[optimistic_dolphin]

I am curious.
For any of you who experience psychosis, especially hearing voices or seeing animals/shadow/shapes/people/etc,
if they have a name to refer to,
do you actually name them or they tell you their names?

[joacobanfield]

Well...
I will confess naming that snake-lady hybrid that appeared some years ago Miss Hiss

Originally Posted by optimistic_dolphin

I am curious.
For any of you who experience psychosis, especially hearing voices or seeing animals/shadow/shapes/people/etc,
if they have a name to refer to,
do you actually name them or they tell you their names?

Visual hallucinations, am I missing something??? Peripheral Hallucinations are especially common

Also thought can not be underestimated as means where a person is incorrectly attributing thought as visual stimuli. For example I was in my living room , just passing through , and I thought I saw smoke rising up in my fireplace. Looked again it wasn't there. So when I technically broke down what had happened , I recall having a thought of a fire burning(My parents had started a fire the previous days , I usually never use a fire and depend on central heating), and then that thought visualised in my head , and then 'broke through' which caused me to sense it visually. Its just the brain not compartmentalising different functions properly , and where there is leakage if you like...

[froggie2]

phychosis, I recently saw a woman who followed me over 20 years ago. in the local library. I was quietly getting books and there she was beside me trying to see what I was gettin. It
had been for a disability claim. I immediately moved away and went to the other side of the building. All was quiet so I went back to my books but when I turned to look behind me there she was. I mentioned it to my doctor as my lawyer had advised me that icbc uses technology now. She dismissed me but passed on a letter to my psych who handed it to me. It said I was psychotic. dShe had said how could I remember that far back. How would I remember what she looked like? Well if I wasn't broken before now I was. I broke. The woman was older more mature body makeup but it was her. would I be psychotic and have her age and dress modern? I still think I am not

[optimistic_dolphin]

I mayhave phrased my qn not accurately

I mean giving each hallucination a name,like naming a person or nickname.
Like I see a girl named Bluejay.

[PointOfNoReturn]

"The Other" i dont know why.. he kinda started inside my head giving me bad ideas, then he sorta moved out, i think i just refered to him as that to tell the difference between his ideas and mine

[Fuzzybear]

[optimistic_dolphin]

i have a girl called bluejay with 6 white suit guards
another girl called elas
two cat named black and brown
a man who haunts me without name
Those are things I see
I have three voices, no names

[CognitoSchiz1989]

I have named them. I have the teacher, the gossip girls, the innocent little girl, and the protective male. They all have visual representations too. I have a presence (I rarely see him). I call him Dave.

[qwerty68]

I give all of them names, nothing creative they are more descriptive. I have never had one talk more than a word or three at best.

I don't why I do it other than it makes it seem not so bad.

[optimistic_dolphin]

Originally Posted by qwerty68

I give all of them names, nothing creative they are more descriptive. I have never had one talk more than a word or three at best.

I don't why I do it other than it makes it seem not so bad.

I guess it makes it more tangible in some way.
It's hard to tell I am talking to this 'he, that 'he', this 'she' or that 'she'.
With names I can accurately refer to who I am talking to. lol
Sound a but strange though