I have heard voices before, but no longer. When I do hallucinate, its visuals.
This comment struck me. When I was in the psych hospital for âsuicidal ideation,â I started having auditory hallucinations just like you described. It was like being in a crowded, echoey room where I couldnât make anything out. The doctors in the hospital said I was just âconfused,â and told me not to worry about it because as long as there werenât any voices telling me to hurt myself or anyone else, I was fine. A few months later, I was diagnosed with schizoaffective. Go figure.
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My pdoc told me this week he felt I met the criteria for sza-depressive because of the duration it lasted rather than depression with psychosis. I had auditory and visual and command hallucinations.
Me too⌠My voices told me last night that one of my ancestors was a shaman. Which is possible but weird.
My therapist used to call me names with the diagnosis without offering any good coping information or assistance for leaving a very abusive relationship â ânow you sound like a parnoidâ, âno you sound like a bipolarâ, ânow you sound like a borderline personality,â âTHATâS DELUSIONAL!!!â. She thought I should stay around a very violent abusive relationship that has eaten other patients there as the cops let this bunch catch a lot of people, and mental care here would not give specific advice to victims of thisâŚ
After seeing the psych ARNP at the county clinic lock up someone who had just a conversation such as you described because she was getting confrontational and lady gets arrested in front of her neighbors acting okay and hauled to the mental hospital to spent a few days at her own expense, sometimes long enough to lose job and housing, I havenât much to say. Here, if the care isnât working for you, you just make appointment with someone else and try it, then cancel appointment with old care provider. Acting like that call get you harmed.
I donât care what they call me, at least I get to go back to my house and do my own thing. Arguing is not worth the risk.
When I was in the psych hosp I felt another presence in the room with me. I didnât see him just felt like another person was there. What kinda delusion is that?
Ive never heard actual voices, like someone there speaking. Ive still been seen as hallucinated, because i have this internal voice who i argue with, and positivly hate. When i alledgedly had a psycosis in 2001 i thought Satan put it there. Other than that i have had visual hallucinations, such as seeing blood in my shampo, thinking another guy put it there ti infect me with hiv. I also have had olfactory hallucinations of forks being showd down my throat. I have schizophrenia (alledgedly).
Iâm schizoaffective myself and I occasionally hear voices. I more hear âexperiencesâ in my head if that makes sense. Like a situation will be devised in my head about reality. Less actually someone telling me âyouâre a joke to this lifeâ more of my brain showing me. But not like a visual hallucination either. Its very hard to explain I know.
Iâm schizoaffective depressive type. I donât hear voices I hear music and other noises like tones, ringers, buzzing and the like. I also feel like thoughts are put into my head.
Iâve had a schizo affective diagnosis for the last 21 years. In all of this time, my main symptom has been very severe paranoia that has not responded well to medication. In the early years, I never heard voices. If you would ask me, I would tell you that I didnât even know what that meant. In my later years, I began hearing voices on occasion but it was very infrequently and they were never bothersome. Recently, I have experienced an episode of bothersome auditory and visual hallucinations. This was treated successfully with injectable medications. Today, I am on three different anti psychotics, a mood stabilizer, and an anti depressant. And they work great.
These are the kind of voices I hear: a radio playing, sounding like a program running with a bunch of people talking with one narrator talking and overriding all the other talkers. And, like you, I can never make out what anyone is saying. I have only experienced visual hallucinations a few times in my life. All of these, extremely scary. I have also had paranoid delusions all of my life and delusions of reference. Now I am on
Respirdal Consta, Seroquel, Geodon, Tegretol, and Celexa. These drugs take good care of me.
I have more like intrusive thoughts a lot.