What is true: A hallucination is…?
From the book – Chapter 11: Mood, Psychotic and Personality Conditions
The right answer
Seeing or hearing things that are not there
Hallucinations
Perceptions without external stimuli. Auditory (hearing voices — most common in schizophrenia; voices may comment, argue, or command); visual; tactile, olfactory, gustatory.
Read the full chapter – Chapter 11: Mood, Psychotic and Personality Conditions
Stories from real life
- Eight Days Without Sleep – Vikram, twenty-eight, an advertising executive in Delhi, has not slept properly for a week. He feels brilliant. He talks fast, makes big plans to start three…
- The Voices in Shanta’s Son – Shanta lives in a village in Odisha. Her son Mohan, twenty-two, was a quiet, hard-working student. Over the past months he has become suspicious, saying neighbours…
- Zoe at Two in the Morning – Zoe, twenty-three, lives in Bristol. Her friendships burn bright and then collapse. When her closest friend takes longer to reply, Zoe is sure she is being…
- Coming Home, Slowly – Sanjay, thirty-one, spent two months in hospital in Bengaluru for schizophrenia. Now he is home with his parents. He is calmer, but he is also slow,…
Shloks
- Bhagavad Gita 5.18 – The wise see the same in a learned humble person, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and one who cooks a dog.
More on this topic: Emotions, anger and mood swings – understanding your feelings
More questions
- What is true: personality disorders involve…?
- What does Bhagavad Gita 5.18 mean for the mind? (Chapter 11)
- Eight Days Without Sleep – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- The Voices in Shanta's Son – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- Zoe at Two in the Morning – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- Coming Home, Slowly – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- Mr Hassan Prefers the Edge of the Room – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- What can we learn from the story “Vikram, Age 23”?
- Why these conditions need careful understanding?
- Understanding mood disorders beyond depression – mood, psychotic and personality conditions
- How to stop overthinking and worrying
- How to control anger