I hear voices.

[Mardoo]

My experience of the this was based on a pretty ****** up childhood where the only way to survive emotionally was to live life completely between my ears and then relive moments between said ears in order to alter the outcomes so that they turned out a bit better for me. Part of this involved reenacting conversations out loud, a characteristic which can still happen automatically these days if I'm feeling a bit unbalanced or life's a bit out of kilter. I've had the odd look occasionally, it's just a matter of accepting what is, I don't lose a lot of sleep over it..

We gotta get by somehow. I too used internal conversations to keep my sanity as a kid. It ain't easy being a kid sometimes.

 

[Grott]

On the 18th of next month I'll have been off the smokes for 5 years having destroyed myself for the previous 42 years. ( I gave up before before being told too, I could sense that could be coming). For the first month and a bit there was a mental discussion about the benifits of smoking, sometimes even arguments however they slowly faded away.

Well the other day, I reached across the table for a non existent packet of ****, thinking "gee I'd like a smoke". The thought went as quick as it came but later I said to myself " you f- ing dead ****, your still there"

 

[droid]

you're not there mate, you're are most definitely somewhere else and have been for a long time. i feel sorry for people when I see them smoking, the look on their faces is rarely if ever one of some sort of gratification, moreso complete indifference - just relieving the pang, the loss of nicotine needs to be replaced. I smoked for 25 years so yeah

once a smoker always a smoker is only something that smokers will say to you, my sister offered me a smoke the other day knowing that I have been off them for 3 years - what sort of ****** up **** is that?

and when those voices enter your head you just have to start a different conversation

 

[wide eyed and legless]

(quote grott post 22 Well the other day, I reached across the table for a non existent packet of ****, thinking "gee I'd like a smoke". The thought went as quick as it came but later I said to myself " you f- ing dead ****, your still there" )
Never smoked but I do often reach for a beer that isn't there.

 

[Eagleburger]

my wife is going out it tells me, 'Busy hands make idle minds'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-28/hearing-voices-in-your-head-more-common-than-thought-study/6504704

Smart cookie. I bet 90% of depression and mental illness could be cured if it took 8hrs of toil, to put half the food a person needs in a plate.

 

[spog]

On the 18th of next month I'll have been off the smokes for 5 years having destroyed myself for the previous 42 years. ( I gave up before before being told too, I could sense that could be coming). For the first month and a bit there was a mental discussion about the benifits of smoking, sometimes even arguments however they slowly faded away.
Well the other day, I reached across the table for a non existent packet of ****, thinking "gee I'd like a smoke". The thought went as quick as it came but later I said to myself " you f- ing dead ****, your still there"

Am once again trying to quit,it's not easy in fact it's ******* tough.
The best I have done is 3 years and then pathetically fell off the wagon,I puff on more ciggies than I do smoke so I guess I'm helping myself there,I know and can feel the damage the cnuts of things are doing to me but am slowly AND surely weaning myself of them.
**** me, if I spent as much money on brewing ingredients as I have on ciggies....well I would have system/ stash to be proud of.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Smart cookie. I bet 90% of depression and mental illness could be cured if it took 8hrs of toil, to put half the food a person needs in a plate.

Cant say that i am going to agree with you on that one.

 

[dammag]

Maybe not 90% but a fair bit of mental illness would be alleviated if everyone had something positive to achieve every day. I know I feel a whole lot better after a hard day at work. And, yes, I have suffered from mental illness

 

[contrarian]

The plural of anecdote isn't data. If that was all there was to it then rates of mental illness would be substantially higher in modern western countries but that isn't the case.

 

[Dave70]

I used to drive a truck in San Francisco and had an hour gap in my day between drops, so I just sat on a bench and watched people. I soon realized that at least 10% - and probably more like 20% - talk to themselves with their lips mouthing the conversation to some degree. Made me feel a whole lot less crazy!

Then Mardoo got up of the bench, went 'beep beep' and ran down Fishermans Wharf going Brrrrrr! brrrrrr! brrrrrrr!!

 

[Mardoo]

Still do.