I've always been curious what other people who hear voices think of them . . . I worked in mental health care for a while, but other than one fellow who told me his voices were angels who wanted to have sex with him, I never got any good answers. (And I think calling his answer 'good' may be a bit of a stretch!)

I have a hard time explaining to the non-psychotics in my life what hearing voices is like. I want to tell people I know what it's like so they're less afraid of me, but I never know what to say.

At this point, my voices are pretty friendly - or at least, annoying but not frightening. I tell people they're my own personal Greek chorus, which very few people understand but that is probably more from a lack of technical knowledge of Greek drama than anything else.