If you've not had voices in your head you don't understand how incessant they are. Try to imagine voices other than your own in your mind, talking constantly while you are trying to talk to someone/pray/work out a problem/just plain think. They constantly interfere, comment, sabotage.

You have no privacy. They know your most intimate secrets and they use them to degrade and ridicule you. It is onboard emotional abuse and it is exhausting.

I have no dreams for my future anymore. I don't fantasize about anything anymore. That's all been ruined by the voices. They do everything they can to destroy peaceful thought.

Try to get a decent sleep. They yell your name until you wake up. Try to fantasize about something nice like a kiss with a gorgeous man and you invite the worst kind of abuse - ugly, stupid, and on and on. Two days ago it was "you are the dirt that makes the flowers (beautiful women) grow".

Philosophy isn't going to rescue me from that.

I appreciate your attempts to swing me around to your way of thinking but the truth is that I've already been down that road. It was a dead-end.