Hello doctor, I am a bi polar disorder patient. So I undergone so many episodes. Please tell me about visual hallucination i.e. Imaging ourself as a god and imaging other person as a god. In my episodes I believed strongly this. So I started to talk with unknown persons .so I faced lot of problems. Still now I am not get a answer that visual hallucination is not real. I thought tv serial dialogues, adds, films are also helping me in my life through god. So please please reply me to recover from this thought doctor. My mom helped me lot to recover from this by admitting in hospital and I got recovered now but also still taking medicines like nexito plus, ativan 2 mg, sultipac 50. But in my in-depth mind always saying god helped you is true that is not fake. Those who are all you saw as a god that is only true like this. I am married and I have one daughter aged 7. I had this problem still 2011. For my family I am controlling myself and saying to me ,that is fake it's all your imagination. Please think about your daughter future. And etc. Like this I am controlling myself. So please reply me to overcome from this thought. Please save my life from your valuable reply doctor. Thank you so much.

Mr. Saul PereiraPsychologist50yrs exp

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Comply with all the medical prescriptions and work in tandem with a counselor for a long time and learn coping skills and techniques to handle the daily challenges you will face. There are certain adaptations that will suit you during the elation phase and there are certain behaviors that are required during the depressed phases. In the meantime, you can do certain things that will give you benefits anyway. Emotional therapy will alleviate a lot of the problems faced in this condition because it is a mood disorder. You need to particularly look at your levels of anger both for its reasonableness and to express it in an appropriate manner. I suspect that much of this anger may have origins in early childhood that you may never be aware of it now. Talk to your parents and explore that angle. This information will help the counselor too. Also, you will need to check whether there is any genetic factor involved. You must exercise regularly, eat healthily and sleep normally too. If your motivation and cooperation is good much can be achieved. You must have a time-structured schedule filled with interesting and reasonable activities and it must be monitored for compliance and delivery. The reason I say this is that many times you will be inclined to have grandiose notions and confidently believe that you can do without the medication. The hallucinations are typically that. It is not enough to pretend it is not true, you must truly believe and accept that reality. This will set you back many months in the treatment and delay and sabotage the recovery: forewarned you are forearmed. You may have to review the medication with your doctor after telling him about these hallucinations. For this extent of distortion, you definitely need counseling and learn to distinguish reality from fiction. If this combination of medication with therapy is maintained for at least three years without any episodes or breakdowns, it is possible to taper the medication in consonance with the doctor.  

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Ms. Divya Gupta PsychologistPsychologist6yrs exp

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Dear lybrate-user, I can understand your problem. So i'm just trying to help you to understand this. In my opinion, this may be due to your belief system towards god & spirituality, that's why when you were in problem you took your belief system on god as your strength. So this is okay and there's no such big issue in it but just try to understand it just as your thought in recovery. You also need to understand it is our belief system that is working and no one can be a god. If you need you can connect me privately freely. Thank you, divya gupta psychologist.  

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Dr. Saranya DevanathanPsychiatrist50yrs exp

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Dear lybrate-user, your feelings of imagining yourself as god will be there in your mind. But you act out on it, only during the manic episodes like talking to strangers. Of course, if you act out on it, you will face lot of problems. You may worry about your acting out during depressive episodes - that is also a period in bipolar disorder. Your mother helped you during your previous episodes. Hereafter you can help yourself by knowing about mood disorder, the manic and depressive episodes, the normal phase, mood stabiliser tablets and recovering by taking the prescribed medicines. This will avoid admission into hospital and expenses due to it. Please visit your psychiatrist regularly so that your mood can be assessed. Educate your husband if possible about the relapse, early detection and prompt treatment. One mohana priya has made an enquiry with me. If it is you, please pay and get a private consultation. Inquiry will get only generic answers.  

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