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Hearing things

sfagrad
sfagrad
I have noticed that over the past few months at least I have been hearing the radio. I have checked and nothing is on and it sounds like a radio is on. It has gotten louder and the song playing is not one I recognize. It does not happen everynight. Maybe once a month ESP if I am really tired.
I do not think it means anything bad but I am concerned. I also have bad noise sensitivity. I see my pdoc on Monday.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I get beeps and high frequency hisses now and then but I attribute it to medication and lack of sleep.My cousin played in attribute band.
sfagrad
sfagrad
For sure the last thing iwant is a new medication to take and defiantly not a new diagnois. Things have finaly gotten back to "normal" for me somewhat.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I would think that the ear will "make" sounds out of the noise of the fan or the static of the radio. I am almost 100% audio and linguistic and I have a lot of audio hallucinations a lot of the time. I have been told as a language person of sorts (more with vocabulary and description and some morphology but that's about it these days-not really foreign languages)-I hear a lot of things at the house but I ignore the voices that I hear.

The voices that I hear are not malign, normally, unless I am semi psychotic. Even when I am psychotic, the voices are not quite like that of schizophrenics-it is more like I "hear" someone talking about me but the voices are never strong. The voices are more like a muttering.

I noticed that my brain will "program" itself to a person's voice. The social paranoia will "attatch" itself to that voice and I will "think" that the person is talking about me. As well, I disassociate during stress and for a moment I will think that the TV is my son's voice if I am in the other room.

I am patient with myself and try to see what the source of the "sounds" might be. Soemtimes, the sounds are a surprise visit from somone (chaotic household) and other times, it is the TV, and other times I am just so tired.

I figure that my brain has been through so much trauma and my hearing has had such bad stuff done to it over the years-I have abused my hearing-that 2/3rds of what I hear is non-sense.

I wonder if your therapist could help with you blocking out odd sounds. Don't know. I know that meds can help with psychosis but to be careful with any antipsychotic.