Why Are the Voices Negative?
Auditory hallucinations such as hearing voices is a common symptom of psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia. A common experience of these voices is that they are more negative in nature. In this video, we discuss why this may be, and share comparisons of experiences from different parts of the world.
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It's not mental illness.
Is this happening to you in your own voice or a voice that doesn't sound like yours?
😊😊😊😊😊l)opp OP p)
The voice is so weird... can't even recall such a person... male
As a therapist working with people with schizophrenia for over 30 years, I have found your points to be very true.Only once have I met a person whose voices told him jokes which he enjoyed.
i'm not schizo-phrenic ,i had labels veering around it a few times and of it, but i feel intrinsically that i'm not. 'scuse the waffling on, but i wanted to say that i've heard this. a comment i left above tells how i usually hear (if at all, it's usually too loud ,very intrusive thoughts.) them in the third party so i heard them, in a pub and knew which pub even though i had not been in years (for example , intrusive thoughts, telling me right now it's "not safe" to post this. it is exhausting.) to there, and telling a joke. sometimes i wake up laughing, in the dream and it overlaps. i do not take sleeping meds well, over the counter (diphenhydramine). recently i have began to sleepwalk and it is half lucid dream half "parasomnia" - that's right isn't it? - a mix of them, in the dream i needed to get something so i got out of bed opened a packet laid them out on a saucer and then, came to, was too tired to understand wtf so i just , flopped back into bed and slept. sorry to ask such questions when i am guessing places such as this, well, it's your "off" time and don't want to be plagued. but if you have the time could you please perhaps tell me your idea of what that was, the being asleep but doing something. either way good vibes .
is the therapist one of your personalities?
@Caramel Cupcake ever see that movie parenthood? were Keanu reeves tells whats her name that you need a license for everything, drive a car, catch fish, own a gun, but any asshole can be a dad, not be any means saying this is any cause of mental health problems but just at the base of things we as a society don't even force parents to do their job so how the hell can we expect to be able to help people with mental illness.
omg, Lol
*@munch Are these voices actual voices or just thoughts experienced as voices?*
I read on reddit where a guy with schizophrenia had taken the shamanic attitude towards the voices. They shifted drastically and went from extremely negative to joking and fun. He described them as going from evil spirits to spirit guides or like a joking sibling-like relationship.
I really appreciate that you both share studies and your own experience and how careful you are to say "these are investigations" "these are my speculations"
So very true. She is very careful to keep subjectivity in perspective and it's extremely helpful and honestly, caring.
I've always wondered why there aren't any hallucinations that say "Hey gorgeous, you're looking amazing today!" Wouldn't it be great to get positive affirmations every day?
There are... but there are also negatives. I think the key is to treat those two imposters the same... 🤔
Mine were positive at start, than negative
@@shaunsuper4485 can you give an example of positive ones?
If it's positive is it a disorder...?
I hear things like that sometimes.
I really wish things were different for my nephew and he held on a little longer. He lost his battle with schizophrenia 8/18/20. He would let me in on the nasty things he was dealing with constantly in his head; it was an emotional nightmare for me; the last 6 months of his life I was by his side until he died. I miss him so much. He's forever 21.
So sorry poor lad
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So sorry to hear that. May your nephew rest in eternal peace.
I am so very sorry for your loss.
@@ellagarnica8895 He was on medication and he was 21 years old. Hard to get an adult to adhere to things, plus he wasn't living with me. You might want to direct these questions to his mother as I have plenty of my own.
Yeah my voices are usually always negative thanks for being a positive voice for this
Wish you get well soon
what do they say about me?
@@ilyas_elouchihi thank you!
God bless 🙏
I hope you will soon better💖
I was bullied when I was younger, when I had my psychosis episode the voices were of the people that used to bully me. I am Black, living in Canada.
its demons get a deliverance in JESUS CHRIST THESE VOICES ARE disembodied spirits DEMONS JESUS died for us becuz of them, but it dont stop them from infecting humans, they get in one in the womb, and moreso later from rejection,tramaua etc deliverance works BUT THEN WALK CLOSE WITH THE LORD OR THEY GET BACK IN WORST, BE BLESSED
Sending comfort and empathy to everyone sharing their experiences in the comments ❤️❤️
Yes my heart goes out to the commenters who are dealing with these symptoms. And I think society is moving toward understanding people who suffer from schizophrenia- thanks to videos like this.
I was diagnosed schizophrenic 30 years ago. Over the years, I have realised that my negative voices (always in the "You" form) are me talking to myself. The more anxious or angry I am feeling, the more fearful or nasty these voices become. So I do some deep belly breathing, and either journal about my paranoia/anger or divert my attention to fun, happy, calming activities, or do both. Getting out amongst people, even if it's going shopping or going to a popular park with lots of dogs (I love dogs!) is a great mood enhancer. I hope this helps.
This is very insightful. One of the tasks a brain supposed to do for us is interpret whether something is coming from within us (like sounds we make or thoughts we have) or from outside of us (like sounds from our surroundings or other people talking). For people with schizophrenia, this process isn’t working correctly, and the person’s own voice or thoughts can be seem to be coming from an *outside* source. So like if someone is worried their boss is criticizing them, they might imagine that happening… and then boom. They “hear” their boss criticizing them.
