For example when I am at a grocery store and I hear people speaking, I hear few words of their sentences and then in my mind I add some of my own words, which causes the considerable amount of paranoia, which is why I try not to listen when people are speaking. Have you had this?
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I’m not sure what are voices and what are other people talking. I try not to listen either way.
That’s happened to me before mostly with my close family members. It really sucks doesn’t it, to have to constantly monitor what is being said around you. Maybe you could try music or white noise on earphones, when I was prodromal I used to listen to podcasts and they were pretty entertaining.
I get my own unconscious thinking, which is witty and entertaining, when listening to other people. If I listen to it, which I ought not to do, I apply meaning of my own to it. They are ideas of reference due to being alone all the time-thinking there isn’t anyone else. It’s like talking to yourself, only other people are doing it for you. Listening to it and attributing meaning to it cuts them out entirely.
i dont have the exact problem but when people talk i take their words how they werent supposed to be interpreted. for example: " i like your hair!" i would think they really were meaning something like “im going to copy your hair”. or i will hear someone talk but not even know what they said by the time they were done so they have to repeat themselves. comprehension problems
I can’t have conversations with more than one person - it all gets jumbled. With one I still have trouble and they have to repeat. But with your example about the hair - if someone said I like your hair - m mind automatically thinks they are making fun of me meaning the opposite of what they say.
This happens to me 24/7. It makes me feel like my thoughts are being heard out loud. (Through people talking)
@mjgh06 yeah i would think that too (i was just thinking off the fly in my original reply) but i feel u. it sucks. interpreting other peoples words as something different