Help voices

[TJuk]

LMAO Terry I'll stop calling you a bitch when you stop calling people schizophrenic.


I am so sorry.

Schizophrenia is just a label that doctors put on some people's experience, it doesn't actually *explain* what's *causing* that experience.

They tend not to listen to people like us much anyway about the bigger picture or our deeper needs.

Whether or not drugs would take the edge off, whether or not that's something you want, that's up to you. They can alleviate symptoms if not the root cause.

What would help you to cope? Have you looked at humanistic / non-medical peer groups of people who've been through similar experiences, like Hearing Voices Network?

Unlike the bullshit that Terry is saying, about how "A person WOULD and MUST want the voices to stop," many people have diverse experiences and needs around voices. Some find that the first, most important step, isn't *stoppping* them but rather *understanding* and *dialoguing* with them.

Thanks I have found one local ISH hearing voices network group unfortunately covid is stopping that at the moment. I've been googling how other people cope with hearing voices to try different things.

I know there's a famous person who uses there voices as comfort and encourages them, I think they are a comedian but I don't currently remember.

I think I just need to understand why they are there, how to accept them and put up with them.

My psychiatrist said that because I haven't acted on the voices commanding me to hurt others it's ok then.... He's not the most helpful psychiatrist. But then I also only hurt myself not others

 

[noaccount]

Well thats your opinion and experiences. Mine were i became ill, heard voices (only rarely but happened) & had many bizarre delusions for years which caused a terrible quality of life & nearly died, i was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia, medicated, and got better. Just what happened bro, all your ranting can't change that.

All your ranting can't change shit either.

 

[terry_a_davis]

I'm not swearing and telling you to shut up etc you're ranti

All your ranting can't change shit either.

I'm not the one swearing and telling you to shut up, you are, i'm not ranting. I'm not expecting to change the truth. I know what i've been through seen others likewise. One of the common things about mental illness is sometimes the sufferer is too ill to recognize they are ill. I was this way for the best part of a decade. Now i am treated and better (and off meds now) I can see I was ill. You might not think mental illness is real, i do.

 

[Mort]

Well i had a voice in my head a long long time infact its a hole another person in my head. I can very often have a full blown conversation with it i even got into arguments with him . I think is all the emotions i have kept bottled up over the years like anger hatred to wards my self manly. He just sort of got stronger and a little louder over time . I fear is one he take over and do sum bad things to people thats one of my reasons i want to CTB . But the little sod keeps butting in and stopping me one day i will get him one day and as i lay dieing i can laugh in its face and say got you barsted HA .

 

[Made4TV]

Just wanted to weigh in on this and say that sometimes voices can be an indication of a dissociative disorder. I used to hear people talking in my head all the time growing up. Sometimes it was totally benign, more like conversation, commentary, etc. Sometimes it was mean or abusive, and sometimes voices that wanted to die. I was clear it was not just my own thoughts (had a doctor try to convince me of that). I never had voices telling me paranoid things or saying to hurt someone else. It turns out I had DID (dissociative Identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder). And those were different personas talking. I'm not saying this is what's going on, but there's an off-chance it's not schitzoaffective disorder.