PSYCHIATRIST reacts to viral CATATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA video

Nope. Robot.

"Paranoid delusions"??? Not quite. And psychiatrists absolutely dislike their patients. I know. I spent 4 consecutive years detained under the mental health act from age 13 to 17 and I could write a whole series of books on the cruelty, hostility, gaslighting and verbal/emotional abuse psychiatrists regularly mete out to extremely distressed patients under their charge. Typical narrow minded approach to pathologise this man. When he says people dislike him, he would be correct. People DO dislike those of us who are different. I am autistic, Misdiagnosed Schizophrenic at 13. When others were abusive towards me, I was told I was "paranoid" too. I'm not. People have always disliked/disparaged me. It is painful seeing this mans predicament, it reminds me of my own psychiatric incarceration and the lifelong damage it has left me with. This man is indeed different, as am I. What I'd like to know is why every normal person finds that difference so unacceptable.

Oh we dont call them crazy we call them mentally hilarious! I am allowed to say this btw because im NUTS ask my shrink

This is really helpful, I assess people who live with psychiatric conditions as part of my job and this explains the symptoms well

I ain't gonna lie he does make me afraid

A lot to learn from your vids, thanks.

I think his femininit fetures have probably made him stand out and some one has bought him to the psychiatrist

Psychomotor retardation was caused by anti psychotics.
Why dont you ever consider that the drugs caused this

"People dislike me as I am not completely like them".
This is a natural and expected feeling or observation from anyone/everyone.
This interview makes me feel so sad as his answers are ignored and not listened to at all.

Is it necessarily delusion though? I can definitely see a person like this not being liked.

We also don't know if he's been medicated (over-medicated?) with the drugs of the day. Comments suggest he is...

See if I would of just happened to meet someone like this man I would simply assume that they are autistic to some degree. I wouldn't've ever think that they have catatonic schizophrenia. How is this different from autism? and have the two ever been mistaken for the other?

Hi Dr Soho m Das. Is there any chance you could please find out what happened to patient 18.

Any chance he's afraid because his parents locked him away for trying to play piano like raging dictators do and he's just highly intelligent? Any chance the guy is telling the truth and there's a scandal going on behind the scenes? Maybe his parents were foreign and he was raised under foreign beliefs and laws so they viewed him as strange for acting like a law abiding American, so they oppressed the ever living out of him. There's always a scandal going on behind every person deemed to be crazy. It's like a British human trafficking ring in america half the time.

So you say he is paranoid because he says his father doesn't like him - how do you know that he isn't telling the truth? Maybe his father DOESN'T like him?
Maybe he doesn't see and label signs of his mental illness because he erm, doesn't have one?
He comes across as a gay man, who is also Autistic.
Being stereotypical here - but the way gay men sit/hold their posture (as he refers to a few times). The way he has hyperfixations of things (such as piano) is very common amongst Autistic people.

It saddens me how he was treated. Obviously the treatments didn't work (hence why he died by suicide). Is it not possible this was because they weren't even treating the right "thing"?

I don't dislike the subject, yet I find his speech patterns and mannerisms unnerving.
No doubt he could pick up on that, were he and I to meet in person. I could see that as a "positive feedback loop" in how he perceives others perceive him

i love your sense of humour lol

There is a comment on the original video from this gentleman’s niece. She said he never played the piano that she was aware of. It’s very interesting comment. She gives a lot of history and what happened in future with him. Thank you for your evaluation.

This is one of the more informational reactions I've watched on this particular video. There are a few more that I'd like to check out, but one thing I'm waiting to see is for a reactor to spend some time on the analysis from within the context of 1961, when this film was made. I'm an old-schooler, and the first thing that stood out for me when I saw the original video is that this young man displays rather effeminate speech mannerisms. In 1961, even the perception of having homosexual tendencies was grounds to be institutionalized, and I have wondered whether this is playing into the catatonia, as well as his treatment. It could explain an awful lot here. He's aware that his father dislikes him, as do a lot of other people. He's also said that he's telling the truth when he claims that no doctor has told him why he's hospitalized. Also, he has twice said that he is "working to do something in my life which most people do not do. This influences my thinking and occasionally my actions, and a psychiatrist has noticed this and dislikes my actions and the thinking, and has decided that I should be here to change them." Now, there is clearly no doubt that he's also displaying other symptoms of mental disorganization. But given the times, I wonder if being an effeminate male had anything to do with HOW he was treated. Watch the video again through that lens. More information can be gleaned from how this young man may have been conditioned to respond to these questions.

It was an experiment with actors so it isn’t a real situation with patient.

I know a couple of people I work with who have had ECT and swear by it, they have been severely depressed in the past and it has been the only thing that works. In fact i visited one, she wouldn’t speak or eat or even move when i visited her two weeks later she was up, dressed chatting and we went for a walk. She was discharged from hospital a month later and now works part time and has lots of plans - she says it saved her life and knows its available if she gets really ill again. She looks after herself and does lots of other things to stay well, I changed my view of ECT from this, to see somebody pretty much brought back to life was flabbergasing, i know it was abused as a treatment in the past but for some people it can be a lifechanging treatment.

