The voices in my head can be annoying, but also quite helpfull sometimes. Sometimes it'll seem to have a discution with itself. usually about things ive done in my day. also when i hear a song on the radio or TV then itll keep singing for ages even tho i dont like the song. it gets quite irritating. But on other occations when im trying to do a sum or answer a question, itll tell me the answer. On random occations ive heard another voice in there, sometimes it sounds like some of my friends. it shouts my name, like there calling me over. its strange, and i still haven't figured out why im hearing this.

Mike

hearing voices in your head CAN be a good thing. Sometimes they can make you rethink a bad decision you might make. They will also sometimes help you think more in depth.

Sometimes when I wake up I hear voices telling me to do certain things and somtimes I do it. I just wake up and dont relize what is happening. I eventually find out what happened but I feel wierd. The voices are usually of my family. This happens to me about once or twice a month. I need help

I have this problem too. IT started around 3 month back when out of nowhere suddenly i just heard a couple of people talking in my head. Thank God now the voices are gone.

When this happend normally what I did is ignore the voices. Never ever talk back to the voices and pray to God more. Try to consult with your nearest docter too.

To find out more about the nearest church that you can find www.tjc.org

Reply to Anonymous,
Thank you for your Submittment on this subject. You see as a child about 4th grade & older. I too hear voices often,Mostly just calling my name.sometimes loudly,but most of the time it was like someone calling you for a reason to ask something of you or calling you to come to them.Most of the time it was a male voice which sounded like my oldest brother,except he was never home at the time.Ounce some one was laughing at me or something, I thought it was my mom,she was in a nother room laying on the bed reading the paper & I was in the bath room brushing my teeth,when I walked to the bedroom to ask what she was laughing about,she thought I was making up something or crazy,she had not heard any such laughing.It started scaring me.So I turned to the Lord for help. And as I prayed when it would happen, The voices became less & less, I'm now 51 yrs. & and I can't remember the last time I've heard one, & I thank the Lord for that also.The Praying helped me also.Sincerly, me.

I would say don't worry but I'd love to figure it out.
but ur not alone xx

I Hear them EVERYWHERE....especially the car and the shower. Or in a closed room. Even out in the open. When music is on, it irritates me because then i can't hear the voices as good as usual. I hear my mom, my sister, my boyfriend, prettty much whoever i think of at the moment, and it's almost as if my mind PICKS what they are saying. I hear them yelling my name mostly. They yell and yell "WAKE UP!!!!"

i feel like maybe i've been in a coma for 5 months? this started 5 months ago.

This has been happening to me for a long time, but they seem as if they were *planning* something. I have no history of mental illness, i go to college, have friends and a normal relationship. So i guess im not a nutcase :) But they never stop. started when i was around ten, and the longest without them was a month. ive actually never noticed them, they were normal to me, until a friend asked "who are you listening to" when i was dozing off in a bus a couple of years ago. thats when i realized that it really was voices, he said my eye movement was as if i was listening...

i can recognize a few words, but overall meaning eludes me.

everyone hears things in there sleep, so we are all schizo when we sleep then, the brain can create things and play tricks on itself, tell the voices to talk to u in your sleep then, haha, im not making fun of anyone who has this, but i think it is stupid, u r not crazy unless u r delusional, if u r going to do what voices say, u r nuts then, unless it is something good to do i guess

This has been going on for a long time. Sometimes they are talking, making plans or arguing among themselves, sometimes (rarely) I am involved in the conversation. It's always different people whose voices I generally don't recognize. I often am startled awake by this & remember what was said which is coherent. I don't take medicine or use drugs. I drink on occasion but never hear these voices after alcohol.
I had a weird occurence 7 days after my mom died last year. While sound asleep I heard her voice calling my name loudly 3 times, which woke me fully awake. I then heard her call my name a fourth time while my eyes were open & I was alert.

Does a crazy person know if he/she is crazy?

This seems similar to what's happening to me. When-ever I do something, it doesn't matter what it is, I am judged, sometimes, I am judged harshly, sometimes it is praise. In Either case I don't like it as it feels like an invasion of my privacy.

