Yes. I just tell them that it improves the thinking process.

Or say it is extemperanious poetry and you are thinking of going on the road.

I talk to myself, all the time. I don't think that's a bad thing to do.
It's when you start LISTENING to the voices... you have a problem!

THEY SAY TALKING TO YOURSELF OUT LOUD IS A SIGN OF LOW INTELLIGENCE. I'M ONE DUMB SUKA

I talk to myself all the time out loud. It's getting worse too, I think it's tied to my lows. Anyway, my husband finds it funny, he always sees me mumbling to myself in the shower, etc.

My mother does it too. She refuses to see a doc, but she's probably a beeper too. Our minds move so fast, sometimes the words just tumble out, even when no one is listening.

I talk to myself at the store. Of course, when I realize I have done it, I look around to see if anyone is present. I don't do it really loud, but I am still very sensitive about it. I don't know where it comes from either. It just happens. It's like my thoughts find my mouth and want to exit.

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's creepy because I don't really know what I'm even saying.

I find that because we're BP... we have a sense to blame everything ON Bp!
So... you talk out loud? NORMAL people do that! Don't blame it on BP, if it's just a gut reaction! You have to separate black from white!

It's so fun to blame things on BP. At least the little things, like excessively talking to ourselves.

I agree tigar! We got to cut some slack here!
Hugs!

Hey Pocket head! I didn't blame it on BP. I asked to see if others have this issue and then I'll determine if it's a BP trait or not. Thank You

there was a lady with terrets I guess at the store today doing that but very loud, I couldnt believe people had the nerve to stare and talk about her like it was funny

I even say excuse me when I burp and no one is around, just habit I guess but I guess that is talking to myself

I was only commenting on the fact that people are so anxious to blame BP for some simple charactersitic! So, you talk to yourself? BIG DEAL! NORMAL people do it!
It's not something that you should blame on BP.
DON'T call me pockethead, by the way.

It is very likely pockets that BP's may do this more because of the head racing issue that alot of us have. Just asking not blameing. Slow down.

Snicker!!! Yeah! I do it!!! Not too much in public. I've got a pretty good case of all the various kinds of anxiety and that usually shuts me up.
But at home, where I'm much more relaxed, I do it a lot!!! I 'heckle' the TV. When I hear something on there that I don't like, I make sneering remarks. And I happily comment on whatever I'm doing, at any given moment!!
The one thing I do that I wish I didn't is, when I think about something that happened in the past that I'm still mortified about, I tend to involuntarily let out an alarmed 'NO' and kind of shake my head, when I do it!!! LOLOLOL!!!!!