[Junior]

I have been told by several people that voices in the head are not an uncommon phenomenon. Since I've always heard such associated with people babbling on the street corner or cooking family pets because "that is what the voices told them to do" I assumed hearing such meant I was off my rocker.

It doesn't help that my voices tell me to do nice things to people or to care for homeless animals. I can't even be nuts normally.

[b_sharp]

Everyone has multitudes of personalities within them, parents, siblings, role models and composites of those. In most of us, the decisions we make are made based on the interaction of multiple synaptic paths through those personalities. We normally ignore those 'arguments' at the conscious level, much as we ignore the huge amounts of information that actually reaches our senses. Of all the sounds we hear, sights we see, odors we smell, thoughts we think, only a small fraction makes it to our consciousness.

You just notice more of the thoughts than do the rest of us.

[js1138]

It doesn't help that my voices tell me to do nice things to people or to care for homeless animals. I can't even be nuts normally.

I was browsing through a book a couple months ago and found a statement that no patient in the history of psychotherapy has ever reported hearing voices saying to be extra nice to the spouse and children.

[Elsie]

I can't even be nuts normally.

Watch it!!

YOU'll be accused of being funny, too!

;^)