“I keep hearing things” — characterising a possible auditory hallucination
Fictional training scenario. A deterministic, authored teaching exercise — not a real patient and not a diagnostic tool. The aim is to establish the phenomenology cleanly, not to pick a “right answer”.
Patient: I keep hearing things. It’s doing my head in.
“Hearing things” is ambiguous. What would you ask first?
Pick the question you would actually ask. There is no marked “correct” option — each choice has consequences you will see.