Ignoring voices

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Managing the voices

It’s so weird, I could have SWORN there was a new topic with that title that just popped up. But it’s not there now. Mental glitch. So I guess I’ll give it a try… First off… being med compliant helps manage the voices… But on tired days… the defense shields are weak. The logical voice like the good doctor I will accidently agree with out loud in the middle of a conversation. But the observer, the hypnotist, the little girl, and the panic man I try to ignore. I find I do answer some of them. I hate it when I’m trying to listen to my family member and the panic man is just running around like that “Lost in Space” robot, waving his arms and frantically shouting out, “danger, there’s danger… …

Inside Voices Vs. Outside Voices

Does anybody else have distinctions between the voices they hear inside their heads and the ones that come from outside their head, kind of like internal noise vs external noise? I find this is really helpful when discussing with my psychiatrist and therapist because they know that in my case inside voices are more harmful to me than outside ones. For example, inside voices for me are two specific people who tell me what to do or comment on what I’m doing. Outside voices consist mainly of screaming, whispers, and abnormal sounds that are mainly just temporarily scary but mostly just annoying. Does anybody else do this?

Schizophrenia Research Institute - New therapy may assist voice-hearers (CBRT)

Cognitive Behavioural Relating Therapy (CBRT) is a novel treatment developed by Perth-based psychologist Dr Georgie Paulik that aims to improve how people relate to the voices they hear, as well as other people socially, and decrease the amount of distress caused by persistent voice-hearing.

So... The voices never stop?

I’m pretty upset. It’s getting old. My voices are very patterned, affecting me most when I’m alone. Which I pretty much am. These voices want me to kill myself/them. Having trouble gauging just how sentient they are or what they experience. I know for one thing they experience my thoughts. I should probably stop treating them like separate beings in my head, but that is what it feels like. There is just this one main nagging persistent voice that If I could just be rid of I would feel a lot better. It just really sucks you know, that the brain can’t detect something is wrong and heal up. I mean I just don’t get it and neither does modern science. I’m done with delusions, done thinking people…

Is there a Cure for Hearing Voices?

my voices have been present 24/7 for about a month now, whereas before they would come and go, sometime being only a few sentences a day for up to four months, then omnipresent for 6 months. right now we’re on a busy period i guess. i’m like andy in that medication doesn’t help at all but i’m trying them all nonetheless. i may give ect a go or rtms when it becomes available in my area. i’ll ask my shrink about it on my next appointment i think.