Thread: Is This Normal?
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Old May 04, 2016, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by BeneathTheSmile View Post
I have a voice in my head. It's not external at all, I don't hear it, it's kind of like my stream of consciousness in that sense, how you "hear" your thoughts. It isn't really me, though. It's separate from my thoughts and I can talk to it sometimes, if it feels like it. There's two of them actually-a female, older teen, maybe 16-17, who's bossy and rude. She talks faster than my thoughts and she's the one who gets more angry, she has the voice that takes over when she gets mad and I have to get her to calm down to return to rational reason, which sounds weird most likely. But sometimes she talks to me. And then the second one scares me more, it doesn't have a gender but the voice is deeper and it rarely comes up, it won't talk or reason with me. It just tells me to do things. For example, I run up the stairs-unless it says I can be accompanying with anyone else-and they say I have to, and if I don't reach the top out of site of anyone else also going up, they say I have to die. It commands me to do other things, threatens me. I thought this was normal anxiety things, but I've been doing more reading about it and now I'm thinking it isn't. Although, like I said, it's not that I hear them, it's like I think them. Does that make sense? I'm seeing my therapist tomorrow and I'll bring it up if I have time, although I only have an hour and there's a lot of school stuff I have to talk about, so I might not, but any thoughts?
It could be multiple personalities or it could be anxiety. I used to hear all sorts of very nasty voice in my head when I was in depression and now that I got out of my tunnel, I only hear myself and my inner child. We all have an inner child, he's often immature and can be quite whiny. Our adult self is more often the opposite, disciplined and calm. It's normal. When they live in harmony, there are no problems. We all hear voices in our head, it's when it becomes a threat for your life that it becomes abnormal.

Bring that up with your therapist tomorrow though, he will tell you more on the subject.

Good luck, take care!