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to stop hearing voice just BCI ( brain computer interface ) labs work , lanoswww work , issac newten institute work and nasa work on bci must be know and under control since it becomes wireless and use mobile , they work on quantum , nonlinear system , ieee , bioengineering , mini devices and others and this is how they hear our though and how we hear them
WTF, and no that does not mean wednesday thursday friday! i was personally carrying the intervoice thumb drive around with me for 3 months unaware of what it does and wanting help to figure out the findings, i plugged it in to two hospital locations; pacific and colby campuses of the ER in everett WA. Knowing that at anytime their hospital records would infact show that, i, erica sue solomon was infact in that room and hoping that they would contact me to show or tell me about their findings. Instead, anytime i needed HELP, it was never sought out or given and even going as far as arresting me for trespassing in the hospital, which infact is a public place! Maybe now we can start getting the HELP we need!
I’m hoping that everyone will start asking before making an assumption, thank you for your time and consideration, erica sue solomon
P.S. i left it unlocked and still don’t KNOW what it is “all about”
dear sir,
I am sridevi from india my age is fourty. i am married due to my husband harassement i have make another friendship with a colonel who is working in a indian army. now he transfer to somewhere due to some misunderstanding colonel dismissed me in my working place using his personel power.due to this i get angry and report about him with his senoir.thats all i know.after that mind control with withcraft technology along with black magic amusings happened in my life. they thrown out me where ever i go.i start to hear human voice threatens and mentally abusing me.nobody is beleving me,in chennai where can i report.plz help me sir,plz reply me.save me from the cruel abusers.
regards,
Sridevi
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I had a outbreak in my 19 years old. I was in shock. My friends leave me on my own.
Then, my work in my school went down, and left my school because I couldn’t follow lessons. I went to a psychologist who said me I couldn’t follow the study and I should leave it because of my ill (schizophrenia). I said to myself: I MUST FINISH MY EDUCATION!! If I couldn’t go to college at least I should finish high school. I got through it, thank heaven.
Now, my job is working close to my parents, in the family business. They don’t believe I can get another job better. Anyway, I don’t try to search another job.
Schizophrenia, I didn’t tell to anyone. Only my parents and my sister know it. I’m 25 years old now and I don’t believe I’m ill.
Partly of voices, since I was 20 years old came to me. I knew when I was 13 (more or less) I felt voices but I didn’t hear them. When I was more adult I heard them and I replied to them. I think these voices are people who go against myself.
I live in Spain. I have spent part of my life living with psychologists. My parents are them. My friends are them.Only Internet let me tell to someone how I felt, who I was. I grew up with internet. I feel more secure with internet than people, friends, parents, sister, so on. In the 90′s (when I was child) my parents bought my sister a computer. Then my friends’ parents who had computer too share information with my family about computing. When internet appeared, my life had become into that.
I would like to know if somebody hear voices from living people? My voices have always come from living people and not from dead people. Thank you : )
Chantal: My son has heard voices from what he perceived as living; also from those that are unknown. He and I refer to the voices as “Audio Activity.”
I wonder sometimes why people keep asking me if the voices are hear are someone i recognise, if not what does that mean. Does that mean it is worse. If you recognize the voice, then maybe it is a voice from your past someone abusive putting us down. But not recognized and a t random can we then call them spirits. And what if they answer you back does that mean they are spirits. I wonder about several people living inside me, theres an angel, a demon, me as normal, a child, seems like possession to me.
Sorry the first question is what i am asking, taking more and more sleeping tabs is the only way i can cope, so may not be coherent, but why is it important to have recognised them?
Martin: I think that it is more curiosity than anything else, when people ask if you recognize any voice. What I believe to be important: are the voices (be it recognized or not) kind. Remember, you are in control of you; we know right from wrong. If people are asking whether or not you recognize a voice, it is OK to ask them why the aspect of recognition matters to them; they may have a good reason.
why is my comment awaiting moderation/ censorship, pretty typical, even here people don’t like what you say they delete you. Dosn;t society do that, it’s what they are best at, people are driven to suicide taht don’t what to committ suicide, they get pushed!
