What is this mental condition called?

[Winged]

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What is this condition where a person hallucinates that inanimate objects are alive called?For example,not wanting to eat animal shaped biscuits because of fear they will feel pain or thinking a vase will feel pain when dropped.Or even as an adult,thinking that his action figure toy he had when he was little can feel pain if hit.

I did some searches on the internet but could find nothing except OCD,Autism and Animism 😕 .I'm not a medical student but just trying to know what the right name for it is.Sorry if there is a regulation against non-medical students posting

 

[PsyDGrrrl]

What is this condition where a person hallucinates that inanimate objects are alive called?For example,not wanting to eat animal shaped biscuits because of fear they will feel pain or thinking a vase will feel pain when dropped.Or even as an adult,thinking that his action figure toy he had when he was little can feel pain if hit.

I did some searches on the internet but could find nothing except OCD,Autism and Animism 😕 .I'm not a medical student but just trying to know what the right name for it is.Sorry if there is a regulation against non-medical students posting

LSD intoxication?

 

[OH SYNAPSE]

LSD intoxication?

Haha...

I think you (OP) are thinking of Anthropomorphia/anthroopomorphism, though the link below describes exactly what you mentioned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy

 

[Winged]

Haha...

I think you (OP) are thinking of Anthropomorphia/anthroopomorphism, though the link below describes exactly what you mentioned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy

Could be.What if let's say some adults don't grow out of it until it affects their daily lives.What would the psychiatrist/doctor diagnose the individual's condition as?I'm trying to write a short story during my free time so I need to know what a doctor would call that condition when I have written the story and reached that part where the patient meets the doctor. 🙂

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Could be.What if let's say some adults don't grow out of it until it affects their daily lives.What would the psychiatrist/doctor diagnose the individual's condition as?I'm trying to write a short story during my free time so I need to know what a doctor would call that condition when I have written the story and reached that part where the patient meets the doctor. 🙂

I think that doctor might scratch his or her head and think..."well, this really doesn't have a name...doesn't fit into my DSM-IV categories so well. Maybe it's best described as Delusional Disorder*, because there's really nothing else going on...maybe some anxiety about that--Anxiety NOS*...and it's been going on for a long time...probably Schizotypal Personality Disorder*. What do they want me to do about it?"

That's where I'd be, anyway...😕

*(Look over the DSM-IV for descriptions of these diagnoses.)

 

[mommy0217]

lol I never heard of it.. although I had an allergic reaction to a medicine that made me go absolutly crazy for two whole weeks! lithium made me see monsters, I blacked out for two weeks.. It was the first medicine I tried for bipolar and the doctors told me It might be werid at first but I just couldnt take it.. I couldnt tell if I was in a nightmare or awake.. I know that works for some people that ughh I hated it

 

[kugel]

Could be.What if let's say some adults don't grow out of it until it affects their daily lives.What would the psychiatrist/doctor diagnose the individual's condition as?I'm trying to write a short story during my free time so I need to know what a doctor would call that condition when I have written the story and reached that part where the patient meets the doctor. 🙂

The psychiatrist I meet in the mirror most mornings would ask,
"How do I now it's an illness? What if she's right?"
Then one of us would take an antipsychotic.
Probably doesn't matter which one of us.

 

[Winged]

*(Look over the DSM-IV for descriptions of these diagnoses.)

What does the IV stand for?I know DSM obviously means doctor student forum but what's IV? 😕🙂

 

[loveoforganic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-IV_Codes

 

[erg923]

DSM-=Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The "IV" indicates which edition it is. DSM-V, the 5th edition, will come out in 2013.

I hardly believe that such odd beliefs would be confined to this domain. I would bet dollars to donuts that there is much more thought disorder (or florid psychosis) beneath the surface. If not, OPD is right, one would diagnosis Delusional Disorder.

 

[OldPsychDoc]

I think the other question the OP should consider is this: why is this person seeing a doctor in the first place? Generally people with bizarre, but private, beliefs such as this will keep quiet about them. Does this patient bring themselves in? Is there a legal or relational issue now that wasn't there before? In real life practice the process of diagnosis almost always starts with "Why are you here?"

 

[howelljolly]

The psychiatrist I meet in the mirror most mornings would ask,
"How do I now it's an illness? What if she's right?"
Then one of us would take an antipsychotic.
Probably doesn't matter which one of us.

 

[fMRI]

Hi Winged

Do you mind if I ask how you came across this condition?

There's a psychoanalyst who has an influence on the contemporary Kleinian perspective called Wilfred Bion. (BTW, he happened to be Samuel Beckett's analyst, when he was still in training and the latter not yet a famous author). He had a theory of bizarre objects.

Maybe have a look at this, you should be able to find this in an e-version through your college library fairly easily (or go and ask a friendly librarian -- that's what they are there for).
Bion, Wilfred. (1957). Differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 38, 206-275.

Don't know if that helps. Let us know, OK?!

🙂

 

[Manicsleep]

What is this condition where a person hallucinates that inanimate objects are alive called?For example,not wanting to eat animal shaped biscuits because of fear they will feel pain or thinking a vase will feel pain when dropped.Or even as an adult,thinking that his action figure toy he had when he was little can feel pain if hit.

I did some searches on the internet but could find nothing except OCD,Autism and Animism 😕 .I'm not a medical student but just trying to know what the right name for it is.Sorry if there is a regulation against non-medical students posting

I have seen something similar but in the context of a schizophrenic bizarre paranoid delusion. The person also had hallucinations but of the very ordinary auditory type.
Strictly speaking what you describe is not a hallucination but probably a delusion like posted earlier. A hallucination is having a sensory experience when no stimulus exists and a delusion is an unchangeable false belief.

Delusions can come with many types of mental conditions including psychotic disorders like schizophrenia or delusional disorder or if mood disorders such as bipolar or depression get severe enough to have psychotic features. Other things to consider can be delirium, substance abuse and neurological conditions such as epilepsy or stroke.

This is not exhaustive but should give you a place to start.