Schizophrenia is a well known mental illness, and when I mean well known I mean just the name schizophrenia. many people don't really know what schizophrenia is in the matter of what symptoms they have and what they go through. Lucky I found a video of a woman who has schizophrenia and discusses what it is like to have schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is found to be in about 1% of the world population. the symptoms of schizophrenia are bizarre delusions, auditory hallucinations, and disorganized speech and thinking. I have also found two videos 1 from YouTube which explains how schizophrenia works biologically and the second video is of Elyn Saks, a woman that has for the better part overcome schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia

Short 3D animation on Schizophrenia

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Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness -- from the inside

"Is it okay if I totally trash your office?" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but ever-present. In this powerful talk, she asks us to see people with mental illness clearly, honestly and compassionately.

Elyn Saks asks bold questions about how society treats people with mental illness.

Mood Disorders

Mood disorders are very hard to understand from a viewers perspective, not knowing what is going on for them can be hard on them and hard on you if you know the person. Their are many mood disorders for human beings some such as Mixed Episode, most people hear mood disorder and think depression, but a Mixed Episode has both a depression state and a manic state. when I first heard of mood disorder when I was younger I would always assume that person had depression that resulted from just being a sad and lonely person. I never knew that their were several causes or depression such as genetic brain abnormalities or frequent feeling of being depression. Below is one link that takes you to a video to explain what a mixed episode is, and I posted two videos one that is a Q & A form of bipolar disorder, the second video explains more on Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Mania, Hallucinations, and Delusion.

Mood Disorders / Bipolar Disorder: What Is a Mixed Episode?

About:  There's a lot of confusions surrounding what a Mixed Episode is and let me start out by saying that according to the Diagnostic manual somebody who has a Mixed Episode meets criteria for both depressive symptoms of a Depressive Episode at the same time that they're having the symptoms of a Manic Episode. And it can be confusing because people can often consider depression and mania to be opposites, so it's difficult at first glance to understand how you can have both symptoms at once. But usually individuals with a Mixed Episode exhibit irritable mood and it's a combination of the negative thinking of a Depressive Episode with the increased energy of a Manic Episode. So the individuals who have a Mixed Episode are going to be irritable and pessimistic but they are still at the same time going to have what we call flight of ideas or jumping from one idea to another. And they may have what we call psycho-motor agitation where they're moving around and very active as opposed to people who have a pure depressive episode: they tend to be lethargic and slow down. But a Mixed Episode is nothing more than having the symptoms of a Depressive Episode at the same time that you have symptoms of a Manic Episode. And it's usually going to be with irritable mood. And that's basically what a Mixed Episode is.


BiPolar Disorder - Information, Causes, & Treatment

About: Dr. Charles Sophy, F.A.C.N from vh1's "Celebrity Rehab" & "Sober House" explains the mood disorder, bipolar disorder. He explains the differences between bipolar I and bipolar II disorders and well as explains common conditions that are usually mistaken as Bipolar Disorder. Dr. Sophy goes over treatment options for people suffering from Bipolar Disorder.




A New Perspective On Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Mania, Hallucinations, and Delusion

 About: Bipolar In Order is based on a very simple premise: we can learn and grow to the point that we see our condition as an advantage in our lives. Because this concept is often difficult for many people to accept on blind faith alone, I encourage everyone to simply begin by accepting that this new perspective is possible. To make this perspective a reality requires persistence, determination, and commitment. If you will give this perspective a chance, you will prove it in your own life.

Stress and Emotions

  What is emotion one might say? Well emotion is what gets us by in our everyday lives. Emotion also helps indicate how we feel in appearance to others and if we have enough emotional intelligence we can understand our emotions on a level unique to our perceptions. Emotional intelligence is a difficult understanding of our own emotions and how we know what emotions we were displaying at any giving time. For example fast emotional intelligence is knowing what emotion you felt a couple of hours ago, slow emotional intelligence is knowing what emotion you where displaying a week later. Emotion in a strange way can also do damage to our body in several ways, one emotion like depression can cause our body to enter "I will make you sick to match your depressing symptoms."

  Here is a very interesting video on the emotions of men and yes I picked it so women could understand men to have feelings/emotions.

Men and emotions; men and feelings

This upcoming video is slightly different of what is emotion but it does explain what certain activities trigger or counteract other emotions. I still find the video insightful especially the parts when she states playing games stops depression and enhances other social skills as well.

Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life

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When game designer Jane McGonigal found herself bedridden and suicidal following a severe concussion, she had a fascinating idea for how to get better. She dove into the scientific research and created the healing game, SuperBetter. In this moving talk, McGonigal explains how a game can boost resilience -- and promises to add 7.5 minutes to your life.

Reality is broken, says Jane McGonigal, and we need to make it work more like a game. Her work shows us how.



 "If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.” - Jane McGonigal