Hallucinations
In patients with bipolar disorder, auditory hallucinations are more common than visual ones. If one’s mood goes through significant swings, they’re more prone to suffer hallucinations. Additionally, schizophrenia patients are more prone than bipolar disorder patients to have hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms. Hallucination patients with bipolar disorder may receive a false diagnosis.
Hallucinations are more likely to occur in those with bipolar disorder when their mood is at its highest. Delusions also accompany hallucinations, which often mirror the mood. Bipolar disorder patients with hallucinations can be treated. It’s crucial to seek medical help, just like any physical or mental disease. The two can cooperate in choosing the best drug to control the mood or to change the medication.
Having bipolar disorder may be the source of hallucinations, but other factors may also be involved. Other reasons for hallucinations are adverse drug reactions, fever, misuse or abstinence from drugs or alcohol, specific vision issues, migraine, excessive drowsiness or lack of sleep, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s.
Hallucinations may also occur during manic and depressive episodes, but they are just temporary.
