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Schizophrenia The Most Misunderstood Mental Illness · A Capture Deep Vibs A Positive Space For Inspiration And Embracing Of Heart

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  Speaker 1: We all see, hear, and feel things when we're dreaming.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just someone who cannot turn off my nightmares even
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  Speaker 1: when I'm awake, explains Cecilia Mago. In her TED Talk,
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  Speaker 1: she's talking about her experience with schizophrenia, a chronic disorder
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  Speaker 1: that affects the way you experience the world. It's one
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  Speaker 1: that is highly stigmatized and misunderstood. To better explore what
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  Speaker 1: exactly schizophrenia is, in this video, we will be diving
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  Speaker 1: into C. What exactly is it? According to SciComm, schizophrenia
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  Speaker 1: is a psychiatric disorder with significant cognitive, behavioral, and emotional
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  Speaker 1: symptoms that affects how you experience the world. Typically, people
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  Speaker 1: with schizophrenia experience psychosis, a cognitive symptom in which you
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  Speaker 1: experience reality differently than the people around you. This can
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  Speaker 1: be terrifying for some people. Psychosis can take the form
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  Speaker 1: of hallucinations, physical sensations that aren't actually there. They may
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  Speaker 1: also have delusions that are false beliefs that cannot be changed.
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  Speaker 1: People with schizophrenia also commonly experience different negative symptoms. which
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into. The DSM-5 explains that people with schizophrenia
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  Speaker 1: experience delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized catatonic behavior. These are considered
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  Speaker 1: positive symptoms, though they are not typically a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: For some, psychosis can be a terrifying experience. For others,
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  Speaker 1: they may feel they have a grandiose purpose, There is
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  Speaker 1: no one size fits all. These can occur with negative symptoms,
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  Speaker 1: which include feeling a complete lack of pleasure, little interest
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  Speaker 1: in socializing, and limited emotional expression. They may be withdrawn
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  Speaker 1: and asocial. Typical onset, or prodrome, is in a person's 20s,
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  Speaker 1: but can occur both early in life and later. Symptoms
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  Speaker 1: must occur for at least a month. Schizophrenia is different
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  Speaker 1: for everyone. It has a number of different symptom combinations,
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  Speaker 1: which can affect the person in different ways. Negative and
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  Speaker 1: positive in these contexts refer to the types of symptoms.
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  Speaker 1: Where negative symptoms are usually the lack of something, like
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  Speaker 1: emotional expression, positive symptoms are the addition of them, like psychosis.
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  Speaker 1: What is psychosis? Psychosis is a hallmark symptom of schizophrenia
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  Speaker 1: and is considered a break from reality. When you're in psychosis,
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  Speaker 1: you may see and hear things that are not really there. Similarly,
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  Speaker 1: you may have odd beliefs and thinking that is bizarre
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  Speaker 1: to those around you. These tend to occur in episodes
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  Speaker 1: where symptoms will be much more pronounced than at other times.
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  Speaker 1: Symptoms occur in stages with a building onset, an active
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  Speaker 1: stage with psychosis and a residual stage afterwards with lingering symptoms.
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  Speaker 1: While a person with schizophrenia may recover from a psychotic episode,
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  Speaker 1: they may still have odd behaviors and beliefs, though less severe. Hallucinations.
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  Speaker 1: According to Medical News Today, hallucinations come in many forms.
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  Speaker 1: Most commonly, hearing voices or seeing things, though these things
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  Speaker 1: can affect any of your senses. Hallucinations can be hard
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  Speaker 1: to identify, as they may be subtle, like seeing or
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  Speaker 1: feeling bugs on you or hearing someone speak from another room.
