Experiencing Hallucinations: Need Advice

Fear of being watched is a common symptom. I used to duct tape card board over all my windows just to be sure no one was looking into my apartment and watching me

If it’s just in your head it’s not a hallucination, hallucinations come from outside of yourself, like as if someone is in front of you speaking to you. However, that does not mean that you’re experiencing something that’s a symptom of something else.

I would tell the psychiatrist but also I feel there is a fine line between consciousness and voices in ur head. An example would be like, in my head I can “talk” in Elmo’s voice or any voice for that matter, doesn’t mean it’s a hallucination or DID. I think the line between the two is whether or not ur thinking that thing, if that makes sense. Tho it can be difficult to figure out, at least for me it was. I’d think something and another voice would say something in return, in reality it was just me and my thoughts. Tho if ur hearing the voice and it sounds like it’s coming from the outside but it’s also in ur head kinda thing, then def hallucinations. Sorry if I was terrible at explaining this btw, it’s late in the night. Also tread carefully learning about DID, I got into a rabbit hole and thought I might’ve had it for like a week. There’s a scale for dissociation and it’s literally just the highest form of dissociation

hmm definitely sounds like some highly possible psychosis (a symptom that is mostly made up of hallucinations, delusions & paranoia) i experience that feeling/fear of being watched a lot so def paranoia even if ur unsure why rationally and the other voices are able to be classified as a hallucination since it isn't exactly real and is all within your mind; if that helps

this might be a little out there, but have you looked into dissociative identity disorders ? that sounds really similar to some of my experiences with OSDDID