Hearing 'Voices', People reading my thoughts (venting)

Sidenote: Before you keep reading please understand all I am doing in this post is venting/complaining about the stuff listed in the subject line. I am in a very negative state right now.


Wow, I am thoroughly convinced now that I was right all along.

When I hear voices it's always hard to tell if it's someone outside the house (my neighbour?) or if it's a *real* auditory hallucination. If I am out in public and I hear people talking about me (maybe they are just making a comment about me and nothing more, I dont know) - but I am confident that the voice is in fact a human beings voice. True, I could be misinterpreting and that is a possibility but in my mind not likely.

Long story short, in my experience it's clear people can feel the general 'feeling?' or thought you are feeling and are able to pickup on it - and that this is something that comes with the territory of being out, socializing and interacting with people.

I can't face this (although i've had no choice) - but in all honesty I hate these games.

Is there anything on this site that has similar experiences? I would love to connect with other people who have had problems with this belief that people can tell what you are thinking. (Not to be mistaken with 'mind control', or 'thought insertion' which I am fortunate enough to not have had problems in that area)

If you are wondering I have problems (or have in the past) with schizophrenia, ocd, social anxiety disorder.

I need to reach out more to sites like these and connect with people who are more likely to understand this stuff. I will likely post another thread that is less vague and 'scatterbrained.'

Thank you

Dave

Hey Dave,

I think people can read my thoughts all the time. I'm with you on that. It's scarry because I'll think my neighbors are talking about me, narrorating what I'm doing. Or I'll be in the store, and I'll constantly watch for people looking at me because I'm convinced I'm not the only one in my head.

You're not alone.

Hang in there.

Joanelle

I once had a best friend who could read my mind and tell me what i was thinkin before I got "###$" up I havent seen him and we havent spoke in years I coincidently bumped into him a couple a months ago and it seems like he can still be able to read my mind its not something that anybody can do you know what I'm saying

what I don't like is when someone does it to ###$ you up the truth is they are not reading your mind they are just telling you what they want you to hear I mean these people would just wanna mix ur thoughts for you u would be thinking the sky is blue and they be whispering in your ear no the sky is grey ( this is just a really stoopid example of course) but use ur imagination and u could think of something much worse than this

I also experience people talking about me when I am wlaking around the first thing they say I believe its real but what I might hear next sometimes I believe it could develope as a thought of mine and not nesserly a person in reality

but what I dont like is when neighbours and friends try to talk stuff in your face so you would think its fiction.This is clearly a sign of hatred I mean if someone does this to you it is clearly that they are also sick I might even or have guts to say that these people are actually sicker than yourself wierd ass faces also count for this part I mean we need to realize that we are living in a hipocritical society and that means not everybody around you is necarly your friend and $#%^ ok that is my opinion atleast from a nowadays point of view

sincerely your from the one and only jack

Thank you Joanelle and thank you Jack for sharing your experiences. It is always a relief to know that i'm not the only one going through this kind of thing.

If I have any 'breakthroughs' or learn of anything useful about this subject I will be sure to post it.

Believing other people can read your private thoughts can be a painful experience especially if you don't know if their intentions are good. This happened to me during a period of a couple weeks during which I was hospitalized by my family and friends.

I experienced immense emotional pain, as I imagine you are.

true

Thank you for this post. I have been experiencing this off and on for over a decade now and have been looking for a forum or somewhere that describes it right. Dave, you are the first to say it like it is. Thank you.

The first time I experienced was when smoking weed in college. At first I thought i was just hallucinating. But it was so real. Then suddenly it became part of my daily routine (not weed, the "voices"), anywhere, everywhere. For the last two years of college I had to have headphones while on campus to keep me from hearing it. Since then it has affected jobs, relationships, everything. I not only believe that strangers are talking to me, but even my family and closest friends. It's like everyone else is on some higher spiritual level than I am and are telling me how to be "part of them".
Even writing this I am thinking that all of you are are part of it and are going to leave my post alone since I don't "get it".

I have been on different anti-depressants, anti-anxieties, anti-psychotics and mood-stabilizers. Even the best regimen cannot prevent it from happening. I have also been in and out of therapy with no complete removal of this experience. I have thought about suicide so many times I can't count (but I have only fully planned a couple of times and attempted once). Sometimes it goes away for a day or two, but it is always in the back of my mind. Today is one of the bad days.

By a therapist's suggestion, I have been more able to ask my friends and family "what did you mean by that" so that i can try to stop interpreting it wrong... this helps ease the tension but doesn't stop it.

I don't know anymore. I wish there was a magic pill that can stop this. silence it once and for all. At least an accurate diagnosis, since nothing really gets it right, so I may know that i am not alone and that this is a real problem... not just a horror tale of my life that no one understands.

This thread is a beginning.

Glen

chill out, folks. it's really not that big a deal. everyone is communicating telepathicly w/ everyone else via the subconscious, the human mass mind. this mostly unconscious network is how we humans come to a consensus on the specifics of "reality". conscious telepathic communication is still quite rare. though now and then a close friend or family member will naturally link with you, generally a vibrational affinity and accute attention and focused intent is required to establish that kind of conscious linkage. no random stranger in your local grocery store is going to have conscious access to your thoughts.

employ strict self honesty to clean and polish your perception lens. take note of your experience driven personal symbolisms so you can decypher the data that's being filtered through them. use visualizations to build yourself some shielding.

this is interesting, i'm new here... so hello everybody..

generally i can relate to what you guys are saying, i have the same symptoms, been thinking i was telepathic since i was 14, and thought i was talking to celebrities and whatnot... then turned to depression, for 3 years... then had a relapse which lasted 2 years, and in the midst of another psychotic episode right now... whilst with a good degree of functionality and rationality that i am not dysfunctional

but my symptoms are the same... i think i am telepathic consciously and that people from far off can hear my thoughts and see through my eyes by my will, i do it all the time i talk to these people telepathically and through mind reading and we have conversations all day and all night... but i'm completely functional... but... my friend.... that doesn't mean its all real... for now i know i am crazy... but i still talk to these people and have a grand time chatting and learning from them like they are real individuals... for me the situation is.. that as long as i benefit from this episode... and am functional then it doesn't matter

also i am now reading peoples mind in person... looking at them and thinking i know what their state of mind at the moment and what they are feeling... but still i am CRAZY... for me... this acceptance of my insanity and delusions and realizing that they are not real whilst still benefiting from them is the strangest moment of my life i've ever been in... good days... yes... but crazy..? even more...

I think people can read my thoughts especially when they look at me so I hide my face so they can't know me or what I'm thinking. Sometimes the voices I hear are garbled and sometime they are clear and commanding they hurt sometimes to the point of I can't stand it.