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hallucinations under stress

blue71

hi there ive not been on here in a long time.

since i was diagnosed a few years ago ive been trying to find the answer to this question.

when i am under stress i hallucinate, i dont mean seeing something out the corner of my eye, i mean seeing people or anything really. is it that i have higher levels of stress than another person with aspergers or a chemical imbalance maybe ? or something else ? .

i was told that this can happen with someone with aspergers i just want to know why.

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  • http://www.sabp.nhs.uk/advice/FAQs-and-diagnoses/index_html/The%20complete%20guide%20to%20Aspergers%20Syndrome%20-%20Professor%20Attwoodextract.pdf

    "The superficial similarities between some of the signs and consequences of sperger’s syndrome and schizophrenia do not imply that someone with Asperger’s syndrome is ‘immune’ from schizophrenia. There are people with Asperger’s syndrome who develop the unequivocal signs of schizophrenia (Ghaziuddin 2005a; Stahlberg et al. 2004). However, Asperger noted that only one of his 200 cases developed clear signs of schizophrenia (Wolff 1995). We have yet to establish the actual co-morbidity of Asperger’s syndrome and schizophrenia, but at present there is no evidence in the research literature that schizophrenia is any more common in people with Asperger’s syndrome than it is in the general population (Tantam 2000).

    Clinicians recognize that severe depression and other mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders can sometimes lead to psychotic features and mood congruent delusions (Ghaziuddin 2005a). In particular, a person with severe depression may develop auditory hallucinations that are related to the depression, for example voices telling the person to kill himself, but there can be a qualitative difference from the voices associated with schizophrenia. In psychotic depression the voices often talk to the person directly, whereas in schizophrenia the voices usually talk about the person(Ghaziuddin 2005a)."

    Useful comments here: http://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/26917-hallucinations/

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  • http://www.sabp.nhs.uk/advice/FAQs-and-diagnoses/index_html/The%20complete%20guide%20to%20Aspergers%20Syndrome%20-%20Professor%20Attwoodextract.pdf

    "The superficial similarities between some of the signs and consequences of sperger’s syndrome and schizophrenia do not imply that someone with Asperger’s syndrome is ‘immune’ from schizophrenia. There are people with Asperger’s syndrome who develop the unequivocal signs of schizophrenia (Ghaziuddin 2005a; Stahlberg et al. 2004). However, Asperger noted that only one of his 200 cases developed clear signs of schizophrenia (Wolff 1995). We have yet to establish the actual co-morbidity of Asperger’s syndrome and schizophrenia, but at present there is no evidence in the research literature that schizophrenia is any more common in people with Asperger’s syndrome than it is in the general population (Tantam 2000).

    Clinicians recognize that severe depression and other mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders can sometimes lead to psychotic features and mood congruent delusions (Ghaziuddin 2005a). In particular, a person with severe depression may develop auditory hallucinations that are related to the depression, for example voices telling the person to kill himself, but there can be a qualitative difference from the voices associated with schizophrenia. In psychotic depression the voices often talk to the person directly, whereas in schizophrenia the voices usually talk about the person(Ghaziuddin 2005a)."

    Useful comments here: http://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/26917-hallucinations/

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