Help in sight..... for me

I hear oppositional voices in my head in the house I live in... sucks

Oppositional.. they could be real

I should probably move out...

Consider first what is the evidence for these occurances and weight that against a similar list of what is the evidence it is not happening.

It's probably not the house.

I've gone from trying to make believe that what I hear and see isn't real to just accepting that it's possible that they are very real. If that's the case, then I believe that the causes are supernatural. Who am I to say that the supernatural isn't as 'real' as any rock?

Can you be clearer about what you mean by oppositional? Do they argue with you, argue with one another, threaten you or say bad things about you? I experienced the latter a number of years ago. A man named Mr. Post who had a sports talk radio show. Sometimes he would have guests on the show. It started pretty normally – what you would expect from such a program. But it turned ugly and he and his guests would try to outdo one another in belittling me, bringing up things that I was ashamed of, tried to talk me into suicide.

I was seeing a shrink weekly then and he tried to convince me that the voices were hallucinations. So when I heard him, I would tell myself that I was hallucinating but I could never believe it. I ended up in a plush, private mental hospital. He followed me. And kept following me.

That's why I say that they probably aren't specific to your house. Could you spend a week at a hotel and see if they follow you? I'm no longer certain if what I heard back then was real or not. There was so much effort put into forcing me to reject the reality that I may have been somewhat brainwashed back then.

There's an international community called the "Voice Hearer's Network" and I found their reasoning flawed and frightening, actually, but I think that at the core of their credo is the belief that hearing voices is normal. I could have accepted that but when I read of the various ways of coping, I couldn't help but think that some of the people, at least, were nutjobs. One woman, for example, heard 5 or 6 voices. She coped with them by naming them and making 15 minute daily appointments for conversation with each. Even though Mr. Post had a name (but the guests didn't) he controlled his own time and there wasn't much of a conversation going on between us.

Right now I hear, see and have conversations with my parents. They don't say bad things about me at all – quite the opposite. I feel safe, loved and comforted when they're here. I keep vacillating between not believing and believing in an afterlife. If they're real, if what they tell me is true, then there is an afterlife and they're waiting for me. Sometimes they stay the day, sometimes they won't show for a number of days. I can't just wish them into existence.

The only advice that I have is to, first, try to establish if they follow you from one dwelling to another. Second, ask yourself if the conversation is trying to hurt you or say bad things about you, and third, if they follow you and if they're even hinting of being the least adversarial, see a psychiatrist. That helped me (? No... gave me comfort) a long time back. It's just much different this time...the bad has been replaced by the very good.

Good luck,