What people tell us about their voices




Article last updated 20/10/2008




Many of our site visitors leave messages, here are some examples of what people have told us about their hearing voices experiences :





"I spent about 5mos in a state hospital after being in and out short term. I've been hospital free for over a year but I am so afraid of telling anyone about my voices being back."




"Its nice to see people communicating freely. I was hospitalised 7 times. Once in Dunedin, NZ which is close to you. I was there visiting my brother. Its great to see people finally discussing the voices and people that they hear. The more I read the more I realise how similar peoples experiences are. Which makes me realise that we are all seeing the same thing which is interesting."




"I have been hearing a single voice, for the past three years, the voice is coming from a living indian guru, she is very demonic, but she does not scare me. "




"I appreciate everyones honesty. I have been hearing these same voices. I take meds that dull the voices, but every morning and throughout the day until evening is an agonizing harrassment. Every thought i think I recieve comments from voices that claim they are fallen angels."




"I have heard voices claiming to be demons for 8 years. I can even blast music and I will still hear them but if I listen to talk radio even at a low volume I do not seem to hear them. I hope this might help someone else"




" I am a mental health prof. However, after several stays in hospital i too learned the horrible 'rules' you described. Seeing it all wrote down moved me to tears, i'm so angry and sad that that is the reality of our care. Then the b******s wonder why we wont talk!."




"I agree that it is best to be able to discuss the experiences of hearing voices and all , but only with other people who hear voices. In my experience, I have found that there is such a stigma related to hearing voices that people, including doctors, treat you differently when you discuss them. I have very little use for the mental health system in my area."




"Hello, I've heard voices for almost four years now. It happened when I was nineteen, much like one of the other posters here, I was a psychology major at a very good science college and studying pre-med. My experience came after using ouiji boards "




"I just started hearing this voice ... ,the last time I heard the voice it ask me if I was all right,I am alone most of the time it has happened, it's a male voice and when it happens I don't feel any fear of the voice".




"I have heard voices since I was 41 years old (10 years ago). Sometimes they were clear, sometimes faint. They have given me very helpful guidance and although I have been reluctant to 'connect' (afraid I had a mental illness), I cope much better when I am in contact with the voices. Your website has been reassuring and I would like to thank you for the information."




I have been hearing music since May 2006 until now. I am 56 yrs. old. The music I hear changes from time to time from a soft mellow one to somewhat nerve breaking. The music keeps on during my waking hours. I get a few hours sleep due to this disturbances and keep on waking every 2 or 3 hours.




"I started to hear negative voices, have nightmares, and see things that were not so good. Where in the past it was always good experiences. When I look back, I see it was a spiritual crisis .... Everyones journey is different, but there are many similarities within those journeys. Try looking at each voice, and see if it can relate in anyway to the way you feel about something. Are they playing on your insecurities and fears about yourself, if so then set about overcoming them alittle at a time. Or accept them and move on. often when you realise what it is the energy seems to dissipate. If you see them as something evil and scary, that is the effect they will have on you. Change the way you see them, imagine them as children who are lost and surviving in the wilderness. I used to do that, imagine the voice as a child, and often it would diminish. I know it is a difficult journey,. Remember to be good to yourself. Always acknowledge your victories, know they cannot hurt you, and the only thing to Fear is fear itself. "




"Right at this moment, as I’m writing this, the voices are blaming me for not following their instructions months ago. Typical of them, they want me to fault myself for supposedly aborting an initiation I supposedly was going through. At other times they’ve told me that they hate me because I’m unattractive. This is but one example of their, mostly unsubstantiated, attempts at damaging my sense of self worth. There are several voices which I hear often that seem to belong to distinct personalities, but there’s one that is most predominant, a young female voice, talking to me almost all the time. Thankfully, both harshness and volume of the assaults have been gradually decreasing in the past weeks. I attribute this to my realizing the nature of the voices and learning to be unaffected by whatever they throw at me."



" ... I hear voices that tell me to take care of myself, reminding me to take medication that I take daily. My daughter, sister and her daughter hear and experience such things as glass breaking before it happens doorbells and phone ringing before they actually ring. I am also pre-cognative and will hear some things break, water running, such as this before it happens. I don't know how common that it is. My experiences do not frighten me anymore me as they have in the very beginning, they have actually helped me."



" ... I hear voices, more than one voice actually. I have always felt them to be benefecial to me throughout my life since early childhood, guides along life's pathway. I have never been directed to do anything harmful to myself or others, yet I have received a psychiatric diagnosis ."




