Are all of the voices/ people horrible?

I hear only one persistent voice. I call him Bob, Bob sounds funny. I think he is a Bob.

It's mostly tells me to do things, like kick someone or slap myself, I feel it take over when I'm hearing it, it's a strange feeling which is hard to describe... But when I'm stressed it becomes aggressive and threatens to kill people; this is rare and only happened a few times but I know the difference between what is real and what is psychosis therefore I never act on it.

this is a really good topic...

initially most of them were bad... agent's, spies... chasing after me during the initial stages of my relapse about 5 years ago i was young, very naive, confused, no depression, just people coming after me and following me around... then came the voices... people talking to me...

the truth is its never as simple as good or bad... its a whole new reality out there... i'm also writing something as a serious project... and taking the voices perspective as a plot line... shows how shallow someones understand of schizophrenia is

if schizophrenia was about voices, then its as bad as listening to the radio which is highly pleasurable...

so no its not bad voices.... they are real characters and people you interact with everyday... even in the so called recovery phases...

this is just my opinion

best wishes and good luck on your writing

They can be good they can be bad they can be a whole chorus of people. They can be simple sounds or single words or to complex speech.

I have to agree with above in that there is a lot more to Schizophrenia than just voices.

Schizophrenia is one of the if not thee most complex inorganic brain disorder and probably more complex than the organic brain disorders. The illness varies widely from person to person in symptoms and intensity.

Its not uncommon for the voices to also control a person's consciousness or influence the way they think.

My relationship with my imaginary girlfriend have its highs and lows as any relationship...

really no, I have two 'voices'. One is a man who's nuts, he has a pretty morbid song he likes. The voices aren't completely auditory if that makes sense. There is also a young girl that spends time in the great woods, a place in my mind. I hope that doesn't sound crazy. She's really nice, though I haven't been able to see her in awhile...