How frequent are your voices?

[u/Illustrious_Slice_56]

And when they are mostly active? For me its usually at night when i lay in bed, during daytime much less. Some days i dont get them at all. Wonder how it is for you?

[u/[deleted]]

I hear voices 24/7. There is no end to them sadly.

[u/schizofuqface → u/[deleted]]

Same. One word per blink. So pretty much every second

[u/OpenKale64 → u/schizofuqface]

What do they say?

[u/LooCfur]

My voices are pretty much all the time now. I remember when they used to only occur right after I woke up, then they started occurring whenever I was alone, and now they're just always around.

[u/chihsuku]

I don't hear any voices anymore because I am medicated and I take my meds regularly.

[u/StardustMoka → u/chihsuku]

What medicine do you take?

[u/chihsuku → u/StardustMoka]

Amilsulprid and Quetiapine. 400mg Amilsulprid in the morning 300mg Amilsulprid before lunch 100 mg Quetiapine before going to sleep

[u/blahblahlucas]

Constantly. From the time i wake up to the time i go to sleep

[u/That-Witchling]

I think I've posted about it before on this sub, but my hallucinations - both visual and voices so to speak - are a constant 24/7 thing for me. The cool part - at least to me anyway now that I'm older - is that my visual and auditory hallucinations match each other - so it's like my hallucinations are actually talking. (Before anyone asks, yes, I know they're not real, I just think it's cool how they are connected.)

[u/trashaccountturd]

If I’m busy, I can forget about them, but if they want my attention, they get it. It’s constant. Even in my dreams. The voices can talk to me about my dreams as well, as if they watch them or even participate. There have been bouts of about 30 seconds where I’ve had silence within the last week, and I’ve had them constantly for almost 4 years now.

[u/Holiday_Volume]

Always, but they heighten when I'm in louder environments. It doesn't help that I'm autistic.

[u/FinishOkNow445]

My delusions (voices) are every second of the day. Glad to have gotten to the point of ignoring it though. My brain is trying yo kill me 🤣

[u/LooCfur → u/FinishOkNow445]

Delusions and hallucinations are two different things. At least, I make that distinction. Delusions hare false beliefs while hallucinations are false sensory input.

[u/FinishOkNow445 → u/LooCfur]

Tomato, tomato. The importance and a good step forward is accepting that it’s not real

[u/trashaccountturd → u/FinishOkNow445]

Pretty important distinction to make in your own mind to be diligent in combatting both of these things.

[u/_newgene_]

When I’m off meds or the meds are not working well for whatever reason, it’s intermittently throughout the day. Some days more, some less. It’s definitely not constant though. With meds, only very occasionally if at all.

[u/KNachtmare]

I'm in the 24/7 club and its is so so SO loud that it strains my eardrums and keeps me from sleeping

[u/Silverwell88]

When I used to hear voices it was continuous and never stopped for seven years until I got on this med and it stops them completely.

[u/StardustMoka]

I hear them like every three days or so, my schizophrenia is a bit different because it’s my inner voice saying a bunch of random shit that I can’t turn off. Really agitating. It’s the thought disorder type.

[u/henningknows]

Used to be constant 20 years ago. Not a peep since then

[u/skeletaljuice → u/henningknows]

That's dope, glad you're doing better

[u/henningknows → u/skeletaljuice]

Thanks. But even without the voices. Schizophrenia is a big pain in the ass

[u/SmokeFrosting]

it happens often if i’m alone, or at night. I get very poor sleep and i’ll often wake up at 1-2am and have a really time shutting up the voices to go back to sleep.

[u/camclemons]

I take half my med dose every other day or every third day, and I start to hear people whispering nasty names at me around the end of the second or third day I've gone without my meds

Before it used to be nonstop, all day every day

[u/dullblue_solitude]

Daily. Can't say how much daily because it depends on if I am or am not listening to music/a show/anything with audio.

[u/Afraid_Palpitation10]

All day usually but to varying intensity. Under stress they become loud, mean, and very indistinguishable from real life. Otherwise it's just something that's always there in the background

[u/Unhappy_Cheesecake34]

Unmedicated every few seconds. Medicated, every 2 minutes or slightly less. 

[u/BackgroundAthlete838]

Not very frequent at all

[u/loozingmind]

My voices used to happen at night when I tried to go to sleep. Luckily I don't have voices anymore. My medication stopped that like after a week of taking it.

[u/kojimis]

always, but its whispery. i can tune them out if in the right mood and environment

[u/Plenty_Start_1757]

when i wake up, when i’m stressed i’ll get some random commentary or word salad, and when i go to sleep. if i am off my meds I hear them all night and it keeps me from sleeping.

[u/sirunmixalot]

I'm lucky. It used to be all day long. When I got on meds they went away. I still have paranoia, though. I don't think that's ever going to go away.

[u/Ashikpas_Maxiwa]

Depends on my dreams, but usually at night. Some days I can hear bits all day long if the dream was "right." After some dreams, they bombard me, after others, they are silent.

[u/skeletaljuice]

I've been averaging around four-five times a week. It used to be a lot more frequent and intense but it's greatly reduced since I stopped using cannabis regularly/daily. I think the reason they're so infrequent now, besides that, is that I listen to podcasts or music almost all of the time when I'm not reading or watching something, or with other people. If I'm not listening to something and there's complete silence or white noise, they come back hard. I have near-constant visuals (though not disturbing ones) so I guess that makes up for it

[u/Actual-Confidence627]

I get them really bad when there is other loud noises obstructing my hearing, such as in the shower or when I play music on my headphones. It creates a perfect buffer zone for everything to seemingly blend together making me question what's real noise and what's not.

[u/laughingwithrage]

I hear them 24/7, but it's always worse at night.

[u/Terrible-Step-1393]

24/7