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Can depression cause hallucinations?

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Psychotic depression is a subtype of major depression that occurs when a severe depressive illness includes some form of psychosis. The psychosis could be hallucinations (such as hearing a voice telling you that you are no good or worthless), delusions (such as, intense feelings of worthlessness, failure, or having committed a sin) or some other break with reality. read more

This condition causes you to experience psychotic symptoms plus the sadness and hopelessness associated with depression. This means seeing, hearing, smelling, or believing things that aren’t real. Depressive psychosis is especially dangerous because the delusions can cause people to become suicidal. read more

Now my mother had hallucinations and we found out that her electrolytes were way off. So what I am saying have your blood chemistry checked too. When you are depressed you do not eat properly your blood chemistry will go way off. read more

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