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I had a friend who said there was invisible writing on the wall and she new it was invisible , because she called the police and they came and couldn't see it. Her teenage daughter didn't live with her and she would say she knew her daughter was on her roof because she could hear her playing her flute. She would say you said terrible things that you never said, and she would attack her husband saying he said and did things he didn't. She said I owed her $2000 dollars, I never borrowed any money from her, nothing. She called me to come to the emergency room and I went, she was insisting someone was poisoning her and brought the food with her, all tests were negative & she was admitted to the mental ward. I didn't get it at first, then I realized she was schizophrenic.

My mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 70s and underwent shock therapy. She’s 82 now and lived her life without therapy or medication. Our family has always thought of her as just silly , crazy.. she’s endured shaming for her odd behavior throughout her life. Only now am I actually understanding her psychosis . Of course now as an aged person others perceive it as Alzheimer’s. I’ll continue to learn about it hopefully find some comfort for her.

Can med circle please make a video about how to help and communicate with someone who is experiencing hallucinations/delusions that is causing them distress at the moment?

I had post partum psychosis and it started with voices then manifested in anxiety with tachycardia mental illness effect the body. Thanks for posting awareness.

Just yesterday I was taking a nap and slept past my alarm... I heard a voice say my name. It made me jolt awake :)

I m studying psychology, this channel is very useful

All the videos here have helped me understand so much!! Thank you!

Such wonderful content! This really helped to decipher between the two. Thank YOU 🙏💕

This is the best explanation I have ever heard of to differentiate, distinguishing the two, delusion and psychosis.

My olfactory system was taken out by my brain tumor. But I can look at a rose, for instance, and smell it imaginarily

VERY CLEAR and DETAILED EXPLANATIONS ...thank you so much !!!

Hi Dr. Dom, great topic, this was so interesting... As always my favorite doctor to listen to!👍

Can't thank you enough for having this conversation.. ❤🙏

This is so interesting, thank you!!

This video rings true about schizophrenia about the positive and negative signs and symptoms. This video has sheds light on some of the signs and symptoms I didn't know. Thanks for a wonderful video that should open the eyes to society as a whole

I have BPD with long term psychotic breaks and have unfortunately had my audio hallucinations manifest into shadows with some sort of face... they would even take parts of my soul with them. I couldn't speak, was struggling to breath and could no longer convince myself that (logically) my brain was simply misfiring... it felt as though I had my heart broken when it left the room... just invisible pain

Very insightful and educational, thank you both!

My grandma had a mental illness and I don’t want to say. She got better! Back I 98 she was killed in a car accident and it killed me inside. 😭😭

It's funny how people always overlook synesthesia. It's not a hallucination, but it "looks" or "feels" real. I don't know why people just don't add it in the picture when it's actually pretty common at 3%.

What if the voices you hear you don't hear from the outside but you hear them on the inside of your head?

Thanks a lot for this video,it gave me clarity about what i was going through in my experience of psychotic episode

A few of my hallucinations have left me spooked and in tears. Others are fun after the fact. I also have them in my dreams- fun 🤩

You omitted another very relevant option 💯

My aunt hears voices and strange sounds. She lives in constant fear, thinking that people and a secret organization want her to die. She told my mom the neighbor next door is using some kind of dark magic to kill her so that she will die and they can get her land and house. She also thinks it’s a foreign agency that’s targeting her and has told the police and even sent a letter to the king to alert them!! When she hears a house lizard make a sound, she imitates its sound. It’s wild! We are really worried but she thinks she is perfectly fine. Not ill. Not delusional. There’s nothing we can do.

Thank u .It has been v useful to understand .

This is amazing

Thank You this is really helpful

It's amazing how powerful the human brain 🧠 is. And what a horrible, horrible brain 🧠 disease, too have. Any diseases are horrible.

I love Dr. Dom.

Mind read! Can't wait

I had auditory hallucinations when my psychiatrist had me test driving different antidepressants. It was never bad, but it made me incredibly paranoid. Like I'd hear a phone ringing in the attic directly above wherever I was standing, I'd hear heavy dragging outside of my bedroom window, I'd hear a man and a woman having a conversation in an incoherent language in my bedroom at night. It freaked me out the most when I heard my daughter saying "mommy" in the middle of the night right next to my ear. She talks in her sleep sometimes, but she was fast asleep in her room where I wouldn't have been able to hear her so clearly.

