I just recently got diagnosed with schizophrenia. Years before any real symptoms, I can specifically remember experiencing tactile hallucinations. For a while it felt like hands were around my neck when I would lay down to go to sleep. They weren’t choking me, I could just feel the presence of something else there that wasn’t suppose to be. I would have to bunch up covers and rest them under my chin just to distract myself enough to fall asleep. I have also experienced sleep paralysis. I was a teenager back when it first happened, I asked my grandfather what it was, he said ‘the witch was riding me.’ Since my diagnosis, I experience tactile hallucinations that are sexual in nature. Back before I sought treatment, the voices would terrorize me with just about anything under the sun. My thoughts were so freakin abnormal, scary, I thank God I was delivered from the insanity! Psychosis and a delusional mind are not happy place to be.
The sexual tactile’s I still experience don’t bother me. It’s the least they could do after the terror they put me through in the past!
Hi @dap_delus Welcome to the community. I hope you will like it here. It’s a very supportive environment.
I suffer from tactile and auditory hallucinations, too. But recently, I’ve experienced more tactile hallucinations. They are hands on my legs (sometimes sexual). But, I also feel sharp implements like knives and needles. I also get - and it’s strange - gerbils jumping around my legs. It’s a horrible feeling. And the sharp implements cause pain, physically. So, I can really relate to what you are conveying. I hope we both feel much better soon.
I experienced sexual tactiles too for a very long time except mine bothered me tremendously. It was accompanied by abusive voices that would harm me if I didn’t obey. I ended up with ptsd from it.
Thankfully my medication made it go away. I hope you can get on good meds to make all your scary stuff go away too.