I'm actually going schizophrenic? Last night i had some actual hallucinations, and it was not a minor thing either, im talking about seeing people being there and talking to me where there was no one. It lasted no more than 10 minutes but it felt so real that can't i just wave it off like it was a thing that just happened and that's it. And for context, i have never been diagnosed with anything in my life, i don't take drugs of any kind, im not too stressed, i don't have any case of schizophrenia in my family as far as i know, and the only thing that would be wrong with me it's that i have been dealing with depression for most of my life. I've read that's it's possible to develop symptoms later in life with no previous warning, but how could i be sure? Going to a psychiatrist just feels like going somewhere that will offer me drugs without many explanations. Can it even be something that just happens to people?
>>33788606I wasn't sleep deprived either, i came home after work, i cooked some food, i eat on my computer for like, an hour, and when i went to the kitchen it happend
>>33788606It happened to me too before but it turned out I ate some rotten food the night before and it made me hallucinate maybe you took something
>>33788606If that happened to me, and it was just an occasional hallucination, then I'd shrug it off as an interesting phenomenon. If it doesn't disrupt your life then why worry about it? You don't need to tell anyone.
>>33788661I thought about that too, but during the day I didn't ate nothing out of the extraordinary and the meal I had just before was just pasta with tomato sauce. And after managing to go to sleep i didn't wake up feeling sick nor dizzy
>>33788672Honestly my concern comes from thinking that it's not normal or healthy having a vivid hallucination randomly on the day, if it happens when I'm on the street or at work idk how I would react
>>33788606Honestly, anon, you need to figure out what the hell happened here. There are quite a number of other things it could have been: ergot poisoning, temporal lobe epilepsy, all sorts. Once you have a diagnosis you can think about treatment options, but doctors (including psychiatrists) have no interest in pushing a treatment that isn't right for you.
>>33788798Yeah, thinking about it the most responsible thing to do is go to an expert, hopefully it's not super expensive and i don't have to wait a whole month for a doctor to see me
what did you see?
>>33788606It would be weird for it to come out of absolutely nowhere without a trigger.Were you asleep then woke up? (Hypnogagia)Also chronic sleep deprivation can look like schizophrenia. From personal experience I thought I had it when I was like 23 after months of thinking a demon was in my house trying to hurt me n shit.Never an episode before, never after, no family history of schizophrenia. But I was sleeping horribly, sometimes as little as 2 hours a night for like a year. It went away when I started sleeping.
tell me what u saw nigger just tell me. you think a doctor will help you more than your own fucking judgement and experience? retard
>>33788798Doctors and psychiatrists absolutely do have a monetary incentive to prescribe drugs. However, as this is a serious matter OP should go ask for help and get some antipsychotic medication that stops hallucinations.
>>33789395you're literally a dipshit, antipsychotic medication is not worth stopping hallucinations if you have other alternatives to stopping it.>>33789322can you describe the demon plz
>>33788606Keep an eye out for anything else. If it was a one-time occurrence I wouldn't go to a psychiatrist or take meds - but wait times can be long so it won't hurt to schedule an appointment in case things get worse for you. Just cancel it if nothing else happens. Don't ever go inpatient into a psych ward unless you have no other option.>>33789560>can you describe the demon plzidiot, that's the one question you don't ask
>>33789322I don't have much of an issue with sleep besides that sometimes I just can't sleep. But I've been good for a while now, and the night before I had slept well and the day wasn't too tiresome to a point of exhaustion>>33789641If it happens again I'm sure I'll panic to the point to ask for immediate help, because the first time I didn't had much of a reaction because I wasn't understanding what was happening, now that I would consider that I'm actually hallusinating will make me start questioning reality I made an appointment for Monday, just in case
>>33788606Ok so I am not a doctor but hallucinations you know arnt real can be a sign of brain damage. Now I think it could be a lot of things, one being a lump on your brain. See a real doctor.
>>33790268That can even happen if I haven't gotten hit on the head? And it's not like I have history of cancer on my family either
>>33790268As scary as it is some of the stories are kind of funny.Is the giant pink bunny in the room with us now?Yes.Can you tell me more about it?Well it's a hallucination for starters, it isn't real.We had a teacher in school though she could hear whispers but could not find them, a little scary because sometimes people do whisper. Her logic won out and she was fully aware it wasn't real. That was a lump on the brain.
>>33789309Not much of a horrifying thing or anything, it was 2 middle aged women that I don't know talking to each other while cooking on my kitchen, I was even hearing how they were using some cups with spoons, y'know that little sound of when you make tea, and at some point they looked at me and started calling my name and name of food at randomSomething like pic related
>>33788606scary I'm not sure If I've seen people before there was this person that claimed to be my friend and he looked like my friend but it wasn't actually him. It would be such a mindfuck to constantly have visual hallucinations.
>>33788606>I'm actually going schizophrenic?Probably not if you are a functioning adult.If you are medicated, anything goes. Hallucinating could happen for a variety of reasons.Lack of sleep, fasting, chemicals, mania (bipolar), etc.The first thing is cheeking if you sleep well. Try to force yourself a schedule.If you sleep very very little, it's a sign of some manic state, but not necessarily schizo.Of course, go to a psy doctor if you can afford it.
>>33789560Tall as the ceiling, always a silhouette, very wide frame.It would come during sleep paralysis episodes. Like Id wake up unable to move, and it would slowly stomp in through my front door up the stairs and into my room and would stand over me and breath.Almost exactly like in the first paranormal activity which is probably what my brain was drawing from. It was a newer movie then and I had watched it a lot. But at the time it was very real to me.Then I was also paranoid in general and started thinking I could divine lottery numbers with a pendulum and thought everyone at work was plotting against me.Sleep, guys. Its that important lol.
did you check for a carbon dioxide leak or mold
>>33788606People hallucinate all the time, it is normal. Most people integrate the experience into their spiritual/religious beliefs. It's bizarre how modernity has made so many lose touch with basic human experience. I'm not saying you should take hallucinations at face value, but don't go off diagnosing yourself.Schizophrenia isn't like in movies where it's simply hearing voices or seeing things. Schizos are deeply egotistical and narcissistic, they don't see random things. It's always some elaborate narrative where they are the most special person in the world or everyone is out to get them.If you really lose track with reality, that's typically a brain injury of some type.>>33788798Don't listen to him.>>33790292Seriously though, the veils between the dimensions are thinning. Relax and enjoy the ride. Maybe you are turning into a shaman.
>>33791398>Relax and enjoy the ride. Maybe you are turning into a shaman.It's not like it is a glamorous thing, it's scary, I can see how I could go crazy only with the fact that I can't trust my own eyes
>>33790389>Probably not if you are a functioning adultI try to be, but depression really has me fucked up, even so, I sleep well and I don't use drugs
