The bugs that no one sees but us

[Punky143]

Ok, I'll start out by saying I have did so if I should say " we" that's why. Seeing bugs that apparently don't exist despite being evaluated is one of the worst symptom of major depression and anxiety. It fuels the two because all we want is for someone to believe us. We spend upwards of an hour online trying to figure out what else could it be and come up with nothing. It's so bad lately that we resort to medication. That does help but we can only take what's prescribed. A lot of stressful things are happening now some even life changing although nothing is happening now. We give to others all the time without expecting anything in return. The things that once mattered to us don't anymore because we simply don't have the energy or desire. We try and we don't feel any different. Seeing bugs and feeling them is hell because we're told often that nothing is on us. We long for the day we can tell others "we told you so" but what good is that. Maybe to be told they understand. But for now, nothing is changing and we must hide the hell from others to see. One more thing to hide from others and the list continues to grow. Not because we want it to, it's because the people I'm surrounded by just don't understand without judgement. We've tried but we've been rejected every time. Does anyone else out there suffer from the same thing? How do you deal with it? I just want to feel less alone and more understood by someone.

 

[Movingforward10]

Hmmmm....do you think people are lieing to you about the bugs not existing?
Or are you having hallucinations?


If it's the first one: bugs do exist but people are trying to make out they aren't: can you get those people out of your life and get help with the bugs?

If it's the second: that you are hallucinating that bugs are there, do you need another medication review to help with that? Or another evaluation?
If we are seeing things that aren't there, that's a sign that something is wrong and it needs care and attention for you to feel better and for the hallunications to stop.

I'm sorry it's happening. It sounds a difficult and distressing place to be.

 

[Ecdysis]

It's a pretty common hallucination to "feel" and "see" insects that aren't there. It can definitely be a psychological phenomenon. Have you tried taking any neuroleptics or anti-psychotic medication to help with symptoms like that?

Imaginary Insects and Real Problems

Imagine… your carpet is infested with fleas, your scalp is crawling with lice, or bed bugs are creeping across your body. Do you feel itchy, even a little bit?

www.psychologytoday.com

Delusional Parasitosis - MN Dept. of Health

www.health.state.mn.us

 

[Punky143]

It's a pretty common hallucination to "feel" and "see" insects that aren't there. It can definitely be a psychological phenomenon. Have you tried taking any neuroleptics or anti-psychotic medication to help with symptoms like that?

Imaginary Insects and Real Problems

Imagine… your carpet is infested with fleas, your scalp is crawling with lice, or bed bugs are creeping across your body. Do you feel itchy, even a little bit?

www.psychologytoday.com

Delusional Parasitosis - MN Dept. of Health

www.health.state.mn.us

I'm on an anti psychotic medicine and it doesn't seem to help. If I increase the dose, it silenced my parts and makes me very tired and hungry. I don't know if other types would work better. It's tactile hallucinations and I also smell weird things. I keep it to myself because no one in my world would understand it. At least I have an outlet here and know others experience similar things.

 

[whiteraven]

It's tactile hallucinations and I also smell weird things.

I know how awful this is, 'cause I've had it, too. I've had weird smells for decades--they decided it was seizure activity at one point, and anti-seizure meds did help. I was seeing mouse-size, dark forms that would start in my periphery and sometimes move across my visual field. It was sooo hard to ignore, and I felt stupid acknowledging it when I finally realized it wasn't mice. That ended up being helped with anit-seizure meds, as well.

Now, I'm not on those meds, and I see dark forms that look exactly like cats. I've had some other experiences as well with those, and I don't think they are related to the other stuff.

 

[chrysaliscrushed]

Yes I see some creatures bug-like or bugs per se, appearing and vanishing very quickly but I still jump when they show up

 

[Friday]

It's tactile hallucinations and I also smell weird things.

Or hypervig.

The flush of blood, which moves those peach fuzz hairs, is what MOST people mistake as bugs. They’re just usually so unaware of their own body’s functions that suddenly becoming aware of them? They ascribe other meanings to them. Similarly, a prickle of sweat, or nerve tingle, or muscle twitch. Clearly? Bugs.

Waxing doesn’t help, by the by. The follicles are still moved, by blood flow, which is what sends the “movement” message to zeh brain. Neither does scratching, or picking, or anything else that focuses your senses on the area in question. Swimming & showers/bathing can help as it disperses your sensory awareness. But??? That can also hardline the bugs thing, washing them off. You’re not. You’re giving your brain waaaaay more info than it had, before, to interpret. So the bugs feeling vanishes. As now ALL those little hairs are moving, in the water. So your brain interprets “water” instead of “bugs”.

WATCHING, for your own pulse & the crawling feeling? Does help. Oh. It’s my own blood moving. Look at that ripple effect. Diffusion, not little legs. Roger Roger. <<< Similar to how amputees can make phantom limb feelings vanish with a mirror, zeh brain responds reeeeeeally well to visual confirmation.