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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
Technically inside voices are called pseudohallucinations, while outside your head are proper auditory hallucinations.
When I'm not doing as badly the voices are more internal, and when I was on aripiprazole/Abilify that was working, they were internal before they faded almost completely. The way I think of voices as my thoughts that my brain is getting confused about and attributing to others. So when they're internal, that's less bad/severe than when I think they're totally outside me.
If you are hearing outside voices and they put you in a brain scanner, the bit that is to do with hearing lights up when you have the voices, showing that your brain thinks that it is really hearing something without the external stimuli.
*Willow*
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I see by your profile you are located in the UK, UK and america sometimes do have different terms for the same thing...
example my own treatment providers and others here in NY which is in the USA do not call the voices .....pseudohallucinations .....and .....proper auditory hallucinations....like they do in the UK
here the voices are called hallucinations, psychosis, repressed memories, delusions, co consciousness, and many other terms /words too depending upon the persons diagnosis /other accompanying symptoms and the cause of the voices...
tonight I heard both internal and external voices..when I contacted my therapist we discovered the voices were directly related to the fact that I didnt sleep last night, I was on phone duty for work, which means the voices are just a completely normal thing that happens to me when I am sleep deprived.. the technical term for this is called sleep deprivation....
my point is that technically it may be called those things in your location but it may not be technically called the same elsewhere.