What If You Hear Voices In Your Head?

Why do some people hear voices?

Written by Rachel Salt, Gregory Brown and Mitchell Moffit

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References / Further Reading:

Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

[TheMysticFacts]

Without that little voice in your head, you wouldn't be able to read this.

[razors]

I can talk to myself for hours, with a back and forth dialogue. I can't really tell if it's coming from another persona or if it's just me.

[masonclark]

My brain argues with itself all day long and it’s torture

[liquelii]

My brain when I'm trying to concentrate:
"Hey remember that stupid meme you saw?"

[theKller]

If you hear voices in your head today, you have a mental disorder. If you heard voices in your head 1400 years ago, you're a prophet.

[jonathan]

Bacteria is calling me disgusting, what next

[blackhole]

“I hear voices in my head, they talk to me, they understand, ”

[jesuscastro]

sometimes Im hearing music then I here my name and I take me headphones off but no one really called me

[rave]

I only hear high pitched ringing all the time in silence

[dissoci_animel]

I've been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder a while back and It can be hard but all my alternative personalities are here to help me get over what happened to me :). Thank you for including the difference from schizophrenia, it makes a massive change to the thoughts of people when they compare DID to other mental health conditions

[whitewolf]

I have voices in my head that say bad things like curse words, foul language, racial slurs, etc etc. How do I get them to stop? It’s driving me crazy. Oh and the voices say they will blackmail me.

[basilstorm]

Let's watch YouTube instead of studying for my two finals tomorrow

[cyrglynn]

"Bush did 9/11" well then I guess I have schizophrenia

[nightvisions]

I have voices that only come when I'm at my lowest. They're very faint, almost as if I'm thinking them but don't want to and they tell me that bad things have never happened to me, I'm just a snake and made them up because I'm awful and have no place on the Earth. I was literally at my worst and close to killing myself when I grabbed my hair and screamed, "Shut up!!!" And then they went away. All I can do to avoid them us sleep and listen to music with headphones on. But they feel so much they're my own thoughts and it's awful because now I can't tell if it's actually me thinking them or not. I hate it.

[reesethomas]

I hear voices in my head when I go to sleep, and the voices are talking to each other

[thevagabond]

Who needs school when you have this channel?

[hachemshahrour]

If someone didn't learn to speak any language how would they think

[dantheman]

You should watch A Beautiful Mind it is about a mathematician named John Nash who had schizophrenia and he was able to live his life and ignore his hallucinations, he also won a Nobel Prize in economics I think. Him and his wife died a couple of years ago in a car crash I think, he was 93 I believe.

[nadascakes]

I’ve been hearing things recently like a video that isn’t actually playing or a conversation next door that isn’t happening and I found this video while searching the internet in confusion

[jupe]

If you hear voices in your head you are Randy Orton