Acoustic hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia

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Hallucinations are one of the common manifestations in people with schizophrenia, which is the basis for doctors to accurately diagnose the disease. Along with delusions, hallucinations cause the patient to act abnormally, leading to behavior that is dangerous to themselves and to society.

1. What is phantom sound?

Schizophrenia is one of the most severe forms of mental illness, people with schizophrenia always have delusions and hallucinations that are not close to reality. A voice somewhere echoes in the ear honestly, the patient himself will not be able to distinguish what is real sound and what is virtual sound.
The hallucinating sounds that people with schizophrenia hear may be the voices of relatives, friends or may not be like anyone else, difficult to identify, in many cases patients think they have heard. hear the sound of a loved one who has passed away.

2. Common symptoms of hallucinations

Each person with schizophrenia may have different hallucinations, often all of which are negative content in the patient's life or family and social relationships.
When suffering from hallucinations, the patient will hear in his ear words with an insulting tone or command the patient to perform negative behaviors or negative content that makes the patient feel tormented internally. . In many cases, virtual voice commands directly to the patient (command voice). Patients can also suffer from a visual hallucination, that is, hearing voices that disparage, criticize them, or even criticize or ridicule them. The hallucinations can appear from time to time or continuously throughout the day, the content of the audio can be private or a big deal. There are also many cases where patients hear hallucinatory sounds without words but only animal sounds or music... In addition to the negative hallucinations, schizophrenic patients can also hear easy hallucinating hallucinations. Be patient and positive, this explains why many patients after treatment of hallucinations fall into a state of loss and sadness.
Today, not only people with schizophrenia but even healthy people can hear hallucinations several times in their life, however friendly, positive hallucinations.

3. What harm does virtual sound cause to the patient?

Because the hallucinations come from within the patient, they are able to perceive the patient's thoughts, strengths and weaknesses, delusions, fears, and hidden jealousy to attack those weaknesses. this point and cause negative behaviors.
Another reason vocal hallucinations are so dangerous for people with schizophrenia is that the person has no ability to control and manipulate the hallucinations, nor any way to get rid of them, and has to succumb to it. . In the long run, patients tend to wait for orders from the virtual voice or automatically perform the wrong actions they think the voice will tell them to do.
Hallucinations when combined with delusions will direct the patient's thoughts to a specific behavior and lead to misbehavior. In particular, some studies also show that the symptoms of auditory hallucinations will become more dangerous when the patient uses drugs or alcohol, experiences mental pressure or emotions.

4. Recognizing hallucinogens in patients with schizophrenia

To recognize the hallucinogens of people with schizophrenia is not difficult, just pay attention, often the patients who hear the hallucinations, they will not speak openly again, but will go into private. However, there are cases where the patient talks with hallucinogens anywhere. Once you've talked to the phantom, it's very difficult to get them to focus on talking back to you.
In many cases, it is possible to see a person with schizophrenia talking aloud while no one is around, they can talk animatedly, argue or yell, laugh out loud for no reason. After each such conversation, the patient may become angry, anxious or shouting, happy...
In short, it is important for the schizophrenic patient to have vocal hallucinations to find out the cause. What is the cause of the hallucinogen, the tendency of negative or positive hallucinogens to find the right treatment. It is taboo not to argue with the patient's hallucinations because it will complicate things and the patient will become agitated. It is necessary to take the patient to a specialized hospital for examination, diagnosis and timely treatment, the longer the treatment effect decreases, the more difficult it is to help the patient recover completely than.

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