Posted by Tomatheus on June 5, 2008, at 18:39:40
In reply to Re: Intrusive music in my head » boltsdraggin, posted by yxibow on June 5, 2008, at 2:05:42
> I hate to say it, but it is true that intrusive thoughts happen to everyone -- its just the level amount and the amount of distress it causes. ...
I think I'm missing something here because I don't really see how intrusive thoughts and intrusive music are anything other than auditory hallucinations. I should probably say that I experience both fairly regularly, but never did so before I began experiencing psychotic symptoms in February of last year.
I'm not saying that it's necessarily best to refer to intrusive thoughts and intrusive music (especially intrusive music) as voices, but if a person is hearing sounds that don't have real external stimuli -- whether they're loud or quiet, and whether they sound real or not -- isn't that person experiencing auditory hallucinations?
It seems odd that I'd be more "normal" now that I experience intrusive thoughts and music than I was before my psychotic break, when I never experienced any hallucinations of any sort.
Tomatheus
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