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Voices in your head
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Do you or anyone you know hear voices in your head?
Is this quite common, but people are scared to talk about it?
Following on from the radio program below, Josie Long, Jon Ronson and Graham Linehan hear voices.
Josie hears whispering voices that she can't hear clearly, and 'run away' when she tries to focus on them.
Jon and Graham get shouting voices, random noises 'Yip Phwarrr' rather like someone been surprised just as they're drift off to sleep.
Jon Ronson On...
Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another 5 part series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human condition.
Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a label she totally rejects.
Now she is a high achieving academic. What started the voices and how did she get to a point where she not only lives happily with the voices that still exist but also works with others who have the same experience? With contributions from writer Graham Linehan and comedian Josie Long.
Is this quite common, but people are scared to talk about it?
Following on from the radio program below, Josie Long, Jon Ronson and Graham Linehan hear voices.
Josie hears whispering voices that she can't hear clearly, and 'run away' when she tries to focus on them.
Jon and Graham get shouting voices, random noises 'Yip Phwarrr' rather like someone been surprised just as they're drift off to sleep.
Jon Ronson On...
Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another 5 part series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human condition.
Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a label she totally rejects.
Now she is a high achieving academic. What started the voices and how did she get to a point where she not only lives happily with the voices that still exist but also works with others who have the same experience? With contributions from writer Graham Linehan and comedian Josie Long.
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this is a good video of someone using a simulator and trying to get through the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qEPz6EepNA
and here`s one to try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvU-Ajwbok
edit: those might be triggering for some, before you click.
Kind of joking (?) aside..the sleep to being awake moment is something in recent years that has become more prevalent for me.
I swear I will literally jump from my bed having heard a really loud sound - usually knocking at the door. It's not a dream, but then neither is it real..My sleeping dog and frequent checking has proven this.
Not just 'knocking at my door.' either Another frequent one that begins as asleep and crosses momentarily into being awake, is someone roaring aggressively..never actual comprehensible words..just loud and seriously angry - and has me out of bed and on my feet sharpish.
I think this 'symptom' was mentioned here relatively recently, though perhaps not quite fitting the actual criteria OP alludes to.
Like Andrue I also think to myself. I can have conversations with myself in my mind.
Yes, I get all sorts of weird stuff happening, especially when I'm on the verge of falling asleep and when I'm sleep deficient. Aside from bursts of really vivid shouting voices and other noises, I get surreal images jumping into my head too. Sometimes when I'm really tired my brain can go into a weird state where I experience things that I cannot explain as they lie outwith the realms of language.
Eleanor had one of her voices give her the answers to as Statistics exam, got the highest marks in her Uni's history IIRC.
Just listen to someone who has hit their thumb with a hammer and hear all the things they call themselves.
Talking to yourself is a way of relieving tension .
I do that all the time
Did have a weird one on Friday though. I was getting ready to go out and - suffering from a panic and anxiety disorder I was getting in a right old state, worrying I wouldn't be able to make my appointment. I always have to talk my way through it. Told myself one last time not to worry as I'd be fine when I heard a voice in my mind say "It's your neck you need to worry about!"
I thought it odd but brushed it aside. Till an hour later when I felt a horrible pain in my neck. Since then I've been laid up hardly able to move
Similar thing here Annette. Jumbled voices talking to each other (like being in a bar), sometimes a single voice talking to me specifically (or even two conversing about me) and other not voice-specific auditory hallucinations such as hearing church bells and running water when there are none. Always worse when I'm stressed out or going into a manic phase. I get visual and scent hallucinations too.
Stop it Mother this is so typical of you...
Sorry Norman
About 22 minutes into the program is the story related by a Psychiatrist of a woman who heard 2 voices, said she wasn't going mad, they used to work at Great Ormond Street and were here to help her.
Long story short, the voices informed her that her brain stem was inflamed and she had a tumour.
To allay her fears and as a favour to the Psychiatrist, the Hospital performed a CT scan, they called him back to check the results while she was still in the scanner, there was the tumour.
After the tumour was removed the voices came back, said they were grateful to help her and said goodbye.
redrum redrum redrum.........
Worrying. I mean because you share the same voice as IDS..
..relax it's just a voice for you..a goal for him :kitty:
They're annoying, but can be funny and supportive depending on my mood. It's the constant chatter that is most annoying.
I'm lucky I think being an atheist so none of my hallucinations are religious, anytime I'm in hospital there are always patients struggling with the good verses evil hallucinations and they seem so overwhelmed with it.
Musical? Are you sure that part might not be Tinnitus?
I don't recall what they said exactly, just the taunting tone. It stopped when I was through that stressful hormonal time of my life.
I have far too much dopamine, but my brain kind of goes the other way to schizophrenia and into hyper thinking. I become incredibly obsessed with solving puzzles etc, but it keeps the symptoms of schizophrenia at bay.
I was terrified and went to the doctor but he wasn't bothered at all and didn't help so that put my mind at ease!