Posted by GLYN on October 18, 2000, at 19:09:20
Since I have been suffering from anxiety and taking citalopram I have occasionaly had blurring of vision and objects do sometimes appear a little hazy or seem to even vibrate ever so slightly. Its happens when I am in a panic usually. IS this an hallucination and does it indictae something more than anxiety or is this an affect of the medication or even just adrenelin. Do psychotics actualy see whole things as real as life when they dont exist in such as a way as they would swaer they really are there or is it similar to my experiences?
Also, I sometimes get terrified I'm going crazy or even worry about silly things to an amazing extent - is this a dellusion? OR is a dellusion a complete and total conviction of something unreasonable by contemptorary standars and to what extent are cultural beleifs taken into account by the medical profession? I once knew a Christina who was convinced that demons were everywhere - this is normal for some types of CHristians and is what is taught in some churches so is this a dellusion or is it just a sub-cultural belief that is "normal" for those within that environment?
What I really mean by the last point is what is realty anyway? How can we say that we have lost touch with realty when realty is experienced so differently by different groups of people. If a person beleives something or sees a thing which others do not is this just a mark of their individuality and their own subjective perceptions of a world in which few of us agree on much.
I have both a personal and academic interest in this.
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