Clinical and Experimental Psychology

Treatment and Medication for Hallucinations

Liam Brown^{* *}Correspondence: Liam Brown, Department of Biological Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Email:

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Hallucinations are sensory reports that appear to be real but are actually generated by your mind. They can influence all five of your senses. For example, you might hear a voice that no one else in the room can hear, or you might see an image that isn't real. These symptoms can be caused by mental illnesses, side effects from medications, or physical illnesses such as epilepsy or alcoholism. Treatment may also include the administration of medication to treat a medical problem. To improve your hallucinations, your doctor may suggest you to adopt one-of-a-kind behaviours such as drinking less alcohol and obtaining more sleep. Hallucinations can also affect your eyesight, odour, flavor, hearing, and physical feelings. Visual hallucinations involve perceiving things that aren't actually there. Items, apparent patterns, individuals, or lights can all be seen as hallucinations [1]. Your sense of odour is contained in olfactory hallucinations. You may detect an unpleasant stench if you wake up in the middle of the night or believe your frame smells bad when it doesn't. Gustatory hallucinations are similar to olfactory hallucinations, but they involve your sense of taste rather than odour. Auditory hallucinations are one of the most common types of hallucination. You might take attention if someone spoke to you or told you to do something positive. The tone of the voice can be irritated, neutral, or warm. Tactile hallucinations involve the sensation of your body being touched or moving [2]. For instance, you can feel as if insects are crawling on your skin or as if your inside organs are changing around.

You can also visualize the contact of a person's palms on your body. Feeling feelings inside the body, such as a crawling sensation on the skin or the movement of internal organs Hearing sounds such as music, footsteps, or slamming windows or doors Hearing voices when no one has said anything (the maximum not unusual place form of hallucination). Positive, negative, or neutral voices can be heard [3,4]. They may also order someone to do something that would cause harm to him or others. Seeing patterns, lights, creatures, or stuff that aren't there, or smelling something that isn't there. Hallucinations can happen to anyone at any time. Listening to or briefly seeing a loved one who has recently died, for example, may be part of the grieving process. Hallucinations are most commonly associated with schizophrenia, an intellectual infection marked by aberrant thinking and behaviour. They could, however, be a symptom of bipolar disorder as well. Hallucinations are possible in bipolar I disorder, both during mania and despair. Hallucinations are more likely to occur in bipolar II during the depressive phase [5]. Bipolar disease with hallucinations and/or delusions can also lead to a bipolar disease prognosis with psychotic symptoms. Use and/or withdrawal from alcohol or drugs, Dissociative identity disorder (DID), epilepsy, glaucoma, hallucinogen use, and auditory nerve damage Situations involving metabolism, Illnesses of the middle or inner ear, Migraine, narcolepsy, neurologic illnesses, ophthalmic diseases, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Schizoaffective disorder, sleep deprivation, and stroke.

References

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3. Shergill, S.S., et al. “Auditory hallucinations: A review of psychological treatments.”Schizophr Res32.3 (1998): 137-150.
4. Sommer, I.E., et al. “The treatment of hallucinations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.”Schizophr Bull38.4 (2012): 704-714.