Yay Dr. Kim you rock!

@AndrewKimMD

3 жыл бұрын

You rock! Congrats on your channel’s success and 1 million is right around the corner for you!

My son has schizophrenia and it's been a hard road for both of us as I'm bipolar. But I want to say that your clips that I found today because I'm an alcoholic on medication. But you taught me more about my son in this clip than his docs. Your awesome.

Quick & informative video! My uncle is schizophrenic and my grandmother (his mom) has taken care of him since he was diagnosed. When she passes, he'll be coming to live with me & my husband. I love that you threw in that schizophrenia does not equal violence because my uncle is the sweetest and he has such a good heart, you can see that even thru his disabilities. He just can't care for himself. It's true tho that there are so many levels of this illness & it can be hard to spot. One of my most favorite & unforgettable clinicals when I was in nursing school was at a mental health facility where most of the patients I dealt with were adult males with varying degrees of schizophrenia. I just discovered your channel and loving your videos so far! Thank you!

@AndrewKimMD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. Yes, schizophrenia is highly misunderstood. I think our society has hammered home this image, of someone who is homeless and talking to themselves on the street, as the stereotypical image of schizophrenia. Or, anytime a mass shooting occurs, the news immediately talks about schizophrenia. Hopefully our media and society come to better understand and more accurately spread information about this issue, vs perpetuating stereotypes moving forward.

Thank you so much for letting ppl know about ppl suffering are not violent or mean. My son has schizophrenia, he has been stabbed, ripped off, stolen from and stood over. He just wants to be nice to everyone he meets but alot of ppl take advantage and it hurts him deeply. I have enjoyed your whatever they are. Wondering if u could do a clip on clozapine, my son js on clozapine and I'm on several others as well with bipolar 2. We both suffer terrible heartburn

Incredible and informative 👏 my cousin has been suffering with schizophrenica for about 8-10 years now, hes 30 now and he always thinks the fbi and the cartel is out to get him and he constantly writes notes of how many celebrities owe him money and always documents things that aren't true and his brother and mother are always telling him he's crazy and just very insensitive ignorant things to his mentality. I'm almost certain it's what he has hes hasn't always been this. He was completely normal 8-10 years but ever since then I've been his only true supporting cousin. I love him and he doesn't desevere this he NEEDS meds or help.

@AndrewKimMD

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe people forget about the impact that mental illness has on loved ones, caregivers, and their support systems. Your cousin is fortunate to have you as a support. Hopefully he can get the appropriate help he needs. Here is some info for caregivers at NAMI, maybe a decent place to skim around for you: www.nami.org/Your-Journey/Family-Members-and-Caregivers

I would to see a video where you voice your opinion (or what you know as a professional) on Borderline Personality Disorder! I feel like it's not talked about enough or people instantly mistake it for DID (dissociative identity disorder). Really loving what you have out on this channel!

@AndrewKimMD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the suggestion, I will put that on my To Do list for topics to discuss. I used to work at Mass Mental Hospital in the Boston area, at their intensive day program for Borderline Personality Disorder, so it is something I am familiar with. You are correct that Borderline Personality Disorder is something that is very misunderstood or portrayed incorrectly by our media. It's almost become this scarlet letter diagnosis of shame somehow. I think many people don't realize, that all of us have displayed and currently have to some degree, traits and features of borderline personality disorder, because.... we're all human. When you read through the symptoms, who hasn't experienced: feelings of emptiness? a sensitivity to rejection? risky behaviors? risk taking behaviors? etc etc. But, it's when these symptom patterns continually occur together and disrupt your functioning, one would meet the criteria for borderline personality disorder. And even then, you have to use clinical judgement. There's a reason why the diagnosis is not supposed to occur until adulthood, because a huge % of teenagers, at any given moment would meet the criteria for BPD, if you just blindly applied the checklist of symptoms. Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for taking the time to check out the channel. Hope you are safe and well during this rollercoaster of a year.

@miahovinga7158

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see a video on BPD too. Very interesting topic!

@islahemmings956

5 күн бұрын

I agree. I think like a series on each disorder and the medications that can help or could also harm. I found the is one on schizophrenia informative. Certainly learnt more from this clip than the mental health system here.

@islahemmings956

5 күн бұрын

Feel but dumb. Didn't notice the age of the clip. Hope your algud.

