Do you talk to yourself?

Chris P. Bacon

Well not full-blown conversations with yourself,but like when on your own around the house,just simple little things like 'hmmm what will i have for dinner' and such,or is it just me?

Chris P. Bacon

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

Well not full-blown conversations with yourself,but like when on your own around the house,just simple little things like 'hmmm what will i have for dinner' and such,or is it just me?

Yeah it's just you,lol weirdooooooo

Latchy

You're never alone with a schizophrenic are we ?

Sykk

I'd say random words alright like "feck". Angrily.. Like that time I stood on the upturned plug. I'd say anyone that heard me thought I was inflicting domestic abuse on someone in my household :eek:

Caoimhín

All the time. I talk to the dog too.

thebigbiffo

yup - i do anyway. just murmuring about stuff i've got to do/should be doing or exclaimations...

think it's a habit i picked up off my mother , the crazy f'uckin bitch :mad:

Cavehill Red

Latchy wrote: »

You're never alone with a schizophrenic are we ?

The very words 'awareness campaign' usually bring me out in a nasty fit of apoplexy, but we really do need to finally put to bed the idea that schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are remotely the same thing.

michelledoh

Caoimhín wrote: »

All the time. I talk to the dog too.

Sure dogs are great listeners... never complain!

I just started working in an office and everyone talks to themselves.... At first i kept answering and then i realised i wasn't included in the conversation!

strokemyclover

OP is Shirley Valentine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqUI_rL2XSo

bonzodog2

I'd only start worrying OP, if you get a 2nd mobile and ring yourself up for a chat, or if you start arguing with yourself.

stovelid

All the time.

kfallon

I play with myself!

fakearms123

Definitely...definitely don't talk to myself definitely definitely

Guill

Seemingly so!

GF caught me at it the other day.

Funny thing is when she said i was talking to myself i realised i was! But i had no idea what i was talking about!

Latchy

Cavehill Red wrote: »

The very words 'awareness campaign' usually bring me out in a nasty fit of apoplexy, but we really do need to finally put to bed the idea that schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are remotely the same thing.

We really do ....

Back on topic , I talk and mutter to myself when I'm thinking aloud but I'm aware of it as most people would be and when I've a few drinks in me I'll talk to anybody

xoxyx

I do it all the time! I live on my own, and when I'm home I chat away. Nothing particular - just things such as "I must do this". "Ahhhh - I suppose that would make sense".

The worst is when you accidentally ring somebody and go through to their voicemail without realising it. I've done it once or twice and left long messages which consist purely of me talking away - and sometimes singing!

No wonder people think I'm odd!!

Alter-Ego

All the time. Used to talk to the cat but I nipped that in the bud when I asked her "what do you think?" about something one day. Bat sh1t crazy, me.

Guill

Cavehill Red wrote: »

we really do need to finally put to bed the idea that schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are remotely the same thing.

Do we now?
What's this we business?

Sephiroth_dude

Yup I do it all the time,I'm not crazy I swear.....

kfallon

Everybody does it at some stage, if even the odd "Fook sake!" when you remember you have to do a chore etc

Bykobap

Its when you start answering yourself, then you should worry about it.

Jaxxy

I talk to myself all the time. When I lived alone I'd chatter away to inanimate objects.

Cavehill Red

Guill wrote: »

Do we now?
What's this we business?

First person plural. In this case, designating we as a society, or to be more specific, those among us who insist on confusing the utterly different psychiatric conditions of schizophrenia and MPD.
It does sufferers of either no good to continue to perpetrate these outdated, inaccurate and offensive stereotypes.
I find it strange how society can be so hypersensitive on the one hand on behalf of communities such as ethnic or sexual minorities, who are perfectly able to be vocal and defend their own interests, while on the other hand tolerating and perpetuating offense and misunderstanding of people who are seriously ill.

