I am hearing voices inside my head. They are not coming from anywhere, including my head but more like thoughts or inner voice that I cannot control. I do not hear them, I cannot hold a conversation with them but they mostly talk about what I am doing or thinking on. Would this be considered hallucination?
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Probably. You said in the first sentence that you are hearing voices inside your head. So I guess you are.
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Yes, all my pdocs considered internal voices as hallucinations
Hm j didnt know it was a hallucination. good to know
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If they have qualities to them that make them appear as “real” and external sensations, that makes them different from your verbal thoughts beyond just not being able to control them, then they could be considered hallucinatory.
Everyone has verbal, internal thoughts that they can’t control. If they are like normal, uncontrollable thoughts but particularly upsetting and recurrent, that’s called intrusive thoughts.
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For me I get these thoughts of random words or phrases that “sounds” like someone else’s voice and appear out of no where. Inside my head but sometimes I can vaguely hear them. Hallucination?
Maybe. Do they have a different kind of volume to them? Are they hard to distinguish from external sounds, or do they just sound real in a different way from your thoughts?
I don’t think there are any hard rules for distinguishing internal thoughts from internal voices.
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Yeah they’re louder and sound almost like a real voice rather than my own thoughts
That sounds to me like an hallucination. But I’m not 100% sure.
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Thanks for your input 
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They have distinct tone of voices and attitudes, some are more negative while some assuring. I never kept track of them but there are few voices I know from past while I always get unknown voices that I don’t try to discern. They are not external tho, I would say they are more a thought rather than a sensation. I don’t hear them, rather think.
That does not really sound like it fits the description of an hallucination. But maybe it is somewhere in-between.
In wikipedia it says recurring music, getting stuck in ones mind is considered a mild form of hallucination. My voices do sound just like a music getting stuck in your ear. If you are correct, these talking voices are not hallucinations what they are?
Well they sound like intrusive thoughts.
An hallucination is perceiving a stimulus from your surroundings or your body that isn’t there, while thoughts are just automatic sensations that we imagine.
Where does it say this on Wikipedia? I’d like to read it, it sounds interesting.
Is it audible ? I’ve had Voices inside my head speaking my thoughts out loud. And I’ve also had voices outside my head…just like hearing someone talk
It’s just like hearing someone talk. If it’s not audible I’d say maybe it’s thoughts.
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It’s possible to have scz without hallucinations, I guess.
Yes. And it’s very similar to my voices.
Theres also internal voices as I’m learning
Do you guys can differentiate them as unreal? I don’t mistake them for real if I am not psychotic.
Yeah same here. If km not actively psychotic I know they’re not real.