tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post2776187700331003853..comments2023-10-19T10:26:30.108-04:00Comments on Yin and Yang: How Psychotic Am I?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-59878961100075873372012-05-09T01:46:03.523-04:002012-05-09T01:46:03.523-04:00Thank you for this lovely post. I have to admit t...Thank you for this lovely post. I have to admit that this is definitely a different and better way to view our internal dialogues.Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00214112119645503161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-14266051388297751682012-05-09T01:44:48.292-04:002012-05-09T01:44:48.292-04:00I really enjoyed this. I have been living with wh...I really enjoyed this. I have been living with what other people call psychotic features from the time I was a small child. My psychiatrist believes these inner voices to be apart of my PTSD. I'll admit at first I was scared to read this post. It is much easier to believe you are crazy and that you need the medication than to suggest that perhaps there is something we can learn from our internal dialogue. Thanks for the great post. I tend to hear voices just before I go to sleep and I pray every night to God to just let me sleep.Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00214112119645503161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-12840695673249293072012-04-28T19:55:28.401-04:002012-04-28T19:55:28.401-04:00I think everyone has voices in their head. In Alco...I think everyone has voices in their head. In Alcoholics Anonymous, they call it "the committee..." All those voices of ourselves, our parents, other authority figures, even some made up figures that have no basis in reality. They talk all the time. They argue back and forth, they criticize our actions...<br /><br />But I see all these voices as originating from me. I'm the one in charge, and I'm the one that says yes or no to any of their suggestions. They can be hella persuasive, but they're not the ones in control. <br /><br />Over the years, I've gotten some voices out of my head. My mother and grandmother (both pretty mean) don't speak up much anymore. Any time I get into a mode of abusive self-criticism, I have to visualize sitting down with them and explaining to them: "I understand you're trying to keep me safe, but this isn't helpful right now." That usually shuts them up.<br /><br />Every once in a while, I'll get a voice that seems outside of me: a flash of inspiration, some quiet wisdom that sneaks up on me while I'm resting, little things like that. The Hebrews had a word for that - Bat Qol, or "the daughter of the voice of God."<br /><br />I think it's perfectly natural to have these voices come to us. The difference, I think, is maintaining a grasp on reality and being able to function in the outside world (the world beyond what's in my head). <br /><br />Idk... just spit-balling ideas here ^_^.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00695167212487592726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-70643992284564308572012-04-24T18:07:00.182-04:002012-04-24T18:07:00.182-04:00This was an awesome post..I have OCD and I think I...This was an awesome post..I have OCD and I think I could apply much of this to my thinking..ie: what my thoughts tell me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16288842067954888301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-21887165350042353322012-04-22T20:43:48.812-04:002012-04-22T20:43:48.812-04:00Watch........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QLB...Watch........<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QLBDEKB1ZMAntique and good used furniture........https://www.blogger.com/profile/04187825434971485712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-45034068521279715722012-04-21T19:13:09.532-04:002012-04-21T19:13:09.532-04:00Hey thanks for commenting and following Anxiety La...Hey thanks for commenting and following Anxiety Land! You have an interesting blog, and I appreciate how you stress acceptance, kindness, understanding, and open-mindedness.<br /><a href="http://www.anxietyland.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Adventures in Anxiety Land</a>The Blue Morphohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16387317327488568515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-51818854903249608492012-04-19T07:18:37.951-04:002012-04-19T07:18:37.951-04:00Dear Kate,
How amazing that you were able to acce...Dear Kate,<br /><br />How amazing that you were able to accept a voice that was calling you evil! Yes, that does take a great deal of compassion. <br /><br />I don't know how insight works, or how creativity works, it all seems to be part of an invisible process inside of my head. But it gives me gifts. I am grateful for the fruits of my head, and especially powerful seems to be the forces that come from "I don't know where". <br /><br />You have an idea about the origin of the voices, and having a belief about the way that the world works, or the mind works, does not make you psychotic. People around the world try to define their inner and outer life in so many different ways - some of them cultural, some of them unique to the individual, it is just part of the human experience to give reason to mystery. The meanest humans turn on their kin who have other view points and call them crazy, some wish to demean other belief systems. But I think the smart ones, who have some notion that life is miraculous and larger than they can know or define, actually accept or tolerate contradiction - this is I think the hallmark of a wise person. Not someone who has all the answers, but someone who listens well to ideas outside of a comfort zone of familiarity.<br /><br />Please don't worry about whether or not you make sense simply because you hear voices. You are one of the smartest people I know and your intelligence shines brightly in your writing.<br /><br />I do think you are right that hearing voices isn't proof of psychosis, or perhaps it shouldn't matter so much if someone is a little psychotic. In America people act like a psychotic person is on the verge of committing a heinous crime - psychotic people are viewed as dangerous. I have met health care professionals who are deeply scared of psychosis and others that don't worry much if their patient is by medical terms psychotic, they don't judge. I find from experience of knowing psychotic people that being different usually only affects the person with the novel ideas, if they can manage with their unusual inner world then usually they are able to live a rich life. <br /><br />My friend Rocki was asked by her therapist if she would get lonely if they increased her meds and stopped the voices, and Rocki wasn't sure. Like you, the voices have added a lot to her life. She really can't imagine life without them. But she doesn't see the point of drowning them in medication, because for her more medication means awful side effects. And, as she has told me, because of her voices she is never lonely.<br /><br />It doesn't affect my opinion of you one bit because you hear voices. And it doesn't matter to me either where you think the voices originate. I think you are a special, awesome person. <br /><br />All my love, <br />KarenKaren May Sorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14436905322393073250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-74111073195562599942012-04-18T21:47:52.599-04:002012-04-18T21:47:52.599-04:00Beautiful post! I don't consider you psychoti...Beautiful post! I don't consider you psychotic. You've figured out how to positively integrate the voices into your life-I call that recovery.K.C. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10815737249921325593noreply@blogger.com