Sometimes it feels like I can't even think because they judge me on my thoughts as well. I am told by the Psychiatrist and Psychologist that it is Post tramatic Stress, and that these voices are just me doing it from guilt of someone dying in the accident. I have started taking a drug called Fluphenazine and it helps a bit. It doesn't totally remove the voices but I am better able to cope. You may want to ask your Doctor about it.

Like you when I concentrate on the voices they become really loud and it is hard to get rid of them, they go on and on. When I concentrate on something else, I know they are there but I am able to cope assuming they are not loud on that day.

Some of the strategies that my psychologist has given me is to write down all the positive things the voices have said and read them 2-3 times a day. She said NOT to right down the bad ones because I shouldn't focus on those. You may also want to give this a try. Well these are just two things that I have tried. If you find anything that works for you, please let me know.

This seems similar to what's happening to me. When-ever I do something, it doesn't matter what it is, I am judged, sometimes, I am judged harshly, sometimes it is praise. In Either case I don't like it as it feels like an invasion of my privacy.

Sometimes it feels like I can't even think because they judge me on my thoughts as well. I am told by the Psychiatrist and Psychologist that it is Post tramatic Stress, and that these voices are just me doing it from guilt of someone dying in the accident. I have started taking a drug called Fluphenazine and it helps a bit. It doesn't totally remove the voices but I am better able to cope. You may want to ask your Doctor about it.

Like you when I concentrate on the voices they become really loud and it is hard to get rid of them, they go on and on. When I concentrate on something else, I know they are there but I am able to cope assuming they are not loud on that day.

Some of the strategies that my psychologist has given me is to write down all the positive things the voices have said and read them 2-3 times a day. She said NOT to right down the bad ones because I shouldn't focus on those. You may also want to give this a try. Well these are just two things that I have tried. If you find anything that works for you, please let me know.

Have you tried naming the voices you don't like and casting them out? Take a hard stance and Order them to go away. You can tell them where to go too. You can tell them to leave you and report to your God too. You can also try going through the motions of tossing them out. The firmer you are the longer they'll leave you alone.

Very few of the voices bother me and the one's that do bother me I cast out. Sometimes it's more like hearing other people's prayers. Sometimes they are warnings.

I think everyone is completely aware of what is available. If you knew exactly how hearing voices worked;you would know psychiatry and pills only go so far. You can STILL hear the voices even with medication. People who aren't ignorant like yourself choose to talk to rational well educated people before turning to a life time of medications and couch sores. You obviously have no clue what it's like so it best to not comment at all unless its an educated one...

Sorry to sound unsympathetic, but are you completely dumb? Ever heard of a psychiatrist? And, uh, are you willfully ignorant to the fact that there are treatments available at little or not cost if you qualify?

I'm sorry yer hearing voices, but go see a fucking shrink, fool!

Please if you find anything that helps please let me know I have many of the same things going on in my head to, I am a single father and i am so afraid to seek help because i dont want to be labled crazy and some how have my son taken away.
If you know any thing you can reach me at gavinpj1997@yahoo.com

Just like people, theses voices can be bullies. It is best not to let yourself be bullied by something that doesn't even have the courage to revile itself. What may help you is finding a way to center yourself, know your own power and realize they have no place near you. You are to precious to give up your life over any kind of bully. Bless your home threw your faith, meditate that you are safe and well protected in light and when the voices become overwhelming picture and hear in your mind a serene a safe place take deep breaths while you do this even light some lavender oils. If you need someone to talk to you can contact me at evelyn_gagnon@hotmail.com i hear if ya need a friend :)

my boyfriend has the same thing

Since I was 3 mine have always made me abreast of what is what was and what is to come. Yes sometime it was a harsh statements that I couldn't understand but in time I learn to understand why it would be stern or seemed harsh and in the end it made some sense to me. I use to hear others but they would come and go. Interacting with them was like interacting with people.They all have different moods persona ect. Your best bet is trying to talk to your daughter and find out what they are saying,to see if its logical. Also teach her ways to ground her self,when the voices are overwhelming and teach her to compare what they saying to her, to what actually is happening in her life.Ie; if they say, if she doesn't sit by her friend she will loose their friendship,tell her its ok for her to sit anywhere she likes and see what takes place. It could be a mental disorder, but even so theres no need to be frightened, she only needs you to relate to her, and hear her and she will be fine.

