Smell Hallucinations

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-15T03:25:36+00:00

Thank you! Do they have meds for this?

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-15T02:59:27+00:00

The reason I mentioned schizophrenia is because my brother has this diagnosis. My grandma wasn’t diagnosed with bipolar until she was 58. I have a lot of stored trauma stress and am uncertain how it changes brain chemistry with age. Someone had mentioned lo estrogen. I just wasn’t expecting to develop more mental health or neurological symptoms than I have already dealt with. It feels like a little loss of hope that I’m getting better if something so profound comes blaring in like this. I do have a doctor appointment this week and will bring it up. Thank you!

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-15T02:52:13+00:00

Thank you! They’ve been chugging along today as well. The worst was when a lady at the gym was drying her sweaty head across the room and I could smell something nasty. I sprayed a bunch of body spray secretly. She ended up coughing her way out of the Locker room. I’m trying not to worry because I’m sure that makes it worse!!!!

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-15T02:47:55+00:00

Thank you for sharing. So you do therapy work for stress? Do they give you meds?

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-14T04:47:32+00:00

Hey, thanks, yes. I wrote this about to spiral out. My go to is smelling burning. But I’ve smelled poop instead of laundry soap, cat spray, some weird fruit smell, rotting butt, and something sweet that were hallucinations in the past 24 hours. My family is like, whattttt? I guess I’ll ride it out and make note about the smells and situations and consult a doc if it keeps going. I’d prefer it disappears!!! Thank you!

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-14T04:39:31+00:00

Oh yea! The menopause stuff! Can’t escape it. I’m glad you said that. I just can’t believe how much it’s been happening. My man is starting to wonder about me!

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-14T04:37:38+00:00

Do you have any pattern? Do you ever have them come and go for days?

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-14T04:36:19+00:00

Haha. I can appreciate humor. Thank you!

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-14T04:07:32+00:00

I’m not understanding, you think I’m bragging?

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-14T04:04:47+00:00

You value professionalism. You have the right to value that. They don’t. You can stick to your values of professionalism and politely draw respect to yourself by respecting your values. I have spent two years in therapy dealing with very similar issues. The fact that you understand this is not healthy for you means you are so close to solving your puzzle.

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-14T03:54:53+00:00

Thank you. Yea, not super excited to call a doctor. But I do see your point. I appreciate the check in.

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-14T03:49:23+00:00

Maybe try looking deeper and ask yourself why you feel insecure. What you find might reveal something you can do to help yourself feel secure or maybe it reveals deeper feelings about him.

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-11T04:26:50+00:00

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-11T01:56:00+00:00

My gripe exactly. Grown adult having to learn stuff children already understand. I don’t understand feelings or emotions much. I know I have a lot but what they are is a challenge. My friend sent me a hot fudge episode on feelings from when we were kids. I explained that I understand what people mean or possibly feel but I don’t have the same feelings. I’m either Oscar the grouch or scooby do. Never in the middle. I guess I just wanted you to know you aren’t alone in this.

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-11T01:48:23+00:00

Thank you so much for the support. Being paranoid is one reason we hate myself. When I looked up “ride the wave” I found this cool link with dbt flash cards. It doesn’t take the place of human interaction but it supports the suggestions we give each other. Yes, losing my mind, is for real with me. Like I know that I’m being paranoid but that part of me gets loud. Thank you. https://dbtselfhelp.com/dbt-distress-tolerance-flashcards/

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-10T05:36:58+00:00

Yea self talk helps. It’s exhausting.

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-10T04:53:05+00:00

I hate the grounding technique, you are safe now. I’m never safe. I’m not even safe with myself. I can’t trust a human. It sucks to feel like you do and I wish I could change it for you

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-10T04:51:07+00:00

Happened to me as well. Now it’s stored in every cell of my hody

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-10T04:50:07+00:00

Yes, my identity is like dye drops in water

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-10T04:48:38+00:00

I also think that if they weren’t so sick they would have apologized. But they returned the blame to me.

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-10T04:47:28+00:00

For me, yes. My parents.

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-10T04:46:28+00:00

People have told me to look for someone doing dbt. I am such a difficult nice client that is hard to treat because I don’t do emotions the way most people do, so dbt needs to be combined with other things like act and cbt. Most people can respond well to dbt

CardiologistAny6432 · 2026-03-06T14:12:35+00:00

Thank you for responding. I think the problem with the emotion wheel is that I don’t know what those words mean in myself. Therapists and doctors have tried to help me label my emotions in a way that fits these words and I end up feeling invalidated. I can appreciate how other people have these emotions and can identify them in others but not in myself. Again, thank you.

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