[guy1027]

I have been getting pretty bad intrusive thoughts, and I'm certain that they are a result of hearing voices because everything I hear is always negative or threatening, and it ends up giving me negative and unwanted thoughts.

Not to mention, am almost certain that someone can see my thoughts, because the negative thoughts that I get are immediately followed by negative comments in another person's voice (which has been the same voice the whole time I've experienced psychosis).

No medicine has been effective in putting a stop to the voices, which leads me to believe that they're real and somebody is doing this on purpose to me.

Whatever I look at, the voices can either read to me, or explain in great detail, without me even thinking anything.

So all in all, I believe that I'm being spied on, having my thoughts listened to, and having them seen by someone.

They have all been too real, and in too much detail to be my own voice.

Someone with a similar experience or knowledge care to help/exlpain?

[kaliope]

hi guy
maybe you have to try other medicines. it took me quite a while to find the right meds. welcome to psych central. you will find we have several forums where you can post about your concerns and receive feedback from other members. you will get a lot of support here. again, welcome

[guy1027]

Originally Posted by kaliope

hi guy
maybe you have to try other medicines. it took me quite a while to find the right meds. welcome to psych central. you will find we have several forums where you can post about your concerns and receive feedback from other members. you will get a lot of support here. again, welcome

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I've tried a couple different medications now. First was risperidone, then zyprexa, and now I'm taking seroquel which none have been effective to the point they stopped the voices completely.

[Angelique67]

Originally Posted by guy1027

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I've tried a couple different medications now. First was risperidone, then zyprexa, and now I'm taking seroquel which none have been effective to the point they stopped the voices completely.

I had a similar problem with a man torturing me when I tried to sleep the past 5 years. But finally after 3 months on 10 mg Abilify, it's mostly gone. But I thought he was a real person and I moved several times to try to get away.

[guy1027]

Originally Posted by Angelique67

I had a similar problem with a man torturing me when I tried to sleep the past 5 years. But finally after 3 months on 10 mg Abilify, it's mostly gone. But I thought he was a real person and I moved several times to try to get away.

Was it only while you try to sleep? Cause mine is usually more often than that. I still find it hard to believe that it's not real and believe someone is secretly eavesdropping on every move that I make.

What medicines did you try before Abilify, that were to no effect? Did they have you on seroquel,zyprexa,or risperidone?

[guy1027]

Not only that but anytime I look at anything the voices speak of whatever it is I'm looking at; they are even able to read something to me, as opposed to reading it myself, in my own voice. I can hear it being read, coming from outside my head it seems.

I can also feel almost bass/vibrations in my body whenever they speak.

To add to this statement.. my feet on the floor vibrate everytime they speak, so that leads me to believe there's some sort of speaker system, or since I live in a condo, some neighboring condo.

If it was only coming from inside my head, how would I feel the vibrations on my feet and computer chair?

[guy1027]

I've heard the voices say many things that also make it harder to believe they're just in my head.
One night when I could hear a group of guys in a car driving to my house, I heard one of them say "he's fine with the fact that you broke into his house?"
At that point, I then heard the car turn around.

Since I've been hearing the voices, I've also heard people who have lived above us following me and my family throughout the house, even into the bathroom.

[Angelique67]

Originally Posted by guy1027

Was it only while you try to sleep? Cause mine is usually more often than that. I still find it hard to believe that it's not real and believe someone is secretly eavesdropping on every move that I make.

What medicines did you try before Abilify, that were to no effect? Did they have you on seroquel,zyprexa,or risperidone?

Yes, only when I tried to sleep. I thought it was a real person, a psychopath stalker. It was horrible. I also could not believe he wasn't real. It still confuses me how it could have been only in my head since I actually have a couple of recordings of him (but a lot of the recordings just have me screaming in an empty room).

Since this started in 2009 I was briefly on Geodon which didn't help (only a few days of it), and then on Abilify this year. I had to take it for three months before it finally started working.

Before this decade, yes I had been on Zyprexa, Risperdal and Seroquel but I didn't have this same set of symptoms then - it was my original problem I had since early childhood. But the Abilify is helping all around. Not completely for the original problem but a little, and a lot for hearing that voice.

By the way, I also hear the person upstairs from my apartment walking and following me from room to room. I just don't really notice it though anymore if that makes sense.

I think what you're going through are delusions unless you could get anyone else to confirm they are hearing the same things you are. Give the med a chance to work. It may take several weeks or even a few months like mine did to start working.

[guy1027]

I've been taking seroquel at 600mg for almost a month, but was taking 300mg for close to a year now. If it was going to work in getting rid of the voices it should have done so by now. It does however help me to get to sleep, however that's about the only beneficial factor to it.

[Angelique67]

Originally Posted by guy1027

I've been taking seroquel at 600mg for almost a month, but was taking 300mg for close to a year now. If it was going to work in getting rid of the voices it should have done so by now. It does however help me to get to sleep, however that's about the only beneficial factor to it.

Well, give it a couple more months at the higher dose. I'm extremely surprised it took so long for the Abilify to kick in for me but I had been taking much lower doses for weeks also with no affect. But when I started on 10 mg it did take the three months. So maybe the atypicals just need a long time before they start kicking in.

[guy1027]

Originally Posted by Angelique67

I had a similar problem with a man torturing me when I tried to sleep the past 5 years. But finally after 3 months on 10 mg Abilify, it's mostly gone. But I thought he was a real person and I moved several times to try to get away.

Originally Posted by Angelique67

Well, give it a couple more months at the higher dose. I'm extremely surprised it took so long for the Abilify to kick in for me but I had been taking much lower doses for weeks also with no affect. But when I started on 10 mg it did take the three months. So maybe the atypicals just need a long time before they start kicking in.

I don't know.. I just feel that I've been on seroquel long enough to work if it was going to. I just recently switched from wellbutrin to zoloft and that helped with the intrusive thoughts quite a bit. I think I'd like to move on from seroquel, just not sure what to try next.

[Angelique67]

Originally Posted by guy1027

I don't know.. I just feel that I've been on seroquel long enough to work if it was going to. I just recently switched from wellbutrin to zoloft and that helped with the intrusive thoughts quite a bit. I think I'd like to move on from seroquel, just not sure what to try next.

You could hopefully talk about that with your pdoc? I have a feeling any of them would have gotten rid of that voice on a high enough dose but Abilify has the fewest side effects for me so I'm happy it finally did start working. And I'm very embarrassed I told everyone for years I was being stalked and they all thought I was delusional and I kept insisting I wasn't. Oh well. :/

[Skasen_03]

What about trying a typical antipsychotic? They have more side effects and are more sedating but if nothing else is working and you really want them gone maybe it's worth a shot. I had luck with Risperdal but abilify and Seroquel weren't good for me. I was on the highest possible dose of Seroquel and ended up with serotonin toxicity because of it. Abilify just gave me incredibly bad akathisia. You said Risperdal didn't work for you though and obviously it's different for everyone.

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[worthit]

I got extremely agressiv

[worthit]

Aggressive on Abilify. Glad I'm off it.

[rumishams]

i have intrusive thoughts which i won't describe but which are violent. i thought i would try what that woman in the ted talk referred to in how she dealt with her voices. i would think about why i was having that symptom. what that thought represented and why i might feel that way.

i was sexually abused as a psych patient by a psychiatrist and i think that lead to some of it.

my medication, invega, works very well. i don't think i've heard anything except things that were actually happening since stopping drinking. i think weed might make me paranoid too, though i haven't partaken of marijuana since this summer.