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Hi, I’ve been hearing voices ever since i started smoking marijuana everyday. I started when i was about 14 with not much impact on my life, but as i continued i started to feel changes, like paranoia. Weird things would happen to me that i just couldnt explain and when i told people theyd say you were jusy being paranoid and what not. Years later though i began developing them and the thing is i cant really remember how it started. I believe it to be my subconcsious other times i think im crazy enough to say i hear another persons thoughts. But honestly i find myself coming somewhere in between. Ive heard so many responses and to questions and retorts that i feel my subconscious is then throwing out what would seem like a normal response for another person. Or at least i feel like maybe i dont want to accept that i was thinking that. I honestly have a really good understanding of people and can read into motion and movements really well. And i feel like i know what that person is thinking. But thats just it theres a difference when i think i would know and when i just randomly hear a response. A lot of the time i feel like people are talking about me and then other times i understand its just myself thinking about my actions as if i were another person to find meaning to why i do what i do. And for that reason i feel as if i could be just about anyone. Like theres no real difference between me or you. Its just I seem to be conscious in this bodies and not someone elses. I feel like ive lost my humanity though. Sometimes i’ll feel completely normal able to think my thoughts aloud in my head. And assure myself that they are my own. And at other points i really wont know who why or what is talking and it sometimes cuts off leaving me witb have a thought or interjection and i usually take the most cynical route first. At this point i really dont know. And i dont care. I just know that ive lost all understanding of what it means to respect someone and love them. I may do what i do on the outside mostly because of fear or benefits to being nice to someone, but my thoughts however feel like they know no boundary and have no idea what it means to respect someone or love them. Right now before clicking post im feeling like a complete idiot. Just for saying what ive thought. And i feel like it wont even matter after i click post. But yeah. Random thoughts. To sum it up. When i think something to myself now. Im more than likely to get quite a few responses automatically at the same time sometimes or one after the other. Sometimes different. Something i feel i would never recognize myself as saying but like ive heard it somewhere else before. And others things ive heard myself think and get chucked out into my conscious as if i cant help to bar them off. But i know i can act perfectly normal when need be if i shut them up or use them to my advantage. Thanks for? reading. Have a good one. ;D
Hello,
I am diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder- rapid cycling. I am not sure whether or not what I’m hearing would be classified as “hearing voices” or not. This only occurs when I am lying down to go to sleep. I hear a group of voices, usually low in tone and non threatening. However, from time to time, I will hear a group of voices that are loud and there will be one prominent voice that stands out, it is ususlly my father yelling, or my brother in law (both have passed on). I do not hear voices during the day, and this is what I find bizarre. When the voices occur, I have just layed down to sleep and they startle me out of my relaxed state. I am confused as to whether this would be classified as hearing voices or whether it is a “lucid” dream? Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Hi,
Interesting you say you hear voices when you drop off to sleep or just before, i hear voices mainly in the day, but i also hear voices when i am exhausted after working nights , fallig asleep the voices go nuts saying random stuff and are alot of people i know or have known. These voices are differnt to the ones i hear in the day, and i wonder if it has something to do with been in a semi conscious state and being exhausted, like wisperings.
I guess I have been hearing voices all of my life… It is only recently that I became aware that the voices were there, and that the voices were something seperate from myself… I know they are projections.. from where I do not know. For all of my life, up to a recent point, I have followed the voices of my mind, as though I was reading a script… now I realize that I am seperate from the voices and I don’t have to let them control me. The voices have guided so much of my life. I have been told I have a psychosis, that I have been experiencing things that are not there… but they don’t know what they are talking about… this is no chemical imbalance, this is a posession I am talking about… more specifically a ‘perfect posession’. I accept what is happening, I will not push it away. I have been told I should have an exorcism, but that’s not going to happen… These voices are here for a reason, this posession is happening for a reason, and I am going to try to find out what that reason is. Thanks for being here. Be well, all of you out there.
My mother hear voices and this is destroying her life.
She lost her job 6 years ago and she is always depressed at home. Voices are aggressive and she is always suffering and crying. She hears voice at any time (hundreds of different voices). She has difficulties to concentrate, to read, to listen to people.. it seems she’s loosing little by little the real world and she’s sure of not healing anymore.
This problem is getting stronger, psychologist are not able to help her and medicine don’t work. We don’t know what can we do to help her to go over and stop voices once forever.
Does someone know how can this problem heal? Is it possible to get it over?
Is there a cure or good specialists on this issue? I really need advice because I don’t know how to treat her, or how can I help, she always argue, in bad humour, wants to be alone. I would like to fix her and make that voices stop in her head.
