My sister hears voices, this interests me for sure... Hello everyone.....

Relief of some sort is required. But the zombie pills are worse than the annoyance of the "colonoscopy technicians" which is what i call the voices.

My friend hears voices that tell her to do dangerous things like cut herself. I am very concerned about her and I was wondering if andyone can give me any information related to that type of voice, advice or help Please and thank you a million

i hear voices...they usually say what i must not do...eg im doing something and suddenly someony strongly say no, stop...i dont think it helps me, i would say the opposite...its very strange and it must look really insane...i would never say before i will once be so mad... for me its quite difficult to live with them and i havent found the bright side of it so far...but i will try to

I only took meds for 2 years (1995-1997), but I wanted to get off them because of the ill side effects and I didn't and still don't ever wish to feel numbed/zombied/deadened to myself, others, or life, period. I only want to live in and face up to reality honestly, otherwise what's the point for me? I had lived with suicide ideation for so many years and that doesn't work anymore than the pills did either, so I had to finally decide/choose to make a pact with myself that (for me) I wouldn't take myself out or deaden myself to whatever life I have in my hands here, which at those times I chose to live for my children, until I could finally be able to want to live for myself and it was very difficult, complicated, long process. I read somewhere else in this forum that someone had sort of learned how to "live with" the voices until they are a sort of dull roar, just going on in my head and just choosing to mostly ignore them, which I think is probably what I would say I do as well, once I think about it. I think that would be really pushing the "mind over matter" thing, not saying it's that simple, but for me, it would be sort of a "training of myself/my mind" to go in another direction and to stick with MYSELF and what I THINK IS BEST FOR ME, not someone else's voice either inside or outside of me. I learned that the very hard way and it took me a long time to get to that point, but it can be done, as I feel living proof of that, although I realize it's a very individual experience and each is trying to find their own way of handling the voices they hear, how it affects them/their life, etc. I listen to myself more now, period. That works best for me because it also makes me feel more confident about MYSELF, inside myself and sort of "diminishes" anything or anyone else in my head/mind/thoughts. It makes other things smaller and me bigger, only so that I can feel more strong about myself inside and be able to trust myself and my OWN thoughts, that they are OK and not bad/wrong. That I CAN make good choices and decisions and don't have to have someone else "tell me what to do", because I can tell myself what to do and I am capable of doing that properly with myself. That helped me a lot to be able to do this now.

I've been hearing voices since 1993. It started slowly and I didn't know what was going on until 1995 when I was in the ER and the doctors' told me. I had never heard of it before or anything. I had to force myself to understand what it was that was happening. I didn't think it ran in my family and now I can look back and see that my mother has the symptoms. She says it's 'God'. I used to think she was just joking, then when I was diagnosed and did research to find out what was happening to me I realized that she really believed that and didn't want too many people to know because she could use it to get what she wanted. I refuse now to take anything other than an anti depressant because of all the side effects and because some the psychotropic drugs I have been prescribed make the voices worse. I still get skeptical of my diagnosis sometimes but don't stop my meds. It used to be so bad and I would actually tell people to be quiet because I was having an argument with my voices. Now I can actually carry on normal conversations without missing a beat and people have told me they can't believe I hear voices, which makes me feel pretty good!! I've worked hard to stay alive...

I hear voices. Do other people have names for theirs, because mine are called Dave and Angus. I mainly hear Dave. He voices a commentary on my life. I wouldn't say that it's a problem, because I find that it is similar to having talking to me. I guess I should never get lonely but the voices just make me lonelier. I feel alone most of the time. I would say that when it's bad the best way to describe it is a meat grinder to your soul. The Doctors' (All 9 psychiatrists plus all the other doctors I have had in the past 2 years) say that I suffer from an atypical psychosis. Personally I think this is because all the tests performed on me say that I have no mental condition (Questionnaires, Ink blots, etc). My graph of mental health is well within the 'normal' range. Basically I just want to find out more. Thanks

I had a tragic bout with hearing voices. I now know that we are surrounded by a spiritual realm and I became sensitive to this realm after my husband's death. I have a deep faith in Jesus and finally by the grace of God I have silenced the voices. The voices were of a demonic nature, there were good voices- the voices of my loved ones who had passed but the demonic would overcome them. Only by my constant prayer and study of God's word was I able to be rid of the voices. We cannot sit at the Lord's table and at Satan's, we cannot drink of the Lord's cup and of Satan. I placed my entire focus on the Lord Jesus Christ and by the bright shining of His light into my life the voices faded. We must not give the voices our attention. Never, never, never, give the voices your attention for they will lead you into a hypnotic state that will only lead to destruction. Prayer and faith will overcome them. Our influence is to come only from God. Listening to the voices allow them to influence your life. We are influenced by God or Satan, our thoughts come from God or Satan yet we make the choice. We must choose God. Life is eternal - spend it with God.

