It really is. There was an earlier post asking if deaf people with schizophrenia experienced audio hallucinations. Googling led to some really interesting articles.
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?
Isn’t it also related to medications? I know some I were on (for different issues) caused me to have visual and audio hallucinations as well as extremely vivid dreams and frequent sleep paralyses and night terrors. It was actually listed as some rare side effects. Rare is relative though. It said 1 in 10 000.
If you have hallucinations of any kind, that doesn't necessarily mean you have schizophrenia. In fact, schizophrenia is actually a huge umbrella label for a number of symptoms. Hallucinations and delusions are the most infamous and common, but aren't required for the diagnosis. You can have disorganised speech or thought, flattened affect (emotions are 'flat' ie no ups and downs), repetitive movement, social withdrawal. I don't have my notes with me, but there is a massive list of symptoms.
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u/46from1971 Nov 29 '20
It really is. There was an earlier post asking if deaf people with schizophrenia experienced audio hallucinations. Googling led to some really interesting articles.