This is very interesting to listen to, I've had all of these Sensory Hallucinations & apparently Delusions, my first home I ever lived in just so happened to be a well-known house where people were doing séance and playing with Ouija boards etc, I was 4 or 5 and of course I wasn't told about the spirit, the blackened mist you would see if that spirit/ goat wanted to look that way, had been waking my parents up and really really scaring them, was in my house and I vividly remember wanting to run up the steps to where my parents were and being forced by a woman I'd never seen before, she turned my little body around and pushed me down a lot of steps in which I had to stay in the hospital because of the damage it done to my body but mostly my head because I was out of it for a few days, now I'm in my 30s and I still continue to have these things happen to me, I see spirits or ghost, I am gently touched, hear noises as if all 5 of my children were home & demolishing the rooms upstairs, that for some reason scares & has scared me the most because it only happens when I'm by myself & in addition to having really crazy things happening from 5 years old until this very day, I haven't had a single doctor that has actually believed me I'm told if it's my persecution then it's real, I am prescribed medicine for anxiety & depression with another pill that makes me relax but I still see, hear & feel everything but I've never tasted anything yet, I have smelled a fragrance that a family member used to wear, one thing that wasn't mentioned is the dreams I know I have. Sorry for being so long.

I use to hear voices on and off drugs. Condemning and persecuting voices convinced me to drive my car into a wall at highway speed and I changed my life after the ‘accident’. I’m not on any meds and I’ve just been granted entry into graduate certificate studies of psychology through ECU university. Thank-you Jesus.

Incredible dialog

This video brings clarity to what I already had an idea what the difference between hallucinations vs Delusions were. My dad who raised me with my stepmom has delusions, only getting worse over time. His delusions stems from beliefs he accepted and drugged us into upon joining the IFB cult when I was very young. Over the years, his beliefs deepend. Certain parts of his beliefs he dwells on so much so that it affects his behavior. He is also a ball of anxieties, I believe is the result of his self inflicted indoctrination and imagination. I'll just repeat what his childhood best friend shared with me a couple of years ago. This friend spent his entire adult life a Baptist preacher, a reasonable man with reasonable beliefs for a Christian. He said, referring to my dad, "he sees the devil in everything!". And he is right! As an adult, the IFB indoctrination was leading me down the same path. I know this now as I can look back on my life and realize it since I deconstructed my faith 11 years ago. I broke the chains of that bondage and gained immediate freedom of my mind. There is no better feeling! I never knew my birth mother since she left when I was a few months old. Through the years I believed my dad when he would tell me, "I am certain she is dead!", the lifestyle she lived, there is no way she could still be alive!". His intention was to prevent me from searching for her. So I never tried to find her or my half brothers and aunt that I knew about until a couple years ago. My dad, as it turns out only wished that she was dead because she was dead to him. I never knew or sensed his anger towards her until I told him that I found her. It became clear to me that he is very bitter towards her. He made sure to tell me to never speak to her about him, saying, "if she asks about me, tell her, I'm dead!" I won't lie to anyone, not going to tell her that but I told him that I won't talk about him to her. From the few stories I heard about my birth mom from my paternal grandmother and a few years later repeated to me by her daughter left me thinking that she was mentally disturbed in some way. As it turned out just over 10 years ago, thankfully after I ditched my extreme beliefs, my daughter suddenly became a different person exhibiting some of the same manifestations as my birth mom. Since she moved to Texas a couple years prior, she was hundreds of miles away from home (Ohio). Knowing something was very wrong with her, I tried to get her and her baby home, I booked her a flight. Her mania prevented her husband from getting her on the plane so I woke my husband in the middle of the night, I packed his bag and sent him to go get her and our grandson and bring them home. The moment I seen her, I knew and said to myself, "This is Ros, my birth mom!" whom I never met. I had no understanding of mental illness at all, I knew it existed but knew nothing about them. In my previous indoctrination, this would have been "demonic possession" for my understanding. We got her to the hospital psych ward. She was almost immediately diagnosed with bipolor with schitzo-effective disorder. The day we were meeting with her doctor and social worker to discuss whether to bring her home or keep her there a bit longer till she was better stable. I wanted her to come home as she did too. We brought her home that day. I'll never forget what I told the social worker which stunned her as her facial expression showed it. "If this would have happened a year earlier, I would have been trying to cast demons out of her." It's amazing how our beliefs and experiences directs our behaviours and actions that we take. Think al qaeda or any one of those extreme Muslim groups that causes it's followers to readily kill and die for their religion with no thoughts of their own since they can not think for themselves. They only believe they do. Their feelings and emotions that accompanies their thoughts/beliefs that causes their actions of killing and dying all for something they wholeheartedly believe in. Indoctrination can be, I believe IS a sociatal danger! Think wars, think media, indoctrination. We human subjects are their experiment with control. Upon finding my birth family living in Texas, I learned my mother has bipolor and shcizophrenia, untreated. That poor woman! Our first and earler phone conversations were brief and difficult but over time they became longer and coherent. I met her and my half brothers for the first time in June 2021 and spent 8 days with them. Now to the point of this whole story, I've noticed since connecting with her, what I see though she suffers from her illnesses, she has a rational mind, no apparent delusions. She demonstrates rationality. She carries a better conversation than my dad does. I get a sense that she is more in her "right" mind than my dad is. Her condition is genetic, a health condition, her brain misfiring that is out of her control. My dads condition is learned and was completely within his control during it's formative years. Now, not so much since his cycle of beliefs, feelings, experiences and behaviors have cemented. She experiences hallucinations which she seems to manage. His delusions causes him anxieties, stress, anger, frustration and odd behavior and he doesn't manage well. Hallucination and delusions are two completely different things. How I escaped both of these conditions, one learned, the other genetic is beyond me. To end this on a good note, our daughter after trial and error is stable and living her best life.