My teenage son just recently opened up to me and his friends about his hearing voices. He hates to use the word "voices" because he says they are a part of him. My concern is that one day he wants to go to the doctor "just to talk" and the next he is very angry stating "he doesn't need anyone...he is who he is and if people don't like it, it's fine with him." It's when they upset him is what I'm concerned about. I would really really appreciate any information or advice anyone wishes to share. Thank you!

Nelda I have a very deep faith in God as well and I have done everything in the book to get him to stop this madness. I believe he allows this to happen to straigthen me up. If he allows this abusiveness of me to straigthen me up WHY? I have been told to fast and pray buy my voices. I havent got the strength to do anything. THey also tell me to stop smoking cigarettes but they dont offer any support. I am finally beginning to deal with the abuse from my voices. I want to thank you for your comments about God

i hear voices but there real real the come from speakers and follow me around i hear them 24 hours a day please help i will kill myself

Hey David Egan, do not be afraid an do not do anything dangerous like trying to hurt yourself. The voices may seem really real but you are the one with the power. Dont worry the bad feelings will pass. I wish there was more I could do, maybe the others will have more input. Take care and be well.

i hear voice and it's always the same person like a woman who is trying to protect someone or something and is threatning to kill me and it's so intense that i may start to cry or hide myself under my cover then i start to hear numbers like a death count the higher the numbers the faster my heart goes but the lower numbers the slower it goes and i struggle to breath my family make fun of me but im really worried i've been thinking of asking my priest to perform an exorcism

I'd like to share the following. John Nash is the one whom the movie, A Beautiful Mind, is based upon. He stopped taking any medication in 1970. Interview with John Nash: Hearing Voices Initially I did not hear any voices. Some years went by before I heard voices and -- I became first disturbed in 1959, and I didn't hear voices until the summer of 1964 I think, but then after that, I heard voices, and then I began arguing with the concept of the voices. And ultimately I began rejecting them and deciding not to listen, and, of course, my son has been hearing voices, and if he can progress to the state of rejecting them, he can maybe come out of his mental illness. The consequence of rejecting the voices is ultimately not hearing the voices. You're really talking to yourself is what the voices are, but it's also parallel to a dream. In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

i dont take any meds for 7 years now i have been working to find out where these voices are coming from. yesterday i was studing the united states air and found that a company named science and engineering assoc. inc.out of albaquerque, new mexico. contract number F41624-95-c9007 the name on the system is commuinication via microwave auditory effect. this unit is a radar microwave radio transmitting unit communication to the skull not the ear hearing . using the bone structure in the head, sinuses. the people that we are hearing are for real, also i am able to see these people sound weird? i pretty much have fun doing what i do kicking these people asses, the negitive people working for the cia, u.s dept. of correction. they speck to our subcousious mind. will trespond further.04/10/2009

I started hearing voices at the age of 4, at the age of 13, I could see, feel, and hear them, this is the spiritual communicating with the physical, the evil voices are the Devil, the good voices are God, I've had countless discussions and arguments with them, they will not reveal who they really are, I can see white spirits and dark spirits around me, most topics and visions I've seen deal with religion, although they seem very interested in human life topics, I was under the assumption the white spirits were God's and the dark ones were the Devil's, the dark ones seem the most negative, this morning I read: 1 John 4:1-3; in the Bible, it says: Test the Spirits- "This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God." So I asked them and to my surprise they separated into two groups, some of the white spirits did not acknowledge Jesus! So when a voice speaks to you, ask them: Do you acknowledge that Jesus came in the Flesh? if they don't, do not talk to them, if they speak to you ignore them. PERIOD.