the more you listen to the voices, the more you focus on them, the more you react with fear the worse they get - they seem to me to be putting me to the test 24/7 - hope you all are well and do not let anything get you down
This technique helps to turn off voices. Not been fully. But you can rest from it whenever you want. Technique of meditation. Close your eyes and try to see all the muscle tensions in your body that deprive you of a comfortable state. Pay special attention to the muscles of the face and head. And then, not paying attention to these muscle tensions, you should try to achieve a comfortable state. You can get comfortable condition with a lot of muscle tension. People often do not notice this strong muscle tension and unconsciously support it. This tension may be so strong that your efforts will not be enough to remove it. But your efforts should be directed not to maintain tensions but to remove them. To do this, you only need to focus on the state of internal comfort. If you notice that the internal tension as it pulls attention to yourself, try to focus attention on this place, and then as if to get out from under this concentration of attention. This can be called the technique of scattered attention. Then this thing can happen - you concentrate on some place, you can relax the muscles, but the tension has changed the configuration and went to another place. You track tensions again and you leave from it again and it goes to another place again. So you can meditate as much as you want. If you succeed, then there is a certain pleasure in it. It is better to do it at night, but you can do it at any time. You can anywhere at least for a moment to close your eyes and instantly disconnect. In depression, do not orient on the emotional color of the feeling, but only on its strength. Well, that is the reason for depression can be anything and feelings can be different. But the feelings should be ignored as if they were not. schiza.net
Of course "they" do-it's just a local oscilation in your neural network, the more "energy" you pump into it by talking back, listening, focusing on "them"-the stronger it gets. That's how meds work, they disrupt the connections in-between neurons mediated by neurotransmitters and fade it out like a cigarette crushed under the boot ending a shapely leg in thigh-length stockings belonging to a Dopaminatrix!🍄 🌈 🌸 💀 🦄 🎧
@@leshikokubika486 This technique (and "meditation" in general-does nothing for me. In fact, it makes things worse. I was going to use stronger wording, but I want to keep things civil.💀
@@MirandaMcKennitt there are many forms of meditation, friend. Walking/dancing meditation might be effective for you, or any movement based. Also kundalini yoga, which involves strenuous exercises known as "kriyas," often combined with chants or mantras. And by "effective" I don't mean "makes the voices go away," I mean "makes you a stronger person so you can deal with the voices more easily." Meditation practices don't make our problems disappear- that is a misconception. They simply give us tools and techniques we can use to overcome our obstacles with more ease.
@@dianeaishamonday9125 Or, they don't do anything at all.💊
One reason for the difference between the 1930's and 1980's patients could be because of who was hospitalized in the 1930's versus the 1980's (if that study is in the USA). In the 1930's they hospitalized anybody with mental illness. By the 1980's someone would have to be a danger to themselves or others to be hospitalized. This means the 1980's patients would be more likely to hear "destructive" voices because people with calmer voices wouldn't be hospitalized. This might explain the difference.
I was also thinking, that maybe the people from 30s may have avoided talking about the more negative voices from fear
I was never diagnosed with schizophrenia but started having intrusive suicidal thoughts and ruminating thoughts and they were like very negative voices in my head putting me down from the moment I woke up to the moment I slept. All day. "What an idiot, you shouldn't have let her go, why did you do that? Fool." things like that, you know? I had already been to 15 psychiatrists and have taken lots of meds but nothing worked. To save my life I studied about Johns Hopkins Safety Guidelines on mushrooms (you know which) and did it on myself.. To my great surprise they told me "90% of your depression is in your gut". Damn. I went to more 15 doctors with different specialties, they had no clue.. It took me 4 months to figure it out but upon removing gluten and dairy for 30 days, the suicidal thoughts and ruminating thoughts (voices) stopped!! The gut brain connection is stronger than big pharma wants us to know. I was shocked, still am. Some months after that I started the best elimination diet there is, carnivore, and lots of other autoimmune symptoms got better too. I'm still figuring it out, using mushrooms to solve what 30 doctors couldn't, it's been quite a journey. Watch your diet!
olha q legal teu comentário, sorte q vc se curou, eu tenho vozes faz anos, mas é um segredinho, não conto a ninguém presencialmente, mas ajudo quem quiser na internet, ouço uma voz me xingando em inglês, porque eu sou bilingue mas é bem chato mas eu fico quetinha e não reclamo pra ninguém me inscrevi no seu canal
Thanks for what you do! I do not have schizophrenia, but I was raised in an extremely religious community and therefore believed, as a child, that many physical and mental illnesses (especially things like psychosis and disassociative states) were caused by demon possession. Therefore mental illnesses were terrifying to me for a long time, even after I learned better. I've been trying to tear down the stigma in my mind so that I can fear less and understand more. :)
Katheryn, I also thought the same thing and am struggling to try to understand the scientific /medical point of view as my teenager daughter is battling the voices in her head.
It is. The voices are negative because they are demons. There’s no human cure for this, and the drugs that the doctors prescribe makes the person’s brain worse. Our brains are like antennas. It detects outside energies. There are good and bad spirits that lives insides our bodies- we are vessels. They are our conscience, and our demons- they make us think, say and do bad things. Some people experience the spirits talking to them because it’s part of their life karma, some experience this to lead the soul into a darker path, some experience this as a gift - enlightenment, depending on the voices that they hear. Resist the urge to let the negative voices make you do bad things.
@@jerrym.3083 you are so right .. people including thoughts about religion on this topic is way off though. demonic energies don't have anything to do with anyone's religion. they just are. to learn more about how psy chiatry has lied to everyone about this ailment in order to sell drugs, look up Jerry Marzinski and Sherry Swinney and their That's a Lie program. it's much better to make these entities go away and leave you alone than to allow your brain to be shrunken and damaged by the drugs psy chiatry gets you addicted to.
My husband has schizophrenia and the Lord has made a huge difference in his life and symptoms. The way he can find reassurance and strength through his worries even after being delivered from those spirits it still doesn't stop his symptoms completely aka hallucinations, delusions and the voices. The medication has helped him immensely but still doesn't remove his symptoms completely. So I don't know what you mean by being healed completely through religion.