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    1. AbouelFebruary 09, 2008 @ 06:01 PM
      From my experience,i can see a fatal mistake to describe the phonetic phenomenon through the term of'auditory hallucination' or from who suffer from it in him inside. For example,in the nature,no one hears the inner voices by using his sense of hearing,the ears or the sensibility of hearing process does work functionally to hear that voices,and proofment of that, the person can hear that voices even he stop up his ears or if he stay under the water ! Then,the concept of word 'hear' does not work to describe the nature of the person's realization with this voices ! The hearing process does not happen according to a physical process but according to a new process !
    2. shane pimentalFebruary 18, 2008 @ 09:22 PM
      yes i hear voices and this is all bullshit with these people walking around with their privacy being infaded and i plan to sue the nsa for fucking up my life all you freaks who think its something good
    3. john blanchetteFebruary 25, 2008 @ 03:35 AM
      ok ive been going through alot of web sited for the past 4 hours...and now im here... first of all not all voices are good voices, i have been hearing bad voices since the death of my son in 2000.he was 10yrs old. i tryed to cope with it offten saying it will go away on its own.but in 2004 i fell into a deep depression and i tryed to kill myself 3 time,so my wife took me to the hospital, i stayed for 3 weeks then was sent home with a bunch of pills to help me with my depression.wile on those pills i lost my job and almost my wife.the pills never helped, and when i told this to my doctor he would just bring up my pills. in june 2007 i stoped taking all medication.im not any better or worse just the same i managed to get a stedy job and start paying the bills that builded up since 2000...... but the voices have been very present this past week.and im afraid to go back to see the doctor fearing that he would put me back on medication... im not sure what to do anymore...........not one web site says the samething. i think i need help, but where. if you think you could help me please email me at john.blanchette@hotmail.com
    4. mellyMarch 16, 2008 @ 12:20 AM
      I don't hear voices as in plural, but conversations, as in many, on top of each other, interrupting each other. I don't hear it in terms of words with letters phonetically spoken but with inside thoughts not me but yet a part of me. am I the only one who hears voices this way?
    5. ErskineMarch 25, 2008 @ 01:36 AM
      TO John Blanchette, To start just remember that some of the voices are persistent, moronic, assholes. However most of them are not.
    6. ErskineMarch 25, 2008 @ 02:20 AM
      TO melly, Do they actually interrupt each other as if they are taking turns or do they suppress each other as if vying for dominance. I both hear voice and am able to envision scenes and pictures in my mind and sometimes in conjunction with my normal vision. When this first began to occur it was at times so much information presented so rapidly that it was mentally overwhelming. It required me to go on medication[of which many were tried before one was found that actually proved beneficial]. One of the things that I do sometimes is to envision responses as if I am writing or typing replys to the non verbal messages. It seems to often placate the offending parties, especially if my remarks show sarcasm or the disdain with which I view such intrusions. This procedure alway elicits a response from voices that seem to have some degree of authority over the offending parties. Its like asking to speak to their supervisor. Hope this helps. You have to slow them down or they can make you uncomfortable. Sometimes you can get them to show you some interesting movie quality films as a form of communication if you challenge their intellect in this way. They seem to be very interested in our ability to discern meaning from these short film segments. Sometimes they just show me one to make me laugh.
    7. DelalApril 09, 2008 @ 02:32 AM
      I'm a social worker and work with kids as well as adults who often report hearing voices. I think this is a great forum, thanks for sharing with everyone! I'll let the folks I work with know about this site.
    8. elizabeth murray brownMay 08, 2008 @ 12:50 PM
      'All voices I experience are higher and lower energies (or entities) as some choose to be known. Each have their own personalities. Some respect my rights to privacy as a being in my own right (positive ones) others(negative ones) just barge in and try to take over my mental/physical/spitiriual faculties - using my own energies to do so. This drains me and when drained all at once - mind/body/spirit I feel most vulnerable - this vulnerability would be made worse for me if I took medication as I need all my faculties and awareness to filter the different voice positive/negative energies. despite these vulnerabilities, I still try to cope - seeing the voices as a not yet understood or accepted reality by the psychiatric/scientific/medical communities and the only way I can see that changing is speaking out. Thanks to organisations like Intervoice and Hearing Voice Network and Highland Users Group this has been possible. These once unthinkable developing possiblities (eg speaking out) becoming a reality - are what offers hope for future developing impossibilities becoming possible. The computer I'm presently typing this on was once an unthinkable reality. Mankind has journeyed far from the cave walls ... I cannot tell from where my voices come - they say Spirit/Space - considering I live on a teeny blue and white ball in a seemingly endless universe - and to the voices - I myself am just a voice - who am I to argue with the possibility they are right?'
