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My daughter started reporting hallucinations when she first arrived at a new placement - a PRTF - and she had never reported hallucinations before.  We're still not sure if they were medication-induced... at that time she was on five different medications!   But her psychiatrist told her that she didn't "need" those hallucinations to communicate her needs - she had been telling other kids that her hallucination (a young girl) was mad at them.  So he told her to just communicate her needs directly.  This gave her a way to give up the hallucinations and "save face" if they were a means of getting attention.   She told the psychiatrist that her hallucination had made a new friend and wouldn't be back.  She hasn't reported them since...