I feel like I just made a great discovery, but you've been there all the time !! So.... I'm not as alone as I thought I was (or abnormal). When I was younger, I realized that I could hear music in engines or machinery and sometimes in the breeze or wind and thunder. Later in life, I started hearing voices. They always manifested themselves through noises i.e. rattling AC vents, fans, passing cars, etc... and at times when I was "told"... "to listen to the whole picture (so to speak)" and the whole of all noise blended into the voice. Sometimes it was bad and I was terrified. I was convinced for quite a long time that it was some kind of telepathy or God or maybe something evil. It seems, looking back, that my own mind was using scare tactics to get me to improve my life, line of thinking, and frame of mind. -- Glyn

Hello everyone I just found this website and wanted to join in on the discussion. It might be too soon that is what I am thinking, I hear voices they are real people that I know and they are not very supporting they hurt me more than anything, they say its because I smoke cigarettes. I read about negotiating with them but all they say is I smoke cigarettes and the voices want me to quit smoking and then they will leave. I have blamed God for this and have believed this is punishment. The fact that these voices belong to people I know is what gets me. I have been unable to function for years. I am just now getting used to hearing them and the fact that they upset me is getting less and less. Its wonderful to know you all are hear and maybe I can get help with coping.

This is to Brian: 8 years of dealing with that turkey?!?! I need to ask you, did this turkey say “Life is Balance. On this earth you’re going to get a polarity of extremes. Love and Hate. Learn to live with both” if so, you should hear the bitch in my head saying "fuck you mother fucker" and "I hate you" at least over 500 times a day. Yep, I am uncertain if therapy or even medication will help this voice, I want it GONE!!! How about this for you, this voice is female, she can make up a male voic and another of her own and use them at the same time she speaks so that I hear her all the time (overlaying). She uses a bad deception plan to try and confuse me, to try and make me go crazy and to kill myself and this is only 10 % of what I know about this voice. Have you or anyone heard of someone describing a voice in their mins being able to do this: this voice can escape my focus (in my mind) and say things in an area of my mind that affects my brain to where I feel things that are unnatural (moods, emotions, actually make me feel more tired if I am already, to make me feel non sexual, etc.) it is MESSED UP! I have done a lot to figure it out, to fight back to a point where I am realizing who I was meant to be but I know that I am not capable of ridding this voice by myself so I sure hope that mental health treatment will do such that. Good luck to you and everyone else.

I've "heard" for four years now and yeah it followed a traumatic event. I've also heard comments about my smoking habits and I've heard voices from people i've known in life that passed away and one that tells me to take my own life as well. I do believe in past lives and that some things that are unresolved in the past come forward to be healed in this life. That if perhaps you comitted suicide in a past life you would face the same challenges again, to resolve them, not as a punishment. Maybe the voice who promotes suicide is the person who tormented me in a past life and the point in hearing that person now is to resolve that relationship. I think the whole point in hearing is to heal......

Hi! I just started hearing voices. I want them to go away. I'm on medication, it helps, but I want to have a child. Tell me how can I have a baby hearing voices and taking meds? It needs to stop. Can someone help me. Atleast tell me they will go away one day.

I've had the horrible experience of listening to voices mumbling to each other inside my head since I remember. I am now 42 and have been diagnosed with ocd with psychosis. I always told my parents that my mind was chaotic and that I was very anxious. I was actually hearing dialogue between people that I knew talking about me in a degrading way. Then images of bad past experiences and music and other languages would be thrown in the mix in a constantly changing but seemingly unrelated sequence. After years of therapy and doctors experimenting with prescribed drugs, I finally tried electro shock therapy without success. After the ect failed to relieve the symptoms, the image of a pistol to my temple appeared every 10 minutes for two years until one day I tried to relate my mental illness to my true fears. Because I am an extrovert/daredevil with a large athletic build, the only thing that could think that terrified me was a drug I took once. When I took the short acting drug, my mind stopped being random and begged me to stop immediately. I thought, ok, if that is my fear, I will face my fear. I researched voices and possible explanations for the drug causing such a interesting reaction to my mind. I decided that something philosophical called developemental forcing, that sometimes occurs during drug use, meditation, trance, or hypmotism, may occur if I did the drug again. I am a doctor and have ocd so I decided to record what I experienced. I started my treatment in desparation.. It caused some sort of transformation that took several months and alot of confusion and convulsions and hallucinations which does not occur with this drug in the normal population. Now I no longer hear mumbling and random crap. There are distinct voices arguing with each other and me. I now have an internal voice that is mine and takes up for what I think is right. Before my drug experiment, I did not have an internal voice that I talked to myself with. I told myself that I could not control how I thought, but I could control what i do. I have a photographic memory, so I think this is how i've been able to lead a successful but emotionally tormented life. The voices tell me that I was just one of them before the drug derailed the system that had evolved throughout my life.There are two female voices that are nice. There is one voice that is a real ass-hole that calls himself their leader. There is a female voice that is a total bitch and sometimes uses an ethnic accent. This may be one entity in my mind that is able to warp voices and accents to try to confuse me. They have told me that because I did not have this internal dialogue with myself, that they couldn't tell what I was going to do next, so to suppossedly protect me and themselves they decided at an early age to feed confusing information to me to keep me in fear so I would be less reactive and they could control my actions better. In the process, they took on personas of the people I would see on tv, or people I would meet. They could do what was neccessary to function and still have free space to create their own life inside my head while some kept me confused.( I think a life time of sleep apnea and adha lead to my mental illness). If they could convince me to kill myself, they might have a chance at an afterlife, since they had created these personas. Now that I had distroyed the system that was in place, I could hear everything that was said and was no longer mumbling. At first the voices didn't know I could hear everything so I had a chance to listen to their asking each other what to do next. I have been in a battle with the voices and they with each other for about 2 years now. Most of the time it's insults thrown at me. I have body dismorphic disorder and other phobias and compulsions that were always in my ocd , and the voices use these to harrass me. I cry almost every day and have been unable to maintain relationships because of my ocd, but at least now I in the game and will eventually force this mind to work for me. I have a voice of reason that challenges all voices, images, and unhealthy thoughts when they occur. It's exhausting to do, but for the first 40 years of my life, I was fed unpleasant and hurtful info. Now I have a voice. I am trying to relate my life experience and mental illness to other mental illnesses. Maybe I was autistic-like (until I did the drug),which caused me to be schizophrenic... And now i'm ocd with voices? I don't know the answer. Until psychiatrist can come up with a working model of how the brain is programmed and how the program is changed, it's up to us sufferrers to have medication, that no doctor knows the mechanism of action of, given to us to see if it makes a change for the better. I think that is like throwing an unknown sized wrench into a machine that noone knows how it works. Not that i'm jaded... Ha! Until then, I am going to pay attention to what images, thoughts, and voices are in my head and try to ignore the bad ones. Drown them out with activity or music, and respond to them with my voice of reason if I have the energy. I take everything that the voices say with a big grain of salt! They want to make my cry or get mad...