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Talking to myself

Hello my fellow bipolars.  I have had this strange habit for most of my life, in fact, I think since early childhood.  I have this constant voice in my head and I conversate with it all the time.  It is kind of me talking in my head,  but I ask it questions and I answer it.  Am I crazy or is this normal for bipolars?  I was getting ready for bed just now and having a conversation with my brain voice and thought, I wonder if other bipolars do this?  I talk to myself all the time, even out shopping.  People probably think I am a crazy person.   Atleast I am not a lonely person, I always have my brain friend! LOL  Thanks!
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Hi everyone ive been reading a few posts and i can say theres something just a little different, i to talk to myself but i have noticed its not me answearing its either someone i know or someone id like to meet, someone please tell me thats normal
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Well I think yu are very smart you made sense through your whole conversation. I am not a Dr but it sounds like you have attention deficient disorder. My younger sister has that and she constantly talks to herself out loud and i also do it but I am bp but I don' think that has anything to do with it. She can't remember anything either unless she writes it on paper. I hope you are seeing a shrink or in therapy as you need to talk to them about it. their are meds for it that really help her when she takes it. now the reason I don't think talking out loud to your self is caused from being bp is I was diagnosed in 1987 and yes when I was manic I heard voices in my head but didn't verbalize them out loud. I would say that now being on meds all these yrs and being treated with meds it has just been maybe the last 5yrs that I really talk aloud all the time and I do mean all the time I argue with myself, I hate to say it but I ***** all the time the list goes on and on but it is an outlet for my brain so I am unloading it all the time and reloading because I can't keep it all bottled up or I would explode. I suffer from severe anxiety and to me that's what causes it I stress all the time over little things big things everything I over analyze everything before I do anything. To me it is not a bad thing at all I love myself and   love talking to my self out loud or not and I don't care what other people think at all. Simply because I and you and all the people posting on here are truly intelligent that's what you have to remember it has been proven that people who talk aloud to themselves are very smart. So think of that the next time you are talking to yourself out loud. Now think of people who never talk who are so quiet who keep to themselves and never join in on a conversation at all I'm sorry but I would rather talk to myself or people all the time than be quiet......hope this helps someone and remember it is just my take on why we do this.....
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I figured talking to myself made me look crazy anyway, so I live in a musical now. I will sing the recipe or which pipe I'm gluing next. If I start singing or taking fast in Spanish, my family knows to be watching. My own voice talks real loud sometimes. Not like I'm yelling at myself, just the volume to my thoughts is cranked to 11. The singing helps, though I am a horrible singer. I live with a trained vocalist, but I guess I enjoy being laughed at, it's better than the blank stare. It's not a cure, but it sure makes things more interesting. I incorporate some dance moves too, that's when you know I'm feeling it. If I take my quirks less seriously, it seems like others do too.
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hi..there,
i am thinking too much and talking to myself, people would hear it and "say he is mad".any solution for this problem.
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My comment is the are genius, not crazy or mad.
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This thread is sooo funny! I really feel home here lol. I do not hear voices but I have often conversation with myself. And even speak loud in shops etc- comenting on stuf I see :)). And omg in the car :)) I talk to other drivers all the time lol
Nice to see I am not nuts alone.
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I am with you. I went to a lot of group therapy in the hospital setting in the past and now, and no one who had the bipolar diagnosis ever talked about voices in their heads like me. There were times I thought I was "odd man out." I am glad you responded to this post because I would never have seen it. It is nice to know that people who are bipolr hear the same voice in their heads, in my case, voices, or see the same people for each times I had hallucinations. In my worse episodes, they were living in my head.

Like Crystlas. I never felt lonely. During check in for partial program, one of the usual check in questions was "Do you feel isolated?" and I never felt isolated even though I spent a lot of time by myself. My mind was constantly on, no matter if I was hypomanic, mixed states, asleep, depressed and deadened or whatever. That part, everyone talked about but not the conversations, and no mentions of voices. At my worse, I was talking out loud. Answering back, and whatever. /to me they were real. I really couldn"t distinguish a real person from someone from my mind. I used to talk to have conversations with someone behind me as I walked down the street, and a few times, I have seen him, but it turned out he never existed or when I turned around, the guy wasn"t there. It never bothered me when I discovered this. So, he isn"t here, well he is gone now. That;s all I thought. Even now, when I know that it was an hallucination, it doesn"t bother me at all.

The only thing that disturbed me was that I was diagnosed and knew I was bipolar, but no one talked about this part or said this happens to them. Other people with bipolar disorder felt lonely, did feel isolation, and didn"t really want to be alone. I couldn"t wait to be alone.

I used to think that this was the way my mind was going to be from now on. Because when I was "stable" before, my mind still played out scenarios, still worked overtime, and not quiet. Now, it is pretty quiet. I am still thinking, but it is not "obvious" or "loud." anymore. There is no conversation. I can still brainstorm, create, think out of the box, play out scenarios, but it comes out when I want it to. It isn"t on "automatic pilot." My mind feels pretty relaxed. It is a big difference.

Here's the funny thing though. I still don"t feel alone when I am by myself with a quiet mind. I still prefer to be by myself when I go places or do things..even travelling to remote places where there isn"t another human being for hundreds of miles, and the only way in is by floatplane. It isn"t that I am not a social person, because I do enjoy people and can enter into conversation and interactions easily. I just like my alone time...even when it is really quiet now, up in my head. I used to think I wasn"t capable of lounging around vacations or time. Now, it's not a problem. I love being able to just lounge and fall asleep in a beautiful, peaceful setting with a quiet head and do nothing but that. For me, that is absolute luxury. For now, I really am treasuring and enjoying every moment of quiet and recovered eyesight. Especilly, after I had the "recovery unlikely" prognosis in both.
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