My friend said it’s just my inner monologue talking and it’s not voices.
For me my inner monologue is very clearly me.and my voice and opinion.The voices sound different and I have little control over the stupid stuff they say.
The question would be do you have control over your inner monologue?
Or has it seperated from self
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Yeah. My voices sound different than my inner monologue. And the voices threaten me where my inner monologue doesn’t
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Then I’d say your friend is wrong .
I think you probably knew that.
Alot of people can’t imagine what we go through on a daily basis,
It’s too alien and different. I’d say your friend should be a bit more understanding and not so dismissive, but I don’t know them and it’s not my place.
Only you know what you’re thinking and feeling, don’t let other people tell you it’s an overreaction or that you’re being dramatic.
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Me personally, I can’t tell which is which. This is super frustrating for me.
If it is a long conversation(which I think is about me) I might hit the record button on my phone for a few minutes just to see if it is real or not.
So, I do the best to completely ignore it as much as I can. That is why if I am out in public, if anybody calls my name, I ignore it because I can’t tell if it is fake or real. I don’t even bother turning back anymore.
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They’re the same things: information.
Define the subject in each one, and then define the predicate. Practice this routinely, and check whether the subject and predicate are real phenomena or not. Don’t just assume they are. Then check to see that the fit each other in objective reality or logically.
Predicate is information that describes a subject.
“The speedy is fast.” Speedy is a predicatory word not a subject phenomenon, so this is not a logical sentence.
“The fence is distant.” The subject is “fence,” and the predicate part of the information is “distant.” Are they both real phenomena? Yes. Does the predicate fit the subject? It depends on which fence was represented with this information, and we don’t know, so it can’t be determined. That’s not enough information to say whether the information is logical or logical fallacy.
Do this with every voice, thought, etc. See what happens? 
Voices, even internal, have audible quality, it’s like hearing and they have distinct style and pitch and can’t be controlled
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They have different personalities. One is you; one is definitely not you.
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You may also hear location too
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True. Mine sound like my inner thoughts but they say things that I wouldn’t say/think myself. They are their own thing. Their own personality and input into my head.
Yeah, mine sometimes seem like they’re in the back of my head. Like, physically at the back.
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These days I hear them far to the upper left, like in the corner of the room. But i used to hear them as people walking around me, I could tell where in the room or apt they were. It was as good as seeing them
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Someone suggested that I’m only hearing an inner monologue and not hearing voices. I dont talk to them anymore. I found it to be insulting.
I hear voices in my head that arent my thoughts, and I hear voices that come from outside of my head as if it is someone else taking to me.
Well right now I dont hear much of anything because I found the right medication for positive symptoms.
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Everything we hear is from in our brains. We know where our brains are. Everything we see is from there too. All sensations, thoughts, memories, outer and inner sense of our bodies, and feelings…from in our brains.
Our minds are like virtual reality worlds in brains…like mental snow globes.
Most people think that the 5 external senses and the inner body sense of proprioception are actually the real world, but that’s not possible. Also there is no color nor sound at least not the way we see and hear it. These are from our brains to represent what’s outside of our brains in a different way.
The brain can make a voice of someone when we hear someone, and it can make a voice of someone even when we don’t hear someone. It can do this kind of thing with the sense of location or proximity, so it seems that it’s coming from where it’s not coming from…which is in the head. In fact when we really do hear someone real, and we get a sense of where that person is speaking from, that sense of proximity of the person speaking to us is also from in the head.
Do you hear an inner monologue all the time ? I hear it voluntarily when reading or typing, but not otherwise.
I’m pretty sure I don’t hear voices, but I’ve gotten the feeling that I’ve been close before. Basically, I believe voices whether internal or external have a sound or auditory component. They can be pleasant or annoying and differ in severity.
My inner voice or inner monologue is just my thoughts or brain communicating or analyzing things. I perceive them and communicate back by thinking a thought. It comes pretty natural.
Sometimes my thoughts are disabling or unproductive.
I have problems with memories or my third eye. I can’t recall much in long term memory anymore, but I can see into my past lives like film or pictures or more. Sometimes, I call them visions but I’m not sure how to classify them but they are not hallucinations. I rebuff that notion.
I can’t recall my dreams mostly so maybe during the day I’m recalling my dreams or accessing memories from parallel worlds.
I’m not completely familiar with the concept of an inner monologue. Other than occasionally having my actions narrated by a voice.
It’s very easily distinguishable for me. I know when it is me talking and when it is not just as clearly as I know when I am speaking out loud and when someone else is talking to me.
Your friend’s comment is ignorant. Internal voices are thought to literally be a result of us being unable to recognize our own internal voice as it’s part of the disorder. In other words no duh it is our own thoughts, but the disorder is that we don’t recognize them and so they feel “other”.
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Internal dialogue for me is under my control and is my own voice
Voices are out of my control and different sounding to my voice
Alien is my main voice he’s a male and he’s not me.
Fortunately the meds help to quiet him.
Mine are always up on the right.
I resent my psychiatric nurse trying to tell me that my inner monologue is being told by voices. She is always looking for suicidal ideation. I rarely hear voices outside my head.