Hearing Voices

[paranoid_cataclysm]

I thought of a question that interested me... how many of you who hear voices hear them from inside your mind, from outside of your mind or both?

[paranoid_cataclysm]

ILADVOCATE -
I was wondering out of curiosity since you brought it up, did the psychiatrist say exactly how people who hear the thought coming as if from an external source commenting on them don't respond well to treatment?  Does the medicine just not work as good or does it work physically like it should but just the symptoms still present themselves anyway?

Xila31 -
I had a funny thought (not being serious with this, of course) that maybe if you were able to pick up that phone you heard that maybe there would be voices on the other end of the "call" and that's why you haven't been hearing voices all this time because they got impatient and gave up after the first try.  Those of us who didn't get a ring from them on our internal phone just had the voices rudely bust in the door to our mind.  

[darlenedaisy]

Wow, what a relief to find this site and find others who are experience this stuff too.

I would never admit it before, but I hear people whispering mean things about me, they are on the other side of the wall, or door, and it is just awful the things I hear.  I think there really are people talking, but my mind creates what they are saying, and it seems so real.

Then, with paranoia, I feel people are following me, the people are real, but I think I am going to be stabbed or killed at any moment, I am in terror inside, and panic. One time I almost clobbered a guy with my purse....if he had taken one step closer, he would have got it !!!

I sometimes have to close my curtains, because I have this same paranoia that re-occurs....these people are out to kill me, and watch with binoculars, into my windows.

When I get normal again, I know it is not real, but it seems so real when I am in it !
After when I come down, I feel so ashamed and  embarrassed, I hate feeling so out of control.

[Xila31]

darlenedaisy: oh yeah, I worry people are out to hurt me too when I am walking. You're not alone. I try to look at people so that I can identify them. >.> Also, when I'm driving I worry the people in the cars behind me are getting mad and might ram me from behind.

paranoid_c: Haha.... yeah, that's funny. Maybe it is good I couldn't answer that phone. O.O I don't really want to talk to whoever would be calling.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

darlenedaisy -
When not under the proper medicinal treatment, I go through things like this too in paranoia so I can see where you and Xila31 are coming from.  The voice I've mainly had was the one trying to steal my soul for roughly ten years or longer.

Xila31 -
Glad I could make you laugh.  They say laughter is the best medicine but you can actually overdose on it too if you do it too much and experience headache and such.

[Xila31]

I am a firm believer in laughter being the best medicine and being a healer. I idolize Patch Adams who heals with humor. I think it is important that we be able to laugh at ourselves even over serious things, because otherwise we will doom ourselves without meaning to. I think my soul has always known this, even when I was a kid, and that's why I would watch comedy even when I couldn't laugh due to being so depressed. I would watch only funny things, and later learned about laughter being a healer. I would rather overdose on laughing than any medicine.

[lynnkay]

I have been bipolar for many yrs. I guess I am one of the lucky ones in the aspect of my mental issues. I have never seen things not there nor have I heard voices. I hear my own inner voice a lot though. But, I think many people may experience that.

I though have a 30 yr. old son that has been hospitalized 3 times in the past 5 months. He has been living here with me and my husband. Todd had a severe mental breakdown. He has had others in the past, but this last break was the worse yet. Todd was seeing things such as demons and was talking to them. It went on for weeks. I found it very scary. Not because I was scared of him, but because I was scared for him. To have to endure that.

He is taking his meds and attending counseling regular. He is slowly recovering. Todd was years ago diagnosed as being bipolar. But, he is very paranoid as well. His counselor believes there is something else going on other than just bipolar.