Ignoring my voices and refusing to interact with them didn’t make them go away. It just changed how I reacted to them and eventually helped me stop reacting to them. This reduced the severity of my delusions, really strengthened my insight, lowered my stress level, and helped lower the amount of medication I needed to manage the voices since I was no longer at risk of acting on the commands they had been giving me. They went from being a threat to me to background noise I could ignore.
After that I found better meds and supplements that have mostly gotten rid of them. I now go for extended periods without positive symptoms, they only come back when I’m under a lot of stress, but they are still just noise I can ignore.
My voices are also very mean sometimes, but I still ignore them.
A typical thing for me would be to catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror, and hear the voices say “Look at you, you fat pig. You should just stop eating because you don’t deserve food you fatty. Take the kitchen knife and cut your fat floppy boobs off so people won’t have to look at them.”
I still ignore them, smile at myself in the mirror, and go about my day.
If someone in real life siad that to me, I’d be very upset. But I KNOW voices are products of our brains, and a reflection of our insecurities, so since nobody real is saying those things to me, it doesn’t hurt.
Mine are similar to archons and iluminati controlling the universe with there minds and putting me in a false reality waiting to get tortured by them for fun
Its so hard, becuse i have Many of them and they come in Many ways, those with sound is more easy to ignore, but i also have a voice that controls my own thougts. And everytime i breathe i hear words
and sentences, the noise when i breathe transform in to words, almost every sound become words.
I could probably have a long conversation with my coffee machine. The only thing thats works is to watch tv or have a conversation with someone.
@Jesse25 I put my voices to the test a few times by threatening them to work for me casion. If they did I said I would always agree to listen to them. Suffice it to say couldnt hold their weight at the blackjack table proving they were just figments of my imagination and furthering that my imagination was actually pretty on point at times. So I dont get bothered by them anymore, I learned how to filter them out over time. I recommend doing the same
Iv put them to the test as well and they fail everytime but they know what’s coming in the music and on tv bringing me coincidents all the time but when I ask them to do something like make me slap my they cant do it
sounds like your just confusing inferrations with causality. I wouldnt pay attention to them, focus on a different part of your brain instead to make them go away
inferrations, like your intuition and understing blended into one. Example, you look up at the sky, what is that, its a bird, its a plane, no its superman. Its nothing supernatural tho, its just you man and your imagination making attempts to embody the information into something understandable, in this case its a cognitive being
When I hear Alien speaking and look in the mirror I don’t see me I see a monster face, like Alien distorting my features. So when I’m hearing voices or depressed I can’t look at myself for fear of seeing a monster face.
The entities make me feel the same way! The expect me to be perfect in thought, action, and word. They threaten me and say I will suffer, along with many other things. They manipulate my body with what sounds and feels like a device to show they can control me at times if I am not perfect in every way. I am sent constant night terrors and visions and the only times I don’t get these is if I have insomnia and have to deal with listening and feeling them. I never get a break from them. I constantly walk on eggshells, so I have been isolating ever since these entities showed up in my life. It is a struggle for me, but thankfully I have been doing the best that I can with these circumstances. My best wishes to you and your health. I hope you find relief!
in my experience a round about approach to removing the belief causing the “voice” which I really think is your own thoughts “filtered” by a belief. like if you heard a thought and believed it was aliens and than it sounded more like aliens than less like you I think thats how “voices” happens. so whatever the belief is making the voices “sound” not like you remove the belief and see if underneath the belief you assigned to the thought its a more relatable own thought.