I would really appreciate if someone could advice. Or someone who has healed from this matter. Thank you in advance. (Spain)
Celeste, Your mother is so blessed to have you in her life, you’re a wonderful daughter, wanting to help her so much. It must be very difficult to see your mother suffer the way she does. I have heard voices for almost twenty years and have been seeking answers and a cure all that time. I too suffer the way your mother does, God bless her. Read the articles on this site to your mother or have her read them herself, if she’s able to. This site speaks the truth about voices and what to do to help someone who hears them. By reading what the site says about voices your mother will 1. know she’s not alone, 2. know that they are real to her but that she doesn’t have to give them all the power, that she can take her life back. This is what this site did for me. I will pray for your mother and you as well, you’re a brave young lady who loves her mother very much. Take care and God bless you.
im 22 years old and i heard rumbles mixed things when i was younger and when i got around 10 they became all to real my life is concent controll by them ive tryed different things to discract but only get punished later i hate i cant catch pupilc transport and cant really enjoy my life when will it stop
Except of a trauma case the sources of voices are the souls of alive and dead people (the ancient Greek daimons,As PLATON AND SOKRATES new the souls are on the air and comunicate with other souls.Voioceis hearers have the peculiarity to hear the voicew of other souls and some times to display this internal reality.
After reading some posts here I was inclined to make a post.
It would seem as some ppl here are under attack either electronicly or physicly. Heres how it goes
1. you start hearing voices,you don’t know where they come from. You have become aware. If the voices or attackers dont get there way they try to “turn you in” Keep you in a state where you in your thoughts more than the world around you.
2. If this doesn’t work you will be bombarded. You will hear things on the TV or Radio pertaining to you in a atemtpt to keep your “feet off the ground”
3. As they begin to get to you, you will be asked to do somthing to make them stop ex.shave your head. DO NOT do it. By doing anything thats asked you will be makeing them real or comming into being, giving them power over you. I saw a post where some one talked about “electrocution” if you been there you know it can get physical.
What you have to do is keep them from getting what they want and in time you will delight in there frustrations. By delight I mean this. Evey time they get frustrated and renew there attack they are makeing a karmic dept. Take comfort in this for by there own hands do they poison there souls. While they don’t have to abide by some laws the law of karma is unbreakable. Know your self so you know what is not of you. I kept being told to quit smoking. Pretty honorable request. In time I decided to quit because I WANTED to so if I ever heard “we made you quit” it wasn’t valid. The voices still can’t tell me the winning lotto numbers pretty lame if you ask me!!!!!!!!!!!
Good fortune to all here. I will stop back and try to help ppl if I can.
hi this is rebecka i am 31 year old now . when i was a little girl use to see and hear spirits . when i got older i did not see or hear them that much because i was drinking and doing drugs .since i got in my 20s i started to hear voices and music outside my head . last year in august i started to hear voices again ,and i hear a girl voice outside my head . she said hi .i decide to record the voices on my phone . i also heard three guys voices adam ,charlie ,and matthrew . they alway wanna to play a game ,the game was to act like they are having sex with me . i heard them very good and just a little bit outside my head . at this time i was not hearing them inside my head . me and hubby was fighting alot . so i started talking to them alot . i try to do something else but they would not let me do nothing except play the game .after time i was driving or about to walk pass a church i could not . sometimes i feel like i talking to the devil . i am not scary or anything . i told them that i was leaving and was going to get help . they got mad and was very mean to me . i went to church to bless my self. i still heard them outside my head but i started to hear them a little bit inside to. after this my hubby and family send me to the metal hospital. when i got there i saw them one time and still heard them outside my head . i still heard them a little bit inside my head . the day after i heard them alot inside my head and outside too .before the hospital i started to read the bible alot because i thought i had bad spirits inside outside of me . i think god was trying to talk with me too. he was tell me it will be okay .the hospital told me i have a early stage of schizophenia . its only been a year but i been on a alot of pills . i still hear the voices but the pills i have now lower it just a little . Abilify , prozac , seroquel, and trazodone . i still think they may be spirits of something .
Hello,
Yes i have started to go to church to find meaning to the voices, wondering if they
are spiritual in nature,i also have visions some with a spiritual biblical theme, the pastor there said some people that he has met seem more sensetive to these things than others, abit like some people feel the cold more than others, or take insults to heart more than others…I also can ask Christ for protection if they are indeed spirits…A Psychologist recently said my voices are projections of my thoughts making them seem outside my head when thay are inside..My question is how does research prove this dosn’t seem right to me…but who knows..
Hi I’m new to this and thought I could share my story to maybe seek some advice or guidance. My older brother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia many many years ago. He has an injection every fortnight to try and suppress his symptoms. He lives on his own around the corner from my parents house. My family and I are no strangers to hearing about how people are talking about my brother on the radio or how someone’s left something in his walls in his flat. Both my parents are retired and I am a full time psychology student. My brothers behaviour recently has gotten far worse than ever, like I said we are used to hearing his problems but it seems recently that his symptoms have become heightened. We believe he is using recreational drugs as he has lost a great deal of weight and is very short tempered. Today he discussed with me the voice that has been talking to him in his flat (a female voice) who has been telling my brother that ‘Jesus loves him’ and how certain people are plotting against him, he also told me that this voice said ‘people are cloning you when you are asleep’ to what extent he understands about cloning I do not know. He frequently comes to my parents home checking the dictionary for words this voice has said to him, words such as judas and biggot. At the moment it seems his hallucinations have a very religious theme to them with him constantly mentioning that judas is in his flat. I hav spoken to his community psychiatric nurse who is not very helpful but to be honest they can’t really help him because he never tells them the truth preferring to act like he is coping. However as a family we know he is not coping and it puts a great deal of strain on us because we simply feel helpless. We can’t explain to him that it’s ridiculous to think a voice is talking to him outside his bedroom window (he lives on the top floor) because we all know he really is hearing voices. It’s an awful experience feeling on edge around him as he is suspicious of us all and we are all suspects to him in his world where we are all conspiring against him. It’s agonising not knowing what to do or say to help him. My parents are at a loss and it’s really affecting them seeing their grown up son fearful of living in his own flat. I don’t really know how this website can help but I was hoping to find some solice to the situation and maybe some advice on how to deal with these symptoms when the situation arises. All we want is for him to not be afraid anymore it’s heartbreaking to see him so scared of something that only he can hear.
I had a very unpleasant experience: voice(s) and dark in nature and not just a word or two but a full on dialog stating that it was the “devils” advocate and I had taken away ITS internet and I have to “pay” for it. Furthermore, at this time a phone call rang, caller ID had a strange prefix of 666-XXXX. This is when the voice(s) stated many unusual strange things and demands that were extreme and unrealistic, such as my friend and former partner would die in October 2017 at which time I must move far far away from the bay area, that my cat could no longer play in the hallway with me, that I cannot open my wifi signal since it couldn’t have it no one else could. There was a few more unrealistic demands and then it would repeat it over and over always ending with “you are aware, I am devils advocate and this is a contract…do you agree to this?” I replied NO, I am NOT entering a contract over and over again til I was in tears and very shaken. After this day and to this day these voice(s) continue and now are saying things such as:
“let me help you…why don’t you just jump out the window” or “i’m sorry there is nothing that it can do and say some unrealistic demmand(s) like that I am breathing to loud or droning on and on when I’m just thinking to myself and how it refuses to take this and that I have to move or jump out the window or cease whatever activity it may be that it is claiming to be unacceptable.
At first, and for awhile it has stated “are you aware that you are in the presence of a sexual predator” and tell me to stay perfectly still while it “rapes me”.
That if I don’t do as it say’s my entire family will be condemned to hell.
Or to stay still and not to speak because they are having a seyonse (or even think as it seems to be the same thing to it apparently)
Furthermore and most puzzling to me is the hearing of words that are not part of my vocabulary and have NEVER heard before and did NOT know the meaning of until I looked them up online such as: self dependant or Astral projections. How is this possible?
it has stated it is “everywhere”, above, below, and all around. Also it has said that it is from the astral plane.
Also, I have had several strange unusual dreams of similar content and of a weird nature that seems to be related to this.
It seems like it is trying to “feed” off emotional energy and extremes and enjoys bossing around and or telling me what to do only then to say “how powerful a psychic it is” or something to that effect even though it isn’t.
However, I am not fully convinced of this due to the unusual full dialog and nature/circumstances of it and the sudden onset of it as well the many many lies told and non realities claimed and other unusual things (ie. if asked what day or time it is the reply is incorrect unless I first think about it or look at the clock or callander which seems unusual to me for something claiming to be so powerful.
