Advice for Mental Healthcare Workers

Very excellent video, I'm will share with others. Thank you for listening to viewers and expressing this so well.

When I sought mental health treatment I felt lumped in with a list of symptoms and the social workers seemed to not ever make a personal connection with me to see where I was at, where I was from nor did they seem to have an idea of who I was. I met very few people at the walk-in sessions who were able to remove themselves enough that I didn't feel them projecting onto me, they could listen and give a little conservative advice where to go next. I kept going to public services hoping I'd find someone to help me feel accountable to my goals (but what I really needed was grace to rest and time to figure out life on my own. I would hope for a mentor or instructor type person but it is hard to ask or find someone like that).

Some counselors would act surprised I had a desire to work again. Worse I know one of my previous counselors (who I did not like much at all) had authority to author her own diagnosis onto my file and it radically changed how any counselor I met after that talked to me. She wasn't the only either, I had another bad experience during quarantines when I went in and allowed myself to sit almost 12 hours in emerge. During that experience I felt the nurses I met in the end were laughing at me, the notes I had to show my fragmented mental state and the fact I fainted while waiting to see someone. I did a virtual referral with a psychiatrist and was prescribed a moderate dose of seroquel/quetiapine (which I did not complete – felt like I was having 3 drinks before bed. I also felt myself adjust to the dose within 2 weeks and refused to increase it after that). It was a couple years before I started having symptoms like hearing a voice in my head, after an assault and my friend's repeated hospitalizations. I went like that for half a year but that symptom has stopped.

I'm in a relationship with someone who isn't doing well, they use marijuana and became severely alcoholic and being abused by them made me very closed to reality and agoraphobic. It's easy to blame myself since I tend to lean towards isolation and things that are regular to others seem to affect me entirely more. For example "screen addiction"; if I use a computer or phone too much I really lose a sense for what's going on. I miss the version of me that could compulsively read books for hours. That would foster a meditative and relaxed mind state for myself.

After finding my own quiet space I'm getting ready to step into life again. Reading has helped me, it was hard to focus on it but doing so has paid off well.

Life is getting better. I did not have a helpful experience with the mental health system however, I feel it was very deleterious to my identity. Just luck of the draw I suppose. Many of the employees I met with seemed to be there for their paychecks. A few seemed to interested in helping people get their lives back.

I've listened to some of your videos for a number of years…

I understand that the medication you say seems not to work for you. Maybe you'll consider the following:

Therapy and Counseling: Regular sessions with a therapist or counselor can provide coping strategies, emotional support, and a safe space to explore and understand one's feelings.

Lifestyle Modifications: Hemi-sync, Intense meditation, Pranayama, a balanced diet, elimination diet, mandates on sleep 4 hours at a time, Intense exercise… the goal is to tire out the mind to slow it down… intense anaerobic exercise is a great way for this.

You have such a strong emotional support group and go through therapy and counseling regularly.

An Austere and Structured Routine based on the WEEK (NOT Day): Establishing a weekly routine that can bring more stability and predictability. I think this will lower the stress placed on you which is a trigger.

Holistic Approaches: Exploring holistic approaches such as yoga, acupuncture, or massage therapy may contribute to overall well-being. Additionally, some controversial alternatives: high dosage DMT (toad venom) or high dosage psilocybin (under supervised settings).

More time in nature.

My brother once told me that there's an app that shows you the effects, and the interaction of the medicine on schizo-affective patients, but what bothers me is that it should be tailored based on records.

My advice to healthcare professionals is to quit their job when they feel they don't know what to do at work. Maybe the psychiatrist has student loans and they probably will lack money after quitting their job but if the psychiatrist stays working when they don't know what they are doing they might end up mentally ill too.

I thought everyone simulated outcomes.. and heard the mind's guesses. I once heard a woman moan when I was dating this guy.. outta nowhere, I was trying to turn in a very important document. I'm on medication for schizophrenia now. Let's see if that helps. Thank you for your resources.

