the voices cause me a lot of grief. Theyre good intentioned but give me a hard time. I can get very stressed from voices. do you have any philosophy as reagrds dealing with voices
Mine mostly only come out when I am stressed or upset. My strategy is to talk about what is bothering me until I feel better, then get into a calm state of mind. Once I am calm, I can sometimes change the voices from being angry to friendly, or lower the volume so they are more manageable.
I can’t always get to that calm state of mind though. When I can’t make them change, I put on music or an audiobook so I have something else to listen to that can hopefully draw my focus away from the voices.
You have to find the right persona to work with your situation. Luckily, I had several female characters come to my rescue in the “mind” when I was under attack. They’re sort of like guardians now. If a situation gets to hostile or sufferable, they start to appear visually in the “mind” and I can let them talk through me - they only say positive things.
My general philosophy is just to keep quiet & let them say what they have to say. They don’t antagonize me much anymore since I established how logical & intellectual I was. I brought up philosophies & scientific theories of my own about God, infinity, consciousness, and nature that seemed to completey boggle them. Since having several talks about life & ethics, things have mellowed out.
I also sometimes like to think that I am helping reconcile the “damned” - ex-convicts of some sort. I’ve had Ted Bundy appear, for instance. I think they like me b/c I am non-judgmental or highly convincing & defensive of them. Some people would have completely avoided crimes if they had better parents, a better society, less corruption in general, for instance.
I don’t think there is anything special about voices. There’s a logical explanation for them. They reside in the brain from neurons but we haven’t figured out yet the cause. I can understand how voices turn your reality upside down and cause you to think all sorts of things-- to come up with an explanation. But your wrong. Just how I think I can remember past lives. It’s not real.
Yeah I’m like ■■■■it I’m schizo and then carry on
Or I drink like two beers