The following questions are related to ‘Hallucinations’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I am a third year college Mass Communication student in the Phillippines and am doing an Investigative research on exorcism. Part of this is to deeply explore “possession” as its main root. For my questions, is possession merely a case of psychological illness? Is it all about a person’s mental state and there is [...]
Q: Some time ago I was diagnosed with Paranoid Personality Disorder (the primary characteristic being a psychotic sense of thought projection). I’ve had thoughts of a certain person poisoning the food, etc. (because I feel I perceive their true motive). On occasion, I’ve felt as Jim Carrey would on ‘The Truman Show’ — that my [...]
Q: What would you say to someone that has had their brainwave watched for as long as that person has been living and has to listen to those people stating the most extreme and stupid things? That same person knows that everywhere he goes there are people taking peoples’ pictures all around his physical person. [...]
Q: My son who is 21 got into a Ouija Board and since has had some really off the wall ideas that people are with him… He sits by himself, as if he is talking to someone. This weekend has been extremely bad. He has hardly eaten. He goes upstairs and sits on our deck [...]
Q: My fiance’s mother is having serious paranoid episodes. She has always had some form of paranoia, but her doctor has given her new pain medication for her back and it has triggered full paranoia. She is convinced people are in her attic waiting to come down and attack her; she’s called the police several [...]
Q: I feel like something is going wrong in my head. I’m currently taking 50mg of Zoloft daily for panic attacks. I’ve been taking it for about 3 months. My family physician had me on Paxil for several months for depression and then the panic attacks started. The panic attacks seem to be among the [...]
Q: Is demonic possession possible, and do you believe it could happen? A: Psychiatric illness has been present for thousands of years. During those years, the symptoms were thought to be related to demonic possession, a disturbance of “humors”, tree spirits, etc. Modern psychiatry and psychology recognize that symptoms and behaviors once felt to be [...]
