How I Deal With The Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

Great videos. I am schizoaffective. I've had it all my life and am 37 right now. I have a couple episodes this week and have been reaching out to others that have my issues just to let me feel less alone. You make me feel less alone.

I think you can't figure out how much your videos are helping me to accept my disorder and don't panic every time I hear entities or voices. You have saved part of my life, a big part. Thank you really much.

Hey. I'm a psychiatrist and I just wanted to say that what you are doing is incredibly meaningful and impactful! You will be able to touch the hearts of many whom mental health providers will not be able to connect with. It is great to hear someone talk about the positives and negatives of psychiatric treatment. The only thing that I disagree with is completely coming off medications, though depending on the individual, i would be willing to do so (with more frequent sessions). More often I will lower the dose to a fraction of the original dose, sometimes even lower than a typical starting dose and monitor since many of the side effects are dose dependent. All-in-all, keep up the great work. Who knows, maybe you'll be the next Elyn Saks :-)

Thank you for sharing these videos. It's helped me so much.

from my experience I don't have that feeling you mentioned, but what I do instead of relaxing is ignore it, I figure out if something is fake, and if it is I try to ignore it, its hard to tell sometimes, but I try to ignore it when I can and I just have stopped caring about everything and I more or less treat the world in its entirety as fake, I joke around constantly and I enjoy everything and I laugh at terrible things and I just float through and joke around with it. I also laugh at my own hallucinations, especially the voices in my head

You're fucking awesome, brother

Dude, you're so awesome! You figured it out :) ... just a word of advice and warning, getting off the medication, any medication, needs to be very gradual to avoid withdrawal symptoms.

Thank you for making this, there are loads of vids on how to spot the symptoms but not how to deal with them. Its also nice to have someone to relate with, this helped alot

You seem like such a strong person... I really admire your positivity, you are very inspiring !

thank you for being so light about this topic, despite it's hardships dealing with it. you are a lovely person and i love your outlook! hope you, your girlfriend, and family are well ♡.

I've watched mostly all your videos from a while back ago and it really helped me to learn and relate to it and felt like I wasn't alone even though I have quite different symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. I still have these broken tissues or whatever is broken in my brain and also feel them on my hands and plus fatigue when I go over my limits like going for shopping for 3 or 4 hours or talking to people for a long amount of time continuously. But your videos just help me, I can't explain how but I really like watching them so thank you!

you are so calming to watch! I'm going through psychosis rn and you're really entertaining to me, thanks!

I'm so happy for you Jacob! I hope your stability continues.

I'm glad that you're positive about it, I have a cousin who is schizophrenic, always been curious about the illness then found your videos. You're a pretty stable person, sometimes it doesn't seem like you have the illness I know that's weird to say, but its true you're aware that you're having hallucinations, you're aware that you have delusions, as long as you're aware of whats real and whats not then I feel you've got it under control. I've met many schizophrenic's who aren't as stable.

Much love bro ✊ you’re a big impact

I admire you for being so open and honest about what you feel. keep up the good work bro really like your point of view on things

YAY so excited for the next video with you guys(:

All your videos have been so informative. Kudos to you for sharing your experiences with us viewers.

So glad to hear that your parents are so supportive and unconditionally caring towards you.

you are an important person and a very giving person, Jacob