From what I have found and read online it seems to more accurately fit the description of meta physic or para normal nature then anything else. (negative entity, earthbound or lost soul, cord, negative energy…etc)
Any advice?
From what I have learned, those voices are human using technology at some distance. Most likely, they are nowhere near you physically or geographically. Their purpose is to psychologically induce you into sexual acts. Sometimes it is a psychology experiment to torment the person into hurting someone, killing someone, or inducing someone to rape, or inducing a female to be promiscuous.
I don’t seem to have the same issues as others do. I hear voices in my head but they come through as pulses. It seems like pulses from the center of my brain, and they are not male or female, more like cymbals from a drum set. They are however quite clear in their words, and though we have had both good and bad times, they have caused me many throbbing headaches. Most of the conversations from them are biblical, however science has played a big role in the period of time we have conversed. They argue with me to come out as Jesus in order to save the world from the apocalypse, and even though I have locked the apocalypse down to experience not the date, no one so far has listened. Maybe that is because I use the name Tony. I have had a trialing experience and even a walk through the trials and tribulations as well, but Jesus is a big name to carry and I don’t walk on water. I do however have the answers to save humanity, just not the ears to listen. They are upset with me that I won’t go out and share my knowledge with the world, but I tell them that some things just aren’t meant to be. Who believes in prophets in today’s age anyway? Do I want to share it with you all, yes that would help me stop crying in my sleep at night. Do I think anyone would believe me, I think they just aren’t ready for the truth yet. Anyway, my experience has been both mental and physical and I have had a bout or two with a demon. The demon calls himself Satan, and he was the one that challenged me to the trials and tribulations, his lost not mine. Anyways stay strong my brothers and sisters God Bless Thee.
I a, writing this to see if my comment will pop up in leave a reply. I am not very good at using computers. the voices are real though. let me see if this is how you can share yoour experience.
It Worked! I am not exactly sure where to begin. I am thirty years old. I am also horrible at typing, so this might be a little hard to read.
vincent van gough virginia woolf (I would argue nietche entered the dimension or realm where this concsious or form of life exists) Kurt Cobain singing TODAY I FOUND MY FRRIENDS THERE IN MY HEAD. Carl Gustav Jung hints at it in his autobiography I believe. People who hear voices and are notable through the ages drop hints in their writing about this other concsious that contacts certain humans. I believe this conscious is coming from somewhere and i believe we as humans are nowhere near as smart as them. These voices some people hear are guiding us to a new human counscious or a new way of thought for humanity. There is a change coming to the way humans treat each other. curently we are a culture that worships power. we had to be this way to get to this next level of human development. all the wars and horrible acts humans have done and are still doing are going to change and the voices are leading us to a better more humane society for all humans. Don’t call me crazy but I believe the Mayans Had it right with their calander somehow. I don’t think that on december 21 everything is going to all change at once but it marks a great change in humanity. This change won’t be the first for humanity, but it will be the first that is felt by all over the whole world as one. Take example the bronze age. the bronze age was not felt by native americans. not all humans felt the age of agriculture all at once. But these AGES are what i am talking about. We are about to enter a knew age. Industrial age. Age of enlightenment. the stone age. the dark ages. the age of antiquity.. I am going to post this now. I know i don’t talk much about my voices I hear. i believe its all about the frequency though?
Hi, I’m recently took up spirituality and meditation because I was feeling bored. I read about a spiritual awakening that people around the world are going through . anyways i took it up thinking it would be something good but it left me feeling bad I felt paranoid an thing on t.v help aid in my paranoia. So Monday the 7 of November I started hearing voices. IT affects my body because I am a person who feels vibes good or bad pretty easy. The voice is low and screams my name I can’t make out the rest of what it says I just feel scared It gives me striking pains in my head and left side of my body. I pray to god and started taking nerve and blood pill on Friday of last week I told my sister she shrugged it off and told me she doesn’t believe in God or spirits . I talked to my mom last night and she says that I just need to get out more and talk to people and she went through a neurological Imbalance herself at my age.
Find An Idea
Find An Idea lived in a school with other children.
In the beginning, she didn`t know her name and her friends didn`t know theirs. The children could learn everything they wanted. Find An Idea loved music the most.
As years passed by, children learned and some found out their names , but the girl was thinking about music only ,and she shared her classroom bench and recess time with the nameless.