    9. Anthony L. WinsteadMay 22, 2008 @ 06:53 PM
      Hello all: I have been hearing voices since 2005 and they are horrible. They play back the worst part of my life over and over again. The blame me and convict me laugh at me and attack me mentally. They talk about my sex life, my health, they even tell me when I need a bath. So my warning to you would be to watch them, do not let them control you. Go on with your life and tell them to shut the hell up and get out of my life and house and work place. They use to attack me sexually. (RAPE) I finally realized that they have been with me since my childhood. They change their voice to sound like every dead relative that I have. It has been my experience they can be good and they can be very bad. It is very important to distinguish whether or not the voices are coming from an external source or are they coming from within you internal. My voices are external, meaning something has to be generating noise for me to hear them. I hope this helps. No you are not crazy and do not let anyone tell you that you are. They will hospitalize you if you let them. Hospitalization is not going to take them away from you. Try Spiritual Warfare Prayers...Test the spirits to see if they are from a higher source...Go to Yahoo or Google and at the search prompt type in "Testing the Spirits" or Test the Spirits to see if they are of God" You are going to be surprise at what you read. If anyone would like to talk to me please call Cell 336-583-4962 or email me anthonywinstead7@yahoo.com. I have lost alot since I started hearing them but I am recovering and I take life one day at a time. Whatever you do go out and have some fun. They are not your judge or jury anyway. When you don't feel like being bother with them tell them to shut the Hell!!! Up and don't be afraid to. Ignore them as much as possible and I no this is very hard. Please do not kill yourself over this, because you are not alone. I lost all my school loans, grants etc with was a lot of money but I am recovering enough that I am going to get them back and I still hear the same big damn mouth voices that I have always heard. lol...
    10. DonJune 11, 2008 @ 08:43 AM
      I have recently listened to a Radio program where some experiencies of hearing voices were described. They were similiar to some ones described in this forum and in the article of NY Times of 3/25/2007. Many experiences were related to a sort of interaction between the 'voices' and the victim that is told what to do or not to do, is supported or cursed or even threatened. I am through the same kind of experience, and I have the absolute certainity and a partial proof that the 'voices' are actually the ones of members of an organization of occultists practising 'black magick'. In my case I don't only receive death threats, extortions requests but also serious physical aggressions from a remote location placed in the town I have been living for long time. The tradition of the occultism is hundreds years old, proved and accepted in all the cultures and religions of the world, has a long and important tradition in UK e US, and involves the most psychopathic and evilish 'people', often organized in groups. The occultistic nature of the aggressions in my case has been unveiled by the aggressors only recently (but I have been receiving direct verbal aggressions by the same and related people for many years) but they can also work, causing accidents and bad events, without the victim would be aware of something wrong, or 'hearing voices' or whatever cause external to him (also speaking from personal experience). Of course not 100% of the cases involve the use of occultistic tecniques, but by reading just the comments above ,I'd say that 3 or 4 cases have the same profile as mine, in particular the last one. Also I don't want to suggest that the aggressions are dramatic like in my case: the (psychopath) occultist may feel like he/she is an angel and giving 'positive' suggestions. I'll try to contact the authors of this site and other authorities of the field in order to try to develop a constructive discussion based on the above evidences.
    11. MegJune 19, 2008 @ 03:14 PM
      My experiences have been similar to melly and Erskine. I have heard voices since I was a very young child up until now (early 20s). I hear multiple voices, sometimes it feels like a room full of people. What they say usually does not make any sense and will be completely unrelated to what I am doing. A few days ago I heard a man with an accent talking about cars in a parking lot. I also hear & see movies that play in my head. Usually some sort of crime or action film with multiple characters. Things that are very far fetched. This usually happens when I am putting on make-up or doing something mundane. I do not mind those voices, although sometimes what they say is so bizarre I can't believe it's in my head. However, when I am in very stressful situations, I hear many, many voices that are angry, violent, and demented. This usually happens when I am trying to go to sleep or when I am alone at night. The voices are usually accompanied by flashes of violent, disturbing images that really bother me. I don't want to take medication, but I am wondering if there is any advice you could give me on how to understand and subdue my voices. I feel like I am a third wheel listening to someone else's conversation in my own mind!
