Melatonin is a hormone naturally produced by the pineal gland. It helps regulate the bodies circadian rhythm. Therefore Melatonin supplements are used to correct desynchronised sleeping patterns. The bottle infront of me lists the following side effects; drowsiness, headache, dizziness, transient depressive symptoms, mild tremore, mild anxiety, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping, irritability, skin allergies, disorientation, confusion, sleep walking, vivid dreams, nightmares, hypotension and increased intraocular pressure.

From my understanding, melatonin merely opens a sleep window for those of us who do not have a regular opening into Lalaland, it doesn't even knock anyone out, and everyone expects it to because its a "sleep aid" so they quit taking it without knowing its core function. Anyway, my point is it cannot cause auditory hallucinations.

My voices started when I was stressed out and overwhelmed. Before diagnosis, after diagnosis and medicated, and even now, unmedicated, they show up. Its always stress, first there were people screaming horrid things at me, which made convos hard. Now I have 1 lingering voice who does all the scolding and self-deprecation. Commentary, yip I hear those too, and conversations as well, once I listened to an elderly couple argue about their grandson. I just drown it out with headphones, works for me. I do it because its annoying btw, not because they freak me the fk out or anything. These all take place inside my head, the only sounds outside my head is music nobody else ever hears.

Being petrified counts against you btw,to feed fear never helped anyone, it just makes the thing you're scared of bigger and badder. Its just voices, they can't climb out your head and hurt you, so don't give them the power you so eagerly just handed over without so much as a thought.