Hi, over the past few months I haven’t been feeling myself. I’ve had several medical test done and I’m physically healthy. I’ve been dealing with anxiety, a depressed feeling mood, and trouble concentrating at times. I thought it was just stress at first. Then I started getting audible hallucinations before falling asleep. This new symptom is what’s really concerning me. I’m almost 40 years old and never had any mental health issues before. It doesn’t run in my family either. Could this be the start of Schizophrenia? I’m going to have to get some professional help from someone soon.
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We couldn’t trace it to anyone in my family either. The audible hallucinations are a strong indicator in my eyes… but you should see a professional like you seem to already realize.
What is the hallucination like exactly? I could have sworn I heard a ‘voice’ early one morning say “Thingy” to me, which sounds consistent with how these things go.
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Are the e hallucinations while you’re falling asleep? Because those are called hypnogic and arent indicators of schizophrenia but of a possible sleep disorder or stress.
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The hallucinations when falling asleep or waking up could be normal. You can Google’s it. It’s got a name
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Hi MoonGarden,
They are sleep related hallucinations. It’s usually when I’m falling asleep and I don’t hear them throughout the day. I’ve been struggling with anxiety and stress lately.
Good to hear! I get those too but they are not symptoms of schizophrenia. Sz related hallucinations or psychiatric ones in general happen while awake and alert normally. I would encourage you to talk to a professional about your stress and anxiety though and about these hallucinations to rule out a sleep disorder.
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Thanks for the information. I’ll have to make a doctor’s appointment soon.
Hypnagogic hallucinations are often auditory or have an auditory component. Like the visuals, hypnagogic sounds vary in intensity from faint impressions to loud noises, like knocking and crash and bangs (exploding head syndrome). People may imagine their own name called, crumpling bags, white noise, or a doorbell ringing. Snatches of imagined speech are common. While typically nonsensical and fragmented, these speech events can occasionally strike the individual as apt comments on—or summations of—their thoughts at the time. They often contain word play, neologisms and made-up names. Hypnagogic speech may manifest as the subject’s own “inner voice”, or as the voices of others: familiar people or strangers. More rarely, poetry or music is heard.[15]
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They will have you tested for thyroid and brain tumor, to rule out first. If neither of those are the case, then welcome to the ride.
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