Poll: Do you talk to your yourself or voices? (stolen from Inter-voice website)

DX'd - Other
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Choices:

  • If I talk with the voices I find that they confuse me
  • Talking with voices helps me feel less disempowered
  • I struggle to talk with my voices, but I have a supporter who helps me
  • I find it more helpful to write down or draw what the voices say
  • I talk with my voices regularly and I find it really helpful
  • I find it overwhelming to talk with the voices I hear, so I try to avoid it
  • Talking with the voices I hear helps me change my relationship with them
  • Talking with voices feels dangerous
  • I don’t talk with the voices I hear, I think silently to them
  • Why would I ever want to talk with my voices?
  • Other (Explain in comments)
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Here are the results from the website:

I don’t talk with the voices I hear, I think silently to them…24% (181 votes)
Other…15% (108 votes)
I talk with my voices regularly and I find it really helpful…12.4% (90 votes)
Talking with voices feels dangerous…10.76% 78 (votes)
I find it overwhelming to talk with the voices I hear, so I try to avoid it 9.38% (68 votes)
If I talk with the voices I find that they confuse me 7.59% (55 votes)
I find it more helpful to write down or draw what the voices say 5.1% (37 votes)
Why would I ever want to talk with my voices? 5.1% (37 votes)
Talking with the voices I hear helps me change my relationship with them 4.41% (32 votes)
Talking with voices helps me feel less disempowered 4% (29 votes)
I struggle to talk with my voices, but I have a supporter who helps me 1.38% (10 votes)

Total Votes: 725

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It depends on who I’m talking to. Some of my voices are very helpful and wise. Some of them are completely nasty and freak me out.

Though really I don’t talk with them nearly as much as I used to, except when I’m in an episode.

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I communicate with them by thought. Sometimes I answer them out loud without thinking about it.

5

I usually think silently and respond to them in my mind. occasionally I talk to them out loud.

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Talking with voices feels dangerous