10-18-2009, 11:07 PM
Auditory Hallucinations can be a sign of schizophrenia or many other mental health issues. It's also fairly normal for mental health issues to go hand-in-hand with substance abuse (it's called Co-Occurring Disorders.) At a glance, I'd say that increases in the stresses of your day-to-day life might have brought back some symptoms of a mental health issue that you experienced earlier in life. It doesn't necessarily mean you were ignoring the symptoms, just that they weren't there because you weren't going through as much.
I'd advise you to search out a a mental health treatment facility and go in for a mental status exam, since finances are most likely an issue, you might be able to look through your state government for either a state or nonprofit organization that offers free or discounted services. I wouldn't worry about being labeled "crazy", thanks to HIPAA law, the organization that tests you couldn't give out the results or else they'd be in trouble. Long story short, you could go in, get help, and be back to normal, which I'm sure your wife would appreciate much more than harming yourself.
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