Any recommendations as to how to outright end hallucinations

I’ve been hallucinating almost non-stop for over 400 days. Visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, even chronoceptive hallucinations. I’m hallucinating right now as I write this. Luckily, the hallucinations aren’t quite as intense so as to prevent me from perceiving and interacting with the real world. My next appointment with my therapist is next month and with my psychiatrist is in July. As I write this I’m seeing apparitions and hearing voices commenting on what I’m writing about. Every once in awhile they quiet down to the extent that I feel as if they’re finally gone. This usually happens when I’m interacting socially with real human beings (whether it be on an interpersonal level or online); but, the hallucinations return almost shortly after I get home. Do any of you happen to known of a “quick fix” to get the hallucinations to go away for good? Preferably something that doesn’t involve medication (I’m not taking any antipsychotics and haven’t since early-2019) and is relatively safe and easy to do? Many thanks in advance.

Hi there,

Talking on the phone helps me. Staying present in the moment in conversation with connection is some of the best medicine. There are warm lines staffed at a lot of mental health centers. You could volunteer or try working for one and possibly even do it remotely in your community. Hope that helps.

Sunny

Sunny has some great points. I definitely agree with talking and having connections.

Back in the day, we used to drink milk to bring us down when we had an especially intense and un-fun LSD trip. It's what they did back in the 60's and 70's and it works on all sorts of drugs. I can't recall reading anywhere that milk could be harmful for mental conditions, though I certainly could be wrong.

It may be a totally ridiculous suggestion but you never know. I know that many times when I'm getting super manic I'm almost certainly not eating well, if at all. The nutritional value of milk to your body and brain when they're stressing real hard like that would probably be very beneficial anyway.

Just a thought. Feel free to ignore me. It won't hurt my feelings.

Sounds really tiresome to have so many hallucinations I think what Sunny says is a really good idea, talking to others and connecting. Here are some other strategies against auditory hallucinations, some might work also for other types of hallucinations:
https://www.nursingtimes.net/roles/mental-health-nurses/simple-coping-strategies-for-people-who-hear-voices-25-11-2003/

I have also read about an app with some kind of "word puzzles" which help for people who hear voices. But it's in Dutch, I don't think there is anything similar to it in other languages. It is called Temstem. The way the app works is via (used Google translate):
1. activation of the language area in your brain
2. double load on your working memory
3. increasing self-confidence

A friend of mine has visual hallucinations and for her it helps not to interact with those and also not to describe what she sees to interested friends (like me ) as it makes them "more real" for her mind. So she tries to ignore them as much as possible. Knowing "this is a hallucination it is not real and I choose to ignore it". It gives her back control. The only thing is,when it occurs suddenly she gets startled for a moment. Or at night. But otherwise she has little problems with the hallucinations, they are still there occassionally, but they do not usually interfere with her life. She considers it a neurological disease, something the brain conjures up.

Hope you find something that works for you!

Seroquel and sleep help me, but since you're not looking for medication, maybe just the sleep bit. When I'm tired or stressed out, everything flares up.

DistortedOne wrote:Back in the day, we used to drink milk to bring us down when we had an especially intense and un-fun LSD trip. It's what they did back in the 60's and 70's and it works on all sorts of drugs. I can't recall reading anywhere that milk could be harmful for mental conditions, though I certainly could be wrong.

It may be a totally ridiculous suggestion but you never know. I know that many times when I'm getting super manic I'm almost certainly not eating well, if at all. The nutritional value of milk to your body and brain when they're stressing real hard like that would probably be very beneficial anyway.

Just a thought. Feel free to ignore me. It won't hurt my feelings.

Thanks for the advice. The milk thing may have worked in the past (roughly one to four years ago), but the apparitions refuse to leave. I've been hallucinating almost non-stop (visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, olfactory, proprioceptive, thermoreceptive, and possibly even chronoreceptive hallucinations) anywhere from 900 and 1,090 days since roughly in between July and November 2019 up until today. I am seeing apparitions who regularly confirm that I am in Hell. As to when and where I supposedly "died"; they pick random dates from as far back as 1999 to as recently as December 2019. The apparitions have deprived me of sleep so often that anything resembling my free will, conscience, sense of self, moral compass, impulse control, inhibitions, and both short- and long-term memory are nearly completely gone. The apparitions include very vivid, pornographic imagery involving various prepubescent children performing various sex acts on myself and/or other men (animated scenes of fellatio and sometimes handjobs and sexual intercourse) usually in between the hours of roughly 6 PM and 6 AM. The apparitions had initially claimed (sometime in late-2019) that they have the capacity to induce pedophilia. They would later claim that they would eventually drive me into "justifying" it. Almost daily; they accuse me of "purposely" inducing such hallucinations--disregarding that up until the apparitions began to have their presence known to me near-24/7... I'd made no effort in visualizing prepubescent children in the nude.

I was visited by the police less than two months after writing that last post in this thread. They had me involuntarily committed over what I'd been telling my 7cupsoftea therapist (which is what I've written in this thread and the other). I was released from the hospital about 72 hours later.

Many months later; the apparitions are still telling me to go kill myself and/or others. They also disregard how in late-2019; these same apparitions would tell me to go kill people--but they didn't resort to using the little boy performing fellatio back then. Back then; they'd show me a little boy defecating on my bed (which they are now--in 2023--amused by). They also disregard that during that same time period; I still had access to firearms. In fact; I was hearing voices in my head accusing me of hurting or even murdering a woman (who would later successfully place a restraining order on me roughly a year later by late-2020) on the same day that I was using a firearm at a shooting range in order to renew my exposed firearm permit and guard card.

Today; these same apparitions are still telling me to go kill myself and/or others. "With a knife..." they sometimes say. They're also capable of inducing physically-painful essential tremors, muscle spasms, and possibly even non-epileptic seizures--at random--over seemingly any little thing (e.g. having me point out to them how they weren't nearly this bad over three years ago). They laugh at and ridicule me as I write this, asking me, "and...?" (while smiling).

They sometimes tell me to write in public forums (as I am now)--before, during, and after confirming that I'm only inconveniencing myself even further.

***trigger warning***

But anyway. The apparitions once again interrupted my masturbating to a relatively well-known amateur internet porn actress using the little boy and would later (a few minutes later) admit to me that they're trying to get me to commit suicide. They tell me daily to go kill myself and/or others. They also sometimes suggest that I grope, sexually abuse, harass, molest, and/or rape someone. When I point this out to them; they sometimes respond with, "so what?"--*mod edit*--or they accuse me of having done something to Kiernan Shipka (among other random people I've never met)--or they resort to inducing excruciating pain that sometimes results in convulsions almost resembling non-epileptic seizures while I remain fully conscious. They smile and laugh as I write much of this--even the parts about "induced pedophilia", getting me 5150'd, telling me to kill people, etc. They regularly pretend to be "therapists" (often on the same days that they tell me to "get help"). They continued to tell me to get help even after being released from the hospital--within only a few hours. They now respond to all of this with, "meh,"--perhaps hinting at what they often times tell me, "nobody gives a ###$," to go with, "nobody will believe you."