this is what LL was talking to me about one time. back a few months ago her co workers thought they could butt in and tell her what she should be doing with me and she should be forcing me to gofaster on my rather large art therapy project of the scale model house of the house I grew up in. anyway in some of the journal writing I let her see I was responding to what I was writing I was not dissociating just normal self talk and had wrote a sentence - "great that was really stupid". The week before she had asked me if I "dialogue". I thought she was referring to my holding conversations like saying - hi mary how are you? and mary replying ok and you? fine what are we going to do today? so I told her no I hear the voices but I SKR taught me how to stop them by looking for the triggers and using grounding techniques and so on. She said that wasn't what she meant. and we could talk about that later cause we had to schedule our next appointment. the session when she saw my journal writing and my poem about what her co workers were doing, she pointed to that sentence where I had wrote - great that was stupid. and told me that was what she mean't by dialog. I laughed and told her yea I talk to myself thinking about what I am doing when and so on and that in anger management class and depression management class we worked on "self talk and how to change the negative self talk to the positives in the self talking of self parenting vs fast thinking on everything vs self talking talking from anger and so on at ourself" she told me you got it and laughed when I told her how we were given an assignemnt of writing down three positves for every negative self talk during the 18 weeks the classes were in session so now it is automatic for me to change my self talk to positives when I think - now that was really stupid. She also said having this kind of self talking going on in a persons head is actually normal and everyone does it some more then others. she also said she was going to change from using the word "dialogue" to using the words "talking to yourself" and "self talk" because I had pointed out the difference with hearing the voices vs self talk and that they were two different things.