Hi, I have been having difficulties with voices since I was 4. I am now 16 and most of the time I only hear them inside of my head. I recently met a friend with similar problems, He deepened much of my already deep religious/spiritual knowledge. He began to tell me of how he was capable of taking natural elemental's powers and using them to destroy behemoth or demonic spirits. I have witnessed him do so. At first, I thought he was just crazy and out of his total mind until one day me and a buddy of mine were with him by a dock, he went out to the very end of the dock while me and my other friend stayed behind and talked. Soon we were interupted my a very loud energetic siren or sound, we both looked at eachother and then realized that what he was doing out at the dock wasnt just a crazy delusion of his, he was actually fighting somekind of entity out there. It began to thunder and pour down rain exceedingly, right about at the time I seen the entity that he was battling, the entity briefly showed a outline or essence of its being and disinigrated and the rain and storm began to slowly fade away and give view of the sun. He then came back and we questioned him for help with our problems with evil voices and spirits, and he then said he needed to test my energy, once he layed hands towrds me I felt and seen energy drained from me, he then returned it and said he gave me more of it from him. My sight was now begining to becom very electrical and vivid, soon I found myself in a way draining energy from other elements,etc. A few days later I fought with some entities of my own and was capable of the same result he had. I later argued with my father and became very furious with him so I guess in a way took advantage of this unreal capability and sent forth shocks of energy at him to drain his energy. I became week and that night took my sleeping aide pills. As soon as I entered the room I seen a white streak of shiny dust rapidly move in loops and changing patterns on my bed, I quickly went across the hall to my grandmothers room for shelter and came to the understanding that something was very wrong going on. I then saw a hollow, pixelated being outline its way into her room and it began to attack me with fear and evil emotions, she wasnt sure why I appeared to be so disturbed. She could not see. I told her and she came into my room with me to sit on my bed until I fell asleep. It didnt end there. About 6 seperate entities appeared in my large room, three were hollow and pixilated and the other three were shadows that changed form and could only be seen through periphials and through reflections like the large television 3 feet from my bed. They terrorized me and at one point in time made it seem like my grandmother was saying sexual and demonic things to me, but when I would jump up in shock and look towards her it wasnt her doing so. It used her voice. They all began to move around and some hollow ones came closer. I started to see evil expressions as some of their faces began to define thereselves. I started to hear literally REAL voices outside of my head speak to me, saying things like, "So you want to play?", "You cannot stop us." and calling out my name with a demented voice. They kept on until I begged my grandmother to pray to God to rebuke of them in Jesus's Name, after our prayer, I slowly felt comfort and strength return to me and the entities slowly vanished one by one. The essence they left still lingers at times. I have never experience something of that nature ever in my life and still suffer from periphial sightings of shadowy figures, a lingering essence following me or lurking behind me while even at this computer, and will still suffer from vague sightings of hollowed beings. The voices haven't been like that night, but I hear a glimpse of a few every now and then, but very vaguely. Thats my story, sorry for its length. I would appreciate to hear your views on the situations and so forth. Thanks.

I started hearing voices and having visions when i was 10 and was finally diagnosed wth schizophrenia when i was 16. The psychaiatrist put me on meds that made my heart go too fast so i quit taking them-they didnt work anyway. I dont think its bad for me anyhow- the first was just a vision of a butterfly or something in the bathroom and i remember asking my mom to catch it for me and her looking at me strangely. different ones off and on for the next few years. Sometime around when i turned 13 there was a get together at my house and i was in the dining room. I saw an old gnarly hand as real as you or me pointing to the left and for the first time heard a voice with it. it was odd-in my friend Becky's voice but she wasn't at my house..it was very simple-it said" get a chair." The hand was ugly and the voice was unexpected so i was a little scared and ran to my mom-they actually did need another chair in there but mom prayed over me anyway. after that it was more frequent and i got used to it-it was never anything harmful so i think it is a gift what i have. by the time i was 16 though sometimes there were so many voices at the same time and i couldnt sort it out-sometimes picking words out but it sounded more like a noisy cafeteria and was making it difficult to concentrate on my schoolwork. my mom took me to the doctor then and thats when they dx'd me with schizophrenia. like i said before, i stoped taking the meds-i hate how it makes me feel and the voices/visions werent harmful just annoying when it got all jumbled up. I am 27 now and doing fine- I still have my visions and voices and consider it a gift. when things get jumbled, i meditate and it calms down.

i post without reading the beginning was i used to hear alot of voices with medication there gone

I used to hear voices, It was the worst hell , I can't describe...., after trying to commit suicide, I ended up in a psych ward. They gave me the drugs, the hell went away. A new one emerged. Trying to subdue this problem with drugs is not the answer. My IQ before the drugs was 130 after, about 95. I quit taking the drugs and my mind came back along with all the other "good" things that the drugs were destroying. The voices returned though. I agree that the medical industry needs to find a better solution to this problem. But, also, more than ever, should take into consideration the spiritual or mental properties of healing. I don't know if "healing" is the right word since there is nothing "wrong". Untill something better is found for immediate results I guess drugging the shit out of a patient is the right method. It worked for me ............ kind of. The way I made the voices go away was to mentally form a Barrier, I would think of a metal shield around each part of my body and concentrate about it. This may sound stupid but, it worked. Remember these voices can not harm you physically. Mentally , they will kill. I think what I was able to do was to transfer my cognative thinking "or awake thoughts" to a different part of my Brain. Sounds pretty weird huh! Well I don't talk to anyone about this for obvious reasons. Please Please to anyone !, from my expierence !! these voices ARE NOT your freind . Remember to think of what is good! They may seem nice at times. BUT, They are without care or mercy. I know to fight them brings more Hell. You have to fight them though! I did................. I think I was lucky. This is serious and I pray nowone has to go through it.

