Posted by Ritch on January 8, 2005, at 14:38:08
In reply to VOICES, posted by pretty_paints on January 8, 2005, at 12:03:20
> Hiya
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> I suffer from psychosis but not voices.
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> However I just read a post from someone further up, about what they thought constituted "voices". So I thought I would ask here to see what you guys thought. I don't personally think they are voices.
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> Well it's my voice in my head and I'm describing or commentating on something I'm doing. I can't do anything to stop it. I am thinking it, but not like normal thinking, it's like speaking in my head. I talk like I'm on Big Brother (a reality tv show for all those outside the UK!) and I'm in the diary room and everyone's listening to me, fascinated. It comentates on everything I'm doing, and why I'm doing it. It only comes occasionally.
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> I'd be interested to see what you guys think. I have never mentioned it to my pdoc, or answered "yes" when she asks about whether or not I hear voices, because I personally have never thought these were in fact "voices". But yeh, any info would be gratefully appreciated :) xxx
It kind of sounds to me like "talking to yourself" that everybody does from time to time. Except you aren't always talking, you are just thinking it. A lot of times, talking to yourself consists of negative commentary about something you are doing (usually a work task, etc.)-I hear that at work a lot from others. It doesn't sound like hallucinations to me. I've had some strange medication induced auditory stuff happen (and visual) especially from Prozac. Whenever I would read a report written by someone I know I could hear the voice of the author in my head (not loudly) reading it instead of in my own "voice".
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