Auditory hallucinations

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?

In Bipolar disorder, such hallucinations are not common but do exist. Most commonly they are considered as a symptom of Schizophrenia but in some severe neurotic problems like PTSD and severe Bipolar disorder, sometimes patients suffer from them. If you have a therapist you should discuss it with him. He could better diagnose the cause.
Keep us informed of your progress. Wish you well!

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.

Also, with bipolar it has been said that the content of the hallucination often times reflects the mood. I don't know how much stalk that holds, it's not always the case for me. But I would think that because of the content of your hallucinations it could be something more related to trauma.

Auditory hallucinations is the most common in BPDs when in manic or mixed state. I would post the journal link but this is my first post here. The title is " Hallucinations in bipolar disorder: characteristics and comparison to unipolar depression and schizophrenia"

I tend to hear sounds, like knocking, not usually voices. I have heard words in the past but they are not usually sentences.

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