A new type of voice came to me last night. It is whispering. scares the ■■■■ out of me. How do you cope with new scary voices? I try not to listen but it is so hard to avoid listening. It’s like my ears turn inside out trying to comprehend what is whispered. I can’t hear what is said but my mind tries so hard to do it.
Some of the first voices I heard were whispering or barely audible. At the time, it was my first huge psychotic experience so I thought someone was trying to communicate from the spirit world. So I would talk back in my mind, asking them to repeat themselves. It was scary and I felt compelled to try to understand them. Sometimes they would become clearer as I begged them to speak up. I would become almost catatonic and function very slowly, took forever to do simple tasks. I hate to say this, but I couldn’t function well until I was hospitalized and medicated and that helped me realize I had an illness. This helped me overcome fear of voices and just somehow would think must keep moving or ignore them. But like you say, they are so riveting that without medication I would still be like a zombie.
I’m on 25 mg Abilify. Maybe it’s not doing what it’s supposed to do.
I had to go through years of medicine changes. Everyone seems to respond differently. The one that knocked me out of psychotic spell also almost paralyzed me. Now on Latuda which keeps the voices from going nonstop so I am able to get by only hearing them a few times a day. Ability did not work well for me, but did not give me as many physical side effects. I am sorry it is not helping. Keep searching.
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I have no protection against the whispers. Music does not help. They are there when music ends. 
Any tip is welcome.
Pretty old trick if your around kids,
that if you want their attention, whisper.
If you don’t want them to listen, talk above normal volume, and especially when you preface it with the words “need you do do some work around here.”
So I try soft music? On low volume? Whispering back to the voices.
Sounds like abilify isn’t doing the job. How long have you been on abilify? Did you have that symptom before abilify? The reason I ask, is I had a whole new set of symptoms on seroquel when I was on it, including low volume sounds. I never had that before seroquel and it stopped when I came off seroquel.
I found humming stops the whispers for a short while. It was a trick my tdoc suggested to try.
I’ve had Abilify for 2,5 years. Seroquel for 2 years. I was psychotic when I started meds. So yes I have had hallucinations. But whispering ones is new to me.
Are you taking any supplements that might interact with abilify?
Or anything else, like alcohol or coffee
I had those whispering voices all of the time. Especially when I was younger. When I sleep I have some sort of white noise going in the background to drown those voices out.
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Hello comatose
Can you just lock onto that one voice. I just lock on to any voice in my mind and then have them talk through my mouth. My voices come through in five groups. The first ones are just awakening and then move forward till they become themselves inside of me. I can remove any voice that I do not like also by just finding the voice and with my mind move them up to my crown. Just try locking on to the one voice and with your mind move them or push them upward or if you want to hear them move them forward to your face to see if this makes the voice more clear.
Powessy
I have that when I’m out in public, they are either whispering or it comes through to me at a low volume like secondary verbal input like at a restaurant or somewhere where you are aware of the conversations around you but aren’t paying attention so you aren’t really hearing the content.
Try some different meds.
After awhile I just write the voices off as neighbors with lives of their own who have no intrest in anything to do with me.
Otherwise,
all I do is waste time spinning myself into a useless loop trying to locate a mouth connected to those voices, which, not surprisingly, I never find.
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No supplements or alcohol. 1-2 cups of coffee during the day.
How do you lock onto one voice? I also have that coffee shop chatter in my head.
I’ll talk to my nurse next week when I see her about meds.
Try cutting out the coffee for a few days, if that doesn’t work, and the whispering voices are unacceptable, ask your pdoc to review your meds. Maybe they can add a small amount of another anti psychotic or change you over completely. But coffee makes things worse sometimes.
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