I'm taking medication from 1 and half years for depression. My depressive symptoms are too controlled. But now i'm again having the symptom of tunes running in my ears every time. Is this auditory hallucination seen in schizophrenia? It is a very disturbing symptom. I'm not able to study due to it. My psychiatrist changes medicine from risperidone to aripiprazole to amilife but still they are not controlled. Pls help how to get rid of it? My mood is normal due to medicines.

Mr. Saul PereiraPsychologist51yrs exp

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Yes, you are right. It is a symptom of schizophrenia. You mention that you are 'again having the symptom' does that mean that that was a previous symptom? In which case, it appears you have been put on the right medication, and you say that your 'mood is normal due to medicines' this is a good sign that the medication and the dosage are good for you. Please meet with your doctor and let him/her review the dosage. I suggest for best results that you go for counseling too. Because it is a psychotic condition you need to be made to relate to reality often by confronting the distortion of your environment, especially the auditory kind. You may be given to delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking and speech too. You may be emotionally unresponsive, suffering from social withdrawal, extreme apathy, and lack of initiative and drive. If you are allowed to go internal you can strongly relate to your distortions and in fact, believe in them to be true. Your cooperation with rehabilitation and medical intervention may often not be as desirable as it should be. If that is true you may disturb your timely recovery. In which case, someone has to monitor you constantly and enforce some compliance. You must be kept functional to get you to be aware of your surroundings and build on a steady and trusting relationship with at least one member of the community. You will be difficult to handle, and you yourself will not find it easy to comply with therapeutic expectations. With someone strong and firm you could be made to follow a tight schedule and do many activities and exercises to prevent you from succumbing to this illness. If you learn by reading aloud or someone else reads the material out to you, you can concentrate a lot better. You could also study by writing down the answers.  

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Ms. Kratika GuptaPsychologist1yrs exp

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Hello there! it cannot be said without more information if what you're experiencing is an auditory hallucination usually seen in schizophrenia. As you said that your psychiatrist had changed the medicine but still this is continuing, I would suggest you to seek counselling and psychotherapy while keeping your medicines as prescribed by your psychiatrist to discuss what ever you're going through and follow a holistic approach to the concern and work on it accordingly.  

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Ms. Rachna MishraPsychologist10yrs exp

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1.Use Deep Breathing Deep breathing is another effective way to relieve stress and anxiety. It helps you with physical symptoms such as shallow breathing and rapid heart rate, and it also helps with controlling your thoughts. When you practice deep breathing, you're forced to take your thoughts off of whatever is causing you anxiety and to focus on the breathing technique that you are using. 2.Keep A Journal Journaling can be an effective way to deal with your anxiety and to find relief. It helps you to take all of the things that are rolling around in your head and get them out of your head and down on paper. Sometimes seeing the things that we're worried about on paper can help us to see that they're not as big of a deal as we thought they were. It can also help us to find solutions that we have been overlooking. 3.Hang Out With Friends If you're struggling with anxiety, sometimes the last thing that you want to do is go hang out with your friends. Even if it's an activity that you enjoy with people that you like, the thought of it can be stressful. Your brain already feels overwhelmed with things that you feel you need to figure out, and it can seem like a bad use of time to do something fun. 4. Exercise, Find What Works For You : You might be tired of hearing about how great exercise is for your health. But, the reason you hear about it so much is that there's no way around it. Exercise it's good for both your physical body and for your mind.Getting regular exercise has been proven to help you sleep better at night, clear your head, and boost your mood. It's a great way to use up all that pent-up energy that you have in a way that's going to benefit you in multiple areas of your life. 

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Dr. Saranya DevanathanPsychiatrist51yrs exp

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Dear lybrate-user, normally tunes of songs running in your ears do not disturb you. If you are disturbed and it interferes with your life activities, you may be hallucinating. Along with other symptoms, your psychiatrist may diagnose you as schizophrenia. Please discuss with your psychiatrist the severity of the disturbances with tunes. She/he may adjust the dose or change to another drug or stop a drug or change the diagnosis (may a drug dependence or withdrawal).  

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