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Originally Posted by CPTFrigginTots
Hi again. Does anyone know if auditory hallucinations are a common symptom for a bi-polar disorder or is it more of an anxiety thing? Because almost every day I'll be home alone and think I hear my parents fighting below me. This always used to scare me as a child, I would usually curl up into a ball and play music really loud. But the problem is they haven't fought in years. They usually aren't home when this happens, and I have no close neighbors that I could have heard. Any suggestions?
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Common for me. I was diagnosed Bipolar 1 for 16 months before my medical team decided it was looking more like Schizoaffective disorder.
Things your pdoc will probably consider when diagnosing will be the content of the hallucinations, frequency, parity with mood, occurring when falling asleep or waking up, or during a fully awake state, and other psychotic symptoms occurring in conjunction with the hallucinations.
Not all hallucinations are necessarily pathological, and there are studies indicating a proportion of the normal population that reports experiencing unprovoked hallucinations without evidence of functional impairment.