My voices have human like traits. Do yours?

Some of my voices tell me their names, and they refer to each other by those names. But the names they use are those of people I have known. I think they intentionally do this as part of an ongoing attempt to induce me to make mistakes and incorrectly think they are humans. But why would an hallucination(s) have motives?

Furthermore, they actually acknowledge that they do have motives. Often, their stated motive is to cause me to have what they call “a hang-over”, which is a term they use that describes the problems that occur in the real world after misattributing their identity. For example, if I am psychotic or stressed, or if I am reality checking for some reason, I might react to who they ‘say’ they are by posting something incriminating, embarrassing or defamatory on Facebook. But having motives is not the only surprising and inexplicable trait my voices have. They also plan things, they have meetings, and one of them runs a training school in which I am the subject that the students (other voices) use to practice cruelty towards.

But what really does me in, is an implied association between my voices and my feelings, and I do not mean the feelings I get as a result of hearing certain things, and I do not mean emotions. I mean things like twitching, very increased heart rate, ‘hot flushes’, cramps etc. My voices repeatedly ask “did you feel that?”, as though they are checking whether something they have done has worked. I also occasionally have absolutely terrible feelings that I struggle to be able to describe, and my voices will start ‘saying’ that the $#%^ feelings I am having are a punishment for something that I have recently done.

But to suggest that my feelings are somehow causally related to my voices is to suggest that my voices have agency, which is absurd. So I am really keen to hear from other people if they suspect that their voices impact their feelings (not moods or emotions) in a determinate, causal way. By this I mean that the voices do something that causes or changes feelings, that is, do your voices ever actually perpetrate changes in your feelings?

Welcome to the forums. Sorry to hear you're going through this.

My voices have human traits as well. Not to the extent of yours, but they do. My voice, I should say, it's only one. His name is Jim. He talks to me about things, he rambles on and on and such things. He really doesn't have any effect on my emotions. He's never really said anything harmful towards me or anyone else, except once, but I was already a wreck at that point.

What are your voices names, and what all do they say?

My voices call themselves - Julia Davis, Ron Thiessen, Peter Walker, Peter Brasier, and in the past there has been Clint, Todd, Brigit, Karen, Molly, Jack, Michelle, the outspoken ghost and the singing ghost, and a few more generic type names. As for what they say - I have always kept notes about that, but in 2009 I started keeping 1st person notes, ie quote unquote exactly what they said. For a while I thought I had found the worlds best coping strategy, but for the past 6 months, those 1st person transcripts became more and more troublesome. They became so toxic that a few days ago I uttely deleted all of them. But I made so many, and distributed them so widely, that it is impractical for me to completely eradicate them. But I really need to, because my voices started terrifying me and leading me into grave mistakes, because I had so much 'evidence' against them ! It's been 4 days now since I completely deleted them, and thank god, my voices have chilled out a bit, and I can relax.

I just finished a Diploma in Graphic Design, so now that the transcripts have gone, all that remains are 4 infographics about coping strategies, that you are welcome to download if you ever need that sort of thing. Just PM me if you would like to see them.

At this time I only hear one internal voice next to my right ear whispering that i am crazy. that's all. she is female.
she is young adult. I dont know anything else.