The voices I hear are overwhelmingly neutral to me though I do have two that are long time friends. In my experience there is a parallel world filled with people that are mostly transient. most of the dialogue has to do with helping voices who are under attack. I suppose it’s more akin to an action movie than anything else
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Have you ever tried to get them to be nicer? I’ve heard it takes time but can be done. I know we’ve talked about this before.
My “voices” are not voices but more like delusions that have a voice. Like delusions that talk. Anyway, my delusions have not told me to kill myself for many, many years. And it only told me to do so once. And I almost did. I have two talking delusions. An evil one and a good one. I listen to the good one and I ignore the evil one.
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Right now I mostly have one voice thing going on. It’s what I call “the guest voice”. It comes from right next to my own voice and it’s different people that I know mainly asking me how I am, of what’s going on. It might be a doctor or a neighbor or anyone really and it happens a lot when I go lay down or try to relax. It won’t stop until I have that conversation. I try to just ignore it but it won’t stop or go away until I answer. It’s really weird.
Without meds there are a bunch of them and they all have their own places and specialties. I used to have a mean man calling me names and commenting on everything I was doing all the time, everyday. I didn’t even know that wasn’t normal. When I found out that was an auditory hallucination I was devastated to find out that basically I was calling myself all those terrible names all my life.
I have on several occasions heard a voice commanding me to kill myself and I listened, thankfully I was not successful. That was not one of my usual voices. It was like an outside voice at the top of my head. That was before aps.
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I was civil to them (mostly)for most of the first 15 years at least. I was ultra religious and didn’t believe in being hostile to anyone. They didn’t get nicer.
When they talk about getting a girlfriend over and over again, I agree that could be a good thing , but I think that’s their schtick because they know it won’t happen soon.
Their schtick is basically “If you don’t have a girlfriend your worthless, a homosexual, and a criminal pervert.” Only in less nice language.
To be clear, I have no issues with gays, it’s just not something I, as a straight man, like to hear in reference to myself.
The meds, however, have actually helped some over the last few months.
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i guess 90% of mine was persucuting. Hallucinations have certainly told me to do things before. ( I never do)
I never cared what they said, my interest was in shuting them down and why “they” were happening in the first place.
i was as just about as welcoming to “them” as they were to me. lol
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