MyTherapy Discussion Forums - Hello a question about a "running comentary" voice

Š1995-2016 Phillip W. Long, M.D.

Schizophrenia Community

Nickname:	Password:
Save Password

All Forums

Schizophrenia: Specific Topics

Diagnosis

Hello a question about a "running comentary" voice

New Topic

Reply to Topic

Printer Friendly

Author

Topic

Page: of 9

Anthony
Starting Member

2 Posts
Gratitude: 1

Posted - 05/30/2006 : 06:33:00

I've read some of the diagnosis for scizophrenia and I have a question if some can answer.

What is this "running comentary voice". I not sure if that is what I experience or not. I'm wondering if some can help explain this to me.

I do not here this voice from the outside (although I occasionally do here wierd voices from outside), but it seems like my voice or what could be my voice... documenting/explaining/commenting/rationalizing on every single thing I do all the time... the only way to get it out of my mind is to sing a song or something and that is only temperary. Is this what the "running comentary" means in the schizophrenia diagnosis or no?

Occasionally I also here the same voice or is it two really ( I don't really know) arguing in my head. So I have a discussion in my head or well sort of anyhow. There is a discussion going on in my head. A question and answer or sometimes an arguement.

I'd be glad to here what people think or know about this!

Thanks

fleurette
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)

3282 Posts
Gratitude: 292
Very honest

Posted - 06/05/2006 : 14:22:26

yes, anthony, i think that is what they r. i had them too, when i was psychotic in 1996 and 1997. the voice kept commenting on what i was doing. like "look at her, she's folding her clothes now. she's making the bed" etc.

my running commentary stopped once a started treatment on anti-psychotics, and have never returned since 1997.

thanks to God and the medications.

did u tell ur psychiatrist about them? perhaps they could be controlled for u too, anthony.

keep us posted

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."
Mary Wilson Little

Pat1967
Super Member (250+ posts)

533 Posts
Gratitude: 111

Posted - 06/06/2006 : 13:23:15

I used to have a running comentary going on in my head, My mind sometimes now will start to do it and it's very upsetting especially when I think my mind can be read. It often makes comments on its own that don't seem to be mine or appropriate at ALL !!! I have been having this recently at a coffee shop I visit frequently w/ my girlfriend, I guess I'll have to try another shop.

Chunkybeefsoup
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)

2353 Posts
Gratitude: 412
Very caring Very wise

Posted - 06/06/2006 : 15:30:38

Anthony, I really believe that you should see a psychiatrist. Although I've never heard "voices" before, you sound like you do hear them. I've seen things that shouldn't and couldn't possibly have happened. I've seen my pharmacist go from one end of the pharmacy and then suddenly appear somewhere else far away. I know that it was a visual hallucination because she couldn't possibly have gone to the other end without going through the little gate and I was standing right in front of the gate. I looked up - she was standing in the back and then looked down for a couple of seconds and she was far behind me in the front of the pharmacy entrance. I tell ya, it freaked the s*** out of me. I also saw my dad go from one end of the street to a house that was quite far away all within seconds. Now, I'm not trying to say that you'll experience this, only that people with schizophrenia have both similar and disimilar experiences. However, that being said, I think that if you hear "voices" or see "things", that automatically is schizophrenia. One thing about schizophrenia is that if you don't treat it as soon as possible, more symptoms can appear. Please see a psychiatrist right away! Talk to you soon, Cindy

Anthony
Starting Member

2 Posts
Gratitude: 1

Posted - 07/01/2006 : 20:29:58

Thanks all for the replies. I'm sorry it took so long to respond back. I've been pretty busy lately.

quote:
yes, anthony, i think that is what they r. i had them too, when i was psychotic in 1996 and 1997. the voice kept commenting on what i was doing. like "look at her, she's folding her clothes now. she's making the bed" etc.

Intersting. I experience similiar things most of the time, but they have been around for quite some time. I would say more than a decade or so now.

quote:
One thing about schizophrenia is that if you don't treat it as soon as possible, more symptoms can appear. Please see a psychiatrist right away! Talk to you soon, Cindy

I was diagnosed with Schizotypal Personality Disorder back in 1992. The doctor then told me that I would probably be a schizophrenic by the time I'm 30. Well I've reached that point and a few more years besides. I think there may be more to this than just one or the other. People also think that I have Borderline Personality Disorder. In any case the process will hopefully start again (diagnostic that is) starting next week. He is a psychologist (PhD), but was highly refered to me as an expert in diagnosis. Hopefully with his help and a referal to a psychiatrist in my area I will begin to solve some of these problems. Direct calls to some psychiatrists at ramdom seemed kinda weird. It was like some made it seem like they could treat anything and others wanted nothing to do with a potential schizophrenic or Borderline or both.

Loved ones and my bad habits that I can see (like alcohol) have finally pushed me to the point that I know I need to do something. I've grown increasingly paranoid and isolated as well.

Thanks for your input on the voice thing and I welcome any other advice you may have even if I am slow to reply sometimes.

Anthony

jo73
Amazing Member (1000+ posts)

1407 Posts
Gratitude: 157

Posted - 05/28/2008 : 18:24:15

hi i have the same thing two voices in me head or somestimes just me arguing with myself , one tells me to do something and the other tells me not to or its like im trying to talk myself out of doing something, i also get paranoid that people know what im thinking and i find myself watching wot my friends r doing and saying in case they r talking about me , i feel like im going mad as its a constant think , some times i can distract myself my playing a game on the comp but sometimes it doesnt work and the voices r still there its like when its nite time like now its 2am here i have one part of me saying i should go to sleep and the other telling me not to because when i do i have nightmares about my recently passed away husband ( who died last feb)i have nightmares about him strangling me. i dont know anything about scizophrenia so i dont really know if thats wots wrong with me . so just wanted to let u know that i hear voices as wwell so i can understand and symperfise with u ( sorry about spelling had a drink)thanx jo gl