Hallucinations

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anxiety brings on auditory hallucinations for me. It happens mostly at night before I go to bed when the house is quiet. Sometimes it sounds like music, sometimes it sounds like a laugh-track from an 80’s sitcom, and sometimes it sounds like a male voice reading the nightly news. I know they are hallucinations because I sometimes hear them when I’m wearing earplugs.

Only once, in college, was it so loud and lasted so long that I went to the hospital.The hospital sent me home with a sleeping aid.

This has been going on since I was very young. When I was school age, I would think there were people visiting and get out of bed only to find no visitors and my family in bed.

Result of anxiety meds or unmedicated anxiety?

Both. I was not medicated until just after graduation from college when I was finally diagnosed with OCD, but had been having auditory hallucinations since childhood. I’ve been medicated for over thirty years and still occasionally have auditory hallucinations.

Can you describe more about the auditory hallucinations if not too painful to describe

[Anonymous]

Any hallucinations while driving?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anxiety brings on auditory hallucinations for me. It happens mostly at night before I go to bed when the house is quiet. Sometimes it sounds like music, sometimes it sounds like a laugh-track from an 80’s sitcom, and sometimes it sounds like a male voice reading the nightly news. I know they are hallucinations because I sometimes hear them when I’m wearing earplugs.

Only once, in college, was it so loud and lasted so long that I went to the hospital.The hospital sent me home with a sleeping aid.

This has been going on since I was very young. When I was school age, I would think there were people visiting and get out of bed only to find no visitors and my family in bed.

Result of anxiety meds or unmedicated anxiety?

Both. I was not medicated until just after graduation from college when I was finally diagnosed with OCD, but had been having auditory hallucinations since childhood. I’ve been medicated for over thirty years and still occasionally have auditory hallucinations.

Can you describe more about the auditory hallucinations if not too painful to describe

My original post describes them pretty well. It can sound like there are a lot of people talking in the next room. I don’t hear individual voices and I can never make out what is being said. I have never been afraid, only confused as to where the sound is coming from. If I use earplugs while the hallucinations are occurring , I can still hear them. Sometime I have to ask my husband if he hears anything ( a radio, the tv, people outside talking for example) to verify that it’s a hallucination.