I am still talking to myself. But not in public anymore. Rarely.
It is funny, the minute I step foot inside my house, I start talking again.
I am trying to stop myself and say positive things instead. The energy in these negative thoughts are overwhelming.
Abilify helped me be a lot (a lot) more stable and sane. Hopefully in time, it’ll pass.
I am also trying to change my words so when/if I talk in public, I say normal things.
Wow interesting. I used to talk to myself like 6 hours a day on average. Then I started abilify and the talking to myself went away. I can’t remember if it went away completely right away or what. But it did make it go away for sure. I remember being in the psych ward once in august 2012 and saying to someone “I miss talking to myself”…It was like my top hobby and I didn’t do it in the psych ward because I thought better of it. But when I was alone I talked to myself ALL day long. And I was usually alone… But abilify definitely helps with talking to urself for me at least.
I have talked to myself since I was a kid. but it had gotten worse since I was diagnosed with sz then sza. the Haldol helped me stop
I started laughing sometimes on thoughts on Geodon. Then when I switched to Latuda, I started talking to myself. It got really intense and humiliating too as some people saw me talking to myself at work 
Now it is much less. and almost 0 in public, even my friends told me I am so much better nowadays.
I used to interview myself a lot when I was talking to myself. I pretended I was famous and anointed as Jesus and I was being interviewed by the radio. I would ask myself questions and then answer them. I could have 2 hour long convos that were just of this. Crazy stuff!
I do this a lot, too much. I don’t think of it as talking to myself, though, even though that’s exactly what I’m doing; I refer to it as talking to the people in my head. I rarely actually talk out loud when I do it, mostly just mouth or whisper my part of the conversation. I get kinda animated with the gestures and facial expressions. I don’t do it out in public much, unless I’m driving. If I’m driving I don’t worry about keeping it in check, since I figure people who see me doing it will just figure I’m singing along to the music. I don’t do it quite as much since I’ve been back on APs; last summer it was dominating my attention.
Abilify has not made me talk to myself less. Actually it started to get bad when I got on it and has only gotten way worse ever since. I can do short periods without it, maybe 30min to an hour at a time. Only thing that helps is upping the dose of Risperidone, which I don’t want to do because it’s high already and being on 3 APs sucks anyways. There are some techniques I used but they only work so much and I can’t go several hours at a time without it when I sometimes need to. It’s embarrassing for sure. I do know that before the Abilify shot it gets a bit worse, like 4 days prior, but other than that it’s pretty much constant. I really took my mental health for granted. Also the first 4 years of being diagnosed I never talked to myself out loud, it started 2 years ago and has gradually gotten worse, for whatever reason. I really took the ability to ■■■■ for granted as well.
yeah me too. Exactly like that.
Whenever I’m not around anyone I have a one way conversation with whoever might be listening in
I use to talk to myself as a kid quite a bit but after I got sick the conversations got more intense. now that I take Haldol and latuda. the conversations have pretty much stopped