do you talk to yourself??

[Vincent]

I've found its really good, cos when I talk to myself, then I don't say negative stuff, instead distracting myself by talking shit, making observations or talking about recent or future events.

Its better when by myself, but I have done it more in public recently, as like a desensitisation technique. Not when people are too close though.

Sometimes I like to contort my face in public, make grimaces and so on. It must look damn weird, but it makes it easy to alter my face subtly at other times.

Comments??

 

[beautiful]

I talk to myself after Ive had an argument with someone, Ive been doing this since I was little, as though someone is there with me to listen to my concerns as Im not able to tell someone in real life.

I also talk to myself a lot in my head especially in public & often get paranoid that ppl can hear my thoughts!

 

[jamez]

Yes, quite a bit to myself.

I am also usually talking to myself in my head, have a problem with being in the present. I'm working on it, I'm not sure how to fix it though.

 

[jessnz]

A little...not very much out loud but do I play out long conversations with myself in my head...because that is the only place where I can talk and talk without sounding stupid or messing my words up

 

[Septor]

I talk to me self or more like thinking out loud.I do it sometimes when im out walking and if someone walk by they give me odd look.lol

 

[PhantomPod]

Yes, all the fuckin' time! lmao.

I do the face making thing too. Like say I'll walk by someone I kind of know... they'll say "what's up?" and I'll give a weak "hey" as we walk past each other, then once I'm past I'll make a face to myself like "God, what an idiot, I probably looked dumb, sounded weak," etc to myself, as other people walking past probably see my weird face as I internally talk to myself.

 

[nexus]

I talk to myself alot when not in public (which I don't think it's an actual problem).
The real problem is that I always appear agry to ppl (fury grimace!). I guess it's because I feel threatened when being surrounded by ppl. Even when I'm happy... (could u imagine how difficult it would be to meet ppl, make friends, date etc?) They all think I'm agry at them...

 

[crazyfairyx]

I also talk to myself a lot in my head especially in public & often get paranoid that ppl can hear my thoughts!

A little...not very much out loud but do I play out long conversations with myself in my head...because that is the only place where I can talk and talk without sounding stupid or messing my words up

I'm the same hehe I often have 'conversations' with myself in my mind, and kind of make sense of life internally, it helps me to stay in control of my emotions, but it often leads to analysing everything in very minute detail, which doesn't help me at all lol.

 

[Gloomy]

I talk out loud to myself for motivation or when im trying to remember something.

I have conversations in my head all the time. I imagine I'm explaining things to some imaginary audience. I will also have imaginary conversations that I want to have in real life, but my sa prevents me. I will also rehearse things in my head, though things never go as I had rehearsed.

 

[allanboy]

Vote talk, but in private
Cant go through a day without saying something to myself. So fun, such a habit

Actually, i sometimes say stuff to me in public, but that doesnt happens all that much.

 

[black_mamba]

Its better when by myself, but I have done it more in public recently, as like a desensitisation technique. Not when people are too close though.

Sometimes I like to contort my face in public, make grimaces and so on. It must look damn weird, but it makes it easy to alter my face subtly at other times.

Comments??

This is great, it made me laugh. Whereas you did it as a social exercise, I do the same all the time out of habit. Sometimes I'm pulling a face or chatting away then suddenly realise where I am, sometimes I even physically shake it off by shaking my head (like a dog shakes off water from its body) as if to say, woah I've snapped out of it now.

My comments are usually negative though...

'What the hell...' when I see a social situation I don't understand.

'Hmm, why isn't this working....*mumble* maybe if I change this to this....stupid computer.' when I'm working on a PC at university.

'Ok, so why shoud we hire you?' I ask myself a week before a job interview.

But it isn't weird and shouldn't be regarded as abnormal. I read somewhere (probably new scientist type publication) that talking to yourself is perfectly normal and healthy.

I'm going down another route now, which is using facial expressions to communicate rather than talking. e.g. I was watching a presentation recently conducted by a prestiguous retired professor. Constantly people were coming in late and totally disrupting the presentation. I would mutter insults to myself quietly. But when someone opened up his laptop mid-lecture and started tapping away behind the screen, I pretended to slap my forehead in a very exageratted manner, as if to say 'you IDIOT'. I think I feel more comfortable expressing myself through facial contortions to strangers rather than actual speech. :wink:

 

[Remus]

no I dont

 

[Remus]

yes you do

 

[SongOfSongs]

Constantly. At any time or about anything, as long as I'm not in public.

 

[Forsaken]

I do, but usually not out loud. More often than not, it's negative stuff. :?

 

[loucat]

i talk to myself quite a lot have done it for years, those who know me laugh it off, i think it's quite normal

 

[IceLad]

I talk to myself a lot on my own, but only out a loud, in public, when I'm really stressed.

 

[Quixote]

I talk out loud to myself for motivation or when im trying to remember something.

I have conversations in my head all the time. I imagine I'm explaining things to some imaginary audience. I will also have imaginary conversations that I want to have in real life, but my sa prevents me. I will also rehearse things in my head, though things never go as I had rehearsed.

I do the same. I carry on some very long imaginary coversations, usually getting their start from some real conversation that I had in the past, often even years before! The actual conversation maybe lasted one minute, but in my head it becomes a collection of important speeches, lasting quarters of an hour or so. I proceed to falsify the other person's thesis, explain my own throughly, cover all possible objections, bring evidence to my case, and sometimes even close with humorous remarks. It is very odd.

I also have this habit of sitting somewhere not moving at all and doing apparently nothing, staring at the wall, while I work out some problem or follow a line of thought in my head. I try not to do it in public but when it happens it's a little embarassing.

 

[Reholla]

I have a question maybe some one can answer!!:

I am kind of, pretty much, not quite recovered. lol but I definitely still have a ways to go. I still have my good days and bad days.
But I know anxiety runs in families. And im pretty sure my sister has it. Shes older than me. And we dont have a close relationship at all. Probably from her anxiety. She pretty much has always pushed away ppl she loves including me and our parents. For me it was the opposite, cause i needed my parents. They were the only ones i felt comfortable with. ANYWAYS

the reason why im writing this in the "talking out loud" forum and not in any other forum, is b/c shes always talking out loud. And when I 'catch' her or ask were you singing or something, she gets mad. Which if she does have SA i know why.

But just cause you talk to yourself doesnt mean you necessarily have anxiety....

I dunno, i dont even know if she knows theres such a thing as an anxiety disorder. I only know from my psych class. And shes never taken psychology or anything like that. We're not close enough to talk about stuff like that...she repeatedly reminds me that we're not close like that. So i dont know how to go about it. Does any one think she might have AD or something else?

 

[nerdgirl178]

Omigod I am probably the wierdest one here!! I have like long conversations with myself! I laugh and my parents think I am a wacko