thank you very much for the reply john. yes i am seeing a counsellor about my thoughts on that and i acknowledge they are incorrect (working to see past them) so i see why you can't relate.
oh yes i talk to my voices quite regularly now. i am very sorry to hear about your story and i hope you are moving on.
i used to try and either distract myself, reason with myself until the voice went or communicate with the voices/hallucinations but i have no time to do that right now. right now i have to try and ignore them.
yes my sleep is nearly always interrupted too