I'm feeling anxious over recently starting to hear voices. It began about a month ago, and is the second time I've had this experience, having had cannabis psychosis in the past and hearing the same type of voices. This time it doesn't seem to be drug-motivated.

I hear my parents arguing about me in their bedroom across the hall. It's always the same, my Dad criticizing, my Mum defending me. it sounds very quiet, but is very close in sound to what they actually sound like when they are talking in their bedroom.

So they could just be having these discussions then right? Except my Dad's a very heavy snorer and I've heard him snoring many times over the past month when I hear these voices, and ocassionally its happened when I'm elsewhere entirely. Although usually it's in the wee hours. I asked my Mum about it and she confirms its all 'in my head'.

I'm very open-minded and would like to get an alternative perspective on what hearing these sorts of quiet whispers could mean. If I really focus I can make out my parent's voices and words. The clinical diagnosis is that my subconscious is creating them out of my own fears. They always discuss my biggest fears.

This actually promoted me to wake my parents up about a month ago when they began and explain to them that I have a gender issue, something I've never discussed with them but should have. So, in a sense, the voices help me face my greatest fears by understanding them better.

If there is some kind of spiritual basis for this, such as the 'psychic attacks' I've heard about, is it necessarily negative? I faced my fears, as I did last time I heard them.

Having said that, they've persisted over this last month on most days just as I'm feeling so much better generally, the best in years, most nights I feel the positive energy sucked out of me almost vampirically. I woke up to hear them a couple of nights ago, and screamed because I felt a great chill and sense of dread as I awoke. That hasn't happened to me very often before.

Please help. Thanks.

What if the "language" is the kinetics and statics within spacetime, having acquired a Presence that translates directly into the knowledge centers of the mind?

if the voices you hear are hard to hear/unintelligible, it is most likely a harmless neural feedback loop where your brain is interpreting certain frequencies and comparing them to patterns that humans use to talk.

this is sometimes used in questionnaires to diagnose autism/asperger's syndrome or other, more vague sensory abnormalities. this doesn't require any real treatment nor cause for concern, though you may want to get a psychological evaluation. if it is related to the autistic spectrum or a sensory perception abnormality there are therapies/medications that can help. they aren't really needed, but it can make life easier.

if the voices are clearly communicating with you, or you feel as if a reporter on the news is speaking DIRECTLY to you, this could represent a schizoid personality disorder and an evaluation/treatment is very necessary.

i'm not a doctor, though i am fascinated by psychology and i study it in my spare time. i also have asperger's syndrome (higher-functioning autism), and faint/constant sounds often sound like indistinguishable human conversations. sometimes i will interpret a word or phrase, but it's garbled nonsense that is caused by the brain over-processing sensory information.

I hear voices and have a weird propensity to associate patterns where none may exist (though my ATS history should demonstrate some organized thought.

The voices are very pronounced currently and I have for the first time started seriously considering that I may be indeed crazy...

1% of the U.S. population has schizophrenia. There are many types and subtypes of schizophrenia. I was diagnosed as paranoid schizoeffective which is schizophrenia and bipolar mixed.

A lot of people have schizophrenia and don't even know it. Some can have it thier whole life and not need medical attention. There are also paranoid peronality types. People that have some digree of paranoia but don't need help.

When it starts to effect your dailly life and you can no longer function it's time to get help. Most schizohprenics don't beilive there is anything wrong with thierselves no matter how sick they are. The lack the mental insight to thier illness. They start to beilive that the voices are aliens or god. Theres no rationality because in thier mind theres nothing wrong with them.

When your own mind turn against you it's one of the worst kinds of torture imaginable. I would rather have my legs amputated then go threw another psychosis.

Originally posted by wantsome
1% of the U.S. population has schizophrenia. There are many types and subtypes of schizophrenia. I was diagnosed as paranoid schizoeffective which is schizophrenia and bipolar mixed.

A lot of people have schizophrenia and don't even know it. Some can have it thier whole life and not need medical attention. There are also paranoid peronality types. People that have some digree of paranoia but don't need help.

When it starts to effect your dailly life and you can no longer function it's time to get help. Most schizohprenics don't beilive there is anything wrong with thierselves no matter how sick they are. The lack the mental insight to thier illness. They start to beilive that the voices are aliens or god. Theres no rationality because in thier mind theres nothing wrong with them.

When your own mind turn against you it's one of the worst kinds of torture imaginable. I would rather have my legs amputated then go threw another psychosis.

edit on 13-2-2012 by wantsome because: (no reason given)

so true