content required

today's top discussions:

This Month’s Leaders:

Most Supportive

Most Loved

Browse through 411.780 posts in 47.073 threads.

161,711 Members

Please welcome our newest members: joenxxx24, Sheldonbergers, amirademona, ljdvillanueva, Levijaw

anyone talk to themselves out loud?


21 years ago 0 4 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
I mean...if I needed someone to yell at me, console me, smack me or lift me up...I do it myself. I am my authority figure, mate and friend...just clearing up what I said before.
21 years ago 0 4 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
No. I mean...I talk to myself probably constantly but never to help me. I've never targeted my own conversations objectively...never thought to do it. You're onto something. I haven't during casual talk but I have once in awhile purposely posed questions to myself to help myself because I had to because there was noone else around to talk to.
21 years ago 0 8 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
I've found a simple technique to combat withdrawal has been to talk to myself out loud while alone. I engage myself in conversation as I mull something over. I've worked out a few personal problems like this with some success. We depressed folks are often slaves to our inner-monologue voice, but I've found that forcing the same thoughts out loud turns down the volume on emotional triggers, allows me to be more objective, and helps keep me engaged with a task.

Reading this thread: