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Posted by kellyR. on August 17, 2000, at 19:30:35
When i was a teen i started to hear voices that would tell me to do bad things & kill myself,I was in the hospital for 6mos. they said i had schizoaffective disorder, The voices really never stopped they became like being in a crowed of people talking,couldn't really understand what they were saying.Now I'm starting to hear one voice sometimes calling my name,This causes problems at work when i think someone is calling me & my co-workers tell me nobody was calling for me. I'm a nurses aide & we have to responed if someone is calling you for help,But if it's just me hearing things It makes it hard to know if it's really someone calling me.I saw my Dr. today & he ask me if i wanted to go on meds to stop the voices,I told him that i was scared to take meds for that again.Saw he said when i see him again in sept. & it's not any better well start meds to stop the voices. He did say that i could call him if it's to mush for me to handle,but as i posted before i have a problem making phone calls(he knows),So I was hoping for some help if it's not a bother to anyone.thanks
Posted by Cindy W on August 17, 2000, at 21:41:33
In reply to hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by kellyR. on August 17, 2000, at 19:30:35
> When i was a teen i started to hear voices that would tell me to do bad things & kill myself,I was in the hospital for 6mos. they said i had schizoaffective disorder, The voices really never stopped they became like being in a crowed of people talking,couldn't really understand what they were saying.Now I'm starting to hear one voice sometimes calling my name,This causes problems at work when i think someone is calling me & my co-workers tell me nobody was calling for me. I'm a nurses aide & we have to responed if someone is calling you for help,But if it's just me hearing things It makes it hard to know if it's really someone calling me.I saw my Dr. today & he ask me if i wanted to go on meds to stop the voices,I told him that i was scared to take meds for that again.Saw he said when i see him again in sept. & it's not any better well start meds to stop the voices. He did say that i could call him if it's to mush for me to handle,but as i posted before i have a problem making phone calls(he knows),So I was hoping for some help if it's not a bother to anyone.thanks
Kelly, they have much better meds for voices now than when you were younger (stop the voices without side effects). In the meantime, hope you tell somebody you trust if they get worse. also, I've heard that humming will stop them (you can listen to your humming, and not the voices).
Posted by stjames on August 17, 2000, at 23:52:28
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by Cindy W on August 17, 2000, at 21:41:33
It must be hard to have all of this going on inside your head. I am really sory you have to bear this. You need to be willing to try some of the newer meds, remember you can always stop taking them if you do not like them.
james
Posted by Noa on August 18, 2000, at 6:48:07
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by stjames on August 17, 2000, at 23:52:28
kelly, feel free to email me if you want.
Are you seeing your doc for therapy, too? How often? It seems like more frequent support would help.
I agree with Cindy that the meds have improved, so it might be worth a try. There are probably folks on PB that are taking them and can tell you more.
Posted by kellyR. on August 21, 2000, at 5:36:20
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by Noa on August 18, 2000, at 6:48:07
> kelly, feel free to email me if you want.
>
> Are you seeing your doc for therapy, too? How often? It seems like more frequent support would help.
>
> I agree with Cindy that the meds have improved, so it might be worth a try. There are probably folks on PB that are taking them and can tell you more.I'll try the humming to see if that works,but i might drive everyone around me crazy. My husband got upset when i told him what was going on,all he said was that he can't handle this,or anymore hospitals.So now i know that the only way out of this is suicide,I have no other way of dealing w/ this.I'm not going to do anything know it's just thinking.
Noa,I'll e-mail you after i get home from work today.
Posted by noa on August 23, 2000, at 12:36:21
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by kellyR. on August 21, 2000, at 5:36:20
Kelly, you need support. Your husband's comments were probably an expression of frustration. If you feel so frustrated that you are considering suicide, I hope you will get the help you need. Call your doc, talk to him. It is important for you to stay safe. You are a special person. To me, to others here, to your husband, to your kids, to the frail elders whom you take care of so gently and lovingly at a time of their life when they need so much. How many people do we know who have that special touch, who can give this kind of special TLC? I don't know too many. Just you. I want you around. Please Please, get help.
