Hereing voices

[TheWizard]

I keep hereing voices. Its like screams in my sole. I know they aren't real but its driving me crazy.

[Shaolin]

Maybe you need a med change, especially as your maxing on Geodon.

Also you must understand the voices are your thoughts and of your creation, so don't ever listen to them if they are taunting you, it's just you feeling angry at yourself and it may be very distracting hearing these voices which are shouting your thoughts out to the world.

You should experiment with coping methods (which don't involve hurting yourself) like say for example meditating or having a relaxing bath or something - it really depends on who you are and what relaxes you and gives you peice in the world. Just don't touch booze or illegal drugs.

[SirRoss]

Meditationworks very well for me (I have emotonal highs quite frequently in depression.)

[TheWizard]

Maybe you need a med change, especially as your maxing on Geodon.

Also you must understand the voices are your thoughts and of your creation, so don't ever listen to them if they are taunting you, it's just you feeling angry at yourself and it may be very distracting hearing these voices which are shouting your thoughts out to the world.

You should experiment with coping methods (which don't involve hurting yourself) like say for example meditating or having a relaxing bath or something - it really depends on who you are and what relaxes you and gives you peice in the world. Just don't touch booze or illegal drugs.

I might need more seroquel. I'm only taking 100mg of it right now. One guy at programs it taking 400mg a day. He's so zoned out he can hardly function. I don't want to end up like him.

[TheWizard]

Its deafing sometimes. I hate it. I just wished it would stop. I took my seroquel early so maybe it will help.

[Shaolin]

What do they normally say and how loud do they speak?

Try relaxing.

You probably need a new med soon, if you don't wanna end up like the guy on 400mg a day at programmes.

[TheWizard]

Its like a friend talking to me. Nothing really bad just loud and its in my head.

[Shaolin]

So it doesn't seem like your hearing it through your ears? It's just like say hearing music in your head?

This is the part where i get confused. heh.

When you hear something in your head, like you might hear music IN your head, it doesn't seem like its coming out of anywhere.

Someone with schiz might think say the government put speakers in their TV and the TV is the source of the vioces, or that the voices aer coming from a family members mouth, which is why you might get delusional.

[TheWizard]

I took my meds early and I'm ok now.

[TheWizard]

So it doesn't seem like your hearing it through your ears? It's just like say hearing music in your head?

This is the part where i get confused. heh.

When you hear something in your head, like you might hear music IN your head, it doesn't seem like its coming out of anywhere.

Someone with schiz might think say the government put speakers in their TV and the TV is the source of the vioces, or that the voices aer coming from a family members mouth, which is why you might get delusional.

I know its confusing. Its confusing to me too. Its not like hereing music in my head like a favorite tune. Its voices talking to me and I can here them.

Anyway I don't hear voices that often. Most the time I hear and see things at the sametime.

[Shaolin]

How often is it that you hallucinate? Other than doubling your drugs do you do anything else to cope with it?

Josh have you tried writing poetry? Or drawing? .

[TheWizard]

I was thinking of becoming an artist because it might be advantage being schizo in that field. I'm not sure but i have been trying to learn to draw. I'm not very good at it so it doesn't look to promiceing.

[TheWizard]

I forgot your other question sorry.

Generally all I do is take more meds like doubling seroquel and geodon or getting extra geodon shots.

[Shaolin]

About the artist thing, you have to learn to draw before you can get your own style.

What i would do is just start scribbling cartoons when your bored, it doesnt matter how bad they look, the more you do it the better it gets.

[TheWizard]

I have some how to draw books. How to draw people and animals. I have an airbrush but I need a compressor for it and paints.

[Shaolin]

Do you think writing is more your thing?

Or playing an instrument, i think playing guitar is really cool, you can develop your own style like world class professional guitarist, you can make whatever kinda music is your style.

[TheWizard]

I've never really wrote much before.

[Shaolin]

Why not have a go in Word or another word processer programme. If you think it's good pop it up on creative writing forum.
Im sure it would be appreciated.

[Shaolin]

Hey im back, was away for a day or so.

