Alcoholic hallucinosis?!

Alcoholic hallucinosis?

This is a bit of a specific question, but Im hoping theres a psychiatrist out there, that just happens to be moseying around, with nothing better to do!

My questions is....in patients with alcoholic hallucinosis, what kind of auditory hallucinations to the patients get? i.e. are they typically 2nd person or 3rd person hallucinations?

Thanks :)

My auditory hallucinations usually consisted of angelic-like choirs singing. You know the "Cherubim and Seraphim" chanting or singing - in repetitive phrases. I couldn’t see them - just hear them - not in my mind but "for real" as if coming from just ahead or above me. It even happened to me once while in Times Square, just walking through. It can be startling. I never heard singular voices.

Apparently I am not unique in having this experience. I was discussing this phenomenon with a fellow recovered alcohol a few years ago (He regularly saw and heard wild pigs) and I nearly fainted when he said, “Oh how about the choirs! Did you ever get the choirs." Of course I had to tell him yes. He knew of others who had as well. Go figure.

These experiences were NOT necessarily during withdrawal either -- they occurred when I was actively drinking as well. And they never happened before and they had never happened since recovering.

Psychologists don’t know Jacks crap about alcoholism. They THINK they do - but they don't If you want to know about alcoholism – ask someone who’s experienced it. Otherwise all you will get is opinion about it -- and the value of that is very small by comparison.

Hope that helps whatever reason you have for wanting to know this.

Peace,

Danny S