Been very paranoid that my thoughts are being read. This is a pretty standard symptom but I’ve never actually felt that before. Lots of voices. Conversations right behind my head. I can ignore most things but people talking right out of my line of hearing drives me crazy.
Well I recognize these are symtpoms. Just a few of the many.
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Our body language alone is said to be very revealing of what’s going on in our minds. Maybe you are just subconsciously aware of what you are saying in that way and I think that others do have a knack for deciphering this instinctively and as a learned subject as well.
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It is called thought broadcasting, gang stalking or cause stalking. A lot of people don’t act right toward a schizo as they are a part-time crazy and hatred of someone getting a disability check is bad enough in some areas to drive a lot of people to pester a person on disability check…Some of the churches have put their members on people in the community getting a disability check as a form of cause stalking I call preach stalking. Mental care will not help you with the 'social problems; as they are considered delusional and it is against policy to assist or discuss. You can never get angry with your mental care or you will be given a forced mental hospitalization at your own cost for as long as pdoc can justify…This is just a shortcoming with psych care sadly.
You may have someone come up to you talking to you about something private he should not know. This is how some men do a pick-up if he hears the voices too. You can try it to see if you get good ones or weirdos. It is usually either all good contacts or all bad. But, these can really understand things in your community so may be worth trying to chat it up if someone tries this.
So, actually the people don’t read your mind. They are a form of psychotic individual who follows orders from voices to stalk a specific new schizo and verbally harass him/her about something private…Called thought broadcasting.
It works best to never answer this aloud or get upset as you will be the person who gets in trouble. If approached by a group of people doing this, called gang stalking, which is usually threatening you need to keep quiet. It is sign you are in bad neighborhood so consider moving soon as it could even be unsafe. Some cities have a lot of this in iffy areas.
It is also hard to tell whether you are hearing voices on the inside or outside as the voices can sound like people passing by talking or person may say wrong thing ‘spastically’ as it just comes out like talking in tongues from some people which is called thought insertion. This can happen a lot with little kids or old people who will talk like they are possessed. It is bad joke and is their internal train of thought hijacked and artificial for a few moments. Person has no clue what they are saying is probably upsetting so you just ignore this…
I DO NOT answer thought broadcasters unless it is related to my employment. I live in city with 500k mindless drones who are just loudspeakers for my schizo symptoms…It is NEVER everyone btw. There is no intelligence shown when you run into these kind out in public unless it is on your own block near your home. These can show no more intelligence than a bird crowing or dog barking… I only ask others about thought broadcasting done at work without discussing my diagnosis or mental care.
Hope this helps. Just expect this stuff. A lot of the millennials act up by thought broadcasting and other very disruptive ways. But the middle class men are worse as if they make an embarrassing public display of anything toward you, you need to leave quietly so you won’t get trashed by his problem…Is worse than thought broadcasting by far to stay around a man who does this crap.
I don’t have inside voices anymore. Purely outside. Not sure if its gang stalking. I hope not. Ha-ha. But nobody else hears it. I’m not thinking that other szs are tracking me or anything. Just want some quiet. Nice to hear that perspective thogb. I dont think it fits with me but I guess I don’t pay close enough attention .
no one can read your thoughts…i used to have this.
i hope you are feeling better today. 
take care 
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That is when I began getting a handle on life… when I was able to figure out that I was experiencing symptoms and that what was happening in my head was not reality.
I’m sorry this is hitting you. I hope you feel better soon.
There is no thought broadcasting or gang stalking that’s all myth man. Once you take meds all that disappears I’m a target too but don’t buy into a lot of it
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Sounds the illness is trying to do your thinking for you. Beat that sucker down!
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Have you talked to your psychiatrist about this new problem. Generally its a bad sign when symptoms start getting worse, or you get new symptoms. Definitely something to talk to your doctors, Pdocs, Therapists about and to do something about.
