I’ll try to get my point across clearly, here goes:
Basically considering what works and feels best with relating to my voices I find it is basically good to trust them in order to hear them correctly. For me they are a constant in my life, they vary in intensity and presence but ultimately when in certain moments they always appear.
By believing them at face value I hear their tone more clearly and it is easier to discern what they are implying and why they are hinting at certain things. It’s easier to be assertive when I can hear the enemy more clearly.
If I reject them outright or try to suppress them I do not get a clear understanding of what they imply and this causes me to take the opposite which is not good. If the direction they propose by chance happens to be the right direction and I take the opposite “just bcos” then I’m hurting myself.
Put another way it is like my inner voice is fused with other voices. If i try to suppress the other voices it suppresses my voice as well and that leaves me vulnerable. But when I allow them to influence me I can spot more quickly when they are leading me astray. I can also spot more clearly when they are helping or when they are just mimicking the right way.
Basically I believe that if I relate to my voices well it becomes just as easy to live with them as it is to live with my own inner voice. The voices have also become a counter-weight on my conscience and just blindly rejecting them on short notice leaves me shaky.
Basically, if you hear voices, yes you, it would be good to understand why they say the things they do. Seeing the enemy or friend more clearly makes it easier to remain in control and not be controlled.
Also, if you happen to be spiritual or believe in a higher power, this would be a great opportunity to ask it/him/her for help in understanding or interpreting the voices/images, pain or confusion!
You can’t argue with the voices to heal schizophrenia, you need meds. Voices are caused by a chemical imbalance its been proven many times to be dopamine because any drug that increases dopamine, cocaine or even weed for example, causes psychosis and eventually full schizophrenia.
It also occurs in animals like mice, not only humans. So the dopamine theory is 100% valid and proved. No need to stress yourself finding another theory, scientists are right.
If I am to believe in my voices it would mean to believe that I’m going to be tortured after death forever. It would also be quite difficult to believe, since they haven’t told me the reason why I’m going to be tortured.
No voice is truly benign if you have to negotiate with it. You also shouldn’t be doing anything the voice tells you regardless of whether you think it’s trying to help you or not.
I have always had mean voices and nice voices. My medication treats the mean voice but not the nice voice. The nice voice is manageable because it doesn’t demand to be listened to, it doesn’t give me commands and it doesn’t go against me. If I tell it to stop talking, it stops talking. It might peep up once every few hours with a small phrase like “I love you” or “you’re a good person,” and I just ignore it and it passes.
Voices, good or bad, are unnatural and can cause harm so you have to be really careful when you’re dealing with them. Try to find meds that can stop them, or at least stop the commands and the insults. Then if you end up with just positive, non-commanding voices, don’t make a habit of talking back and don’t let them run your life.
I never listened to my voices until I visited 4chan.
It took me 5 years to understand myself and my mental illness and why people don’t take meds or why people are bad people.
So I became based. I still don’t know what the normal real life is. But I had it before but i feel like I’m still missing something part of my life. I just don’t know what it is
My physcotics tell me what I’m missing in my life. But I still don’t know what it is
My wish for the forum is that some very knowledgeable, down to earth, flexible and compassionate mental health workers volunteer on the forum. Doctors, psychologists, nurses, etc. It would be great experience for them and would really help us on the forum.
Cause I think there is so much potential for insight and real healing. Forum members say things that give me insight all the time, so there is an imbalance in the practical knowledge we have on the forum.