Wtf. It sounds like you have complex ptsd and religion trauma
I live in South Africa, and thought I would mention my take on the way hallucinations are seen in many African countries amongst the more traditional folk. It would be an indication of a calling to become a sangoma, which is a shaman, or medicine man/woman - this seems to be common amongst many ancient cultures across the world, and therefore more accepted. That would probably be why it would be more accepted. However, too many times older folk (esp women) that suffer from dementia are accused of witchcraft and are attacked and killed or if they are lucky driven away. Their odd behavior would bring on suspicion and they would then be blamed for any illness, death, drought or other bad things happening at the time.
I'm from South Africa and attend university, and one of the guest lecturers I had was an author and activist who also happened to be a spiritual healer. She spoke openly about the voices she hears, and how they both enrich her life but at times make her overwhelmed. She didn't see the voices as inherently negative, but rather a way in which her mind happens to work. I wonder if this acceptance of the hallucinations makes her, and thus also the voices, more 'at ease', lessening the negativity. This is just pure speculation.
There’s actually research on this, people in the west are more likely to experience negative voices rather than positive ones
I've always gotten positive loving guiding voices. They've been loving and helping me since I was a little one, and suffering harm from my parents. So interesting. I'm introverted... I feel like they are the reason I have love in my heart. My family was extremely harmful and unsafe. They pick me up when I'm at my worst. And just teach me things like don't make choices when I'm feeling terrible, that all people are equal, and especially give me the feeling of love and healing. Is this a form of Schizophrenia? 😅
The voices aren't constant but they've been there from early on, and would reject my parents misbehavior, narrating and trying to comfort me. They were very patient. They also prevented me from making terrible choices.
Studies show that in the west, the voices tend to be more negative than in African countries
@@loverainthunder this sounds so loving and comforting.
I'm not schizophrenic but I find this information fascinating, especially the idea that treating the symptoms/voices with medication may increase the suggestion of something being wrong, thus worsening those symptoms. After studying chronic pain patients for many years, there seems to be a similar issue with chronic pain. Perspective matters, and culture goes a long way in forming perspective.
Antipsychotics are for social control only.
@@nihil8436 OK?
@@nihil8436 They help some people.
@@Catlily5 If they helped, would they be forced on people against their will to their detriment? They are brain disabling, for anyone with a semblance of a life to begin with, the effects of antipsychotics will be torturous, I did not even have any delusions, hallucinations or voices and I was still forced this rubbish. It's primarily for social control.
@@nihil8436Sorry they forced you on medication. I am against forced meds unless someone is violent. I am on antipsychotics and they do help me, unfortunately they can cause bad side effects. But some people like my boyfriend have very few side effects, it really depends on the person.
It seems like most mental illness are easier to cope with when the person has acceptance and a positive or neutral outlook on symptoms. The stigma (internally and externally) is probably the biggest variable for coping with said mental illness (just my theory besides medicine and therapy). Thank you for sharing all of this! I was in DBT group for a year. People had a variety of mental illnesses like; MD, BP, BBD, PTSD,GAD, and maybe schizoaffective disorder's (but no one mentioned them). By the end of the year, everyone who had more self compassion noticed a huge drop in distressing symptoms. It was a closed small group so we were pretty open with one another. I wish there were more mental health communities so everyone could have a place where they feel understood and accepted!
Yes it seems everybody is craving acceptance even those who don't have any mental problems.
My voice come when I'm stressed, so very frequently. However they sound like someone trying to invade my home. Yet sometimes they just sound like people around my house, like boys playing football or like my neighbours are right beside me and I can hear their conversation. I also have frightening ones where I'm being visited by people who scare me like enemies or scary people I've met in my life. I mostly however suffer from delusions and I think that this is the hardest part of my schizo affective disorder. I can know that the delusions aren't true yet still believe them. Idk how to explain it well. I still feel as if I'm gonna die, someone is always trying to kill me, my friends are robots it aliens and I'm living in a simulation. I believe people are constantly trying to control my thoughts and most days they succeed because I'm often depressed. I constant believe that the government is trying to get me to kill myself or they will kill me, like they want me to live in fear. It's difficult, I have no one who understands. I am a recluse most times, my friends don't understand and I can't force them to, so I feel alone. I don't even feel real most times, I need help but don't know if the help is actually helpful. This was a rant. I'm grateful for your channel. Without this channel, I'd probably killed myself a year ago.
I'm here if you need someone to talk to! :)
@@xtoothpick63 I appreciate it
@@justinestephonie4606 I can't offer much advice but just know I'm sorry for what your going through and I hope things get a little bit better/easier for you. Thinking of you
@@Al-kb2xl My heart is full of love.
I understand. Some of what you said has been my own experience aswell with the voices and delusions. I wonder if a Facebook group of others who go through this stuff will help be supportive for you?
I have bipolar with mania psychosis, on one of my relapses, I seen the devil and he was talking shit to me, I was atheist, but you better believe at the moment lord Jesus I prayed!
Holy sh*t I just realised that I live with this since FOREVER ! As a person recently diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, I discover things like this everyday. Today is thanks to you, so thank you so much for your work !
its demons get a deliverance in JESUS CHRIST THESE VOICES ARE disembodied spirits DEMONS JESUS died for us becuz of them, but it dont stop them from infecting humans, they get in one in the womb, and moreso later from rejection,tramaua etc deliverance works BUT THEN WALK CLOSE WITH THE LORD OR THEY GET BACK IN WORST, BE BLESSED
@@djsjajjsjs168 No one cares
being in a healthy and happy environment really helps me, been voices free for over 2 years. now it's just the unrealistic anxiety to deal with but I cope by keeping my home organized and nice smells soothe me.
It definitely is a help to be informed. Mistakingly taking drugs and not knowing you're prone to schizoaffective disorders is a nightmare. My hallucinations have become more manageable recently after forcing myself to catch cues and triggers, but the types of things the voices would say are awful. These sorts of videos are necessary and lifesavers.
