[Jesster13]

Ever since I was six , 'voices' have been controlling me on what to say or do.

It went away for a year , but now it has come back.

This might not help but I came from a very poor childhood. My father was abusive (but no one has died)

Does this mean I have Schizophrenia?

[spiritual_emergency]

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Jesster13: Does this mean I have Schizophrenia?

Hello Jesster.
To the best of my knowledge, no one here is a doctor and therefore, not capable of making a diagnosis. And even if they were, a diagnosis made over the internet as based on one post would likely not be a diagnosis you should invest a great deal of faith in.

Meanwhile, this article may be of interest to you...

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Redefining Hearing Voices

"Hearing voices in itself is not a symptom of an illness, but is apparent in 2 - 3 % of the population. One in three becomes a psychiatric patient - but two in three can cope well and are in no need of psychiatric care and no diagnosis can be given because 2/3 are quite healthy and well functioning.

There are in our society more people hearing voices who never became psychiatric patients than there are people who hear voices and become psychiatric patients.

The difference between patients hearing voices, and non-patients hearing voices, is their relationship with the voices. Those who never became patients accepted their voices and use them as advisers.

In patients, however, voices are not accepted and seen as evil-messengers.

Don’t kill the messenger

They are messengers and they have a message. They are related to sincere problems that occurred in the person’s life and they tell us about those problems. Therefore it is not wise to kill the messenger. Instead of not-listening to the message we should look how to help and sustain the person in solving their problems. (It is like it has been in many wars and conflicts in ancient times already, where the messengers were killed when a message was not welcome).

Research shows also that hearing voices in itself is not related to the illness of schizophrenia. In population research only 16% of the whole group of voice hearers can be diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Also, therefore, it is not right to identify hearing voices as an illness. Psychiatry in our western culture, however, tends unjustly to identify hearing voices with schizophrenia. Going to a psychiatrist with hearing voices gives you an 80% chance of getting a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

However, when you identify hearing voices with illness and try to kill the voices with neuroleptic medication, you just miss the personal problems that lay at the roots of hearing voices - and you will not help the person solving those problems. You just make a chronic patient.

Read the full article here: Redefining Hearing Voices


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There are also a number of links in the Resources Topic directly related to voice hearing. In particular, I would encourage you to check out the site of Intervoice: The International Community of Voice Hearers

See also: How I Tamed the Voices in My Head

[Eleora]

I've read of children having schizophrenia, but it could be a million other things that are more probable. I remember reading of a boy who repeatedly hallucinated and it turned out to be bipolar disorder. Another had OCD. Schizophrenia very rarely onsets before the age of 13.

Have you seen a doctor? How old are you now?