auditory hallucination

source: https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/about-mental-illness/learn-more-about-symptoms/hearing-voices/

>stats: 1/10

>types:
- people talk TO you
- people talk ABOUT you
- hearing music
- hearing animal voices
- hearing background noises, e.g. people chat

>quality:
- positive
-- help understand more about your emotions
-- encourage & comfort
-- help, e.g. remind of to-do things

- negative
-- threaten you
-- tell you to hurt yourself or others
-- say hurtful or cruel things about you or others
-- frightening

NB: can be more upsetting during difficult or stressful times

>differential (vs intrusive thoughts)
-- auditory hallucination -- you hear a SOUND
-- intrusive thoughts = "an unwelcome thought or image that enters your mind & mostly out of your CONTROL"