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Voices and ASD

Wally!

Is hearing voices part of ASD or is it mental health?

My GP tells me it's mental health which originally I thought it might be but nearly four years on and several medications later I still get auditory hallucinations and not one medication has made a difference so I'm starting to wonder if this is an ASD thing instead.

As a child I had imaginary friends, similar to what I get now except I can't see the people I hear. Admittedly they can be very negative towards me but at times they are nice and the only friends I've got.

I worry relentlessly about my parents and their health. I'm up all night worrying. I worry about my own physical health. I get a lot of abdominal pain and nausea, likely the result of anxiety but I feel like it's probably cancer and what I hear tells me it's the more serious stuff.

If this is something you've experienced or have knowledge of then please help.

I don't mind dealing with the GP but they keep mental healthing me and as there's never been any progress I get the feeling it's more ASD.

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  • My 16 year old has heard voices for years (& also sees visions too sometimes, but the voices are almost constant). After many years of a variety of 'experts' reviewing them, and various horrible anti-psychotic meds tried and failed, they have all agreed that this isn't psychosis or schizophrenia, or bi-polar. It is down to severe anxiety and complex trauma from years of trying to 'fit in'. Many ASD people get mis-diagnosed as psychotic, so try to avoid this trap - you are probably pretty accurate in your deep seated feeling that this is as a result of your ASD. My child's voices are also generally negative about themself, but not always, and sound very similar to your own experience. We have been told the best way of handling them is to not use all your energy trying to ignore them (imagine trying to hold a ball under water for ages - takes a lot of energy and eventually it explodes above the surface rather than bobs along gently on top), acknowledge them but don't give them any credence i.e. don't do what they say or think they're right, just hear them. Wishing you well.

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  • My 16 year old has heard voices for years (& also sees visions too sometimes, but the voices are almost constant). After many years of a variety of 'experts' reviewing them, and various horrible anti-psychotic meds tried and failed, they have all agreed that this isn't psychosis or schizophrenia, or bi-polar. It is down to severe anxiety and complex trauma from years of trying to 'fit in'. Many ASD people get mis-diagnosed as psychotic, so try to avoid this trap - you are probably pretty accurate in your deep seated feeling that this is as a result of your ASD. My child's voices are also generally negative about themself, but not always, and sound very similar to your own experience. We have been told the best way of handling them is to not use all your energy trying to ignore them (imagine trying to hold a ball under water for ages - takes a lot of energy and eventually it explodes above the surface rather than bobs along gently on top), acknowledge them but don't give them any credence i.e. don't do what they say or think they're right, just hear them. Wishing you well.

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