Holy cow, this explains why I get positive loving voices. ❤️ I'm still American though.
I have one voice in my head. It's always mean, and critical of everything I say and do. I've been through so bad stuff growing up. So I guess that tracks with the speculation.
I have bipolar 2 disorder- I have only hallucinated for a couple of days (manic episode) once in my lifetime but I never thought of it in that way. Where a hallucination is just interpreted in a negative way due to societal norms and the times. Very nuanced subject-you did it justice
hallucinations are coming from stimulation in deprivation i proved that
Hi evilm! Psychiatry student here. As a helping comment and only a suggestion (because I read your comment), go check your diagnosis with your therapist/doctor. 1 manic episode is enough to change the diagnosis from a bipolar 2 disorder, to a bipolar 1 disorder. This has significance on the treatment, prognosis and potential treatments. Feel free to dialogue, counter o ask if you need to. Have a nice end year!
@@Nachumbox Huh. My psychiatrist told me, when I got "upgraded" lol from Bipolar 2 to Bipolar 1, that it didn't actually matter as far as treatments go, because the treatments are the same. They're still gonna use mood stabilizers and/or antipsychotics, with a caveat to be careful with antidepressants. He explained that it's a spectrum disorder, and the symptoms they're treating are the guide. For me personally, it was validating and also gave me more information on what to look out for and do if I'm teetering into instability. But my treatment plan never changed, going from 2 to 1.
@@lunacouer Hi Huff Snuffleupagus. Thanks for engaging with your experience, I hope you are doing well! A couple of points: 1. Upgraded: lols indeed. 2. "It didn't actually matter as far as treatments go", yes and no, because... 3. Mood stabilizers: yes, we use mood stabilizers for both disorders, but which one, and at which doses will depend (among other variables) on if it is type 1 or type 2. 4. Antipsychotics: yes, we can use APs for both, but the way and dose we use them differs. On type 2 BD, we tend to use atypical APs in low doses to target insomnia and other minor symptoms, were as in type 1 BD we use both atypical and typical Aps on higher doses to treat psicotic symptoms as well as other type of symptoms (since BD type 1 can have psicotic symptoms and type 2 does not). 5. Antidepressants: yes, we must be careful in both cases with the use of ADs, but in type 1 it is far more restricted because of the risk of having a manic episode (much more severe than a hypomanic episode) compared to type 2 BD (where we are far more lenient on using them if there are a lot of depressive symptoms predominating in your clinical history). Hope my answer helped you get the point on my commentary. Feel free to respond whenever. Wish you an excellent 2022!
@@Nachumbox And thank YOU for taking the time to lay this out. 😊 As I read your comment, I was nodding my head saying "Hey, that's how things went", as far as medication goes. We started with the atypicals once it was clear that it wasn't depression but BP2. My NP kinda glossed over the psychotic...um...year I'd 3 years before I saw her. But that was also 14 years ago, and I don't think it was standard practice back then, that if someone's had one psychotic and/or full-manic episode, to move from BP2 to BP1. All my other symptoms matched BP2 when I saw her. But 5 years later, a different psychiatrist took that year into consideration - hence the upgrade. Just more was/is known about it. What I'm hearing you say is that if my NP and I had known then what we know now, we might have made different medication choices to start out with. That makes sense then, why nothing changed for me. We had already found the combination that worked by then. It just may have taken longer to find it, because we started from a different jumping off point. For me personally, the thing's that's made a huge difference, as far as medication choices go, was having the GeneSight and GenoMind genetic tests. They've been invaluable as far as knowing where to start dosages and what meds to avoid altogether. Just throwing that last part out there as a "I hope all patients have access to these kinds of genetic tests" thing, lol. Thanks for listening to my story, clarifying the differences, and for hanging out in the comments of patient videos. 😊
It's crazy to me me. I've had no symptoms for a year and that part trips me out. I became positive. So now negative seems stupid. Thus the circle of life ends and a new one begins. 34.
I had a moment of understanding when I was asking a schizophrenic friend about the voices he would sometimes hear. He's a highly intelligent man and he knows the voices aren't real so why does he get so tormented by them, I wondered? He said that he can ignore them to a point, but the sheer repetition of the voice telling him he isn't worthwhile eventually wears him down so he's thinking, I guess I'm not worthwhile. I think he used the word 'onslaught'. The hallucination is persistent and unaffected by willpower or positive thoughts. It makes it difficult to engage with the outside world. He said it's like talking on the phone with someone while having a conversation with someone else in the room with you, only fifty times worse. He said it could get very scary and incomprehensible at times. That conversation cured my self-pity.
Fascinating! Thank you :)
Fascinating!
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Thank you for this video! 🤗❤️🌹🙏
This is incredible to hear!
Your videos are helpful and make me feel less alone and less broken. Thank you.
Broken mind / brain / heart / soul / spirit etc. Lack of confidence / support / help / fear etc. You says very deeply. I'm praying for you all.
God is king
This is fascinating. Thanks for creating this channel.
Very insightful! Thank you
You always give such great insight!!
You’re really inspirational, keep going with the videos, I bet they’re helping a lot of people. I’m not even schizophrenic and it’s helping me. Thanks ❤️ my hearts go on every single person suffering from any mental illness.
Thanks sister
Wow, incredibly informative content. Thank you for your work.
It was really nice to see an educational video from someone who has first hand experience with the subject. I feel like this is exceedingly rare for schizophrenia in particular. Thanks for being open and educational about things!
