My mum hallucinated being on a space ship, a really graphic description of what it was like.

My mum thinks people are after her and also believes she is in the Secret Service when manic.

My wife has never hallucinated but she does believe that the world is against her. The thing that drives me nuts is when I am in an argument over what she thought someone else was thinking. She convinces herself that someone was thinking negative things about her and then fights with me about them.

You can be a mile away from her but if you happen to look at her at any point during your conversation then she thinks that you are talking about her and she will tell me what you were saying about her even though she can't even hear a word that you said. This is some bizarre paranoia.

yes, they can happen with bp1 or more commonly with schizoaffective disorder. Paranoia can also play a big role in bp.

My cuz thinks he is being bugged, constantly.

my mother see's things as extremely dirty at times. granted we pretty much have a zoo at home & it's hard to keep up with the cleaning. but somedays she it just doesn't matter how clean it is. I would scrub and bleach the countertops, if she see's i was in the kitchen on a bad day she will immediately scrub the newly cleaned kitchen [literally 5 minutes after i just did]. visually,...she just see's a lot of filth.

also if i have more then one or two people over the house she will sometimes feel like we are somehow making fun/taking advantage of her. she'll keep asking me if i think this is a flop house, or i'm showing off how much i can get away with in her house. There would be no drugs, and no acting out during these times. It just seems like if we're joking and having a lot of fun it triggers this somehow?

Very oftain she will get very nervous that everyone in her life is simply using her. Her husband, married her for the health ins. I want her money...etc. [i do not take her money b/c of this...aside from cosigning loans that i am paying her back]

i hope that is helpful to you somehow. what hallucinations have you encountered, if any?

Not mine, my daughter is having hallucinations. She hears voices and today she said that she also sees things but was not specific. She thinks that "they" are brainwashing everyone and as long as she continues to hear the voices she is safe from being brainwashed. There is a lot more to it but that is a summation.

yeah, sorry that was what i ment...
what ones have you seen in your daughter, if any.

have you talked with her doctors about this? does she?

She was hospitalized for this last Wednesday. This is her fifth hospitalization since April, she didn't tell anyone about the voices until the third hospitalization and initially they didn't believe her because she wasn't showing any outward signs i.e., preoccupation, distraction, etc.

They believe her now but are still not sure what is going on.

i don't know if this is helpful to you, but i came across another situation that seems a little similar to your daughters.

http://dailystrength.org/discussions/Self-Injury/advice/1334342

This is from the SI community, a girls mother made a post regarding the voices her daughter's been hearing. My heart goes out to you two. Such caring mums! I'm hoping it will help you some how, or even just talking to each other? I know the situations a bit different though...

Thanks jndoe,

I am actually already friends with lovebirds and yes, our daughters are very similar in their symptoms. It has been very helpful to me to be able to discuss these things with someone else who is experiencing them. I love this site but sometimes find it a little hard to relate to some of the posts as they are coming from the point of view of adult/adult relationships.

Not sure if that even makes sense but . . .