When you hear voices in your head, how does it feel? are you frightened? Can you start to ignore them after you understand you have schizophrenia?
Honey with this disease knowledge is power. when I first began getting sick the things I would see and hear would indeed scare me. I didn't know what was going on, things can seem so real. later I began to learn and then sometimes could say o.k. that is not really there that is such and such symptom. I try to compensate. After a while the stuff happens and you just start kind of getting used to it. now that of course doesn't work all the time. I had a command voice which was so loud and would tell me dangerous things. Such as PULL OUT NOW, in traffic when there was a car coming. and what was so frightening is that my body reacted immediatly and obeyed. Thank God that has left me. now my voices are pretty low key except in stressful situations. It is just nonsense phrases, lots of echoes, sometimes instructions (mostly helpful) comments on what I am doing, She is sitting now. I do still see things but not so horrific, actually pretty mundane. the other day there was quite a large turtle in the driveway, plain as day. I just stopped and waited oh just a small bit and then it was gone. you can train yourself to have some control if you are fortunate enough to have insight into your illness. as years go by you quit being so startled. Keep working at it honey, you can do things to help yourself.
i kinda like them, they make me feel like i can do anything but yet they are very scary, they have started to make me 2 different people