“As soon as that shit made sense, I had to gtfo” lmfaoooo

“How’s that working” “It’s not working” I laughed so hard

Well done boys we did it we’ve taken the schizophrenia meds and the voices are gone! Boys?

As a paranoid schizophrenic, I found the "It's not working" part hysterical. Cudos to that guy lol.

"He'd show up in a cab, demand they pay for it, they didn't, he threw a brick through the window" killed me

"He pulled up in a cab, he wanted them to pay, they wouldn't so he'd throw a brick through their window." 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

My uncle had schizophrenia. While he was staying with my auntie, she came home one day to find her living room wall torn out. He decided she needed a fireplace. Another day, there was a dead bird in her kitchen which he insisted he was bringing back to life. The guy was wild. So loving and giving and creative. My poor auntie though. She really just never knew what she was walking in to.

Hope he has Ryan back onto the podcast. Really enjoy it

He almost made it to the end without mentioning DMT

Guys, schizophrenia is about an inability to discriminate between reality and your own thoughts. It isn't multiple personality disorder.

This is one of the funniest stories I've ever heard I come back and listen to it every now and then and crack up laughing everytime!

Schizophrenia is a deeply disturbing disease and horribly sad for those that suffer from it. My late brother had it.

His laugh was killing me.

Schizophrenia? More like schizofriendia. **voices agree**

Sickler has a million good stories. Makes me laugh every time.

I found this really interesting. My brother bless his heart is schizophrenic and one night when I was trying to talk to him on the phone about the soldiers performing military maneuvers outside his apartment… I spent like four hours on the phone with him trying to talk him down and then when I got off the phone with him I went outside to clear my head and the stars were moving around in the sky. It was as if his condition was contagious to me. It was really strange. This explains that I think

Lol imagine eddie bravo talking to the cousin

"how much you smoking now?" "I'm down to 7 packs a day"

Easily one of my favorite stories. Ryan Sickler is hilarious.

I've been a jre listener since 2010 and I think this is going to go down as one of the greatest segments in its history.

Joe "woah" rogan Edit- Joe whoagan

This dude's laugh is so contagious. He sounds just like a little boy getting away with some serious shit.

The term Joe was looking for is "folie a deux." It's a French term that means "madness shared by two." It's used to explain the contagious nature mental illness can have on people exposes to it

My cousin use to stutter a lot and when I was around him for multiple hours a day I started stuttering too lmao. He’s better now

My older brother has been diagnosed with bi polar schizophrenia since he was 5 (he’s 27 years old today) and let me tell you its a trip... I love him to death but just know life for people with this condition can be a living helllll. I love you bro

Allophrenia is a Greek word meaning "another's crazy". Really impressive for Joe to know the Greek terminology for shared psychotic disorder syndrome.

This guy is an awesome storyteller. Could listen all day

I had a paranoid schizophrenic aunt that asked me to get her high once I said no I didn't have any so I scraped my bowls and got some resin I smoked it with her then she kicked me out for smoking in the house true story

I watched my very cool and normal friend go from normal to diagnosed schizophrenia after taking way too many hallucinogens too many times. Went from looking all Abercrombie to looking all homeless. But with help he became the same friend I knew before the disease. However, the unfortunate thing is he developed cancer very young and left us around 35 years old. RIP Jay. Always love you brother.

My dad had Schizophrenia and he was never serious, always laughing, he never worried or showered, he heard things on the roof and would laugh spontaneously, He was so smart but would talk for days about the same thing. My brother and I in Elementary copied our dad lol. Ya People were like what the hells going on with these weird kids lol. We loved him so much, he died in a motor vehicle accident and someone under the influence. At his funeral people would say, It is good he isnt suffering anymore. It hurt because I never seen him suffering. Actually that's not true, if he didnt show up at the Hospital, the police would take him to go get his needle once a month. He really disliked it but apparently it worked, hate to say it. Thank you for the video.

To explain the cigarette thing: in Med class we learned Schizophrenia and smoking are highly correlated. This is probably because smoking causes Schiz but rather it is thought people with Schiz have low/dysfunctional acetylcholine ( a neurotransmitter in the brain). Nicotine in cigarettes is the exogenous version of acetylcholine and binds to its receptor. So it is thought that smoking in schizophrenia is a form of unconscious self-medication to counteract dysfunctional acetylcholine neurotransmitter functioning.

I remember listening to this in the background a year and a half ago while I was lost playing Star Wars KOTR. Great story

Joe "Tube of consciousness" Rogan

“It’s not workinHEAEUEshUesahuEhH!!!” 1:46

Ryan is a GREAT storyteller.

People won’t understand why he pronounced Baltimore like Baldamore, bc he’s a native.

There's a huge correlation between homelessness and schizophrenia.

Watching this makes me fear that I’m insane and I created a normal world around me

My brother in law was a perfectly normal guy at 22. Went out one weekend and got wrecked on acid and it triggered his schizophrenia- had to go into the psych ward in the hospital for a couple weeks and he remains on heavy medication. Poor guy has never been the same since.