Many Blessings

My daughter is 8 and she has recently been tellign me she can hear voices in her head. I explained an "internal voice" to her. But what she describes sounds different. Sometimes they are friendly to her adn sometimes they tell her a certain girl willnotbe her friend today unless she sits with her on the bus etc. I have a mom who has fought bipolar disorder since the age of 30! As you can imagine I am concerned for my little girl. Can you explain more of what you hear? Is it more than one voice and are they always nice or do they challenge you?

Thank you!

you tell it sister:P

I've always herd a voice since i was small,its a male voice with a deep European accent and its very faint. I contemplated taking medicine for it only because I was raised to believe anything of that nature is evil whether it be from medical or spiritual aspects. I normally cope well with it until, I realize its socially unacceptable to have this. The voice I hear usually encourages me in my hardest times,it encouraging me to stay strong and be agile.Its always been a positive reinforcer and has kept me outta trouble all my life:)

I think you are worrying about your face 2 much, so your voices talk about and respond to what ur thinking about, and to what you think they are thinkin about.

I hear voices a lot too. It mostly happens when I ride around in a car, or im just home at my house. When im in the car when I go passed people, I hear voices, sometimes judgeing me. sometimes they are envying me. I feel that when I feel like im doing something right they are complimenting me and when im not they are dissin me. I think this all started when I moved from the USA to the Bahamas, when I came here I was fine I didn't really hear anything. Well I take that back I was hearing my name being called like my mom yelling it when my music was up really high then I would go out in the hall and yell to see if she called for me but she didnt. okay so back to the bahamas, when I came down here I would get judged constantly I was called whiteboy everytime I went out. then after a month I started to hear voices in my head judgeing me on things that I did. There is a woman that is bahamian and a little girl and a older lady, and unoften a man. Everytime I mess up around the house or do Nything that isn't gangster I get called whiteboy then when I first hear them it doesn't stop for the rest of the day. I feel like when im concentrating on something deeply I can't hear these voices, and only when im trying to solely listen to the voices and nothing else they speal on and on. I really do think this is caused by a large amount of paranoia, fear of what people think of you.

I,m a mother of a 26 year old girl. and she started hearing voices after her boyfriend had gotten shot in the head and die. she is a very nice person. and she started hearing voices at the age of 21. I,m so very hurt about this because she seems so upset about it. I know that it hurts her because the voices get very bad at times. and their is nothing that I can do to stop them but to pray to God each day that they stop. It hurts me so bad to see my child go thought this. I wish that it was something that I could do to help her but their is nothing that I can do. but try to be there for my child.

i hear voices in my head of little kids screaming, and suffering. Other voices tell me to hurt my family.

And also I hear little kids or children or sometimes I hear other teenagers.
~Amaya~

When I am about to go to sleep or dozing off too sleep I hear voices as well and I am only 15. I can never remember what they say either especially when there is too many of them saying things and asking questions at the same time. If I do remember what one of them is saying I usually forget it in the next 5 to 20 seconds at most. My mom told me I need to stop eating after midnight in other words she trying to call me crazy and I know I am not crazy!

~Amaya~

btw... I sometimes think people have talked to me when they havent.
Which is quite awkward when you turn round and say 'what?' and they havent even talked.
And lol. Sometimes i feel my phone vibrate in my pocket, when it really hasnt.

Laura Xxx

Im 18, and Sometimes when i am just dozing off too sleep i hear a voice, I can never remember what it says. All i know is that its in one tone and so slow... And it frustrates me, stops me sleeping.

Its so hard to explain!

