bipolar ii medication
Are hallucinations a symptom of bipolar?
I was diagnosed with Type II Bipolar and I think I’ve started hearing things since i started a medication. Most of what I’ve read told me that this is common of Type I. Which leads me to another question. Can someone with bipolar II develop into someone with bipolar i, or was it a mis-diagnosis from the start?
Is it limited to auditory hallucinations, or visual too?
Have you ever had a hallucination when in a manic episode?
If so, how vivid was it?
Yes, hallucinations are an element of psychosis which occurs in bipolar disorder. Bipolar syndrome is a psychotic disorder along with schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, and bipolar’s closest relative, schizoaffective syndrome. People with bipolar syndrome can experience a hallucination of any of the five senses – sight, sound, smell, touch and taste; but auditory hallucinations are the most common. They can be any sound from mild footsteps, clanking, thumping or groaning to mumbling, screaming or even perfectly formed voices which may talk about the sufferer, directly to the sufferer, speaking the sufferer’s thoughts out loud, or even tell the sufferer to harm themselves or less commonly other people. Of course, they can take any shape or form. Anything you can sense, you can think you sense.
