A woman on TikTok is bravely sharing her experience living with schizophrenia.
Last week, she detailed her hallucinatory symptoms in a post that went viral with more than 5.1 million views on the social media app.
She employs her video editing skills to demonstrate the phenomenon — which she describes as seeing “black masses” rather than people.
“Most of what I will see is that [there is] a black shadow behind me — like this,” she says into the camera just before the footage cuts to a loosely formed silhouette standing before a doorway.
“Or I will see them peek around the corner — like this,” she continued, cutting away to show the same doorframe and her own face slowly peering beyond the threshold of the same doorway.
“This is a major reason why I don’t have doors [open],” she added. “They will look through the crack of the door and just stare at me. It’s f—king freaky.”
“Or I’ll be in my living room and they’ll be looking at me from the kitchen.”
While usually haunted by shadowy figures, she claimed to have also seen “zombie-like” visions in the past. “But I was really close to a…
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