I try really, really hard to talk my way through it if I can. I just talk out loud and as loud as I need to to cover the thoughts in my head. (Obviously this only works when alone in my house). Once I got very upset because there was a lightning bug in my house spying on me. It was there all day and I was frustrated about it but when it appeared in the shower I starting crying and panicking. But in a few minutes I made myself say out loud what was going on and was able to see it was just a bug. I had to repeat that like a mantra until thing was gone but it did help. It doesn't always work but sometimes. It also helped when I was very paranoid about taking showers. I thought either someone would break in and attack me (PTSD) or the shower would fall through the floor and I'd be killed. So I took really fast showers yelling "It's ok, it's safe, it's ok" over and over. (I also made sure the house was locked tight, the shower curtain was clear and the bathroom door open so I couldn't be surprised. I guess I'm saying I adjust my life to minimize hallucinations? Probably I should someday talk to my therapist about this...

Other times there just aren't explanations. One winter I had a bag of stuff to hand to homeless people in my car and saw someone and pulled into a parking lot. In the few seconds it took me to reach inside the back seat to get the bag he "disappeared". There was no where for him to have gone. So I guess he wasn't real.

I'm getting off here to fall back asleep in a minute; meds are making my head swimmy. Which is good. I hope you too can get some rest.