Sounds like you have really done your work on signs and symptoms of schizophrenia through case study with the that your involved with keep up the good work

I had that kind of experience when i was poisoned by a neurotoxin (ciguatera)-felt that bugs were crawling all over me! Awful! I believed they were all through my bed but was paralyzed & unable to get out of the bed… awful!

love this~!

Sometimes, Kyle asks very funny and innocent questions: "are these voices ever good? Hey ur doing a great job" 😅😅

Brain damage gives me hallucinations, mostly auditory. I hate spending time alone because nobody can confirm if what I'm hearing is real. Normally it's just little noise. I heard a huge bang and called the cops and I still don't know if it was real.

I've struggled with addiction, bpd and PTSD. When it comes to the tactile stuff, when I went through withdrawals I could never sit still because it would feel as though something was ticking or pressing on something uncomfortable inside my groin area. No doctor could ever understand what I was saying but it was as if there were hands or something messing with my insides almost like a funny bone but not as blunt. The only way to make the feeling go away was to move, walk, shake, rock, jump, whatever.

My mom used to work as a nurse in a mental institute. She got attacked a few times through her career there. I never was interested in this subject until she passed away a few years ago. I wish I had share conversations about her work and her patients back then…. she had many first hand experiences but no one in the family were interested in knowing :(

Thank goodness.

Thank you

I've smelled lemon, roses and cologne. I believe it is someone flirting with me. Someone that is dead. Sounds crazy yes I know.

When i was 11 or so, I "heard" my brother yell my name, and he was not around at all. About 10 years ago I thought our dog was in the backyard, and I "saw" her run from the backyard into the garage, I shut the door, and she was not there. Last one: I was at the atm in a store, and after getting my money I grabbed the receipt, and it just vanished from my hand; not in my pocket, not on the floor, not in trash can....nowhere. I didnt think much of these experiences, its just a reminder of my mental illness.

Im not diagnosed yet, but I experience auditory, visual and tactical delusions. I never told anyone, because they aren’t very severe. I didn’t realize what was happening with me until last year when I first heard about hallucinations and delusions. The delusions don’t last long which is why I never noticed. I often hear people saying my name. Or just random sounds that no one else hears. Like this morning I said “hi” to my dog and I got a “hi” back. I also often see shadows.

