How do you respond to your voices on the mental and physical level?
In my experience, I’ve found that things go best when I agree with whatever they have to say and am obedient to their commands. Combined with a shift in perspective, becoming agreeable and obedient has really transformed my voices. These days they’re 99% positive in tone and generally encourage me to be kind and helpful.
I wonder if they’ve been giving good advice all along.
How about y’all? Do you fight with them, ignore them, become submissive… or what?
I can’t ignore them for very long when they pop up. I’ve noticed if hear them out or maybe make a good counterpoint they generally fade out pretty quickly.
Sometimes I pace when I engage my voices in spirited Debate. It’s been awhile since they have popped up.
When my voices are being mean, I concentrate calmly on changing them to friendly voices. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. When they’re being too loud, I turn an imaginary volume dial and I can turn them up or down. I have never been able to turn them completely off, though.
I don’t have command hallucinations, though. My voices don’t try to talk with me. I have a news anchor, who announces things that have happened to me that day, an angry couple who fight with each other, and my family members who scream about the very descriptive ways they’re being tortured. I also have my own theme music!
I used to do something similar, but after I turned the volume down I would try and sorta jam the radio between stations. Make the voices white noise so to speak. I would catch a word or 2, but most of it is just low static. Almost a sensation of a voice.
Being a god, I demand a certain amount of respect from most. Also, a few of them I have been friends with since childhood. I think it’s our relationships that make it work, I love and truest them, and they depend on on me. When they do hurt me, I can see that it hurts them 10 times worst and they try their best to make things better. When I hurt myself, they tell me how stupid I am being and how illogical it is.
That is an interesting approach. I can get command hallucinations where my voices to either tell me to kill myself or on a rare occasion or people. I’ve had hallucinations telling me to rape people too. Usually though they aren’t command hallucinations and they are insulting to say that they are going to kill me. Because of this I have to either ignore or fight the voices whenever my meds fail to work.
There has been some change though it used to be that there was a woman’s voice that was always crying. Now she just says she hates me but tries to get the hurtful voice to back away when he says over and over he is going to kill me. I also noticed that they get more vicious and violent as I get closer to psychosis though.
im confused because my voices calmed down today . today was a very lovely day for me, in fact i actually misssed them, is that silly? they might come back later on, but for now im in a right nice place xxxxx
Sometimes my voices tell me that they love me and that I wanted to be in this brain study I’m in. They tell me how brave I am and how much they appreciate me. Sometimes they scare me by saying “here it comes” (and it’s something bad). Actually I don’t hear voices. It’s just one ‘inner’ voice.There is a handful of men and women who take turns being in charge of my brain and speaking to me. They haven’t been talking to me a lot lately except to tell me I’m not schizophrenic and that they are still there. I can listen to music or watch TV and sometimes drown them out. What’s impossible to drown out is when they put thoughts in my head. Suddenly I will be paranoid and terrified, out of nowhere, of beige emotionally and physically sacrificed and it is because they are putting the idea in my subconscious. My tdoc has been helping me with that. He says there is nothing to be gained in a brain study from sacrificing me but I dunno…