How to stop voices?

Question

I have heard a voice for years. It says only the same thing--that I should die. I hear it constantly. I am not suicidal, but the repetition is wearing me down. Otherwise, I am fine. I am very happy with my life and my friends. I don't really want to do medication for this because I am otherwise quite content and I don't think I am crazy--I have had this voice since I was six. I just want it to stop. I don't want anything else to be effected. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try taking Alfalfa tablets which will make your blood more alkaline. This positive change in blood chemistry may be of help. In the mean time, remind "the voice" that all living things must die and it will just have to be patient and wait. When it tells you to die, laugh to yourself and say, "Why don't you try it first?"

Answer 2

Talk to a doctor. Immediately.

I can understand how you don't want medication. However, as you say, the voices are wearing you down.

Work WITH a doctor, trying different medications, different strengths. You may find the dose you need is light, so side effects are minimal. You never know until you try.

If nothing else, the silence while you are finding the right dose should be a welcome relief.

Oh, and someone here is suggesting you talk back to the voice. I'd advise against that- it's not real and you know it. To treat it like it IS real is a step on the slope to becoming delusional.

Answer 3

Have you tried talking back to the voice? That's what I would do. Just tell it to go away even yell at it and tell it you aren't going to die just because it says you should.
Tell the voice everything you have to live for, and that you don't want it there anymore, telling you you should die. Just a suggestion. I had a friend once that had the same problem, but the voice talking to her was telling her to hurt other people. I helped her confront the voice because she was scared to do it by herself. As far as I know she never heard it after confronting it for about three days straight. Every time it would try to talk to her she would yell back and tell it to go away and that she didn't want or need it there. It is also a good idea to ask someone who knows about psychology if the voice doesn't stop, gets worse, or you think you might start listening to it.

Answer 4

I knew a guy who has had the same thing. He began using drugs and that just made it worse to the point where he was on a ton of medication. He was diagnosed as schizophrenic, but there are several explanations or diagnosis that may be given to you. This is something only an actual certified doctor should be able to help you with.

Answer 5

Voices, contrary to opinion, are usually 'lost' subconscious fragments of our memory that, due to some disturbance in the brain (physical, emotional, psychological) have drifted away from their identifying tag.

Imagine if you will having a collection of cd's you burned, and after burning them, wrote down all the titles and artists on the cd cover. Well, if your shelf falls over and all the cd covers go flying which way, you can't tell just by 'looking' at the cd what label it belongs to. Not only that, not only can't you tell what label goes with which cd, you completely forget you own the cd in the first place. So you start 'playing' the cd's, hoping to be able to identify and re-label the source so that you can put it back on the shelf.

The same can be applied to voices. In this case, the 'voice' is usually something that someone said to us, or something we overheard, that 'knocked over' our memory shelves. Since the cd that is 'playing' can't be identified, and since the event usually is such to make us forget we even own the cd, it keeps playing over and over and over again hoping to forge a connection, so that we can 'label' where it came from and put it in its place.

It could be that the initial 'incident' was something offhanded that someone close to you 'said'. Since you weren't expecting it, and since you were in a vulnerable place at the time, the event was strong enough to disrupt your memory banks. Now, since you can't remember where the memory came from, and since the incident was strong enough to make you forget such a memory existed, the 'voice' seems to come from out of nowhere.

Have you tried talking to others in your family about any sort of psychological history of disorder? Were there any traumatic events that occurred (even if only to you personally) that could be linked to the appearance of the voice? Voices usually have precipatating events (things that happened before the voices came about) that caused your mind to be unsteady enough to be susceptible to the voices. This doesn't mean its necessarily a 'textbook' horror (ritual sexual abuse or anything like that,) just that the incident was something of importance to you that simply went 'unnoticed' by others. It could something as simple as a fight with your sibling (and them saying 'I wish you would just die') that you didn't understand at the time, or any number of things.

The 'voice' is looking for an answer. Find the answer and you will hopefully understand what its looking for, and how to make it go back on the shelf.

Answer 6

I think it is Schizophrenia. I would go see the Psychiatrist or a Psychologist and see what they think. First of all, do not be scared of this. Things happen to us that we cannot help.

Good Luck,
sugarpacketchad

Answer 7

This could be a spiritual problem. Seek out a Bible believing pastor for counseling. What have you got to lose? (except maybe that voice)

Answer 8

It sounds to me like you have schizophrenia. You should get help immediately, see a doctor and tell them about these voices. I hope everything works out for you. Cheer up!

Answer 9

See a psychiatrist.

Answer 10

only medication can help auditory hallucinations. see a psychologist/psychiatrist or if nothing else, a therapist. they can help you.