How do you describe your voices? Do they sound like they’re coming from someone else like someone is talking to you but no ones there? Or are they inside your head and you can completely tell they’re on the inside? Ive heard voices inside my head since a child and I’ve always confused them with my thoughts? Does anyone have this?
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I am not a doctor, but I don’t consider thoughts clearly coming from my own mind to be voices. My one experience with voices was a clearly spoken sentence that sounded like it was coming from someone else standing near me, when no one was there and the person speaking was not even in the same town.
I would consider voices inside my head that I perceived as being caused by someone or something outside of myself to be voices, but I don’t experience that. My own thoughts inside my head, even if I can “hear” them, no.
It seems that some doctors disagree with me, though.
my voices come from inside my head. they have their distinct voice tone & pitch and everything… my doc says they are hallucinations no matter if they come from inside or outside.
internal voices are tougher. cos they seem more real than external. they are one with you. they are your own mind whereas you can ignore external voices being just external sounds, internal ones confuse you. you can’t distinguish them from reality.
I have voices (not currently) that sound like other people, I have a mean man who sounds like a mean man. I have a young girl who actually communicates with me psychically so actually has no sound, I have 3 versions of myself that sound like my thoughts from a different position, I have a large group of toddlers that chatter on incoherently, then there are the “guest voices”. Those are different voices of different people I know or apparently made up voices. They change moment to moment. And even though I’m on meds they are still here. I have them talking to me off and on throughout the day very infrequently, I hardly notice. But when I lay down to go to sleep it always starts asking me questions. So I talk for a little bit until I fall asleep. No big deal. All of the voices have place in my head where they come from. My thoughts come from the center of my head, a little up and to the right, just a smidge. Outside voices are disturbing and evil and usual come from the phone or electrical outlets.
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Well I used to have these as my most difficult symptom really. I considered them voices but when describing them to someone else I called them more along the lines of “intrusive thoughts”…it felt like voices though when I was active in psychosis. I’ve heard people talking from outside my head though and those felt definitely like voices. That has happened to me. Both things have. But moreso the voices inside my head.
So to answer OP, both things felt like voices, but what you’re describing is probably most CORRECTLY described as intrusive thoughts, but I see where you’re coming from calling them voices.
Both are a symptom of schizophrenia.
In my experience, my own thoughts are inaudible and are just there, my voices however are something that have a physical sound and that’s how I distinguish.
My voices are from inside my head but not my own thoughts they come from the man in my head Alien and his cronies
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mine too. from the beings inside my head.