[Bitsandpieces]

Two or three times, a while ago, I experienced something that my psychologist dismissed as "a mental cryout", but really scared and puzzled me.
What happened was that, while I was thinking, of nothing in particular really, a sort of "shouting" voice went off in my head: my voice, overlapping my regular, conscious thoughts, which I didn't CONTROL, it wasn't something I was thinking at all, just my own voice shouting sentences over and over, which gradually died down. What really freaked me out was how different it was from the way I'm used to my thoughts being, I don't know how to explain it, normal thoughts are something that you are "doing" on purpose, even when they're just random and you don't know where they come from, you're the one wording them and know why they're there. This was like something external, I had no idea where it came from.
Do any of you know what this could be? Has anyone experienced something like it? Does it have a name?

[jnorton43]

I don't know if I actually had an episode like that. But I experience partial seizures, as well as grand mal. And I sometimes act similar, making no sense at times, and telling the truth at other times. Telling someone what I think of them without even realizing what I am saying. Crying out when I feal that extra burst of electricity.

[Perna]

Normal thoughts are something you are doing on purpose? I don't think we have that control. I think thoughts come in willy-nilly and where we go with them is all we control. If I tell you not to think about blue elephants; you instantly do (instead of pink, even! :-)

I haven't had a voice shouting; I did have a men's "group" sitting around "judging" me for a bit, commenting negatively. It's all something our unconscious creates, just like we do our dream scenarios. My T "got rid" of my group of men by telling me to tell them she didn't believe in them She is a little woman and the idea of my saying to this group of men, "My T says to tell you she doesn't believe in you" and imagining how angry that could make them (but what can they do? they're just voices in my head) just amused heck out of me; that she, so small, could say that without being anxious or afraid/giving it a second thought. They "disappeared" and were never heard from again.

Maybe think of them as a "shout out"? You could start giving deliberate "shout outs" to good things? http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...term=shout-out

[pixie78]

my mind tends to do that when im hell bent on being distructive or a danger to myself.i dont know if that was the case with u, but its like your minds trying to tell u something u need to listen to.most people dont control thier own thoughts hence we tend to suffer from negative frames of mind, instead of correcting the downward spiral of self critical thoughts or self serving thoughts we use to justify our right to feel like hell.
it might be worth writing down what those words are shouting out about,it could be a self preservation tool your mind had come up with so u take stock of what u are thinking and feeling.good luck.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Bitsandpieces

Two or three times, a while ago, I experienced something that my psychologist dismissed as "a mental cryout", but really scared and puzzled me.
What happened was that, while I was thinking, of nothing in particular really, a sort of "shouting" voice went off in my head: my voice, overlapping my regular, conscious thoughts, which I didn't CONTROL, it wasn't something I was thinking at all, just my own voice shouting sentences over and over, which gradually died down. What really freaked me out was how different it was from the way I'm used to my thoughts being, I don't know how to explain it, normal thoughts are something that you are "doing" on purpose, even when they're just random and you don't know where they come from, you're the one wording them and know why they're there. This was like something external, I had no idea where it came from.
Do any of you know what this could be? Has anyone experienced something like it? Does it have a name?

this happening is actually quite normal. some places call it having a conscience others call it the internal critic, others call it episodes. others call it auditory hallucination, others call it thinking in stereo, Some call this Voices, Ive even heard it called brain misfires. everyone calls it a different thing depending on their location cultural background and treatment providers.

what to call it, call it what ever your treatment providers call it and follow what ever treatment plans they said will help calm your "voices" mental outcry,

by the way here where I live and work normal thoughts are both the kinds of thoughts you have on purpose (guided thoughts) and thoughts you dont control that just happen as a reaction to all that you are taking in through your senses.

[Bitsandpieces]

Originally Posted by pixie78

i dont know if that was the case with u, but its like your minds trying to tell u something u need to listen to.(...)
it might be worth writing down what those words are shouting out about,it could be a self preservation tool your mind had come up with so u take stock of what u are thinking and feeling.good luck.

Actually, the thing that puzzled me the most was that the sentences being repeated made very little sense. I don't remember exactly what they were, but I think it was just a couple words from a previous "normal" thought that were just being repeated, shouted. They weren't anything of any significance, they weren't telling me anything, just shouting a few words over and over, scaring the living crap out of me!

[NightRain]

Dissociation? Just a thought.

[Michimu]

This is a bit different than what happens with me,in that you seem to go on auto pilot. But I have had situations where I had thought I had made a spoken reply to someone,and when I would ask why they didn't reply,they would answer,Because you didn't say any thing.'' But in all honesty,I had thought I had been speaking because I was thinking so strongly.I haven't a clue as to what this would be called,and have even tried looking this up on line and recieved a no results found message. Perhaps if you know a doctor,you could ask him/her? And when you do this again,it might be good to write the words down as they are thought out,then that way you can keep a log of what words you have thought while on auto pilot,and number of times also. This is the only suggestion I can think of right now.

[Rhiannonsmoon]

My mind does that when the others break free...their voices have been getting closer again recently, like a radio on constantly in the background...then one pushes through because they've found a break in the seal. Goddess help me!