- Internal Voices: Thoughts that don’t feel like your own, often possessing a different tone, cadence, or personality, but contained inside your mind.
- External Voices: Sounds that genuinely mimic real-world acoustics, sounding like someone is standing in the room or whispering right next to your ear.
- In-Between Voices: Often described as a “loud thought,” a sound echoing just at the boundary of your ears, or a feeling of telepathy.
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Listen to an Audiobook or Podcast: Hearing a single, clear voice telling a structured story forces your language processing center to focus on the real words rather than the internal ones.
Use “Color” Noises: Download a free noise generator app. While white noise is common, brown noise or pink noise have deeper, heavier frequencies that many people find much better at “masking” aggressive voices.
Music with Lyrics: Singing along to a song you know by heart forces you to use your own vocal chords and inner speech mechanisms, which can temporarily block the voices from using them.
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The “Not Right Now” Technique: You can say out loud or firmly in your mind: “I hear you, but I am busy right now. I will listen to you at 4:00 PM for ten minutes.” Then, when 4:00 PM comes, you give them a brief window, and when time is up, you move back to an activity. It sounds simple, but it can help restore a sense of control.
i think its good to distinguish between them. You seem to have some good coping mechanisms man, good for you!
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In the morning, i had crazy fast voices while at my grandma’s.
Now that I am at my mother’s, they subsided
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thats good, im glad they’ve calmed down. Hope you can catch a break
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