Wow this was super interesting ! And I agree with the idea that america tends to medicate and kindof tell you well you shouldn't be hearing voices basically like for example when I spoke to my doctor one day she basically tried to cheer me up by saying that in my lifetime they might have a cure for schizophrenia and that's really great and all but what about right now in this moment....we cant keep putting symptoms on the backburner when they are effecting us negatively. But this video was really helpful and I do have to remind myself to surround myself with positive people and things. So thank you lauren your always so helpful ❤
Thanks 😊
thank you
There is something that is known as "intrusive thoughts" and all people experience them every once in a while. I've experienced them after going through a lot of stress (usually arising from interpersonal relationships, but sometimes other stress factors caused them). For a very brief moment when such thoughts intrude my psyche, I'd experience a pause in "taking reality at face value and going with the flow of it". During that brief moment, I might think, for instance, how life is pointless the way we live it, which usually happens due to work-related stress (now especially during covid where work from home makes all my days look almost the same). In that short moment of "looking at reality from the outside" (that's how I perceive this transient state) I may feel the urge to do something outrageous (when it happened before, there were times I felt the urge to burst into singing in public transportation) or to do something bad to myself or another person, but it's almost as if a mechanism kicks in just as fast and the thoughts and the urge to act on them subside. I wonder if schizophrenia might be about that blocking mechanism not functioning properly, so intrusive thoughts intensify into voices and in turn enhance these ideations to the point of hallucinations.
Thanks Lauren. Great video
She's a treasure.⚡️
Your videos are so helpful!! Thank you so much! 🥹❤️
Keep going and keep posting you are a great resource
You are amazing for what you do ☺️😘
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@@danithefiend6167 😂😂 I know it's timeless!
Love.your chanel... i grew up with my mom being ill, always voices and halucinations
Im schizophrenic. to lose it and be free from it well this is the alternative approach. drink at least 500mg of niacine,DIM(to reduce estrogen in the body) and tryptophan aka 5htp everyday trust me you will feel a tremendous change but it should go with fasting. Niacin, DIM and tryptophan are not meds but supplements so it doesnt have any side effects. You will experience red flush tho when drinking niacin like a sunburn or an allergy for like an hour but it's not dangerous and will disappear eventually. Schizophrenia is often linked to having too much estrogen in the hody so you need to lower it by drinking DIM. avoid meats, junkfood, and sugar and lose that weight, and don't go on yoyo dieting wherein you get thin, you get fat, you get thin again then you get fat again. it will worsen it. bottomline is don't be fat. durvey says that obsese people has a 56% higher chance of having Schizophrenia compared to vegan and healthy people. being fat or going on yoyo dieting will just benefit them cause you are giving out bad life force/energy/aura. stick into being thin. just eat Vegetables and fruits. your body is a temple. You are what you eat. You gotta keep your mind powerful and your body free from temporary gratifications and pleasure. it may not sound related but trust me it is. you will feel the difference. avoid vices like smoking, drugs and alcohol it will worsen it as well. you need a good aura and positive thinking to remove schizophrenia. clean your home. seeing that it's a mess plus thinking your life is a mess will worsen schizophrenia. just eat veggies and lose weight you'll feel the difference. you are what you eat. avoid meat and sugar like sodas, and junk food. your body is a temple and eventually in this holistic technique the voices will be limited or completely gone. do meditation and grounding/earthing everyday. this takes discipline and effort, it will not be gone overnight, you need to this for months or years to see results. download GAIA app then type schizophrenia, watch the videos there it helped me a lot. it has a 7 day trial period. what i did was i watched a bunch of videos in there then cancelled my subscription before it reached the 7th day. lol A temporary remedy is hum a repetitive short irritating lyrics in your mind, a chorus of a popular song. it will block 70% of the voice that you hear. it will be hard the first two days but you'll get used to it on the 3rd onwards and will become a habit to block the voice, this voices this motherfuckers will hate it. again niacin and tryptophan are very important, fasting or drinking only water and eating only vegetables is important and losing weight and maintaining it is important. this is an alternative approach than taking those mood relaxers and medications that will do nothing but to sedate the patients. thank you..
I always come to you videos and feel so much better about myself. Thank you.
Great video. Thank you so much for everything 💓🥰
It is very scary and very stressful!
I just had a panic attack because all my life I've felt I was a freak, it wasn't natural. Most people I have told look at me and talk to me different afterwards, the stigma is real, it affects me, and manly or not it deeply hurts me emotionally as in feeling like an outcast/creep. I still feel bad sometimes about it and it's really hard to help that ingrained feeling, but thank you for this
its demons get a deliverance in JESUS CHRIST THESE VOICES ARE disembodied spirits DEMONS JESUS died for us becuz of them, but it dont stop them from infecting humans, they get in one in the womb, and moreso later from rejection,tramaua etc deliverance works BUT THEN WALK CLOSE WITH THE LORD OR THEY GET BACK IN WORST, BE BLESSED
@@pagen5219 I’m a Christian too and if you watched the video, it actually explains how people’s head voices in the USA in the 1930s were telling them to be good, love god, go to heaven. Unless you believe they were angels inhabiting someone?
@@kevinjennings8272 thats good, Holy does talk to us, and in us, long as it does not become a slave sinless doctrine of perfection none can attain, satan is tricky, can be angel of light or his true self dark, i wish you a blessed day
Very helpful and educational, thank you
Thanks for the support.
I should read up on the effect of basically acknowledging the voices and assigning a character/persona to them. I don't know where I read it, but it said that apparently some people figured out a way to basically co-exist with their voices by going the opposite way - by not trying to keep them out but basically engaging in an inner conversation with them and trying to assign a positive character to them. For some reason, for people who usually hear the same voice(s) it changed the ''attitude'' of said voice(s) quite a bit.
This was extremely interesting and informative. So well researched. The mix of this research with personal experience makes for a compelling video.
Thanks!
This was SO interesting! This is something I've always wondered about being someone without schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder. I've wondered the same thing with sleep paralysis, but that's probably very different. Lauren, I just want to say how happy I am that someone like you has taken to create this channel and to break the stigma around schizophrenia and mental illnesses in general. Like I said before, I don't struggle with schizophrenia, but I recognize the need for people like you in this world. You are a very strong and inspiring human!
