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What is the meical term for hearing voices?
it's called auditory hallucinations or psychosis
Can auditory hallucinations be treated?
Yes. Medication for generalised psychosis is often helpful in treating auditory hallucinations, especially when the hallucinations are in the form of voices. Different types of therapy, including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), also help with auditory hallucinations.
Do you hear voices out loud during psychosis or inside your head?
Auditory hallucinations during schizophrenia can be perceived as either out loud or inside of the head.
Are Schizophrenic hallucinations auditory or visual?
Schizophrenic hallucinations can be either. However, most schizophrenics report predominantly or entirely auditory hallucinations.
What is it called when people hear talking in your head?
Hearing voices in ones' head when no one is actually talking is known in medicine as an auditory hallucination. These auditory hallucinations can take on many different forms. Sometimes, the voices are indistinguishable from each other, and can be numerous. Often, the voices are heard clearly to say demeaning and derrogatory things about the victim of these hallucinations, and are then called persecutory auditory hallucinations.These hallucinations are one of the hallmarks of the condition known as psychosis, and can indicate an underlying psychiatric disorder like schizophrenia. The sufferer of such auditory hallucinations should seek a physician's help as soon as possible.
How would you describe the auditory or visual hallucinations associated with narcolepsy?
Auditory or visual hallucinations are intense, sometimes terrifying experineces at the beginning or end of a sleep period.
Is hallucination a side effect of taking cocaine and addirol?
Repeated use of of cocaine or Adderall at high dosages for a long period of time greatly increases the risk of psychosis, which can include visual and auditory hallucinations.
What are the signs of paranoid schizophrenia?
Some symptoms of Paranoid schizophrenia include auditory hallucinations, anger, delusions, and emotional distance. The most obvious of these are auditory hallucinations and delusions.
What is it called when you think that an inanimate object is talking?
Auditory Hallucinations.
What is childhood psychosis?
Typically characterized by delusions, paranoia, and auditory and/or visual hallucinations, not to be confused with autism. Difficult to diagnose because of a child's imagination, and differentiated from schizophrenia- which has an early adult-hood onset. May also have a separate etiology as psychosis in adulthood and adolescence. See the DSM-IV for more info.
What is it called if you hallucinate a sound or a smell instead of seeing something?
That would be auditory hallucinations and olfactory hallucinations respectively.
Does LSD make a person have hallucinations?
Yes, depending on the dosage, LSD can cause physical, auditory, and visual hallucinations respectivly.
