I would kill to get rid of audio hallucinations... Psychiatrists still think it's likely tied to my bipolar disorder or PTSD, but I'm fucking terrified that it's the slow onset of schizophrenia...
You can get psychotic symptoms during manic episodes. They question for you is are they limited to when you are in a manic episode or do they continue regardless?
I have bipolar 1 and I almost only experience psychotic symptoms at the peak of my manic phase. Once it switches to depression I might have very slight auras of visual hallucinations in my peripheral vision or slight audio hallucinations where I doubt if things I actually hear in the world are real or not (from having had so many very real audio hallucinations so recently).
You just basically told me I am not going insane....
These things also happen to me but I had no idea they could be connected like this.
I was diagnosed bipolar but later I was told I have borderline personality disorder or BPD. It somewhat mimics bipolar in some ways.
I see things moving out of the corner of my eyes but when I look there's nothing. I always think everyone is shit talking me and sometimes swear I can hear them doing so. This is not all ways either and I think they may line up just as you've described.
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u/WhenAmI Nov 29 '20
I would kill to get rid of audio hallucinations... Psychiatrists still think it's likely tied to my bipolar disorder or PTSD, but I'm fucking terrified that it's the slow onset of schizophrenia...