Lately I’ve been having a lot of symptoms and after researching them I sort of found paranoid schizophrenia to be a possibility, but it is a rare condition right? I think I might be overreacting, but I want to know because I’m always scared now and I never now what’s right and what isn’t and I was never that way before. So, my symptoms are that I’ve had two extremely clear visions of things that weren’t there when I was a very very small child and then in first grade; then later in fifth grade hearing many paranormal noises and seeing figures in the shapes of profiles and lights. Those were NEVER any big problem…Until now. Because now I constantly hear telephone ringing, train engines, my name being called…where those sounds shouldn’t be. I have within this year repeatedly seen very clear appearances of the same man, heard his voice talking in a low voice, but at the same time that period of time(from when I was almost 14 to now that I’m 15) was a sort of stressful time too. Within the past three months, the daunting sense others can hear everything I’m thinking which governs pretty much every second of my life…Also, I’ve started having ‘mind conversations’ but I’m not even positive the people I have them with know about them(lol). I don’t know what to make of it, maybe it’s even a good thing and I can see special things others can’t, but it’s really terrifying to me lately. I searched my symptoms and found paranoid schizophrenia, up until now I’ve been looking into whether or not I’m a medium/psychic which is what I have thought most of my life, but lately and especially since I’ve been losing concentration abilities, etc, I have a lot of moments of skepticism and challenging my own mind and so I’ve started researching mental illnesses. I have a counselor I have to meet with at school who I don’t talk about this sort of stuff with(just getting to know eachother) and I want to ask her if maybe I do, but the thing is I’m only 15 and a lot of teens are under stress/hormones and usually think they have something when they don’t and I don’t want a misdiagnosis but I don’t want to sound stupid either so does this sound like paranoid schizophrenia or should I not worry about it?
At the second answer: Yeah that’s what I found too! That’s why I kinda think it’s the wrong diagnosis but I can’t find much for child hallucination




