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Finally gone nuts!!

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You may find this strange but recently i've found myself having conversations with myself as if i was a different person. I will sit for ages making up senarios and talking them through. I'm really starting to worry about it.I do it without even realising. Has anyone else done this or something similar to it?
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Somtimes in a panic state, I will talk to myself. I find it calming and comforting.

It's a method of coping.
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I find myself doing this too.
I don't say anything outloud but it feels like im having a converstion with myself inside my head. Ill be like "your hamster is mad because you haven't cleaned his cage, shut up weirdo hansters don't get mad."
and im like holy shit, i think im going insane....

I only do this when im anxious and just not feeling right. I think maybe it has something to do with over thinking.
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I don't know if it is helpful to know but I do the same thing (or something similar?). I'll waste way more time than I should having a one-way conversation (with the answers in my head) in diff. scenarios. Sometimes I'm interviewing somebody, sometimes I am in an interview, sometimes I am teaching a class, etc. I have no idea what inspires me to do this; i think it is just an escape from whatever it is that is bugging me at the time.
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Read "The Power of Now." The same thing happened to this guy and then he had this amazing spiritual awakening. Now he is a writer and spiritual teacher. Just think, "It could happen to you!"
CarlaBentley
CarlaBentley
Hi, libbyscibbs!!!!
LOLOLOLOL!!!! You mean this is ABNORMAL!!!!!!!? Good Lord!!! I've always done this (and I'm 54!!!) I never even thought about it being abnormal!!
Jeez!!!! Talk about a lack of self awareness!!!!
Well, I hardly think that I'm likely to quit doing it this late in the game!!!
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I've been trying to figure out for years if my talking to myself is normal or psychiotic. Its so hard to know what is abnormal when its just what you do. This sounds like me, please update me if you find out its serious not just harmless talking ot ones self. I need to know. ... sorry today is a really wierd day
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