So, at times I'll wake every morning to a couple or possibly even several different voices talking to each other giving me advice and comments about stuff I do. Sometimes, during the day, one of them will call my name or something. Once in a while, I'll just be walking along and they'll make some kind of comment or something about me. I've experienced this for many years, in fact, since I was a real young kid and to be honest I think I would miss it quite a bit if I ever didn't experience it. I even remember the first time it happened when I was like 5 years old, and I even talked back. I walked outside because I didn't want anyone to suffer through seeing me having conversations with voices in my head and we just kind of chatted for a while and I realized that this guy in my head or rather a figure in my unconscious mind and he was actually quite nice and he motivated me to become a very outgoing and well liked person. This guy's name was David and I haven't heard or seen him since I was a young kid, but there are other voices now that I hear sometimes at night like when I'm falling asleep, waking up, sometimes during the day, and especially when lying awake in my bed. I can kind of control it and if I really want to not hear them I can sort of "shut the door" in my mind. Usually though, I don't mind hearing them at all because I have become quite accustomed to it. The voices I hear have been very helpful to me although they always speak to me in a profoundly and beautifully metaphorical sense and if anything I have over the years become much more glad that I experience them. There have been times though, unfortunately that I have seen horrible things like the rotting, bloody corpses that I saw in my bedroom when I was like 14 and the evil aliens that performed horrid experiments on me. Believe it or not, seeing these horrible things have actually made me a stronger person and I am glad that I have seen these hallucinatory horrors before my eyes. Last night, in fact, I heard voices and rather than the horrifying experience it is made out to be, it in fact, motivated me to try harder with some of my pursuits that I am engaged in these days. I heard a woman's voice that I hear a good bit telling me that I was "about to fail my classes" which although was not true, gave me reasons to think I should try even yet harder and I have accomplished a lot in the past couple of days. I'm sorry if all this looks really rambling and weird, because I totally know that it is. I probably sound insane as hell and I know that, I just wanted to share my inner experiences with some people who might benefit them. I added a trigger icon since I'm talking about my experiences with things that a lot of people with 'mental illness' are terrified and possibly tormented by. Also, I've been to doctors and all and yea they have thought I was insane

[kaliope]

hi steve
i had voices in my head too....i told pdocs and phd's about them and they were blown off as hallucinations and medicated away. i spent years with my t my anxiety getting worse and worse as t ignored my issues. i finally started with a new t that specialized in trauma and dissociative disorders. turns out those voices were alters and i have DID. i have learned many professionals dont know much about DID, so they just brush the symptoms away. now that the voices get to speak freely, my anxiety is much better. i am not saying this is the case for you. just a thought.

[Katieissweet]

I use to have internal voices I no longer have them and I'm not on medication,I see them as inherently spiritual- taunts or aids,in the other half of ancestry I descend from (purely tribal people) it's the most normal thing in the world to talk to or hear spirits ,it's only bizaare here.

Originally Posted by kaliope

hi steve
i had voices in my head too....i told pdocs and phd's about them and they were blown off as hallucinations and medicated away. i spent years with my t my anxiety getting worse and worse as t ignored my issues. i finally started with a new t that specialized in trauma and dissociative disorders. turns out those voices were alters and i have DID. i have learned many professionals dont know much about DID, so they just brush the symptoms away. now that the voices get to speak freely, my anxiety is much better. i am not saying this is the case for you. just a thought.

Is that like multiple personalities I know I definitely don't have that. I don't hear them all the time or anything either, just in the morning for a few minutes sometimes, sometimes a little bit during the day, and then at night when I'm in bed but still awake or as I'm falling asleep

Oh, also, to Katie, the thing is that it really isn't that bizarre to me. In a way it is, but in a way it really isn't and I can say that I have gotten fairly used to it and for me it really isn't a problem

[SmileHere]

Steve, are you on meds?
I used to hear voices too and liked them a lot (thought I've been talking to spirits or ancient deities or doing telepathy ), and now I've been on meds and I kinda miss them! lol

It's good they were encouraging you and you've taken a positive view of it all! Do you have a good therapist you can talk to about these things as well?

Originally Posted by SmileHere

Steve, are you on meds?
I used to hear voices too and liked them a lot (thought I've been talking to spirits or ancient deities or doing telepathy ), and now I've been on meds and I kinda miss them! lol

It's good they were encouraging you and you've taken a positive view of it all! Do you have a good therapist you can talk to about these things as well?

I'm actually not on medication or anything for this. I haven't been delusional about my voices in the way that you describe. I've always known that they were simply a product of my mind even though they certainly present themselves as incredibly real. The thing is that I don't really have difficulties or anything because of it so I don't really see that medication would be necessary and my family and psychologist have both agreed.

[Gr3tta]

Originally Posted by kaliope

hi steve
i had voices in my head too....i told pdocs and phd's about them and they were blown off as hallucinations and medicated away. i spent years with my t my anxiety getting worse and worse as t ignored my issues. i finally started with a new t that specialized in trauma and dissociative disorders. turns out those voices were alters and i have DID. i have learned many professionals dont know much about DID, so they just brush the symptoms away. now that the voices get to speak freely, my anxiety is much better. i am not saying this is the case for you. just a thought.

This has been my experience. I have heard voices since childhood. Recently the voices combined with some other stressers led me to seek mental health help. Although my experience started out bad, in the end I was properly diagnosed with DID and have found a T I really think can help me. Thank you for sharing your story.

And yours as well, steve.

[Silent Void]

I'm surprised people have voices they want to hear. Mine are nasty the majority of the time.

[Angelique67]

The thing I hear is horrible, IF it's a delusion.

[ChildlikeEmpress]

I have voices inside my head, too. It never occurred to me to talk to them on purpose or really try to pay attention to them until recently, because I've always been like that and I thought it was normal. I brought them up to my new T just before we ended on my first visit, so I have no idea what she's going to say about it -- she just said it wasn't normal.
Mostly they just do their own thing, talk to eachother, comment on things I'm thinking or doing, etc. Sometimes it gets pretty loud in my head!