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Q: Inner voice is not my own

asked by: notmebutme on November 4th, 2009

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I don't really know where else to post this

When I speak to myself in my head, it is in another voice. Whether it be a TV character, someone I look up to, or something else, but never my own. I'm not "hearing voices" in the traditional schizophrenic sense. It's me, but not my voice.

Also, I have never had my own personality. Every week I adopt a new one in the same manner as the "voices". For example, I have adopted the voice and character of House from the TV show. Next week it might be someone from another TV show, and so on. There is a central personality that I identify with and I guess would be me, but the other personalities make up the larger portion. One week I will be quiet and antisocial while the other I will be outgoing and clever. It all depends on who I am imitating.

This has been occurring most of my life and I am sick of not knowing what it is

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Courtie

replied on November 4th, 2009

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Well this is healthy. A lot of times when people need guidance they are asked to think of people who they look up to in their life. It can be friends, family or fictional characters. So oftentimes the voices in our heads are actually those who we admire who have qualities that we would like to have. It is our own voice though imagining, "What would THAT person do".

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