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I don't hear a voice in my head nor do I really have the sort of internal monologue or dialogue that many people describe here. My thoughts are much more spati
by saltcured 9y ago
I don't hear a voice in my head nor do I really have the sort of internal monologue or dialogue that many people describe here. My thoughts are much more spatial, for lack of a better word. A sense of expanse and topology, neither visual nor aural. I have to go through a step of composition to put thoughts into words, whether writing or speaking.
I've had close contact with a paranoid schizophrenic relative, and from what I can tell they really experience intrusive "other" thoughts and perceptions. It's not always a voice talking in their head or over their shoulder, but sometimes a sense that ideas or beliefs have intruded from elsewhere with no clear sense of arrival or beginning. Like a glitch in the matrix.
- idibidiart 9y agoSame here but how do we know when we suddenly think of something (sometimes like total random recall or random idea) that it is not just a healthy version of the voices that folks with mental illness hear? Maybe mental illness in this context is just them associating a voice with what would otherwise be silent (potentially self-intrusive) thoughts?