Questions about schizophrenia ?

Question

When schizophrenics hear voices, do they distinctly hear people talking or is it just wierd whispers? If they plug their ears does it seem to go away (I am not trying to poke fun whatsoever) and do they actully see things that normally wouldnt be there? Also, does this all seem normal to them, or do they know something is wrong?

Answer 1

its normal talking like just another person talking to you, but then again i get it in rewind as well.

it doesnt go away if you plug your ears because its in your head and it talks over when people are talking to you.

i mean at first for a couple of months i thought everything was normal but then after a while i knew it wasnt normal because no one else could hear what i was hearing and when the voice was directing things at me calling me names.

Answer 2

Not all individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia hear voices or have visual hallucinations. However, those that do can hear voices distinctly OR in a whisper. There isn't a universal tone of voice that they all hear. They can still hear these voices when they plug their ears and they can hear you speaking to them while simultaneously having auditory hallucinations. They can also have visual hallucinations while other (real) people are present.

No, these symptoms don't seem normal to the patient. However, another symptom of their illness is anosognosia---meaning they lack insight in to their illness. This is why many individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia do not readily recognize their diagnosis. As far as they are aware, their problems do not lie within, they lie without. Because they do not know the difference between what is real and what is unreal, they would make other assumptions about the voices they hear than to conclude that they must have a mental illness. For instance, they would accuse others of putting devices in their ears, microphones that other people placed there to either control their brain or just simply drive them crazy. The individual with schizophrenia feels utterly certain that the voices they hear are real, that their visual hallucination are real, and it can be next to impossible to convince them otherwise without the use of medication. So to answer you last question, they know something is wrong, but they don't think something is wrong with them, they believe someone or something outside of themselves is tormenting them.

Answer 3

Sometimes the voices come from inside my head and sometimes the voices are actually coming in through my ears. For me it is not really whispers. I hear my mom's voice a lot, or God, and a voice like a radio commentator, just talking really smooth and fast. I can try to control what they say to see if it is really just in my mind but I can't do it. It is really an uncontrollable illness in my brain. It doesn't seem normal to me, but it does for some schizophrenics. Not to blow my own horn, but I am an intelligent person and I can use logic and reason to know that if the voices are coming from nowhere, they are not real.

I will describe something to you that happened to me a few weeks ago. It was 4:30am and I was walking down to the store to get some cigarettes. I saw a mexican guy on a ladder painting the side of this house. As I got closer to him he just disappeared. No ladder, no painter. Then a few minutes later I saw two little twin girls playing in the street. As I got closer they turned into two stone pillars with light bulbs at the top. I knew that those were hallucinations because I used logic and reason to say, Hey people don't vanish into thin air.

But there are people who are so far gone that they hallucinate and don't know it is real, and at one point in my life I was like that. But, now I take medicine, I am educated, I have been dealing with these symptoms for the last ten years, so I have adjusted.