ext_6782 ([identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rachelmanija 2013-02-02 01:46 pm (UTC)

Heh. If you think he didn't say much about auditory hallucinations, consider how little time he spent on the olfactory ones.

One of the things that's interesting to me is that not only did I not think of what I was experiencing as a hallucination, none of the many doctors I dealt with labeled it as one. At all. And I have to wonder whether the "hallucinations are for crazy people" prejudice is self-reinforcing in part because doctors think, "Oh, I don't want to worry this patient and make her think she is mentally ill, I will not label this symptom a hallucination," thereby reinforcing the idea that hallucinations aren't something sane, stable people have, when in fact they totally are.

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