Arpig
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Joined: 1/3/2006 From: Increasingly further from reality Status: offline
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I find this idea fascinating. I am trying to understand why ‘you’ (the voices) would need to befriend you. I would think if anyone would know how to get you to do something, it would be… you. Kim Well, its because while the voices are indeed you, they do not seem to be. They appear to be outside of you. They claim to be something apart from you. Now please understand, I have no extensive knowledge, just a bit of reading, and exchanging some experiences on here. Based on that there does seem to be a pattern. As to why, well you tell me, if you suddenly heard a voice in your head, would you just believe it and trust its judgement right away? Generally no. Even when the voices manifest at around 10 to 15 (the usual time for it to happen) the person hearing the voices is likely to understand that its not normal to do so. It takes time for one to break down their inhibitions and to trust the voices' judgement. I guess its hard for somebody who has never heard voices to understand how they actually present themselves, so here goes. I will describe what the gebneral voices are like for me. Many of them are just evil voices saying things to me, they make no effort to persuade or influence, they just issue commands, saying things like "Go hang yourself from that tree", "Set fire to that house" things like that. Other of the general voices are more insidious, they will actually try to persuade me to do things. They will go on about it, giving reasons to do it. Most (I would say roughly 90%) of their reasons are that it would be fun, or feel good, or things along those lines. These voices have never tried to befriend me, and I have been able to disregard what they are telling me all along. The individual voices, however, are a different kettle of fish. Because they befriended me, I learned to trust their judgement, and even activly sought out their advice on things. I don't know what I would do if they told me to do something "bad", but I am pretty sure that, given the irrational thinking and paranoia that goes along with the disorder, I could have been persuaded pretty easily to do something.
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