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July 23, 2005Isolated HallucinationsRead more... Schizophrenia-related Events
Isolated hallucinations are not as out of the ordinary as we have prior believed. It seems that many people hallucinate at some point, but do not have any psychotic symptoms after that isolated hallucination. An example of this is the story of one little boy, "As an eight-year-old growing up in wartime Croatia, world-renowned psychiatrist Norman Sartorius lay by the side of an enemy-infested road with his mother, waiting for a safe time to cross. He recalls seeing a funeral cortege drawn by white horses, having no doubt it was real, but no one else could see it. The eminent former director of the World Health Organisation's (WHO)mental health program, who is visiting Australia, said isolated symptoms of mental disorders, such as his own hallucination as a young boy, were not uncommon" (Miles, 2005). How and why these psychotic appear and then leave just as quickly is still under heavy speculation. More often these symptoms appear as the person is drifting off to sleep or as they awaken. Therefore it seems that it is part of a dreamlike state. But what about when people have isolated hallucinations when they are not about to fall asleep or wake up? These isolated hallucinations have been referred to be some as pseudo-hallucinations. The main difference between someone with a pseudo-hallucination and someone experiencing a schizophrenic hallucination is that the person with schizophrenia will think that it is real and engage in the hallucination, whereas the person with a pseudo-hallucination will often recognize that it is not real. Studies in Holland have shown that such hallucinations are not at all uncommon and that they may be experienced by healthy individuals multiple times in their lifetimes. The source of this article was the AAP Newsfeed, written there by Janelle Miles, National Medical Correspondent. CommentsPost a comment |
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I disagree with the quote, "The main difference between someone with a pseudo-hallucination and someone experiencing a schizophrenic hallucination is that the person with schizophrenia will think that it is real and engage in the hallucination, whereas the person with a pseudo-hallucination will often recognize that it is not real."
This is saying that schizophrenic hallucinations and the "pseudo-hallucinations" are the same thing and that schizophrenics just make an error of judgement about the hallucination. Almost as if were just not smart enough to figure it out.
The example given of a pseudo-hallucination doesn't remind me of any hallucinations I have had. In fact it is completely different. Its not as if all of a sudden a bunch of white horses appear with a funeral carriage as the article describes. It makes me laugh to think that people would associate something like the described "pseudo-hallucination" to schizophrenia.
I think schizophrenia should not have ever been mentioned in this article. They are talking about a completely different type of hallucination than a schizophrenic one and it makes the schizophrenic look like someone who makes errors where others don't.
That is just my opinion, I'm not an expert but I do have schizophrenia.
Posted by: Sipp at July 23, 2005 04:26 PM
I completely agree with Sipp's comment above. Ah, those silly n0rmals and their "pseudo-hallucinations."
Posted by: Kudzu at July 23, 2005 06:15 PM
well, technically you do make an error, you just don't perceive it as one.
Posted by: Mowgli at May 10, 2008 03:58 PM