or both? tell us about your voices…
both are considered hallucinations, as my psychiatrist says.
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Curiosity killed the cat
so tell us their nature, their personality, how much they affect you, ways to get distracted etc.
so what? I am not attached to life. I dont give a damn actually. 
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my favourite voice is internal.
I have a very disturbing inside voice. More like a very ugly thought train which rends me into depression, and irritability and anger. I can only distract myself.
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ok. how do you distract yourself? let’s be helpful to other users.
chatting with people about random subjects
Chatting on this forum about random subjects
Calling a friend
Cleaning
Shopping online
Working and cursing at the same time
I think I finally really have to increase this medication dosage.
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how do you make it stop? do you make it stop or just ignore it?
when you talk, do they get more quiet? or do they speak loudly and distract you from real world?
it does not stop. Every moment I am alone, it starts. It was a whole lot worse last year, now it is only half the ugliness.
and yes when I am with friends or talking with other people or in public, it is almost non existent
I think it is a form of OCD.
mine too. shuts up when I am doing things or talking.
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what is it like? if you don’t mind sharing?
it usually starts when I am in silence. it has its own unique tone and i recognise it. it has its own personality. it starts talking to me either with mean comments & commands & bad words or with friendly chat & conversation.
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Results of a research on this topic:
Patients with internal hallucinations did not differ from those with external hallucinations on severity of other symptoms. However, they reported their hallucinations to be more emotionally negative, distressing and long-lasting, less controllable and less likely to remit over time. They also were more likely to experience voices commenting, conversing or commanding. However, they also were more likely to have insight into the self-generated nature of their voices. Patients with internal hallucinations were not older, but had a later age of illness onset
Mine were always predominantly external, but I still get some internal too
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do you like zen?
Before medication I had little things that were external, like unintelligible distant speech for a couple seconds or hearing my name (that was more common) but I never had a lot of external. Plenty of internal stuff though, sometimes its hearing people I know say totally benign things (I’ll often forget briefly that its not real and respond to it) or a more nasty and less intelligible voice saying shorter, more irritating things. I also hear music and occasionally a phone ringing from within my head, the music gets quite annoying
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mostly internal… me too