Loud thoughts

Does anyone ever experience loud thoughts? Not voices or auditory hallucinations as such (I've never had those), but just thoughts that are too loud for your head and say the most random things.

For exampl, the last 5 minutes in my head the same words have been replaying "you're a cheeky b*stard" for no reason whatsoever! That as well as a load of other stuff I couldn't understand.

Has anyone ever had this?

It sounds like auditory hallucinations though. Do you think what you describe could be auditory hallucinations coming from inside the head?

There was a topic about this while ago where people say whether they hear auditory hallucinations inside the head and externally (typical auditory hallucinations).

I used to hear both and they are different.

This one time I was thinking about OCD and then a voice or.. like a person inside my head said the letters "OCD" quite loud in my head.

i would think of it as..

External auditory hallucinations: The TV in another room
Internal: Wearing headphones/earbuds.

Hmm... maybe, I'm not sure. One time when I was trying to fall asleep I was startled by a random cluster of super loud thoughts that came all at once in my head. I guess they could be auditory hallucinations but I just can't imagine me having those. I've had them (loud thoughts) on and off for awhile now, too.

Thanks for replying.

I get loud thoughts, it sounds more like intrusive thoughts common in OCD to me. My brain will repeat a phrase over and over and over for no reason. It's hard to concentrate on other things because my brain is thinking this. I get auditory ones and visual ones. Sometimes they are harmless words like yours or sentences and sometimes they are more violent and unsettling.

Hey. I haven't really looked into OCDs before. I always thought someone with obsessive compulsive disorder just had silly obsessions. I never would have thought it can cause intrusive thoughts. I don't know what I could have been obsessing about to have such random thoughts, though. Thanks for the reply

Do you literally hear your intrusive thoughts?

No, except for the time described above when I was startled when in bed, I wouldn't say so. It's just like they are being projected into my head and are louder than my ordinary thoughts and sometimes seem as though they're shouting. Sorry I'm not really good at explaining things.

No, they're in my head in my own voice but as twigg said they're louder then the other mundane things I'm trying to think about like what my professor is saying or what that guys name was again.

You should definitely look into. OCD is not only about the rituals. There's much more to it and intrusive thoughts are a common symptom that people don't realize is OCD.

Thanks I'm going to mention it to my doc next time I see him.

i get loud thoughts all the time...no one usually knows what i mean when i say that...im glad someone else knows what it is

I get loud thoughts, but also voices in my head and outside my head. For me they are quite different but the loud thoughts are hard to describe. When I hear voices inside my head they are similar to my inner voice that everyone has but the voices feel alien/not-me to me. My pdoc said they're pseudohallucinations because they're not outside my head, but pseudo doesn't make them any less distressing than auditory hallucinations. I also hear the voices outside my head, like I hear other people talking.

Now the loud thoughts are different. I identify them mostly as me rather than voices but they're very confusing and I can't usually work out what I'm thinking or if they really are pseudohallucinations but sounding far away. It's really hard to describe and makes thinking really difficult, like wading through mud. Is that what you mean by loud thoughts?

*Willow*

I identify them as mostly me too, but it's like I'm not thinking them myself, they just occur randomly and say the most random things. You know what I mean? They're also too loud and cloud out my normal thoughts and the only way I can stop them is by keeping myself busy. But sometimes they are always there (even when I'm trying to occupy my mind).

I get a lot of loud thoughts as well. Especially since I have a lot of contributing factors. Intrusive thoughts from OCD [not as bad as it used to be so I no longer list it as an active disorder]. Racing thoughts from mania. And thought implantation. That's what is considered a voice/thought/image/idea that is "in your head" but it doesn't feel like it belongs to you. That happens most often.

When I'm manic or getting close to manic I have a voice in my head swearing. I don't swear normally so it is hard to focus with "F this!" and "F You" repeating in my head. Like now.

