Hallucinations

I would suggest a lot of reading (or watching TV & -movies with the closed-captioning on ) and reading a few books on meditation. Books like The Lotus Sutra ("Myoho-Renge-Kyo") and The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino, & Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill ... I know; that last one seems more like 'advice on how to make money,' but it's not ... it's more-about how the mind has the power to show you how to arrange real things in profitable ways.

I had a couple of hallucinations when I was a child. One time I saw that our dog was lying on its blanket, but the dog wasn't there. Another time I saw that my father left the couch in the living room and ran into the hall where he he hid behind some jackets and coats that were hanging on the wall. It was a hallucination because he didn't leave the couch at all.

Hmmmmmm.....I'm beginning to think you are a sensitive more than bipolar. Just my humble opinion. I'd love to sit down face to face with you in a wiccan circle.........

I really hope that these hallucinations will cease and that the medical issues you face will one day be resolved.

Since you have had these hallucinations since you were a child I'm sure my husbands experience would not be the same as yours. However I will relate it here. In 1983 a truck fell on him and he became a quadriplegic. I cared for him at home and he lived for more than twenty years but over time his health deteriorated. At one point one of his doctors prescribed a medication for something that I can no longer remember but his whole mood changed. He used to be the calmest most understanding man in spite of his sever limitations but suddenly he started accusing me of doing things that I know I didn't do and then he said that I was letting people in the house and they would stand at the end of his bed watching him at night. I tried reasoning with him. I even started keeping a diary of where I went and when, who I saw and if I spent any money how much and what on. But nothing I did placated him. I told him that the next time he saw someone standing at the end of his bed he should wake me up because I would run them off. That night he woke me up and I got up and and looked but of course there was no one there. I told him that but he still believed they had been. A few days later he told me that I must be right and that what he was seeing wasn't real. I asked him what changed his mind and he told me that when I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom he was watching this guy that was standing at the foot of his bed. He didn't say anything to me to let me know he was awake so I walked around the end of his bed and walked right through the vision. That's when he knew something was wrong. So we talked about what things had changed just before these visions started and came up with this one medication that the doctor had added. I stopped giving it to him and in two days the visions has stopped. I waited for three more weeks then started giving it to him again to test our theory. In one day the visions were back. Needless to say I never gave it to him again. Sometimes medications can cause these symptoms or they could be reacting with other medications to cause them. In your case I doubt that they caused them but I would be concerned that they're making them worse. Even so you have to be the judge of what you need and if you can find a balance between the symptoms and the ability to function that may be all you can hope for.

The only time I ever hallucinated when when I was small. I had a very high fever. I think it was 106. And I saw this toy car of mine grow bigger and bigger and come right at me. I screamed. After that I don't remember anything. I think they worked on m and my fever broke.

My only hallucination was from a post surgical pain pill. I would dream or even be awake and everything that everyone said appeared in little bubbles above their heads, like in cartoons.

This is generally a good place to talk and have people empathize and be supportive. I do hope that you can get on the right medication in the right dose.

The fact that you know they are hallucinations is a plus point. I just surfed and found this. May be you will find it useful in some way

This post is very good for people like me who sometimes face hallucinations.

Our family has a person who suffers from a bipolar disorder in it, and another with an anxiety disorder, so I am familiar with what you describe. It seems to me that knowing how to manage your own condition is key. Mental illness needs to lose its stigma and mystery so that people ate not afraid to talk about their symptoms. For our family members that has been key and both ate doing well. A friend with bipolar disorder thinks she is Jesus at one extreme and when not at this point, she says she uses her experience to inform her faith. Not all aspects of mental illness are negative. We have artists and writers who show that and perhaps with the right treatment and care a negative can be seen as containing a positive for some people. I am not sure how this works with hallucinations. Can you see them as unreal or do you believe they are real at the time? I once saw things under the influence of acid on my only ever trip and I did know they were not real. However working in a hospital in the seventies I think the patients who had hallucinations did believe in their reality?

This makes me realize how lucky and blessed I am for having this conditions in my life. Thank you for sharing me your story, It must be difficuilt to have those experience, I mean what would be the reaction of those who didn't understand your condition. You're a strong person and it doesn't matter how many trials you experience, you will get through to it to the end.

Can't speak to hallucinations. Never experienced any.

Hallucinatuions is just something you will have to live with. I hope it will get better for you.

I've seen things that weren't there before. It's pretty scary. I think maybe Harry Jude could be right, meditation could help. There are tons of sites about how to meditate, as well as books. Finding a technique that works for you might take a short while, but just like with medication,, funding the perfect one for Uug is worth the trial n error you go through. Sending healing thoughts your way!

Hope you get the right meds to ease these very serious symptoms.

It's good that you can identify and deal with hallucinating as a problem, as for me, I'm choking it up to having a senior moment. Whenever I hallucinate after waking up and thought I had some old, dot matrix printing paper covering me and I start looking on the floor to see if it fell... I'm just having another senior moment.

I can't imagine how frightening that must be for you. I have never experienced halucinations, but I have heard someone call my name a few times. Have no idea about that, but the halucinations would be so scary if they happened to me. I wish you tons of luck with that! Hope that someone can sort it out for you. There has to be some kind of cause.

Hi Lola, The capacity of our mind is tremendously powerful, it has the ability to build and or to distroy. As little kids, our imagination tends to be more creative because our pure innocence is more powerful than our own fear of being wrong and not accept by this world; and as this fear only grows through our own life experiences we tend to lose our creative mind with the time. When I was little, I also used to see figure shadows and things that were not real, and I'd get so scared that I had to cry my mom for help. Anyways, one day, while seeing all of these weird things, I decided not to call her for help, instead I made up my mind to confront all of these horrible things I was seeing and even tried to change the shape of these figure shadows to something more pleasant to my eyes. Of course, at the beginning this was the most difficult and scary thing for me to do as a child. But as soon as I was able to confront all of these fears and turned them into something good to my eyes, I was not only feeling proud of myself, but also all of these "hallucinations" has been vanished since then. Best, Make money