Social Hurricane has occasional visual and auditory hallucinations. Not often--a few times a month, typically. She's asked me to NEVER ask her to describe them, because that gives them more reality, and I'd certainly never press her. She did tell me once "you know the monsters that lives in closets? I've seen the one that lives in mine."
She takes a fair amount of medication already for various thingies, and her psychiatrist has offered to prescribe her a pretty potent antipsychotic that should take care of the hallucinations. She doesn't like the list of side effects, though, and prefers to deal instead with the ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties.
I think she's starting to revisit the issue a little bit, though, because she's had a few bad days at work, and she hasn't always been able to distinguish between the "imaginary" noises and the genuine calls for help from a resident in distress. (She works as a CNA.) She's going to talk to her doctor about it.
You might say a prayer for her. It can't be an easy thing to deal with.
Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.
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