In a lot of ways, that sounds very like the way I manage my dementia. It helps a lot to understand that the hallucinations, as I experience them, are simply a failure of the "normal" ability to simply not pay attention to ordinary signals (things "moving" in the extreme periphery of my visual field either while I'm reading or just doing the regular saccade thing, minor skin irritations being misinterpreted and taking on a life of their own, etc.). As long as I can interpret them at a higher level of thought and classify them, they're merely an annoyance (although, like that one mosquito in the tent with you all night, it can be one hell of an annoyance). Before I understood what was going on, and before I found medication to help me deal with the worst of it, those little unsuppressed signals were absolute hell—both on me, and because they affected my behaviour and beliefs, on the people around me. Unfortunately, my condition is progressive, so there will likely come a time when the meds can no longer help, and I'll find myself back in that world. Not looking forward to that at all, to tell the truth.
Gotcha, yeah those are much more overt than I was expecting. I hope you get it figured out. I was expecting it would be more like generic concentration and memory issues.
For what it's worth, my dad got a form of dementia and the hallucinations weren't part of it. It was more just forgetting things that he had always known, like the road network around where I grew up. My mom said he would call sometimes and say he couldn't remember how to get home from places where he had been many times. Also just a change in affect overall which wasn't obvious at the time, because of how gradual it happened, but later was very obvious in retrospect.
My mother has LBD (as near as the doctors can tell, because it can't be diagnosed while the patient is alive) - and we're pretty sure she hallucinates, but she doesn't share that with us. She used to tell us about seeing some random animals running through the yard - some fairly unbelievable, but plausible things.
It's arguable that those are not hallucinations, as there is not normally a misunderstanding about their (physical world) reality, just some amount of acknowledged distortion of perception of the real world.
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