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Name all mental health conditions that has auditory and visual hallucinations...

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FloofenHoofen · 23/03/2019 19:45

Apart from Schizophrenia.
I'm interested to know how many mental health conditions include these symptoms...

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LipstickHandbagCoffee · 23/03/2019 20:46

Psychosis
Drug induced psychosis
Personality disorder
Parkinson’s
Alzheimer’s
Korsakoffs
Depression
Post partum psychosis
Perinatal psychosis
PTSD
Mood disorders

PurpleDaisies · 23/03/2019 20:47

Why do you ask?

FloofenHoofen · 23/03/2019 22:20

I ask because I've been experiencing this during my sleep. I have an appointment booked, but I'm just interested to see what else it could be.

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Laterthanyouthink · 23/03/2019 22:21

B12 deficiency can also cause hallucinations

Voulezvous · 23/03/2019 22:23

Sounds like night terrors if it's during sleep. I don't think these count as a mental health condition.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 23/03/2019 22:23

You only asked for MH conditions
Many physical conditions can cause hallucinations
Epilepsy
UTIs
Neurological conditions

FloofenHoofen · 23/03/2019 22:25

I noticed that you didn't include anxiety in your list LipstickHandbagCoffee.

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FissionChips · 23/03/2019 22:26

If you only experience them during sleep then it’s most likely just night terrors.

FloofenHoofen · 23/03/2019 22:27

It's a bit different from night terrors I think voulezvous, when it happens, it wakes me from my sleep, and I'm half asleep half awake.
Usually I either hear something a sound or a voice, or it will be a visual disturbance, sometimes it transitions from auditory to visual.
Once I noticed that it was actually part of my dream that I had just been dreaming about and woken part way through, but it was like my brain thought I was still asleep and carried on playing out that dream into wakefulness.

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Babdoc · 23/03/2019 22:28

Um... if you’re asleep aren’t they just dreams?! Surely you have to be conscious to be hallucinating?

FissionChips · 23/03/2019 22:29

when it happens, it wakes me from my sleep, and I'm half asleep half awake

That’s what happens during a night terror.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 23/03/2019 22:29

Wasn’t a purposeful omission just rattled off a response
Hypnagogic hallucination is v common in Narcolepsy
falling asleep the altered state,respiratory & neurological changes produce hallucinations

FloofenHoofen · 23/03/2019 22:31

I'll be honest, the reason I asked for all other MH conditions other than schizophrenia is because my mum, her brother and their mum all have schizophrenia.
When I told my mum about what was happening, she told me that's what she had as well, except hers would always happen during the day as well.

I'm actually scared that I'm showing signs. I don't really know what I'm looking for by starting this thread as I'm sure it's not going to help either way, but I do have anxiety and had wondered whether this was the cause.

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Ledehe · 23/03/2019 22:31

Sleep paralysis. You are dreaming while awake. Often your body is frozen. Its terrifying.

FannyFifer · 23/03/2019 22:32

Sounds like a sleep paralysis type thing, that causes auditory & visual hallucinations and is utterly terrifying.
Dark shadowy figures, feeling of impending doom, someone holding you down, it's so scary.

FloofenHoofen · 23/03/2019 22:33

Thanks LipstickHandbagCoffee that may shed some light.
My DH has caught me several times sitting up and talking in my sleep. My DD has conversations with me while I'm asleep and I talk about but have no recollection of this.
Maybe I'm just grasping at straws here.

babdoc I'm not asleep when it happens, I'm awake.

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FloofenHoofen · 23/03/2019 22:34

Ledehe I had wondered this, except I can get up and move around. Once I heard my doorbell continuously ringing, I got up and went downstairs, nobody was at the door yet the bell kept ringing. I was fully awake at this point and knew it wasn't real, it stopped after a minute.

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LipstickHandbagCoffee · 23/03/2019 22:37

See your GP, keep a diary,note any triggers or Patterns
Try not worry

FissionChips · 23/03/2019 22:38

My DH has caught me several times sitting up and talking in my sleep. My DD has conversations with me while I'm asleep and I talk about but have no recollection of this
Once I heard my doorbell continuously ringing, I got up and went downstairs, nobody was at the door yet the bell kept ringing. I was fully awake at this point and knew it wasn't real, it stopped after a minute

Sleep walking and talking. Not unusual, stress/ anxiety can trigger it.

FissionChips · 23/03/2019 22:43

People suggesting things other than the bloody obvious, sleep walking/ talking/ night terrors, are just going to feed your anxiety op. Don’t do it to yourself.

tenredthings · 23/03/2019 22:47

Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis

FloofenHoofen · 23/03/2019 22:49

Yeah you're right FissionChips I know it probably won't help. Although have just found this
Hypnopompic hallucinations often include the sensation of falling or the sense that someone is in the room with you.
Mine are definitely hypnopompic and not hypnagogic.
Funny because the other week someone said my name as I woke up, and it sounded like the person was stood in the room with me. I always get sensations of falling during dreams that suddenly wake me up as well. It's a horrible sensation.

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LipstickHandbagCoffee · 23/03/2019 22:52

Fission no one is diagnosing anything or seeking to generate anxiety
Frankly The op would have got the same list from a perfunctory google
Your suggestion of night terror may or may not be accurate.it needs further exploration

I’d suggest op keep a dairy for triggers,patterns

BollocksToBrexit · 23/03/2019 22:53

My husband experiences this. There's nothing wrong with him, it's just what he does sometimes. Usually when he's particularly stressed, like before a big funding meeting. It's like he's awake and asleep at the same time.

FloofenHoofen · 23/03/2019 22:53

Very interesting tenredthings.
I don't think it's that as I've had this for 6 years now. Well, I had a period of remission, where I didn't have any hallucinations or auditory issues for around 5 years and then the last 4 months I've been getting them about once or twice a month. Seems to depend how stressed I am.

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