Hearing Voices - (Schizophrenia Simulation) - Day 23 of "100 Symptoms"
Channel: nednednerB the Schizophrenic
Date: 2019-04-15

In my reality of schizophrenia, words and phrases run circles around my brain.
I edited this video to simulate subtle auditory hallucinations. Kind of a deep brain stimulation.

Stick around my channel for more mental health awareness, because mental health matters! Of course a digital simulation isn't going to put the thought I have into the experience of it happening on the inside of your mind/brain. 

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWvmkef6DkA to watch a 25 minute recording of my first real interview, where the BC Schizophrenia Society asks me questions about my mental health story and this channel's effort to encourage mental health education!

For me, my self awareness of auditory hallucinations are not all the same. On my channel, visitors have commented over the years about hearing a great number of kinds of voices saying a whole lot. 

Voices, and/or "loud thoughts", repeat and distract me. It's like words and meanings are like weather inside my head, picking up with intensity and coming in varied forms (snow, hail..)

This is nednednerB the Schizophrenic
(-phrenic -phrenic).
This is Day 23 of "100 Symptoms". (Don't do that).

This video is an attempt (why?) to simulate what occurs to me (really?) when I'm psychotic. (You are.) My experience of intrusive auditory content is varied. (Don't forget it!)

Sometimes it seems connected to my thoughts, at other times the voices are random. (Hey..) And it is always distracting. (What's Sam's name?) It is sometimes insulting or negative. (Why do you say that?) It can include repetition and exaggeration. (Why do you say -that-?)

In general, auditory hallucinations usually feel like they come from an external speaker in a voice that doesn't sound like the thinker having the thoughts. (What gives you the right? [Inaudible]. What gives you the...?)

In a psychotic episode, someone who hears voices might find it difficult to sustain conversation (why?) because the train of thought attends to the voices (why do you say that?) instead of to the flow of actual dialogue. (Are you sure?)

Unlike my video here, the voices don't usually wait for the end of a phrase to interfere. (Weakling!). They can be abrupt and constant or disturbing and sudden (why?).

Hearing voices is an exhausting symptom.

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