14 yr old daughter is having hallucinations that do not seem to match anything except street drug use, but (tested!) not using drugs. describes as individual people in large groups dissappearing, or fingers on hand dissappearing - ('I can only see dad's mustache and glasses'). have found some migraine-aura based art to ask her if representative.
need more images to work with - more ideas? her fadeouts seem to focus on people - objects they are holding can seem to float in the air. she is being treated now with Geodon, 3 weeks, reports 40% improvement in symptoms. hallucinations associated closely with severe depression - bipolar and epilepsy in separate close family members. wits end! she has a history of cluster-migraines since age 6. need definitive way to clearly descrie the visual halucination for the psychiatrist, neurologist and therapist to work with. but don't want to imprint her with ideas! thought some pictures would help.
2007-03-31 10:38:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Just let her tell the doctor herself. S/he will know what questions to ask in order to better understand. Anything you get from the Internet is bound to be suspect, bogus or worse.
2007-03-31 10:47:15 · answer #1 · answered by St N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will know what to ask, informing yourself too much too soon can seem like you are fishing for symptoms. Its good to be informed, but let the professionals form an opinion/treatment plan and if they don't give satisfactory treatment, do research so that you have somethng to offer the person you go to for a second opinion.
Have you had a CAT scan or other brain scan done? Some tumors cause temporary or partial blindness. Also you could look into the optical area, perhaps something is wrong with the nerves in her eyes.
2007-03-31 10:53:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a new development in migraine therapy:
http://www.neurologyreviews.com/feb04/nr_feb04_foramen.html
2007-04-03 19:55:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am taking ap psychology in school and i am not a doctor but it sounds as though your daughter has schizophrenia. i watched a tape and it sounds exactly the same. this can be helped, although it can not be cured. but just know she is not crazy, because it sounds as though she has not completely lost touch from the real world. she just needs help. if her schiz. is mild she will only be affected a little in lif, but that is with meds.
2007-04-01 04:04:27 · answer #4 · answered by babeecakes510 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My advice is to stop trying to be "the doctor". The sentence in your expansion of your question that read: "...need definitive way to clearly describe the visual hallucination for the psychiatrist, neurologist and therapist to work with, BUT DON"T WANT TO IMPRINT HER WITH IDEAS!" indicates to me that you really know where her "hallucinations" are coming from. They are probably the result of a very vivid imagination and a desire to gain attention from her mother by describing something that will reinforce that mothers "maternal over-protection."
An hallucination is something that when one has one it nearly totally disrupts that persons life and is very unwelcome. No one knows for sure where an hallucination comes from or whether they are a malfunction of the brain or something supernatural.
My further advice is to obtain a copy of an older book by Dr. Abraham Low entitled "Mental health through will training" and get her interested in reinforcing her own will instead of continuing as a partial invalid. The book is still available from Amazon.com.
Leave the diagnosing and describing the symptoms up to her Doctor and your daughter after all he is experienced and she is 14 and nearly a woman.
2007-03-31 20:00:41 · answer #5 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u need professional help not some geek from the Internet .
2007-03-31 10:42:42 · answer #6 · answered by WILLISCA_49 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