ISDW

If nobody had answered this thread - then I'd say you'd need to be worried

Chris P. Bacon

ISDW wrote: »

If nobody had answered this thread - then I'd say you'd need to be worried

Seems you didn't get my joke with the second post

IamtheWalrus

When I was younger I used to hear my brother who was in bed, having full blown, highly audible conversations with himself.

sensibleken

talking to myself is the only way i can have an inteligent conversation

xoxyx

sensibleken wrote: »

talking to myself is the only way i can have an inteligent conversation

It's the only way I can get someone with sense to listen to me.

Cathaoirleach

I talk to myself in English and Spanish.

I say 'Jaysus' and 'Feck' a lot if I'm on my own, expressing both joy and anger. But I'll say 'Joder' or 'De Puta' if I'm in the kitchen burning myself or dropping things, even if there are no Spaniards in the flat. It's just automatic now after 3 years of Spain.

I talk to myself in Irish (in my head) if I'm reading something in Irish or listening to RnaG, but often English and Spanish conversations will popup in my head, trying to translate words.

My dreams are mostly in Spanish, and I get stressed not being able to understand certain words or phrases, even though I'm as good as fluent. I get the same for Irish - a feeling of not being able to communicate with people.

It's really interesting how the brain handles multiple languages. I'm glad to have that experience.

Aoifey!

Constantly. I always do it around my boyfriend and he can't work out if I'm talking to him or just muttering away to myself.

df1985

All the time, i dance around the house if ive music on. i have to stop myself from singing along to my ipod in the gym.....the odd "ooooohhhh" or "yeaaaaaahhhh" slips out.

People think im nuts...

yeppydeppy

Yep, I talk to myself and inanimate objects and the dog was forever being talked to when he was around.

Lone Stone

all the time, also i give out to people who arent there but that i have met in real life :eek: this is mostly down to spending stupid amounts of time drawing in a room on my own from 10am to 5am with no outside contact, i dont even know if boards.ie is real or in my imagination

Guill

Cavehill Red wrote: »

First person plural. In this case, designating we as a society, or to be more specific, those among us who insist on confusing the utterly different psychiatric conditions of schizophrenia and MPD.
It does sufferers of either no good to continue to perpetrate these outdated, inaccurate and offensive stereotypes.
I find it strange how society can be so hypersensitive on the one hand on behalf of communities such as ethnic or sexual minorities, who are perfectly able to be vocal and defend their own interests, while on the other hand tolerating and perpetuating offense and misunderstanding of people who are seriously ill.

We are sorry.

hardCopy

I don't talk to mysefl, that's weird.

I do frequently break the fouth wall though.

Latchy

Cavehill Red wrote: »

First person plural. In this case, designating we as a society, or to be more specific, those among us who insist on confusing the utterly different psychiatric conditions of schizophrenia and MPD.
It does sufferers of either no good to continue to perpetrate these outdated, inaccurate and offensive stereotypes.
I find it strange how society can be so hypersensitive on the one hand on behalf of communities such as ethnic or sexual minorities, who are perfectly able to be vocal and defend their own interests, while on the other hand tolerating and perpetuating offense and misunderstanding of people who are seriously ill.

Might be more of a discussion for Psychology or Long Term Illness thread .OP was being humorous on the subject of talking to oneself , not as a put down or serious comment on somebody suffering from Schizophrenia / MPD

donalg1

i never stop talking to myself, so much so that i dont feel like to talking to other real people then (not saying im not real of course)

sensibleken

I even troll myself sometimes

sensibleken

sensibleken wrote: »

I even troll myself sometimes

tosser!

Alwayson

I sing to myself when I'm out and about. They're my own songs so nobody else is going to sing them. People often overhear me and I get some funny looks but some people comment on it and it gets a conversation going.

Latchy

I have a sock puppet which never stops talking and she try's to convince me that it's me throwing my voice but I'm not buying it .

