Voices

My voices are driving me crazy right now it sucks that even on meds I gave to deal with them

that sucks. is there anything that makes them go away? can you take a sleeping pill and just go to bed?

I get voices too. good luck.

Talk to your psychiatrist about getting on some different meds. Those aren't working.

That's interesting. I never used to talk to anyone about my 'voices' when I was actually hearing voices. I always heard voices when I 'drifted away' - in the world but out of contact with the world or anyone in it.
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Have you ever talked to someone, (a real person when you were hearing voices and told the real person what you were hearing generally or step by step in detail.
If so did it change anything about the way you were feeling about the voices or change the nature content or amount of the voices themselves?

Would it make no difference or make a difference?
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If it would make a difference then maybe you could try to find someone to talk to, face to face when you are hearing voices and see what develops.

this is a good question. i told my therapist this, after the fact. like after it happened. but i generally dont talk about it. i find it too embarrassing. i dont hear anything when someone is speaking if its a voice saying like...like talking. but if its my name being called or silly non-word stuff i hear it. i wont talk about it though.

I dont know if it would change anything about the voices. I've only talked about my voices in person to a therapist. I dont really have anyone around that i can talk to about them, it's hard to find someone besides a therapist that I can talk to about them without feeling embarresed

There is the voices and there is how you feel about them. Those are two different things.
This is very important to understand. You can feel something, and yet feel something else about what you are feeling.Maybe you can't change the experience of hearing voices but you can change your feeling of fear, frustration or refusal to accept the experience etc. Though that can take some time.

It's somewhat like what I thought. I think a person can hear voices while talking to someone - but sort of like in between when they are phasing out of the conversation.
Then there is the final case where you could hear voices while talking to someone and be talking about the voices you are hearing. Actually, I never heard anyone report doing this.

In any case, I think it's evident you don't have to think of voices as something completely out of control and no connection to reality even though it mays seem that way. We can ground that what we are doing in life, at the moment , in the moment , has some effect on the experience of voices.

And it is precisely that, that most people hearing voices are socially isolate without much of anyone to trust to talk about their experiences of hearing voices especially when they are occurring.

So, I empathize with your experience, I've been there, I know what it's like. Maybe work towards trying to find someone you can talk to about this experience, hopefully in real time, when they are driving you nuts, maybe you can find someone to talk to or phone.

You won't be able to avoid being embarrassed. Work towards trying to find someone you can trust to feel embarrassed with.

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Hi Newtus!
Yeah you see! Everyone is saying the same thing. There is a great deal of use to talk about this experience of hearing voices with someone who understands it The fact that you feel something while talking about it is empowering or on the road to self-empowerment.

I get the same thing, but Im not taking meds and istead of voices I sometimes hear scream and it freaks me out.

My T asked me how voices were and right as i was telling her, "lately they've been pretty good, " meaning i hadnt heard them, one, " started saying, " tell the b***** to shut the f up." And it kept going on while i was telling her how the voices had stopped. Actually they had been pretty quiet until that very moment so since she was asking abot the previous week, i wasnt e xactly lying. She never asjed if i was hearing voices right then. Lol.

My voices are triggered like that ^^^
once they are they dont stop. anything, anything can trigger them though. talking about it out loud is tough so thats one thing that will trigger them.

i so so so wish i could talk more openely about them but i just...i just cant. so my therapist doesnt know the full extent of them.

Yeah. I dont think T's ever know the full extent of things. I really try. It would have been easier to share with her what was going on maybe if the voice was saying more flattering things to her. It was a double whammy. Number one, im hearing a voice right now. Number 2: he/she is saying really mean things about you. Also, i dont think she can help me with the voices. So if i think she cant help me with something, i dont talk to her about it.

i kinda of feel like that. that if i dont think she can help me i dont say anything. because i have schizoaffective disorder some symptoms are just...idk how to explain...medicine has never helped my extreme paranoia for example.
it doesnt make it go away at all but therapy helps my distress from it so i talk about it. so maybe i mean voices really. but i dont go into detail about both. i mean...also like my focus issues...i can only do that by meds. and i do take the meds for that. but i wont be on it for long unfortunately.

Why cant you keep taking your meds? I think my voices were mad at my T because she wants to stop them with antipsychotics and realky i already explained to her we need to communicate. I have pieces/ voices that help me do certain things and then i help other pieces / voices when they need help. We are like a network. Sometimes we need each other; sometimes we don't, but we have to be able to communicate. I think that's why the voices got mad because she doesnt get it. It's like she wants me to amputate my arms but worse. The thing she does that helps me is neurofeedback for my ptsd and nightmares. That seems to have helped. :-) and i take comfort in the fact that no one can make me take meds im not comfortable with.

im on 5. one of them is for attention/focus but its usually not prescribed to those with symptoms of psychosis because it increases them. it works but it does increase them. but i was able to get on it by a hospital pdoc 2 months ago only to get taken off by an outside doc a month later. i have LITERALLY tried for 6 years to get on it. it wouldve helped me SO much in high school and it does in college like ive never been able to do ANYTHING before til it. ever since i was Dxed as schizoaffective 6 years ago they said "i dont prescribe adhd to psychotic diagnoses". every single one without fail said that. i still need it though so bad. or i seriously will not be able to accomplish anything. its not like i havent tried to ask. thats one thing i actually was and am willing to take meds for and they just say no.

I just started neurofeedback and it helps my concentration tons. It also helped my anxiety and nightmares. Maybe it could help your concentration too?

maybe so i will look into it
thank you for that