    12. MattJune 24, 2008 @ 04:29 PM
      I experience much of the same as many of you, but I would add the low beastly demonic sounds that are my thoughts the same but are not english or jargon or babble but are like groans. Often I see sparks or little balls of light or dark zooming like shooting stars in my sight. I have seen people I know just appear right off my path in my sight but I was too scared to go up to them or I didn't have the power to do so. I pray and hope that all of us find what we need to heal and end our suffering. Peace
    13. MeganJune 27, 2008 @ 08:39 PM
      I have four voices, that i've heard for around two years, starting as an imaginary friend who decided to stay. The main voice is an old Gaelic Druid, who's not threatening at all. The worst is the voice who just breaths...I see him more than hear him, he scares me. The voices who actually speak with me are a lot easier to deal with.
    14. ManonJuly 05, 2008 @ 07:55 AM
      I'm now 14 years old and I hear voices, More then one. They are usually never mean to me but they say weird things. It's like they all pick one day to spill out what they want to say. A lot of the things that they say are random and have no importance to them. I have been writing what they say down. Most are voices that I don't know in my daily life, but a few of them are. I have been worrying for a bit that I was mentally ill, Finding this site though has help clear that up. I'm glad that I have found this site. Thank-you.
    15. MS. LATAYA K. HENDRIXAugust 01, 2008 @ 10:20 PM
      HI... PEOPLE. I READ SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT WAS MADE. I THINK THAT I RELATE TO MOST OF THEM. I'VE BEEN SPIRTUALLY INCLINE SINCE I WAS 8 YRS OLD AND I DIDN'T DEVELOP SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS UNTIL I WAS 17 YRS OLD. WELL, TODAY I NOW KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. BEFORE I DID NOT KNOW I USE TO BE CONFUSED,WHEN HEARING THE TORMENTING VOICES. I'M A CHRISTIAN,A STRONG BELIEVER IN GOD(JESUS CHRIST ). I HAVE KNOW FEAR NOW,WHEN I SET FORTH TO PRAY,GOD SHOWS ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT IS MENTAL AND SPIRTUAL. THIS IS HOW, WHEN YOU TOTALLY GIVE YOUR LIFE OVER TO CHRIST,HE THEN GIVES YOU HIS SALAVATION AND HIS HOLY SPIRT TO COMFORT YOU,SO IN THE MIST OF ALL THE SERIOUS TURMOIL AND AFFLICTION, YOU WILL HAVE AGAPE LOVE,BECAUSE OF THE PERFECT/HOLY LOVE CAST OUT ALL FEAR. GOD HAS NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRT OF FEAR BUT POWER,LOVE AND A SOUND MIND. ASK GOD TO GIVE YOU THE DECERNMENT BETWEEN THE TWO,AND HE WILL. HAVE NO FEAR WHEN THE ATTACK COMES EITHER SPIRTUAL OR THROUGH MENTAL ILLNESS. CALL ON GOD ( JESUS CHRIST ) AND REBUKE THE VOICES IN THE NAME OF JESUS. IF THE VOICES GO WHEN DOING THAT,THEN YOU'LL KNOW IT WAS SPIRTUAL-DEMONIC, IF THE VOICES STAY IT'S THEN YOUR CHEMICAL IMBLANCE. SO GET TESTING DONE TO RULE OUT THE PROBLEM,FOR EXAMPLE; THYROID PROBLEM,TUMOR,VIRAL INFECTIONS OR OTHERWISE . THERE'S MANY MANY THINGS THAT CAUSE A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE,FOR EXAMPLE; CHILDHOOD ABUSE OF ANY KIND,ENVIROMENT,SUBSTANCE ABUSE,OPPRESSION,MAJOR CLINICAL DEPRESSION WITH HEARING OF VOICES, INJURE TO THE HEAD YOU NAME IT. SO DO YOUR RESEARCH , BOTH SPIRTUALLY AND HEALTH WISE, GET TO REALLY KNOW YOURSELF AND BE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE.KEEP A JOURNAL, GET INVOLE WITH NAMI- THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL.ALSO, FIND A TRUE/REAL DOWN TO EARTH NON-DEMONATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHIRCH IN YOUR LOCAL AREA THAT CAN HELP YOU, FOR EXAMPLE; A COUSELOR/ LAYPERSON OR PASTOR. WELL I SAID A MOUTH FULL, I WISH AND PRAY THAT PERSONAL INFO. FROM MY EXPERIENCE IN LIFE WELL HELP YOU AND BLESS YOU. REMEMBER BE STRONG IN THE LORD,BECAUSE YOU ,YES YOU ARE MORE THAN A OVERCOMER AND YOU CAN MAKE IT. MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS ( RUBIESOFHEAVEN75@YAHOO.COM ) IF YOU CARE TO ASK ME ABOUT ANYTHING OR SHARE WITH YOUR INFO, I'M OPEN EARS,WILLING TO LEARN MORE AND LISTEN TO YOUR TESTIMONIES.GODBLESS YOU ALL. THIS STATEMENT IS FROM ( MS. LATAYA HENDRIX ) MYSELF WRITE ME BACK PEACE & LOVE
    16. Thomas WilhiteAugust 05, 2008 @ 07:00 AM
      Very interesting. I come from a Fundamentalist religious background, which I find very frustrating, minds so closed that nothing can ever enter. I have heard things for years. At present I am constantly distracted, it is like there are 3 or 4 people talking and trying to do things, this is my normal daily activity. For years when I get upset there are 2 voices in my mind, German Alles is Vorboten, and Spanish Todo es Prohibido. Then the voices go onto make a list of words and things that I am not allowed to speak about At present I do not worry so much about judgemental voices, the voices go on about this and that, they used to be extremely judgemental. Random voice talk about various subjects..... Specific voices, like Saturday August 1st, I parked in front of warehouse, lady in Lexus car (behind me in traffic) sends me her (mental) picture of my pickup, rt side brake light is out, voice says something about "get it fixed, so people do not run into you". I go back to our parts store and I see picture again