Some of those female sock puppets are just like the real thing .....they never Shurrup :eek:

Ruu_Old

I sometimes think of evil plans and laugh maniacally when no one is around. *looks over shoulder*

Johnny Bitte

I could have a full blown dialog going on whether or not to go to cinema and what film to watch. Could be 3 or 4 in there.

Can be fun, until a decision actually has to be made!

Cavehill Red

Latchy wrote: »

Might be more of a discussion for Psychology or Long Term Illness thread .OP was being humorous on the subject of talking to oneself , not as a put down or serious comment on somebody suffering from Schizophrenia / MPD

I wasn't addressing the OP with my comment, but the lad who cracked a poor taste 'joke' about schizophrenia.
I appreciate the tone of the thread is lighthearted, but you wouldn't tolerate someone coming along spouting about 'n!ggers' in it, so I don't see why offensive and inaccurate comments about the mentally ill, even if meant in jest, should be tolerated either.

--LOS--

ye the odd bit, it's when you get used to being alone that it creeps in and you catch yourself saying things out loud in the presence of others, gotta watch that

Chris P. Bacon

I'm the worst for it when driving,im either giving out or laughing at how bad people drive.If anybody looks at me I just pretend im talking on a hands free phone.

Latchy

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I wasn't addressing the OP with my comment, but the lad who cracked a poor taste 'joke' about schizophrenia.
I appreciate the tone of the thread is lighthearted, but you wouldn't tolerate someone coming along spouting about 'n!ggers' in it, so I don't see why offensive and inaccurate comments about the mentally ill, even if meant in jest, should be tolerated either.

You have to remember that the term '' you're never alone with a schizophrenic '' has being used long before schizophrenia / MPD was more understood now as it is and was a quote used many times including if I remember ,in a movie back in the 70s .But not as mentioned , a put down or serious comment of somebody suffering from such .

As for the term '****' that has also being used many ,many times in both a humorous way and serious way in movies , music and sometimes by black actors and comedians themselves , which doesn't make it right or wrong , it's just part of a culture out there which is not exceptable to many parts of society ,including internet forums .

Bigtoe107

Yeah i talk to myself to organize what i'm doing or should be doing bit weird really

Cavehill Red

Latchy wrote: »

You have to remember that the term '' you're never alone with a schizophrenic '' has being used long before schizophrenia / MPD was more understood now as it is and was a quote used many times including if I remember ,in a movie back in the 70s .But not as mentioned , a put down or serious comment of somebody suffering from such .

As for the term '****' that has also being used many ,many times in both a humorous way and serious way in movies , music and sometimes by black actors and comedians themselves , which doesn't make it right or wrong , it's just part of a culture out there which is not exceptable to many parts of society ,including internet forums .

I think what YOU have to remember is past usage is not a reasonable excuse for current usage, especially when what you're doing is mocking the mentally unwell with such jibes.
There is a lot of controversy even within the black community about using the n-word, even in ill-founded attempts to rehabilitate it or reduce its potency. It remains widely vilified as the abuse term it is.
Similarly, sufferers from schizophrenia in particular loathe their marginalisation from society which is largely built on inaccurate prejudices that they are psychotic, dangerous to others and suffer from multiple and warring personalities.
Actual MPD is incredibly rare, while schizophrenia is actually more common than you might think. Sufferers from schizophrenia are generally not psychotic, a danger only to themselves (via suicide), and do not have multiple personalities.
To depict them as otherwise is a cruel maligning of a cohort of people who are suffering from an illness.

Latchy

Cavehil Red , I dont think anybody is disputing your facts and observations on the subject and I'm not back seat modding here , but it might be best to take it to more suitable thread .

Cavehill Red

Latchy wrote: »

Cavehil Red , I dont think anybody is disputing your facts and observations on the subject and I'm not back seat modding here , but it might be best to take it to more suitable thread .

As I wrote earlier, it wouldn't matter what thread someone cracked a joke about 'n!ggers' in, it wouldn't be tolerated.
Nor should this be tolerated here.