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I’m doing some research for my book and I’m curious about how people feel about postive voices.
Never heard any voices in my life…
Often times the voices talk to each other about the other people in the room or the area and what they say is absurd and can be quite funny, and makes me laugh (inappropriately), and then the other people stare at me nervously. I try to hold back the laughs as much as possible when I’m out in public. Before my first psychotic break, I was witty, sarcastic, and rather snarky, so my voices are often like that, since it’s my brain creating them. And have you ever done much people watching out in a public park or public place? People are often quite hilarious, just watching them do their normal routine. We take ourselves far too seriously. We’re really quite comical if you just stand back and look at us with an open mind.
No. My voices 99% negative.
My voices 60% of the time are pretty neutral about what they say (normally the things I hear are nonsense) but they have said some positive things in the past and normally gets me in a good mood tbh
My voices are not audible, they are delusions of reference, but they are still “voices”. They have a personality. Anyway, my voice, for most of the time it is a single voice, is 99% positive. And I want it to continue, of course.
I want to get rid of all voices.
Me too. Why would people want to keep positive voices? What?! Whaaaat? 
I have both positive and negative voices. A lot of times I cant understand them. Then, there’s my conscience. She’s got a calm voice.
I have positive voices and I like having them… They help me feel better and give me encouraging words.
But doesn’t it freak you out that they respond to, and can hear, your own thoughts? Doesn’t that feel like a violation?
What are your experiences?
Hey @Gonehuntin. How are you doing?
It doesn’t freak me out at all. I’ve been hearing voices for 25 years I’m quite used to hearing them. And with them being positive it’s an extra bonus. Its kind of like having an imaginary friend.
I had one positive voice who encouraged me and tried to argue against the negative one that tried to get me to hurt myself.
All my voices are internal though, so it just feels like my head space is never lonely, well, before medicine that is. I miss the ones that didn’t encourage me to hurt myself and gave me positive things to think about.
Whenever I don’t take my meds for awhile or get super stressed out, the voices often start as positive or neutral and then they can quickly become abusive, commanding, and frightening. It’s always like they want to earn my trust then they will betray me.
Luckily I’m back on a good meds combo and they have stopped.
I see some people who hear voices don’t even seem to like having positive voices as much as negative. I’m curious to know what the reasons are for not wanting positive voices. is it the fact it’s a voice in particular and any kind of auditory hallucination isnt acceptable.
Sorry man, I didn’t see this. Hanging in there . Making some realizations and live to the best of my ability.
I hear one positive voice all the time. I hear him usually more than the negative voice.
I argue with the positive voice a lot though. I should probably just take his advice.
I could really use some more participation… only 19 responses isn’t very helpful