A Deeper Look at Hallucinations and Thought Insertions in Schizophrenia. https://medium.com/the-good-psyche/a-deeper-look-at-hallucinations-and-thought-insertions-ff386183ba62 Publications from the same creator: https://medium.com/time-to-rethink - Time to Rethink https://medium.com/the-good-psyche - The Good Psyche https://medium.com/zealionaire - Zeallinaire https://medium.com/words-worth-wows - Words Worth Wows Channels from the same creator: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_8wBit4XhQJc-UOcivhm0w - Time to Rethink https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_E5S9lUtNy7NB2_zOKeosA - Words Worth Wows https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGetSsWFM91WgICZQjyyf2w - The Good Psyche https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6IzlbysBv-VTeMWLN0vSNA - Zeallionaire

1. The Good Psyche.
A Deeper Look at Hallucinations
and Thought Insertions in
Schizophrenia.

2. The Good Psyche.
Hallucinations are unwanted and
undesirable voices that psychotic
patients experience and they are
mostly destructive. Hallucinations
have different forms and natures.
Hallucinations impact patients'
perception and cognition. They also
impact the reality they form about
the world. They make up the social
cognition and social normalization
process. I will list the types of
hallucinations below. I think it helps
to understand the nature of
hallucinations categorically.

3. The Good Psyche.
Trigger Hallucinations:
These are voices that trigger
thoughts and reflections.
Unbidden Hallucinations:
These are voices that
typically constitute
memory and are unrelated
to what is going on inside
the patients' minds. These
are voices that are
unwanted.

4. The Good Psyche.
Sampling Hallucinations:
These are voices that
sample other voices.
They try to sound and act
like other voices.
Deduction
Hallucinations: These try
to make deductions and
summaries about what
was going on with the
patients' minds.

5. The Good Psyche.
Disorganized Hallucinations:
These are voices that are
disorganized in nature and
are reflections of
disorganized thoughts and
incoherence in the patients’
cognition process.
Manipulated Hallucinations:
These are thoughts that are
manipulated versions of the
patients' thoughts.

6. The Good Psyche.
Positive Hallucinations: These
are voices that typically
constitute constructive and
optimistic thoughts.
Negative Hallucinations:
These are voices that typically
constitute discomforting and
unwelcome thoughts.
Unknown Hallucinations:
These are thoughts that are
hard to categorize and classify

7. The Good Psyche.
Auditory hallucinations
typically happen in a form of
dialogue and the outcome is
different for all the different
parties involved. The
outcome and impact of the
hallucinations can be
explained by the I tetrad
(what makes something good
or bad) model that I created.

8. The Good Psyche.
What is the
Intention
What is the
Implication
What is the
Impact
What is Involved

9. The Good Psyche.
Understand
Help
Support
The intentions of the
thoughts and the
voices they form are
to:
when they are
positive ...

10. The Good Psyche.
Demean
Insult
Belittle
Blame
Control
... or
when they are
negative.

11. The Good Psyche.
For schizophrenic patients, they
end in cognition disorder or mood
disorder mostly expressed in
delusions and paranoia (psychosis)
and apathy and depression
(negative symptoms). This is what
the chain of conditions and
disorders in schizophrenia looks
like. Perception (Hallucination
causing Destruction) — Thinking
(Disorganized Thoughts causing
Disturbance) — Cognition
(Psychosis causing Confusion) —
Mood (Apathy causing Agitation).

12. The Good Psyche.
The hallucinations in
schizophrenia have the
following properties. They are
categorized according to the
voices patients hear, the
personalities of the voices,
and how the patients make
sense of them. These
properties help patients and
caregivers understand the
illness better.

13. The Good Psyche.
- — — Desirability
- Desirable
- Undesirable
- — — Familiarity
- Stranger
- Familiar

14. The Good Psyche.
- — — Perfection
- Fit
- Not quite fit
- — — Credibility
- Credible
- Incredible

15. The Good Psyche.
Apart from the
hallucinations, thought
insertions are quite a
challenge to patients. It
helps to understand them
as part of a social cognition
and normalization process
and try to explain them in
some detail like the one
below for example.

16. The Good Psyche.
Thought Insertion as a form of
bullying and interrogation
Thought Insertion as a stereotype
threat
Thought Insertion as a thought
manipulation
Thought Insertion as a defense
mechanism
Thought Insertion as a problem to
self-esteem
Thought Insertion as an insult and
belittling and derogation tool
Thought Insertion as thought
broadcasting
Thought Insertion as oppression
Thought Insertion as a form of control

17. The Good Psyche.
One of the things mental
illness does to you is that
you feel violated.
Oftentimes, the things going
around you threaten your
safety. Trying to learn more,
working on your
understanding and
acceptance, and living
responsibly help patients
live happy and healthy life.

18. The Good Psyche.
It is also of tremendous help to
increase your self-awareness and
self-understanding with regard to
sexuality, race, nationality,
gender, and other social
parameters. It also helps to
beware of things that would
complicate matters for your
mental health such as your
personality, familial and
parenting choices, and other
issues such as religion and
culture.

19. The Good Psyche.
Medium Publications from the same creator
https://medium.com/time-to-rethink - Time to Rethink
https://medium.com/the-good-psyche - The Good Psyche
https://medium.com/zealionaire - Zeallinaire
https://medium.com/words-worth-wows - Words Worth Wows
YouTube Channels from the same creator
Time to Rethink
Words Worth Wows
The Good Psyche
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