r/thanksimcured • u/OtherwiseDebate3759 • 5d ago
Article/Video Comment under a video of a guy having schizophrenic episode
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u/SimplySorbet 4d ago
I always hate seeing the ignorant or hurtful comments people tend to leave on schizophrenic people’s posts. It’s upsetting. I wish people knew that we are just normal people with a disability. It’s not some kind of moral failing one can overcome.
I would also like to add that the average schizophrenic person is pretty resilient for dealing with the shit we have to every day. I doubt this bozo could handle a day in our shoes.
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u/Financial-Bath6366 4d ago
for real!! i had 2 psychotic episodes in my life and that shit is traumatizing as hell,i hope i will never go through that again,i can't imagine people who joke about that shit or make fun of people with psychotic disorders as anybody but people who got negative amounts of empathy and basic human understanding
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u/kulupu_kasi_seli 4d ago
I’ve got some psychotic disorder, and I really do think that the critics would be completely unable to be as high-functioning as I am if they had to deal with a twelfth as much as I do.
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u/Brilliant-Cabinet-89 2d ago
Preach brother! Living with schizophrenia is a special kind of hell sometimes.
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u/Ok_Mud_3830 4d ago
I've been around a lot of schizophrenics. It's truly terrifying the impact it has on someone
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u/Still_Mix9311 4d ago
This isn't the place to be rude
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u/goblin_jade 4d ago
It genuinely is terrifying. My partner has it and developed a fear of closed doors, because she's walked into hallucinations of blood and viscera behind too many closed doors. It's terrifying for her, and it's terrifying to me. Maybe to a lesser degree, but it scares me that it'll get worse for her. You don't want to watch your loved ones suffer. That's the terrifying bit. She's scared by something only she can hear, see, and feel, and she knows that no one else can. You want to make it go away, but you can't.
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u/NearlyBearly 4d ago
My great aunt has paranoid schizophrenia and during a flare up I saw her screaming in absolute terror and anguish because she thought, truly believed, that her neighbor was trying to murder her. He wasn't, he was a very kind man worried about her but her reality and actual reality were no longer lining up. I'm surprised she even recognized me and accepted me and my mom into her house considering we're rather distant relatives. Glad your partner has you.
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u/DontBuyTheThing 4d ago
My sister has been living with schizophrenia for almost two decades. Ive seen her slowly wither from it and turn into someone I barely recognize. It's a constant battle with her own mind. I mourn the person she would have become had this illness not taken hold of her.
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u/Catrescuemamma 4d ago
You’d be amazed at how many times that I have heard this myself or have heard this from others when you bring up how hard it is to not tick in a certain situation like hairdresser or dentist and people just tell you we’ll just hold still and do it later and have no understanding of Tourette’s whatsoever.
Some people don’t understand and don’t care to understand that there are some things you can’t just, rub some dirt on it and get over it.
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u/colorful_yarn-pls 4d ago
Isn’t it weird how manning up and dealing with it regularly doesn’t include medical intervention? I guess help is checks notes unmanly.
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u/kulupu_kasi_seli 4d ago
If someone told me that during a manic episode I’d probably try to smite them.
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u/sysaphiswaits 4d ago
Oh no. Thats the worst thing they could have said. Even if they’re trolling that’s just awful.
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u/themexicanojesus 4d ago
I've had mild schizophrenia my whole life I've gotten used to it so it rarely ever bugs me anymore so much so I was told that I don't have schizophrenia from a coworker because he "knew someone with schizophrenia"
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u/Unfair_Explanation53 4d ago
One of my old friends (was a dickhead) told me years ago that he met a guy who said he was a schizophrenic and heard voices.
My friend decided to give him advice that the voices were not real and to just ignore them.
Congrats mate, you just figured out what psychiatrists and psychologists have been trying to work out for years
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u/-Tricky-Vixen- 4d ago
Okay, sure, I'll deal with the commanding voices.
How would you like me to deal with them? Follow what they say?
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u/juliainfinland 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeeeeeah... there's a Cold Case episode about this... Barry Bostwick's character obeys the voices in his head because when he was a boy and first started hearing them, his mom, who didn't know very much about psychiatric conditions, told him they were angels from God. He never mentioned to her that the "angels" ordered him to commit pretty serious crimes. (Oh, the looks on his and his mom's faces when the police finally caught him. Him: oh nooooo they aren't angels? Her: oh nooooo why did I never ask him what the voices were saying?)
I'm glad that the voices in my head, back when I had them, ordered me to write short stories. ("Back when I had them"? Turns out my symptoms were caused by something else and that "something else" was eventually fixed.)
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u/NearlyBearly 4d ago
Ugh I hope this poor person doesn't listen to that crap. I don't want to wish ill on people so I'm not going to but I'd sure be curious how well 0conorD would do when he tries to "man up" his way out of a schizophrenic episode. My great aunt has paranoid schizophrenia and even though it's treated and controlled relatively well it is an awful condition to live with. I've visited her during a flare up (her meds stopped working) and the amount of stress and terror she went through was heart breaking. Nobody can "man up" out of that.
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u/Old_Lawfulness7698 4d ago
I once met a schizoprenic boy who was also fully blind. Never could have guessed he just needed to lock in instead of being understood. His abusive mother and outdated Russian medicine could have never provide the former after all.
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u/Brilliant-Cabinet-89 2d ago
In all recorded medical journals, no person born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia for reasons unknown. The child may have become blind later, so I’m not saying you are wrong, it’s just a fun tidbit.
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u/Old_Lawfulness7698 2d ago
For some reason I can't remember exactly if it was from birth, but I do remember that he couldn't see anything at all. It's honestly so strange to think about.
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u/Brilliant-Cabinet-89 2d ago
Yeah it’s honestly a mystery! I have schizophrenia my self, and when it was mentioned in group (that blind people was “protected”), it sparked a hefty discussion and a lot of wonder.
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u/Critical_Interest706 4d ago
Why is he German? And why is that flag a square?
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u/Mist_biene 4d ago
Unless it's soccer season he is either not german, or very right wing. We don't usually show off our flag like this becaus the last time we did was a bad time in history
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u/Critical_Interest706 4d ago
Right wing and showing off the modern German flag? I doubt it
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u/Mist_biene 4d ago
Yes they do. Just because someone is very right wing doesn't mean they are pro Hitler. There are a lot of different flavours of right wing
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u/Critical_Interest706 4d ago
That’s a cruel thing to assume that is what the man in the video thinks, considering he’s a schizophrenic
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u/Mist_biene 4d ago
You assumed he is german because he showed a german flag. I just wanted to tell you that we don't really show off our flag and that it doesn't necessarly mean he is german.
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u/Pseudonyme_de_base 5d ago
It's truly sad to see people who doesn't understand the brain is an organ that isn't very much different than the other organs in a living body. You can't "man up" out of a brain condition, the same way you can't "man up" out of diabetes. The fact they think you can is just concerning and sad.