My diagnosis had lots of changes in the beginning but ultimately the doctor labelled it “paranoid schizophrenia”. My curiosity is related to the fact that I don’t hear independent voices - of course I have hallucinations, both visual and auditive but the voices come from real people. Somehow what they are talking is very personal as if I was always in the center of everything. I believe in gods and other forces and I’m like a messenger of their will. At least I was but since I’ve started the treatment with Clozapine (after failures with “amilsulpride, olanzapine, quetiapine and aripiprazol”) I have only paranoia. I’m also on Clonazepam. I still see things that don’t seem real and the connection of the voices of real people around me is less obvious. I have a psychiatrist and a psychologist but is not enough. Anyway, stay on your meds and hello to everyone !!
Hey! It’s definitely possible to have sz without voices. But I would also argue that what you described is hearing voices.
I do not hear voices nor hallucinate
Same here I was celebrety superstar 
it’s one of the symptoms of schizophrenia and I was superfunny or sometimes super scary in my own way delusional hallucinating … voices came from other people
I don’t hear independent voices, out of nowhere. I just listen the voices of people around me and understand a message said only for me as if I’m an observer of forces from above. The message is from them and only I can realize that. After 11 years of illness I know how to make the difference between reality and hallucination. I just choose to ignore all the symptoms. My biggest problem is paranoia. When I’m paranoid all that was ignored comes back ten fold.
You have auditory hallucinations…
When I asked my psychiatrist this very question, she said “yes.”
It sounds like you do hear voices that are hallucinations, but there is also sz without hallucinations and delusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple-type_schizophrenia
I’m correctly diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. But I don’t hallucinate or hear things.
When I first got diagnosed I only had delusions and paranoia as positive symptoms and I had all the negative symptoms.
I didn’t start hallucinating until two years later.
I will occasionally hallucinate but my primary symptom are delusions.
My delusions and paranoia become so intense that I lose all insight.
If it appears that sounds and images comes from external source (and not your head) - than it’s a hallucination. That’s how my psychiatrist described this to me.
I believe i didn’t heard voices like some people here, but i still have sz. You probably don’t have to hallucinate all the time if you have many other symptoms.
Yes. I don’t do voices but do hallucinate words and music rarely. I do have a strong, central thought ( like a voice) that comments on everything i do. Meds have helped that so it’s less pronounced!
yes, its not a requirement for sz, i suffered delusions mostly among other things but no voices or delusions,
I hear my thoughts but it is myself and i get guidance from a higher power but thats not voices, thats normal imo and its helpful.
If they are just guiding you and not commanding you, so you can disagree by your free will, than it’s ok maybe.
In late stages of my illness i was also guided by world around me. People on the street cheered me and were generally nice to me. Still, it was miserable experience, i could do much more all those years.
off meds its like i get possessed or something 
my thoughts are all very mixed up, scrambled,
I think something else senses my weakness and preys on me its pretty fkd up
sounds horrible
i know, i came off meds about 6mths ago and i fell apart, i couldn’t move, its like my brain just died
but i took meds again and recovered over the next week and luckily no long term damage
My worst nightmare is that meds will stop working for me. (Luckily, i feel very side side-effects so i can take them without worry.)
Why did you came off your meds?
I am diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia but I have never had hallucinations.