Anyway - Wouldn't you be able to tell if you wear hearing something that wasnt there by simply cupping your hands over your ears?

[Firestar]

Sometimes when I go to bed I close my eyes and I can hear people talking inside my head. Sometimes they're the voices of people I know; sometimes they're voices that just sound familiar. They just talk and say strange, random things. I can't really remember any right now. But sometimes one will come through very clear and it will sound like there is someone right next to me whispering it in my ear. I'll jump up and look around, but of course there's no one there. Do I have it???

[TheWizard]

You might have it. I don't know for sure but it sounds like it.

[Firestar]

Yeah well, I have ocd, depression, and some anxiety disorder so it's definitely possible.

[TheWizard]

Dam you have it bad. I hope you aren't schizo on top of it.

[Shaolin]

The reason why when you do hear voices is because the part of your brain normally used for processeing speech (thinking what you are going to say to someone) isn't working right, and instead of thinking your thoughts, you hear them.

When i have time ill post some more info if anyone wants just ask.

[TheWizard]

The mind is so strange. It can tell you everything and then fool you completely.

[Shaolin]

Yeah the mind is something really deep, theres so much of life that we feel thruogh our mind, how you live your life really depends on how your brain works.

[smashed glass]

i hear voices. they are freaky but you get used to them.
i got diagnosed with DID. fan-bloody-tastic.
unfortunatly theres no meds you can take 4 that.
Sarah

[Whisper]

Take a look at the moon when it first comes up over the horizon it looks really big and close then as it travels over the sky it gets smaller. That's your mind it sees the moon on the horizon so far away compared too everything else so it magnifys it as the moon moves accross it looks like normal so your brain dosn't magnify it, I saw this on discovery (the bald dude was talking about it). Your mind can easly play trixs on you.

[Shaolin]

i hear voices. they are freaky but you get used to them.
i got diagnosed with DID. fan-bloody-tastic.
unfortunatly theres no meds you can take 4 that.
Sarah

DID? Disasociative Identity Disorder?

If there are no meds for your DID, are you on any meds for the psychosis?

[smashed glass]

nope, they won give me meds unless im at a psychiatric ward under close obs but im starting there on tuesday so may be on meds then.
Sarah
p.s. do they work?

[TheWizard]

I take geodon and seroquel. It works great. :)

[TheWizard]

How often is it that you hallucinate? Other than doubling your drugs do you do anything else to cope with it?

Josh have you tried writing poetry? Or drawing? .

I started trying to write a book. I'm on chapter 6 now. But I have to go back and rewrite some things I thought about while doing them. I need to add more descriptions to things. I skipped over some descriptions cause I couldn't think of anything to say. Anyway its going ok.

[Shaolin]

oooooo you think you could show us a few paragraphs from your book Josh?

[TheWizard]

No way I'm to embarassed to show any of it. Besides someone would say its shit which it is but I'm still trying so there is some hope left.

[Shaolin]

some hope left!!

Everyones first attempt at something, is SHIT! I picked up the guitar, i was SHIT, im very fast and i can play many songs now, but when i started i was complete and utter crap! People were either delliberatly nice saying how good what i played was, or htey would say nothing, or say its shit!

Develop your own style in writing Josh, keep writing and when you read your book at the end, if you enjoy reading it, its not shit, its success!

[TheWizard]

I'm still building on characters and places and stuff like that.

[Shaolin]

Contrast characters! Make sure your characters are sometimes really different or very similiar to each other (more big personality differences are better) that way there can be more arguments!

[TheWizard]

I'm still working on it. I have five chacrter so far. Three main ones and two subcharacters.

[Shaolin]

Sounds very organised Josh, planning before writing is a very good idea. Im glad you thought of it!

[TheWizard]

I don't really have a plan I tried to outline the book but I failed really bad. So now I just start writing and let it take me where it wants.

[coryjordanlover]

Yeah that's usually how I write my books...

