People you know voices

What do you do when you hear people you know voices? I’ve been hearing my father and mother in-laws’ voices. I hear voices outside my head so they can’t be memory but their voices yell at me.I don’t know what to do, I’ve been hearing less due to haldol increase but still kind of hearing things a bit. By the way does anyone else’s voices have names, the voices I hear identified themselves as Aaron, Devon, Rebecca and baliel.

i used to hear my family’s voices all the time but not so much these days. it was absolutely terrifying for a while as i gave them credence for being real. once i stopped believing they were coming from the real people they went away and i only occaisonally hear the odd sentence now of people i know like family and friends. you have to basically not give them room to manouvre. don’t answer them, inside your head or outside your head. don’t even give them one word answers and they will eventually stop talking or at least slow down a hell of a lot. hope this helps xxx

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Among the several dozen sz pts I have known, I’d guess more than half – especially the younger ones – heard one or both parents’ voices… instructing, explaining, demanding, commanding. And confusing.

I started hearing my father’s voice after months in my first psychosis - until then it was primarily two unknown voices. My father’s voice told me he had the same ‘gift’. I became extremely angry at this voice, for I did not perceive of the whole situation as a gift and was in need of help. I told him to call me straight away or else I would never speak to him again. My father’s voice never returned.

Similar experiences occurred on other topics, when I would take such a firm stance on some issues that the voices wouldn’t touch them anymore.

This used to cause a lot of family problems… I would hear my families voices saying the worst stuff all the time…

It got pretty bad… and caused a lot of fights… but eventually I started hearing the family voices when my family wasn’t around at all… that’s when I started questioning…

After that… I had to just not react to stuff I thought my family was saying… It took some outside help and therapy to start to get over this one.

Hey, Your friends might think you are super weird, if you bring up stuff that they have told you as voices. I lost a friend because of this. So maybe use caution.

My voices don’t have names but there are like 8 of them they tell me what an idiot I am and they try to get me to kill myself

I would suggest playing along with the voices and speak out against them inside your head and defend yourself instead of being a punching bag! You’re on the meds. The rest is a psychological battle!