I have always wondered this because I don’t usually get hallucination voices but I always hear noise in my head such as for example you know how some people will replay songs in there head or read a book in there own head? That’s what the voices were for me Not literal but always playing in my head
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My voices are outside my head, in a Specific location, and if they’re clear enough then I can tell exactly where they are and see them in my mind. Same as a video game. I also hear my own monologue echoed outside my head in the same area as the others
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Don’t hear many voices but have a strong, central thought that comments on everything I do. It’s much better with medication but I often know when it comes back. It’s not like it hasn’t helped me out in the past but it certainly has made my life most difficult. It ties into some paranoia and makes things hard!
My voices are all telepathic they’re like someone putting thoughts in my head that aren’t mine
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When I was hearing voices it was through my ears like when hearing someone talk to me
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yeah mine is like yours. Racing thoughts loud which are almost like voices but it is not something I actually hear like my mom did.
Yeah I get random thoughts or comments inside where my thoughts happen that seem like they don’t come from me. Most of the time a song will be playing and on a bad night I will have a song and random thoughts and brain zaps happening simultaneously
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My voices are inside my head not outside but they are not my thoughts but someone else. Alien is my main voice and he has lots of cronies with him. Like he invaded my head and took residence there. Inserts his thoughts in my head or speaks to me in my head. Like there’s two brains in my head. Two people inside of me. Or many.
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I hear the voices of old friends I went to high school with who I later abandoned after high school because of this. They are clear as day to me in my head. I also occasionally hear people on TV, people I’ve met or anyone I’ve come into contact with. However, those are very brief, far and in between. The main 4 voices are of old friends who i have a constant dialogue with most of the day. I basically try to ignore them or talk back but it’s hard.
I also have external audible hallucinations of people I am currently around or in the same area as. It feels like they are making comments about me or I am the subject of their conversation.
I have internal and external voices, but I’ve only experienced intrusive thoughts a few times.
I don’t hear actual voices, only hallucinate during psychotic breaks. I hear people’s voices in my head, I carry on conversations with them, though I typically control both sides of the conversation. It’s all internal, though, not external voices.
I made a template in my head where the voices speak from. They are encapsulated in little circles and boxes so I can stay organized, otherwise there is total mayhem. Some are speaking, some are sending psychic thoughts, some are mumbling, some are whispering and sometimes I hear voices from outside my head. It’s weird but the electrical outlets will call my name. Thank God for aps I can enjoy some quiet time.
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My thoughts at time race and or ramble to interrupt me while in prayer, then I tell God I am sorry and pray to get my thoughts in order then at that time I am able to keep thoughts “on one track” so to speak. Prayer for me is control, which is ironic because the very act of praying is asking God to take control by giving me control 
Most of my prayers are “thought prayers” because I believe God hears my thoughts and knows the content of my heart (that way also demons can not hear my spoken conversations with God),
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Thanks for the replies everyone! Just seeing if mine were rare or normal. For a long time I always said I didn’t hear voices. Then recently I realized I do just in a different way. I thought everyone had racing thoughts. Nope! Ha So, I guess I am for real diagnosed as sz lol
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I stopped hearing voices as such over ten years ago.
Very thankful for that.
When I had them it was voices of family and people I know .
Saying awful things that hurt me.
Also some others.
I heard a lot of moaning which then agonised me.
I heard gun shots and screaming.
It was outside of me to me.
Like outside of building I was in too.
I have other symptoms now but thankfully not such voices anymore.
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Usually I just have my thoughts talking non-stop, or voices inside that I can’t control.
Sometimes, I hear a voice say my name, a word, or a short sentence, really loud in my ears. It always scares the living ■■■■ out of me, when that happens.
Like muffled background voices that are another layer of my thoughts. I notice em more at certain times. They are usually begging sorrowful desperate types of thoughts that i barely think, never have understood sentences just sort of get the emphasis and note change. When i smoked weed a while back i really noticed them, my mind is always in state of mild panic from crap quality of life caused by negative symptoms
Mindboxed,
Hi. It’s all about how you react to them. If you experience them, and you are inhibited in anyway by them, then it’s just in your head. That’s how I was when I was a kid. If you experience them, and you become emotional or reactive in a way that inhibits your life, you could get stuck that way if you don’t already have schizophrenia.
When I started becoming scz, I was trying to be telepathic with the “higher ones” so to speak and with the people around me in the city. I was depressed and lonely far away from my family and all of my school friends which I’ve never known since. Seeking others in my mind like that was my escape, and it was my way of finding answers to my questions about my purpose and lack of success in life.
The more dependent I became on that kind of inside talk with my feelings, thoughts, memories, and in the signs of what I was trying to read in everything I saw, read, and heard as if I was being communicated to by the “higher ones,” the more dependent on these I became, the more I lacked in success.
What I’m saying is that I was very socially detached, and I was very naive and new to the world. I didn’t know what anything at all was in my head, and the word psychology was the furthest thing from my vocabulary, and I doubt I was ever going to hear about schizophrenia unless I became one. Since I didn’t know these things, I fell into a loop. It was a downward cycle. I tried to talk with the stuff in my mind and body inside, and in the signs in everything around me to become successful and find answers to life rather than trying to get with people that knew these things. Therefore I became more and more unsuccessful.
Because I was becoming more unsuccessful in my life, I was becoming more desperate. The more desperate I became, the more I tried to communicate like an idiot within myself and things around me, and therefore the more sick I became.
Eventually I became so sick that I had forgotten the language and way that normal people thought. I had made up my own esoteric belief system which formed my paradigm in the way I saw everything and everyone and myself.
It is the rabbit, and I believe their is no return like when you learn a language or when you know how to do a job. You never forget it. It’s how you think, and after so many years of practicing it day and night…well it’s stuck.
Then it’s all about treating symptoms, but there is no cure. So if you are thinking you are psychic or something stupid like that, just keeping thinking about what happens to people like that in here.
The fact though is that if you make money, and you have some family and friend people which usually follows with making money, then you can basically paddle it out. As long as you know what is going on as in you might experience the delusions, but you don’t believe them. That’s the best you can do, and that’s the best scz that we folks do. The most successful of us just act like nothing is wrong, and so you’ll never know they were scz. Scz people don’t believe that I was ever scz. Several shrinks have doubted me. Mean people have no doubt about me when I am not feeling well.
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No I mean voices as in voices that come from a chemical imbalance, thoughts or not. I don’t dare mess with the physic stuff. I stay far away from that
I do see what points you made, they are valid about us conditioning ourselves but, it’s the illness tho let us not forget that. I didn’t make a choice to isolate and have thoughts thru my head or from doing it constantly, it just happened
I’ve experienced both types of voices before. They are both difficult to deal with.