My ‘voices’ are inserted thoughts. I can identify who the ‘speaker’ is even though I can’t ‘hear’ anything. Do you actually ‘hear’ auditory voices? or do you get your voices via inserted thoughts? I like my voices and miss them. I don’t get them that much anymore since I got the Invega shot. My ‘voices’ are comforting, reassuring and validating so it’s no fun when they go away 
Just curious how many of you actually hear the voices.
It sounds like you’re describing external and internal auditory hallucinations or voices (unless I’m wrong). I usually get some combination of both. Sometimes it sounds like something I heard and sometimes it’s like the voices are sorta coming from inside my mind (I’m not talking about an inner monologue).
I’ve had both. A thought that seemed to pop into my head that is not my own and voices that I actually hear. Right now I’m having just a little difficulty with hearing music, in my ear. I want to get my hearing checked. But I’m having a meds adjustment.
I hear the voices loud and clear. Mine are not particularly good or bad, just annoying at times
I also get the inserted thoughts though, just things out of context or inappropriate sometimes
I must be having internal auditory hallucinations then because my inserted thoughts are people talking to me not just ideas or random thoughts that pop into my head. It’s people talking to me.
That’s interesting. My inserted thoughts and voices are always nice, validating and bring hope. That’s why I miss them.
Yeah, I get voices that sound like people talking to me too, although very infrequently now. The content of what they say is not always so pleasant.
Wow, lucky you. Mine just seem to make it their life’s mission to distract me. I’m getting used to it, and manage it better though
Yeah. The problem with a delusion of grandeur and inserted thoughts of voices that are encouraging and hopeful is that I am not very motivated to make them go away but living out my delusion has wound me up in the hospital, so I have to take my meds. I miss my delusion and my ‘voices’ all the time.
I see what you mean. Do you think the voices mean well though? Or trickery?
I think they mean well. I think they are benevolent. I believe I am in a brain study and that scientists talk to me in my head. They also have the ability to put visions and ideas in my head. I know it sounds impossible but that’s what I believe. I’m not on meds for nothin’! lol. I am bat sh*t crazy!
LOL, aren’t we all. When I first became psychotic, I believed that the government had hacked my mind by satellite, and had two agents spying on me from the inside full time
At the same time, everyone including people on TV, and my own family and friends were all in it together to drive me insane.
I was pretty f***** up for about a year-and-a-half
I’m still f’d up! lol. I’m not sure who is in on it and who isn’t but I also believe they use satellites to watch and monitor me 24/7. I believe legit scientists from Seattle, WA USA are talking to my brain using sophisticated equipment. I think I have cameras in my eyes and microphones in my ears so they can capture my whole life. It involves the universe and me being a savant etc. It’s pretty involved. I have had SO MANY validating things happen to me. It only serves to confuse me further. I am convinced I am in a brain study.
I know, it’s a very bizarre and mind-bending experience. I don’t need to describe it to you, you’re living it
I had very similar delusions to yours, that the government was working together with the RCMP and local police to monitor and harass 24/7.
Have you ever heard of the term synchronicity?
No, I have never heard that term. What does it mean?
It’s kind of like coincidences, that seem too strange to be a coincidence.
It’s kind of like when I haven’t talked to my one buddy for a month, I’ll think of him and the very same day he calls.
I’ve had that happen to me a TON, especially during my first episode 6 years ago. I had so much ‘evidence’ occur that I am still convinced to this day that the entire episode was stage-set and a revelation that I am in a brain study. So many bizarre and REAL things happened!
One example of many is that I was driving around this homeless woman who knew my whole life (weird!) and she had me take her to this hospital which turned out to be deserted. Not ONE patient or staff was to be seen in there! and we pulled right up to the emergency room doors and parked. There was nobody outside to give us a ticket or say anything. We went in, used the restroom, then came back out and left. Not a soul anywhere! That’s just one of numerous bizarre things that happened during my first episode.
I get that completely. I’m 7 years out from my psychotic break, so I have a little more insight now. But like yourself, there are still parts of it that remain real to me. I just accept it now