question to all

hi does anyone ever hear someone call their name yet there is no one there? when u was young did u have nightmares once a month? and what was ur first symptoms?

[paranoid_cataclysm]

I've known multiple people before with bipolar disorder who would hear their name being called out when it wasn't.  I also had a notable experience of this where I was laying in my bed one night and some high pitched disembodied inhuman voice I couldn't determine the location of spoke in gibberish and all I could make out was my name and the word water which freaked me out and ruined me sleeping in total darkness from then on because I was already afraid of the dark and this was the first night I tried doing it.  I just kind of laid there holding my breath for several minutes and finally shot up to turn on the light as fast as possible.  I think back to it and it still freaks me out today even though that was several years ago.  I even spent the rest of the night trying to figure out logical explanations for it but could find none.  Of course now I know it was probably a hallucination.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

I also worried for the longest time if I told anyone it was going to come find me and harm me but now I think back to that as well after knowing more and figure that was just a delusion since it had no basis in reality since you know it didn't tell me it was going to kill me or anything if I narked.

[25andhurt]

i used to get sumthin simular but it was like a man shoutin down my ear every nite. was weird but now i hear ma mum call ma name yet she was nowere around. scared me 2.x

[Xila31]

Well, what you are describing sounds like the psychotic part of bipolar. I have never heard my name but as an older teen / young adult I used to hear phones ringing (phones that were not real.) I know that's weird, but that was my thing. It is sort of funny.

I don't know what my first symptoms were, it is hard to say. But as a very young girl people always used to tell me I was too sensative emotionally. When I was 11-12 I was seeing a child psychologist for some reason, although I can't remember why. But, I heard my mom and dad arguing about money because we were really poor due to my mom's cancer treatments. So, I told my mom I was better and we stopped going. But probably only a few months after that I had my first suicide attempt. That was me at 12.

I can look at all my teen  years and through my 20s to see lots of bipolar things. Depression, mania (life of the party type slowly changing into dysphoria type,) paranoia, delusions, small psychotic features (like the phones,) unable to hold a job, troubled relationships, emotional outbursts, suicide attempts, self-harm, times when I had blank spots in my memory of what happened to me.... I was just diagnosed this year right before I turned 30. So, that's how long you can go if no one really pays attention.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Yeah like Xila said, I remember having my mental illness since 3 or 4 and wasn't diagnosed until earlier this year which I was 22 then since my birthday is 7/11 like the gas station chain so I'm 23 now so that's like just about 18 or 19 years before being diagnosed.  Of course childhood schizophrenia is rare so they always want to try to find other more common causes like I was even tested for syphilis at one point.

[25andhurt]

all of what u just said about u as a child hearing things that was'nt there and being overemotional and very sencertivity and emotional outbursts is the same as what i went thru as a child and im still like it now.x

[Xila31]

I think the big thing with illness like bipolar and schizophrenia is that people do want to check other avenues first because they are major illnesses that have no cure. Especially for young people. But for me I didn't think I had bipolar until about 7 years ago after my first son was born. I had horrible, horrible post-pardum depression and started looking into things and taking those online screenings, but even though they came up positive I never talked to a doctor about it. I always just thought I was depressed and then sometimes "better" and then it would come back. Well, those "better" times were often mania, hind sight is 20/20. I remember all the times I was acting off the wall and the people around me were like, "wow, calm down, freak...."

[25andhurt]

its only just now that ive noticed that im not right to be honnest people told me in the past that there is somthing not quite rite about me so i desided to try prove them wrong and desided to studie psychology and mental health and i came across bipolar and noticed i have some of the symptoms then i whent on to read peoples blogs and threads and noticed i had the same childhood symptoms aswell and thats whats made me want to discuss it with people before i go to a doc but i no now to go see one.x

[innerchild09]

It's the same with me. People always told my Mom there was something wrong with me. They never actually told me that to my face, but I know. I thought I was normal until I was in my preteen years. So hearing your name being called but no one being there, is this a bipolar thing? Just asking.

[sofia0587]

Yes I constantly hear someone saying my name or asking me a question and when I ask the person next to me what they said they always look at me funny and say they said nothing. I've had this happened to me since I was little. I also used to see freaky images when i was about 3 or 4 but when I would tell my dad he would just say it was all in my head and I needed to pray. My main symptoms didn't start happening til i was like 11ish and that started with cutting, and doing extreme things, but my parents were in denial and told me to get over it and I wasn't diagnosed with Bipolar until recently and I am 22.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

My teachers used to always complain to my legal guardians that I always looked like I was in another world.

[innerchild09]

I was told the same thing by Mom and other people I know. I admit sometimes I do live in my own little world. I don't try to. I just do. I didn't usually space out in school but everywhere else I did. Don't ask me why because I have no idea.

Also I was just diagnosised with bipolar and I'm also 22. So I know how that feels too. I just found out a few months ago.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Well I started a question regarding how many people stare vacantly and if anyone knows the scientific reasoning behind this so maybe you can watch that like me and we'll find out the reasons for it.