That too but it also makes me very tired and sleepy.
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I take meds to deal with the other symptoms, but for voices, therapy did more to help than the meds did.
Therapy helped me gain clarity into why my brain invented those voices, take control over their effect on me, listen to what my brain was trying to communicate, and learn how to lessen their presence.
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Me? Iāve been on and off meds many times, but the voices never came back.
-Albert.
With meds I still hear. But have overcome at least 75% , listen to music in the lowest possible volume, just so I feel its presents. Best is live morning jazz in YouTube. I just listen to it and do my other task. The external voices are not an issue anymore.
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Nothing noticable at this point unless I have to take my PRN, which is Haldol. It always lays me out flat and things have to be pretty bad before I pop open that bottle. Early on with SZ the doctors were carpet bombing my symptoms with meds and I was a dysfunctional lump for much of the time. Iāve found itās better to have some symptoms I can manage on my own and function on less meds than to take enough meds to completely remove symptoms. They remove too much of my cognition as well and leave me unable to do much.
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I think thatās very true. Thank you for your reply.
Yes you are right. I combatted with depression too. I took antidepressants for years but stopped it a few years ago for good. 
And wanted to do the same with antipsychotics but voices came back, that time other things happened too and I couldnāt control the situation but I want to give it a second try!
Thank you very much for your reply, indeed itās encouraging.
Tried for years. Eventually decided I would learn to live with them instead of trying to stop them. That went about as poorly as one would suspect. When I couldnāt handle that anymore, I understood that meds are the only way to actually stop my voices.
Youāre smart to ask the forum. I hope by posting this that youāre able to find some peace without struggling with the question like I did. I suggest talking to pdoc to go over the options that are best for you.
E:clarity.
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Well voices can stop but they can still come back. I heard voices for like 7 years then they started to lessen. Now I hear them pretty rarely.
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Stop them completely, without meds? That sounds impossible to me.
What is possible is to find ways to cope with them by tuning them out, understanding they are noise and not real people, paying little attention to them, and doing this I have found the voices speak up less often. I canāt quiet them completely though, and even if I could, if it would require a heavier dose of medicine Iād rather not do it. Too much AP and Iām a zombie.
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Do you take med and hear voices still?
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Yeah my meds have eliminated every single positive symptom of my illness except voices. It did change how they act towards me though, without medicine they insult me constantly and issue commands repeatedly. With medicine they are nice to me and easy to tune out. They donāt command me either and rarely repeat themselves. They sometimes do narration. Iām on Zyprexa.
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