Its a very boring voice talking and i know its not my voice... Its so Annoying. Its not nice, but not horrible either.

I know this sounds so stupid, but does anyone have anything like this?

It started for me a 11 years ago, just after a car accident. I am told it is Post Tramatic Stress. I hear several voices. Some I recognize and some I don't. The one thing they do say all the time is that they know everything about me and they are not going to go away. I feel as if I have NO privacy. I feel violated. They comment on everything I do. I have seen a psychiatrist and have been put on meds, however, they didn't seem to help. So I no longer take them. I am now seeing a psychologist to see if she knows any coping strategies. If I find any that work I will let you know. If you should find any, please let me know.
Thanks,

Sometime when I am about to go to sleep I hear people say things and at first I thought the only reason I was hearing these voices was b/c I was sleepy. Then I started hearing a lady voice whispering my name. When I woke up this morning I heard the lady yelling my name and I was fully awake.

I guess from your not mentioning it, that you are not using any recreational or psychedelic or other mind-altering drugs, such as cannabis, marihuana, pot, hash, mushrooms, or alcohol. I guess that you already know that such substances would be very bad indeed for you, even if used only rarely and in very small amounts.

I have been hearing voices but i'm not mentally ill i think one has done something to me but i dont remember who. I hear male voices and females and everyday they sit and have a big debate about my face. Im glad that i've found this site because now i know that other people are experiencing the same thing that im experiencing. It all started from the first day that i move on to a hall at my college.It was September 2006 there is this one voice who claims that she knows everything about me.I have been dealing with this for two years and frankly Im exhausted i feel as if i can't go on anymore. Because i have trouble studying it seems the voices get louder at this particular period, i cant sleep at nights my life is a mess . So if anyone as any solutions on how to make this stop please reply.

you are not actually hearing voices in the water, its hard to explain, but what you are experiencing is...your brain is just trying to make the droplets or splashes of water translate into words or sentences because it is trained to do so. not everyone experiences this. you have to be very sensitive to sounds either consiously or unconsiously, thats is what i believe anyway.

Hey Brit!

How was your weekend? Terrific, I hope. I had my hands full with work, etc., but managed to track down this link, which seems like a good place to start:

http://www2.sdcounty.ca.gov/hhsa/ServiceCategoryDetails.asp?ServiceAreaI...

So from the sounds of it, your folks might not be the end-all, be-all of parenthood. But it doesn't mean that in their own imperfect way they don't care about you. Truth is, all our parents are human and in their own ways a bit f'd up (like everyone). I still highly encourage you to loop them in on all of this. They do love you, I'm pretty certain.

So I was thinking that if you get a move on, by summer you can be pretty much on the road to Wellville, and start the new school year with a bang, eh? Are you already at the point of thinking about colleges, etc?

OK. Work calls again. Suck. But let's keep the ball moving down the field on this, ok?

Talk to me!

Well I have been talking with a complete stranger and yet you make me feel better...Anyways you can call me kid all you want. You get used to it when you are the youngest.And as for telling my parents...I'll work on that, but no promises. Gosh I get nervous just telling them about a boyfriend.So I guess we never got that connection. And if there really was a law at birth that they had to help me, well maybe they wouldn't be they way they are. (Looks to dad, a alcholic.Looks to mom, a money hungry monster)But anyways I will do my best to explain to them.

Also, I checked out that sight but I couldn't find anything in my area. I live in Vista, California. Thats in the San Deigo county. So can you help me out again but maybe with a link to a website about docs in my area.
Thanks
-love Brit

Always nice to put a name to a, well, not a face, but a correspondence.

So hitting up your parents both at once might be hard. Still, do let them know what's up. Even if they drive each other batty, they love you and their support could make things go a bit quicker. And crap, they are your folks and it's kind of in the life contract that they should help you out ...

Also, let's make a pact, ok? You'll take some action on this by Monday, and I'll swear (really) to stop calling you kid.

Not sure what to make of your friend's reaction. Maybe she's experiencing something similar, or maybe she's fooling with you. Either way,it's not about her. This is is you, a really cool chick, so don't let her bum you out. (No doubt she's got her own issues to deal with, even if they're not the same as yours.)

