Do you talk to yourself

[Lost Magic]

For people who are on their own most of the time, do you have good strategies. Do you talk to yourself? Do you listen to audio books and podcasts for comforting voices. How do you do it for long periods of time?

 

[Slimetae]

I definitely talk to myself shit I catch myself tho

 

[Oblivion Access]

Excessively, to where it has gotten me in trouble countless times. Have been that way since I was very young.

 

[WorthlessTrash]

Yes. I call myself a worthless sack of testosterone every day.

 

[Judy Garland]

Yeah

 

[Foresight]

Youtube and out of control imaginative thoughts.

 

[Darkover]

no i think a lot to my self about the same stuff day in day out

 

[FuneralCry]

Not really talk to myself, but rather I think too much. I spend basically most of my life in my own thoughts. I am tired of the same thoughts each day. At least in death I will not have to think or feel. Instead there will be nothing for all eternity. I would rather be alone than be around people personally. I do not really like the sound of voices. I just suffer each day as I feel like I have no choice. Dying is difficult for me personally.

 

[ashfall]

I talk to myself in front of the mirror in the morning sometimes - usually pretty negative stuff ngl but it helps me get the emotions out when I look terrible and all I want to do is crawl back into bed. I talk to my pets out loud a lot as well. Stuff like "you're so cute" and whatever but also "I want to die, you're the only reason I'm not already dead, the world is fucked up etc etc." I'll catch myself having full-on one-sided conversations about how pointless life is with them sometimes. I also stick on music very loud every so often and sing/ shout the lyrics at the top of my voice. I am shockingly bad at singing but sometimes it helps chase the depression away.

If someone stuck a recording device in my house and had to listen to me for a day ngl they'd be traumatised within a few hours

 

[freedompass]

Oh yes I absolutely do, sometimes I'm caught in the act by passers by and have to pretend I was just humming or something lol. People with hands free phones have made it not such an aberrant thing these days. In my house yup I chat away in privacy, also sort of grunting (gross I know) and making odd squawks just to fill the silence. Just realised how insane that sounds but yeah I'm not the strong silent type.

 

[hungry_ghost]

I say my thoughts out loud a lot to myself, as they are difficult to flesh out in the abstraction of my clouded headspace.

 

[outrider567]

Since she died, and I'm alone, been talking to myself for months, and its getting worse

 

[ReadyToLeave]

Yes and I'm my own worse enemy.

 

[Nlis2244]

I always imagine having someone with me and talk with him about whatever I'm doing, especially when playing videogames. But I don't do it out loud.

 

[Hirokami]

Yes, though in various ways. I have a few tulpas that chill with me, especially when I'm feeling my lowest; one is actually very empathetic when it comes to ctb thoughts. Though, when something bothers me, I do rant to myself as if I'm recording a YouTube video.

 

[sadanon3]

yes I repeat "i hate myself" "i want to kill myself" "you're a piece of shit" "fucking kill me" when I'm alone. it's like tourette syndrome. I don't really get caught doing it.

 

[outatime_85]

Yes.

To paraphrase Randy Orton's entrance:
I hear voices in my head

They council me

They understand

They talk to me

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Yeah but I don't say very nice things to him, neither does he to me.

 

[LONE WOLF.]

I used to talk to my dog then after he passed away l noticed the silence and it's horrible, now l keep asking Google to read me stories and poems just to hear another voice!

 

[Doombox]

I listen to youtubers livestream for hours through my headphones sometimes.

 

[Keto]

I talked so much to my self especially in home when I think I'm alone, in bathroom for example.
One time my wife listen to me

Talks like "I'm going to kill myself"
" I have to die"
"Im a failure, a loser"

 

[right:sun]

Yes. In various ways through the day. Recently I have been having long-ass conversations with myself in the mirror. I look at myself deep in the eyes. I converse with darker parts of self. The often repressed. The ignored, the hated. The uncomfortable. I have made a little circle in front of my mirror, where I have decided all feelings and thoughts are OK and are not allowed to be judged. Just exist. And I sit there and I talk. Maybe in the small circle in front of my mirror, I can be my own friend. Maybe. And maybe I can tell myself the things I have always wished to hear from others. And try to be curious and respectful and all the good things. It takes a lot of energy to hate myself, which I have been doing for as long as I can remember. It is difficult but refreshing to try to make new space in myself.

 

[GetMeOut]

Yes, I do talk to myself. There are frequently days when I am the only person to speak to me. To not feel so alone, I watch true crime docs on YouTube, read novels and, most importantly, I drink.

 

[Huntfish34]

Yes,. And fairly often I'd say. Most is of hatred and that I should be dead. That I should just pull the trigger and quit being such a pussy ass bitch.

 

[whatevs]

I think this gets a bad rap and can be enjoyed in moderation. Sometimes I get a little creative and produce an impromptu musical play in my room.

However, 2 years ago a neighbour caught me bitterly laughing to myself and loudly declaring that nothing matters and everything will go to shit very soon in the garden, in front of her house. Fuck that bitch and her sheltered normalcy though.

 

[Ligottian]

Quite often. I also laugh when alone also.

 

[apple2myeye!]

constantly. sometimes, when i'm not paying enough attention, i do it in public spaces, too. i'm pretty sure it's involuntary at this point. i must seem like such a freak.

 

[drakeramoraya158]

Most of the time I talk to myself only because I am a very introverted person.
But there are times when I wish I could express my mental agony to the people I trust. But the problem is that nobody is able to understand my mental problems. I am only left alone and there is no one who will ever understand my suffering.

 

[hopelessdreams]

i sometimes talk to myself and catch myself in the middle of it. to fill the silence i busy myself with podcasts and music