Auditory Hallucinations

Hallucination: This is a perception of a sensory experience without external stimuli. It may be visual, auditory,

Andy seems to be showing signs of psychosis. Immediately I saw that he was very paranoid and suspicious of the people around him. The content of what he is saying does not make sense as he is accusing his roommates of putting voices in his brain. He believes his roommates are out to get him and fears they are listening to him. I noticed that his eyes wonder and he lacks eye contact. He seems to have lost all relationship with reality and experiences auditory hallucinations. Andy states that the thoughts in his head are planted from his roommates which are being tracked through a device they placed in his brain. The patient seems to be confused and suspicious as to why his friends would do this to him. The delusions and hallucinations seem very

This paper reviews two studies on the effectiveness of group cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for individuals experiencing auditory hallucinations. The first study (Newton, Larkin, Melhuish, & Wykes, 2007) aims to elicit the positive and negative aspects of group CBT treatment by listening to the perspectives of young people undergoing such treatment. The second study (Penn et al. 2009) seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of group CBT for auditory hallucinations compared to an active control group of enhanced supportive therapy (ST).

B. Hallucinations, are perceived through one of the senses and do not correspond to any stimulus in the outside world. Hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious mind.

Auditory hallucination is a fundamental presentation observed in patients suffering from schizophrenia. It is one of the frequently occurring symptoms considered to be disabling in schizophrenia, but despite vast and numerous organized studies undertaken in this area in order to comprehend the pathophysiology of auditory hallucination, little success has been realized, and it remains to be complex in research, understanding, and expressing the knowledge accrued (Kaprinis, 2008.) The auditory processing in schizophrenia seems to be different from that of normal individuals because patients inflicted with this mental illness complain of voices deep inside their heads. The voices are described as coming

Pt presented at NNBHC with his mother with psychosis, and ritualistic behaviors that have increased. Pt states that he has been having audio and visual hallucinations at night where he hears whispers. Pt states of also seeing “clowns, demons, spirits and bigfoot”. Pt states when he has AV hallucinations that he counts to 2 or 4 and becomes fidgety which helps decrease the hallucinations. Pt also states that everything have to be on the left side due to him being left handed and nothing can be on the right side which makes him upset. Pt states that he has been having spells of confusion where he seems to lose time, or is often confused when communicating. Pt states that he has became recently aggressive towards mother throwing times due

The patient is a 50 year old female who presented to the ED with an intentional overdose on 24 pills of Valium 5mg and 6 pills of Rlafen 500mg. Patient reports conflict with family as the contributing factor to her distress. She states, " I'm tired of how my mom treat me, I don't want to live no more, I want to die." Patient reports depressive symptoms as: irritability, anger, isolation, feelings of worthlessness, and sadness. Patient does not appear to exhibiting agitation, aggression, or responding to any internal stimuli.

Personally, Michelle views her biggest challenges to be her auditory hallucinations, labile mood, and lack of sobriety. These challenges are the cause of her mental health, but her environment exacerbates her problems. Her stressful environment with her parents causes her to resort to unsavory friends for support. Michelle has a lot of faith in god and trusts that she will recover if she continues to pray and takes advantage of the services she receives. Being religious has helped her in the past as it has helped her stay sober, and has kept her on top of taking her medications.

The recurring idea of how science, technology, and total state control can be dangerous for the citizens of the utopian society is constantly brought up throughout the novel. The state in Brave New World created a scientific and technological method, the bokanovsky, in which they can have ninety-six or more identical twins. The state decides in which social class the embryos they have created go into by making them hear recordings while they are sleeping. Moreover, the state provides the citizens with soma so they can erase their unpleasant memories by creating hallucinations in which the person is happy and satisfied. The soma helps maintain stability and control for the state. The citizens are always happy and never complain; therefore,

Hallucinations were a large portion of what Lori had experienced with her symptoms of schizophrenia. Auditory hallucinations made up majority of things experienced, she was always hearing voices in her head which is where most of her problems stemmed from, they started out subtle and then progressed into the voices always being there. The voices varied on the type of things they would be telling Lori. At times, they would be persecutory voices, calling her horrible names, degrading her. Other times there would be more than one voice at a time and they would converse with each other saying things like Lori must go to hell and that she needs to be punished, they would also converse by saying she needed to die. The biggest part of the voices

Many narcoleptics also experience hypnagogic hallucinations. These hallucinations are really dreams that intrude the awakened state. In normal sleep, dreaming generally occurs approximately ninety minutes after falling asleep; narcoleptics begin their sleeping episodes with vivid dreams. To the individual, these hallucinations feel extremely realistic and even violent. Since hallucinations are in fact visual and may have an audio element, they may see another person or human like figure in the same room as them or may even hear someone calling out to them. These life-like sights, sounds, and feelings that are a part of hypnagogic hallucinations are thought to occur while the person is awake, both during the day and just at the edges of nighttime

Musical hallucinations differ from tinnitus in that; tinnitus is when a person hears phantom tones, buzzing, or hissing (Grens, 2014). This can routinely happen after a loud concert or any prolonged exposure to any loud sounds. Musical Hallucinations are the perception that a person hears a specific song or instrumental arrangements playing outside their body over and over again but have no external source. There’s also the difference that tinnitus happens to people that have their hearing and musical hallucinations happen to be people that have moderate to severe hearing loss (Grens, 2014).

Clients’ 27 year old daughter has recently left her house she identified her subsequent feelings of loneliness as a potential trigger for relapse. Client spoke about her visit with PCO’s resident psychiatrist and adopting the use of Risperdal into her life/schedule in order to manage the voices she has been hearing. Client reported that she doesn’t fully believe that the Persecutory voices that she has been hearing are auditory hallucinations, but during group she did identify her voices as "voices" rather than "jealous neighbors" as she has in the past.

The assumption outlined by Bentall (2006), postulates that one should abandon psychiatric diagnosis altogether, and rather attempt to explain specific complaints that individuals bring to the attention of the clinician. For example if an individual presents hallucinations clinicians should explain the mechanisms by which the hallucinations occur rather than simply labelling the individual as Schizophrenic. When applying this approach, specific difficulties can be investigated without the constraints of the assumption that they belong to a broader diagnostic category. Which consequently allows psychiatrists to gain a more in-depth insight as to why these difficulties may arise and by what mechanisms. Bentall (2006), further implies that once

Firstly, hallucinations occur as a result of the induction of hallucinogens into the blood stream. Some people have always wondered how witches got the stigma of being able to fly. During the witch craze, drugs were popular. With the hot topic of witch’s, people who used drugs, hallucinated witches being able to fly. When there is a lot of pressure and tension is high around a person, some people use drugs to find an escape. By finding an escape, people made up being able to see witches fly or, just wanted to be known by telling others a fib to bring attention to ones’ self. For those who don’t use drugs, they are highly influenced by the people who do use them, making them paranoid and susceptible to believe anything they hear. In the 1600’s, the deception was how people saw witches flying around on a broomstick. Because drugs and witches were a popular trend, people