Psychic abilities. Don't ever forget that. Why is it considered an illness to communicate in a way that is probably just extremely advanced.

Is Delusions thoughts? My son had a drug induced psychosis and I left with delusions as I call them thoughts because I can tell when they enter is head and sometimes make facial expressions.... The meds help a little bit it doesn’t fully go away. No family history..he this going to be him from now on?

my first experience with this was when a friend had a psychosis... super scary when you dont know what it is or how to act towards them... I just tried to listen to her and not deny/nor confirm her reality... she had some pretty scary delysions and hallucinations.. but it did not start out that way ... at first the "angels" were good then they turned on her and then things got scary....

One time I got massively sick, had a horrible stomach bug, and got super dehydrated while running a bad fever, and I had a delusion and a hallucination, where I was convinced that my family had let miss america in, even though I couldn't see her, and she was bouncing on my stomach, and how could they let someone come sit on my stomach when I was so sick, but at the same time I was seeing these little dark splotches around the bed, and I thought they were gonna get me, and short version: If you're that sick, go to the hospital.

This was very helpful. I have a family member who believes that she and a famous musician (who is deceased) are married. She says she knows he’s dead, but that they really got married. I could really use some direction on how to respond to these delusions.

My schizophrenia hallucinations are mainly tactile and I always have to explain that I don't see or hear things and that I feel things 🙄

My dad (76) has recently lost his vision and gets transient hallucinations (possibly delusions). Things such as my mom wants to lock him up and keep in the basement. Some are other things like they he is in a moving vehicle and is going to be thrown out. I him to get a neurological work up - but my family won’t do it. They say it’s just because he’s lost his sight. Regardless, I believe he thinks they are 100% real and trying to talk him out of it only makes him agitated. My mom is always yelling at him. I have learned, until he gets help, all I can do is repeat I’m here (unfortunately over the phone only), that I believe him (as he really is going through what he thinks), but I lead him through breathing exercises I learned for my anxiety. I also just keep talking to him to let him know he’s not alone, I’m there too. I have someone get him some ice water to sip. I don’t encourage the delusions/hallucinations, but I don’t deny it. I talk about memories he knows from my childhood. I have a few more things I do, but those at least don’t escalate things. He sundowns so I can usually get him calm and asleep in an hour. I feel I’m at the cusp of what I can do. My mom is a psychiatric nurse as my sister is a psychologist. I’m not a professional and they might be too close to the situation- how do I get him medical help? Calming him is incredibly draining for me- especially since I came from a background of abuse and can understand his fear and helplessness. It breaks my heart.

Yes med circle do that video

It could also be spirit talking to them. Also what about a totally deaf person hearing bombs going off and setting off extreme fear reaction? I hear men screaming too and sonic booms. My Psychiatrist said it's just hallucinations, I'm bipolar, ADHD, social anxiety and PTSD from rape as a child. But I'm also a medium but this is totally different from spirit voices, I control the spirits coming in, my thoughts are my own. I hear it right by my ear and how? I'm deaf!

Hi do any experts ever talk about generalized anxiety in some of this videos that is what I need knowledge on thanks and God bless

I lost my job because of somatic delusions… 😿 I had an episode that I believed I was sick and skipped job to go annoy my doctors to find why I had diabetic symptoms. But no tests they did on me showed diabetes.

Sending love and Blessings!! Thank you!!😘💞💯👸🙏High engeries!#🎶🎶💃

Can you have a delusion but be open to the possibility of it being a delusion? I'm thinking about someone who is still in practice not able to shake the belief. For example someone having a somatic delusion, f.ex thinking that they can't use their left arm. In their daily life they still live as if this idea was true and are unable to do otherwise, but they're able to entertain the idea of it being a delusion or even seek out treatment for this in hope of improvement. Maybe someone who has previously been diagnosed with psychosis. Would another explanation of the symptom/experience be more likely in such a case?

i would love a video on olfactory reference syndrome, its incredibly hard to find information on it and i hoped to hear something about ORS

Got the lists?

