does anyone have a conversation with themself?

Question

iv heard ppl talk 2 themselves but do they answer back or do they ever imagine what someone elses answer would be?

Answer 1

Never out loud. If someone is literally talking to someone who they believe is there, but really isn't, they are hallucinating, most likely on medication or illegal drugs, and they need medical attention. They are a safety threat to themselves and all others around them.

Answer 2

Constantly, Should I do this or would this be better to do? I think this is the best thing. Yes, I will do that. I do this all day and I often answere myself too. This is very healthy. It is even healthier when you do it outloud. Have you ever thought of a good idea and then when you started telling about it to someone else you realize there is no way that idea would work. Saying it outloud often helps me make since out of what I am thinking. This doesn't mean you are crazy. Answering yourself may be something like, oh. that isn't going to work but if I change this and this then it will work. Who hasn't had these kind of conversations with themself. In fact many tools in Therapy use these types of techniques. One tool is called the "Empty Chair Method," It's called the Gustault method and was created by "Fritz Pearls. It is often used to help people with low self esteem. The person is told to tell the part of them that don't like themselves what is they like about themselves, then the person is told to sit in the empty chair and the the part that don't like themselves. This has been a very powerful tool to deal with all sorts of problems. The great think about it with guidence the person can usually come to a very healthy answere for themselves. In fact, I can't remember where I read this but very intelegent people do this all the time. It sure has saved myself grief many of times.

This is very different from hearing voices in your head. That gets into a whole different issue in Mental Health problems.

Anyway, I will continue to talk to myself. Have a great day!

Answer 3

The concept of people talking to themselves is real. There is absolutely nothing wrong in talking to yourself. It is quite a common situ where men and women of varying ages actually talk to themselves, infact most of us do it, without even knowing it.

The problem actually starts when you start to answer yourself. There is a clinical appropriation of this situation, where the personality split ensures ones senses to actually hold a conversation.

Remember talking to oneself is ok, since you are not actually intitating a response or an answer. However when one feels compelled to ask an open question or even a closed question, with the brain then going off to search for an answer, which it then delivers as first person dialogue, then we get into the realms of psychological disorders.

And the condition is reflective in the manner and the nature and also the amount of so called differences.

So to answer you question, most people talk to themselves to comfort themselves or merely to memorise or remember something, or entertain.

But some people actually imagine there to be another person, so their dialogues are with someone else. An imaginary person, so this is a medical situation, requiring some form of therapy or assistance.

Answer 4

Most of my best conversations with myself are when I am anxious. For some reason, feeling anxiety tends to split me right into two people and one listens while the other talks. I have used this dialogue method to talk myself down rather quickly so the anxiety doesn't dominate. The trick, however, is if you talk to yourself, to also make sure you are listening, too. Otherwise you will not benefit from your good advice.

Answer 5

did you ever go to a theatre and find someone rehearsing in front of a completely deserted theatre? .. well we're not all professional actors but talking to yourself is also something similar .. it is helpful to voice things that you might have the sense not ever to say to another person .. if I think I've been caught I pretend I'm using a mobile phone accessory. Although if you're making gestures to empty space in front of you it's a bit thin to cut off with ' .. and don't call back .. '

Answer 6

I work on a psychiatric unit and whenever someone talks to themselves they say-"Oops". Our doctors tell us it's ok as long as we dont answer. I have little conversations in my mind and sometimes I'm able to come up with a solution. I dont do it out loud if someone else is around. My cat understands.

Answer 7

I have inner dialog, but I am not having an actual conversation with myself. It's more like:

Why am I having headaches? Is it all the fake sugar I put in my coffee? I've got to stop using that. I need to cut out everything artificial. Ok, definitely have to go to the grocery store after work.

Answer 8

I might have an 'inner dialogue with myself,' but my wife ~ hers is something approaching a Public Meeting.

I wouldn't be too surprised if she began giving out 'Press Statements' too..

Yes, she seemingly does answer herself ~ but I can never get close enough to hear any of the actual dialogue.

Sash.

Answer 9

well, yea, you do that because you just feel like talking to someone you can trust which is yourself, believing you're the only one who worries about you. having this feeling of insecurity, or betrayal, or hurt,or pain...they just try to open up with themselves trying to figure out a solution or an answer, no one knows the situation of something more than the one in it...

Answer 10

Yes of course, though its mostly an argument.
Last night I spent an hour doing just this at a bus stop.
Sustaining a 3-way adlib argument is quite exhausting.