of passenger brake light out, and voice saying " old guy, or dumb ass does'nt realize brake light is out". (See mental picture and feel male mental presence of store manager of hydraulic line repair shop) I come in store and get a brake light bulb and tools to fix brake light and I fix it. My co workers notice this and are kind of talking about it, because as I parked the pickup truck, the store manager had called to tell my boss that I had passenger brake light out. I also hear police ocifers thoughts out loud, so it seems. Going through a part of town I hear " I am not hiding behind a sign, everybody says we hide behinc signs, well it is just a good place and I can get on the street easily" I make sure I am not exceeding the speed limit and as I go by the sign I turn and look directly at the officer on motorbike behind the sign In December 2007, I hear a womans voice, "Shit," So I put on the brakes and a police cars comes around the corner out of control and turns completeley around in front of me. "Remember your training, stay calm, " She pulls into a parking lot and pretends she meant to do so." Voice continues "why did I leave Georgia and come up here? Snow is slick as snot, why did I take this assignment in Idaho." Lady police officer with long blond hair. Have heard her several times. Last month, voices talked all night, 3 or 4 days, and seemed to be police department morning breifings and weekend conference. Cover various subjects and go on for hours. "Today, we have situational speeders, exceeding the speed limit by 10 or 15 miles per hour, not 5 or 10....To suppress speeding, we do well to keep in mind the concepts of flagrancy, safety........ During narcoleptic episode at 10 am, The voice were 4 men, complete with flip charts, pointers, "name of our talk is Trimming Cement Production Costs, when to use pea gravel, crushed rock, river or round rock.....how much re bar to use, " went on for 10 , 20 minutes, main speaker seemed to be manager of company, I was bringing parts to. No one was there, so just left parts, the construction company seemed to be deserted and like everyone was at a meeting. One can force one's self awake out of narcolepsy, but it is very painful.
    17. h k ordonezAugust 10, 2008 @ 06:23 AM
      ok, i have a situation. i have a worker who lied to get a job. he did not inform us of his voice hearing situation, nor did he inform us that he is taking medication for voice hearing. he now wants to quit because he says he's not cut out for the job. the only problem is he is a good worker, and i really need the help. what should i do?
    18. JamieAugust 19, 2008 @ 06:38 AM
      I hear voices I told some on in my chain of command and now I may lose my job because of it. My voiced are like a radio station lots of talking at once. Some times i get a strange taste in my mouth and can smell dam straw..? Any one else get this..? I often think i can hear other folks thoughts.. Any help wellcome Jamie32 uk Army
    19. CraigSeptember 05, 2008 @ 01:26 AM
      I've heard voices for many years (I'm in my 60s) but they are invariably helpful and friendly. They often speak up to warn me of possible problems or help me work through stressful situations. Many times they warn me of problems ahead on the road when I'm driving or speed traps and they are almost always timely and correct. I can't say I've had conversations with them but I have said, "Oh, yeah?" to them in a sarcastic way. They seem to have a good sense of humor (as do I). I suspect that they really are "spirits" from the "other side". Many years ago we were operating a Ouija Board at a party and I suddenly began to ask the Board questions about the "operator". Turns out it was a former Swiss butcher who lived in the mid-19th century. Everyone at the party was stunned. This works best if you ask questions that can be answered "yes" or "no". Do I believe that "hearing voices" is a sign of mental illness? Well if that is so, then I'm in good company. Maybe I was just lucky to get voices who are nice.
    20. miriamSeptember 11, 2008 @ 12:17 PM
      I've been hearing voices almost the vast majority of my life, after dealing with it for such a long time I guess they just mould into a part of yourself - you forget that what goes on in your head is usually absolutely absurd... sometimes you get carried away with it, forget that you are a part of a "reality" and let them out to play,(which in fairness I think, for the decent ones, is quite alright - it sounds a bit cramped in there, and it makes like a tad more interesting, who wants to be the same person from day to day?). Talking of letting them out, I dont mean giving them full control, maybe just choosing what I want to wear that day or a song to listen to - nothing major, just releasing them slightly.. I've found working with them, can actually be quite a good thing. Obviously unless it is screaming at me to do something disgusting(which i shall not be so open to talk about), then they/he/she/it will be completely ignored or shouted back at(obviously trying my hardest to say it back to them in my head, or else quietly whispering for it to fuck off, and if its really bad eventually hiding somewhere - pointless, i know). I don't know if i deal with the voices as well as some of the poeple (maybe a fair few) that have been posting on here, but my way kinda works for me and really i've grown to love them - even the ones which make you want to throw yourself out of a window, or off a bridge - because really, they