This makes me feel better about not telling them to begin with. The radio only bothers me when it keeps me up in the middle of the night. BUT, it's usually during a phase when I probably wouldn't be getting too much sleep anyway. I've learned to live with the other voices and it's not like their malicious... most of the time. Only when I get really depressed do hear the "They'd be better off without you" or "you really are a miserable little **** you know?" kind of thing. (Funny too is that the voice sounds like a feeble old lady most of the time.) But really, it's because I'm depressed anyway. It only further pushes an already negative mood. But it's clearly someone talking TO me rather than my own thoughts.
They don't really bother me too much all together, and it's not even a constant thing by any means. SOME times when I'm driving but I can still block it out or tell them to shut up.
I remember once when I was about, I want to say in the 4th grade, and I mentioned seeing people walking that weren't really there or seeing things in general that no one else would see (still happens very occasionally) and my friends seemed horrified. Pretty much from then on I just stopped talking about it and learned to live with it. But like you say, they rarely interfere with my day to day life. And when they do... I take the day off of work.
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.age: 34 female .bipolar I .psychosis .panic/anxiety disorder
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