Monday, March 8, 2010 at 7:25 pm I live in a retirement community in Vacaville, CA, USA. I am 71 years old and I have been hearing voices, I believe, since 2004. The voices that came at me were neighbors. I say this because it was their voices. It was a white couple in their 50's and they moved in next door to me March 30, 2004 and they became friendly with a black couple who lived across the street from me. The black lady spoke with a black accent and the black couple were in their late 60's. I got angry at the white couple, Johnny and Sue Hatchcock because of their dog and cat using my front yard to relieve themselves. It began with that problem and then it escalated. The black couple complained about my front yard and the black couple Ima and Butch Haylie joined up with the white couple, Johnny and Sue Hatchcock, from what I actually heard them talk about from having my back door, front door, and my windows open, about getting me to move out of the neighborhood. The white couple said let's take ugly photographs of her and go around to every place she has gone to in her life and talk real ugly about her. I could go on and on about this. As I am sitting here typing this comment, the voices have stopped but I can feel their presence. They have me hearing voices every waking moment. The voices are 24/7/365 days a year. I strongly believe the voices are still coming from my neighbors next door to me, the white couple, Johnny and Sue Hatchcock. They have talked about using a videophone or a videoconference setup and maybe wireless technology because they talk about seeing me and they talk about how I look and how my house looks. They talk about my checkbook and how much money I have in my checking account. They talk about stealing my identity and stealing my small investments. I was looking up mental illnesses on the Internet and I found www.janssen.com website and they have a video called MINDSTORM. I urge everyone who reads my comment to go to the Janssen website and play the video MINDSTORM. The MINDSTORM video was developed with IMPACT UNLIMITED as a tool to create realistic sensory hallucinations and to train students studying the psychiatric profession. IMPACT UNLIMITED makes films. I believe the white couple have put together something using something similar to Janssen's MINDSTORM video to make me hear voices. I have an eMACHINE model T3626 and it came with WINDOWS VISTA ON IT. It plays the MINDSTORM video very well. I bought this computer April 2008 and I like it better than the Hewlett Packard with WINDOWS 98 that I used to have. When this first began the two couples were screaming at me and calling me ugly names. I called the police on both couples because it sounded like both couples were in the home of Johnny and Sue Hatchcock screaming at me. Johnny and Sue Hatchcock's house is about 6 ft from my home. The wife, Sue Hatchcock talks about how great Johnny Hatchcock is about fixing things. When I called the police I was crying and I was hysterical. I told the Dispatcher that I had been calling the police for months about Johnny and Sue Hatchcock and they refused to help me. I told the Dispatcher that if they did not come to my house to help me I was going to rent a HUMMER and drive it through their plate glass window. The Dispatcher told me to go home and wait on my front porch and she would send a police officer to help me. The police officer who showed up along with a female police officer refused to go next door to talk to Johnny and Sue Hatchcock. He told me, "Come on, lady, don't make me call the paramedics on you." He did not tell me I was being arrested. He put me in the back seat of his car and he took me to the Solano County Psychiatric Facility. That was October 2005. I was kept there for about one month and I was given GEODON. They gave me 80mgs at night and 80mgs in the morning. I kept hearing the voices of both couples making fun of me. The strong medication did not shut out the voices. The medication made me feel awful. I had never taken an antipsychotic drug before. Then at the end of October 2005 they transferred me to a place called Laurel Creek and I stayed there for one month. I was not violent. I HAVE MORE TO WRITE ABOUT THIS HORRIBLE THING THAT HAPPENED TO BUT I AM GOING TO STOP FOR NOW BECAUSE I CANNOT GET MY COMPLETE COMMENT TO PRINT OUT. WOULD WWW.INTERVOICEONLINE.ORG PLEASE TRY TO SEND ME A COPY OF MY COMMENT when you email me.

That's very interesting... I am a psychology student and this issue concerns me...it's very interesting, but at the same time strange... It's difficult to imagine what and how all that people experience such voices...