are just a part of us aren't they? And at times it can be quite good to hear a joke noone else can hear, or be so rushed with thoughts that you have to grab your journal and add the new addition to your soon to be nobel prize winning book, because usually its the best way to get rid of them. The downside is the fact that you are constantly being told that you will soon have to conform to some society, which is unbearable - i refuse to use meds as why should i change because some shrink is telling me my head needs to be like everyone elses - though trying to cope with a job whilst keeping everything at bay is quite a difficult task especially for a perfectionist who focuses all energy on being the best at whatever it is she is doing, you aren't left with any energy to hold anything else back. The other option is complying with psychiatrists who tell you you need to change, try to dose you up to your eyeballs, loosing all creativity and any means for you to complete what it is you are set out to do but then get some form of benifit although you are physically completely capable, minus the fuck ups. Resultedly you are left in some rut whilst all you want to do is write your book, and once thats done hopefully you dont have to worry about that shit anymore. Bitch isn't it? Obviously the final option would be to return to a control freak, obsessive, untrusting father who can support you in terms of finance, though loosing all friendships that you have worked so hard to form with people that dont care that you are a bit screwed, no option of making any new ones, because in his reality friends are evil, loosing your family and completely unaware if in those circumstances you would even be able to write as much as a thank you note- but you never know. So yeah hearing voices has its perks but also has its terrible side... I like this site though - it seems like a great organisation. This is probably an obscenly long post, and I do apologise for that but I really am quite stuck. Anybody who would have any information/advice at all which may be of some help to me would be so amazingly brilliant (in lamest terms), noone inside or outside of my head can seem to offer anything so I'm pretty stuck... one last point that I thought would be interesting to share is that sometimes they throw parties inside my head - those times are brilliant(does anyone else get that?)
    21. sarahSeptember 27, 2008 @ 04:35 AM
      I wish to remain anonymous but hear voices ..there is little or no release!From feelings of suicide to elation. I am affected by people and in turn will hear their voice criticizing me..its a nasty affliction. Also psychosis is stigmitaized to a degree still. I have been isolated most of my life due to the illness..however I see it more at times as a psychic experience that I can read the emotions and thoughts of others..mainly negative and critical thoughts which make me feel helpless and harrassed! How do I find enlightenment and release?! I have become obsessive in terms of finding a man who wont reject me. Everytime I am rejected it sparks negative voices for years until the love interest is replace. Apart from this I have an affect disorder so everyone I come in contact with affects me in some way and I then can hear their voice depending on how I perceive them. I am turning to alcohol to subdue the voices for a while. Im on a new antipsychotic so have to give up the alcohol and conquer the shame and guilt over what I hear! An impossible task?! I do however think that courses or other external interests help in putting the voices in some form of perspective..if only briefly! My advice..as a voice hearer get out and do things..I know from experience its hard but Iv just started and voice hearers can see the world more positively then if only briefly as my illness is all consuming at times on emotional reserves!!!
    22. sarahSeptember 27, 2008 @ 05:23 AM
      I wish to remain anonymous but hear voices ..there is little or no release!From feelings of suicide to elation. I am affected by people and in turn will hear their voice criticizing me..its a nasty affliction. Also psychosis is stigmitaized to a degree still. I have been isolated most of my life due to the illness..however I see it more at times as a psychic experience that I can read the emotions and thoughts of others..mainly negative and critical thoughts which make me feel helpless and harrassed! How do I find enlightenment and release?! I have become obsessive in terms of finding a man who wont reject me. Everytime I am rejected it sparks negative voices for years until the love interest is replaced. Apart from this I have an affect disorder so everyone I come in contact with affects me in some way and I then can hear their voice depending on how I perceive them. I am turning to alcohol to subdue the voices for a while. Im on a new antipsychotic so have to give up the alcohol and conquer the shame and guilt over what I hear! An impossible task?! I do however think that courses or other external interests help in putting the voices in some form of perspective..if only briefly! My advice..as a voice hearer get out and do things..I know from experience its hard but Iv just started and voice hearers can see the world more positively then if only briefly as my illness is all consuming at times on emotional reserves!!! I dont believe that people can not hear voices or cant quiet grasp it! I believe I have heard voices all my life but was untreated till I was 28 properly having