Decisions and deliberations: how schizophrenia is more than psychosis | James Kesby | TEDxUQ
The brain is one of the most astonishing, efficient, and intricate parts of the human body, and it is amazing what it can do unconsciously. It’s only when it stops functioning properly, such as in people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, that we can get a true appreciation of the ease at which simple decisions are made by our brains. Dr James Kesby is a behavioural neuroscientist who has focused his studies on the brain circuits that underlie psychotic disorders and addiction. As an Amplify Fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland, he is particularly interested in how the brain computes uncertain situations in order to make an optimal choice. His work spans circuit-based approaches in rodents, to psychological studies in people (including those with psychosis). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
My son has schizophrenia. He was off drugs for a year and still having psychosis. This is the worst disease on earth. I’ve been grieving the loss of my son who is still alive.
Hello I am Callie Quinn! I was healed by Jesus from schizophrenia, He cured me! First I was born again, then I had the elders lay hands on me, and then I received deliverance, and I was healed! You must believe in Jesus, He can cure you and heal you. I didn't think that my schizophrenia was possible to be cured, but He did it! He is wonderful and will help you always and forever. He can save you. I hope to share my testimony to encourage faith and salvation in Him. Please if you are even a little interested in God, then please look into Him! He is great and has also saved me from suicide many times!
i don't have any hallucinations any more. I had a very rare kind of illness it was tactile hallucinations and I hallucinated and had slight catatonia, I was in the hospital many times, and was encouraged to take medicine, but Jesus healed me with absolutely no medicine. You have hope of a cure with Jesus. Medicine most likely wont cure it, but Jesus can cure it, as He cured it with me. PLease have faith in jesus
Sorry to hear. I'm currently wondering if my sister has it.. it's terrible
I can 100% relate to this. I am dealing with the exact same thing. It's soul crushing and no one else can comprehend the feelings of loss and pain unless they've been through it
@911NicoleTCO this is so true, and I have realised it even more since I watched this video. My partner is trying to be supportive of me in coping with my younger sister, but I feel like even he still doesn't understand my grief (I have cried many times over her condition) and my having to digest this possible new reality. I guess only I could know what our relationship was like before, but I just feel sort of lonely in this. I hope we can all find some level of peace, one day ✨️
i’ve been dealing with psychosis, schizophrenia by myself, spent a lot of time in my head trying to figure out what was happening to me, everything i would say made sense to me but everyone around me always had this face of concern. Spirituality plays a big role in my mental illness, i remind myself i am not my thoughts, i am who i am in my heart space, and just focus on the things i love to get by. my memory is awful, and i’d say that’s the saddest part to it, that’s the one thing we all have as humans to cherish when time goes on, my relationships suffer alot bc i can’t remember much and it makes people irritated and they think i don’t care to connect and get to know them. It’s a lonely time but it’s helped me grow a lot as a person. it’s made me more thoughtful about what others struggle with in silence,
Hello I am Callie Quinn! I was healed by Jesus from schizophrenia, He cured me! First I was born again, then I had the elders lay hands on me, and then I received deliverance, and I was healed! You must believe in Jesus, He can cure you and heal you. I didn't think that my schizophrenia was possible to be cured, but He did it! He is wonderful and will help you always and forever. He can save you. I hope to share my testimony to encourage faith and salvation in Him. Please if you are even a little interested in God, then please look into Him! He is great and has also saved me from suicide many times!
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I was cured by Jesus but I am still healing, He can help you with healing and deliverance if you believe and put your trust in Him, He will help you. I believe he can help you too, just pray to Him and maybe youll notice a change in your life
@@callie4027 Indeed, we are cleared in His Book. And still, no one is cured in this life, not until the time of His second coming. I once heard a metaphor of prayer being a phone-line, just make sure that there isn't a Man in the Middle attack. In other words, listen to your pastors but verify from a fearfully translated Bible first.
Please read my comment to Rosa Gonzalez above. You may have Toxoplasmosis gondii, especially if you were ever around a sick cat. There are many known physical and energetic causes and cures for schizophrenia. In my opinion homeopathy works the best but "orthomolecular" treatment also restores people's mental health. Good luck to you. - Linda, author of "Goodbye, Quacks - Hello, Homeopathy!"
the cognitive symptoms are debilitating but ignored by caregivers in my experience. calling someone with schizophrenia "lazy" is a horrible thing to do unknowingly
You are a piece of work commenting here with a name like that. Seriously what is wrong with you?