Thank you, but I see this video, trying to find some tipe of " what should I do with a person with that problem

Curious to know what those who went through famines were eating. I have read that up to 1/3 of mothers who have children with Schizophrenia are GLUTEN sensitive. So much is tied to our gut microbiome.

Theres a book by a Welsh author, fairly recent, in which the hero, a female cop, has this delusion of being dead (aware of it, living with it). Fascinating!

What about if someone was to be going somewhere and they are in a place they are familiars neighborhood that you know and then all the sudden you are lost and have no Idea where you are but you go up and down that same road day after day and it will take 10 seconds for me to remember where I'm at? What is that about I'm 54 years old am I loosing it or just being old? Even though I'm not old yet? Lol....thanks Barbara Hardison

Hi, can you make video how to survive stop use substance of drugs such like Math/ice ❄/batu I am user, I am 3 month away to quite. Yeaaa.... I need a help. Regards from Malaysia

I have BPD and they told me it's transient stress related psychosis for me, plus paranoid ideation, ideas of reference (but, i believe bad things happened because of me, my fault) and Dissociations, suicidal ideation. Those delusions are very strong when they happen, but within that week I'm able to rationalize a bit more and it kinda passes. The distress they cause off the bat though are uncanny. Then after a few days I start to feel really stupid, because I don't understand how I believed them so strongly. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Depressive episodes come with serious delusions and messed up thinking, plus I actually have PDD too. And I have several anxiety disorders. The intensity and durations are never consistent, it's a mixed bag of whatever whenever.

My schizophrenic sister has believed for decades that she's in an abusive relationship with singer Sting, and their lovechild is Leonardo DiCaprio.

After hearing my exbf married I have hallucinations about him going around home road what is that is it by over thinking anxiety or stress or else

As the doctor was speaking this brought a few things from the past to my mind! In 2000 at 19 yrs old my nephew passed of acute Leukemia. he passed on the table during brain surgery. This came on quickly and no one knew he had it, he worked, and graduated school and yet sensed it as told his mom how he would want his funeral and yet his mom thought it was just funny and (I was not in agreement, but that is fine_ but anyway this happened in the process. But several years before this ( BTW he was loved by so many, and we had to have people who stood in streets of two towns to escort us from funeral parlor to the cemetery as we had so many cars behind us!) Anyway, he was much younger now and in school and he had lost this older man next door and his wife has passed, and they left him their home as she was a teacher and he worked at post office, and they did not have any children and called him their son. Well while in school my nephew was at first not doing so well at school in a certain subject, and al at once he surpassed everyone! The teacher spoke to his mom over this as she could not understand how he would "answer the questions BEFORE she would ask them!!!" They did not know for a while and finally he told them that this gentleman that passed away and left him the house was "sitting on his shoulder and telling him the answers!!" Now he was not the kind to speak like this and anyone that knew him would realize this. He did a type of mini lawn mower (go cart) races with lawnmowers with the motors in them and the young people would race them, and they did it for a long time and my brother worked with my nephew in the garage many nights getting them ready to race. Well after he passed away the young people kept it up in his honor for ten years! Just found it odd that this happened and WHY? He never heard anything ever before! After getting out of school it ended as well. Also, after my grandmother passed away, I was vacuuming the house and all at once I smelled Roses! Now my son was VERY YOUNG, and I asked him " Do you smell anything?" He said "yes" i said " What do you feel you ae smelling?" He said " FLOWERS" I thought I would pass out! Yes, he got it right! It was so strong it was like it hit me in the face. But then was gone. This to me showed there is life after death, but it is very unusual things. I feel for my nephew, they may have been auditory hallucinations. Not sure if they would be the same as olfactory hallucinations for me, but I did not have any of the illnesses mentioned above? But for me it was only the once. My nephew only had his temporarily though too. So, we did not have it last for a long period of time. But my nephew did pass away a few years later and not too many at that. Perhaps this dear neighbor who too k this family on as their own family and my nephew like a son, maybe he really did in spirit sit on his shoulder and help him receive those answers in school as how did it happen? the teacher was totally shocked, and they did not know how on earth he came from failing to an a plus all the time and he had answers before asked! Like a precursor to his passing in the next few years? I have chills actually, thinking back at this! But so glad this was all spoken of today during this workshop as I certainly needed it as am sure many did too! Love learning about all of these things! Thank you for bringing them to us,

What about if you're pushed hard but nothing is there?

