So long as you take the medication, what’s the worse that can happen by believing the voices are real? I have believed they are real for many years now and that’s never changed. I’m not dead yet or hospitalized.
You just have to apply common sense. Just because they are real, does not mean you should believe or do what they say. The same goes for what other people in person or on the internet tell you. It is a lot like dealing with trolls.
If you believe they are real it probably decreases the chances of them going away. In a sense they are real, but they are just in your mind. Not coming from other people or interdimensional beings. Good luck with your life and your recovery.
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So it is mind over matter? From the psychiatric perspective it shouldn’t matter what you believe. Believing they are imagined isn’t going to take away your “disease”.
I knew someone was going to play semantical games with this question. “Sure, they’re ‘real’ to you buddy”.
It seems to me a lot of people are wasting a lot of time trying to convince themselves it is just a hallucination.
They’re constantly feeling like they are “ill” and insane because they can’t quite convince themselves it is just a hallucination and that is because it isn’t.
Instead of trying to deny it is a reality, try developing critical thinking skills that although they may be real, does not mean you should believe everything they say.
They are more then just hallucinations. As Atabo or more lately called abat says they are psychological entities. They are completely inside your head. I see it as a portion of my Psychological construct that I try not to activate and that approach has brought me a long way. I also just don’t give a ■■■■ about what the voices say or make me think. Shrug it off 500,000 times. My voices were very accusational and self critical I don’t know the nature of your voices. Shutting them up is a real puzzle. I used to believe they were real to man, but they’re just not. I thought my family and relatives were all telepathically persecuting me, but in reality they have no idea what I went through. I’m interested if you care to elaborate on what your voices say.
Any case your right believing they’re real whatever that means in your case probably won’t brig you any harm.
In my case though I detest the feeling and reality of being delusional. That’s what got me into this mess.
Don’t underestimate the power of your own mind. The potential to dream and hallucinate go along way in showing just how powerful and comprehensive natural intelligence can be.
you know i’m sure that many people believe they are talking to other people. i used to be one of them but these days i try not to think about it tbh. all it does is wind me up if i give it credence. they try their damndest to convince me but i don’t actually believe a word of it. honestly it would be so easy to believe it but it’s not right. these people that i am supposedly telepathic with haven’t got the head space to be talking to me for a start. they have creative jobs…man you know what, i’m not even going to get into an explanation of why it can’t be real. check out my other threads on why telepathy isn’t real.
The voices can speak in the voices of people around you. This is telepathy 101 for me. My voices did a demonstration of how they can speak in the voice of Eric Cartman and Donald Duck. Your voices tricked you.
I think this disease is rooted in beliefs as much as it is in any positive or negative system. It is very difficult to see hallucinations for what they are, but once you do it becomes pretty obvious. And in my case that made the occurrences less impacting and less frequent. You have to fight for the reality you wish to inhabit.
Tell me, what are the implications of your voices being real?
Tricked me into be a more sane and secure person? I should thank them.
No, I mean they tricked you into thinking they were your relatives. You can’t wrap your mind around the fact they are tricksters, so you think the safest bet is to deny any reality of their existence.
My voices are dumb as hell and rarely do impersonations. They just berated me for a couple years to make me feel like the worst kind of scum.
Distraction and ignorance are probably your best tools.
Why does it bring you satisfaction to believe it’s real. Isn’t it quite horrifying?
The implications of the existence of my voices being real made me go through a paradigm shift philosophically, and I believe this will also happen for the rest of the society in the future. It is inevitable.
I know they exist, I just like to think they are in my head. No one can really prove anything about them.
So they are real… What are they?
What matters to me is the truth, not what is pleasant to think is the truth.
I consider them a “nonhuman element” of an unknown origin and nature, implicated in the spiritual and metaphysical realm of experience, and behind paranormal experiences throughout history. What they are is unknown to me, but I believe they go by many different aliases in religion and the occult.
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I kind of live by that motto as well. To me the truth is the voices are just a bad potential of the complexity of a brain like ours. Something I created through bad chemistry and psychology.
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