Hallucinations and delusions Changes in mood - How to prevent
hallucinations and delusions - How to cope with hallucinations
and delusions If my husband addresses remarks to someone he
thinks is sitting beside him, I don’t laugh or say there’s no-
one there. I take it calmly and say, “Are you sure there’s
someone there? Isn’t it the pattern on the curtains?” My sister
told me that a man passes nearly every day and tries the handle
of our front door. One day just after the postman had delivered
a letter, she told me it had happened again and was quite
worried. I reassured her that the man was not a thief, but she
did not seem convinced. So as I knew the postman well, he kindly
agreed to ring the bell and give me the mail rather than just
putting it through the letterbox. My sister still keeps an eye
on him but seems to be less anxious. A hallucination is
something that someone hears, smells or feels that does not
actually exist and which is usually unpleasant. A paranoid
delusion, on the other hand, involves so