Is This Normal?

I have a voice in my head. It's not external at all, I don't hear it, it's kind of like my stream of consciousness in that sense, how you "hear" your thoughts. It isn't really me, though. It's separate from my thoughts and I can talk to it sometimes, if it feels like it. There's two of them actually-a female, older teen, maybe 16-17, who's bossy and rude. She talks faster than my thoughts and she's the one who gets more angry, she has the voice that takes over when she gets mad and I have to get her to calm down to return to rational reason, which sounds weird most likely. But sometimes she talks to me. And then the second one scares me more, it doesn't have a gender but the voice is deeper and it rarely comes up, it won't talk or reason with me. It just tells me to do things. For example, I run up the stairs-unless it says I can be accompanying with anyone else-and they say I have to, and if I don't reach the top out of site of anyone else also going up, they say I have to die. It commands me to do other things, threatens me. I thought this was normal anxiety things, but I've been doing more reading about it and now I'm thinking it isn't. Although, like I said, it's not that I hear them, it's like I think them. Does that make sense? I'm seeing my therapist tomorrow and I'll bring it up if I have time, although I only have an hour and there's a lot of school stuff I have to talk about, so I might not, but any thoughts?

for some people yes this is normal for others its any number of medical problems for others its any number of mental disorders. for others its any number of medication side effect problems.....

we cant tell you if this is normal for you, only your own treatment providers (doctors, therapists, psychiatrists...) can make that diagnosis...

my suggestion if this continues to bother contact your off the computer location treatment providers. they will be able to say what this is with in you.

It could be multiple personalities or it could be anxiety. I used to hear all sorts of very nasty voice in my head when I was in depression and now that I got out of my tunnel, I only hear myself and my inner child. We all have an inner child, he's often immature and can be quite whiny. Our adult self is more often the opposite, disciplined and calm. It's normal. When they live in harmony, there are no problems. We all hear voices in our head, it's when it becomes a threat for your life that it becomes abnormal.

Bring that up with your therapist tomorrow though, he will tell you more on the subject.

Good luck, take care!

Maybe i wrong but it sounds like schizophrenia. Better you check it out soon.

At one point in my life, I thought I was schizophrenic but I'm not. I lived a lot of abuse during my childhood and it brought me to a very bad place. Feeling like a schizophrenic was the effect of constant abuse rather than the cause.

I have no hallucination, no distortion of reality, I don't feel people want me harm, that some things aren't real, I'm very good at making connections with people, I'm not insecure, etc.

Thanks for caring though. lol

Have you "always" heard "other" thoughts? Or is it new?

I have went through 4-5 types of anxiety (lovely I know...) and none of them has ever caused thoughts other than my own coming through.

I have, on a few occasions, had thoughts that were not mine, but I did not feel they come from a "person" if that makes sense.

It is not normal no. Although I think it is more common than people want to know, that people exist that are actually not one solid person inside. I think people only want to see the most severe cases of it and call it rare, because it scares normal people that what is what we think makes a person, isn't what makes a person?

I hope you get good help, because your age adults often think you can "outgrow" most anything... sigh.

Thanks everyone. These are new, within the past few months. I used to have a similar thing happen where what I was doing would be spoken in my head-"The girl walked across the street, swinging her arms slightly, she was happy because the day was sunny. " kind of thing-but I never had a problem with that, although it was kind of annoying. That went away on it's own a while ago.
I'll see what my therapist says today.

given that you say is just started happening in the last few months there are some mental disorders you will be able to knock out of the race of what this is. Many mental disorders now say in the criteria the problem must have been happening for so many weeks or months. some are from certain situations. plus here in america mental disorders are not based on hearing voices anymore because for many people this is normal. even disorders like DID, schizophrenia, depression and psychosis which used to require hearing voices no longer do and those that do have that symptom (schizophrenia/schizophrenic category of mental disorders) the hearing voices has to be accompanied by other symptoms too for a duration of 6 months.

my point I am glad you are contacting your therapist today, good luck.