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

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pah, schizophrenia is a serious form of schizotypal personality disorder, it can develope from schizotypal personality disorder. the patient sees and hears people, that arent really there, they have voices in their heads telling them who to talk to, who to hate, who to kill, ect. and the patient listens, the voice sounds oh so wise… these people could hide themselves, they can go around and you wouldnt notice the patient if you just glance, but if you look deeper you will see. they have a fear of people. they always tend to keep to themselves. have few to no friends. speak in a disordered sort of way. Hope this helped, try looking at mayoclinic on scizotypal for more information about how it can develope into schizophrenia.

Hearing voices in your head
Seeing things that aren't there
Disorganized thinking
Hallucinations
Very strange or paranoid thinking (eg. our government hires someone to kill someone if he wants that person dead and they leave it a secret)

seeing and believing that you see things.

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I read that it's when you hear voices but there was another that
said when you see things. so is there more than one type of schizophrenia and if so can you please tell me the
signs/symptoms. Any help would be appreciated.

Like for instance, if you mostly only hear voices when you're taking a shower or getting ready, but you can at other times too, just less often?

And is it still possible to be schizophrenic if you're growing out of some symptoms, like hearing things less often, but gaining others?