| Sandy |
06-25-2012 05:27 PM |
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Originally Posted by MaryElizabeth
(Post 304443)
She had a hallucination in which she jumped off a cliff. It's not very vague, is it?
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Bro, my friend and I get that all the time. I know someone who can see a person, and then if they focus, can see whatever they're looking at from where they are. I know a girl who can see herself die whenever she looks in the mirror. I see myself working out like a boss to a good song whenever I hear aforementioned good song, and if I close my eyes and I'm listening to a good enough percussive beat, I can see my ancestors and hear their footsteps.
Everyone has quirks like this; the point is that we know as well as she does that it's not really real, thus why she called it an out-of-body experience and refers to it as something other than herself. She knows it is not her, but it still makes her feel things. It is not a hallucination; it is an out of body experience.
Even if it was a hallucination, hallucinations are not symptoms of depression, but depressed people can hallucinate as well; hallucinations can either mean something like psychosis or schizophrenia/schizotypy if paired with behavioural problems, or your hallucinations could be totally normal and you can easily live your life with them.
Depression is solely feeling bad all the time and being unable to pull yourself out of a vat of misery and apathy. Hallucinations not included.
Just sayin'...
No offense or anything; I've researched this a lot and developed depression when I started puberty and the only way I stay out of reach of it is with good diet and vigorous exercise so I have no excess energy. |
