My opinion: The voices could be a superficial part of us. Losing them might mean losing a genuine part of ourselves. Maybe the voices are just scars of the mind? Or for some reason, we notice them due to crossed wiring but with others, they just don’t.
Thoughts and opinions?
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Do you feel like your auditory hallucinations are beneficial to you in some way? Most schizophrenics say they are abusive, unpleasant or at least distracting. This has been my experience.
I have some positive, encouraging ones.
Talk therapy has lessened the severity of the bad ones as well, and we’ve grown more accepting of one another
I had a running commentary that was criticizing everything I did and judging me. I also had a command hallucination that told me to take all my meds and for some reason I did. In my case it was wise to get rid of the voices.
I used to have the delusion that the voices were meaningful windows to my soul but I’ve learned they’re just hallucinations and they have no value.
Well, I guess if they interfere with your life.
I dunno. For me, the onset of this was too destructive and emotionally painful to ever think of it as a positive thing in any way. Schizophrenia seems to ruin people’s lives.
If you manage to build a positive relationship with the voices, that’s a good thing. That’s a coping mechanism. But I have wonder if it’s not like the time I sprained my knee and had kidney stones at roughly the same time. I tried to convince myself that I actually enjoy pain.
It didn’t work. 
My quality of life and function improved as voices decreased. I’m living an amazing life now that my positive symptoms have been erased. This is what every SZ should strive for if they aspire to quality living.
They have motivated me to change some ways of mine and I am good with that. Kind of like messengers like Elanor Longden says, but if they continue now when I come off meds I will medicate myself again.
Because my voices are simply too overbearing. I might allow them to stay for one day where they are kinda cool usuallyin the beginning but then I would medicate myself. Because I could not sleep on them,
and they were everywhere the voices all public speaking hallucinations and their actions wer accordingly moving to those hallucination voices. It is simply tooooo much if I can attempt to get rid of them with aps I would have to.
so again going back to this quote, too much of it is just too bad…a severe disease…so need to chop that off if possible
If you can get rid of them, do so. First of all, do you like being known as mentally ill? Secondly, how do the voices make you feel? Are you in control or are they? Then, do they impact your faith in any way?
I’m not sure I can get rid of them but I’ve been told by my psychiatrist and psychologist that it’s best to keep them in the background and ignore them. When I look for them I find them, when I try to get rid of them they become louder and I find it hard to concentrate or hear myself or my “inner speech” because of the effort to suppress them.
The voices are complicated and I try to detect tone in them. I also try to detect tone in real voices or audio if my physical hearing has something to do with the voices. Such as when sensory deprivation causes the mind to make up stimuli. I’ve seen results with this. I think this is the right way. My feelings change based on the content, tone, volume, and my understanding.
Initially, I prayed fervently for them to stop. Then I tried to understand why that content or what voices were medically. I’ve tried to remove my anxiety of real voices by listening to the tone of others. This has also reduced the volume of the voices.
I wouldn’t take meds if I didn’t have to. I was kinda forced into it. They may really be a part of you though, the voices. I needed something for mood morso. I guess the meds can help some with disorganized thinking though a little.
I’d definitely prefer the voices be entirely gone.
I tried to get rid of them too. I followed ‘rules’, developed certain patterns of thinking to suppress them but it all fell apart. I find trying to prove a point to them very exhausting but if I can succeed, it can buy me several minutes of peace. Sedation works too. Long term, I just trust Jesus for my soul.
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I would prefer mine gone. I like to think ive got the coping skills now to ignore them when they are commenting condescending shite to me - But No i dont believe they are part of “me” - its part of my disease, so like any infection in my body i would have them “cut out” soon as possible.
My best stratagy has been always to ignore them, and not give them any “thought time”. Its almost as if they are children, and will soon get bored and bugger off if you dont give them any attention.
When i would have known what happened to me when i was 19 and alone with my troubles. I wish i would have been more educated what was going on with me, but the education was in the hand of psychiatrist 30 years ago which gave them a big deal of control. Thanks to mental awareness teenagers have a fair idea. Basically voices are your way of thinking, which can be altered just by giving yourself a chance of second thought.
I hate voices. I’ve been almost completely free of them for about 3 months now. I’m so glad they’re not bothering me anymore.
What med and dose stop your voice? Any side effect?
I’m on Invega Sustenna 156mg. My side effects are: sexual disfunction, heat intolerance, weight gain, and spacing out. But I’m still loving it because my symptoms are so under control.
My voices tells me to play with the devil to be alive and well
And I have other voices that gives me the spooks
I know it’s not in my mind
I think that over familiarity with negatives makes us more reluctant to get out of it. A weird self sabotaging thought pattern. Kind of masochistic. Don’t fall into that trap and embrace new improvements and change.