does anybody have hallucinations all day of voices of people talking about you and and feel like people can hear your (intrusive) thoughts as if your speaking your thoughts through your nose when you breathe and that it makes it hard to function normally like i never want to leave the house because when i see people i think they want to rob me or kill me and when i hear people talking but cant understand completely than it gets warped into worse things than i could think
also i cant even eat at a restaurant without hearing everyone talking about me and feeling like everyone is watching me and i will do weird stuff like i look left look right than drink some water look at the menu than put my hands together under the table than i put my hands at my sides because i dont want people to think i am praying because i keep doing things over and over and the voices find any way possible to make me uncomfortable i felt like i was being tortured mentally when i was at a restaurant on my birthday about a week ago
the voices themself are not that loud right now i have noticed the last few times i have gone out i havent heard people talking about me as much maybe because i will think of the lyrics of a song over and over and try not to think of anything else but i am always anxious and paranoid and i cant even leave the house without wearing a hoodie or jacket even if it is really hot out because i panic when i think people see the scars on my arms because i hate being talked about but i was really bad mentally when i did it and now i feel like i am ■■■■■■ and can never go anywhere again
i feel like i am cursed and everybody just wants to push me far enough into killing myself and the only way i can get rid of it is if i go back on zyprexa but than i will be obese again and unhealthy and so i will have be alone forever but i will also be alone forever if i stay like i am now
i cant even sit in my own room without hearing voices through the walls and what sounds like people outside i know its not real but why me?!
Hello @sigarino meds are supposed to be effective for positive symptoms like:
auditory hallucinations, paranoia, intrusive thoughts etc.
I am on olanzapine(Zyprexa) 10 mg and it helps a lot with intrusive thoughts(and I don’t gain weight).
It is also good for me cognitively.
Is it possible for you not to gain weight on olanzapine(Zyprexa)?
Perhaps you will find some other medication that is effective for you and is as good as olanzapine without causing
weight gain or less weight gain?
What dose of olanzapine were you on when you tried olanzapine?
I think either try olanzapine again and try not to gain weight or try to look for a different medication
that is just as effective without causing weight gain.
i was on olanzapine 10 mg when i gained alot of weight but i was eating all day long and i didnt even try to diet i have been dieting for a while now and i track everything i eat with myfitnesspal and i am wondering if i still tracked what i ate and ate under maintenance calories on olanzapine if i would still gain weight but it was so hard for me not to eat alot on that med i think if when i get my dose of abilify raised if it still doesnt help than i will try that med again because it worked so well
When I was on respirdal I gained like 30 pounds in two months. Then on abilify I’ve managed to not gain more than 10 pounds and with the help of Wellbutrin have actually lost weight over the course of over four years. From what I’ve read online some antipsychotics cause more weight gain than others. Like latuda abilify and geodon cause the least amount of weight gain. I have to take 40 mg a day of abilify but doing so makes the hallucinations go away
Yeah until recently I had auditory hallucinations almost all the time. The only thing that helped was to have my focus on something else usually something also auditory, like a podcast, music etc.
It was like that for over 20 years and the things I heard drove me crazy sometimes.
I don’t know if your voices try to break you down mentally just, think if this were some ***hole I don’t know I wouldn’t care about their opinion. And really they aren’t even that. The problem was that they were so persistent.
I had the thing where it seemed like people could hear my thoughts, too. Like I would hear other people responding to them. I’m not %100 sure what made that stop. I know at some point I started strongly believing such a thing isn’t possible but idk if that had much to do with it stopping.
As others have said, there might be more ap’s for you to try.
Rexulti works for me but it’s super expensive and I doubt I could get it except that nothing else worked.
I’m able to lose weight on it.
You cope by going to your pdoc’s office and telling him/her all about it and saying “hey, I don’t like all this, I can’t live like this, help me!”
You can also cope by coming up with some coping skills of your own like:
listening to music or looking at art
creating music or art
reading
meditation
yoga or exercise
good nutrition
good sleep habits
socializing on a regular basis
getting out and enjoying nature
enjoying hobbies
sexual activity, shared or solo
volunteer or work activities
traveling
(You can think of others)
I suffer from intrusive thoughts too. Am watched and listened to 24/7. Have people inside my body. Feel like people get mad over these intrusive thoughts even though they are innocent but sound sinister.