I’ve been getting this more lately. We’re faces such as pictures on Facebook or on a magazine or a phone moving a lot like the head moving and looking at me and smiling all in slow motion. And icons moving a lot. It used to happen now and then but for maybe the past six months it’s been getting more and more. And small objects moving
What kind of help are you getting? Are you on medication or seeing a doctor?
Get to see a psych every 3 month, That’s how little Mental Health Care is available but is a good doctor and is sending me for test in between. I’ve had an MRI that was clear and an EEG that was clear. I go to outpatient groups at a hospital, and I have a caseworker. And I’m on medication, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder 6 years ago but have had such a decline in my life went from working in a well-paying career to being off work and finding difficulty to do the things I used to like to do and not able to live like the person that I am. They’re doing lots of tests and I did get to see a neurology specialist but he just did a one-hour interview and now I’m waiting to keep seeing my psychiatrist and they are trying to put pieces together I guess not wanting to misdiagnose me. I read the reports. There is a lot going on with me and so far the things that are being looked at are things like a seizure disorder, a neurodegenerative disease, Sza, bipolar 1 w/ psychosis, Sztyp, GAD… I have a lot of cognitive decline and if it wasn’t for my previous level of intelligence and skill set and work then I would probably be in a lot worse off. I’m on medication and it’s just trying different things but the meds started out from bipolar disorder and I don’t know what’s going on with my functioning or if they can do anything with that everything feels like so much work and I can’t handle organizing anything some days let alone my own day. My doctor just added clonazepam to my meds and it is helping me in the sense that I have anxiety but it’s like I accept my anxiety and I don’t try as hard to fight to get through the day and accept that i cant do what I used to do. It slows me down and relaxes my muacles. Hard to explain but it’s helping anxiety I was just hoping that I would be more productive or functional with it.
Sorry for the long messages I use voice to text and it’s just easier and less frustrating for me. I wanted to ask if that happens to you, the faces moving a lot like say pictures advertising a TV show etc
I see things moving that are not really moving. I used to think that I could perceive the atomic structure of things (because at the atomic level everything is moving)… It doesn’t interfere with anything I do so it doesn’t seem like a problem to me.,
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Yeah it doesn’t bother me except it takes me by surprise sometimes. Otherwise it can be slightly entertaining because it blows my mind that it’s even happening. Sometimes I worry I have all timers because so many of my symptoms are like that. I know I shouldn’t worry about those things but weird to feel your mind messing around like that. Thanks for letting me know
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Hmm. I’ve been getting freaky images too. If I look at myself in a mirror,it looks like I’m wearing a mask. And I swear the reflection is smiling at me but I’m not. So I don’t look in mirrors much. My bathroom has 3 big ones. It gets worse if I don’t take meds.
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Yeah that would scare me from looking in the mirror aND seeing mu self change. I would find it scarier than how I see things move shift change.
can you say eye strain …move for me too…
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Do u mean it strains your eyes?
When I was a little kid I would see paintings come to life. Crazy Harry Potter stuff that. Sometimes I do see that as well, it looks like a face very slowly shifts so it’s looking at me. Creepy.
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YES. That’s what I see slowly shifting. Turning head completely turning smiling at me. Tilting head. When a full picture body moves. Pictures seem real. On Internet etc. It has been happening more lately. Sometimes worry I am getting Ahlzeimers. They are ruling out early onset neurodegenerative disease.
I feel for you @Insightseeker, i have had a similar rapid decline from high intelligence and high functioning to someone who has trouble managing simple tasks in a day at times. It took a few years and many many many med changes until i started to feel somewhat normal again.
I have issues seeing things move and wiggle constantly. I have poor vision to begin with, especially in the dark, and have had massive eye trauma from electrical arc explosion in my face. My visions of things moving and wiggling and shaking has gotten much worse since the trauma and becomes overwhelming when im overly tired and havent had good sleep for a few days, as i have issues sleeping. The minor motions start to become bigger and more prevelent hallucinations the more strained my eyes get, but because of the hallucinations it becomes harder to get the rest my eyes probably need.
Im Actually having that trouble right now as the visual hallucinations have been coming on strong past few hours and im finding it hard to concentrate on anything when something in my periphal is always moving and drawing my focus. Prob have to take a few extra colozapam and just hope to get some sleep.
I wish you well for your search for a dx @Insightseeker, it can be a tough road to find answers and a proper diagnosis and treatment.
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Poor guy were all mentaly ill here
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Thanks for sharing the empathetic statements. Yeah its been a lot to adjust to. It’s hard. I try to be optimistic though about other things. But no one really gets it bc I was so highly functioning before and involved in many area… apparently they ‘just don’t get it’ … ‘hard to understand’ … ’ doesn’t make sense’… this is the only place I don’t feel so alone in my ’ symptoms’ or ‘new way of life / survival’. Sometimes it’s hard for people to understand when I am incompetent bc of how unwell I am bc I have scripting and articulation and phrases I use from my career. Sorry for the ramble. Thanks.
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Its def not easy @Insightseeker. Just try and stay positive, it does help i feel. I went from owning and running a successful lighting design company since i was 20 yrs old. I had multiple crews of employees, i did all the sales, design work, logistics, book keeping, etc. To now being unable to work at all and being overwhelmed by a grocery store trip. Its a difficult pill to swallow most of the time knowing what i had accomplished in the past and knowing what i have trouble with now. Just stay focused on the who you are now, not who you used to be. Stay focused with a positive outlook on who you can be in the future, be patient with your treatment, and have faith that you can get better. It wont be easy but recovery is possible as long as you are persistent.
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Seeing people animals and objects in pictures and see them moving like breathing turning their heads or eyes towards me and stuff used ti happen a lot to me as a child but never payed attention to it i knew it wasn’t “normal” but it didn’t harmed me so i ignored it at some point that stopped and since yesterday that started again ofc now I have internet to google my questions and practically nothing came up just this but still don’t know i know nothing but I see I’m not the only one
I think I invited you Mr. Tumness, how are you anyway;?;
Sorry old friend 
Sometimes just looking at pictures with a quick glance and it’s moving or when I see their Face are looking at me but when i look again, they’re looking away from me. It’s really weird most of the time freaks me out