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  Speaker 1: In other cases, they can be quite prominent, such as
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  Speaker 1: seeing beings like aliens or religious figures. While sometimes fantastical
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  Speaker 1: in nature, they can be incredibly realistic. In some cases,
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  Speaker 1: they are recurring, with certain hallucinations coming back in a
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  Speaker 1: psychotic episode. A person may be able to, in time,
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  Speaker 1: recognize that they are hallucinating, but sometimes they are so
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  Speaker 1: realistic that it's impossible to tell. Hallucinations may interact with
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  Speaker 1: you and can say, do hurtful things to you. Fortunately,
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  Speaker 1: with proper medication, these hallucinations can be reduced in severity,
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  Speaker 1: even eliminated. Delusions. Mind.com defines delusions as beliefs that conflict
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  Speaker 1: with reality. These are fixed, false beliefs that go against
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  Speaker 1: those of the people around you. They can be bizarre
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  Speaker 1: in nature and are sometimes paranoid. There are several types
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  Speaker 1: of delusions, mainly persecutory or automatic. somatic, and grandiose. People
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  Speaker 1: with delusions may believe that people are out to get them,
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  Speaker 1: like the government, persecutory, or that a celebrity is in
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  Speaker 1: love with them, a romantic. They may also believe that
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  Speaker 1: they have an illness, somatic, or a grandiose purpose in life,
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  Speaker 1: like being a religious figure. Grandiose. Their methods for coming
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  Speaker 1: to a certain conclusion may be bizarre, but firm. Delusions
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  Speaker 1: are fixed beliefs that cannot normally be changed. For instance,
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  Speaker 1: someone with a somatic delusion who believes that they have
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  Speaker 1: a parasite infection is convinced they have it, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: what medical professionals tell them. Someone without schizophrenia would typically
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  Speaker 1: follow their doctor's word. Delusions feel real to the people
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  Speaker 1: experiencing them, just as we feel our experiences are real
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  Speaker 1: to us. Other terms. When talking about schizophrenia, there are
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  Speaker 1: a number of terms that will come up. A few
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  Speaker 1: of them are anhedonia. This is an inability to feel
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  Speaker 1: pleasure and is a negative symptom. You won't feel enjoyment
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  Speaker 1: out of anything, even if you normally would. Catatonia is
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  Speaker 1: an increased struggle to move or respond to environment. You
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  Speaker 1: may have odd movements that are inappropriate to your surroundings.
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  Speaker 1: Anastomosis is a lack of insight on how schizophrenia affects
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  Speaker 1: the person with it. You may not be aware of
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  Speaker 1: your symptoms or how it affects you. Schizoaffective is a
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  Speaker 1: similar but separate condition that is a combination of schizophrenia
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  Speaker 1: with a mood disorder like depression or bipolar. What it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Because schizophrenia is so misunderstood, there's a lot of stigma
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  Speaker 1: surrounding it. Some of the common misconceptions are that it
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  Speaker 1: deals with multiple personalities or that people with it are violent.
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  Speaker 1: Schizophrenia is commonly misunderstood as Dissociative Identity Disorder, which used
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  Speaker 1: to be known as Multiple Personality Disorder. This is a
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  Speaker 1: condition characterized by having at least two different alter states.
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  Speaker 1: A person with DID may switch into different alters that
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  Speaker 1: have their own personality, behaviors, and memories. While these two
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  Speaker 1: conditions overlap in some ways, the symptoms and treatment are
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  Speaker 1: vastly different. Schizophrenia is not inherently a violent condition. Schizophrenia
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  Speaker 1: does not have a higher statistic of violence than the
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  Speaker 1: general public, and you can probably name incidences where people
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  Speaker 1: with the condition have harmed others. However, this is still rare.
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  Speaker 1: According to Cambridge University Press, less than 10% of people
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  Speaker 1: with schizophrenia commit violent acts. And there may be other
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  Speaker 1: factors in those cases like substance abuse. People with schizophrenia
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  Speaker 1: are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.
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  Speaker 1: Those that do have violent tendencies, like anyone, can be treated.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look at treatment. Unfortunately, schizophrenia cannot be cured, but
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  Speaker 1: it can be treated. According to National Alliance on Mental Illness,
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  Speaker 1: Schizophrenia is treated with medication like antipsychotics for the positive symptoms.
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  Speaker 1: Psychotherapy can help manage the negative symptoms. Medication takes trial
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  Speaker 1: and error to find one that works the best, but
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  Speaker 1: is highly effective. When in a psychotic episode, you may
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  Speaker 1: need to be temporarily hospitalized to stabilize. While this can
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  Speaker 1: be unpleasant depending on the circumstances, the goal is to
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  Speaker 1: stabilize your condition. With proper management, these hospitalizations can become few,
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  Speaker 1: and far in between, with some never having to be
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  Speaker 1: hospitalized again. People with schizophrenia can live fulfilled and successful
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  Speaker 1: lives despite all the potential challenges they may face. Schizophrenia
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  Speaker 1: is not one size fits all. Many people are able
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  Speaker 1: to live fruitful and successful lives with the proper treatment.
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  Speaker 1: John Forbes Nash, the subject of the film Beautiful Mind,
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  Speaker 1: was a highly acclaimed mathematician who won a Nobel Prize
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  Speaker 1: and had schizophrenia. There are countless others throughout history and
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  Speaker 1: in your community. Let us know if you found this
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  Speaker 1: you're comfortable, feel free to share your own experiences with schizophrenia.
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