hi there guys my name is cody green you might know me as schizophrenic hippie on youtube and tick tock today i want to watch a youtube schizophrenic simulation with you guys [Music] the reason i want to do this is because i've been seeing more and more of these on different social media platforms and i've never taken the time to really check any of them out to see how accurate they are now obviously before we get into this there's two things i want to talk about the first being that i am going into this in a safe space i've taken my meds i haven't had any symptoms in the recent past few days also my wife is home and she's standing by in case i have any symptoms so i'm not really worried about anything happening while watching this video i will also say that watching videos like this have never been a trigger for me i do know that this can trigger some people with hallucinations and psychosis if you are one of those people who are easily triggered by content like this please stop watching now for your own safety second of all i just want to explain i am going to be talking about my own personal experience with schizophrenia and auditory and visual hallucinations other people with schizophrenia may disagree or agree with me based on their own personal experiences not all of us are going to have the same experience when it comes to symptoms that being said i'm really excited to check this out so let's get started right away simulation you are about to experience is a brief psychotic episode in a patient with schizophrenia schizophrenia can provide powerful experiences especially for those undiagnosed or not having been treated effectively enough the symptoms you will experience represent a compilation of a range of sensory occurrences these occurrences include sights sounds and even sense if you have any discomfort during the experience please signal your mental health instructor miss mcanally thank you all right so right off the bat uh my my heart started racing the reason i know that those are accurate at least in the case of my auditory hallucinations is because as soon as they started part of my brain was trying to figure out if i was actually hearing that or if it was on the simulation they know who you are all right so a lot of things there auditory hallucinations the way there's louder voices there are whispering voices to me that is spot on um when i have lots of auditory hallucinations they tend to come in different sound levels they'll sound like they're either right next to my ear or down the hall people tend to think that hallucinations are internal and they are very external and i think this video is already doing a great job at showing that whenever i've recorded myself having hallucinations that's what i look like and it's not something that i do knowingly it's something that i just do on impulse i'm hearing voices so i look around to see where they're coming from also you'll notice when he picked up the phone he was not talking into it he's having such intense hallucinations probably a little bit of disassociation he's not even recognizing what's happening around him and to me this is extremely accurate so far stop it i don't know if you guys noticed that in the um corner of the video here there's an additional hand and i just want to pause so if you look if you watch the corner over there right there see there's a there's a third hand there so that might seem like an exaggeration to some people i don't really hallucinate much for like inanimate objects but i do have a lot of visual hallucinations of other people and back before i was medicated i used to hallucinate really terrifying things like faceless people and demons but hands arms stuff like that i used to see that kind of stuff coming from around doorways or coming like out of my other rooms and so i don't think that's an exaggeration i just happen to see it right now and i know people would be like they're trying to make it scarier i have actually seen like limbs before as hallucinations dumb so so dumb sure so once again i am i'm very impressed with the auditory hallucination aspect of this um i do think the echoing is a little exaggerated that's not something personally i get it can be a little disorienting to the point where it seems like it's echoing but i don't think it has like necessarily that defined echo to it like it's showing here but the amount of voices the different pitches all of that like that's super accurate to what i've experienced [Music] you have no friends the tv turn the box a heroin off in their spare time now for a quick check of the weather yeah i look like a weatherman there's a slight chance of tons of rain partly chance of you being a loser 100 chance of you being worthless what are you doing today guys you're just going to sit there with your mouth open like that i do have friends who have experienced this type of hallucination i personally have not but i do know that this is something that happens i find this really frightening because i personally use technology as a way to verify whether or not i'm having hallucinations i use my phone and my webcam to tell if the person i'm talking to is really there or not and i think this would make it really difficult if it was possible for me to have hallucinations on my television or on my phone oh what are you doing today guys you're just going to sit there with your mouth open like that coffee yeah smart move words [Music] stupid all right so um with this one that i don't want to say that no one has experienced this because i never know what anyone else has experienced to me that seems exaggerated but i don't experience much when it comes to visual hallucinations for inanimate objects most of my hallucinations tend to be people or creatures i do know that there are people who will hallucinate inanimate objects or have their hallucinations extend to inanimate objects in their everyday life this is not something i've struggled with so to me this seems exaggerated but that's just coming from my own personal experience [Music] [Music] stop it with your mind protect us [Music] [Music] [Music] now okay so the reason that that kind of um that was a little bit much for me right there was because as i said earlier in this video i've always hallucinated people and creatures and part of that is i have hallucinated like limbs before and so that was not too far-fetched for me i for some people that's probably exaggerated i feel like i've experienced something similar with like hands and doorways and whatnot um so that did catch me a little off guard i had to take a couple minutes step away but i do want to see the rest of this video so i'm going to keep playing it i just wanted to explain how real that was to me just now i'm home did you get my call i tried calling you about my package that's coming i wonder if it came oh i see it came she knows [Music] the hospitals all together i think this is a pretty accurate simulation i do think there are parts that might have been exaggerated a little bit for effect however that's my own personal experience i do know of people that hallucinate way more intense visual hallucinations than i have and so some of those are probably not that far-fetched it's just hard for me because i've never experienced certain visual hallucinations like that i think the best part of this simulation was the auditory representation i think they did a really good job at showing what auditory hallucinations can sound like overall i highly recommend this one i think it's a good example it's not too over exaggerated and it does a really good job at showing what someone with schizophrenia goes through on a day-to-day basis if you guys liked watching this and you want to see me check out tv shows movies or other simulations please let me know in the comments hit the like button subscribe i would love to do more videos like this thank you guys so much for your continuous support i do want to let you guys know also that my books have opened up for motivational speaking throughout the summer and into next year so if you are hosting an event or know an event that is being hosted and they're looking for motivational speakers check out my website codygreen.com thank you guys so much for being here again let me know if there's any questions you have or anything else you'd like to see me review down in the comments thank you guys so much [Music]