Thank you very much for starting a channel to help people with Schizophrenia. I've been struggling with 24×7 auditory hallucinations for two years and have been on off medications. Did your auditory hallucinations go away entirely with meds? Thank you.

When you hear the phrase you are not ready for discharge, it really means we can charge your insurance more by keeping you here. They give you weird meds that manipulate your behavior. A real doctor will look for the cause, rather than treat the symptoms. But it doesn't bring in more profit.

I’m a licensed mental health counselor, and I found this video to be wonderful. Thanks!

Let me tell you how it feels like when God cast out demons that causes this schizophrenic it's extremely hell and you will see black smoke leaving you it's thousands of demons that's controlling your mind and they are cursing God everyday day and night you are screaming so loud everybody can hear you in your complex where you live and God appears in a gold or blue light or in supernatural sun or supernatural cloud in your room casting out demons its a very long process to be free

Totally agree! It beggars belief to me that there are no feedback loops in medicine to aid improvement in patient care. Literally every other industry does this, why not medicine?

You seem perfectly normal though. Schizophrenics know right from wrong.

What a beautiful video and I agree. I wish more people were aware of this.

Free schizophrenia tip to cope naturally with hearing voices. Ask your brain / voices simple questions leading to a point where you've exhausted your knowledge bank to simply remind yourself that the voices are just your sub-conscious and the voices only know the extent of what you know. This helps train your brain in the firm rooting / understanding that voices are just our minds out loud. For example, a very common thing is people talk to voices who have names or they believe are other people. Ask them information you don't know such as, "what's your last name?" "What's your middle name?". Rebuilding the confidence and re-training yourself that the voices are fake goes a long way. They cannot answer questions you don't know because they are your own mind.

I don't know who told you that you have schizophrenia and you imagine people that people attracted to you but the truth is that you are totally normal and so pretty and they are just jealous of you so don't let these horrible people to affect you you deserve better than being treated like ill person

Great feedback, these days young people are working us toward a new model that includes more than the medical. Back in the day it was such a leap for the world to see the science and not a "moral failing" behind the illness. Now a new leap to wholeness of life and self-determination. Retired case manager (yeah old term). I like dynamic feedback, and probably most of us do, some real truth that we do tend to act more when things are in a crisis. But I don't mind being told, yelling is fine by me. Really. I want to be exactly the person you tell whatever in however way you say it. I want to be the person you phone and no need to worry about the words. Any relief in that? If not, then ask for another worker.

This is very informative, and well presented. Thank you educating us who don't know what schizophrenia is. You are brave . Wishing you the best.

You are a very entitled and person. You have not had to deal with multiple assaults. Empathy yes. Abuse absolutely never. I’ve witnessed horror and even death from a psych pt to a nurse.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I would add that every suggestion here can and should be applied to all other sorts of medical treatments. All patients are people.

Autistic/DID young adult here, I find this video so helpful, I related to everything, and this wonderful points you presented here, I can note and share with my clinicians.

As a therapist listening to this advice I'm appalled at what some professionals actually do 😮

I had a really horrible experience 12 yrs ago when i attempted suicide from depression and anxiety. I ended up throwing up most on my own bc realized the mistake i made, but i still hallucinated for a few hrs from the amount i took. In the hospital while i was still hallucinating and also crying hysterically bc of what happened, a psychiatrist with a major language barrier was asking me all these in depth questions on how i was feeling.. uh clearly not good! I couldnt even put a thought together let alone a sentence, on top of not being able to understand what he was saying. And then when i got referred to a therapist after that hospital visit, she diagnosed me with major depression and i told her i didnt wanna be on meds bc it was a moment of everything gone wrong all at once and i dont feel this often, and i was only 20 yrs old needing to know how to cope with lifes struggles as an adult better. She automatically referred me to a psychiatrist to get prescribed meds. Never saw her again. Still havent been on meds, and i do have my moments when everything goes wrong at once whenever that occurs, but i know more coping mechanisms as an adult and have a fanatasic therapist that ive had for 5 yrs now.