Who thinks their voice is real person? When I’m listening to my voice I think it’s real, but then when I get breaks I want to believe it’s not real. Anybody ponder this?
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All 12 patients in the study experienced nasty and threatening verbal hallucinations every day - a common symptom of schizophrenia.
To try to control their symptoms, they were asked to play a video game while in an MRI scanner, using their own mental strategies to move a computerised rocket - and in doing so they were able to turn down the volume on the external voices they heard as well.
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I’ve used video games to quiet my voices
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I can assure you they are not real, I mean physical. Voices gave me a hard time about my first edit
What is very odd about mine is that it’s like people are arguing with my voices or my mind when I’m not even aware.
Do they have quieter MRI machines out there? Back when my symptoms started and they scanned my head for brain lesions that machine was loud. I couldn’t imagine trying to play a video game or do anything else concentration wise with that noise surrounding me.
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I used to think my voices were spirits. They have personalities and respond to what I say. But one thing that helped me was thinking about how in a dream state your mind creates other people, so it’s possible for your mind to create another person that only exists in your head.
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Ya I thought about that too,it must be similar for schizophrenics except where awake.thanks for that
In my head they were spirits and angels, demons and the dead. They seemed so real. I couldn’t tell the difference, I was sick.
Now a days, thanks to meds, and better understanding, I have come to realize how powerful our brains are. It can take a lot to just remember they’re not real, but I have to. For sanity sake
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Ya I think it’d be best if I did the same, their just so real though
Honestly I always had a very healthy mind with lots of dialogue and imagination. It wasnt until I felt like I was put under observation and mentally destroyed by people.
You gotta realize that your mind is your mind. Minds are busy
There is a scientific theory, that conversely, real people are voices in the sense that it is our self-talk that creates our self.
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No. Voice are not real people – or in my case – aliens or alien AI.
Also, rap is not real music.
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Oh no oh no it’s same
I said to my friends that my heart is bad
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