[Anonymous]

Three years ago, when my twin just died, I remember the first couple of months without her. I kept hearing her voice, and I kept seeing these little circles of light at the corner of me eyes that would dissapear when I looked directly at them. I heard footsteps too. They'd stop directly infront of my door, as if they were waiting for me in the hallway. Once, I saw an outline of a little girl standing infront of me as I slept.

After a while I begged my twin to visit me another way, and then I began to dream wonderful things, horrible, but beautiful at the same time. Whenever I look into the mirror, I see something else, something bigger than me and my twin staring back at me. I feel as if it's the whole world looking back at me through the black centers of my eyes. I'm even afraid of my shadow. I think it's my twin's. Does anyone know what this is?

[Shaolin]

It's not uncommon for people to hallucinate while grieving the death of a loved one.

If you are still hearing things that are not there, or seeing things that are not there, you clearly need some form of psychatric help, as those are hallmark symptoms of a psychotic disorder, eg schizophrenia.

[Anonymous]

Most of the symptoms stopped after I told Alannah to visit me in some other way (I've been dreaming of her ever since). Sometimes I still "feel" someone standing at my door, watching me, even if it was for the sake of watching. I wouldn't see anything, I wouldn't hear anything anymore, I'd just feel something there. Ever since Alannah died I've been able to "feel" things that weren't really there. I hear her talking to me inside my head. Sometimes I don't know if the voice inside my head is mine or her own.

[Shaolin]

Most of the symptoms stopped after I told Alannah to visit me in some other way (I've been dreaming of her ever since). Sometimes I still "feel" someone standing at my door, watching me, even if it was for the sake of watching. I wouldn't see anything, I wouldn't hear anything anymore, I'd just feel something there. Ever since Alannah died I've been able to "feel" things that weren't really there. I hear her talking to me inside my head. Sometimes I don't know if the voice inside my head is mine or her own.

You might feel alot better if you start living your life, rather than living Allanah's. I don't know much about her, but if anything there is no way for you to 'bring her back' in this world, or contact her. Continuesly trying to contact her, is risking your own sanity. Grief is completly normal, everything your experiancing is not surprising seeing as you've lost your twin, but sometime your gonna have to start living your life.

Sorry if i was too blunt.

[Anonymous]

The thing is, I feel perfectly okay now. I DO feel as if I'm living my own life, but I feel that Alannah is always there with me. So now and then when I think about her, I feel her talking to me.

[TheWizard]

I'm glad you are feeling better.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for everything, you guys are more supportive than some of my closest friends. Sometimes I feel sad I guess... but I'm ok now :)

:hug:

[TheWizard]

cool :bigsmile:

[Chrono]

Sometimes I'll wake up crying and knowing I had a horrible dream but i can't remember what it was and other times I'll have strange dreams and I'll have one where I can see but I can't move. Its like my eyes are open but I can't move them or anything else, just stare straight up, and there is a guy standing over me to the side but I can't look at him and it scares me so bad but there is nothing I can do. One time I had it and the guy was moving his hands towards me and I was furiously thinking to myself MOVE, MOVE MOVE! and I made myself wake up. I woke up and no one was there but I always remember those things so vividly. I'll always see black things at the corner of my eye, moving but when I look they aren't there. Also, sometimes when I'm alone at the house. I can hear my mom in the distance screaming for me, and screaming for help. At first it scared the living fuck out of me, but then I knew it wasn't real. It doesn't happen that frequently. Only when I'm alone, about every month or two it'll happen.

[RunAwayMolly]

lately ive been hearing things that sound like girls gossiping all around me... its weird and it always pops in when everything is quiet and im alone...

[TheWizard]

You sound like you need to get checked up. I hope you are ok.

[Shaolin]

Heres a little tip to understand if someone is hearing voices -

If you say "Im hearing voices doctor, i think im going schizophrenic" You are almost certainly, not schizophrenic.

If you say "Im hearing X talking about me, and its really annoying me and has made me depressed"

Usually a person who is hearing voices, does not know they are hallucinations at the time, but may suspect later on. This is where delusions come in, IF your hearing voices, and your sure its real (this is automatic, your almost sure its real when you hear them) then you will try and put up a reason for it happening.

