I told my doc I heard a voice in psychosis but I am not sure. When in psychosis it was like my sub conscious was bringing up everything I ever did wrong. It then brought up stuff I never even did.
It’s hard to tell,
hold that voice a little closer to your computer screen so I can hear it a little better this time.
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I can’t tell differance between real voices and hallucinations. Often I can use logic to know they are hallucinations.
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I have had exactly that, including the accusations of things I’ve never done. I don’t consider it a voice, since I clearly recognize it as myself and don’t experience it as separate from me, but I am no expert.
Lolll you’re so charming 
All I can hear is my own voice telling me what I’m thinking. It thinks for me.
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i have multple pesonality disorder but i do hear voices and have been psyhotic in the past .
my voices are not me…or rather they sound like different people…i know they are just personalities from within me.
i do have my own voice in my head that is just normal me thinking and conversing sometimes with the other voices…there is also another me that only communicates through text that i see inside my mind, again, she is just a personality and not the core me…
it easily explains the other personalities hostility when i have one that is me and is also hostile. she never speaks, just shows me monsylibic answersto the other personalities. she doesn’t like me at all…she thinks i#m weak for allowing her to have been born inside my mind and is probably a little jealous that i am the host personality when she would like to be…
.if we were to be integrated then we would share this body but i don’t know who could do that…my shrink certainly can’t and has warned against delving into the reasons she was born as i may not be able to handle the emotions that come with that knowledge…personally i think that nothing could be as bad as the abuse that created her and the rest of them and i think she;s not giving me much credit…
.it disappoints me that i haven’t got a shrink that is capable of integrating me and my selves…shame but there you go…i would’ve enjoyed the internal fight to reclaim myselves as my own identity, whatever they may be like…
.my voices play pretend therapist but obviously nothing has changed …i’m still paralysed psychologically…i’m still numb as ■■■■…honestly? i don’t want the emotion back sometimes but by the same token it belongs to me and sometimes it would be nice to be able to feel emotion like a neurotypical…other times i don’t want the emotions at all…soon enough the so called “therapy” will be over and the voices will go back to their usual hostile selves…they are hostile anyway but aparently to help me integrate…it;s funny because i used to want to be a therapist and here is my brain giving me therapy…
be careful what you wish for…
.i’m not scared of myselves…they just need stripping back to the girl i was when they were born…
same with the other personalities it;s like strpping roll after roll of wallpaper that;s been layered for year after year to get to the brickwork underneath…only then can you replace certain bricks and repoint others…if that makes any sense…anyway, i’m rambling…
…i had the accusations of things i had never done, a life i’ve never lived, the mental torture, the belittling, degrading…the “derisory laughter” oh yes…i know it all…and still they go down the same old road of trying to convince me they are telepathic when i know for a fact that they are not emenating from outside the confines of my mind at all…
while you sleep your brain provides you with a dream and in those dreams are characters…composites if you will of archetypes hence the reason a lot of our dreams contain strangers…there are merely collages of people all mashed up to form one identity…every abusive thing you can imagine, these dream personalities can say…and that is whats happening when i’m awake…
my brain is dreaming and creates these archetypes based on the knowledge i have of people i have met in my life…why are they almost always negative in mental illness? that i don’t know but i’m pretty sure there is a sound scentific reason for it given what we don’t know yet about nightmares versus dreams and why one or the other…
.we know that cetain drugs can cause nightmares, certain mental conditions make us more prone to nightmares…but nobody has nightmares every night of their lives so there has to be a sound reason that voices are mostly negative…even if one day they gave you a drug that made the voices friendly that would be a huge confidence booster to many people. i believe that one day nobody will hear voices as meds get smarter at targeting specific area of the brain and/or genes.
i think that what we also need is some sort of drug that wakes the sleeping parts of the brain that create these characters…then they would no longer exist. i believe correlating studies should be done on the value and content of dreams and sleep and psychiatric drugs becase i believe there is a link. i believe that if they can sort out the sleep problem and and r.e.m problem then schizophrenia as a disease would no longer exist.
thank you if you managed to read all of this post…it;s trifle longwinded but there you go, this i my view.
Speaking of dreams… Something interesting about me is that I usually don’t dream or at least remember them. When I was in my psychosis I actually dreamed.
I hear voices in my head like they’re my sub-conscious or something similar rather than hear them as auditory hallucinations. People have tried to say everyone has that voice in their head, well I have about 4 or 5 voices in my head. I can usually tell if it’s a voice I can control because when I hear something I start thinking something different, or sing a tune in my head anything to keep that voice busy and if I’m still hearing the thoughts I consider it a voice.
To me any voice in your head that you cannot control (i.e. make say something different or can make quiet…) is a voice. It’s just a different kind of voice.
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Pretty sure that you would know if you have voices in your head.
My voices are acting up right now, for example. I hear them and no one else does.
No one else does.
The key is that no one else hears the same things.
Maybe it’s a delusion? I hear you though, loud and clear. I used to feel the same thing. All of a sudden shameful things I had done in the past like maybe having my skirt fly up in the wind would come to my mind years later and I would remember it with the same shame as though I had sex with someone and my mom walked in. Totally disproportionate.
The same thing about stuff I didn’t do. I nearly killed myself because I was afraid that I had pushed another little kid down the stairs in preschool and that’s why he is messed up today. It wasn’t until I went to therapy that I came to realize I didn’t push him. I was just standing near him a little before he fell but my brain wanted to hurt me and said I did it.
Meds have helped a lot. So has talk therapy. Sometimes when you just say the stuff you blame yourself for out loud you realize how preposterous it sometimes is.
I was in the shower once, sorry for that i am just trying to be descriptive, and i was trying to convince myself i was insane.
So im going “they are right man, your brain is messed up. all of this was just your brain messing up, the dopamine and what not, you are simply malfunctioning.”
Instantly someone starts going real slow and loudly “Hey! We are talking to you right now! This isn’t you talking, it’s us. We. are. talking. to. you.” And it was being forced out of my mouth to. As if i were a speaker that someone was hooked up to.
You’ll know if it’s a voice is what im trying to say.