My mind chatter is almost all symbols and images, and any time 'inner voices' pop up I just deliberately silence them. There are some useful little tricks for

My mind chatter is almost all symbols and images, and any time 'inner voices' pop up I just deliberately silence them. There are some useful little tricks for people who are always beating themselves up, though. For example, rather than saying to yourself "you really screwed that up, you idiot" just say "well, let's not do that again", or "next time, let's do a better job of it." Even so, schizophrenia is characterized by out-of-control inner voices, it's really not very healthy to wallow in that kind of thing. I read a little about schizophrenia; it seems rather like a case where you have a kind of mental fragmentation, like a bunch of people (i.e. divergent egos) in a maze (i.e. a single mind) who can only communicate with each other by shouting over the walls of the maze. In my area there it's not all that uncommon to encounter homeless people with this condition, they're often doing things like screaming 'shut the f*ck up' to noone in particular but I assume they're responding to the out-of-control voices in their head. It's too bad there aren't more tools available to help people with these conditions. I assume a lot of it is due to things like childhood trauma - people end up with very fragmented minds. Some kind of re-integration process seems necessary. Maybe psychedelic therapy? Feeding people tranquilizers just seems to mask the condition, and when they 'go off their meds' nothing has changed.