When the content of the voices is stuff that is bizarree, this is where bizarre delusions come into it (fears of aliens etc) and they are SURE they are tlaking to aliens, or the devil or whatever it is the mind has jumped to.

So to conclude, if you think you are 'hearing voices' and haven't been told by others that you are talking to yourself, or seem to be hallucinating, then you probably aren't suffering from psychosis.

Even by me telling you, that they aren't real. You won't believe it, until you are stablised on meds and can start living your life again.

[InneedofaJob97]

jeez when i was little lying in bed i was hearing these voices all the time and i could never get to sleep and it was these crazy voices that wouldnt go away, i was prolly a low lvl schizo

[TheWizard]

Welcome to the schizo club InneedofaJob97.

[TheWizard]

Hey im back, was away for a day or so.

Anyway - Wouldn't you be able to tell if you wear hearing something that wasnt there by simply cupping your hands over your ears?

When it happens I don't know its not real. Its so real that I couldn't tell its if its not real or not. Its not in my head because I often see people talking to me with the voices.

I have this friend from programs thats always taking to me. It makes me look like I'm talking to my self but its so hard to ignore it. Mostly someoine needs to tell me its not real cause I can't tell for myself.

My doctor increased my seroguel to 1200mg a day. It helps a lot .

[Shaolin]

It must be really confusing for you. Do you get any bad side effects from the drugs and have you ever tried any other treatments?

[TheWizard]

I'm sort of a somy with my meds. Can't operate macinery (including cars) stuff like that.

Its not so bad. I could be a lot worse.

Its a gift in someways. My universie is much bigger than regular people. And I think it helps with my art stuff.

[BeautyFromPain]

I keep hereing voices. Its like screams in my sole. I know they aren't real but its driving me crazy.

josh! i feel the EXACT same way at times!! i have a psycholigist (did i spell that right?) but he says theres nothing wrong with me..

[TheWizard]

Maybe you get a new doctor. Their not all the same.

[BeautyFromPain]

i might just do that.

[JustJuss]

Sometimes when I go to bed I close my eyes and I can hear people talking inside my head. Sometimes they're the voices of people I know; sometimes they're voices that just sound familiar. They just talk and say strange, random things. I can't really remember any right now. But sometimes one will come through very clear and it will sound like there is someone right next to me whispering it in my ear. I'll jump up and look around, but of course there's no one there. Do I have it???

Oh dear!!
im a newbie.. and am desparate for answers!! please help.
I am similar.. have been diagnosed with depression fro almost 2yrs but its been changing for a while and havnt been able to put my finger on it, since i have no 1 to talk to about it its been hard to say whether what ive been experiencing is normal...
Voices INSIDE my head when i shut my eyes mostly, saying the most random stuff, lots of them all going at once, sometimes i can hear 1 over the rest. its really scary.
sometimes i hear my name being called outside of my head and look around for mum or whoever i thought was calling... they are nowhere around me, once i even answered.. What? i cant hear u properly!!

sometimes i see stuff, like whati think is a spider out the corner of my eye, when i look, thers nothing there.. once i saw a dark figure too.

also i see the light turn off and on again quickly... and think its real.. i was at the dinner table once wen this happened and commented on it (thinking it was real) and no one Knew what i was on about.. thats when i first thought something wasnt right...

sorry to go on.

But are these hallucinations??
Should i tell my doc about them. Im scared to mention them if they arnt anything serious.. should i tell her??
arggh!!:confused:

would really love some help or advice

[TheWizard]

Yes you should tell your doctor.

[BigDongWong]

Do you ever write down what the voices say. I made a log of everything I heard when I was hallucinating one night after staying of 4 days on speed and I wrote down some fairly disturbing shit.

The statements that stick out the most were things like this "The rivers are gonna run red with your blood" "pack your bags and leave your dead already" "I should take revenge for what you did to me" "youve got 5 minutes to leave the house then theyre coming in to kill you."

