Hallucinations? Am I The Only One?

[wildfirewildone]

:hello:I just saw my psychodoc today....I asked him about the hallucinations...audio and video....that I experience when my stress level is blown....He said it's all PTSD....So if you're wondering.....If you experience these....it's merely PTSD.....not an additional illness....He's a great psychodoc!!!! Sooooo I tend to really take his word for it!!!! ......GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

 

[lrs]

In my first treatment center, I was diagnosed as severely schizoid, or schizoaffective. I was told that in my case my life was exactly as though I was truly schizophrenic.

 

[suzette]

I have had hallucinations from as early as I can remember, and a psychologist once told me it was because of ptsd. I had a kidney disease when I was very young and would get really sick, in and out of hospitals, high fevers to the point of convulsions. When I would get the high fevers, I would hallucinate, typical hallucinations associated with fevers (objects morfing), but I would always also have the same hallucination about people with no faces, just white, and I was really small in size, in a room that was really large, feeling alone and scared. The doctor said it was ptsd, and I still get those hallucinations when I am really tired or scared. I hate them, and at one point I thought I was going crazy...depending on my stress..these dreams or hallucination can last for a long time, they are really scary and I usually will have to keep the lights on or blink my eyes a lot.

 

[bbsirena]

Me Too and New

Hello--

New to this tremendous network.

I have complex PTSD diagnosed 2 years ago. Right before I was diagnosed, I was sitting in my living room and saw these little black figures with hoods walking across my front lawn. I made up they were vitreous floaters and went to the eye doctor. Of course, my eyes were just fine.

Since then I am aware of the figures off to the sides of my eyes during periods of prolonged stress--like now as I grieve the death of my husband/ex-husband/friend of 41 years.

My first inclination is not to pay attention to them--deny them, because they are scary. And I am learning now to pay attention to them because for me they mean that I am getting too close to the edge of the stress and vulnerable to spilling over into rage or some other manifestation of the PTSD. I believe they are signals from the depths of my nervous system. The more I ignore them and why they are there, the worse I feel and the harder I am on myself.

 

[Deleted member 93]

Welcome to the forum, bbsirena.

 

[Awakening]

I went looking for this thread, because last week my auditory ones have increased.
I don't see hallucinations, although sometimes I see demons/devil/grim reapers if my eyes are shut but I'm in between the wake/sleep stage.

My auditory ones - I have the jewellery box with the ballerina - I cannot believe someone else has that! It's this horribly tinny sound - but I also see the jewellery box & is related to my trauma as this is where I have a memory of my uncle approaching me whilst playing with the jewellery box on a dressing table.

I also have other ones possibly connected to trauma.

But the ones bothering me - the purpose of this post - is I hear voices, not in my head, outside of my head, although they don't exist. They are NOT talking to me, more like over hearing a conversation. Other times it sounds like people talking on a radio, or over a loudspeaker. Random conversations.

I'm also hearing people calling my name - not yelling, whispering it. I turn around and of course no one is there.

I've been really stressed lately so I wonder if that's it?

 

[Deleted member 93]

If you have been more stressed than usual and these increasing I think it is a safe bet. Me smelling the fires is always a quick indicator that I am having too much stress and a sign to slow down and give myself some TLC.

 

[EmoxxKid]

I see shit out of the corner of my eye aswell. Never anything super formed or...anything I could call something for sure....

Meaning...

It's not really enough to say.."Yep....I just saw a flying dog to my left..."...lol

I have never herd any conversations or saw anything that others right next to me didn't see. I still feel like I am ALWAYS going nuts.....My mother had schizophrenia and .....well.....alot of my PTSD has to do with her...I simply and utterly hate the thought of becoming like her....


So....perhaps this is why I kinda see things.....who knows..

Perhaps the same for you..

Geneva