Who is talking to me?

123crazyornot · Oct 22, 2010, 07:10 PM

I need to ask what may be deemed a stupid question but in order to understand more about what is going on with me, I need to clarify something, so apologies if this has been answered elsewhere and I have not seen it.

When you say that you hear voices, do you mean that you hear them inside your head or outside? I have conversations with myself all the time with altering opinions and arguing entailed scenarios. I am a bit confused as to I should tell my PDoc that I hear voices if this is not the case and I am confused over the meaning. Could someone please clarify if I am hearing voices or experiencing alters?

Thank you

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Miracle1986 · Oct 22, 2010, 07:15 PM

My husband talks to myself all the time... and will have full conversations!
So he often knows what will happen when he has the conversation with me,
because he has "already had the conversation" LOL

Our "voices" are inside our heads
if you hear voices that are outside your head (like if you hear it and then you look around a room to see who said it,
that may be a schizophrenic episode (but you know we at PC can not diagnose you, so I highly recommend you talk to a professional)

123crazyornot · Oct 22, 2010, 08:25 PM

What you describe with your husband is what I am talking about except I can take it to the next level and actually believe I have already had the conversation. I also have a running commentary in my head when others talk to me but can confuse my head chatter with actual conversation which leads to embarrassing consequences at times especially as I will break conversation mid flow because the convo in my head has become more interesting and so of I go. Is this normal? I know everyone talks to themselves in times of stress etc and that is normal but what if it carries on constantly to the point of sharing a private joke with yourself and finding this completely natural for you? I'm probably not explaining this right, ( have the same problem with PDoc), but I would be lost without "me", but need to know if this is classed as hearing voices in the typical description or is it alters or normal? Just really confused. Have tried to explain to my PDoc but I don't think she fully realises what I am saying, (prob the same here), this is constant. To put it plainly, everyone should understand the feeling of smiling at a remembered event and or sadness, but what if this event is in your head in that you had a conversation with yourself which you find hurtful or amusing but that conversation or event never really happened in the real world, just yours and sometimes the line gets blurred so you are unsure of real or fictional events so cannot trust your own memories because you are unsure if they are real or not. I hope that explains it better. Just really trying to describe this feeling is proving difficult so I hope it is coherant enough to understood by others

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anderson · Oct 22, 2010, 08:57 PM

I/we understand it is confusion exspecialy if you are just learning to hear one another. For us the truth is do those we hear take control of the body to do their own thing. It is hard for most people that are single minded do can not concieve that which is different. For those that are mutiple minded it is a different and once the skills are learned then it will be easier to tell the different.
for us we tell the pdoc that we hear each other but have yet to hear a voice not of our own.
like the others said we are not there so we can not tell you what to do or how to do it we just know how those within me handle it.
good luck, safe thoughts and hugs from all if us to you~