Problems with voices.

Before I ask for help, I'd like to clear the fact up that I am not a racist/bigoted person and I never have been. I'm very accepting of all races, genders, sexual orientations, etc. and I have several friends of different races, sexual orientations, genders, etc. However, I've been having trouble with my hallucinations and delusions and I believe that they are trying to put thoughts intto my head and also make me do things that I do not want to do.

For the past few days/weeks, my voices have been trying to make me treat other people differently than how I currently treeating them. I think that the reason why they want me to do this because they want me to make one of them happy. The voice (which I will now refer to as the racist voice) is also telling me to do this because he thinks that they deserve it. However I do not agree with him and so far with refraining from saying these offensive things, I am succeeding.

I told my dad about what was going on and he told me to ignore them. In my opinion, I think that I'm handling everything relatively well and I haven't said anything offensive to anyone. Everything has been going well so far, but I still have this voice(s) talking to me. I'm still ignoring them but I have a question.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anyway that I can try to ignore them a little bit better? I don't want to hurt/offend anyone and that's the last thing I'd want to do to anybody.

Everyone is a racist/bigot, at least in some form. Sometimes, it can even add humor to the convo!

That being said, everyone likes a good stereotype joke! At least I do!

Jeff Spicoli wrote:Everyone is a racist/bigot, at least in some form. Sometimes, it can even add humor to the convo!

That being said, everyone likes a good stereotype joke! At least I do!

I understand that such things can be joked about at times and I've found some of the jokes funny at times but I've never really been that kind of person.

I think you should keep on with what you're doing and how you're facing this thing.

Haven't experienced voices telling me to do bad things.
But I know what it's like getting anxiety about what the voices are saying.

I don't know any easy workaround or solution, but what I do is, just keep reminding yourself who you are what and what you believe. and also what you don't.

Tell yourself that you are responding to these voices in the correct (non racist) way.
Know who you are and who you are not.
And know that these voices can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

Hope that helps,
I always try and find ways to take power away from the voices,
but for the majority of the time I get swept up with what they're saying and what I'm thinking.

darkman213 wrote:I think you should keep on with what you're doing and how you're facing this thing.

Haven't experienced voices telling me to do bad things.
But I know what it's like getting anxiety about what the voices are saying.

I don't know any easy workaround or solution, but what I do is, just keep reminding yourself who you are what and what you believe. and also what you don't.

Tell yourself that you are responding to these voices in the correct (non racist) way.
Know who you are and who you are not.
And know that these voices can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

Hope that helps,
I always try and find ways to take power away from the voices,
but for the majority of the time I get swept up with what they're saying and what I'm thinking.

I'm really sorry for the late reply, but thank you so much for replying. I will try to keep your advice in mind.