Hallucinations

Types of Hallucinations

  • Auditory hallucination: You may appear to hear things that are not really present. You may hear voices in your head.
  • Visual hallucination: You may see things and people that are not really present. Flashes of light and silhouettes are what is most commonly seen.
  • Olfactory hallucination: You start smelling a strange odor in your surroundings or start believing an odor is originating from your body.
  • Gustatory hallucinations: You start believing some food or drinks have an odd taste. A common trait of this hallucination is you always spit.
  • Tactile hallucination: You feel that something is crawling on your skin or a ticklish sensation now and then

 Causes

  • Schizophrenia
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Migraines
  • Brain tumor
  • Epilepsy

 

Treatment

The very first thing is to identify what causes these hallucinations. This can be done by examining your current physical well-being and previous medical history. EEG, MRI’s are all examples of the scans that a doctor might prescribe.

 

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