I really try not too, but when I get tired, stressed I end up talking back to them.
Today I went to a fair with my daughter and it was very awkward because I got angry with a voice and spoke back to it and these people though I was being rude to them. Fortunately they walked away but I feel bad and wish I could have explained about it. They will probably write an article about me and I will be shamed and no one will listen to my side of it.
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I try not to talk to them. except once one of my therapist suggested talking back to them and tell them to go away/ I was on the bus coming back from DBT therapy and someone sat beside me. the voices were pretty bad so I told them to go away and the guy sitting next to me got up and moved to another seat.
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i wish i could ignore them all the time. I was at a fair and I turned and said it and there were people looking at me and whats scary is it could have been taken as racist but I feel really bad that it could. The voices kept saying āwhite white your whiteā so I said āyour whiteā to make it shut up and there was an interracial couple there. and I wish to God i could tell them what happened . I hat e this I dont want to hurt anyone with this stupid stuff.
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I remember when I was off medication that I would talk to my voices to. It is a bad habit though and I try not to talk to them either.
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Being Human is a Show about a Ghost, a Vampire, & a Werewolf who share a house.
The Werewolf buys a Bluetooth headset & wears it around so he can talk to the Ghost in public without looking insane. (Normals canāt see Ghosts in the show)
I thought that was very clever.
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Hahaha only remember one bad one. I was walking home from school and had a full conversation (&argument) about maths and space and stuff. Then I realized a guy from my school was staring at me as if I was an alien. All you can do is laugh it off I guess. Thatās helpful MoeFaux I think I might try that.
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I m glad people replied. i currently hate myself
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Dont hate your self hate them. For a long time I wanted to die then i realized i myself want to live i want the mental illnesses to die. There are time i blurt things out like you did and I couldnāt help my self at all and people looked at me and i felt strange but i got over that now im just like sorry fighting with my self or say something even more stupid. Dont let it get you to down.
Wat other people think and say is none of ours or your business or problem anyways.
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I get my phone out and shout so they donāt think Iām crazy
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Thats good. I wish I had the cognizance at the time to realize whats going on because when this is going on I think its really people bullying me and harassing me and I try to let them know they are being inappropriate and then I actually feel good for awhile thinking that I have showed them how wrong they are but then I get home and can decompress I realize its the voices and I look like a horrible person.
i talk to them on the bus n stuff, nobody really notices as i suppose they think im on a phone or something even though i do look behind me or over my shoulder on occasions especially f they are loud n argumentative. i suppose alot of people don really care because some of them talk or sing t themselves anyway xx
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@dcmouse dont hate yourself, that te guilt thing we all feel moost of the time. just think, ah well i wont see them again xx
and we are ill.
just cos it aint visible dont mean we aint got feelings
cheer up xx
hope your ok xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I always wear a bluetooth headset. But not at work. Try hard to not talk back out loud. Iāve told them to leave me be at work. Most of the time they do.
My headset are on ear phones. Donāt look like typical bluetooth headset. People stare. I donāt care.
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Omg, donāt hate yourself! Find the humor in it. Those people probably donāt even remember.
Iāve told my companion to shut up before in public. But I donāt think anyone heard me. Around the house Iāll converse sometimes with voices. I acknowledge and move on.
Please forgive yourself, see the humor, and let it go 
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thank you everyone. feeling a bit better today
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I have sz but I donāt hear voices, so I can only relate so far.
I do though sometimes say things aloud, if I start having intrusive disturbing thoughts. When that happens I try to say to myself that Iāll attend to the thoughts once I get back home in a private place. Is it possible to mentally say something similar to the voices? Sort of, youāll talk to them once youāre back home.
Iāve seen other people (I suppose mentally ill) talking to themselves, and itās no big deal to me. In any large-ish town or city there will be a lot of people who sometimes talk to themselves, I donāt think itās a big deal. I really doubt they would write an article on it.
Try not to be hard on yourself, itās not really your fault.
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I havenāt talked to myself in public but I did one up from that. The people controlling my brain had me point at and touch all the people in the grocery store who were āequalā. Thatās everyone so I went through the store pointing at and touching people. I ended up running from the store when they went to call the police on me. I fell into serious psychosis after that and took all my meds and cut my wrists. If I even āstartā to feel weird like that again, I am calling the crisis line. Itās a bad sign for me.
Having said all that, I believe I am being watched and studied so I talk out loud to my fictitious āaudienceā, when I am alone all the time.
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sorry you went through all that
I dont hear voices either.
I do get similar thoughts about people tracking me and there being a giant conspiracy. Etcā¦
I talk to myself to make me feel better. I talk to the kind voices most of the time. Sometimes this person in my body starts crying and it makes me feel bad about her. I tell her not to cry. Other times I get vicious voices and all they do is put me down.
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