Help Diagnosing Visual/tactile Hallucination Posted: 07-06-07 04:46am
Someone near and dear to me has suffered
from a very specific visual hallucination
for a few years now and it has recently
become severe enough to interfere with
their ability to function normally.
At this point I'm past any questioning of
the authenticity...there's no chance it
could be an attention ploy or a lie of any
kind. Whatever is or isn't there - they
see it.
They frequently see a specific
hallucination of a young girl, dark and
partly decomposed. She follows her, haunts
her. Sometimes she'll harmlessly be
sitting in a corner, observing - other
times she'll be assertive and startling.
The image of the girl alone terrifies this
person but is somewhat familiar to them
now.
As it now interferes with their ability to
function because it sends them into terror
ridden seclusion, curled up into the fetal
position and crying, they want to seek
help but are afraid and clueless.
It doesn't really seem to fit into any
specific mental problem I can find. The
trouble is that these hallucinations move
into not only sight, but TOUCH. They'll
reach for a light switch and graze her
hair, looking down to scream and run to
their room, terrified. At times she'll
forcefull grab them quickly only to give a
menacing stare after startling her.
Strangely enough, auditory hallucinations
aren't experienced at all.
What could this possibly be? I've no
question in my mind whatever this is, they
believe it exists 100%. They are aware
it's in their mind, aware it's a
hallucination and in some way feel a
twisted fear that if it stops, they'll
almost miss her.
I figured I'd ask here because they do
have more than a few symptoms of paranoid
schizophrenic behavior.
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Philo
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Posted: 07-06-07 12:54pm
I had severe hallucinations of devil
children staring at me and wanting to beat
me up. This was part of a psychotic attack
of some sort connected with me not working
(the devil wanted me to work). You've got
to ask whether the child is connected to
any demands or problems. Maybe there's a
primary cause that your friend can
eliminate.
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ONDERDONK
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Suggestion Posted: 07-07-07 14:38pm
let me begin with the disclaimer that many
say i am delusional. i am actually
achizotypal, not schizophrenic, which
means i know the difference between my
visions and reality. i have all the same
visions. i say its shamanism - the dreamer
controls the dream, not the dream the
dreamer.
so here's what i do:
summon this ghost. to a central, prepared
ritual area of some kind.
non-denominational, whatever, you can
invent the ritual, the more powerful is
the more clever and lofty.
sit the ghost down. bathe it, dress it
inwhite, feed it. feed it well - 'cause
that's usually the issue - anyway, then,
read and teach the statutes of mystery
metropolis:
1) do not leave and enter at odd hours,
collide with the living, wantonly go among
people, continuously create havoc, cause
people to have strange dreams and
imaginings, or upset the multitude of
harmonies. only pray that all spirits of
darkness be easy at heart and receive
salvation.
2) do not join alien demons and outside
ghosts in exhorting food and drink,
throwing sand, or casting stones, thereby
creating terror among the living.
3) do not wrongly bring pestilence and
epidemic into the world, infecting good
citizens and causing people to be sick and
ill, and becoming a worry for their
friends and relatives.
4) do not restrain or obstruct
landholders, hindering their sowing and
planting, or forcefully occupy in their
forests, trees, flowers, and fruits,
hiding and concealing yourself to avoid
the rightful rent to be paid to heaven.
5) do not wrongly create commotion in the
four directions, set fire and burn down
peoples homes, and lodges, damage and
diminsih their wealth and property, or
otherwise destroy a family's estate.