If you get the version of paralysis where something feels like it's holding you, call on the name of Jesus. They pretend to be a medical problem.
@@Rocksaplenty it’s true. Try it. It will stop
I am a year late but because you're halfway in-between a dream and reality and since sleep paralysis is such a stressful situation, you begin to dream of bad things. When I had sleep paralysis I thought of a great day at the beach, and began hearing waves and relaxing music before opening my eyes and seeing my room light up with color. It doesn't have to be negative just as long as you don't stress yourself out and expect good things.
I think the cultural commentary is a conversation that we should be having more, I feel like I have a very limited idea of neurodivergence because we never really see how people experience mental wellness in other cultures.
You are one coragous lady so inspirational
Your videos are fascinating. Thank you for helping others to learn about these subjects.
i read a really interesting book called "crazy like us" about this topic if anyone wants more info about this topic, it went into detail about schizophrenia and how it's dealt with cross-culturally.
I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia recently by a professional. And I’m glad I found your KZhead . I don’t like the diagnosis. And it’s because it’s another responsibility lol I have to really look after myself now . I have to take my meds just like someone with diabetes who have to take insulin everyday . I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia/ schizoaffective/ depression with psychosis . And I no longer pay attention to the diagnosis as much as I follow treatment I’m really happy to find your channel because I believe meds can only do so much . CBT has helped me even though I only have done 5 sessions
Thanks for sharing your experiences in such an objective and enlightening way.
you mean the world to me...you give me hope
The last voice I heard simply said, "In the middle". I was cleaning out my bedroom closet at the time. It sounded like someone spoke it directly into my ear but I was all alone. I ran out of the apartment in terror. Weird that the sentence was so neutral, though...
its demons get a deliverance in JESUS CHRIST THESE VOICES ARE disembodied spirits DEMONS JESUS died for us becuz of them, but it dont stop them from infecting humans, they get in one in the womb, and moreso later from rejection,tramaua etc deliverance works BUT THEN WALK CLOSE WITH THE LORD OR THEY GET BACK IN WORST, BE BLESSED
I’ve heard both . Positive when in manic states and negative all the other times
Me too i try my best to ignore it
You are amazing and so informative!!
thanks so much for being clear and communicative and loving enough to share this, its a huge help to take the edge off the feeling of being alone with this.
Thank you for this video, Lauren. I’d love to see you explore the “hearing voices” movement more in future videos, if this is something you and your viewers might be interested in!
Yes, look up Rufus May!🍄🌈🦄🎧
No not generally interested in voices. Once in a very long while one will say something intelligent and useful but as a whole, I am generally stronger without their interference. They're kind of a reminder to me why I find no use for patriarchy.
The power of positive affirmation is astounding in having your voices come back positive. You think positive in every situation , your voices will do the same , I promise as this was done to me. It takes time, effort, but it is true. I first noticed positivity in a small sense 3 weeks after I began to breed good thoughts.
Hope it will work for me
@@2013oldies I promise.
I seriously experience the exact same thing. If I'm positive and happy and tell them I love them everyday... They do the same. It took me awhile to figure that out. I'm glad you figured it out. It makes it a lot easier.
doesn't work for me, trust me I already tried 😔
Thanks for sharing your experience. Much love from Brasil
Great video. Thank you
She looks so pretty in this video
Like in every other video. She does improve, or maybe she grows on you-familiarity breeds fraternity.🎧
and smart
listen to cecilia mcgough she is a m a z i n g g g . people " idolise " nothing, a hair colour and eyeliner on a person whom has been autotuned , melo-dyned, and made fda approved for the general populous. but the people whom should be on posters with the real,real-life wow factor are those like ceclia , and dr. temple grandin, and stephen hawking, and those whom have overcome, and everyday ,fight and win, they are the ones to be "wow" over, imo. respect to them. respect to anyone who fights and oscar winning performances when you want to shriek in aisle 4 because the intrusive thoughts tell you you can't have a certain amount because it's not, "safe", but you smile and pretend everything is fabulous.
@@MirandaMcKennitt one of her in video she says,"she hasn't got sczophernia",..she has sczoefective disorder "..I really like them personal vise but When I heard in one of her video that she says on her own she has not sczophernia"...she is sczoefective disorder....my phsyciatrist incase of my daughter told me,sczoefective is totally different and sczoefective is different thing....they are cheating people to innocent people that they have sczophernia....they shouldn't do like this....
@@aaymathebest4705 Come on. Just repeat after me: "HEIL SATAN!" and join the party! It's easy! HEIL SATAN! HEIL SATAN! (only two times in a row, because if you say it three times, SHE APPEARS!)💀🌈⚡️🍄💊👩🏻🦰🏴☠️
Is also because of such a big amount of bad news we are watching on the TV and horror movies.
beautiful reflections. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom
Thank you for accepting you as much as to create this wonderful content.
Hi Lauren, can you make a video about long-term care homes for schizophrenics? Maybe even give us a tour of what one looks like?
My voices are benign and sound way more like the group from the 1930s. It was so good to hear that I am not alone with this experience. Every time I would look online for other experiences of benign voices I could not find anything but the most negative things people experience.
its demons get a deliverance in JESUS CHRIST THESE VOICES ARE disembodied spirits DEMONS JESUS died for us becuz of them, but it dont stop them from infecting humans, they get in one in the womb, and moreso later from rejection,tramaua etc deliverance works BUT THEN WALK CLOSE WITH THE LORD OR THEY GET BACK IN WORST, BE BLESSED
Thank you for your honesty and knowledge and for being willing to help. This shows incredible strength and courage. Bless you!! 💞
You are incredibly articulate. Please keep up your good work. I hope it gives you joy and pride.