Yes, I had that with Johnny Depp!!! and I was even diagnosed with delusions and see that's how sneaky delusions are is that this actually just went away like the last couple of years but it had been going on since I was a teenager and all the sudden it cleared up and I didn't even notice until now until you said something so definitely I I'm so glad you said something cuz I really I didn't have any idea.

This is wild, my husband has this and his Dr explained to me he says i went to him and told him I'm leaving him for another man and taking all our money to give to the other person. Is just wild , he swears i said that. Dr sent me to this video to understand

I have schizoaffective bipolar disorder and my hallucinations are auditory (sound like constant static with voices breaking through or like a really staticky radio) and I also see peripheral shadows.

Approximately 14 minutes into the video, Dr. Domenick spoke about Erotomanic Delusion (if I heard correctly) and mentioned that Schizophrenic thinks they fall in love with a celebrity. My question is - if this celebrity comes and meets in an actual life situation, would that help them? This example of being in love with a celebrity is similar to my son's delusion.

Actually, it IS my first time watching your videos. But thanks for playing.

wait a minute... how did you KNEW it was not the first video from medcircle I watched??

I was surprised hallucinations of taste and smell aren't more common. But, I also have epilepsy. I actually haven't had a seizure in well over a decade but I sometimes smell/taste certain things I've become very deficient in. So, since it was useful that way, not really much reason to seek help or anything.

What would a misperception be classified as? For example, under poor lighting conditions I really see and believe an animal exists because my brain perceives it and incorrectly constructs it from dimly lit inanimate objects.

My son has schizophrenia but does not hear voices or see things.

Dear Dr. Sportelli, Every time I experience something in my memory, I experience something that's not there. It's all in the past. When I try to do the same thing in the future, I can't. Why is that? Is the future not real? Sometimes the future seems to come into being, the here and now, even when I never saw it coming. Is the future a kind of nothing that becomes a perceivable something? If so, what does it mean? Because the world seems dragout crazy, man.

My husband has had these paranoid delusions for 3 years now and they are fixed and you can't convince him of anything. I really don't know what to do anymore because we are falling apart. He's destroyed the house . He has been isolating himself and has been to the doctor but won't take medication and won't listen to me at all. He yells at people who aren't there whom he thinks are torturing him with radiation and electricity but then he will also have conversations with them. He does things like turning on burners on the stove on high and leaving on. Opens refrigerator doors and leaves it open .It's so extremely hard for me to cope because I have to watch him like a child. I have no friends anymore and he has even made it were my family has left me. I'm at the point of walking out cause I'm going crazy.

I think seeing something that is not really there is step one to creating that thing.

Let’s look at who’s on which lists. As if the people around don’t already know. Please.

I have heard things that weren't happening but only with my left ear. Found out it was a part of migraine disorder

You are exactly right i suffer from this

There more than 5 senses what about pain gut senses feeling. could imagination be a senses?

I get hallucinations at night when I'm bout sleep or just waking up. I have had an head injury years ago

What are common therapy of wedral condition

How to treat grandiose delusions?

What about hearing voices speaking to them from the TV OR FROM PAINTING ON THE WALL.

A phone call is a "voice in my head" isn't it?

Is burning skin sensation.... tactile halucibation? Started to burn under my skin after magic mushrooms.. Burns in my arms and legs.... Been like this for over 2 months now please respond someone

This is really interesting, but how do you know that what they here or see isn't true 🤔 I'm looking into it more because I'm not quite getting it and thank you

Is it possible to have a talk about tinnitus please. How does it affect the mental health or how to keep it calm :(...

Ok. What is it called when a person believes something happened despite any and all solid evidence?

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my ex told me that he is a living robot that i make for a project/experiment. he said that he felt like something is dying in him everytime i am offline from WhatsApp. Is this some kind of hallucination or delusion? this is ridiculous but at the same time i feel bad for him because he's in constant worry and telling me that he's going to kill me to keep him alive.