Sunday, January 15, 2012

Psychosis and Auditory Hallucinations



Explaining what it feels like to hear voices is not easy especially if you have never had the experience. Some people, who have hearing voices is a common experience lasting for days or months and in some cases long term. Auditory hallucinations may vary and each experience with hearing the voices can be different.
Hearing the voices is often heard as though they were generated from outside of the ears but can be as if they are thoughts in their head or an internal thought.  Many believe it telepathy.  What is called inspirational ideas do not encompass the concept of hearing voices.  Hearing voices is a sign of a medical or mental disturbance.
 Certain description of hallucinations are as a thought that appears as words in the person’s mind. The voice could talk coherently to the person or engage in conversation. The person is not in control of what the voice says. There are many different types of hallucinations including: visions, images, tastes, smells, and touch. Hearing voices can be a different way for other people.
Some would even hear the voices inside or outside their heads or even from their bodies. They could her just one voice or hear many of them. They hear the voice as something that talks to you or talks about you.
Hearing voices is like a dream or nightmare except that it does happen in real life. The voices are present all day for some people and can disrupt their normal routines every day. Some of the voices tend to be abusive and commands the person to do various acts as is common with schizophrenia.
To hear voices is a disturbing experience. Hearing voices are considered as an auditory hallucination in psychiatry and as symptoms for schizophrenic disorders, bipolar disorder and psychosis. Medication such as, antipsychotics are used to control the hallucinations.
Not everyone responds to this treatment however, it is extremely rare that the hallucinations can   not be controlled
Studies have found out that some people who hear voices are able to cope well without any psychiatric intervention. It was also found out that the people who hear voices who can regard them as a positive part of their life and not as negative aspects of their lives.
 Throughout history there are those who have said that the voices that they hear are comforting and inspirational. Despite that it is still considered as a sign of a psychosis or other mental aberration.
For some coping with voices can be a relationship with the voices: even if they experienced them as abusive, guiding or inspirational.
By some professionals hearing voices can be thought of a something real, meaningful, at times painful, overwhelming and fearful.
Hallucinations can make the person see, hear or feel things that are not really there. The experiences are not real but for the person experiencing it, the visions and all the other sensations that feels is real. There is a break from reality.
This condition is diagnosed with other disorders, in dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, substance abuse and some personality disorders. Many famous people all throughout history are reported to have experienced hallucinations at some degree. It can also be triggered when someone loses a loved one or if they have had a traumatic childhood experience. The symptoms of hallucinations on these conditions can be temporary.

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