Hello! I hope you’re all doing well! If you’re hearing words and messages in the sound of your own voice, and you’re hearing replies to those words and messages in your own voice, you wouldn’t think anything was wrong. That is how a lot of voices go undetected. However, some voices will impersonate other voices, including your own.
Another issue that comes up in schizophrenia is when you start hearing your thoughts, words and messages in the voices of other people, as if there’s someone else thinking for you. If you have a train of thought that sounds like it’s coming from another voice, you might decide that you don’t enjoy it. Do you refuse to follow the ideas and thoughts from the unfamiliar voices, even if they’re giving you some good advice on occasion (furthermore, is the occasionally good advice merely a way to build trust?)
Do you want to act upon their ideas and their suggestions? Do you want to do the opposite of what the strange voices are telling you to do? How do you trust your own thoughts if invasive characters in schizophrenia are impersonating your own, internal voice? That’s when your decision making in life can become questionable.
I thought I would put this online to possibly help other people with schizophrenia, and to describe some of my experience as a schizophrenia patient.
Overall, I’ve been doing well as of late! I’m continuing my mental health treatment. I’m excited about baseball season. I’m continuing to order vinyl records to support my DJ practices, and I just found out that I’m eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine! In addition, I just received a new stimulus payment. I hope you’re all doing well! I hope that more about schizophrenia can be discovered in the future. Take care!