well i experienced thought broadcasting for a couple years. but my question is this, did thinking others could hear your thoughts make you have worse thoughts? like tourettes of thoughts. it’s like i would try not to think anything inappropriate but then the inappropriate thoughts would pop up and i would keep repeating them in my head. it took a couple years and then i started to relax and decided only the elites could hear my thoughts and they weren’t out to get me, as they couldn’t reveal their little secret. so then it was rarer and rarer that i had inappropriate thoughts, and got comfortable with my own thoughts and didn’t worry about being listened to. but at first i noticed i would try not to think the wrong things and then inevitably would. until i relaxed.
Totally made my thoughts shittier thinking people could hear them. Like I was totally not enjoying this sensation of being heard all the time, and it stressed me the ■■■■ out. Thinking I had to keep my thoughts “pure” or some ■■■■ so as not to offend and I just ■■■■■■■ lost it at the whole setup.
That’s not how life is supposed to be.
As someone who has been through that ‘thought broadcasting nonsense’ and as a person who overcame it, I want to tell you, ‘you are wasting your time stressing about it’. Like you have a disease that would have you scavenging garbage for food for the rest of your life, and your concern is people hearing something embarrassing about you? Forget that thought broadcasting nonsense andd think about yourself and how those voices are trying to make you a ■■■■■■. Forget about what it’s saying an know every voice you hear isn’t about you or your opinions.
It takes a really dominant will to push through every hallucination. It’s like Chinese water torture, pecking at you in every interaction, trying to corrupt you or something.
I’ve been there… I fully understand what you mean, but it is possible
I’m burned out by my life man, I can’t push that hard constantly.
I need an easy time. My solution is to fix the brain damage so a good frame of mind is effortless. Not like going through life with a busted up engine and making the best of it. Eventually the car just stops working if you do that.
I’ll be honest with you… the only reason I am in University, the only reason I was able to go back to University and actually study was because my mom moved house to a very quiet neighborhood and almost overnight, I stopped hearing half the voices I use to hear… which led me to the conclusion I was only hearing those voices cause my mind was somehow converting noice from out people talking into schizophrenic noise in my mind/ this why when I stopped hearing people chattering outside, I stopped hearing most voices.
In fact, a psychologist I read about who was studying schizophrenia came to the conclusion the only people who get cured from schizophrenia are people who leave who leave there regular lives and go home to live with there parents ( and I believe what that psychologist didn’t acknowledge was the patient he studied who got cured, lived in a quiet neighborhood - and it was only because he went to his quiet home in the early stages of his schizophrenia that he as able to get cured). The psychologist was Freud - quite famous.
Freud was popular but he didn’t test or prove his theories, he just said stuff that made sense to him internally. He isn’t well regarded.
I don’t have more authority than him, but I strongly believe SZ is curable in any walk of life.
Whatever his internal theories might have been, one of the schizophrenics he was studying got cured.
By moving in with his parents?
I mean, it’s less stressful, which means less symptoms, but that setup is only temporary. The sufferer would eventually have to be independent.
That’s what Freud believed… he thought it was because he went home and lived a normal life, like visiting relatives, going on outings e.t.c.
But I believe it is because when he got schizophrenia, he went to a quiet place where he didn’t have to hear strangers outsider his window talking to him ( and simply because there were no strangers talking outside his window) and this his mind was able to heal and stop the schizophrenia from damaging it.
When I had thought broadcasting it definantly made my thoughts more inappropriate thinking others could read them
Yeah, I know. I agree a 100%. Maybe some other time.
I always wanted to live on a lot of land so I didn’t have neighbors.
Every single person I’ve spoken to with thought broadcasting delusion, has had inappropriate, intrusive thoughts. I wonder why though, it’s coincidental that the two are linked.
I always wonder if the voices and intrusive thoughts (with thought broadcasting) are a way to stop us getting where we need to go, to stop us being positive.
All I can say is, if you have an intrusive thought, try to balance it out by rethinking it into a positive way.
The problem with that theory and the reason it is not a current “cure” that has gained widespread acceptance and popularity and you never hear about it today is that lots of peoples families are dysfunctional and don’t get along which can be stressful. Also not everybody has good neighbors. IDK, there’s a lot of holes in that theory.
Yeah, I definitely have this problem. When I’m more aware that someone is listening to my thoughts, I always think worse, inappropriate things. It’s frustrating because it’s like I’m setting myself up to be f-ed with but I can’t help it.
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