You're a sick individual
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I have schizo affective disorder and my own family hates me and I'm on SSDI and they think I'm lazy and don't want to work. My mom told me she wishes that I was never born cuz of this and she lets her boyfriend verbally abuse me. This has gone on for 26 years now and I'm tired of it . Please don't let ur loved ones get abused
@@user-im2em7oc9x is there anyway I can help, can I pray for you?🙏
"(I was) filled with déjà vu, I knew i'd been here before." "It felt like I had always been there." "An incredibly strong feeling of déjà vu, but more than just a feeling... an absolute knowledge of knowing this all before. Of having been this forever, and just now realising it again."
What is that from? This is what I believe and you've said it in quotes
I have had that too but from substances, ice. I felt like it was ground hog day, the movie, quiet often.
I had a psychotic episode when 18 but came back and found jesus as my true medication. The experience was severely troubling but I am on a steady path hoping God can keep me above water
Only u can keep u above water dear BUT know that there is a totally thriving world under water too!! Psych is life and sometimes because of our life experiences we are unable to comprehend life like others who didn't have to be undergo those experiences. Everyone views their life and reality based off of their life experiences. U are ok and normal for this to happen to u too because your life is just as valid as the next person's. I've been all sorts of "lost" and in psychological places I've never known before or even knew existed.......it was scary at times BUT I knew how I got there, that didn't provide a way out though. Sometimes we have to just be comfortable in the states that we are in because in actuality we are in those states. If all I could do is sweep, I'm just going to keep on sweeping
That's not 'Jesus' helping you along your path. That's you helping you. Believing in yourself.
I hope you'll also consider using homeopathy. I believe it's God's medicine. It's made from plants, minerals, animals and more. What cured my loved one was homeopathic Spanish Tarantula. It "disappeared" his psychosis in about 10 minutes. His psychosis came back because he still needed a few more doses. He's been cured ever since then, and that was 9 years ago.
God bless you, you can see in the spirit! Keep going how are things now? Can I email you?🥹🤍
schizophrenic here, the cognitive impairment is what pisses me off daily and is disabling
I just started dating a person who experiences schizophrenic symptoms , do you think there’s hope?
@@jonathanvermillion7263 always, love and support is necessary but time to heal and figure yourself out is also vital to recovery. loads of patience and we flower into useful and understanding people
@@Mattieboi1201 ok thank you
@@Mattieboi1201 thank you for your words
Hello I am Callie Quinn! I was healed by Jesus from schizophrenia, He cured me! First I was born again, then I had the elders lay hands on me, and then I received deliverance, and I was healed! You must believe in Jesus, He can cure you and heal you. I didn't think that my schizophrenia was possible to be cured, but He did it! He is wonderful and will help you always and forever. He can save you. I hope to share my testimony to encourage faith and salvation in Him. Please if you are even a little interested in God, then please look into Him! He is great and has also saved me from suicide many times!
A key mention here is that it often comes on in early adulthood when we are trying to figure out who we are and what we want to do in life. I am a recovered schizophrenic who was diagnosed back in 1990/1991 and haven’t been on any meds since 1992/1993. I spent 4 weeks in a psych ward, underwent ECT, and had the whole gamut of very strong intrusive negative thoughts and voices and an intense hallucination…a snake-like creature with a lion-like head came out of a portal and entered my room through a cloud. I had no knowledge of Gnosticism at the time, but they refer to this entity as Yaldabaoth among other names. I truly believe schizophrenia is a shamanic/spiritual experience in which some surpass and others do not. Today, having overcome the illness, I live a successful and fruitful life.
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Not only can better decision making reduce symptoms, they can completely get rid of them. How we respond to stimuli brought on by psychotic symptoms affect how much deeper into the pit of psychosis we sink. So to reverse our responses is like rising out of the darkness of the pit whereas we were sinking previously. A lot of schizophrenia is fear based, and assumptions helps to fuel the fears. The symptoms stimulates fears which cause irrationally behaviors as we react to what we're shown to be truth. Everything comes so fast during psychosis and then rapidly builds on what preceeds the current experience. We don't have time to process anything and we're pressured to just react. So if we learn to allow the pressures to pass, and to chose how to respond instead of reacting, then the outcome will be different. There's an order to the madness my friends. Most people don't understand this. A great misunderstanding lies where we erroneously believe the mind can't return to it's original symptom free state. It 100% can. We're looking at schizophrenia through a poor lens, and people are continuing to suffer because we remain unnecessarily slow to understand what it continues to show us daily through each symptom.