Sounds like Hal from 2001 A Space Odyssey

100k ain't bad! 😂 it's nice to see informative and educational content pulling in respectable viewing figures.

he's hardly blinking either

Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd wound up with catatonia like this from tripping out on too much (or a bad batch of) LSD apparently. Gifted man in many respects…who knows what may befall us.

I think he is normal. just a little bit slow.

Back in the days all psy disorder were treated as shizophrenia. Asylum were build to contain them.. its a cruel world indeed. Thankfully as the world progess , stigmatism had reduce and precise treatment can be made

thank you. i saw that video before without any explanation .. and on my own i don't know where to look at .. i am totally blind towards mental illnesses .. or i cannot grasp what is wrong with this person

Well, lots of lies from the start here, from my point of view. Four minutes in and I stopped. I've worked with these kind of patients for almost twenty years, but never have been one to lie and say such things (principally) like; "I've not seen this video beforehand" - and such. Probably a white lie for the public to help understand the assessment, but even still. Do it real. Thanks for trying, it made me wiser.

Why does he have to “admit” something is wrong with him? I think he’s just shy, managing trauma, and doesn’t want to be there. The questions may be basic, but his answers have clearly gotten him hospitalized in the past (terrible father) so he thinks about how to answer without making matters worse for himself. He’s effeminate and this wasn’t well received by society back in the 50s nor by his father, most likely. He just needs to find his tribe to be comfortable in the world.

Where do we draw the line between our conscious thought / voice in our head always speaking out loud or a schizophrenic voice?

Ive seen this whole video! Its SO strange. Kind of off-putting.

I swear this guy was on first dates 🤔

The drugs themself are insane !! Just insane. Hes drugged. This is sick. Even in this scene . The Dr does not even know. Hes doing the same chain gang the other Dr did. Hes high. ....These Drs need to be in this place. Tables turned. Hes dfugged. And Hes paranoid because you treat him like a circus animal. Cruelty....Stop listeming to this crap !! Theres freedom , help people not this

He seems to be on drugs

at 13.01 he says that if he disagrees with his diagnosis he will be put in a worse hospital - to me, this is evidence he has been in this situation before and he knows that to disagree with anyone will only make his situation worse (and he would be right)but that means that you don't get truthful answers you are just being told what the patient thinks you want to hear.

Great analysis , thanks!

" Summary: Researchers have identified an autoantibody that appears to cause schizophrenia in some individuals." Schizophrenia and Autoimmune Disease...

Could he perhaps have a form of autism as well?

I do wonder how much medication effects the way he comunicates. Back in the day people were so over medicated. So I am curious if he would be different

This displays one of the problems with psychiatry. Experts view patients, and check boxes as if they're taking a test. We don't know what medications this guy is on. We don't know if he had been through ECT. We don't know what he his famiky and friends have to say. For wall we know, he was thrown in there for being gay, and in his mind has been punished for giving the wrong answers.

Did this guy see internal comments from psychs when they told him only their external comments? Seems like he's considering a potential negative repurcussion when speaking if he says something that will degrade his means of living a good life

I disagree with psychomotor retardation, this boy seems smart in many way not much detail in his answers but to be honest I think he’s watching what he’s saying because of where he’s currently staying

I wish more info about this young man was available
I hope he’s alive

They throw them off cliffs in pakistan

You as a psychiatrist may not feel comfortable saying so, but I have to say that my read on this is that this is a gay man in a world and time that is aggressive to him. It’s a disservice to speculate one’s sexuality without their consent, but I think this is a very plausible scenario. In that case, I don’t think what’s experiencing is purely paranoia, but likely aggression from people, and the desire to institutionalize/ change him. he’s saying that his posture (a bio mechanical gesture of the way someone carries and expresses themself) is different than other peoples. And more over, it angers his father- even therapists who would be employed to change him. Such conversion therapy is classified now as torturous and inhumane. It’s possible a lot of the behavior he’s showing is a response to not feeling supported, and intense trauma. I feel deeply for him.

What nonsense. This man was gay and behaved and moved like a typical gay person, which was a problem for society at that time. And nothing else. The reason he takes so long is to carefully consider which words he uses since everything was being recorded and could be used against him. Homosexuality was heavily punished back then. It's unbelievable that this supposed doctor who is analyzing him here doesn't notice that. There are absolutely no symptoms indicating catatonic schizophrenia. Rather, it shows that the father probably also had a problem with the feminine behavior and the feminine or homosexual way of speaking and moving.

Its like theres something wrong but there really isnt. Oh wait a minute... i see now.... i get it....he cant play a piano worth a fuck!!!😜🤓🤪

I have never officially been observed in catatonia. I do have a diagnosis of MDD and GAD.

Sometimes when im feeling low and lethargic i sometimes am still. It is ascis moving takes too much energy. Im surecit is different. I'm more like to lie postate when i get that feeling. It is a combination of feeling unmotivated and feeling like my limbs are heavy. Sometimes laying still is also slightly comforting. Its a weird combination and i don't fully understand.

It could be Tom Hanks

I wonder if anyone has ever asked him if he's forgiven anyone. Im curious what would happen if you could get someone in this state to reveal their traumas caused by people and persuade the afflicted person to forgive them.