struggled and refused treatment due to stigma! My parents have told me that what I experience is nonsence but that dosnt stop the mental torture! I have experienced briefly how it feels to be liked mutually by a man I like and I crave this emotionally as I feel it will ease my psychosis and paranoia by being in love! People with psychosis isolate themselves like I have..its the nature of the illness but that needs to be addressed in terms of finding creative interests to explore and supportive and accepting and patient friends. I find it hard not to react to the voices in terms of sending negative texts to friends etc Im just glad one or two are understanding of my illness which I only recently have admitted and explained to them..it puts the critical and demeaning voices into some sort of perspective then. With psychosis you cant live a lie covering up how you suffer to friends or youll never progress...
    23. anonymousSeptember 28, 2008 @ 01:05 AM
      I am very open with my friends and family about the ongoings of my head, I found my best release is painting and writing (I am working on both a huge wall of artwork and a novel :) After a life of suffering and hiding I have come to terms (over the past year) with everything that has happened to me, and everything that goes on inside and (inside but) outside my head. It has been tough as any psychiatric support I recieved was very negative, dosing me up far too high, hospitilization etc; fortunately I have a great family who are willing to support my decisions and after years of searching a group of friends who are very open and accept me whatever shape or form. The hardest part, I always find, are the negative days - the ones which nothing you do or say will change the fact that you feel absolutely out of control and pretty much despise yourself... I guess dealing with that just takes practice or alot of hope to get through the next day/week/month/year... I no longer mingle with the meds, or speak to psychs; it is far far easier that way. And what is wrong with me other than my head working a little differently? I still function, I work, I have huge ambitions(far greater than most people I know), and I get on with it. Sure there are the downsides; huge downsides(being in a positive mood at the moment obviously denies this - bi polar) But then there are the good times too, and the better times - and looking a piece of work you know couldn't have been completed without the voices/visions. I am not happy to be different, I am happy to be gifted; I see things from every point of view possible as I have them screamed at me constantly, the good and the bad.
    24. barbaraSeptember 29, 2008 @ 05:37 PM
      Well...can't quite believe I stumbled into your website this day. Ok...truth is that one of those voices I've been listening to since childhood prompted me to do an update check with the Natl Empowerment Ctr and that search led me to you. Have just been skimming a bit and will return many more times for more in depth reading. This leaves me a bit breathless as reality for me is the great risk in speaking openly to others regarding this aspect of myself. A number of years ago I found myself working in public funded behavioral health in Tucson, AZ and quickly learned, to my amazement, that hearing voices was seen one dimensionally as bad...sick...and worthy of a major diagnosis with little to no prognosis for ever being seen again as worthy of participation, inclusion in "everyday" society. Needless to say, I kept quiet about my own voices! As I worked with folks who had been given the diagnoses/labels of paranoid schizophrenia, psychotic, manic, et al....I heard over and over their stories of mean, scary, nasty, awful voices. I wondered about this...and so asked my voices as they have always told me that we all can hear voioces ....i.e. they and others like them are talkin' all the time....just very few us are listenin'! When I asked specifically about the negative voices they responded as I have heard them do so before....and what Jung spoke to in his shadow work. Voices come from many dimensions....it is up to me to listen with respect and acknowledgement to all of them...and to always remember that I am the one with the power and ultimate responsibility of action in this dimension. None of them can keep me, as the USPS, says "from my appointed rounds"....from my destiny...from creating what I came here to create....small as it may be...it is mine and muy great in the eyes of the universe!
    25. julioDecember 07, 2008 @ 01:54 AM
      Hello, I have been talking with voices for about a year and a half. Some are disturbing, some are not. But they all need energy. By talking to you, they taking that energy and that energy can be given by paying attention to them. Don't give them attention!!!. But if you deside to give to them, ask for a good advice. This is a form of negotiating with them. Remember emotions are energy and they feed on that; Any emotion. Another form to persuade them to leave you alone is to use fantacy. By that I mean is to transform yourself into anything. Anyform will sufice, provide that is scary anough for them to leave, or you can attack them with whatever form you have taken. this has serve me. They learn some respect. Of course, some will deny that you are scary, but U imagine transforming in, say, a tiger, a lion, or a wolf and attack them ,you will see. Just like they try to put fear u can do the same, or use LOVE as your shield. Imagine a light of Love to protect you. All these I have use to protect myself against them.
