What’s to be gained? It’s not communicative. Is there catharsis to it? It depresses me how deadly this disease can be. (I’m doing a lot better symptomatically because of meds, but it still depresses me.)
Have any of you found peace with your voices? How did you do it?
One of my voices is mean to me sometimes because of who he is. It is his nature to be mean. He is a mean entity. He is a dark spirit.
I have several personalities kind of going on.
A few years ago, I managed pretty much silence one,
It could have been hard work and CBT, it could have been luck.
Really, I don’t know.
He’s not 100% gone, but he’s not bothering me on a regular basis.
Another voice just left for 7 months.
I fell apart. I mean seriously, I lost it worse than ever before.
It was a very difficult time, I was hospitalized a couple times and felt like just a shell of a human. Unable to do anything at all.
Now, he’s back. Has been for coming up on a year.
This is why I’m reluctant to medicate.
All the voices and chatter I have to hear all day are worth dealing with to keep him.
And I hate that I feel like that, but my life would be impossible without him.
Oh that sounds so, so crazy. Sorry to rant there,
Back to the question,
No, I have not found peace.
Its a balance, find peace here, start a shitstorm there,
You know?
What does he say that is so important to you? How can you stand being so transparent to him because they read your every thought?
For awhile I had a mean one one my right and a nicer one on my left. Eventually I asked them, is this just good cop bad cop? And they admitted that it was what they were doing so they decided to change it up a little after that
I think it represents your inner fears or low self esteem. Or even guilt about repressed feelings and thoughts.
My left is mostly positive and give me space and allowed me tobgrow and strengthen that "side " my right is a total mine field filled with hate and snakes and bitter people . It seems to go “further out”
@Anna so you’re telling me that your voices get to be real demons, but mine are repressed feelings?
I’m just teasing. 
Ice always wondered if I had a team like that thst didn’t leave if dealing with them would be easier. I miss the silence and the feeling of being private in my head. Man I’d give my limbs for that honestly
Hey now I didn’t say I was exempt. I have a lot of problems ok 
Mine I think come from having really and I mean REALLY conflicting aspects of my personality
Okay. I’ve never heard you say that before. How do you stay functional with these voices? Mine were debilitating. My wife would catch me staring off into space and I couldnt even get the emotional balance to do the dishes.
That’s a difficult question to answer,
He’s not very nice or helpful.
I’m very dependent on him in a lot of weird ways,
I’m simply not me without him,
He’s responsible for all of my positive attributes.
None of that makes sense,
Sorry.
I hear several voices. Some are people i actually know and i hear their voices as I’m speaking to them and also another voice that no one else can hear.
What does your husband think of this guy? Lol
Its funny you would ask that,
I think he’s confused by it.
I’m sure he feels like its super unhealthy,
But he feels powerless to do anything other than encourage me to get back on meds and into therapy.
Do you beleive this is a figment of your mind or something else? You could end up cheating on your husband with yourself without knowing lol. I’m jk
That is interesting though. I still believe I’m hesring people in my community. I honestly would be more at ease if it wasn’t and just my mind.
I feel like I’m bounced around until I match up with someone or they bend to my very sensible and harmless will lol
I think it doesn’t necessarily have to make sense. I mean there’s cancer and autoimmune diseases where the body attacks itself.
In fact it doesn’t make sense for your own brain to impair itself.
I think it’s not something that happens on purpose or anything .
I have a rational and irrational side of my brain. I mean I know I have a psychotic disorder so there’s a big chance it’s just subconscious issues but at the same time with my beliefs it gets really confusing.
I’ve had strange things talk to me practically my whole life so I learned how to conceal it mostly. If I am not doing well then they can really throw me off. I’ve had my fair share of days where I’m just stuck in bed all day because I’m just being barraged.
That makes sense. Sexuality seems like a difficult subject for you, so that’s why they threaten the thing about being a hell whore. If you were comfortable with those topics, they might do something different.
Sometimes I would get the voices to agree to things. Like we pretended there was notes that the voices would refer to before harassing me, if that makes sense. Anyway, I would say, “Write this down, no more…” such and such. Sometimes it would work.