One day, during recess she met a girl called The Peaceful Way. She had the most knowledge, she even knew about names of other kids before they learned them. She was so knowledgeable that she soon left to learn more, and share it with other kids. Find An Idea was left alone in the company of sorts of ignorants such as The Sticky Barbecue, Joyful Cage and Old Man With Shitty Words who was a bully, and she was unhappy.
Then she became aware of invisible children who were scary at times, but usually very friendly and always in a search for conversations. They were not popular at school , so anyone who became friends with them, was bullied and laughed at. They would appear at times when she was confused the most, because she knew nothing about names.
Big, interesting book appeared suddenly, called The Inert Ten. There was a shiny word “Search” inside. Her name was there! It said “Find An Idea”. For the first time, the girl sat alone to do her work, to not forget her name.
The invisible children were named “The Light in the Nightmare” by the book. She decided to hang out more with them since they offered answers to questions very important to her. They would continue to be her friends on the condition for her to stop wearing the Prison Glasses which were very fashionable at the time.
Without those glasses she could see the emotions in words, she learned about art of speaking and understanding and went out during recess hoping she would meet new children, without the fear of forgetting her task, her name, Find An Idea.
There was a lot to be learned of words. The Inert Ten suggested a hint: Me and Mistake. Further reading led to discovery of a distant tribe that knew that words can heal and also sicken. The idea to heal with words was very appealing for Find An Idea.
Her favorite healers were called Ample Jar. The music and words that they invented were healing pills for her, while going out for recess seamed to bring a lot of noise and the words which sicken.
The art of talking and healing with words was learned just by few and , maybe ,because of that ,there was much mistrust and disrespect among children.
hello I would like to share my xperience, I live in Peru, and Im finishing my college eduaction, so far in the late night, SOME nights a month, I find myself feeling this “voices” or “thoughs” of people speaking in my head, they speak my thoughs, and my thoughs during that period are without connection whatsoever but does have connections with my life… also Im getting a Little bit more angry with people, as Im getting just a bit paranoid,and developed a low degree of social phobia at age 19… Im 22 and a half years old and Im getting worried… please contact me
So… my experience…
I’ve been hearing voices since I was about 10 years old (6 years ago). I’ve long suffered from an Inferiority Complex, and I was going to take my life before it started, but all of a sudden I heard a small voice tell me “no. Don’t. I would miss you so much”. It terrified me at first, but the voice introduced himself and we became friends. He was my guardian angel, as I nicknamed him.
Over the next 6 years, the voices didn’t go away. Quite the opposite, really, as I know find myself sharing thoughts with 7 other voices. Each has their own name and distinct personality.
I can safely say that there have been both pros and cons to going through this sort of thing. My depression worsened from being unable to talk to anyone about what I was hearing, and I steadily became more socially awkward because I preferred to be alone with the voices. On the other hand, though, they’ve helped me overcome so many challenges in my life- namely the loss of many family members.
Their speaking has become a lot less frequent as I’m learning to deal with things, but I get the feeling that they’ll always be there. They’ve never really been a problem, so I guess I’m one of those two-in-three people who cope with it just fine.
I have suffered from voices in my head from the age of ten. I am now 56 and I still battle with them every day and night. The last ten years I have been on antidepressants that have helped me a great deal. My main problem is I don’t know who I am anymore. I have spent so many years listening to them. Talking to them. Fighting with them. Trying to shut them up that I don’t know if the final decision is mine or there’s. I thought everybody had voices in there head as I have grown up with them. I would very much like one full day without them. I went to a shrink once and she asked me if they were male or female and had names. I have given this years of thought and they can be male,female or sexless. They don’t have names but I have called them names that I care not to repeat. They do hurt me by giving wrong advice. I could go on and on for hours but don’t see the point. They never go away and Doctors just don’t understand.
It had happen a few months ago , at first I had thought it was demons and ghost and that they were worshipin the devil . But after a few they were saying that they were illuminati. AT fist I usto hear one person voice but then I started hearing male and female voices. These people can tell what am looking at , read what im seeing and know what im thinking . These people dont stop talking to me , they say names from people that I know like they talking to them . They talk to me 24/7 like they dont have a life. I hear music cause idont want to listen all day . Tthese people seem like they have a special power , they sound like they from brooklyn soumd puerto rican , dominican . I think they did somekind of ritual to have this kind of power.Iim tired of hearing this voices dont know what to do sometimes , I be going online to see if other people have the same experience . And they talk and they say its not the same people . Dont know how many of them have that power . They say they human with power but I want to know if theres a way that I can stop hearing voices in my head tiered .