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One of the social workers here was actually yelling ‘thought broadcasting’ and talking nutty to me. He told me I needed to go get a job at the grocery store, they didn’t want me in the small business owner’s networking group…
Major problem was this social worker had responsibility over my disability case to explain where I stood on SSDI benefits and given his inappropriate behavior toward me, I really wondered if I could trust the man…
I worked at the govt mental clinic for 2 years talking to committed people who were getting their annual review. Got along with the staff fabulously, their social worker was actually very helpful in explaining some social coping stuff to me and how things worked in my city. New one took the job and she started to contradict herself in front of the charges and mess with the clients, did not feel comfortable dealing with the care acting like this and chose to quit. Sadly, the government clinic here is hiring some staff who will mess with patient’s head by contradicting themselves or acting hostile. I had been warned as a new hire what can happen if you get angry with the pdocs or staff and I flatly did not feel comfortable even discussing anything with the staff who acted like this. I changed psych doctors.
Sadly, I no longer the help provided by the social worker social security advocate who was yelling ‘thought broadcasting’ and telling me to go work at the grocery store. He was REALLY helpful in early days understanding my SSDI benefits and he also helps with tax issues…But I see no other way to handle someone acting like this when he is in his professional capacity…This is what previous psychotic residents explained happens when they return to my city, they got thrown out of all the professional jobs/networking and forced into menial labor.
Medication did not make it stop. My city is running some BAD abuse issues after someone suffers a nervous break following PTSD … I am lucky to get some relief from the insomnia though.
Sadly, I was thrown out of another professional networking group too soon after a group in which I had served on the board. I understand from another woman who suffered a nervous after meeting the local abuse group, she was treated to hostile workplace problems at multiple employers before she decided she had no choice but to leave this city as things just got worse and worse for her fired again and again. When she moved from the areas, at least she got by and could get a little distance from the massive mess made of this city that causes the poor victims so much more trauma. Leaving really is help to forget it all and move on.
Well, I’m delighted if it did in your case, but meds may or may not put the kybosh on TB and paranoid ideation for many other sz pts. They will – once sufficiently stabilized emotionally with meds – usually have to resort to a combinations of CBTs for that.
- the newer mindfulness-based cognitive therapies:
DBT – http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm
MBSR – Welcome to the Mindful Living Blog
ACT – ACT | Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
MBBT – An Introduction to Mind-Body Bridging & the I-System – New Harbinger Publications, Inc
10 StEP – Pair A Docks: The 10 StEPs of Emotion Processing
- the even newer somatic psychotherapies:
SEPT – Somatic experiencing - Wikipedia
SMPT – Sensorimotor psychotherapy - Wikipedia
- or “old 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/
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I’m dealing with the same issues. I just have to constantly remind myself its not real. I keep thinking my family can hear and think to me… Its so awkward and I keep embarrassing myself and thinking the wrong things.
No privacy.
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I realize this is an old post, sorry, but I’ve just did a search here for thought broadcasting and pulled up about 20 tabs to gather information from. I’m really struggling with this now. I keep increasing my meds, but the thought broadcasting remains. The synchronicities that come with it remains. But, I’ve had this happen to me. I walked off of a new job because everyone in the office was responding to my thoughts (voices) and they were about a really dark subject so they were all persecuting me. So when I chose to quit and walk off into downtown of Cleveland, all seemed to know what I just did. The only people that talked to me were the corporation’s custodian and this guy that was following me in a mall that i had to walk through to catch my train. I understand that a lot of custodians may have schizophreniaor other mental problems, it’s a stereotype…I completed an application to become a janitor and on it were extremely personal/psychological questions like “Do you think everyone is out to get you?” “Are you a suspicious person?” and way more. So this lady must have known I was giving up because she stared at me (like a don’t give up stare) and then she complimented my hair. But the main thing I wanted to say was a man ended up sitting behind me in this mall and I heard his voices in my head and then as he was seated behind me I think he was mumbling under his breath, “just get stable on your meds” and then I felt this is too much, I hate my life. I wish I was normal…so I was tuning him out, incredibly anxious and I just went on my way to the train…So I see how someone would try to come on to you like that. His energy told me that’s what he was doing.
Also police officers in the mall were staring at me and coming close to me.