Cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques.
Mine happen mostly in the dark as moving shapes or waves. Its hard to explain. I don't see pink fuzzy bunnies or whatever. It's usually a distortion of the area around me.
I try to rationalize it and remind myself it isn't reality - its how my brain is perceiving reality at a given time. I tell myself it can't hurt me and if I just be patient, it will stop.
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visual hallucations
Posted on 06/13/08, 04:24 pm
what helps you besides meds when you are having such symptoms as hallucinations?
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Reply #1 06/14/08 12:53pm
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Reply #2 06/24/08 8:42am
My significant other always helps me come back down to earth. It really helps to have someone around that you can trust to ask, " did you just see that?", ext. Though, he doesn't quite help much with delusions, having someone you're around a lot aware of your problem can be really helpful. My hallucinations are incredibly lucid, and not at all out of place with the outside world, i.e. a woman with a gun following me, and white cats in my house that don't exist. It's really difficult for me to differentiate them from reality, so having a partner there to reassure me that I am safe helps a lot. I don't know the nature of your hallucinations, however, I hope this helps. -
Reply #3 08/14/08 3:09pm
I'd have to agree having a significant other really helps bringing oneself back to reality as it were. However, when I find out it's only me that's seeing the grim reaper at the foot of my bed constantly always starring at me makes me freak out just a little. Thank god I no longer see him and now am stable on meds. Thank God for meds......
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