if the "voice" in your head is your conscience?
2007-01-20 17:12:01 · 7 answers · asked by lady T 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
I am a schizophrenia Paranoia (DDD) outpatient. The condition comes on suddenly and often violently with one or more voices so loud they can force one to one's knees. I have had voices and poltergeist type visual hallucinations. The voices are not the same as the friendly small voice of your conscience and you can't turn them on or off. At first they were accompanied by a feeling of love so profound it is unexplainable and also un repeatable. I have never again felt a love like that first experience.
You are so shocked by what you are experiencing you become withdrawn. You know it is not you but what and where are they coming from? Your mind races and you come up with theories and explanations for the voices that, if you tell anyone about them, they deem "delusions". I prayed. A chorus of voices said loudly "Kill yourself!". Another chorus of voices, along with my own mental voice yelled NO!!!
I obviously didn't do what the voices said and any voices that have happened since I have ignored. I have been under the care of psychiatrists and on neuroleptic drugs ever since. I haven't heard a voice or had a poltergeist like experience in a decade or more. I am still on meds.I am no more paranoid that the rest of our nation.
DDD stands for Dopamine Dysfunction Disorder which is a designation for the condition sugggested to replace the Schizophrenia label because that latter is scientifically meaning less and normally serves only to cancel the life of the person to whom it is affixed.
2007-01-20 17:59:27 · answer #1 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is a rule with schizophrenia, the voices are not ones you made your self think, if they are voices that come out of no where that you did not purposely think it its due to some form of mental condition.
Voices are mostly associated with schizophrenia yes but sometimes other things bring on symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia.
See a doctor if you are having trouble with this, get a proper diagnosis of what you have. It may be even something as simple as stress
2007-01-20 19:20:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd hear unbelievably realistic voices, just like someone's in a room with you.
It is different from thinking. When you think, you're in control and you understand what's happening.
But people who hear these things have no idea that this is not real.
2007-01-20 17:21:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's important to go to a doctor to rule out things like organic causes to psychosis (brain tumours, etc) when one starts hearing voices/having other symptoms of schizophrenia.
Just so you know.
2007-01-20 20:55:35 · answer #4 · answered by Jessica. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, schozophrenics usually live in paranoia and fear because the voices are controling and they can't start or stop them and as it progress they then have serious trouble with figuring out what is reality and what's not.
2007-01-20 17:23:39 · answer #5 · answered by ProudToBeWhite 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my friend is schizophrenic and she says that it's different than a concience. it told her (b4 she went on the meds) to do things like kill things. put herself in danger and stuff like that. it's not telling you things that r good. i hope that helps
2007-01-20 17:18:49 · answer #6 · answered by Annie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask while you are in a room by yourself. If someone answers, then you are.
2007-01-20 17:18:21 · answer #7 · answered by Sissa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