I give lectures to myself and talk to myself and there's another voice in there too?

Question

Okay i'm studying psychology/medical (aiming to be a psychiatrist) and I don't know why, but when I read a book about something, I give like... lectures to myself, as if i were a college professor and I was talking to a classroom of students. Sometimes i say it out loud, sometimes in my head. Also, when i'm just walking around, i talk to myself like a narrator would in a book. For example, instead of seeing a bird get startled and fly from a branch and saying to myself, "that bird just flew away", i say it as if i were a narrator in a book, "the flustered bird started from the branch, thrusting its breast into the dreary grey sky, its shadow following me as i walked"

also, sometimes i hear another voice, it's a guy's voice, about my age, and he's like the other main character in my ongoing novel about my life that's being written in my head. i picture him as a dark-haired, pale-skinned, auburn or sometime green eyed, and kind of skinny but toned. he has a velvet voice... he talks to me and asks me questions about things around me and gives me suggestions about what to do, o r gives me an opinion on a philosophical question that the female protagonist (me) is wondering about. I named him Jack.

what the heck is up with this? is this some type of mental disorder?

Answer 1

this doesnt seem normal...you must see a psychiatrist/ neurologist soon

Answer 2

his name isnt jack, it's eric stolz.

also,i highly suspect you are an artist of sorts. embrace these oddities, and as long as you can keep from going insane, you should have a very colorful life.journal these thoughts, and write a book one day perhaps.

all the best...xox

Answer 3

I'm not a doctor but, it sounds so much like you have "Dissociative Identity Disorder / Multiple Personality Disorder". Again, I'm no doctor nor am I trying to tag you as such. Here, read this and the web page is in 'Source'.  Depersonalization disorder:

Feelings of detachment or estrangement from one’s self are signs of depersonalization. Although these feelings are difficult to describe, individuals with this disorder will report feeling as if they are living in a dream or watching themselves on a movie screen. They feel separated from themselves or outside their own bodies. People with this disorder feel like they are "going crazy" and they frequently become anxious and depressed.

Females are more frequently affected. More than five times as many women than men have problems with dissociative identity disorder.

A dissociative disorder is the breakdown of one’s perception of his/her surroundings, memory, identity, or consciousness.

There are four main kinds of dissociative disorders:

1. Dissociative amnesia

2. Dissociative fugue

3. Dissociative identity disorder (previously called multiple personality disorder)

4. Depersonalization disorder

I research: Multiple personality using About.com

Answer 4

No...unless being a loser is a mental disorder

Answer 5

Hearing other voices is a symptom of psychosis and, although you have a talented imagination, I sugges that you see your doctor about it and any other symptoms as soon as possible.

Answer 6

Nah, just sounds like a vivid imagination. So long as you remain aware that Jack is not real, you'll be fine. I do that occasionally myself. I talk to myself in the second person. I even do that thing where you read academic books like it is a lecture. Funny that. I think I'm just trying to inject a little life into dead text. Trying to keep myself interested.

I suspect like me you have a very active imagination. I like to think it is related to a high IQ. I rate pretty high. Are you very smart? It is a pet theory of mine. The smarter you are the more your brain demands to be engaged. If you are doing something boring, then it reacts by making use of your imagination. In short. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Maybe Jack will stop coming round when you replace him with a real guy. Real men might have trouble living up to Jack though, so bare in mind that he is just a part of your mind. :)

Answer 7

If you heard only your voice,maybe you haven't a serious problem.BUT to hear another voice talking for you inside you is a very serious problem and you must go to a doctor as soon as you can.Because to hear voices is one of psychiatric symptoms appears on a serious disease.You can prevent it if you go soon to check it.