Do your voices make you depressed or anxious? How do cope with it?

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Do your voices make you depressed or anxious? How do cope with it?

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No I made friends with them, they’re cool.

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I just tell them go away. I have Duane. He chases them off sometimes.

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Do your voices make you depressed or anxious?

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Depressed. Sad all the time those days they start. I’m sorry you’re voices are being mean.

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Do you get depressed the whole day or only during when you hear negative voices?

When you don’t hear them are you happy?

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I get depressed all day. I take a nap when it overwhelmed. Are you ok?

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I am ok right now, thanks for your concern

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My voices were outrageous in making me anxious, sometimes I just tried to treat it like a joke, like when in public, it was mixed with delusions and I just had to sort of ignore it. That has passed. They mostly liked to make me angry and now they have become so mean they destroyed themselves. They just became so senselessly hateful they went out. They have no real reason for being angry, not that angry, not for thirty years. Am I supposed to feel guilty for not accepting Imaginative Vision? Who wants to hallucinate that much? I don’t want to be William Blake, or any other seer. There is plenty of proof that is a false path to divinity anyhow.

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I get up each day and help them realize, they can feel all sorts of things … Just Like Me!

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What I do to cope is listen to music. Everyday I listen to music for at least a couple of hours throughout the day.

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I’m sick and tired of the voices. It’s a constant ramble in my head. They wear me out.

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Do you get depressed the whole day once after you hear your voices? And by just listening to music your mood gets better?
How often do you hear the voices?

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I’m sorry to hear that, do you hear voices everyday? Do you get depressed the whole day or just when you hear it?
Anything you do to cope with it?

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I don’t always get depressed because of the voices, only sometimes. I would say, yes listening to music improves my mood somewhat. The past week I heard voices 5 out 7 days. This week so far I’ve had an improvement in getting sleep and less voices.

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Are your voices negative? So you listen to music while your voices are saying stuff?

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My voices aren’t often negative. Yes, I listen to music while dealing with voices. I try to focus on the music. Talking to the voices often takes me down a rabbit hole because I end up wondering if they are real.

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The only thing that helps is when I distract myself. But that takes an effort. I don’t have any energy to do stuff all the time.

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When they start, I just try to ignore them the best I can. I try not to let them affect me too much.
At the worst, I’ll throw out some insults back at them, but most of the time I just try to keep busy enough to not let them drag me down.
I do find that responding to them verbally just seems to feed the back and forth thing, so I try not to get into it with them too much.

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So you are able to ignore negative voices? was it hard at first?
So being occupied with stuff helps with the voices?

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