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I remember a similar question being posed about videos. Schizophrenic people said that their hallucinations didn't always show up on camera, so they would film the area to check. For people whose hallucinations did show up on camera, they would send the video to a friend and ask if anything was there. (Which is why it's important not to joke about it if someone who is schizophrenic asks you.)
Comment by Tyranis_Hex at 04/02/2025 at 23:42 UTC
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There was a guy who used to pop up on my TikTok probably about a year or so back, who was (at least claiming to be) schizophrenic and would use his camera as one of the ways he would distinguish between someone being there and a hallucination. The other and more common was for him to tell his service dog to interact with it. If it didn’t then he knew for sure.
Comment by Hexoplanet at 05/02/2025 at 00:45 UTC
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My close friend has schizophrenia and often thinks his wife is secretly talking to another man on the phone at night. He records it and sends it to me and asks if I can hear it, too. Most of the time I hear nothing and reassure him, but then sometimes I DO hear something. It sounds like whispering. But it doesn’t sound like his wife so it really freaks me out.
Comment by FlowJock at 04/02/2025 at 21:50 UTC
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How would a hallucination show up on camera?
Comment by doctorstrand at 05/02/2025 at 02:06 UTC
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I have both sent and received these videos. Thankfully now I’m on a med regimen that keeps that shit under control.