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Maybe we prevent schizophrenia by teaching decision making in young children.
@@kerstinlyons4812 i don’t think that would work
@Kerstin Lyons Hey now.... you pretty much nailed it right on the head. That's the key. If we understood more about how our minds work at a younger age, then we could guard against schizophrenia. We can't stop what knocks at the door of our minds, but we can control what we let in. We can control the habits and patterns of thoughts that form within our minds. So before we get stuck in patterns of thoughts and behaviors that grow beyond our capacity to control, we prevent the seeds from taking root. Understanding this from childhood is the key. Moreover, this would also teach the law of success. It's the law of seeds. The natural world is the shadow of the mental world.
@@kerstinlyons4812I’m sorry you’re clearly n obviously wrong. Seems you should ask questions to those effected and listen for what they mean by what they try to say mirrored back to them so they can agree or correct what you think you heard.
I want to bless social workers in the mental health field. The strength they were armed with I miss badly. Today after COVID cutbacks I have to make sense of life on my own. They deserve a large raise in pay. And that's what I'm going to suggest. Coast to coast.
What do they do?
Mental hospitals actually track people in their rooms with red light cameras -- increasing paranoia.
That's an invasion of Privacy
They do it for presumed safety
Yup been there multiple times definitely not the most settling but I understand why they do it
I suffer from schizo-affective disorder, and I've tried soooooo many times to hold a job, but I've failed over and over. It has led to such a deep hopelessness.
I've got schizophrenia. Well managed. I'm like a river that floods. Psychosis is like the river in flood. Mostly the river just grooves along. :) It's so interesting hearing about decision making. My functioning is pretty good. I didn't know about the cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia. I just think of my schizophrenia as dormant, because my psychosis is dormant.
Don't sweat on it though. I technically have "schizophrenia", although I never had "hallucinations" in a purely sensory sense, it was more like "feels", my delusions were also mild. Yet here I'm 10 years later, having executive dysfunction (aka adhd like symptoms) and a pretty average career. I've learned though and become much better over the last few weeks infact, half of it is meds, half of it is eating / drinking / what you put in your body / dust / weight management / exercise amount If anyone like me to do a podcast or a reddit post on this, feel free to comment, because I have alot to share to the community. And I also fricking wish I was psychaitrist, and different from all the ones I have seen till now.
Hello I am Callie Quinn! I was healed by Jesus from schizophrenia, He cured me! First I was born again, then I had the elders lay hands on me, and then I received deliverance, and I was healed! You must believe in Jesus, He can cure you and heal you. I didn't think that my schizophrenia was possible to be cured, but He did it! He is wonderful and will help you always and forever. He can save you. I hope to share my testimony to encourage faith and salvation in Him. Please if you are even a little interested in God, then please look into Him! He is great and has also saved me from suicide many times!
God bless is there anything you need a prayer for? I pray for people. Come to church with us this Sunday we’d love to have you with us🥺🤍 it’s often people like you who are spiritually gifted by God, honestly come on Sunday you have the gift to see in the spirit 💜
@@Proverbs3.3 I sure am gifted, thank you very much. I don't need a church for it. Thank you.
@@libbyhyett6625 no problem, I pray Jesus has mercy on your soul as these comments are being played back before you in the courts of heaven. Why would anybody deny the free gift of eternal life. How can anybody think that they do not need church. Everybody needs church and prayer. God bless you sister I pray the Lord reveals himself to you on a whole other level
I agree with you doc I think that it’s hard to make choices but in my case the delusions in my past psychosis episodes stay in the memory and affect thinking and deliberations and decision making. I remember telling my doc why I can’t live worry free and live my life freely as before this disorder
Same for me, those delusions stay with me. What has helped me so far is waking up and reading my devotional and the scripture verse for the day. When i dont do this I feel myself slipping. I have to be mindful of everything I do. I move really slow, that upsets some people. I have to be cognitive of the boundaries I have put in place. I do a feelings check, am I hungry, angry, tired, lonely. I really, for me this is a must, when I feel the weight start to settle on my chest, I have to check my dates (certain dates within a calendar year can trigger an episode for me). I've come to peace with the fact certain people I just can't be around, including family, or limit my visit and time spent. Certain music I absolutely can't listen to, It's the frequency that's been used in that particular song. Last but not least.. I religiously take me SEROQUEL. I know that it makes a difference entirely, that's OK for me. GOD BLESS and SO MUCH LOVE 🙏💕🙏💕
Please see my comments to others here. Homeopathy is what cured my son of "incurable" "bipolar with psychosis." Best of luck to you.
