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do your voices have names/personalities?

Postby kt3 » Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:44 pm

Do you have names for your voices? Did you name them or did they name themselves?
I have seven and they are: Praxus and Margaret (a couple), Nox (a party girl that loves me and getting in trouble), Ed (named after Ed Harris from "A Beautiful Mind"), Shrieking Sharon (Praxus named her that because her sole purpose is to scream) 500 (scratchy voice and demands me to harm myself), and Slash (talks to himself in the back of my head and says "SLASH YOUR BELLY")
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Re: do your voices have names/personalities?

Postby chasms » Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:55 pm

My voices are more like internal presences. There is Desmos who helps me , it is weird and holy and more of an entity. Sometimes it becomes me. Navaros is a demon who used to fight in my head but the meds have helped with that. It's kind of like DID in a way. THey basically named themselves
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Re: do your voices have names/personalities?

Postby crazymoth » Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:35 pm

you are brave if you have seven voices. I only have two, a man and a girl. the girl is called Elly and she can be nice sometimes. Other times she's mean like the man entity. When they get together and beat on me by criticizing everything I think and do I feel really shi**y. anyway they keep quiet sometimes usually when my meds are working and it even looks like things might work out. Anyway, I don't have a name for the man voice because I really want him out. I'm kinda hoping he will leave so me and Elly can be alone together. She's kinda hot.
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Re: do your voices have names/personalities?

Postby NUTS » Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:56 pm

Yes, i have eight actually, however one is partly real person and there is one more entity coming and going, so its like nine maybe. They moreless symbolize emotions. There is one symbolizing fear, one for illness and death, one for neurosis and amger, one for quiet and calmness, one for guiding me, one who is child, one who is creating the lies and illusions, one who fights the previous one and one the very important is for joy and life - she is my godess.
Sometimes some of them rule more or less, however unfortunately the closest to me are usdually the one for fear and neurosis, i hate those two, they dont let me live normally.
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Re: do your voices have names/personalities?

Postby Symbol of Life » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:27 pm

I don't experience voices as auditory hallucinations, but I feel "possesed" by these voices, to me they are real people, and I act like them but only when I'm by myself. It's kinda like DID without the memory loss, in fact I thought I had a dissociative disorder but after a big crisis that landed me in a hospital I was put on a high dose of antipsychotics, haldol and risperidone, and then all of a sudden these people inside of me were gone, and I was diagnosed as schizophrenic probably due to my response to medication. Anyways when I was at my worse I had like 15 different personalities and I named many of them, the main and violent one is called Nikki and she still apppears from time to time, there was also a little girl, a man named Bob, and I don't remember if I named the other ones but there was a physically disabled person, a cat, a lizard and also feelings like anger and fear. Now I'm only left with Nikki and even though she's violent, I feel like she's part of me and I don't want her to go away, but my meds don't let her come out too often.
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Re: do your voices have names/personalities?

Postby crazymoth » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:02 pm

I'm glad yous meds are working Symbol. I have a girl entity too. They are so annoying! :roll:
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Re: do your voices have names/personalities?

Postby LesMisJim » Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:46 am

I have heard a variety of voices, and they had "personalities" as in I believed them to be something versus another.

They have ranged from a voice of a person I thought I could hear outside who wasn't there, or someone in the next room. These could be young men or women. I have heard voices that I thought were demons that were very deep and scary. Then I have heard voices of people who hated me and voices of people who were angry at me. They all ranged.

Generally I tried to ignore them all and they never developed a personality, I just heard them and tried not to think about them. In some cases when my disease onset I obsessed over the voices and they continued perpetually filling the hours of my days. Still they never had a fixed personality. I never had like a friend or enemy that was there but who I thought I knew.
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Re: do your voices have names/personalities?

Postby swilliams » Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:32 pm

Yes, my voices all have names, and they have told me their names. They decided to use the names of people I have known, so there is Julia Davis, Ron Thiessen, Clint Dixon, Todd, Duncan, Steve and they have invented 2 that were Marjorie and Elizabeth. They also quickly adopt (claim) that they are people I have just met, such as the names of people I have done job interviews with, then they tell me they are not going to give me the job, or that they are going to give me the sack. But Julia and Ron have been with me for more than two decades.

They also use code words, so they say something like "Pam is dead" and then I later realise through something else they say that "dead" is a 'code word' and they mean "Pam is happy". I realise this by writing what I call transcripts, which is a quote unquote set of notes that records exactly what they say to me, and my responses. These notes enable me to lead a far more relaxed life, because I now win every argument! Here's an example:
Scott; why do you keep up with J's arguments? (who knows what this actually means?!)
2329 Julia: what are you doing (as I opened up an app)?
Scott: does it matter?
Julia: yes it does - just because
Julia; scott, do you know whats going on? (in a mans voice)?
Julia: why do I keep switching to a mans voice? I'll tell u why... because, justy because
2330: J: scott, can ghosts do anything to other ghosts?
Scott: no
Julia: they can so
Scott: whatr can tyhey do
Julia: no answer

Their personalities are not so easily detected in terms of being able to know the name of the personality. But essentially, I seem to be fighting a team of organised people who have aims and goals, and their use of names furthers their ambitions of what the f$ck ever they are trying to achieve.
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Re: do your voices have names/personalities?

Postby CityMouse » Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:54 pm

All my voices are jerks. I don''t know how many there are. One is Caleb who just bragged about how his life is super pleasant while I still live at home with my mom. He was trying to make me feel low. There's Iyanla Vanzant who is very bossy and patronizing, treating me like I'm her 3 year old. There's Malcolm X who is very controlling, tries to separate me from my support system. There's Dr. Drew, very domineering and overbearing. I could go on.
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Re: do your voices have names/personalities?

Postby DeLucid » Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:19 pm

the really negative one Gopherman. lol hes out to get me, the rest are pretty chill
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