Inside Voices Vs. Outside Voices

[SurprisedJ]

The question of hearing voices

This is what I wrote back in 2003 in a newsgroup post entitled ‘Is this hearing voices’ Hearing phrases inside your head as if said by someone else.They are not constant more like a very occasional interjection such as ‘fatty that’s what you are’ or ‘‘you’ll always be stupid’’. I have not had this kind of thing very often but i find it very disconcerting. Someone suggested it couldn’t be voices as it was internal. I had a period in the years before regular medication when phrases unconnected to my main line of though buzzed through my head . Again this was an internal thing. It was hard to tell if it was loud thoughts intruding or something else, I guess if it had been external it …

For more replies, here the thread that happened yesterday…

My inside voices are pretty mellow these days… in the past, it was very upsetting. The thing for me is the outside voices are usually the inside ones that just get so loud my brain thinks it must be from someone or something outside my head.