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Voices are really getting to me at the moment
there telling me to do bad things like stab my husband and hurt other people
My psych is taking me off one of my anti psychotics soon and i dont think ill be able to handle the voices with out the medication but he dont seem to care at all
just wants me off them
My husband knows am bad at the moment but dont know what else i can do
i can call the crisis team but they will tell me to some more medication so i could ask my husband for them

so tired of them they are there all the time
there nothing i can do about it am starting to think my psych dont believe me or something

Asphyxia

Can you try listening to loud music via headphones? I usually find that helpful for loud voices

Also my CMHT doesn't believe me either so I understand how much that sucks

*Willow*

[tryinghard973]

Originally Posted by -Asphyxia-

Voices are really getting to me at the moment
there telling me to do bad things like stab my husband and hurt other people
My psych is taking me off one of my anti psychotics soon and i dont think ill be able to handle the voices with out the medication but he dont seem to care at all
just wants me off them
My husband knows am bad at the moment but dont know what else i can do
i can call the crisis team but they will tell me to some more medication so i could ask my husband for them

so tired of them they are there all the time
there nothing i can do about it am starting to think my psych dont believe me or something

W

Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23

Asphyxia

Can you try listening to loud music via headphones? I usually find that helpful for loud voices

Also my CMHT doesn't believe me either so I understand how much that sucks

*Willow*

Woe this really makes me think im jusr bi polar. When you guys say voices what fo you mean by that. Nobody had yet to answer this question for me. Like do you guys actually hear voices telling you to do this. Can someone please explain this to me.

Originally Posted by tryinghard973

When you guys say voices what fo you mean by that. Nobody had yet to answer this question for me. Like do you guys actually hear voices telling you to do this. Can someone please explain this to me.

Well for me they sound like real people are talking. It is either in my head or located outside my head. Typically they say negative things. They also sometimes told me to hurt myself. I also hear random words like "cinnamon" and nonsense words, but they happen less often for me. HTH

*Willow*

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Av been having really bad days i am listening to music through head phones
but there louder than them they are taking me medication off me
they dont care that i still hear the voices
Some of the voices are telling me to kill myself maybe i will

I'm sorry that they're so loud Asphyxia and that they're telling you to hurt yourself

I try telling myself that just because the CMHT doesn't believe me, doesn't mean that I shouldn't believe me (as in I shouldn't buy into their lies but remember what is true for me). I had my medication stopped while still hearing voices, and there are coping mechanisms for voices that don't involve the use of medications. I know that Sometimes had a good technique involving spinning coins, but I'm not very good at imagery so couldn't really picture it, but you could search the forum for techniques to reduce voices. Far and above the best one for me is loud music through headphones. Even if I can still hear them over the music, eventually I am calmed by my favourite music and I fall asleep. I hope that you find something to help with your voices

Also when I am feeling suicidal, I try to think about all the people I will miss and who will miss me, how much I will miss my dog, all the places I will never visit and things I will never do if I kill myself. I know that your husband will be devastated if you killed yourself. So I hope that you can resist these voices because you are the one with the power to decide, not them. If you don't feel that you can keep yourself safe, then please seek help from your husband and/or A&E/crisis team.

All the best

*Willow*

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my husband is past caring he tells me to keep busy i shouted for him twice tonight he didnt see what was wrong and he didnt come throught to the bed room to check weather i was ok or not
am just a chore for him he'd be better off without me

I don't think it's true that he'd be better off without you It is hard caring for another person. Both as in difficult to do and as in difficult to understand what another person is going through. My Mum is sick a lot and I get tired and frustrated by that fact, and I'm not even her main caregiver, my father is! But I'd be devastated if anything happened to her, no matter how tired or annoyed I get by her constantly needing help. I'm sure your husband loves you and wants you to live, even if he might not be showing it to the best of his abilities right now. And telling you to keep busy is actually really good advice! I find distraction to be a great technique until feelings pass, as they invariably do. That's what I'm doing on PC right now!

*Willow*

[Sometimes psychotic]

I didn't realize this at the time but for me but determining what part of my brain was making the voices was key. I thought it was the right side of my brain but wasn't sure if it was a delusion of not. Well the two activities that stopped the voices were right brain activities. Right and left brain are very similar but quite specialized where left brain talks right brain sings. Singing either aloud or in my head stopped the voices even before I got medication unfortunately I complete forgot this technique after using it once and did not remember until much later. As willow mentioned the spinning coin thing that's about visualization and rotation of objects also a right brain activity and great for stopping my voices. So for me I honestly believe that trying a lot of thinking activities until you find one that stops the voices is key and once you have that you have control back and the voices are no longer a threat because you can stop them if you have to.

Yeah singing works for me too. Though not so great at night when in a house full of sleeping people! Lol

*Willow*