Psychological Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #28

No one knows the real pain of actually having a mental disorder. It is when you actually realize you’re different from your surroundings and it feels like you’re on the outside. People look at you in a strange way and just know something isn’t right with you. It’s like rejection on the daily basis which makes you not even want to go outside or be around people because you see the outside as a threat now. Then you go on pretending like you’re normal trying to fake be happy and try to blend in with others. People have an instinct and can feel something is not right with you and get “put off” by you. It’s like you have a different energy. You’re just off putting. Yes this is about me and it’s a daily struggle but I’ve been practicing gratitude and working out and trying to think about healthy thoughts. As you get older you realize that you knew you were different from the kids at school but not in a good way. But there is always hope. I keep seeing signs that make me not give up on hope. I know i’ll have a different life from others but i’ll try to make it the best as I can.

I don't agree with any of this.

Amazing work, your videos about psychology!!!!!!!!

Can you include DSM 4 ?

Hear that folks, you have to live in such environments in order to behave in such ways. So his life must be perfect in order to make an intellectual design. All environmental pressures have a distress effect

ive been in a mental hospital, nothing has changed at all

anyone else watching these to learn their course material bc corona

Social psychology involves stigma.

4:28 😭🖤 BOWIE

BEDLAM / Bethleham Asylum = most fascinating asylum ever IMHO <=fantastic book by Mike Jay about this called the Influencing Machine: James Tilly & The Air Loom:

THE INFLUENCING MACHINE (UK edition) – Strange Attractor Press
A VISIONARY MADNESS (US edition) – North Atlantic Press 

‘One of the greatest books you’ve never read’ .. William Gibson 

‘Beautifully written, with all the drama, the rich characterization, the subtlety, of a fine novel.’ 
from the foreword by Oliver Sacks

 "Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews’ case is one of the most bizarre in the annals of psychiatry. He was the first person to insist that his mind was being controlled by a machine: the Air Loom, a terrifying secret weapon whose mesmeric rays and mysterious gases were brainwashing politicians and plunging Europe into revolution, terror and war. But Matthews’ case was even stranger than his doctors realised: many of the incredible conspiracies in which he claimed to be involved were entirely real. Caught up in high-level diplomatic intrigues in the chaos of the French revolution, he found himself betrayed by both sides, and in possession of a secret that no-one would believe…" Originally published as The Air Loom Gang (2003), the text has been fully revised and updated, with newly discovered source material and previously unpublished images."

Aswell as a BEAUTIFUL book that accompanied a musem exhibit on Asylums in general:

"THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
the asylum and beyond by MIke Jay"

Thames and Hudson (UK and US)

Published to complement the exhibition Bedlam: the asylum and beyond (Wellcome Collection, London, September 2016 – January 2017)

"This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of madness, or mental illness, through the prism of the institution that defined it: the asylum.

Combining the perspectives of doctors and patients, artists, social commentators and reformers, it tells the story of its successive incarnations: the 18th century madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society;  the 19th century lunatic asylum, which aimed to restore their reason by humane treatment; and the 20th century mental hospital, which reconceived their conditions as diseases of the brain. At the same time it traces the alternatives to the asylum that each era imagined, and often created.

The asylums were closed a generation ago, in the belief that new medical treatments were making them redundant. Today’s marketplace teems with medications and alternative therapies – as the era before the asylum did – yet more people are diagnosed with mental illnesses than ever before and for many there are no satisfactory options. How might we come to terms with these conditions in the future, and can the original ideal of the asylum – a place of refuge and care – still be recovered?"

Put the intro on lowest speed, it sound like a completely different song

It is not able to be cured .

This shows how many People live in dangerous conditions not putting in mental hospitals. We need to rethink the freedom of severe mental illness on our streets

Most of the world use ICD, not DSM tho.

I have a few of these disorders and personally I feel like I already had labels before, they were just things like "annoying" and "freak" so I'll gladly accept the alphabet labels instead. It's like shorthand for explaining my issues to people who would have otherwise given me a less savory label.

George Costanza?

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

I’m so glad I wasn’t around at the times of asylums.. I’d still be there lol..This is so important for people to hear about!

Great knowledge but I wish he slowed down a bit

I'm not a native speaker. This is so fast 😢

Tack!

does anyone else choose to procrastinate doing their school work by watching crash course and convincing themselves that it's okay because its educational

I prefer having labels. Without labels mental disorders are scary. You have no way to define what's wrong with you. Labels make it seems like something I can overcome.

Great video! Though what may have been a better way to describe a deviant behavior is simply to say they deviate from social norms, in my opinion it deflates all of the stigma from the word if you use the verb form of the word to describe it.