Like have you ever screamed and attacked them and tried to be mean to them like they are mean to you. I have been in a manic state before and gotten high off of it and now am suffering the consequences and wondering if any of you have ever done this before?
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I’ve tried to attack my voices physically twice. Once with a knife to the back of my neck where I thought they were coming from, and once, knowing they were just voices in my head, a hit myself in the head with a brick hard enough to give me a couple black eyes and a concussion. Didn’t get rid of the voices, though.
I have tried to argue with them and persuade them that I am not useless as they say. but since I don’t believe it I can’t persuade them.
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I’ve done it a million times but it never helped. It didn’t achieve what I wanted which was silence.
I’ve flipped out on them verbally. Right now my policy is to be calmly hostile to them but keep it in my mind.
I think to call them names and act like their ridiculous accusations are ridiculous helps keep it clear in my mind that what they say isn’t true. I insult them, but I don’t get enraged, basically.
I never suffer from voices but the intrusives come in my teeth. I experienced that in such conditions when I move my tongue abruptly than it got disappear. May it helps with voice.
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I think it (voices) always talk delusional topic, so it is better to avoid it rather than reply.
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I learned that they were easier to deal with if I acknowledged them instead of fighting them.
I see schizophrenia as a monster attached to my back. I can’t get rid of it, so I might as well try to get along with it.
By saying “You’re an idiot, I hate you” and screaming at it to go away, I make it feel alienated and make it more agressive.
By not agreeing to what it’s saying, but acknowledging that it exists and that I’ve heard what it says, I find the voices calm down.
Sometimes I reply with a “no, I think you’re wrong” or “You don’t really mean that, I think you meant this instead”, and sometimes I tell them “maybe you’re right, I SHOULD get off my lazy ass and go do something.”
If it’s internal yes, if external no.
No, but my visual hallucinations have attacked me before.
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