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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
So I'm really glad you're not psychotic, it's a terrible thing. For me I was psychotic though...so some of the things I did were probably weird and I'm not sure how much you'll be able to relate to. So it was kind of a defense mechanism for me.....all of the voices I was hearing were on the right side which was being suppressed by the left. It was totally a way to protect myself from the voices so I'm not sure why this happened for you. Have you been to a neurologist?
So how I got rid of it was a combination of things. One I had therapy called cognitive behavioral therapy and one of our four treatment goals was to reunite the right and left brains. So we did specific things to do that, one thing I remember was making a list of the things I liked about right brain and left brain...this helped me see I needed both sides. So with that in hand I began to research the difference between the right and left sides of my brain. I ran across and art book called drawing on the right side of the brain. It teaches your right brain to take over when needed so you can draw better. At first I could actually feel my brain switching between right and left when I was drawing. After doing the exercises in the book they were working as a team. It also helped just to acknowledge the importance of right brain. I could make myself smile just by talking about right brain aloud it was weird.
Anyway I used the first edition of the book which you can buy for like a penny used on amazon....Betty Edwards.
It's basically about neuroplasticiticy or changing your brain so it does what you want it to but it was advanced before its time.
I also did the right and left brain puzzles from pocket posh. Try it its a lot cheaper than a shrink!
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Actually my art teacher had us use the "Betty Edwards" method, by using your right brain and not your left. I'm a really creative person when drawing, and very good at it. Not creative at all when writing or talking because the *other* part wants to hide things before I can write them down or talk about them. The testing they did at school said I was not as good at the verbal problems or the ones that required some opinion, and better at the ones that were non-verbal and spatial.
I'm also super good at math and science and solving puzzles.
And there is this thing you can do to see if your right and left side can interact, where you hold your thumb out in your left hand and your index finger on your right, and then you switch them so you have finger-left, thumb-right. I'm very good at it and it takes no practice but other people have a hard time doing it unless they practice.
For me the left side seems to be the one generating the other part that wants to hide emotions. I wouldn't say it's really a voice but more like a side in the argument my brain is having about whether or not to do something.
Oh and I haven't been to a neurologist but I think the first 2 psychiatrists were neuropsychologists.