Friday, January 25, 2019

Hallucinations: Definition, Causes, Symptoms and Diagnosis





Hallucinations

Hallucinations sensations that appear to be real but are created from your mind. They can affect all your five senses. For example, you can hear a voice that anyone in the room can hear or see an image which is not real. These symptoms can be due to mental illness, side effects of medicines, or physical illnesses like epilepsy or alcohol. Depending on the reasons for your Hallucinations, you may need to visit a psychiatrist, a neurologist, or a general practitioner. Treatment may involve taking medication to treat physical or mental illness. Your doctor may also recommend adopting healthy behaviors like drinking less alcohol and taking more sleep.

Types of Hallucinations

Hallucinations can affect your vision, sense of smell, taste, hearing, or physical sensation.

Visual Hallucinations

Visual Hallucinations involves looking at things that are not there. Hallucinations objects can be visible patterns, people, or lights. For example, you can see a person who is not in the room or is not flashing light, who can not see anyone else.

Olfactory Hallucinations

Sulfur Hallucinations involves the sense of your scent. While awake in the middle of the night, you can feel the smell of an unpleasant odor or feel that it feels bad when your body is bad. This type of Hallucinations can also include fragrant fragrances like flowers.

Gustatory Hallucinations

Gustatory Hallucinations is similar to frictional Hallucinations, but they involve a sense of taste rather than odor. These tastes are often weird or unpleasant. Deep Hallucinations (often with metal taste) is relatively common symptom for people with epilepsy. Read More


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