[mum2four]

I started thinking about this the other day and yes its proberly my OCD playing up not letting it go but I curious..........I was wondering about people being miss diagnoised.............

I have OCD which is so simular to schzophrenia except for the dulusions and hullsanations...............when I tell the andervage person why my OCD does to me people auto-matice assume dulosion ect and when I real the symptoms of schzophrenia I can see how thay can miss understand.....I was wondering if people here feel like there not 100% sure of there diagnoses, or the symptoms.

It would have been so easy for me tell my Dr I hullsanating and hearing voices if I was not obsessed with knowing and understanding the full meaning of these problems. My intrusive images were intence but short lived, I reacted as if thay happen with a startled responce and fear but that about all. once the images had settle or become less intence I prety much knew thay did not happen even it felt intence and almost seemed real at that time. It this understanding of it not being real and not the fact that I felt real at the time that I'm told by my T that its not an hulsanation in stead it what thay call them intrusive images, they scare me I dont like them, I dont want them I take actions to avoid them which can seem like I truly beleaive it happen or could happen again but in side no matter how quite it is I hear my self saying ignore it it not real it will pass or some like that and more. I have people trying to convince me all the time that I'm halusnating and if I was not on my current medication I would still be petrified of people saying this and trying to tell me I'm wrong. Basicly in my understanding of my awearness of my images I dont fit the diagnostic symtoms of halusanations.
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A hallucination, in the broadest sense, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. The latter definition distinguishes hallucinations from the related phenomena of dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness; illusion, which involves distorted or misinterpreted real perception; imagery, which does not mimic real perception and is under voluntary control; and pseudohallucination, which does not mimic real perception, but is not under voluntary control.[1] Hallucinations also differ from "delusional perceptions", in which a correctly sensed and interpreted genuine perception is given some additional (and typically bizarre) significance.
Hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality — visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, proprioceptive, equilibrioceptive, nociceptive, thermoceptive and perception of time.
A mild form of hallucination is known as a disturbance, and can occur in any of the senses above. These may be things like seeing movement in peripheral vision, or hearing faint noises and voices.
Hypnagogic hallucinations and hypnopompic hallucinations are considered normal phenomena. Hypnagogic hallucinations can occur as one is falling asleep and hypnopompic hallucinations occur when one is waking up.
Hallucinations can also be associated with drug or alcohol use (particularly deliriants), sleep deprivation, psychosis, neurological disorders, and delirium tremens.
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One reason for this is my images are provoked by real stimulus. eg I see window and then an images of someone crashing threw it flicks in to my head and then its gone but I'm left scared wondering what happened the window was not brocken so it did not happen but the anxious feeling is still there so I try to avoid windows to see that image again.

Two I know that my images are in my head and not in external objective space. It may look real and I may react at if happed but once the images is gone I knew it was in my head not because I convince my self it was in my head but because it felt like it was in my head. The same way when you think about any image when ever you want thats how it fel despite the fact that i also felt that it MIGHT have happen I also knew from assment of the situation that it did not happen and that was confusing and scary but I knew it was in my head I was angry at my head for doing that to me.

Basicly from my understanding of hallusinating if you know even for a little while on and off thoughts that it really did not happen then it not an hallusination its more likly intrusive images or some thing els. I was wondering about this because I've talked to some people that say thay hallusinate and I get confused because my T's and dr hve always told me that if i have even the slightest understanding that it did not happen then its not hallusinating and I'm fine. So to me if you say you know you halusinate then how is that a halsunating you must have a understanding that it was not real to let your self call it an halusanation?????? Unless your medicated and that the only time you can accept the images as hallusinations. I dont know in my minds it bit confusing and I'm curios about if anyone has an answer.

[Aunt Donna]

I wish I had an answer for you. I struggle with OCD and swearing I am seeing things. The doctor said I need to get my blood pressure under control because it affects my balance. Sorry I am not much help, but I do understand.