Dark silhouettes keep popping up around me, calling my name and telling me I can neither run nor hide from them. Sometimes when I wake up, one of them is standing above me and puts a hand over my mouth, and I can’t speak until it leaves. Does anyone here knows who they might be?
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Welcome to the forum.
Are you taking any antipsychotic medication at the moment?
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I know who they are.
They are products of your mind, friend.
Do you take any meds?
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Just harmless hallucinations. Your mind is not working right and nasty stuff from your subconscious is leaking into the conscious part of your mind. It seems and feels real, but it’s truly not. I have the same problem with thoughts of aliens monitoring me. Thirty years of being threatened by them and I’m still here and that’s because the hallucinations and delusions are not real and completely harmless. Antipsychotic medications and therapy got me over this hump.
Welcome to the community!
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I started to a few months ago
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That’s great ! I’m so glad to hear that!
Make sure you tell your psychiatrist what you told us though. You have to be 100% honest with your psychiatrist.
There’s lots of antipsychotic medications.
When I was on seroquel for instance, I still had stuff happening to me like you describe.
When I went back on Abilify it went away.
Finding the right meds is just personal trial and error. Meds affect everyone differently. One person’s miracle med is another’s downfall.
I have a date with my psychiatrist on Monday, and I’m planning on telling them. Though, the images and the voices have never been so vivid, like ever, and that’s why I’m currently struggling with it.
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I’m taking my meds as they were prescribed to me by my doctor. The images and voices are too real to simply be fake.
It doesn’t sound like your current meds (or dosage) is working too well. But I’m not a doctor.
Make sure you tell them everything on Monday. Ask them if they think another med or dose might be better.
I’ve never had so real hallucinations before in my entire life. It started as seeing normal people in places where they shouldn’t be, before it evolved into whatever this is. They now feel to real to be just a part of my mind playing tricks on me.
Thank you for having me😁
I get that. Sometimes pushing past the hallucinations is like walking on hot coals - it seems impossible until after you’ve done it a few times and the fear goes away.
I’ve pushed past hallucinations in the past, it just feels much harder to do so now
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I’m planning on being as honest as I can be and if it lands me back in the psych war, so be it
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