OK Brit. Feels like we're getting somewhere! Did you get a chance to checkout that link?

And finally: Right on with the pregnancy! Stay without child until you can support one, says me.

Bye for now!

So once again im the kid. Well I like your ideas and all but my parents are divorced, so it's hard to tell both of them. They hate each other. I live with my dad. I never really had that great of a connection with them either. I never had any problems. Im a excellents student, therefore they are not involved in that area.I have never been preganet and don't plan on getting any time soon, so they don't worry about that. They just think I have nothing wrong with me. So when i came to realize myself what was going on I didn't want to tell them. I just recently talked to one of my friends about my problem. I can't tell if she was making fun of me or if she was serious.She told me that she hears things all the time, but doesn't listen. But then she laughed. Anyway, that kind of ruined my confidence of talking about this to my family. For some reason I feel better talking about it to you. I think it's because you take me serious. I will try to look into something for help.

P.S.
Don't worry I will stay in touch.

I'll stop with the kid stuff. You sound too smart and mature for that. But at my age, just about everyone's a kid.

As awkward and intrusive as they may seem, your mom and dad probably love the heck out of you. You ought to tell them, but maybe do it in a controlled way. Something like, "Mom and dad, can we talk after dinner about something important to me?" That way they know you're not just having some spur of the moment deal. Tell them in detail, calmly and seriously, what's been happening. Point them at this Web site and these comments if you think it'll help. Tell them you're scared and you could really use their help. Tell them you hope it's nothing yourself, but you really feel you need to talk to a doctor, yeah?

And if your parents won't let you see someone, go to yourself. You can start with your school nurse or principal. Any kid can. And you may want to mention this isn't about trying to get attention. (Again, print out these comments, if it'll help.) If you still have no luck, ask a friend's parents to help. Sometimes, lame as it seems, it can help having folks talk adult-to-adult. But maybe pick the parents you think your folks will jibe with.

Another potential help could be a clergy member. NOT because of the whole demon thing. But because they have a lot of social work training and usually know how to hook people up with local and cheap resources. (Just try to pick one who doesn't look like he/she, well, you know ... likes the young ones ;)

This is your health. You have a terrific life ahead of you, but something like this can get in the way if you don't act. So get out there!

And don't forget to stay in touch, yeah?

PS
Almost forgot. Here's a pretty good link on finding stuff local:
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/databases/

Well seeing a doctor sounds like a good idea but if i were to tell either of my parents about this they would say something like "you are fine it's just anxiety. All teenagers go through it, just in different ways". And if i ask to see a doctor then they will be very suspitious and ask my a million questions about my social life.Then they will say I am just saying this for attention. If i really wanted attention I could dress in a hot pink jump suit running the streets singing the abc's.

Kid,

You sound like a good egg, with a decent head on your shoulders. Something got off kilter chemically in your brain and you need to see a doctor and talk about this.

It'll be scary as hell (no pun intended) and part of you is even going to think that maybe the doctor is trying to fuck with you. But in fact, that's not the case. It's all brain chemistry, and believe it or not, what you're experiencing is really damned common.

And there's good news at the end of all this: Through the miracle of modern science, and bucketloads of tax payer-funded research, they have pretty amazing medicines that can set the shit straight.

Here's the deal: The longer you wait, the harder it gets, so don't screw around. Go see your doc, then your shrink. And get over any feeling of stigma about seeing a shrink: We all need one :-)

Good luck, and keep in touch.

