Your voices sound like mine. Nothing is sacred with the voices. They talk trash about my friends, family, and children too.
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My voices just talk trash about me and rarely say a negative word about anyone else. But nothing is sacred to my voices either.
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Mine have been giving me horrible nightmares/visions when I close my eyes and they mess with me as they become my ex boyfriend and then play death metal music. They make me have extremely uncomfortable conversations with them mentally when this occurs. Today they have made me sleep a ton since they have given me insomnia the last two nights. I really hope youāre voices stop harassing you. I know how traumatizing it can be to deal with day and night.
Just know you are not alone!
Thank you so much for your support, @Watchers. Itās comforting to know Iām not alone, but I feel bad that you have to go through that trauma. My voices make me have extremely uncomfortable conversations as well and constantly add to my insomnia. I really hope that your voices stop harassing you too.
Thank you @Musicdance! My best wishes to you! I struggle with doing literally anything/everything, so I almost always isolate myself. I feel awkward, paranoid, and fearful especially when Iām around other people, or having to undress, take a shower, use the bathroom, etc. I can never escape them, but I try my best to find uplifting books, documentaries, interviews, etc. that help me get through each day. I hope you too have some things under your belt that can help ease some of the abuse you undergo each day!
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It is a daily struggle, thatās for sure. I do have things that ease the abuse, like reading and doing creative things. Iām glad to hear you do too!
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Mine change from mean and critical to fairly nice, and then sometimes they make me super confident, as long as you can find something to help and kind of distract you, then I think you will make it thru the rough times with them
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Yes, I agree that distraction helps a lot.
I have people in my mind they tell me to stop thinking things, that they say I am gross, or perverted but why are they in my head the first place, I wish they would leave me alone. I donāt want people watching me especially when I have a panic/anxiety because I act/think much worse. I have thoughts that do no! t make much sense which I donāt think are sexual in nature. I used to think I have OCD intrusive thoughts
but watched some You tube videos on intrusive thoughts and mine are a little bit like that but not really. They say donāt resist thoughts or say that they are bad but I feel if I donāt try to tell myself to stop they might get worse.
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My voices tell me Iām a creep, but, I agree, why are they in my head in the first place. I also have thoughts that I thought were OCD but are a little bit different. I try to ignore them, but the voices persecute me for them, so of course I canāt ignore them.
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I had that happen to me. Voices get mad at me. I donāt know why. Can they see the images in my mind? I hope not.
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My voices hate me and see everything in my mind.
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Sometimes I feel this way too, but some voices are kind and understanding. But I feel they are tired too. I donāt know if they are there when I have panic/anxiety attacks. I am embarrassing when I am like this.
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Youāre lucky you have some kind and understanding voices. Mine are all mean and they are always there.
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Today my voices hate me too.
They want me dead
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Well Iāve noticed that what comes in my mind by way of voices or visions Iām less likely to think or do myself. The more the voices repeat certain words, for example repeating ādisdainā, I notice that it is harder for me to use the word ādisdainā in thought or speech. Like the voices are marking territory in us that we should avoid.
Basically the harsher your voices are on you, the less likely you would be to be harsh on yourself. The nicer the voices are to us the less nice we would be to ourselves.
Itās just a theory but voices could be the brainās way of protecting us from extremes. If they are overly nice it could be perhaps to block us from being too nice to ourselves to the point of mania or grandeur. If they are overly harsh it could be perhaps to block us from thinking too little of ourselves to the point of depression or self-harm.
I hope telling you this insight does not defeat the protective mechanism
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Sorry to hear that. Hope it passes soon.
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well Iāve thought about it a bit more and realize that my opinion was possibly a dangerous idea. Voices should ideally never be used as a contribution to how we think or feel whether the voices come across as positive, negative or neutral.
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what I do is I only accept them if they confirm what I already know about something. If I donāt know something and they intrude, I consider them. If I do know something and they contradict then I reject them.
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