I’m diagnosed with childhood onset schizophrenia. I wasn’t diagnosed for a long time because I grew up thinking the sounds, voices and symptoms were spiritual experiences lol doesn’t everyone hear music and footsteps when they are alone? I still think they are spiritual experiences personally but I’m aware my experiences do check off all the box’s for schizophrenia which is so weird to me because I don’t believe I have schizophrenia.

Also could u tell me about clozapine and other meds mixed with alcohol and drugs.

Great info, Dr. Kim!!

Oh hello there Dr. Kim. Thanks for this insightful video about schizophrenia. Does schizophrenia develop gradually or is it a sudden occurrence?

I agree the cognitive issues are the worst. I have every last one of them and my days have been a haze I have to force myself to attempt to focus and even then I immediately forget everything. Within three minutes of posting this I will have forgotten the contents of this comment

@AndrewKimMD

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, many people don’t realize that the cognitive symptoms can be the most debilitating symptoms of schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia shaped my life. It is a tragic affliction. Life was going alright until I was about 6 or so. My dad started accusing my mom of some strange things involving witchcraft and the Hells Angels that lived nearby. The latter part was real. There were some Hells Angels that lived nearby but I really doubt my dad’s account of what was going on. I remember one night a chair got thrown through a sliding glass door and my dad’s feet were minced up. That might have been the last my parents lived together. Afterwards life became really unstable. My mom was busy with so many things including going to college and trying to take care of my very ill sister on top of working to provide for 3 kids. My sister turned out to have cystic fibrosis. I really fell behind in my learning and had no one to help me. I ended up in the special needs classes with the kids with severe mental issues like retardation. I haven’t kept up with the euphemism treadmill on the terminology but I do believe that was the term in the 80s. I didn’t really belong in there. The class work was very dumbed down. It took years upon years to get my academic feet back under me. I had very little interest in school. I think because I saw firsthand how little it can matter. A very sweet old teacher lady turned that around for me. She was the first nice teacher I had and I didn’t want to disappoint her. I ended up with 100 for the year in her algebra class and enrolled into harder classes. I might be one of the few people who has spent time in special needs all the way to honors mathematics courses. Thanks schizophrenia. I don’t recall my dad ever hearing voices or talking to someone that wasn’t present. What I do recall is my dad experiencing things in a way which was misaligned with reality. He would speak about things involving religion and family members performing witchcraft and attacking him. He would confide these things to my brother and I. For some reason his delusions didn’t incorporate my brother and I as evil forces within his life. We would spend the weekends with him unsupervised. Sometimes while he was medicated and sometimes while he was not. I never once had any fear of him. We tried to live as normally as possible. These sorts of things are earth-shattering for a small kid to witness. It got my mind to pondering many things about the fundamental nature of reality. Very deep philosophical concepts that I was not exposed to by reading but rather through trying to work out the circumstances of my life. No 8-year-old should be pondering the relativity of experience, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, objectivity, realism, idealism, the noumenal realm, the phenomenal realm, epistemology and so on but I’m glad I did. Not every case is a happy ending with medication. One happy case I can think of is Elyn Saks who is an Ivy League educated professor of law who specializes in the intersection of law and mental illness. I can’t say as much for my dad. He has been debilitated his entire life and his medication zombifies him-which I guess is preferable to the alternative but far from good. There’s a lot of stigma associated with schizophrenia. It’s not a topic that I discuss with people often at all. Even being the child of someone who’s schizophrenic is something a lot of people would probably want to keep to themselves and I understand why. I’m glad to be 40 now. Maybe I’m out of the woods. There was always that lingering fear that I would loose my mind too. I tried to enjoy my teens and early 20s as much as I could because I knew the jig might be up soon. It’s hard to live a worthwhile life when your very connection to reality betrays you.

I use to have ringing in my head, now all I get is a busy Signal. 😊

thank you - very helpful

@AndrewKimMD

3 жыл бұрын

No problem, thanks for watching.

I truly believe I have schizophrenia. I've got a whole team and none of them will listen when I tell them this. I suffer daily

Thank you for the explaination!

@AndrewKimMD

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

How is schizophrenia proven ?

I wish you had not said schizophrenics hear false voices through the ears. This is subjectively but not objectively true. The tympanic membrane of the ear does not shake resulting in hearing voices. But the hearing portions of the brain are truly activated thus resulting in the experience of hearing. Thanks for a great video otherwise