I heard my first voice aged 18. The content of the voice was evil, very evil, and while I didn’t speak to other people my age about it, I did tell a psychiatrist. He ignored it and it was two years before I received help with it. I was sectioned and received a diagnosis of psychosis. A year later, it changed to schizophrenia. Despite all the medications I was on over a three year period, none of them helped and I ended up hearing another two voices. Talking therapy helped me get to the route of my voices and they stopped.
However, despite my voices being negative, I know many people have friendly voices. One of your points: “Hearing voices makes sense in relation to personal life experiences” is very true. I was told in hospital that my ‘schizophrenia’ was down to chemicals in my brain and medication would help. It was only when my voices stopped and a psychologist told me that my experiences came from past events that things made sense. I completely agree with research that has come out in the US about bullying having long lasting psychological damage; things that my ‘dominant’ voice said to me were twisted versions of taunts and threats that my school bullies used.
I have signed your pledge and hope that you get a million signatures. Hearing voices needs to be normalised if there is any hope of voice hearers having a normal life! I wish you every success!
Katy
When i was a child I started hearing a voice that narrated my day, in the 3rd person. “She’s walking down the hallway….she sees the stairs. Will she make it to the next class before the bell rings?” All. Day. Long.
But sometimes the narration would be helpful, “She didn’t see Davy rummaging through her bag. She should see what it was he stole. He went up the back staircase if she wants to confront him.” Or she would give me answers to a test.
Rarely, if I listened to certain classical songs, I would hear a choir sing in Latin, in a very high pitch. The voice would pause her running commentaries to listen as well. It was moving and powerful and I often tried to listen to these songs to hear the choir. I even studied Latin so I could understand what they were singing, but I still can’t.
Sometimes she has been very critical, judgmental, and mean. But I deserved it every time. But she is my best friend and the only one who listens to my point of view even if she doesn’t agree.
When i was in college I learned hearing voices was supposed to be an illness so I never told anyone about her until now.
I don’t consider myself sick and I don’t consider my voice to be trouble. Only one time, when I was suffering from post partum psychosis, did a male voice appear to tell me my baby was the devil and needed to be killed. Thankfully, the female voice stepped in and told him to go to hell and my baby was normal and I wasn’t going to do any such thing. She saved my baby’s life and mine too. She is my friend, and no one I would ever try to medicate away.
I tell my story in the hopes that some of you who feel your voices are your friends know you are not alone and you are not sick. And you CAN call them your friends. They are a part of you, even if you don’t understand why they chose you or how they speak to you.
I hear voices but its usually people i know speaking and i answer, usually just in my head. whenever its just a voice i.e., not real, its a lot softer and more hushed than a normal voice, and I normally hear them only when I’m alone. If I run a loud appliance or listen to loud music a voice that is determined will scream at top volume over whatever noise I already am making. I always already know whether it’s a real voicence I was washing dishes and suddenly a loud, jarring but quite tuneful Indian tune exploded in my left ear at like ten thousand decibels.
Aside from my usually being alone when I hear voices, I also will hear my cell phone ring all day long and i will look at it and no one has called. I have always liked spending time alone and this hasn’t changed that, but it definitely prompted me to get to work knowing myself a little bit better. I like me, usually, so it’s not so bad. I have heard voices at times since I was small but I never really realized it or thought about it. It has definitely stepped up in frequency, however, in the past five years.
I’d like to know the cause of this because I like to think I’m on my own . Side, so to speak, in life’s journey, but a lot of times I feel as if my brain is trying to fool me by making me mess up and think one of the fake voices is real. That sounds way paranoid, but it’s the only way to describe it. Upon further reflection, I don’t usually hear any while I’m driving so I would guess driving is a comforting activity for me. It must be some sort of self test or a safeguard or firewall, if you will. I was messed with by a couple different people when I was little, so maybe it stems from that kind if basic fear. Anybody else have any thoughts on it?
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether Psychology can help someone with a Psychosis, recently i went to see a Psychologist for hearing voices, the problem is the Psychologist told me that Psychology won’t help anyone with a thought disorder which is what she called it and the only thing that helps is medication.Is this a narrow view, if you can’t take medication and Psychology doesn’t work then the future doesn’t seem all the good for me?