What actions decrease your hallucinations?

Health and Recovery
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Reading decreases the voices. Especially for this reason I’ve been reading nearly all day for years.
Listening to music also decreases the voices but not as powerful as reading. Generally art helps with the voices.
What helps yours?

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Ignoring it and making a conscious realization that it’s my illness.

I’m not constantly bombarded, though. Psychotic thoughts flit through my mind and dissipate.

Sometimes I make connections and jump to conclusions that don’t logically or reasonably follow. I usually catch myself and remind myself that I’m ill.

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Talking to people. Socialization. The minute my attention is focused on a person everything else gets dim and I’m only speaking to them.

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Anything that reduces stress and ensures getting adequate sleep. Running, my dog, playing piano, being engaged on conversation with people I consider non threatening all help, I’d say, but the sleep and reduced stress must happen for them to be effective.

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Talking to people also helps me. It helps snap me out of it sometimes… I have to focus on the person and not my head circus.

I’m in the same boat there.

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An important appointment in the next few days will keep my auditory hallucination completely shut.

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Sleep, diet, and environment.

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I tell myself that the consequences the voices threaten me with aren’t true. That stops 98% of my hallucinations.

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Just like some of the others conversing with people stops the voices.

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nothing stops them tbh. at first i had quiet periods of months, then omnipresent for months, then a period of erratic behaviour from them that couldn’t be nailed down to a pattern, then about 3 years of non stop activity then when my husband was ill nothing which is odd as it was a hugely stressful time, then three or four months omnipresent a few months after he died which again was a hugely stressful time. then sporadic again and for the last few months omnipresent. it doesn’t seem to matter when i’m talking to people if they are omnipresent, or whether i’m writing or talking to the kids or whoever, they still butt in. it doesn’t matter if its 3pm or 3am they are still there. i don’t let it bother me though. ■■■■ em. i just note what they say and put it on here and that’s it.

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Using MBCBT and labelling the voices as a voice sound sensation etc, usually puts them in their place and they stop.