What is Hallucination? Its Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments”

Hallucinations might be danger for everyone indulge, anyway of whether you experience them directly or may you be the witnessing someone experiencing them. many light types of hallucinations can be affectively treated at home, but the severity or long persistent symptoms of hallucinations will always acquire professional help.

Understand the nature of hallucinations.

Hallucinations may affect on our all five senses like, our vision hearing, taste, smell, and touch or can say tactile. Hallucinations are disoriented and cause distress in our lives. Five hallucinations are as under:    

1. Auditory Hallucination When we experience hearing voices we said as auditory hallucination. People hear sound like, songs, and voices of people in the absence of the people. The voices may positive or negative. In negative sounds or voices some people try to suicide, but it is in rare cases.  
2. Visual Hallucination Seeing people, objects and other things that are not present in reality commonly we called this visual hallucination.
3. Tactile Hallucination The sensation on our body part any insects or any objects even feeling of touch it would call tactile hallucination.
4. Olfactory Hallucination or Phantosmia To feel smell, it may bad or good in your environment or in your surroundings mostly bad this is called olfactory hallucination or other term is used foe this symptom is Phantosmia. These symptoms experience mostly in epileptic people.
5. Gustatory Hallucination, usually this type of hallucination is occurring when an individual feel unpleasant taste without any objects. Like olfactory hallucination, epileptic people experience gustatory hallucination also.

Causes of Hallucination

The possible causes of hallucinations are may as listed.  

• Mini or short-term causes
• Mental health conditions
• Neurological condition
• Medications or drugs side effects

Mini or short-term causes

The following conditions or situations may Mini or short-term causes of hallucination

1. Dropping sleep or waking up
2. In hold of excessive use of alcohol or sedative drugs like, hash or marijuana  
3. In high fever, in this situation (fever) hallucination almost occurs but may in older age.
4. Severe dehydration
5. Deprivation of sleep
6. Grieving
7. After anaesthesia or after surgery process may feel hallucinations  

Having experience of hallucinations in these above-mentioned conditions is not much important, but if you often feel hallucinations in these conditions should visit consultants for sake of treatment. 

Mental health conditions

In schizophrenia this is most common symptoms of this disorder. Other mental health disorder that are more common that may cause hallucinations like, bipolar disorder in bipolar disorder people often experience in severe depressive phase. In major depression but with psychotic symptoms the people it may also experience hallucinations.

Neurological conditions

Neurological conditions that can cause hallucinations in epileptic People as you have already read above those the people with epilepsy can experience gustatory and olfactory hallucinations.

Medications or drugs side effects

Due to many medicines and drugs may cause of hallucinations. Not only medicine the drugs are also causes hallucinations, like hash/marijuana, and other psychedelic drugs. The people with drugs abuse and having hallucinations and have other symptoms of schizophrenia like delusions are called drug abuse psychosis.

Treatment Of Hallucination

Psycho-education regarding illness

Cognitive behavioral Therapy

Meditation

Medication

Psychotherapies

Religious Therapy

Sports Therapy

Vocational Therapy

Psychologist related Treatment plan

Psycho-education regarding illness

Psycho-education is an intervention for clients/patients that facilitate them to understand the concept of disease. For treatment of any disorder psycho-education is most important. with out psycho-education treatment may create difficulties. If you did not know/aware about his/her disease or disorder you can’t be treated easily.    

Cognitive behavioral Therapy

When you have psycho-educated to individuals or clients, after this cognitive behavioral therapy is most important part of treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy for hallucination helps the clients to change the negative thoughts into positive one.

Meditation

Meditation is a process in which we can release or reduce our stress. During hallucination the people feel distress and having stress while hallucination. So, meditation plays vital role in hallucination treatment. Meditation is mindfulness technique in which we feel relax mentally and physically.

Psychotherapies

Psychotherapies plays utmost important role in treatment of hallucination. When the intensity of symptoms become low or moderate level. Psychotherapies play his role to treat these abovementioned symptoms of hallucination. You may use any therapy to treat the hallucinations.

Psychiatrists/Others therapists related treatment

Medication

Medication is most important part of the treatment of hallucination, if the symptoms intensity increases or uncontrollable. Most important medication is anti-psychotic. Some important and usually used anti-psychotic medicines are as under.

1. Risperidone
2. Haloperidol
3. Olanzapine

These above medicines are mostly use in hallucination and delusions. These medicines have their own Sid effects also. There are many other anti-psychotic drugs are also available in market.

Religious Therapy

Religious therapy also plays important role in the treatment of hallucinations also. In some situation the people may suffer from religious pattern of hallucinations. Like they hear voices of Allah and words of Azan and other religious patterns. So, the people who have hallucinations regarding religious values this therapy may help to these people.    

Sports Therapy

This therapy also plays vital role in treating the symptoms of hallucinations. Due to sports, the people feel relax and mindfulness.

Vocational Therapy

during this psychological disorder people suffers from employment or own business defect as well. So, vocational therapy keeps engage individuals to touch their social and business life as well. Due to this therapy the people remain able to do their jobs and business as well.

Note: In next article we will discuss about the main therapeutic techniques to treat the visual and auditory hallucinations.