As a lifelong schizophrenic I always thought hearing voices and them being negative and mean was just a normal everyday part of being a schizophrenic. I never knew my voices as anything else other than that. The voices I've heard have never told me to hurt anyone, but it's always been that I'm stupid worthless meaninglessness a piece of crap will always be alone no man will ever love me, better off dead ect. Mostly I do my best to tune the voices out through various prescription and herbal supplemental medications reading watching tv movies anime ect because I figure if I focus on that then I can't focus on the crap going in my head. For me it's a mixture of prescription medication that I hate taking, herbal supplements and the right amount of sleep and distractions from whatever crap is going on in my head. It doesn't always work but I'm managing (I think) and doing the best with what I have and am able to do at the moment.
The voices can be dramatic if your bilingual. personal experience.
Mine are only able to gab in my native tongue, so if I want to think to myself in words (I mostly think in images, unless I think about the thing I'm going to write, or sth), I use English, or Russian-that way "they" can't interfere.💀🌈🍄
😂🤣 good point !!
@Erika Stoll For me its between words that have the same pronunciation but have different meanings. And i tend to lean towards the more negative definition in understanding. I speak AMHARIC which has an ABUGIDA alphabets so im very sensitive to sounds and lettering them. I also break words into syllables to make a sentence for example i could see a CLOSET and think "kill owes it", or STREET "stare it" or WHISKY "wish key" the combination of words can be mixed between the two languages. I also translate everyday sounds like birds singing, banging sounds, cars driving past...etc into its closest word or sentence forms. And in most cases its a negative one.
@@BlessedInLuck i had all of this and my native tongue is POLISH. I think most people with this cut words into pieces, trying to let the meaning that evaporated out like juice. It's common. I'm very interested if it's stronger in your tongue and how does it work exactly. Sadly, I know nothing about the languages you mention. AMHAIC is used in Armenia, right? I need to google this, before I make fool of myself.😉
My brother it s also sick i pray for you guy s💖any way you are very handsome🥰
Verdiğiniz tüm bilgiler için teşekkür ederim thank you Lauren
I keep repeating myself with how much I admire you and how great your videos are. This one, like many others, is the perfect combination of theory and personal experience. You show great respect for the science that studies these experiences and explain very clearly what is known or believed about psychosis, as well as sharing in a neutral way your own opinions and own experiences. You're a fantastic bridge between patients and therapists. As a psychiatrist, I would prefer to show your videos than explaining myself something you already do way better, with the advantage (in this case) of your own experience. Thank you.
Mine are constantly negative , it’s very difficult to deal with
Try ignoring them completely and also ignore people that either trigger your hallucinations or obviously are the same assholes that your voices are. It takes time but it works. Eventually you will be able to turn them off like a light switch.
If voices scold you, it's easy to redirect them to someone else. Let's say the voices say you're a fool. You imagine any other person (who is not a fool at all) and focus on them. It's funny and very uplifting. And do it all the time.
its demons get a deliverance in JESUS CHRIST THESE VOICES ARE disembodied spirits DEMONS JESUS died for us becuz of them, but it dont stop them from infecting humans, they get in one in the womb, and moreso later from rejection,tramaua etc deliverance works BUT THEN WALK CLOSE WITH THE LORD OR THEY GET BACK IN WORST, BE BLESSED
Hi Lauren, my name is Lauren too! I’ve recently been diagnosed as schizoaffective bipolar type and your videos have been so helpful! Could you possibly do a video about medication, specifically on management, length of time taking it, and how to reduce over time? Thanks for your great videos!
Im schizophrenic. to lose it and be free from it well this is the alternative approach. drink at least 500mg of niacine,DIM(to reduce estrogen in the body) and tryptophan aka 5htp everyday trust me you will feel a tremendous change but it should go with fasting. Niacin, DIM and tryptophan are not meds but supplements so it doesnt have any side effects. You will experience red flush tho when drinking niacin like a sunburn or an allergy for like an hour but it's not dangerous and will disappear eventually. Schizophrenia is often linked to having too much estrogen in the hody so you need to lower it by drinking DIM. avoid meats, junkfood, and sugar and lose that weight, and don't go on yoyo dieting wherein you get thin, you get fat, you get thin again then you get fat again. it will worsen it. bottomline is don't be fat. durvey says that obsese people has a 56% higher chance of having Schizophrenia compared to vegan and healthy people. being fat or going on yoyo dieting will just benefit them cause you are giving out bad life force/energy/aura. stick into being thin. just eat Vegetables and fruits. your body is a temple. You are what you eat. You gotta keep your mind powerful and your body free from temporary gratifications and pleasure. it may not sound related but trust me it is. you will feel the difference. avoid vices like smoking, drugs and alcohol it will worsen it as well. you need a good aura and positive thinking to remove schizophrenia. clean your home. seeing that it's a mess plus thinking your life is a mess will worsen schizophrenia. just eat veggies and lose weight you'll feel the difference. you are what you eat. avoid meat and sugar like sodas, and junk food. your body is a temple and eventually in this holistic technique the voices will be limited or completely gone. do meditation and grounding/earthing everyday. this takes discipline and effort, it will not be gone overnight, you need to this for months or years to see results. download GAIA app then type schizophrenia, watch the videos there it helped me a lot. it has a 7 day trial period. what i did was i watched a bunch of videos in there then cancelled my subscription before it reached the 7th day. lol A temporary remedy is hum a repetitive short irritating lyrics in your mind, a chorus of a popular song. it will block 70% of the voice that you hear. it will be hard the first two days but you'll get used to it on the 3rd onwards and will become a habit to block the voice, this voices this motherfuckers will hate it. again niacin and tryptophan are very important, fasting or drinking only water and eating only vegetables is important and losing weight and maintaining it is important. this is an alternative approach than taking those mood relaxers and medications that will do nothing but to sedate the patients. thank you.
