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Anonymous #1
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audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder?
#7768306 - 12/17/07 04:18 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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My girlfriend told me that she's taking medication for bipolar disorder. She has cut herself before and heard voices. She takes a drug I looked up was an anti psychotic. She said that bipolar is not as severe as schizophrenia. But what she told me about her symptoms sound like schizophrenia to me, (hearing voices). I care for her a lot and am not going to break up with her because of this.
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Anonymous #2
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7768308 - 12/17/07 04:22 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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There are two types of bipolar (check it out) and yes, hearing voices is common with one of them.
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Anonymous #3
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7768486 - 12/17/07 08:01 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I care for her a lot and am not going to break up with her because of this.
I'd leave her. I learned the lesson the hard way going down that road.
What kind of medicine is she on?
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Anonymous #4
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #3]
#7768767 - 12/17/07 10:08 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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You don't hear voices being bipolar. I know of one medication for schizophrenia and it's called Zyprexa. All of the inti schicotics makes a person gain weight also. Is she taking any street drugs, like meth?
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Anonymous #5
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7769087 - 12/17/07 11:30 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I heard a voice for many years, it started coming to me in a reoccurring dream I'd been having for years. It was a mans voice, IDK what he was saying but it would just keep repeating even after I woke up. It used to drive me insane! I honestly don't know what disorder I have or had, but I don't hear the voice anymore.
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Anonymous #6
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #5]
#7769440 - 12/17/07 12:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anonymous said: I heard a voice for many years, it started coming to me in a reoccurring dream I'd been having for years. It was a mans voice, IDK what he was saying but it would just keep repeating even after I woke up. It used to drive me insane! I honestly don't know what disorder I have or had, but I don't hear the voice anymore.
thats not a mental disorder, thats a fairly common sleep disorder.
sleep paralysis/ hypnagogic hallucinations. they can involve visual or auditory hallucination, or both.
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Anonymous #7
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7769689 - 12/17/07 01:40 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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A bipolar person can go manic which essentially can be recognized of them being annoyingly full of energy. In that state they tend to shave hours off their sleeptime and have pretty tiring days, but they feel wide awake and alert at the time.
This can lead to a state where you're worn out, sleep deprived, yet full of energy and alert. Ofcourse you can get voices in that state.
I'm chronically hypomanic, most of the time it's like I'm on a moderate dose of stimulants. Very pleasant, and not as intense as to become a burden to yourself or others. It's like this: many people are a bit depressed, and I'm the exact opposite of that. I feel a bit too good most of the time
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Anonymous #8
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #7]
#7770081 - 12/17/07 03:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anonymous said: A bipolar person can go manic which essentially can be recognized of them being annoyingly full of energy. In that state they tend to shave hours off their sleeptime and have pretty tiring days, but they feel wide awake and alert at the time.
This can lead to a state where you're worn out, sleep deprived, yet full of energy and alert. Ofcourse you can get voices in that state.
I'm chronically hypomanic, most of the time it's like I'm on a moderate dose of stimulants. Very pleasant, and not as intense as to become a burden to yourself or others. It's like this: many people are a bit depressed, and I'm the exact opposite of that. I feel a bit too good most of the time
nah, you're just aggressively projecting yourself to others as being in a good mood and that's why it comes off as annoying. because it's false.
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Anonymous #1
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #3]
#7770859 - 12/17/07 06:27 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I care for her a lot and am not going to break up with her because of this.
I'd leave her. I learned the lesson the hard way going down that road.
What kind of medicine is she on?
She takes 2 medicines. Seroquil and another one I don't remember the name of. I'm not going to leave her over this. It's not like I'm perfect either. There's things wrong with me too. She's fine with the medicine she's on. I wouldn't even have known she had a problem except she told me. The only real concern about it is if we decide to have children she'll have to stop taking her medicine during the pregnancy, which she says could cause a full blown relapse of her symtpoms.
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Anonymous #1
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #2]
#7770866 - 12/17/07 06:29 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anonymous said: There are two types of bipolar (check it out) and yes, hearing voices is common with one of them.
I didn't know that. I'm glad to realize she was honest with me about her diagnosis, I was skeptical until you posted.
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Anonymous #9
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7770915 - 12/17/07 06:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Right outa the notes i took in Psychology (BTW I fuckin aced that class)
MAJOR DEPRESSION: Very severe symptoms. If there is a manic phase then we have BIPOLAR DISOERDER. If there are hallucinations or delusions present they are called AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS.
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Anonymous #10
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Re: audio hallucinations with bipolar disorder? [Re: Anonymous #6]
#7772265 - 12/17/07 11:44 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anonymous said: I heard a voice for many years, it started coming to me in a reoccurring dream I'd been having for years. It was a mans voice, IDK what he was saying but it would just keep repeating even after I woke up. It used to drive me insane! I honestly don't know what disorder I have or had, but I don't hear the voice anymore.
thats not a mental disorder, thats a fairly common sleep disorder.
sleep paralysis/ hypnagogic hallucinations. they can involve visual or auditory hallucination, or both.
As anonymous said, that's not a mental disorder.
I experienced it, but I wonder if my voices are indeed a symptom of something (it's been years without them though).
They were a man and a woman's voice, talking to each other and to me. Nothing understandable, strange language but not even glossolalical, some sounds were not human. I had an intense empathy for what they were saying: I didn't understand them, but knew when they were happy, or arguing, or even angry with me; and reacted very emotionally to those feelings.
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