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Old Mar 31, 2014, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by faerie_moon_x View Post
I have this feeling hallucinations need to have a certain intensity and format along with that whole "disruption" quality.

Example:
If you hear voices in general it's nothing major

If the voice are telling you a lot of negative things it's a bit more troubling.

If you hear voices and you firmly believe / act on the things they tell you then perhaps it's going to raise some red flags.

That's just my opinion on it from my observations, not scholarly or anything.
You know this reminds me of the first rank symptoms which they got rid of in the DSM 5...supposedly if you had any of these you automatically had schizophrenia---I just don't think there are any clear cut lines because everybody's experience is so different...of course I also had a few so I'm glad they got rid of them.

copied from wikipedia

  • Auditory hallucinations
    • Hearing voices conversing with one another
    • Voices heard commenting on one's actions (hallucination of running commentary)
    • Thought echo (a form of auditory hallucination in which the patient hears his/her thoughts spoken aloud)
  • Somatic hallucinations
  • Passivity experiences e.g. made volition, made feeling & made impulse (delusions of control / of being controlled)
  • Thought withdrawal
  • Thought insertion (thoughts are ascribed to other people who are intruding into the patient's mind)
  • Thought broadcasting (also called thought diffusion)
  • Delusional perception (linking a normal sensory perception to a bizarre conclusion, e.g. seeing an aeroplane means the patient is the president)
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