My loud thoughts are OCD related too. I can "see" the thoughts act out in my head, sometimes very violent and suicidal things but they are not hallucinations. Sometimes they are dumb things too, like throwing my car keys down a storm drain. They are had to ignore and distressing but harmless once they pass.

Man - I'm SOOO glad that so many other people have these problems of "hearing" loud annoying obnoxious random thoughts 24/7 and also seeing things in your head play out like mini movies. They are so vivid and graphic that it's like the mini-movies are the true reality happening in front of me with actual reality a faint image juxtaposed behind the imagined scenes (and sometimes I don't think my brain is taking in reality at all... just watching the movies playing out and switching rapidly).

All day, every day, I'm constantly lost and sidetracked by the movie-like imagery playing out in my head (which btw I also don't physically see and I also have very graphic images) and the loud banter going on in my brain (which are definitely autonomous voices but not audible in the sense that I hear them like a person was talking between my ears). I CONSTANTLY keep having to snap myself back to reality and it is SO tiring..... Honestly, I get so fed-up sometimes by the loud inappropriate banter and swearing and screaming voices in my head that I literally shake my head and verbally "shuuush" the voices as if I'm trying to silence some other person in the room or reprimand the stupidity of what's going on in my head (which, you can imagine, does WONDERS for my self-esteem).

As for triggers: Seeing things/objects or hearing sounds (or sometimes nothing at all) in real life can trigger a whole onslaught of video-like movies playing out in my head of car crashes, funerals, random interactions with people, and sometimes I get a single word stuck in my head for days, playing over and over and over and over again. I can't control the triggers but it seems like everything around me has the capacity to set my brain off on a wild tangent.
On a side note, it's a wonder how anyone thinks I'm half sane, because the most I let people know about are the days that I'm totally floored by my depression and need everyone to bug out of my way so I don't start crying. I feel like if people knew half the things that went on in my brain and the sheer LOUDNESS of it they would simply admire that I can focus enough to hold a real conversation with anyone.

I'm diagnosed with OCD/Major Depression/PTSD with Bipolar traits (yay! A little sprinkle of everything!!!!) and I've always dealt with intrusive thoughts that repeat themselves for months on end, but lately it's just been a whole other LEVEL of stupid. My psychiatrist treats my imagery/brain-movies and banter as anxiety and intrusive thoughts only. I think, however, the intensity of it feels more bipolar then anything... I mean, how far away from bipolar mania are you if you have what I have described?

Between the being held hostage by my depression every day and the intrusive thoughts and the voices having a jolly ol' shouting match up in the ol' noggin, I have accepted that some days the best I can do is to go to sleep or lie in bed and just let my brain run loose like a dog on a leash. But as my mental illness continues it's spiral, it feels like my brain has me on the leash - determining what I can do in a day and determining it without any mercy or give.

From the moment I wake up each morning to the moment I hit my bed, I look forward to sleep providing a potential "break" from the chaotic mental reality I have on the go and as I am falling asleep, my brain seems to kick into anxiety over-drive and without the distractions of the day, the head videos and talking are the only things left in my awakened state of consciousness. The thoughts and movie-like scenes can switch so quickly from one image or thought to another in matters of seconds, and I reckon I lay awake sometimes for 2 hours with my thoughts jolting around from topic to topic every 3 seconds.
I'm so tired every morning I have 10 alarms set that don't wake me up.

Also, I'm curious - do you also tend to get really vivid dreams? I get really graphic, disturbing sexual dreams every once in a while that ruin my entire day because they are totally against my moral compass. As well, I find when I have really vivid dreams that I have hypersomnia and can't wake up (hence the 10 alarms every morning). I wake up in a delusional state from vivid dreams thinking they are real or having a delusional trance-like need to fall back asleep to "finish" the dream.... any thoughts? Do you get this too?

Anyways, I'm glad to know that perhaps I'm not the only one who finds loud talking brains worrisome and bothersome.

I get this too! Only once I heard them outside (and one of them freaked out!)
And the movie-like thing happens to me, but I zone out when one plays and can't remember whether I saw or imagined it.