Good thing about Sickler is he's always engaged in the conversations. Not just waiting his turn to talk w his thought all ready to go

Conclusion: Playing lacrosse makes you schizophrenic

Imagine being an mma fighter that could hypnotize his opponents mid-fight

I don't know why I keep coming back to this video, been like 4 times over these two years. Guess I really like the story.

It's both funny and touching...Man, serious mental diseases are such a tough, tough affliction, both for the one suffering through them and their families/friends.

Schizophrenia is now contagious because hypnosis. Got it. Thanks Joe.

10 minutes into the talk Joe can't wait to bring DMT

I worked in a county hospital in the 90’s as a Medical Assistant in the Geriatric Pshych ward and having a conversation with a schizophrenic person was an amazing experience.

I could listen to this guy tell stories all day 🤣

This made my whole morning, I laughed so hard. My mother is schizophrenic and you have to laugh about it once in a while

My brother was like this too he died in '16 RIP

Sickler has the most awesome and contagious laugh 😂😂❤ love hearing his stories ❤️ so much lol 😆

What you're talking about Joe is a true empath. True empaths are meant to absord illness and heal

In ten years that dude would have smoked just over 25 thousand cigarettes.

Psyhedelics are like the elder scrolls. If the feeble mind gazes at the mystery enough, they go insane .

Sickler's energy just makes me happy. If ya' all don't listen to his podcast the honeydew, you're missin' out.

The brick through the window took me out. 😂😂😂

There was a young guy in my town who was on the cusp of turning pro in skateboarding, but he also was heavily into selling acid. After he got on the radar of the cops and DEA, they went in to bust him. So instead of getting caught with the contraband, he ate a whole sheet of acid and it immediately fried his brain and put him on a permatrip. They never found the drugs, so he was let loose. He would walk around town with a backpack with half of a skateboard in it just talking and ranting about everything. I don't know what became of him, but it was a sad tale. It got me out of doing psychedelics ever again.

What Joe is talking about is called “folio a deux” or shared insanity. If I remember correctly, a book I read quite a few years ago said that the delusions of a psychotic person can be taken on by a person who does not have psychosis if the two people are left together in isolation for long periods of time (e.g. they are in jail together). The person who does not have psychosis begins to lose his sense of reality when he gets cut off from outside sources of information or feedback from people who do or share in the delusion.

This poor dude Thank you for helping people understand more

Life wouldn't be worth living without joes podcast. Nuff said

“Hon is short for Honor, HON!” Aunt Margaret

That hun part had me dyiiing. Hahaha. So did most of the story and Ryan's laugh was a huge part of my reason for crackin' up. Great dude. Great episode.

Am I the only one who has watched this video a ton of times? It’s so funny how he tells this story. Ryan’s laughs is too contagious

I care for my 47 year old brother. He is manic, paranoid schizophrenic. Every day is busy. I don't allow meds to lower the manic. The flip side of that is he is a zombie. He does take meds. That has to be adjusted often. Other than that. He is very healthy. Jogs 3 miles a day, works out, everyday. It can be so hard sometimes! But we push through and keep moving.

Why are you trying to watch tv with the radio on???? I like to party --Cal Naughton

My birth mother was schizophrenic but I was raised by my aunt and uncle. I studied psychiatry and psychology as soon as I could read. The research at the time suggested that not being exposed to her schizophrenic state exponentially lowered my chances of developing the same state.

My friend was diagnosed as a paranoid Schizophrenic at the age of 20. Totally different person It scares me how quick change can be

That's so nuts.. My father was a paranoid schizophrenic and everything that Ryan guy said I can relate to.. My dad LOVED smoking fuckin cigarettes, like just lived to smoke, like yeah a carton over 2 days type loved it.. He also had constantly paranoid thoughts even when he was medicated properly, used to say that someone knocked on his walls when he was trying to sleep, that he was going to be kidnapped, someone was looking for revenge over something he read about 20 years ago.. just sad, crazy stuff.. when I was young he called me at my mother's house and had gotten to a city 600kms away from his town and he couldn't find his shirt.. He didn't explain why he was there just kept asking me for his shirt.. I was about 10 yrs old.. It got worse for him over the last few years and he hung himself in his laundry last March.. I lived across the street from him, and I still couldn't help him in the end.. It's a pretty fucked up disease I can tell you that..

I took an absolutely massive dose of LSD at 20. I meant to take 3 hits , but the guy with it had it in a breath mint dropper, and he accidentally squirted a massive stream in my mouth. Who knows how much? 30 hits? More ? Less? I was tripping harder at 20 mins than at a peak of a 2 hit trip. I completely died, merged with all of existence, I was in a state of psychosis for several years afterward, and ill still never completely grasp reality, any little thing can fling me back into the void. My understanding of the nature of my exsistence is overwhelming, ignorance is bliss. Becareful , youll find what youre looking for, but you might not like it. Its beautiful, but so lonely.

I could listen to Ryan for hours, he needs his own show. Damn... haven’t laughed so hard in a long time 😂😂

Joe is right. You don't fight it. You go with the flow. You just need to be happy and enjoy all of the cool images and listen to some great chill music.