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From my experiences its more of a spiritualy dimentional thing than it is anything else. They know things that they shouldnt know about the individual people to whom they interact with. Things that only would have made sence to myself on a spiritual level. They r tapped into other dimentions for sure!
Very interesting. Thank you! I'm trying to learn more about schizophrenia to try to understand what my friend's son goes through.
Something in your friends family dynamic is most likely contributing to his behavior. Schizophrenia and the family 1965. Look up open dialogue from Lapland Finland
Have you ever gotten drunk, smoked weed, or been under the influence of any other drugs where you had a "bad trip"? Have you ever had a nightmare where you woke up in cold sweats with your heart racing from terror? Recall the feelings of powerlessness within a nightmare, along with all the other emotions and thoughts. If you've been drunk before, recall the slurred words as you try to speak, along and the loss of control over the body, which at times, you desperately struggle to regain. Also, making poor judgment calls, experience drowsiness or high energy. If you've been high before, recall any hallucinations, paranoia, or delusional thought, believing you were something you're really not. You may have experienced "zoning" out, the uncontrollable laughter and weakness within the legs and the rest of the body. Schizophrenia features all of these, and then more, and at least some of them, 24/7 if not medicated. It is literally a waking nightmare. But just like you've awakened from your nightmares, return from the high of alcohol and drugs (if you've experienced either) so too can the mind of someone with schizophrenia awaken and return back to our shared reality. Your friend shouldn't give up hope. Schizophrenia steals hope because it is the light by which the individual is able to see their way beyond it. One of the most devastating blows of schizophrenia is to steal our light of hope. If the son has lost his, then it's imperative that the parent holds and carries the light up for him. Someone has to hold a vision of the desired destination. I wish them luck
Hello jesus christ healed my schiophrenia, He can heal your friends too, I hope you tell Him
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy "Rule number one, DONT PANIC" lol 😊
😂 AMEN ❤
Lol. When the fear and anxiety kicks in you are in trouble, not before.
When the fear and anxiety kicks in you are in trouble, not before. Lol.
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Really The most important Chemistry Genes
And artificial frequencies
I think it is actually people that are speaking to our synapses schizophrenic people as well and it takes one to make one its a gene problem as well so apply the drugs to the gene
I get rid of my schizophrenic symptoms by seeing the voices ( hallucinations) in person, "hear" IN Toronto....no medication required. They look worse in real life.
Hello I am Callie Quinn! I was healed by Jesus from schizophrenia, He cured me! First I was born again, then I had the elders lay hands on me, and then I received deliverance, and I was healed! You must believe in Jesus, He can cure you and heal you. I didn't think that my schizophrenia was possible to be cured, but He did it! He is wonderful and will help you always and forever. He can save you. I hope to share my testimony to encourage faith and salvation in Him. Please if you are even a little interested in God, then please look into Him! He is great and has also saved me from suicide many times!
God bless is there anything you need a prayer for? I pray for people. Come to church with us this Sunday we’d love to have you with us🥺🤍 it’s often people like you who are spiritually gifted by God, honestly come on Sunday you have the gift to see in the spirit 💜
What is the meaning of psychosis of paranoid schizophrenia and the treatments of tablet medications and treatments of non-medication for it please?
I think many people have borderline states. Some of these people recover on their own, while others experience manifestations of the disease.
Connect with Living Well with Schizophrenia here on YT. Lauren's journey is beyond remarkable. Her husband Rob is an angel. They are a darling couple who share their journey weekly.
I wonder how he squares the cognitive changes in folks with schizophrenia with go to antipsychotic treatment and their known effects on impairing cognitive ability.
From my own experience, when on antipsychotics, I could not even form a simple sentence. It was horrible. I am 2 and a half years off the antipsychotics now, and finally able to read and think again.
@isa_well... 16 months free myself after 12 years on 5 different types, side effects were horrific. No psychiatrist or mental health professional, would even consider as you described, being able to think again. the illness can take away quite a lot, but combined with drugs like olanzapine, quetiapine, ect, these are essentially nukes for the brain, which only makes the illness much worse.
Good question, these experts don’t ever factor into their research about schizophrenia the way that prescribed medications effect the cognitive functioning of the people who are required by law in Queensland to take the medication over long periods, even for the rest of their lives. So Dr Kesby predicts that brain neuroscience will eventually lead to better outcomes for the patients, but what if the meds are the primary cause of lifelong decision making problems. what will he do about it then? Chances are - nothing because there’s no other option for treating the disease within the limited scope of psychiatry any time soon, unfortunately. Can we take whatever he says anything other than wishful thinking? It gives him a good income to play around with his ideas, but as the father and carer for my son diagnosed with schizophrenia thirty years ago, I’m certainly not holding out any hope, I’ve heard many claims that researchers have made over the years that amount to zero, regrettably.
Just because people act different to others does not mean their mentàlll I'll !
@@marykinsella417 Try telling that to a mental health professional, Mary! They would reply by saying that you lack ‘insight’ into the disease model which they operate under - different manner of behaviour and thinking patterns = pathology. That’s it, there’s no known biological cause/causes to justify this determination, but it doesn’t matter because it’s enough for them to convert symptoms themselves into a pathological diagnosis, unfortunately. Unless that circumstantial mechanism is overtaken by some new neurological compelling scientific reasoning somewhere in the nfuture that blows the DSM….guidelines to smithereens, the current model will prevail indefinitely. The general consensus of public opinion is willing to accept the system as it is currently designed because it doesn’t want to face its own fears about any disruption to society’s traditions. It’s meds forever, Mary!!!
My schizophrenic friend forgot things she agreed to 30 minutes ago
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Schizophrenia is like having bad luck all the time! There is nothing to stop it and its illusive with projections to lose all hope forever.😂😂😂
Hello I am Callie Quinn! I was healed by Jesus from schizophrenia, He cured me! First I was born again, then I had the elders lay hands on me, and then I received deliverance, and I was healed! You must believe in Jesus, He can cure you and heal you. I didn't think that my schizophrenia was possible to be cured, but He did it! He is wonderful and will help you always and forever. He can save you. I hope to share my testimony to encourage faith and salvation in Him. Please if you are even a little interested in God, then please look into Him! He is great and has also saved me from suicide many times!
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I am getting made fun of and am schioaphria they are so mean.
Why not make a chip with set programs of a normal person for the brain to run on in a schizophrenic patient
Neuralink is still developing & its probably not that simple
That's a very common delusion with this illness, I've got a scar on my arm from trying to cut a chip out I believed doctors had inserted to try and control me. From my personal experience, it would be difficult to convince anyone with psychosis or schizophrenia in my case to have any type of chip.
@@rfc-qz8unMy thoughts exactly..
That has been my worst fear ever and still is and I'm psychotic/ schizophrenic. You'll never convince someone with schizophrenia to implant something in their body and especially not in their brain, ever. People with schizophrenia already have a hard time talking to a psychologist or psychiatrist because "what if they use your information against you? What are their plans? Is this all part of a manipulative plan?" - and so on. I'm litteraly afraid to post this message rn bcs what if they figure out who I am by tracking my laptop or digging into my account?
@purplesky416 ideas of reference, where all little things can relate directly to us specifically. A group is down the street as i approach. They all laugh, I'll always jump to the conclusion they were laughing at me, these thoughts can feel as if they are not mine, ask someone next time you discuss mental illness with them, how would you feel doubting your own mind ? As schizophrenics, our perceptions can lie, our senses can lie to us. With other people (wife and kids in my case, my uncle and 2 friends) they help me see what the real world is, as I like to float in between the outer world and inner world. Don't be scared to talk to people about how you feel, most people are scared of taking about it when they know we have an illness mainly because they don't have any real knowledge about schizophrenia. 90% of the general public gets thier view from movies and documentaries, we're human also, but we've got to let them in to our inner world to see how our minds work differently, then friends and family can help 😀. Hope this finds you well.
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I have schizo affective and I was hoping for something useful. This video is a huge bunch of blah blah. What a waste of my time and a HUGE waste of others time. Why? Because anyone with no knowledge of the illness will think Ahhh I get it. There's so much more involved. I'm sorry Sir, you seemed to have wasted your education.