Whats NOS?

Not Otherwise Specified?

Are you in control of the conversation? I have conversations with myself but I'm only in control of half of it. I first realized something was wrong on a still winter night. I asked my wife what she heard and she said she heard nothing. I've always heard static, what sounds like a TV on in another room.

Isn't part of the difference dependent on whether or not someone else is talking?
I have tons of conversations in my head, but it's not anybody else's voice coming in to play.

I also have converstations with myself that im in control of but NOTHING like last night. Last night was just scary and weird and creepy with the voices i heard. I know it was not me.

Maybe just my experience. I always have the commitee in my head especially when not medicated. But if I'm up for days no or very little sleep I halucinate. My mind plays tricks other than the commitee. i see and hear things outside of myself. Acid trip can do the same.

If the voice is yours talking it is probably just head chatter.Usually if you hear things they are either like someone talking to you or mumbled voices you can't quite make out or at least it is for me.I have also seen things ,smell things and feel things.

Lack of sleep from mania can cause symptoms such as aural hallucinations. That means your inner thoughts Sound like they are coming from outside, as not thoughts but "voices." I have had this & it's scary but it's really treatable. Meds that make you sleep, like seroquel, will conquer this symptom. Don't be scared. A good pdoc can help.

I have had all sorts of hallucinations! Visual, aural, imaginary? I think sometimes it counts as non-normal when your Head Chatter gets to be exceptionally loud and you cannot think. They count those among Racing Thoughts, and they are a manic symptom. Sometimes it's music, songs playing on one or two stations, sometimes it's even a foreign language. I don't know, sometimes it's inside my head, sometimes it's outside my head, once it was just one Sentence and it was enough to scare the crap out of me for literally two months. Sometimes I hear whispering noises in the corner.

A good antipsychotic keeps all this under control! Seroquel is an excellent one!

And I talk to myself all the time, I consider this to be normal behavior, but I'm a writer so maybe it is?

I tend to get constant head-coversations that are like different parts of me talking to myself.

Auditory hallucinations are when I hear what seem to be other people's voices - male, female - making comments and they almost sound like they're external to me, yet inside my head as well.

I have schizoaffective disorder (psychotic symptoms and BP symptoms simultaneously).

Halter..lots of head chatter, distracting me constantly, keeping me from sleep, etc. But I never thought it was "outside" myself. Still unclear on this.

Ooops forgot..NOS is not otherwise specified. Not type I or II.
Guess you were right, (Lou, I think) my last dx was BP II, mixed episodes. And supposedly they can't go together. Any mixed episode is manic (type I) not hypomanic (type II).
Guess that's why new pdoc said NOS.
I can't even be crazy the normal way :-)

"Build it; and they will come."

Knowing, when you're having a conversation inside your head, that the voices are INSIDE your head is very different than auditory voices that a person hears as though the voices were coming from outside. Just as if another person were talking to them.
Hallucinations is simply seeing things that aren't there. As though those things are actually there. Simple as that.

I hate pdocs new terminology..I didn`t have a nervous breakdown..There is no such place as insanity..ya-de-ya-de-ya...I got constant chatter in ma head-i dont get diff voices-but sometimes answer something that has not occured to me on a conciouss level,one thread never gets to the end, coz another and another has started..I normally find out after something hasn`t happened! No mistaking that head shudder...hallucinations are there before, not like something destorting or changing into..if that makes sense? I talk to my animals alot, give em updates etc..safety valve..I still dont know...