I started to do it for like a microsecond one day but other than that I haven’t had that problem.
I heard a lady on the bus talking to herself when I was 16
I really do it all the time.
When I’m hungry and cant decide what to eat, I’ll just converse with myself until I agree on something.
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I talk to myself but it’s in my head if that makes sense
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It does make sense. I also heard a lady talk to herself in the hospital one day but really the majority of people I seen were quiet schizophrenics
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I went to a cafe one day and a lady sat at a nearby table talking to someone who wasn’t there she even got up to shake their hand so there were two schizophrenic in that cafe that day me and her but I don’t think you could tell that I was schizophrenic but she definitely was
Yeah, I talk to myself, though usually in whispers, but not always. It’s embarrassing when I catch myself talking out loud to myself in public, like at the grocery store or wherever.
Does it ever make you feel good? I wish I had someone to talk to sometimes and wonder if it’s like an evolutionary benefit to some. Like maybe you have no one to talk to so you talk to your voices
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God Yeah! All the time. No harm in it. The neighbours probably think im bonkers, but i dont care. Used to have long chats with the cat as well. 
I constantly talk to myself in my head. I think out loud to myself when i go to the store. It helps me think things through.
I don’t know that I would say it makes me feel good. I generally have people to talk to, so it isn’t really about that.
Ive done the same - going thru an internel conversation whilst im at the supermarket checkout. Ive usually got blutooth earbuds in tho - so i would use that as an excuse.
Nobodys really given me any funny looks tho.
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Okay. Just kinda wanted to see if it was real that schizophrenics do that because I haven’t seen a post about it before on here.
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I do all the time
I think its common with Schizophrenics. (or correct me if im wrong). My Neighbour upstairs is the worst for it, she shouts her head off. You can tell what shes doing for the day, or whos pissed her off simply by hanging your head out the front door. She actually had a Psych Evaluation for it, and got the all clear - but shes got Learning Delay, so i think its just her way of organising her thoughts.
I talk to myself all the time
I talk to myself when I get frustrated or stressed. Otherwise I always have my daughter with me when doing the little shopping I do, so if I start doing it she steps in and will get me to talk to her. Last week I got frustrated trying to do math to figure out which was a better price of popcorn either the big box or the 4 small boxes with a 3 dollar coupon. She finally just got me my calculator and we got it figured out, but she saw me starting to get shaky and upset. I feel dumb that I can’t do simple math in my head, and here she is 13 and doing 9th grade math in 7th grade in the acceleration program. She had it figured out already, but she wanted me to feel like I did it.
My 13 year old deals with my embarrassing ■■■■ in public more than I care to admit. She tried to talk to a classmate at the store last week, then the boy saw I walk with a cane and he asked why she was there with her grandma…she was hurt and just told the boy “That’s my mom, and you can shut the ■■■■ up.” She pushed the cart ahead and just kept getting stuff from our list. I feel like I hold her back, all my kids.
I do it every once in a while. I don’t attach a whole lot of importance to it.
All sorts of people who are not mentally ill will talk to themselves occasionally.
All the time I make such funny jokes.
When I’m home I do. Try to control it in public.