I want to tell my doctor what my voices are saying but I can't.

I want to tell my doctor but I'm not allowed. Every time I try to say anything, my heart jumps to my throat and I can't. When I say anything online, just typing it out and not sending it to her makes my too uncomfortable. I feel like she will automatically make me go to the hospital. My anxiety flies through the roof try to say tiny things about them. I end up focusing on everything but my hallucinations and my secret thoughts and I'm worried my doctor is going to end up thinking I'm faking. My voices love to taunt me and tell me all the time that no doctor believes me because I'm "crazy".

What do I do if medicine doesn't work?

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So you haven't told her about your hallucinations or voices? What did you tell her that inspired her to prescribe meds for you? Are you taking meds that aren't working? It would probably be good for you to tell her if they aren't working so she can raise the dose or try another med. What are you taking?

Good luck, I hope things get better.

^ I'm pretty sure the doctor knows about her hallucinations... I think she just means she can't tell them about the content...

My psychiatrist has never really asked too many details about my voices, they were always satisfied with me saying that they are derogatory, comment on what I am doing or try to convince me of things.

They always ask if they are telling me to do things i.e. command hallucinations, which for me they don't... I think that is the only instance in which voices would get you hospitalized, if they were telling you to harm yourself or other people & you were having trouble resisting.

If medication isn't working for you then you have to work on coping mechanisms, which can be quite individual. However, the best possible thing you can do, is try to dismiss what your voices are telling you. Tell yourself, "it could be true, but it most likely isn't". Constantly rationalize & question what they are saying. That way you can gain some control over the voices, rather than just giving in to everything they say.

As for why you "can't" tell your doctor... is it because of your fear of being hospitalized solely, or are your voices telling you that you aren't allowed to? As I said, it's unlikely you'd get hospitalized for hallucinations alone, so I wouldn't worry about that too much. She will be used to hearing things like this too, so you shouldn't feel uncomfortable telling her either.

I hope that helps a bit... I mean you should tell her, but only as much as you are comfortable saying.

It seems that quite a few people in this forum have issues with either wondering if they're faking or they're worried about their doctors thinking they're faking. Why do you feel like this, that your doctor just wants to write you off as a faker?

There's nothing to gain from faking psychotic symptoms, there would be absolutely zero personal benefit to faking such a thing. Also, faking is something a person does on purpose. From what I've read of your posts you don't strike me as a faker.

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i had the same problem, i was going to a doc at the state hospital and he didnt want to hear my descriptions of what was happening. if you qualify your description by telling him/her that you are developing coping mechanisms that would maybe prevent any possible admittance to the ward.

i now have a home doctor and he listens and converses very politely. But like i said i have coping mechanisms and have improved alot over the last 6 months. i have techniques that stop the voices and tactiles like a switch.

i don't have anything helpful to say that no one else hasn't already said, but i'm trying to overcome the same problem so you're not alone. and i don't think you sound like a faker at all.

dont ever be afraid of saying what your voices say,you wont get locked up unless you actively act on them.

i already have recognised pyschosis [technicaly paranoid schizophrenia, that label not diagnosed due to having severe autism] and it has been reasonably ok until the past two weeks ive had major sleep deprivation and ive had terrible voices,telling me to kill people,when i originaly went through the first phase of schizophrenia i acted upon my voices,my nieces were put on an at risk register, everyone feared me.

a week ago when i went to the doctor for sleep deprivation he asked me what the voices were saying and i told him straight. he didnt bat an eye lid and he said that must be distressing for you,he was very sympathetic,i was prescribed a sedative.

i hope this helps you understand what doctors can be like,they dont want to have you sectioned as theres bed shortages everywhere.

Thank you everyone for replying. I just don't know how to shake that thought. It's not only my voices telling me not to but the fear it induces when I try.. I just can't.

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Keep taking your meds. you need to explore your guilt/shame to ease the voices, if you see a talk doctor discuss it with them

I understand this fear i never came about the voices until i was admitted to my first psychiatric hospital and before that they told me i couldn't talk to anyone so i rarely did how i managed to speak up takes courage and heart and its understandable your not ready to obtain it but practice reaching for it share what you can

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