The voices are telling me that I am being monitored by the government and they want me eliminated because of my special powers. ESP. My thoughts get broadcast into other peoples heads and other peoples thoughts get broadcast into my head. They’ve sent snipers out to get me. They’re also telling me that I am being controlled by aliens and followed around by a man with a hatchet. I believe what they are telling me.
Hi, are you on medication? Meds have helped all my hallucinations go away. I remember believing my hallucinations too…it all seems so real and it funny how the mind makes it believable too everything always seems to fit together. Hope you feel better soon. Hippo
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Yeah. I’m on a clopixal depot but it hasn’t taken the voices away. They’re loud and intrusive.
Mine tell me all sorts of baloney. I had to do pretty much exactly what you see directly below to find a way to keep them in their seats (and away from the “driver”) on my “big yellow school bus” of psychotic passengers.
Because… piles of research show that sz pts tend to get “better” when they…
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Get a copy of this book and read it and have their families read it, as well.
http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Schizophrenia-6th-Edition-Family/dp/0062268856 -
Get properly diagnosed by a board-certified psychopharmacologist who specializes in the psychotic disorders. One can find them at…
https://psychiatrists.psychologytoday.com/rms/ -
Work with that “psychiatrist” (or “p-doc”) to develop a medication formula that stabilizes their symptoms sufficiently so that they can tackle the psychotherapy that will disentangle their thinking.
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The best of the therapies for that currently include…
DBT – http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm
MBSR – Welcome to the Mindful Living Blog
ACT – ACT | Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
10 StEP – Pair A Docks: The 10 StEPs of Emotion Processing -
the even newer somatic psychotherapies like…
MBBT – An Introduction to Mind-Body Bridging & the I-System – New Harbinger Publications, Inc
SEPT – Somatic experiencing - Wikipedia
SMPT – Sensorimotor psychotherapy - Wikipedia -
or standard CBTs, like…
REBT – Rational emotive behavior therapy - Wikipedia
Schematherapy – Schema therapy - Wikipedia
Learned Optimism – Learned optimism - Wikipedia
Standard CBT – http://www.beckinstitute.org/what-is-cognitive-behavioral-therapy/About-CBT/252/ -
If you/she/he needs a professional intervention, tell me where you live, and I will get back to you with leads to those services.
For me (and it is different for everyone), my (currently) very low nightly dose of Seroquel quetiapine turns the volume down quite a bit, but I still need all the tools I got from those therapies to deal with them when stress cranks up and the voices get really LOUD.
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it is rubbish…your voices are talking ■■■■. 
you are ill…you have sz.
you are unique…but…
the goverment is not going to kill you… 
they are not interested in you…
and you have no ’ special ’ powers…!?!
you are not being followed…
make sure you take your meds on time…and explain this to your shrink/therapist 
know someone cares 
you are safe.
take care 
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Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately, I believe what the voices are telling me. I believe I have special powers and that the government is monitoring me and sending snipers out to get me.
I know I have schizophrenia but I don’t think that is what’s causing it.
I will politely suggest reading that statement ten times.
Then considering the following from the Mayo Clinic website @ http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia/basics/symptoms/con-20021077:
"Schizophrenia involves a range of problems with thinking (cognitive), behavior or emotions. Signs and symptoms may vary, but they reflect an impaired ability to function. Symptoms may include:
“Delusions. These are false beliefs that are not based in reality. For example, you’re being harmed or harassed; certain gestures or comments are directed at you; you have exceptional ability or fame; another person is in love with you; a major catastrophe is about to occur; or your body is not functioning properly. Delusions occur in as many as 4 out of 5 people with schizophrenia.”
And this from the WebMD website @ http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/schizophrenia-symptoms:
"The person starts thinking or doing things they didn’t think or do before.
“Delusions. These are beliefs that seem strange to most people and are easy to prove wrong. The person affected might think someone is trying to control their brains through their TVs or that the FBI is out to get them. They might believe they’re someone else, like a famous actor or the president, or that they have superpowers.”
You do have a choice to believe them or not.
Ultimately you have to make that decision.
If you willingly choose to be manipulated by your voices then I’d be very careful
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I found that in early recovery while going to aa if I said "I am powerless over my mind " aloud that my visions would disappear
I don’t think I had much of a choice when I was hallucinating . My mind wasn’t reasoning
But he said he believes them. He could choose to question it.
Of course I know when I had voices I believed they were many different beings. Until I started to question more about what the hell was Going on.
When I was full blown psychotic I had no idea what was going on. I didn’t believe I just “was” if that makes any sense
I didnt know what hearing voices really meant I just thought it was a real being
Idk. I didn’t realize the voices weren’t real
Cool screen name 