she also has autism i believe

I don't look in their eyes because I have a problem with people not being real people, and you can tell by looking them in the eye. So, as long as I don't look they both are and are not real and I can have a conversation with them. Sometimes I slip up and catch their eye and it turns out the healthcare worker isn't real and I have to change person.

I love them, too! Been following for years. :)

She almost looks like an entirely different person! This channel is great, please do your best to share. My friends and their daughter were featured not too long ago, the Einstein family.❤️

​@@jeanieolahfulI tell everyone I can about SBSK. It's so important and insightful.

Today she is even much much better...she looks and very pretty

yes! Chris used to work as a special needs teacher and SBSK started with one of his classes, but it's since expanded to highlight people of all walks of life with different mental and physical ailments and disabilities, while allowing the person themselves(or their carers) to speak for themselves.

Yes!! The update video was heartwarming. She's doing so much better, which gives me hope for others with the same condition. I'd love to see Dr. Syl react to that video and tell us more about how proper treatment guided her to that healthier state.

I was going to say this as well! I hope he watches it! She is so much better and deserves for more people to see that version of herself.

😮awesome❤

Yes! I've also watched that vid. Way better!

I think she said that she was having hallucinations during this interview!

Yes I agree. Incredible interviews with people from all walks of life

And I love that later on she had a better interview with Chris.

I remember that ... She got the ted staff to change the Ted talk stage decor as they are typically her triggers : a lot of the colors RED and WHITE ... ( she joked about it at the beginning of her talk ) ...

Psychosis is triggered by stress. Being physically close to her most probably was a stressor that led to the clown appearing.

@@gianfranco_maldetto_92 Possibly, but she also said she has hallucinations almost constantly... and knowing Chris' interview style he would have asked her first where she wanted him to sit.

@@junbh2 You can easily tell the constant terror in her face. Hallucinations are usually triggered by stressors. The expected stress everyone experiences at the beginning of an interview in her case caused the clown to appear. The lingering effect does not mean that a schizophrenic truly experiences hallucinations 24/7.

Have you had vitamin/mineral hair analysis done? It's very helpful tool

I hate that it took so long for you to be diagnosed. But, not surprised.

@@shalacarter6658 It's ok. I am actually doing a lot better now. I talked with my doctor about tapering off of haldol after being on it nine years because new research has shown that a certain diet can decrease symptoms. So right now I take it as needed. I would not recommend this for everyone, and certainly not without supervision. I still see my doctor monthly. While haldol helped, it also kept me in a zombie like state and did not deal with the negative symptoms. Now I experience a full range of emotions.

Your condition is probably in the schizoaffective spectrum.

Did u ever try any of the atypicals? Theoretically it should help with negative symptoms with D1 receptor partial agonism in the mesocortical pathway

@@johnkim6447I’m sure their doctor is doing a great job with their medication management. They don’t need armchair psych

Schizophrenic people do murder

OH, you poor thing! I wish we paid better attention to what our children see.

Wouldnt it be vetter to avoid scary movies & never watch them or be influenced by them? My father never let me watch anything scary & to this day i never watch horror flicks or violent movies

There are some other videos of Cecilia in a much more balanced mental state, worth watching to see the difference. She presents vert differently when she's not so symptomatic. And she is a wonderful mental health advocate!

@@LillianChasteau i saw. Thnaks

Faking? Faking what

Try to unlearn thinking people are faking things. It is ablest and really harmful to lots of people. SO many of us have invisible disabilities and judging us is not helpful. Learning to be better and do better will make you a better ally.

@@alexanderjohnson8333 I thought that this is one of those training videos without real patients. Pleas forgive me, I didn't wanted to offend anyone

Tactile hallucinations are new to me. Not very happy about that. Yeah, I get the part about being started at. I just smile at ppl staring at me. Makes me feel a bit better. But, I feel like ppl are judging me for using a store scooter. Feel like they are thinking; "Oh, she is just using that because she is fat" instead of the real reason which is I cannot walk very far. Less than a block.

@@shalacarter6658 People can be very unkind sometimes. All I can say is I hear you! It can still hurt though. I have a very rare congenital condition that makes me look like I don't have a neck and people I think are more surprised more than anything when they see me and I can tell they don't mean to do it. I just wish I didn't care about it so much. Yes, tactile can certainly be interesting and not always in a good way.

Schizophrenia is not a single disease, but a plethora of different brain pathologies. The people you have dealt with are not necessarily all the people that suffer from schizophrenia.

I choose not to apply labels to myself, but I'd been struggling with something like this since I was 14 or 15. It was like my brain shattered into a bunch of distinct pieces, but they were all their own people. We capped at 3, including myself. When a 4th tried to form, everybody else started panicking, and their overlapping voices made me sick-- Which I guess made sense when the whole shebang eventually collapsed on itself and things went quiet again. Slowly but surely, my psyche knitted itself back together. But not completely, random likes/dislikes and some of their physical mannerisms were retained. But in the end... I got stuck in my own head, by myself, dealing with the full-blown delusions that once belonged to an entirely separate entity. Designed to contain those delusions from me. Yayyy. 😐 God I wrote a full blown rant going into more detail about what it's like now, but the time and place for that probably isn't under a random youtube comment. Your words struck a chord with me, though. I don't know what I have, and it's changed a lot since then, but I've been fixating on channels like these and trying to pick at whatever bits could help me. I've definitely ruled out schizophrenia... but that's 1 out of a billion other disorders to sort through.

Yeah, it can be hard to diagnose when someone only sees you for twenty minutes.

lots of folks with significant mental health issues also smoke cigarettes, which are super detrimental to cardiovascular health.

Spiders big theme. Insects too for me.

Pretty sure hallucinations can occur with any sense- your brain is producing a false stimuli and perceiving it as real. Phantom pain that amputees experience is a tactile hallucination for example

@@KayosHybrid Exactly! But no one told me that you can hallucinate with all senses until fairly recently. Even then it was something I learned over on "Living Well with Schizophrenia."