The two different kinds of auditory hallucinations

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Internal and external auditory hallucinations can both happen in psychiatric and psychotic disorders like schizophrenia and the bipolar type of schizoaffective disorder fun fun. Mental health awareness!

[xronaldx]

I don't hear voices. I hear musical hallucinations

[JadeLeahPilling]

I don't have schizophrenia but I do get auditory internal hallucinations (hypnagogic?) sometimes when I'm about to go to sleep - I'm still awake but its like my brain has started dreaming before I do. The most common one I get is 'chatter' like in a playground or a busy supermarket and only a few words are distinct. I can't imagine what it would be like to get auditory hallucinations all the time...

[sicily]

I have never seen internal hallucinations talked about, but this is something I have struggled with for almost 15 years!! Thank you for bringing light to it, it makes me feel so happy knowing I'm not alone in this!! ❤️

[bricky-brikson]

whenever I get too tired, I start hearing very loud music (not necessarily rave music - just songs I like turned up very loud) and random soundbites (usually the voices of people I know) inside my head. It's like it takes over my internal monologues and keeps me from thinking. But as a way for my body to say "go the fuck to sleep!", it's very successful. Whenever I start hearing music, I know it's time to sleep.

[DembaiVT]

I have something similar with DID. I have internal monologue, but also other voices. They are their own people, however, and in my system, largely work together (which is why it took so long to find out). It can get noisy in a way if too many people try and talk at once, but there's also no explosion of "i wasn't expecting that" with a scary hallucination. It's like someone just saying something offhand. Sometimes i inquire if the thought is mine, and get a reply if it is or isnt.

[aduheartlol]

Thank you so much for talking about this! Schizoid disorders aren't talked about enough

[IAmBecomeCHAOS]

Thank you for putting words to everything I'm experiencing. I have this all of the time and when I tell people it like a voice in my head that's not mine telling me to do, some admittedly awful, shit they all just say the same thing, that it's just my internal thoughts and stop trying to blame me having bad thoughts on some imaginary voice. But it really is just like someone grasping hold of my brain and implanting a thought in there and it doesn't just go away like an intrusive thought would, it's disturbing at its core and I think that's what people don't truly understand unless they've experienced it themselves

[jada]

How do you differentiate an internal hallucination is differentiated from your overall internal monologue and intrusive thoughts? I'm a psych PhD student and I personally can't conceptualize that since I don't experience hallucinations, but am interested as to how people make the distinction.

[MikeyHahn]

I have one voice that's external, and the rest of them are internal, and they've all named themselves. The external one is Arron. It's so cool to see people that deal with what I do, it's kinda comforting

[charlotteeee]

I deal with internal auditory hallucinations and that's exactly how I'd explain it. it's different than my regular Intrusive thoughts and it doesn't sound like my internal monolog. it's completely different, as if someone else is in my head.

[damnablethief]

I have both, but mainly internal. When I get external it makes me paranoid. I will start checking the driveway to make sure someone isn't driving up and stuff like that. The longer it goes though, the easier things get to sort out.

[microwaav]

yesyed i struggle the most with internal . external ones are less voices nd more sounds, like things walking around in my house & opening my doors / drawers / rustling around in my utensils etc . the internal ones always confused me because i already deal with intrusive thoughts nd thought it was a weird internal monologue even though they always felt / sounded different from my actual thoughts & regular intrusive thoughts . thank you for making this video ! i have some sort of achizoaffective disorder, still getting tested . has been getting worse since i turned 19/20

[TwistedGlitter]

Pretty sure I get the outer ones sometimes. Mine are mostly explosions or crashes. I'm so used to it now that my friend screamed in her sleep next to me and my brain was just like "meh, just more head noise" wanna I kept sleeping

[itzblitz]

I thought I heard someone from the other side of the room say something super mean but he was out of sight and there’s no way to know what he said was real or in my head and it’s still freaking me out even tho it’s probably been over a month since

[lisatomihiro]

I am glad you talked about the types of auditory hallucinations. Thanks.

[lisalombs]

3 weeks into accutane I had a voice in my head and it was unlike anything, it was so scary. It was really like stranger was speaking inside my mind.

[aravenbythenamealex]

Yikes, that must really suck. I think I have auditory hallucinations sometimes, but they're small and rare enough to be pretty normal, though one time i remember hearing whispering coming from inside the walls of my home, and being so scared that i took a knife while i searched through my home. It was a few years ago but it was a really bad experience, especially given i was like twelve at the time

[Nightmare_Cipher_]

I have hallucinations caused by a delusional disorder(my old psychiatrist believed at least.We never 100% figured out if that was all but beside the point) and DID (dissociative identity disorder) and its so hard to tell if i have internal auditory hallucinations too or if its just other alters talking or a mix. I do have external auditory hallucinations(like people calling my name who arent there, being talked to by seemingly nothing, hearing thigns move that dont) along with visual(shadows normally or bvgs) and tactical(? Feels like things touch me in some way(brush against me, touch me arms/legs/hair) or move things on me) ones.

Thank you for sharing! It definitely helps me not feel alone or 'crazy' or anything.


((So sorry, half asleep and incapable of existing properly right now. Sorry if this made no sense))

[EchoTheMusicFreak]

My head plays music in my head way too loud all day, apparently internal hallucinations 😂

[GTSCRD]

This!!! I was in an IOP for a while for many reasons but also because my therapist thought that my internal auditory hallucinations could be a sign of a dissociative disorder like DID, especially because I was experiencing thought insertion delusions as well. Took me 6 months til I was out of IOP for a Google search to tell me more than a psychiatrist ever did that I was just hallucinating internally