[DespondentDaisy]

Ok, so I've been trying to cut down the amount of times I find myself talking to myself whenever I'm alone by myself. It's weird and I don't want to get caught talking to myself out in public someday accidentally because of it because I know it won't look good. I just caught myself again and had to post because I'm curious to find out if I'm not alone on this. Could talking to oneself be therapuetic? I woul think like therapy, when one says something outloud they would get more clarity and realize it's absurdness or brilliance etc. Right? I hope. I don't know. . . . Maybe it's a product of living alone for too long?

DespondentDaisy -- i too live alone and i too find myself subvocalizing. this is totally within the norm as long as the frequency with it does not occur continuiously.
I live with a pet, and i talk to the pet. I am still void of people in the room, but sometimes talking to oneself provides insight into a problem, this is simply the phenomena of 'thinking out loud' and i find it to be perfectly within social norms.

[optimize990h]

I find that it helps. I agree that one does not want to talk to oneself in public. I feel that mine comes from isolation as well, but sometimes what I say people usually ignore so....

[missbelle]

LOL...It's thinking out loud, and I have done it in public a few times...OOPS!..People do look at you strangely don't they?????....LOL

[BatsAndButterflies]

You know... I think I talk to myself more when there are people around than when I'm alone. :P I have conversations with myself in my head when I'm alone. There is also music playing in my head constantly! Is that weird? Right now it's Mr. Moonlight.

[lizardlady]

I talk out loud to myself and my critters. Some times it's thinking out loud, some times it's a stress reliever. My co-workers have gotten used to it.

[misscath007]

I do it too, although not continuously. I don't think anything is wrong with it, I think of it as an internal dialogue said out loud. Think it depends on the frequency too, too much and people think you are a little kooky!

[Puffyprue]

Originally Posted by BatsAndButterflies

You know... I think I talk to myself more when there are people around than when I'm alone.

me too i talk to myself all the time not just that i also talk to my things like my laptop and ect, i can talk to myself about the thing that i cant speak to other people , i found talking to yourself could be therapeutic

[di meliora]

Negative chatter is a bane.

[Piraeus]

I talk to myself sometimes. I think it is therapeutic.Sometimes I talk to the voices in my head. I tell them to take it down a notch, because they are too loud.

[IowaFarmGal]

I talk quite a lot. Today I was a bit overwhelmed at work and so was talking kind of continuously mainly about getting away and hiding.

Yep. Since I was a kid. Thinking out loud I call it. I carry on all the time when alone or thinking. ADD maybe? My head swims with stuff. Talking is another plane of that maybe. I don't think i could be alone and quiet. Would probably go .....mad???

[Miss Laura]

Oh god ye, I also use to talk to flowers when I was a kid- weirdo right!

I once told my Counsellor about talking to myself and she says its a coping mechanism. My ex best friend said it was a coping mechanism for lonieness. Actually she caught me talking to myself when I was on nightshift at work oops! Was a bit embarrassing.

I talk about the past out loud. I talk about before I was ill and what happened during my illness etc. I don't know if it's normal or not all I know is that I have urges to do it and when I have done it I feel better much better!

[Fresia]

Thanks for this thread. It helps to know not alone in doing this. I definitely talk to the animals. But then I noticed I have been doing it more lately that has nothing to do with them, especially when stressed and somewhat compulsive. It used to be just when alone but have been catching myself doing more when with others. It helps to think out loud sometimes to sort through things but other times, it just feels like relief to get the thoughts out of my head.

[pegasus]

Absolutely nothing wrong with it as long as it is positive self-talk, like having your very own little therapist helping you along the way. In fact I have opened up a chat room, many a time and had a great time talking to myself in there!

[beauflow]

I am some times conscious about self talking out loud... I work nights, and have for a while, and talk to myself-- My coworkers are ok with it, some yeah pick on me but those are the ones I pick on them too (so it is all in good fun of course and I joke about it myself).. Some of my talking to myself I have found is acceptable due to it is thinking out loud and letting others know around or passing by of something (i.e. vending machine why wont you take my money, it is just as good as everyone else's I swear! or damn printer, why do you do this to me with jamming my papers.. grr).

I was alone a lot as a child, it has been brought up perhaps that is why I have talked to myself a lot due to as a child I did it a lot and it is a habit-- I like what Ms Laura said as well- a coping mechanism as well-- I tend do talk out loud when something is bs, and will say so as well...

I talk to the animals, and even the ones out side, and trees; i really don't care today if others think it is strange- living things are living things-- I have heard talking to house plants can actually make them grow better... perhaps that is just another odd person like me that is just justifying the talking? I am not sure.

Originally Posted by di meliora

Negative chatter is a bane.

and yes-- Negative chatter of oneself is bad!! Or just Negative chatter in general! Negative energy will follow negative energy at least I do believe...

[KaylaLee]

yep, talk to myself alot sometimes cause I'm storywriting - in that case DEFINITELY when alone - usually like solo roleplay - i'm one character, i imagine and respond to the others. tis fun. think its cause I miss playing...

[BatsAndButterflies]

That sounds awesome KaylaLee. Sometimes I'll act out certain conversations with people that would probably never happen

How interesting...I do that and have for as long as i can remember. Little fictional conversations...truly odd but very entertaining. What's that all about? My mind just flurries like that...not distressing as i said....it's like I'm entertaining myself somehow. ADD related??? Probably some phenomena or another.

I have come the realization that I talk to myself incessantly when I am hypomanic. Must be a manifestation of that pressured speech thing for me. I haven't talked to myself much in a long while, not since my meds have stabilized me a bit.