its demons get a deliverance in JESUS CHRIST THESE VOICES ARE disembodied spirits DEMONS JESUS died for us becuz of them, but it dont stop them from infecting humans, they get in one in the womb, and moreso later from rejection,tramaua etc deliverance works BUT THEN WALK CLOSE WITH THE LORD OR THEY GET BACK IN WORST, BE BLESSED
@@pagen5219 what da hell
@@thefancycat2652 did that make you feel better? if so please say it again demons in ya got pissed, so earth is just a deception but the voices are demons look them up they real, you got um, most do, but we to get them out, are you saved, you believe in JESUS? he use to cast them out people all the time, then he died for our sins and is up in heaven now,
Thank you
This is incredible, I’m blown away by this information. Thank you dear lady for sharing🙏💙
They need to do cultural studies on "what the voices are doing, or saying" to everyone within regions, and track the measure and trends of witnessing them. This needs to be constantly done but especially before and after 2004. It should be required by law and a report should be accessible in the public domain. Individual versus collective is actually just a measure of injustice acceptance from groups toward individuals.
I agree that stigma definitely must be a big part of it. The first study you mentioned, with the first group in the 1930s, was interesting to me in that the voices then tended to be more religious and benign. I know that society's become more secular, but psychiatry in particular has become *extremely* materialist/atheistic/secular, to the point where I feel like I'm suspect sometimes just for having spiritual/religious beliefs, especially since mine aren't bog-standard Christianity. (And yet George W. Bush claimed to "talk to God every day" and he was the President of the United States of America!) I have Bipolar I disorder, not schizophrenia, but in major manic episodes I've gotten psychotic symptoms and hyperreligiousity definitely comes into them. The thing is that, especially after my first one, once I crashed from the mania, it made me *way* more depressed because I bought into all of psychiatry's stuff and felt like *everything* I believed spiritually was just delusional and it really took away a part of my life that gives me a lot of meaning and solace. So i wonder if sort of the stripping of religious context can change things in the way the first study showed.
These videos are so helpful thank you so much
Great video. Informative and you shared your personal experiences which always helps to make it feel more personal
I got schizophrenia i hear voices but when I'm on medication I feel better
I hear voices see black shadows
its demons get a deliverance in JESUS CHRIST THESE VOICES ARE disembodied spirits DEMONS JESUS died for us becuz of them, but it dont stop them from infecting humans, they get in one in the womb, and moreso later from rejection,tramaua etc deliverance works BUT THEN WALK CLOSE WITH THE LORD OR THEY GET BACK IN WORST, BE BLESSED
What meds if you don't mind me asking
me too! my parents think that I'm normal, but I have what you said the shadows that I see are black too I don't know why
I really do it sucks. I hear someone saying, "he's always here" like it's one of my neighbors talking about me
Im schizophrenic. to lose it and be free from it well this is the alternative approach. drink at least 500mg of niacine,DIM(to reduce estrogen in the body) and tryptophan aka 5htp everyday trust me you will feel a tremendous change but it should go with fasting. Niacin, DIM and tryptophan are not meds but supplements so it doesnt have any side effects. You will experience red flush tho when drinking niacin like a sunburn or an allergy for like an hour but it's not dangerous and will disappear eventually. Schizophrenia is often linked to having too much estrogen in the hody so you need to lower it by drinking DIM. avoid meats, junkfood, and sugar and lose that weight, and don't go on yoyo dieting wherein you get thin, you get fat, you get thin again then you get fat again. it will worsen it. bottomline is don't be fat. durvey says that obsese people has a 56% higher chance of having Schizophrenia compared to vegan and healthy people. being fat or going on yoyo dieting will just benefit them cause you are giving out bad life force/energy/aura. stick into being thin. just eat Vegetables and fruits. your body is a temple. You are what you eat. You gotta keep your mind powerful and your body free from temporary gratifications and pleasure. it may not sound related but trust me it is. you will feel the difference. avoid vices like smoking, drugs and alcohol it will worsen it as well. you need a good aura and positive thinking to remove schizophrenia. clean your home. seeing that it's a mess plus thinking your life is a mess will worsen schizophrenia. just eat veggies and lose weight you'll feel the difference. you are what you eat. avoid meat and sugar like sodas, and junk food. your body is a temple and eventually in this holistic technique the voices will be limited or completely gone. do meditation and grounding/earthing everyday. this takes discipline and effort, it will not be gone overnight, you need to this for months or years to see results. download GAIA app then type schizophrenia, watch the videos there it helped me a lot. it has a 7 day trial period. what i did was i watched a bunch of videos in there then cancelled my subscription before it reached the 7th day. lol A temporary remedy is hum a repetitive short irritating lyrics in your mind, a chorus of a popular song. it will block 70% of the voice that you hear. it will be hard the first two days but you'll get used to it on the 3rd onwards and will become a habit to block the voice, this voices this motherfuckers will hate it. again niacin and tryptophan are very important, fasting or drinking only water and eating only vegetables is important and losing weight and maintaining it is important. this is an alternative approach than taking those mood relaxers and medications that will do nothing but to sedate the patients. thank you.
its demons get a deliverance in JESUS CHRIST THESE VOICES ARE disembodied spirits DEMONS JESUS died for us becuz of them, but it dont stop them from infecting humans, they get in one in the womb, and moreso later from rejection,tramaua etc deliverance works BUT THEN WALK CLOSE WITH THE LORD OR THEY GET BACK IN WORST, BE BLESSED
So interesting Lauren thank you. Very well explained. Love and health to you. ❤
Ive asked this question my whole life and you are the first thing ive ever found on the subject - thank you