I had to come bk to this bc I live in Baltimore & now every time I go down Eastern Ave. I laugh to myself thinkn abt these stories. Its always good to look bk n laugh at crazy family situations that probably wasn't funny at the time but is hilarious now. We all hv those funny memories of our crazy relatives.

Make this into a JRE Toon

I’m literally watching this to see Ryan laugh, my god best laugh ever

One of my favorite talks on the podcast

Love the analysis and the spirit bro!

Joe "have you ever been hypnotized" Rogan

Acid and mushrooms I can see that, triggers something in your consciousness that you can't undo and it will change your life with no do overs....

*I went to high school with a guy that sold acid and was eating it all the time. My little brother was friends with his brother and about 5 years later he was GONE. Totally lost his mind from doing too much acid. It's a sad thing.*

These dudes are a blast, love it!

This is probably one of my favorite episodes, such amazing storytelling

I love that Joe respects when others are talking. I think all should take a note. We miss a lot when we dont listen

I come back to watch this every few months. Still as funny as the first time I heard it🤣

My older bro suffers from this and he’s locked up, this illness is no joke people it’s very very heartbreaking to see a family member deal with it, their perception of reality is so different from ours

This is officially one of my favorite Joe Rogan clips

My uncle is also paranoid schizophrenic and he smokes the exact same way and would smoke an entire carton if you let him. He was also mentally about 13 or so and I think that made it easier for us to get him to always take his meds. I miss him so much.

That laugh tho

I've never met 2 Schizophrenics the same, but they all share poetry & art.

He's right mental illness isn't funny. BUT people also don't realize the healing power of comedy. When you can find the humor in something it makes it so much easier to cope with. The last time I had a break was just a few months ago, I was about to quit my job buy an acre of land in the woods. I was going to build a log cabin and my wife and I were going to retire quietly in the mountains. Keep in mind, I grew up in the city so have zero survival skills. I've never built anything in my life, AND this was in the middle of a Minnesota winter. My wife picked me up from work and brought me to the ER to be seen. They sent me home and I took some time off work. Seriously you can laugh it's funny 🤣

My grandfather is schizophrenic and he used to smoke a lot. He would short out his cigarettes at the same point every time and stack them really nicely in the big ceramic ashtrays. For decades. Then one day about 5 years ago he decided he didn’t want to smoke anymore and he quit. He’s done some interesting things also.

Dude we need him back on that whole podcast was hilarious !

Poor guy, glad the family still hung out with him

I can relate to this situation a lot . I had the occasional funny moments , when dealing with a friend's illness , but the waste of talent , which accompanied that illness , makes me quite sad . Around 20 years ago now I attended a drama school . We had a crazy bunch of characters , some who appeared normal turned out too be nuts , some people who seemed crazy , turned out too be quite wise underneath a layer of outward madness . One guy was wanted in Scotland for beating his ex up , although I never really got to the bottom of that particular story , he was a charming person , who upon closer inspection , had narsassistic traits . But in relation to your cousin , I do remember a lovely man called Warren in my year . He was funny , quirky and a little off the wall . He had done a lot of drugs in his life before attending this degree course , so he was a bit of an unknown quantity when it came to concentration on a play . Anyway , as the course progressed through it's first year into the second year , he started to act up . He would do press ups and sit ups in class , while someone else was up doing a scene . He would talk to himself at times , like we all do , only it wasn't an inner voice , it was voiced out loud . Pretty soon he became a liability , so it was obvious he would be removed from the school . Only , despite the situation of his bizarre behaviour being an issue , he kept turning up for classes . Only every day he turned up he looked worse and worse . Finally one day , he never showed up . It turned out he was wise to the hospital trying to section him , so he wasn't going back to his council flat , but sleeping by the station . Eventually the butterfly nets managed to capture him , in order that he be given a thorough assessment , so treatment could allow his mind to stabilize . Like your cousin , warren had such potential , yet the drug use either was the trigger for mental illness , which might never have never shown itself , or mental illness was inevitable. Sadly I never saw hm again . I've heard that he died , but have never been able to confirm it . He was a lovely guy , who's life was somehow compromised in some ways by drug use . So while drug use may appear a bit if fun , it's a hell of a lottery when it comes to the affect on your well being .

When Joe talks about thinking a car would come crashing down. I get thoughts like that, but they're always like "How to react to this event" kinda shit to keep me on my toes. It's a symptom of my anxiety that keeps me aware of potential what if scenarios. I find myself daydreaming about shit that may never happen, just to know how to react. It's like a survival instinct.

11:26 Joe's concern is too real 😂

By far my favorite clip ever from this pod cast

I don’t know why but this is one of the funniest clips I come back to regularly.

Joe "I had a dmt trip once" Rogan

This is probably my favorite moment in Joes show, the part about the taxi makes me lose it every time.

I thought he was talking about apophenia, but it's allophrenia (shared psychosis.) What he's also saying about hypnosis is true, as I've known people that was called on stage that worked for my dad for a wedding event (completely unconnected to the hypnotist) and he was screwing a table and told it was his girlfriend. He had no recollection of anything.