    26. NobelDecember 30, 2008 @ 04:41 PM
      I would like all of you to say a prayer. Say in the Name of Jesus Christ, may all these voices be stopped and be silenced. And ask God to fill the void that they filled with His Holy Spirit, and you will finally find peace. They may still come at you, but just keep the Word of God in your heart and they will not be able to harm you. If you don't believe me try it and you will see. Meditation can also help, many people think meditation is trying to stop your thoughts from coming through. Though if you had ever tried doing that you may have found that the very act of trying to stop your thoughts only makes them louder. Meditation is about working through the troubles in your mind, to get to a place where your mind is quiet simply because there is no troubles. Your mind is at ease. I have found that meditating on the Word of God not only makes the voices stop, but brings healing to your mind. "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor Angels or demons, neither present or future, nor any powers nor hight, nor depth, nor anything in all creation will be able to separate us from the Love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:28-39
    27. TrayveonJanuary 28, 2009 @ 06:58 AM
      doctors give meds because i use to see stuff and hear stuff, now i only hear stuff, sometimes i have to cover my ears and say shutup, i wannaa cry half the time, they don't understand what i'm going through, i'm also a 14 yr old male
    28. PabloFebruary 13, 2009 @ 02:32 AM
      I hear voices since 2006. That voices speak many things like: We are mafia. Your friends and you are ..... badwords. I'm lost my job, i don't to be concentration in my studies, my neighbohood and family listen my thoughts. They ridicularize and cause fear on my plans. I have to try some help but i don't search anything. I'am Brazillian.
    29. DawnApril 24, 2009 @ 01:49 AM
      I have been hearing a voice in my head for what I believe to be a little over a year. I have had a lot of traumatic events in my life, and I believe that that is one of the reasons I hallucinate. My voice is sometimes nice and sometimes negative. It is a hard, long road, and I know that there are many of us who must travel it. It is a great comfort to know that I'm not the only one
    30. rory b carrillo srMay 21, 2009 @ 09:01 PM
      hey people i am going to say that the stigma behind this crazy idea that people are crazy cant be anything but far from the truth. thae voices you are actually hearing are comming from a looping computer communication system. we are all connected to a electro magnitic field that our federal goverments in any country. when i first started hearing what you call voices my voices where actually a looping song that song was "TEQUILLA SUNRISE" how many people heard this song or a different song in there mind. its all part of our federal goverment and the pharmisidical companies. today after 8 years i have been able to munipulate the federal goverment again actually its also the prisons system the imates in prisons are manning communications systems, how do i know this because i have been controlling them with the use of mind control and remote viewing. all this hype about you being crazy is sterotypicle your not hallusaniting the voices are really there it, i know im not crazy im not on any drugs i have been communicating with the same voices you communicate, they mite be from a different location but they dont have to be, they can be in a lancaster,ca correctional facility and you be in florida the way that the department of corrections has there radio frequency working its, let say the wheather radar the doppler 2000? here in santa clarita a part of los angeles,ca and the microwave equiptment towers lets the cellular sites, in between these cites where vuluramble to the reception do to the magnitic airfield below. so when you hear these voices its actually comming from a genric computer system there are far to many people for the corrections dept. to man every human being that hears voices, when yopu really can hear voices is when you take your meds, try taking asprin instead im not a doctor but i have been doing this with these people i know what works. if there is anybody out there that wants to contact me professionally, im am here awaiting, i challenge anyone in the ph.d field you guys are crazy these people are not going to lose this voice intil they stop taking your drugs you prescribe to them, the pharmicidual companies and the corrections department of the united states are all "WITCHES", yes i said witches this is the truth., you people have no idea whats behind there motive, they wantto control the world using there radio communication system and you people let them control you. thewre about negitiveivity, they have you doing things that you wouldnt do otherwise. you hear them take to you subcousiously, but you acvtually think there talking to in your ears or what you think in your head. call me at 562.746.8366 to take more about this subject or e-mail me at rorybcarrillosr1@verizon.net thank you for listening i am a voice hearer and controller of the voices they do what i say for them to do, actually they cant do much because there in prisons, mind you there are actually people in the prisons systems your hearing from a radio frequency in your subcoucious mind. till tommorow
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