Schizophrenia / mental illness simulations

As I began to look at the scene "Schizophrenic" the other day, I became interested in how to understand the bodily experience of a mental illness that is so extreme and enveloping (and foreign to me).

I started digging around YouTube and found that there is a whole pharmaceutical industry for creating educational videos and audio files of simulations of psychotic breaks and episodes. The content is used by psychology students and by psychological professionals to better understand mental illness outside of a dictionary definition. That being said, they are simulations, so they are not completely accurate. They use an aggregate of information collected from hundreds of interviews to create an "experience" grounded in the information sourced from patients.

These videos provided so much insight. 

***WARNING*** These videos are eerie and slightly disturbing (especially the audio and visual simulation). Please do not watch if a first person simulation of a pretty terrifying experience(video #2) OR if an audio file of voices whispering intensely upsetting things (video #3) might be uncomfortable or upsetting to you. Self harm is mentioned throughout these videos.

1. Four Patients with Schizophrenia (not a simulation):

I looked at the speech patterns and physicality of the patients in this video.

2. "A brief simulation of a schizophrenic psychotic episode".

3. Auditory Hallucinations typical of schizophrenia: