I’m female and 27 years old. I don’t use any illicit drugs nor drink alcohol.
I am hyper vigilant when it comes to my family members and thinking something bad will happen.
I don’t know if this is just Generalized Anxiety Disorder (that’s what my Psych diagnosed me with) or if it’s totally something else.
I was too scared to tell my Psych about hearing voices because I was afraid they will try to put me in a psych ward (which I’m terrified of).
I have started hearing family members call my name randomly at home.
I go up to the person I thought was calling my name and ask if they called my name, but they say that they haven’t called my name at all.
Also, I have started hearing as if someone is falling or yelling for help at home upstairs.
I quickly run upstairs and find that everything is ok and nobody fell or was yelling for help.
When I go outside (I rarely go outside), I feel like the people that walk by me might hurt me or kidnap me. I can’t eat food that was prepared by someone that isn’t a family member. I do really feel someone will try to hurt me in a very bad way.
I always feel a sense of doom at all times. Like something disastrous will happen to me or family members.
I don’t like socializing with any strangers either. I feel like staying at home.
You should tell your pdoc about the voices, you won’t get hospitalized. The only reason to hospitalize you would be if you’re a danger to yourself or others, but that’s not the case. The worst case scenario, in your situation, would be trying lots of meds to see what works. On the best case scenario, you find one quickly.
We can’t diagnose you here, we’re not doctors.
Good luck
Definitely talk to your doctor. They won’t hospitalize you unless you are suicidal or violent. If you do have schizophrenia or another psychotic disorder, the earlier you start treating it, the better it will be.
Also, the typical medication for someone with anxiety is an anti-depressant. If you’re having hallucinations, this may not be the best choice. For a lot of us (but not all) anti-depressants make psychosis worse. If your doctor learns all of your symptoms, he will be able to more accurately prescribe you medication.
Yes, that qualifies as having auditory hallucinations. They are very mild now, so act now before they get worse. Mine started out in a similar way.
If you are hearing or seeing things that objectively don’t exist, those are hallucinations. But a surprisingly large percentage of otherwise healthy people have random hallucinations sometimes, which is why we say we can’t diagnose.
I don’t know if this is visual hallucinations, since I thought everyone sees this:
It happens when I look at something (it could be anything that I’m looking at) and the object starts to look like it’s shimmering in a way. Or pixels are moving around rhythmically.
Tell your doctor about all of it. Sometimes, seeing dead pixels in real things, or feeling your phone vibrate when it’s not even in your pocket, are just symptoms of living in the technical age. But he would be able to tell for sure.
I concur with everyone else on here. Tell your Psychiatrist everything, You won’t get hospitalized unless you are a threat to yourself or others. Symptoms are not a reason to hospitalize someone. Sounds like you’re having mild hallucinations. Good luck.
Thank you everyone. I was afraid of the stigma of hearing voices or seeing things differently.
That’s the only reason why I didn’t tell my Psych about it before
Hey, it’s alright to tell them. They’re mental health professionals, they’ve seen it before.They won’t stigmatize you, they’ll help you. You don’t have to tell other people if you don’t want to.
I haven’t been on here in a while, but I still hear someone calling my name. It sounds like both male and female voices.
I’ve also hear random mumblings of some foreign language that I don’t understand. Or I just don’t seem to have a way to decipher it.
I’m slowly telling my Psych about it. I also feel like the government is tracking me and spying…even at this exact moment.
I don’t know why. I’ve become very paranoid to the point of never leaving my room. Someone could be an Agent. Anybody could be.
This started happening at the end of last month. It’s scaring me.
I’ve been diagnosed with Anxiety but the medications don’t work with all this that I’m feeling or thinking.
I take Prozac, Klonopin, and Trazodone (for sleep).
The medications feel like I’m taking placebos. But the Trazodone knocks me out to sleep that’s for sure.
I’ve been going to this Psych for a year and was too scared to tell them about my delusions/paranoia for the longest time.
I am sick of hearing things when there’s nothing to hear or just staying home all day everyday except for Doctor Appointments because I feel there is an Agent or somebody there looking for me or following me…it really sucks.
