Hey guys, could you give me examples of horrible things the voices said that were proven to not come true (e.g. it said “you will die tomorrow” and you still live). I just went off meds this weekend (by lack of meds) and kind of need to read other peoples experiences with voices that were clearly not right. As a reminder. I got new meds now, but still a little stressed. Also because i had incredibly stressful two days at work and home.
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I’m so sorry you had to go without meds! Your voices are not right, accurate, informed, authoritative, or complete. My voices told me I was going to kill, and I never did.
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My voices told me that I would be going insane, and heading back to hospital. It said it would be happening in January so will let you know
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Thanks! Im okayish, considering the circumstances, dont worry. Two days were just stressful - crisis at work with people exploding and torpedoing me and hearing my mums cancer came back (treatable though). :’(
Im not really psychotic, just stressed and thinking back to past thoughts and voice and wondering about their meaning.
Thanks for sharing such things. It somehow really helps me to know such concrete examples. Perhaps it helps others too.
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They have predicted my death repeatedly and nothing happened
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I’m so sorry your mom has cancer! That is devastating! Thank God it is treatable! Still, it’s not easy. You must be worried.
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Yes, we are sad and a little stressed. In me that means: have to be careful with psychotic stuff. They were hopeful though, it is a form that is relatively unaggressive, so im not fully panicking yet. Thanks for the empathy! 
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What is a voice or a thought to you? I’m sure you don’t believe that your voices are anything other than thoughts, but what are these things to you?
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Mine said someone was gonna stab me. I didn’t get stabbed and there was probably nobody with a knife on them, anyway. I was paranoid, though. I’ve been paranoid lately.
But don’t listen to them. They’re just stupid voices. They may purposely say false things to upset you.
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They tell me every week my period comes im gonna be pregnant… They do this 2 or 3 days till it finally starts… The meds kinda helps form them because they mess with my birth control pills to where it starts on my last pill of the pack…
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I used to think I was going to die because they told me I was terminal. Worst case scenario it’s “kill yourself.” I wish they wouldn’t say these things, why would a brain tell itself to do that.
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That’s real interesting to thing about. The answer I found was in the reciprocal question: Why wouldn’t a brain tell itself to do that? Or why can’t it?
I worked hard for answers, and I find that there is a matter of what we’re taught we are, and then there’s what we are. There’s even a difference between what we believe we are doing, and what we are really doing.
Back when I first started getting on the internet at around 2007 the philosophy forum on Craigslist was still popular. I used to hang out, talk, and learn there. One of them was famous there, NoAngst. There were some sayings that he’d say repeatedly.
One of those sayings was that “most people believe they are thinking when all their doing is contriving metaphors.” That saying stuck with me all the rest of my life. I know exactly what he meant now.
Well, that philo forum is nothing now. It’s open, but no one of any philo goes there anymore.
See…the whole thing I’m getting at is that if we’re not knowing what this mind and body stuff is in this universe, then we’re playing social roles in societies that are contrived by cellular organ brains, and it’s just the business of acting like metaphors. On top of that we sz’s can’t even get that right because we don’t fit the script, eh.
So…I don’t know. I mean it’s a dire situation being sz. Once I figured out a few things about my old religion and what mind/brain really is, I held back no longer. It’s very clear to me now. There’s no reason why a brain can’t do what seems completely absurd and insolent in every way to each one of us here.
The brain is just another organ like a muscle, a spleen, a kidney. Organs produce a substance product and/or a function. The brain produces a substance product in the form of mind information and endocrine signals which are informationous too.
Information can be true or false. That’s how the universe is. The brain can produce information in any context, but we’re told that we have to abide by the context of the norm which is something like a theater stage play script with costumes and all. I think that’s alright for the most part, but there are people that see through it all who don’t have the problems, and there are people that believe wholeheartedly. Among the wholehearted believers there are the people that may be one of the roles in the society play act, and they can participate as such as little or much as they want to. Then there are the ones that are not condoned to be so. The more they participate, the more they are opposed.
The people who see through the metaphorical acts of mainstream societites are both the condoned and opposed people too.
I see through it. I know what the minds are. I know what the brains are. I’m opposed, but I’m not perturbed by anyone now that I have hold of my mind.
I know now full well what my mind is and isn’t. I know my moral limits and my social tastes. Brain is going to make the mind stuff in me and everyone else, and it can make information like the information is me and like the information isn’t me. If I can’t use the information, it doesn’t bother me. This didn’t use to be true for me. It always bothered me.
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Thanks for all your thoughts.
Im going to respond to the philosophical questions and story later, i want to think about it for a bit!
I’ve learned through therapy that when my brain or my voices are wanting for suicide, what it really means is that my brain recognises I’m in a life situation I need/want to get out of.
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Cancer is hard, no matter the stage, no matter the kind. It’s appropriate to feel stressed.
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The voices told me many many lies, that they claim were tests. Here’s two…
Early on they told me go outside and wait for a car that would take me away and I needed to go to protect my family. - no car came (it’s a pretty quiet road).
Then it told me that I needed to jump off a cruise ship (that I was on with my family) otherwise the ship would explode. - I thought about it, but didn’t and no the ship was fine.
I think it just digs around for any fears to ill feelings and make a bit of theater out of it - maybe so you will deal with those feelings - or maybe just to creep you out, I’m still not sure. It’s hard when you feel yourself getting sucked in. When I’m having a hard day with Sz I like to read other ‘fake’ delusions too, just to keep on with my sanity.
I’ll say a prayer for your mom.
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My first break in the hospital my voices were saying that my family would be in horrible accidents and die. No one was ever in an accident and/or died. At the time I was convinced it would happen but it didn’t.
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Had voices telling me last night that my house was going to blow up over and over again… I’m still here and so is the house
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Thanks all…this really helps. Sometimes i need such examples. I often use them to remind me my thoughts arent necessarily truth.
I didnt have much voices and what they said are scary things i cant check, so it helps me to know others experiences. Examples of delusional thoughts that were untrue…
- I thought my dad would be contaminated by my evil and die that night. He still lives.
- I thought someone i knew was torturing my child at that moment. The kid is still happy and fine and shows no signs of being tortured.
- I thought the police a certain day would kill me and make it seem like an accident. I still live.
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I have religious voices which also mess with my health and give me stress.But when I’m in really bad situations,none of them are supportive.They tell me like yours when something bad is going to happen.
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