I’ve been getting loud thoughts. I can’t hear them but… Hmm I’d describe them loud I don’t know if that makes sense. This morning it was kill yourself however I’m not suicidal. Sometimes I feel them but forget. I also play music in my head
Hey ish, Are you back up to 7.5mg yet? You don’t seem to be having a good time on 5mg.
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In an auditory hallucination you actually believe that the noises are coming from an external source. During my manic episode I heard blasting loud classical music being played and I roamed around my apartment trying to figure out where it was coming from. I also heard “the voice of god” in my head that was commanding me. If you can determine that it’s just thoughts and not really auditory signals coming from an external source, then it’s not a hallucination.
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When I hear things, I hear them with my ears. I can even tell what direction they’re coming from. What you’re describing sounds more like intrusive thoughts, which can be just as serious and upsetting.
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You can hear them inside your thoughts or externally as someone else speaking from anywhere including positioned in the middle of your head as a psychiatrist explained to me when I asked.
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She refused to up them said it won’t help. Review in a week
My voices used to make a buzzing feeling on a spot on my head to show me where they were coming from.
Just more hallucinations
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They are very much like sound but its obvious im not hearing them with my ears… Though they are interactive they do their own thing…
If its something more reflective of your anxiety then its closer to being a thought… But even thoughts have a certain “sound” to them.
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My voices are outside of me. Very often behind me. Or in another room. I hear them as clearly as I’d hear real people say the same things.
I sometimes hear ultra sounds. I can feel my ears tingeling like there is noice but I can’t hear it clearly.
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Well make sure you tell them all was roses with 7.5 and on 5 you’re getting this stuff.
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My auditory hallucinations trigger delusions.
Typical hallucinations are voices that sound like they are in the same room or very near, like the room next to you. Mine range from women laughing at me to hearing the same three voices at night to seeing real people say things about me or to me.
Not okay- unless they’re to a minimum like at bedtime and you take meds to counter them like I do. Really, you need to see to this with your pdoc. I tolerate some at night like when I go to shower and then go to bed. It’s a minimum, I often hear noise like people in restaurants or anywhere really talking about me, and I brush it off. I even hear friends and family talk about me or see and hear people say things right to me, but I am able to tolerate it and then function regardless.
An example is when I was at autozobe getting a headlight fixed and a guy said I was smoking a few cigarettes a day and the other guy said whatever he runs every day. Other example is last night when I got in the shower I heard the same three voices I’ve heard for years telling me things and such.
Then bed and 2mg Xanax and melatonin and an episode of attack on Titan on my phone and night night go to sleep at 1030 wake up at 6 feeling alright, then meds coffee breakfast another med two cigarettes and then wait for cereal to digest so I can go workout. Then be done at 10 and then run to corner store and a drive through and then it’s study after lunch until 8 with dinner at 630 then shower and argue with my reflection, bed and then night night meds and another episode of attack on Titan.
It’s hard but I learn a lot and am healthy. Voices and crap, hallucinations can take a hike. Gotta either take meds until they’re gone or take meds to where they are mostly gone and then live.
I take the less is more approach. I live with some symptoms so that I can not suffer from debilitating side effects. I could just take more and be vegetative but that’s not worth my time.
Therapy can teach you how to live with a little hallucinating here and there.
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This works for me too. But when things get too ‘loud’ that’s why earphones were invented to blast those beasties back to hell. yea they may say random stuff, or bad stuff, just try to ignore them.
That you can talk about it means You are in control.
Some times you can also read and that helps a one track mind stay on track. If you can’t read, its back to music for the moment.
I read a book long ago, Hope and Help for your Nerves by Clair Weeks.
Its been around for a while so there are copies for 25 cents, I think it would work for you like it did for me.
I think it was her that talked about the ‘listening’ posture.
kinda like if you expect to hear things, you will… so don’t try to listen, do something else.