its so hard to give advice about this, i had some voices that that were not nice when i was really psychotic about 5 yrs ago, luckily i was put on a really good med that just sort of controls my symptoms, alot of it is self will though,
i have been doing things to distract my mind, like i am constantly looking for distractions but also remaining calm at the same time, not too manic (although i have done that) got to keep a good balance,
but my voice which i guess i call my self will is actually helpful for me, helps me make decisions and do things i want to do, helps me to weigh things up, and stay positive, i guess its all about having a good relationship with it, you are basically listening to random thoughts i think that just pop up, i would try and make it less random more controlled so that what you hear is something that yo actually agree with, hold onto what you agree with and disregard the rest,
I do not hear voices anymore, but I found something that gave me great relief and a sense of authority when i did. I found that when I would hear a loud āwhite noiseā, the voices would change in character and tone of voice. They would go from a conversational tone of voice to screaming voices in an instant. A great source for such a sound is the vacuum cleaner. Especially when you put your fingers in the end such that you can play with the ātoneā of the sound of the vacuum cleaner. You can pitch the sound to higher tones by doing that. And my voices would change correspondingly to higher pitched screaming voices. I used this as a technique to get a sense of authority over the voices, whereas at first, they would seem to have authority over me. Whenever they would get really annoying or offensive, I thought, I will get the vacuum cleaner and I am going to make you scream like a little b****ā¦ this was very satisfying.
I donāt hear voices but I do know that we can control our breathing and doing so can have a lot of beneficial effects in various stress producing situations so you all might want to read up on this subject and see for yourself. I would try just holding my breath while the voices are there just to see if this can help.
The dopamine-transmission-suppressing anti-psychotics (major tranquilizers like Risperdal risperidone, Zyprexa olanzepine, Geodon ziprasidone, Seroquel quetiapine, Abilify arapiprasole and Latuda lurasidone most commonly in current use) appear to be able to pull the vocal plug out of the wall about half of the time (research suggests), as well as reduce the impulsivity leading to āvocally instructed behaviorā for a good portion of those who still hear the riders on their mental buses. (I still do, but theyāre āover thereā now most of the time.)
For many psychotic folks in general ā and bipolar, borderline and schiz folks in particular ā however, the side effects of a med load sufficient to turn the volume down (let alone completely off) are somewhere between irksome and downright miserable. If meds were all we had to deal with The Big Problem, life would be as hopeless as some assert.
However ā and this is a really big however ā one can turn to the relatively new, mindfulness-based cognitive psychotherapies for help. Jon Kabat-Zinnās Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Marsha Linehanās Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Steven Hayesās Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Stanley Blockās Mind-Body Bridging Therapy ā as well as the older, strictly cognitive-behavioral therapies like Albert Ellisās Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and Aaron Beckās Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) have all been shown by extensve efficacy research to help people who are medicinally stabilized hear the voices as ājust the voices,ā and refuse to take any action on their instructions.
You can Google all this stuff. You can even buy home-study workbooks on the cheap.
My inlaws think I can. They have said I can control them. I remember when my mother in lawsā step grandson got diagnosed with cancer. My mother in law said, " you can control the voices at least you donāt have cancer" made me feel bad for even having symptoms.
some times people say the daftest things, they think they know about it but they dont, they are just guessing, dont feel too bad about that.
iām guessing some people can control things better than others though, idk if that is bc they have a better med or because they have a better self will, or if their symptoms are just less severe, there has to be a billion reasons why, its very complicated, the structures of the brain, the chemicals, i wish i could figure out the brain.
If i can say somethingā¦
i was listening a few recorded simulationsā¦
Its not even close if i say that i was scared, horrified and was shakening all along.
you peopleā¦im speechless. You are so brave.
Have you any suggestion for me how to, as an outsider, can help to person with mean voices??
so you think nothing can control voices except meds?
meds really help me but i dont think they are the only thing that can help, i use distraction a lot, it is pretty good esp if its a distractions that i enjoy like this forum or music, talking to friends, lots of distractions all of the time, in conjunction with meds of course, it really helps.
These activities are only temporary helpers. The schizophrenic persons own intellect, own insight and his/her environment, lifestyle are the most important of all.
Depending on the individual, isolation and silence can help massively. The opposite or a clever mixture of two also holds truth for some.
Wellā¦this was what has happened today. I spoke with my pdoc who is pretty much into yoga, meditation and those stuff. She is NOT religious. Neither am I.
She told me that listening a Quran can help as the meditation work out.
She even told me what specific part and the male who performs it.
I was likeā¦what?! Never heard of it before.
but i found it and it actually seemed pretty calming.
This is a very good example of placebo effect. If you belive or want to beleive it is going to help, wellā¦ Quran has different kinds of singing like readings. I canāt recall the arabian name of it right now. Anyway, if you want this calming effect to continue, than I suggest donāt read the meanings of what you are listening. It would most probably vanish the effect.
