[FallenRain]

Due to severe anxiety and ocd I actually hallucinate, I'm told that this is non-psychotic and caused by the anxiety. Does anyone else suffer from these?

[_Neen_]

What exactly do you mean by "hallucinations"? I'm not sure what this means to you, and I don't want to get the wrong idea of what happens to you. I don't really even know what hallucinations are in the medical sense.

[Rhapsody]

Are you meaning that YOU are seeing things / people that are not actually there? and that maybe YOU are hearing words being said when no one is around or when no one is talking to you, but they are present with in the same room?

If...................... YES - then I do understand and I do think (believe) that this will pass as YOU resolve the issues that lie within you, the ones that still haunt.

LoVe,
Rhapsody -

[FallenRain]

Rhapsody, really? You don't know what a relief that comes to me as. I've been on soooo many forums asking whether other people have non-psychotic hallucinations and I've never found anyone else. Thank you, just, thank you.

[SongBirdandDaisy]

Hello FallenRain,

My anxiety has been wicked lately and thought I would try this forum for guidance. Hello

I thought my "hallucinations" came from another source. I often describe it as not knowing what's real or isn't real. Sometimes shadows appear in my peripheral vision, sometimes I thought something happened when it didn't. I don't "see" things, but my short term memory says I did, or something happened, or I made a phone call, talked to someone - stuff like that.

Songbird

[Bunnee]

Songbird & Daisy,
That happens to me too. I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes because I actually think I did things I didn't do or vice versa, I did them but don't think I did.

I joke with friends that maybe I have early onset alzheimers, but in reality it scares the living daylights out of me. My anxiety has also been extreme lately.

I did not sleep well at all last night and had the oddest dreams. Almost nightmarish at times.

Bunnee

[SongBirdandDaisy]

Bunee,

Hello . Sorry about the sleep thing. There have been a lot of posts lately about people's anxiety becoming extreme, or depression intensified, or more dissociations. I wonder if it's the post full moon syndrome. In the hospital, the O.R. was always much busier after a full moon, so the body must react differently after a full moon. Interesting. Just a thought. I'm in a phase where I'm thinking too much and want too many answers. T said to put it away for now.

Easier said than done.

Songbird

[Bunnee]

I've suffered from mild depression all my life, but managed to deal with it pretty much on my own (never took drugs, but did seek a therapist for a while).

I never had a panic attack until just recently and it scared the hell outta me. Now I can't seem to calm down. I was reading in another post, think it was from you, that Wellbutrin sometimes intensifies the anxiety. I've been on Wellbutrin for 3 weeks. I wonder if this is doing it to me.

Thanks for responding...and I agree. "letting things go" is much easier said than done.

[SongBirdandDaisy]

Bunee, it was me. I find it helpful to keep a daily record of my mood when changing drugs. I know they take time to work, but it gives pdoc and I something to go by.

And I dislike when people say "let it go" who ever thought of that? If we could let it go, I think we all would, don't you agree? I think people in major denial say stuff like that. It's like listening to Dr. Phil - he says stuff like that and I think, only makes the other person feel bad. Like talking to the woman who sells her body for favors, he says "just keep your clothes on!" Well, thanks alot Dr. Phil hallelluia! (major sarcasm)

Have a good day,
Songbird

[Evangelista]

I have non-psychotic visual hallucinations, this just started in Therapy last year as we get close to breaking thru memories and emotions..but I have been told by 4 professionals, including a University Psych Lab Professor, that I am not going into psychosis, but it is apart of the dissociative disorder I have..why it happens or how I do not know, but just wanted to share my experiences with this..very disconcerting manifestation