[tom2123]

Hey all, so I have a question for those that hear or have heard voices. How exactly did they start? Was it just suddenly out of the blue and very loud/noticeable or was it a more gradual thing where maybe you thought you heard something and from there it grew louder and more obvious? Thanks in advance, -tom

[insilence]

they started by repeating the a-word through fridges and vents. then started mind controlling me using fear and the hope they would stop. found out they modulate using my back teeth and eyes. ive got ways of shorting them out though.

[ofthevalley]

Mine started suddenly. One day I was fine and the next I was hearing horrible voices. I was 16.

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Well, I remember that the first voice I ever heard was very loud and obvious and scared the pants off me! Then there was a gap of several months where I didn't have any. Then, I think, they started gradually, but I'm not as certain because my first experience is so vivid in my memory. They have stopped and started a lot over the years (different voices), with meds, and just because. Ultimately though, I think my answer would have to be both, in terms of over the years, and what is happening now.

Hope that helps!

*Willow*

I think my voices started suddenly.
It really started when I was 16, but I didn't get treatment for it until I was 17.
Even then, I think my voices were more related to PTSD than psychosis because at first it was like flashback-y voices, like I wasn't hearing random voices, they were the voices of my abuser. Then after that, they started to become more random and more psychosis-y than flashback-y.

I hope that makes sense!

[Loial]

For me they came on suddenly. I will just add the proviso that my psychosis was triggered by drug use though.

I actually didn't know I was hearing voices when they first appeared. They were just sort of there; I either attributed them to other people i.e. my flat mate in his bedroom... or just really didn't twig I shouldn't be hearing voices.

After I became acutely psychotic though, they became very noticeable & I knew something was off.

[joacobanfield]

Well, I was 7...and Angry Voice told me to not fear The House of the Dead, for it wasn't real.
I slept soundly that night.
Then they were gone for years...
Until August 17, 2015 when I voluntarily reestablished communications.
Those five people are the best I've ever met...

[emmamental]

mine started suddenly after doing a meditation to open up my chakras.

[Atypical_Disaster]

It was insidious for me... showed up early in my life, and continued to just gradually increase in frequency and volume.

[Gretchen]

The voices have been there ever since i can remember. Two in particular. Sometimes it's like there is a whole crowd of people trying to talk all at once.

[justmeandmyhead]

I remember the first voice I heard. I was about 16/17 and at work in a fish and chip shop. Or wait was it before then. I forget which one came first. I apparently told my bf I was hearing voices when we first met but I don't remember this. My memory of my life is poor. I used to have a lot of visual hallucinations but it's gradually turned into more voices/noises. Strange how this illness develops. Constantly changing.

[Tsunamisurfer]

Suddenly to begin with, as far as I'm aware.
A voice was screaming at me from the passenger seat in my car while I was driving, and there was no one visibly sitting there.
Since I have become more aware of my voices, I have had them come and go with the peaks of my psychotic episodes. However, some of them are quiet niggling eerie sounds, and I may have heard such "voices" before I was diagnosed, without thinking much of it.

[avlady]

i'm like gretchen. can't remember when started but i sounds like a party in my head

[Know One]

For me, it's one voice acting as many people, which has resolved itself into Satan.

He is nasty and he won't shut up.

[Not_Crazy_Yet]

The first voice I remember hearing I was around 5yo and I wanted to have an imaginary friend like I had seen kids on Tv do and I introduced someone to my imaginary friend and as I was doing it the voice in my head started ridiculing me telling me how kidish that was and I needed to grow up. I didn't know what to do so I isolated and sat thinking quietly to him. He was very intelligent and knew things before I had learned them. He was particularly skilled in science. In 3rd grade I tested on a college level in science and ive always thought it was from his teachings. But as I got older they got nasty and liked to talk about murder etc. The seroquel helps lots with threatening voices though.

[Schizophrenic2003]

I started hearing quite noises calling by name and then it started getting really loud and I would jump in the middle of class it started getting even worst and told me to do bad things if I didn't he said he could kill me him self I started ignoring him because he was just a voise and then he started pushing me when I was alone and told me to get a gun I started going to church and preying I thought I had a demon in side me

[Snakepit]

mine started suddenly, i was in a session with a therapist for anxiety and i started to feel strange, i started to think she was a witch and was messing with my brain, then on the way home voices just started telling me to do stuff, they come and go now

[junkDNA]

mine started by hearing my friends talking to each other when i was 16. then when i got sent to the abusive treatment center against my will the voices came on suddenly..they are 2 men that talk to me and they are not very nice to me

[wiprwill]

The voices have been there ever since i can remember. It sucks because sometimes they stop and I actually think i'm going crazy

Originally Posted by tom2123

Hey all, so I have a question for those that hear or have heard voices. How exactly did they start? Was it just suddenly out of the blue and very loud/noticeable or was it a more gradual thing where maybe you thought you heard something and from there it grew louder and more obvious? Thanks in advance, -tom

Min started about 4/5 basically they've being with me all my life