What causes this with our illness. Some nights just fell like bugs all over me. It’s a horrible felling.
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I don’t think I’ve ever had tactile hallucinations, but bugs sound like the worst one to get.
It’s a horrible felling it’s like you’re bodys being touched or something its horrible. Just don’t understand how it happens.
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yeah I get those when I’m trying to sleep, hard to sleep with bugs crawling on me feeling, once I went off meds for a few weeks and saw, heard and felt a hallucination of a roach crawling on my face.
It’s so strange…its like little bugs…usually happens when my meds run low.
In my opinion tactile hallucinations are the worst. I’ve had visual, auditory and tactile and tactile just wins hands down. Like sure I’ve seen scary things and near had a heart attack. I’ve heard scary things and near had a heart attack. But FEELING yourself being hurt, or sexually assaulted? And having no power to stop it? And due to fear of this basically having to do whatever your voices say because they can physically destroy you if you don’t? That was an absolute nightmare.
Mine don’t go that far…but it’s like a felling you can fell coming on then you lie down and it’s creepy crawly time.
wow. Tactile hallucinations sound terrible. I have never had them. I DO know what it’s like to be afraid that the ‘voices’ (what I believe to be humans controlling my brain) can hurt you and being at their mercy. It’s awful.
I’ve felt my hair be ripped out, felt someone’s nails dig into my skin, felt like I’d been punched in the stomach, stabbed, electrocuted, had sensations of drowning, being strangled, molested, raped, etc. The mild tactile hallucinations are just of maybe feeling a hand on my cheek or forehead or feeling fingers lightly tickling different areas of my body.
It’s just horrific. Staying calm and rational during those times is incredibly difficult if not impossible.
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My goodness…I can’t imagine. That sounds atrocious. My greatest discomfort is horrible fear. Fear that the people controlling me will terrorize me. Even worse, I agreed to being studied and terrorized before they made me forget (via technology) so I am almost terrorizing myself. It’s such an awful feeling. I’m always scared. Mostly it’s manageable but it has been disabling at times. I don’t remember (they made me forget cuz I told them they could) and I don’t know what is coming. They have hurt and controlled me before so I am afraid. That’s the MAIN reason I take my meds. PARANOIA. Plus they ‘tell’ me to take them. It’s part of the brain study. There are some ‘perks’ to my delusion (I responded to your other thread) but the fear sucks AZZ.
Yeah I’ve dealt with a lot of the fear too so I absolutely understand how awful and unpleasant that is to constantly truly believe you’re in danger.
That was my favorite thing about being on an antipsychotic actually. Totally took away that irrational fear.
That was about the only thing I liked about antipsychotics everything else about being on them was miserable 
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The side effects suck but the reduction in horrible paranoia makes the meds worth it. I’m glad they are helping you
Tactile hallucinations can be horrifying, but if it’s just the sensation of bugs crawling on you, it could be medication-related. Withdrawal can cause the same feeling, so if it only happens when you run out of meds, it’s probably that.
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