Perceptual Disturbances Flashcards
Sensory experience without external stimuli.
Hallucination
Voices, music, rushing or amorphous sounds.
Auditory Hallucination
Formed images, such as people. Unformed images such as flashes of light.
Visual Hallucinations
Bad tastes
Gustatory Hallucinations
Bad smells, particular awareness of own smell.
Olfactory Hallucinations
Something on or under the skin.
Tactile Hallucinations
Tactile hallucinations are extremely common in:
Alcohol Withdrawal
Unreality of self. Sens of self or own reality is lost.
Depersonalization
Unreality of environment. Sense that things don’t seem real, are a dream or a fog.
Derealization
Derealization & Depersonalization are synonymous with delusions. T/F?
FALSE. Person recognizes Depers & Dereal as not real.
In assessing for hallucinations, start questions:
Broad!! ya broad.