Realistic Schizophrenia Simulation - What it’s Like to Live With Schizophrenia - WEAR HEADPHONES

Five years ago I got diagnosed with schizophrenia. I made this video to hopefully reduce the negative stigma that surrounds having this diagnosis. Many of us are not violent in any way. We are just very overwhelmed and scared by all the hallucinations that we experience since we hallucinate things that are terrifying to us. For some of us it is like we are the main actor in a horror movie every day of our lives for us that have very severe schizophrenia. It’s like having a nightmare but you never wake up. When you have a nightmare you are relieved because you wake up since it was very scary. Sometimes with psychosis you never “wake up“ it is a horror movie nightmare that just keeps going. We also sometimes deal with stigma since people think we are violent or incompetent and this has a heavy weight on our minds or self-esteem. For me personally it makes me feel a bit sad that most of society thinks I am a violent psychopath who wants to hurt people. It makes me feel like I