[JustJuss]

last night i managed to write some og the things down.. usually i dont really function when im hearing them so it was hard..

Some random stuff..
"spandex"
"cotton realing"
"shandy mandy"

other scary stuff..
"u will dry out and die if u dont have two glasses of water"
"u dont want me here, do u?"
"You should kill yourself soon, times running out"
"you want to die"
" awww u look sad.."

Theyre starting to fuck up my thinking.

[TheWizard]

You defininitly need to tell your doctor whats going on. :)

[Bobby]

You defininitly need to tell your doctor whats going on. :)

I agree with Josh 100%.

Are you already on meds or anything?

[JustJuss]

yeah i am,
im on effexor for depression, i used to be on zoloft but it didnt work... effexor dosnt do much either!

Well guess what guys!? i went to see my doctor today. I couldnt tell her, and i knew this, so i wrote it all down and gave it to her...
I think she got a bit of a shock, but then didnt seem too surprised. I was only there for half anhour today (thats all she booked me in for) so i got kicked out, a absolute wreck..

I was sooo scared, and still am.

I cant help thinking that none of its real, that its just me being tired (geez i sound like my niave mother- u could break ur leg and she'd just recomend 'rest')

now she says that we all of a sudden have alot to talk about... arrgghh!! i feel so weird and scared and freaked out and i just want to sink into a hole and die!!!

[BigDongWong]

JustJuss thats the kind of twisted shit i hear. Keep writing it down its pretty cool when you have a load of crazy statements gathered up when you look back on it.

I found that "Youll dry up and die if you dont drink 2 glasses of water" one pretty interesting.

How old are you and do these voices use the same type of vocabulary you do?

The ones i hear use different vocabulary than me. They even have a different accent. I also hear things like "Your gonna end up killing yourself", "murder yourself now" "we're hear to kill you" and shit like that but the weird thing is im not even the slightest bit suicidal and im not self destructive.

It really does seem like the voices are coming from the outside but some things make me think otherwise. After learning about chemistry the voices have started spewing out random statements about elements and chemicals etc. They only talk about things I know which is a very good indication that its coming from my head.

I have mixed feelings on these voices. Sometimes I want to believe that theyre some sort of ghosts or entities so i have my own personal proof of something paranormal but i have to admit im 21 but sometimes i get scared shitless by them just their general attitude towards me and the strings they pull to provoke fear. They seem to know exactly what my fears are and how to play on them and thats impressive because i have little or no fears.

I know what u mean when u say you dont function properly when your hearing them. Do you become really passive and just sit there and observe and not act? Also do you find your attention fixated on the voices and find it hard to concentrate on anything else? It took me a good bit of work to start functioning fully when im hearing them full on. Give yourself little tasks to perform and do them and your ability to function will improve.

Do you hear them all the time? If so you should write down as much as you can. Thats some interesting shit what you wrote. It has a similar twisted style to the stuff i hear. I havent heard them in about a week but the minute i smoke a joint i hear them non stop. Next time i do ill write it all down.

[JustJuss]

I am 18.
they are actually sometimes male voices and although seem to have the same accent and language as far as i can tell, all speak differently. Some speak softly and calmly alost sort or 'old fashioned' and others are screechy and harsh and their statements are cutting and direct... these are the worst.

I also go like this.. like a vegie! i cant talk or listen or even stay standing. Although this, i dont think has qite gotten as bad as it will. I sometimes can only hear feel a loud pounding in my head, and its really busy and i cant make out anything particular. sometimes i am so scared (when i can hear them ) that i can barely breathe

Yes i know what u mean about them knowing ur fears!! I am sure at these times that its a demon or something trying to drive me out of my mind. It knows exactly how to scare me and (i feel) tries to control my actions when i refuse to act upon the ideas it puts in my head.

[deadmanwalking]

hey dude, wut do those voices say to you? im really interested, PM me asap if u feel like telling me. im sure i can help. trust me.

[Life's Like This]

Yeah, what do they say? I've never heard of such thing.

[Harley Quinn]

6 year bump. Please look at the posting dates before posting. :locked: