Do you have an inner voice?

Do you?


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My inner voice is my own voice. It's always wittering constantly in my brain and it drives me potty, it's like my bad alter-ego. It's actually my mind saying what it feels/thinks rather than what my mouth lets out after my brain's done quality control, it's bitchy, it's judgemental, it's also extremely cruel sometimes and that's why it's locked down in my head. It doesn't tell me to do things, it's just a constant running-commentary.
 
Oh WORRYING URGES is a whole other topic. Thinking about throwing yourself in front of trains, buses, off balconies...
Oh God, horrible. Sometimes if I’m talking to someone at work I think ‘what would happen if I punched you in the face right now?’ and then it becomes this massive thing and I stop listening to what the person is saying.

One of my mates won’t go up tall buildings because the urge to jump is so overwhelming.
 
Oh WORRYING URGES is a whole other topic. Thinking about throwing yourself in front of trains, buses, off balconies...

Oh dear! Thankfully mine are usually more basic and animalistic, but there’s a lot of latent paranoia as well.
 
My inner voice is my own voice. It's always wittering constantly in my brain and it drives me potty, it's like my bad alter-ego. It's actually my mind saying what it feels/thinks rather than what my mouth lets out after my brain's done quality control, it's bitchy, it's judgemental, it's also extremely cruel sometimes and that's why it's locked down in my head. It doesn't tell me to do things, it's just a constant running-commentary.
Yes, that's pretty much how mine works. With the standard ruminating and catastrophising thrown in.

The only way I can override it at night (well, other than medicating, self or otherwise) is by listening to radio or podcasts.
 
Yes, that's pretty much how mine works. With the standard ruminating and catastrophising thrown in.

The only way I can override it at night (well, other than medicating, self or otherwise) is by listening to radio or podcasts.

Me and Kate recommend a good brain wank.
 
Oh God, horrible. Sometimes if I’m talking to someone at work I think ‘what would happen if I punched you in the face right now?’ and then it becomes this massive thing and I stop listening to what the person is saying.
Is that an ADHD thing? I didn't really know what it was until I saw Kiri Pritchard-Mclean talking about what it was like.

My urges aren't all-consuming or very regular, no-one needs to worry :D
 
Is that an ADHD thing? I didn't really know what it was until I saw Kiri Pritchard-Mclean talking about what it was like.

My urges aren't all-consuming or very regular, no-one needs to worry :D
I’ve never really thought about it but I suppose it could be. I know a lot of people have impulses to some extent and they’re never something I’d ever act upon, it’s more the torturous ‘what if’ scenario that unfolds in my head which is the annoying bit.
 
Yes, that's pretty much how mine works. With the standard ruminating and catastrophising thrown in.

The only way I can override it at night (well, other than medicating, self or otherwise) is by listening to radio or podcasts.

Yes, I go to sleep to Netflix. If there's nothing for me to distract from it when I need to sleep I watch a film in my head. I concentrate on imagining watching a film that I know well so I'm picturing it in my brain instead of my brain picking apart a random comment that it heard at 3pm and coming back with thirty retorts that I could have said instead of the one I did.
 
I'm going to say on the whole, no.

I might say things to myself before I speak them out loud, but i don't find myself just sat having an internal conversation with myself. If i think about it, i know what my inner voice would sound like, but it's just something i don't use.
 
and yes, mindfulness/meditation really do work if you want to practice getting rid of it for a while

As a teenager, I used to focus on my breath to fall asleep, because when I was much younger I remember I used to get in bed with my parents, listen to them breathing and it would always help me drift off. Turns out that's basically just meditating, which works for me most of the time when it comes to sleeping, but from time to time I can't turn the constant rumination off, which is why I have weed.
 
Oh God, horrible. Sometimes if I’m talking to someone at work I think ‘what would happen if I punched you in the face right now?’ and then it becomes this massive thing and I stop listening to what the person is saying.

One of my mates won’t go up tall buildings because the urge to jump is so overwhelming.

This happens a lot to me except my brain is saying "you boring wanker, seriously don't you have something better to do?, that was a nice shade of red on that car that went past, nobody gives a flying fuck you whining tosspot" and I'll realise they've stopped talking and are waiting for me to say something in reply :D
 
I've always had one. It's very candid too.

Sometimes it's informed by my conscience, or by my opinions. But it's always there for a good old chat.

And sometimes it becomes my OUTER voice by accident.
 
Yes, for sure. I am more or less always having a conversation with myself when I am alone. It tends to go to sleep when I have company but not entirely so.

I assumed everybody had an internal monologue - the older I get and the more at ease I am as a person / the world, the more I welcome it.
 
Wait, I think I've misunderstood. Do people have an actual voice they can "hear". I think in sentences and occasionally conversationally, but it doesn't "sound" like anything
 
I am almost constantly thinking - and I guess it's in my own voice, so I presume it's what people mean by the inner voice - to the point where I end up not actually listening to people talking to me sometimes. (Obviously an IMMENSELY HELPFUL TRAIT when that happens :eyes:)

It's probably at its most annoying when it's keeping me up for two hours every time I go to bed.
 
Wait, I think I've misunderstood. Do people have an actual voice they can "hear". I think in sentences and occasionally conversationally, but it doesn't "sound" like anything

I know I’m not actually hearing it, but yes I can hear the words all the time

I think this might be more complex than a yes or no. There seems to be a variety of ways people can experience this
 
Wait, I think I've misunderstood. Do people have an actual voice they can "hear". I think in sentences and occasionally conversationally, but it doesn't "sound" like anything
I think this. The voice i hear is in complete sentences and "sounds" totally neutral, not my voice. If it were my voice i wouldn't be so surprised everytime I hear my voice back and Tom Daley's talking to me.

I physically talk to myself as well. Not outloud, but I move my lips and might make an occasional noise.
 
Oh actually mine isn’t really my voice if I think about it more. But it’s definitely a man’s voice, so it’s not completely neutral
 
Wait, I think I've misunderstood. Do people have an actual voice they can "hear". I think in sentences and occasionally conversationally, but it doesn't "sound" like anything
Sometimes I have different voices when I’m rationalising, like two parallel me’s working out a best solution to a problem or if I’m trying to talk myself into or out of something
 
Thinking about it, my voice changes depending on what I’m thinking, but then like a lot of people I actually speak differently depending on who I am talking to and what about, so that makes sense.
 
If you listen to Bjork's "Hyperballad" and think "OMG, stop reading my fucking mind", then, hi! Welcome to the club.
 
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Sometimes I have different voices when I’m rationalising, like two parallel me’s working out a best solution to a problem or if I’m trying to talk myself into or out of something

Inside you there are two wolves...
 
Sometimes I have different voices when I’m rationalising, like two parallel me’s working out a best solution to a problem or if I’m trying to talk myself into or out of something
Think I'm the same actually. Not sure the voices are different, but there's definitely a questioning tone and an answering tone.
 
I wonder if there’s any sort of correlation between having an active inner voice and wanting to post on a forum. Maybe the need to get the words out
 
Wait, I think I've misunderstood. Do people have an actual voice they can "hear". I think in sentences and occasionally conversationally, but it doesn't "sound" like anything

I can't "hear" it with my ears but my mind can hear it chatting away constantly. Yes, it's actual words and sentences as if there was a little gremlin that lives in my mind and it talks all the time.
 
I hear my own voice in my head, and like others have said I would ask myself something in my head and the same voice then talks back saying OH SHUT UP YOU STUPID BITCH. WHO CARES?
 
I wonder if there’s any sort of correlation between having an active inner voice and wanting to post on a forum. Maybe the need to get the words out

I type things out to get them out of my head, it's always worked well for me and my mental health. Not necessarily on a forum but I have lots of Word documents with innocuous titles and I basically dump my brain words into them (like I do when I post on here). I imagine spawn and Mr F would be mortified if I died and they decided to look through my laptop. Only once have I let anybody else read one of them, it was just after my birthday this year and it was about some things that happened on my birthday and an argument I had the day after my birthday with Mr F, and spawn and Mr F were both mentioned in it. Spawn kept mithering me to tell her what had happened and I couldn't get many of the words out without keep crying so I told her I'd email it to her. Unbeknownst to me Mr F overheard our conversation and denied some of the things I'd managed to tell her so I printed off a copy for him to read. Neither of them has spoken to the other for almost two months, spawn because she was horrified at his treatment of me and Mr F because he didn't like that she'd "stuck her nose in". So I'm now stuck in the middle of the pair of them. But on the upside Mr F appears to have acknowledged his wrongdoings and amended his behaviour, for now.
 

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