evil at least. I recently worked for a year in New Zealand, where patients in mental health crisis have to present to the general ER (same as in Canada, the UK and apparently most countries it seems), and it really did not seem ideal to me. As you say, the general ER is a very stressful place. It is full of noise, people running, open cubicles etc - it is not a good place for a person in mental health crisis, and especially not if the crisis is psychosis or mania. I guess I just wanted to say that, as a mental health professional, I agree with you about the ER, and I am sorry that there is not a better ER system set up where you live.

Thank you for honestly sharing your experiences. You are teaching me how to understand what is happening for pe0ple going through experiences like this. You give hope that life can become much better for people who have physical or mental challenges when they come accept they have a challenge and manage that challenge. I have fought against accepting I have a challenge g consequently have not managed it. Your honesty and my Son's persistence for me to address my challenge has pulled me up and made me confront and accept and manage it. Thank you from the depth of my heart.

You’re doing a great thing making these videos. My brother had schizoaffective disorder. 22 years ago NO ONE SPOKE OF THIS. THANK YOU ❤️

Thank you for sharing this conversation with us. For your followers this is so informative and generous. Thank you thank you thank you.

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