I go for a little while without hearing or seeing “stuff” and then when I do I feel like I am being slammed especially if I was triggered and I am still trying to find ways to cope. Medication only does so much for me. My voices are not nice at all. They are derogatory and mean and extremely bossy and tell me to die. But I refuse to harm myself or attempt suicide. I don’t want to leave this life. However I am worried what may happen during a psychotic episode. I would never want to hurt anybody but came close last year. I worry about the consequences too.
I wish I had some words of advice for you. I never heard voices enough to really have anything of value to say about them. Medication has quashed the few I’d experienced.
I will say that you sound like you’ve got a good grip on yourself. Rejecting dangerous thoughts and urges is commendable. All I can really say is keep up the good work and stay positive.
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hear voices 24/7…all my waking hrs. I need some respite.
The voices have been fading a lot. I used to hear all of them all day… everyday… all the time. I think I got used to that constant chatter in my head. CBT helped me ignore them and not let the hostile or sickening ones bore into my head. “breathe deep, let go… don’t validate… don’t accept what they say”
But they have been disappearing recently. I think the last med tinker that increased the Latuda dose is what has caused it. My pdoc had a hunch it would. When I’m getting stressed they start to wake up and when I’m tired or upset they wake up.
The voices really like to come out swinging if I’m angry.
Visual? I do see things a lot when I’m tired. people standing beside me… then gone. rippling walls and floors…
I cope by either trying to divert my mind… leave the area… take a walk…
Voices??? I need to calm down or burn off the adrenaline. Or work on ignoring them… (doesn’t always work but it’s a start) If it gets too much… I used the mindful exercises I learned in CBT.
Hope this helps. Good luck, I’m rooting for you
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I hallucinate on the daily. I am on multiple medications. Some days and some hallucinations are more severe. The delusions are worse than the hallucinations. Before medications, my voices were incessant and severe as a steaming heap of fresh ■■■■ on a kitchen table. Now I hallucinate more in the mornings before my morning meds and then again later at night before I go to sleep, it’s predictable, however there is a catch; I hear and see real people say things that they couldnt have said all day, unlike the familiar voices in my head which come around like clockwork. It gets to where I cannot tell what is real or not.
I like the word “equipoise.”
Can I get an Amen on that one.
Hallucinations will make me do a double take… or make me wonder for a moment… or just getting annoying and I can sort of shake it off. There are a few that are persistent, but I think I’m getting better at not letting it throw me.
Delusions… trigger so much chaos in my head… sneaky brained thinking… it starts small and then grows and then I’m the one trying to align the chakras of a tree.
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I suffer generally about once a week.mi feel I’m being watched and abused by these voices makes me feel terrible for a couple hours then it goes and I feel relief but I’m always on guard when going to get them
Pretty much constantly except if my concentration is totally on something even then sometimes they are there.
I’m the boss, not them, is how I deal with it.
The world that I am in, meaning the nice world that I see, is my world.
So they can take theirs, and buzz off.
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My voices sound as real as a person’s actual voice does. The words are perfectly clear. I have spoken to these voices in my mind and out loud. These voices can vary in volume. I can hear them inside and outside my head. I cannot have any private thoughts. These voices disrupt a lot of things. It is not always easy to drown them out or ignore. I used to be able to enjoy things like hobbies before the voices began attacking me.
My voices are of neighbors of mine and other non specific. They ruin all my private thoughts like they know what I am thinking. As I get older and not in a stressful situation like college or work, they have way less rule over me. When I see my psychiatrist I have to check of boxes that ask am I feeling like harming myself or suicidal, or harming others or homicidal. These are issues a psychiatrist should know about.
The voices talk to me pretty regularly throughout the day. If I’m in an episode it can be constant chatter but if I’m not in an episode it can be quiet and then suddenly they’ll comment on something that happens or what I think or whatever. Hey sort of react to the day with me. Most of the voices aren’t bad, in fact some of them are very good and helpful. The ones that are bad I just tell myself that they’re meaningless noise, their words don’t mean anything.
I don’t get visual hallucinations. I do get visual distortions (paranoia making things look like things they aren’t) and I deal with that by constantly reminding myself that I am experiencing a distortion and then focusing on figuring out what the object actually is that I’m looking at. (Ex. It’s a robe and not a man hanging in my closet)
Whenever I’m alone and sometimes when I’m around people. Sometimes it’s preferable to be alone though as I’ve got this false telepathy thing going. Really I’m constantly annoyed. When I do feel like fighting back, “■■■■ off” is typically my mental utterance.
Every day I care less and grow less afraid. I gets easier to stop thinking, most of my thoughts are rubbish anyways. Like having deep conversations, shows my mind is worth something. The voices are pretty quiet right now. It might have something to do with caffeine. All I’ve had today is a bottle of tea. Way less than usual. Things are good I’m getting over the trauma. My thoughts don’t race and I’m not paranoid. That can always change though. Really you gotta do what you can to manage your health. Proper diet and lifestyle will go along way in making you feel good. That’s all it takes to have the strength to face this.
My trigger is stress I usually always have voices in my head but when im really stressed I have auditory hallucinations.
Im currently having financial troubles and earlier my neighbors were outside on there porches and I imagined they were talking about me.
It wasn’t in my head it was outsidemy head but not real so I gguess a hallucination.
Stress really screws me up bad.
it’s weird. the more stressed i am the less the voices talk. i hear them every day, be it all day every day or intermittently throughout the day. they are mostly busier first thing in the morning or last thing at night…some days are infrequent but they are always there, especially if i engage them.