I have heard these voices for the past few years. Iam only 15 so i was young when i first heard them.At first it was just whispers that i couldn't fully understand but now i can hear it clearly.It's a masculan voice. He calls to me and says my name when i try to ignore him.And its as if he knows everything about me.He gives me ideas to hurt others or even myself.He will wake me up in the middle of the night to tell to hurt myself. He makes me depressed all the time.Now i hear multiple voices.At first it will be just one whispering, but soon more voices come and they get louder and louder fighting over each other to be heard. I always get headaches when thi happens. I Don't really understand why this happens to me. I am a catholic who goes to church all the time. Why would demons haunt me? Am i suppose to carry out so kind of work for them?

i hear voices when im takin a shower.. i havent showerd for weeks.. lol jk its not that bad.. it gets depressing to me when i do not comprehend wat the voices are sayin.. or if theyre even talkin to me... or if theyre talkin bad about me.. maybe even hiding things from me.. i hear em at random times.. but i can never control em during the shower.. its usually my girlfriends voice i hear.. maybe she thinks about me alot? i realized as well half the voices i hear in my head i make up on my own.. daydreaming.. the other half are beyong my control... the way i look at it.. put ur life in gods hands.. everybody has problems.. and god wouldnt have given us this problem if he didnt know we were strong enough to overcome it.

I SO HEARD GARTH BROOKS WHILE I WAS DOING LAUNDRY, I MEAN RIGHT DOWN TO THE SONG AND EVERYTHING I STARTED TO SING IT AND MY FRIEND WHO WAS WITH ME THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY CAUSE HE DIDNT HEAR IT AT ALL. SO I TOTALY BELIEVE THAT!

THIS IS WHAT DRAN ME IN TO THIS WEBSITE BECAUSE I USED TO HEAR MY DOGS COLLAR JINGLE, AND MY CELL PHONE GO OFF OR BEEP LIKE I HAD A MESSAGE, ONLY THING IS MY DOGS DEAD AND I ACCIDENTLY FLUSHED MY CELL PHONE! FREAKY!!! I DIDNT KNOW ANYONE ELSE WAS LIKE THAT, I TRIED TO TALK TO MY FRIENDS ABOUT IT AND STARTED CRYING WHEN THEY LOOKED AT ME LIKE I WAS CRAZY, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT CAUSES THIS, I ALSO SEE ORBS DAY OR NIGHT. AND HEAR VOICES, I CANT UNDERSTAND THEM, AND THEY ARE ALWAYS MALE VOICES, ONCE I WAS TALKING TO MY BF IN BED AND IT I HEARD A MANS VOICE WISPER IN MY EAR WHILE HE WAS TALKING TO ME I SPRANG UP SCAIRING MY BF AND TOLD HIM WHAT HAPPEND HE SAID IF I EVER GET FREAKED OUT WHEN IM ALONE AT HIS HOUSE TO GO IN HIS CAR AND WAIT FOR HIM TO COME HOME FROM WORK, I REALLY THINK HE THINKS IM CRAZY SOMETIMES BUT I USUALY HAVE TO SLEEP WITH A NIGHT LIGHT OR LIGHTS ON IM 21 AND ITS REALLY EMBARRASING. ALSO HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD OF STREET LIGHTS GOING OUT WHEN YOU DRIVE UNDER THEM, IT HAPPENDS ALL THE TIME TO ME WHY?

hearing in head maybe telepathy. now strangest thing is our biblical heros heard voicies from bushes and from the sky. in our modern society modern man would be called crazy. have not modern man got the same rights as our biblical heros. or were our biblical heros all insane.
has it not bothered any one that our modern society has not attempted to send those that claim hearing voices to a parapsycolgist, and that what people claim is actually happening.
Hmmm lets see! nope not in text book so it does not exist...
one more thing humans are envolving and hearing voices maybe part of evolution.... teach people to use it dont medicate them. we who hear voices are not all crazy.

They can be good or bad. Sometimes I wonder if the bad ones pose as good to get me to listen to them.

Hi

I'm the coordinator of INTERVOICE, a research, training and education network dedicated to helping people who hear voices. We are the organisation that established the World Hearing Voices Day and our president is Profesor Mrius Romme, one the Dutch researchers referred to in the article.

We have set up a website at

http://www.intervoiceonline.org

If you hear voices (aka auditory hallucinations); if you know someone who does; if you work with people who hear voices; if you want to know about more about this experience. Then this site is for you.

Best wishes

Paul Baker