Intrusive Thoughts vs Internal Voices

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What’s the difference? How do you know? Is there a fine line or are they very different from each other?

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to me they are different. It seems like I can actually here voices from their specific places in my head. I feel I can actually hear outside voices from different locations and intrusive thoughts take over my thinking like an obsession. But I think it’s different for everyone.

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if you try to hear the voices that come to you from beginning to end. end of this". so when you hear something that sounds like its a voice coming to you try to egg it on to talk more. Listen again and remember kinda what it said before you egged it on. Both of these voices connect. Look to what they mean in all “egg on” and the such. It sounds inhumane you can see a line where it divide from internal voices and intrusive thoughts or at least see where they are coming from. This should ease the stigma that people are talking about you. If you hear something thats from this world you shouldn’t be able to mold its coming’s from forcing it to talk more. thats just not how it works. So you begin to see whats real and whats not. Hope this helps

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intrusive thoughts that i get can make me become obsessed with whatever they are about. I do not get internal voices unless I am in real bad shape

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I mostly get intrusive thoughts and I’m so afraid of them, feel other people can see and hear these thoughts.

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Do your intrusive thoughts seem like they are not your true thoughts? Like… They come from an evil source? That’s how it is for me, but the “evil source” is vague. I usually feel like the devil puts horrible thoughts into my mind to ruin my life.

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I feel like there are MY thoughts in my head, and then there’s these OTHER thoughts in my head that aren’t mine. But they’re put there specifically to bother and hurt me.

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I have both, and they seem tied to each other, in that a lot of the themes of the intrusive thoughts, which feel like foreign thoughts put in my head, are echoed by the internal voices.

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They seem to be my own , obsessive thoughts. I don’t have the devil/demon delusion thing thankfully because I would be terrified constantly and probably locked away.

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