Posted by Cindy W on August 23, 2000, at 23:16:57
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by noa on August 23, 2000, at 12:36:21
> Kelly, you need support. Your husband's comments were probably an expression of frustration. If you feel so frustrated that you are considering suicide, I hope you will get the help you need. Call your doc, talk to him. It is important for you to stay safe. You are a special person. To me, to others here, to your husband, to your kids, to the frail elders whom you take care of so gently and lovingly at a time of their life when they need so much. How many people do we know who have that special touch, who can give this kind of special TLC? I don't know too many. Just you. I want you around. Please Please, get help.
Kelly, I agree with Noa...you're a really good person. Please get some help from somebody. Don't forget that you are really cared about by people on this site. There are several new meds that can make the voices go away which just don't have the terrible side effects the old meds did. Getting some therapeutic support, somebody to talk to, would undoubtedly help you too right now, and you don't have to be hospitalized for therapy or meds as long as you agree not to harm yourself. Please remember you are special and cared about.--Cindy W
Posted by kellyR. on August 26, 2000, at 0:17:47
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by Cindy W on August 23, 2000, at 23:16:57
> > Kelly, you need support. Your husband's comments were probably an expression of frustration. If you feel so frustrated that you are considering suicide, I hope you will get the help you need. Call your doc, talk to him. It is important for you to stay safe. You are a special person. To me, to others here, to your husband, to your kids, to the frail elders whom you take care of so gently and lovingly at a time of their life when they need so much. How many people do we know who have that special touch, who can give this kind of special TLC? I don't know too many. Just you. I want you around. Please Please, get help.
>
> Kelly, I agree with Noa...you're a really good person. Please get some help from somebody. Don't forget that you are really cared about by people on this site. There are several new meds that can make the voices go away which just don't have the terrible side effects the old meds did. Getting some therapeutic support, somebody to talk to, would undoubtedly help you too right now, and you don't have to be hospitalized for therapy or meds as long as you agree not to harm yourself. Please remember you are special and cared about.--Cindy WThnak you for thoses kind words,I don't see any point in going on anymore, my work has gone down hill(co-workers have pointed it out more then once). I can't see myself getting better anymore,I know that it's just a passing thing but i hate rollercoster rides & that's how thing have been up & down w/ loop to loops.
My co-worker was talking about her friend that hung herself,she was going on & on that females don't do things like that to kill themself that they take pills or cut,she said that she was so happy & had everything going for her that this had to be murder,as i was lesson to this i had to bit my lip from saying that i was thinking of hanging myself in the garage the last couple of days.I told my Dr. about this & he was telling me that it doesn't always work, I think he was just scaring me away from doing it,well it work for now.
Posted by BrianD on August 27, 2000, at 3:44:20
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by kellyR. on August 26, 2000, at 0:17:47
Hey Kelly,
I have a sister named Kelly... a sweet kid but sometimes I think she suffers from PMS - PERMANENT Menstrual Syndrome!!!
I too have been pondering the suicide route, but one thing confuses me... when I am having days that are more up than down, I feel like everything is going to be OK, and the thought of suicide seems silly to me. But then again, when I am down, the thoughts reoccur.
I don't know what to think or believe anymore, it seems that someone else is pulling my strings and I hate that feeling of not being in control. Sometimes I say to myself that if I do commit suicide I'm just letting the bastards win... because that's what they want. Other times I'm so overwhelmed that I don't care if they win... then I'm back to ok again and suicide is the farthest thing from my mind. So I have to continually ask myself - Where does reality lie? Do I actually want to do myself in, as I feel like doing when I hit bottom; or do I want to live, which there isn't a question about when I'm not on the bottom? Which scenario is the truth, where the hell does reality lie?????
To say I am confused is to state it mildly, (damn I wish everything was black and white instead of this numbing shade of grey) to say that I don't want to let the bastards (whoever they are) win is mild as well. I know one thing, that however out of control I feel, I know that I have control over whether or not the bastards win... and I am not going to give them the goddamn satisfaction!!!!
Stick arround, don't let the bastards win. I'd like to chat with you some more.
Brian
Posted by Jade on August 27, 2000, at 12:50:01
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by kellyR. on August 26, 2000, at 0:17:47
>I can't see myself getting better anymore,I know that it's just a passing thing
Kelly,
It is so sad for me to see you wanting to give up. My son has heard many voices since he was 18 and they have never gone away. He managed to make it through highschool but has not been able to continue school or work since. You are a very lucky woman Kelly, to be able to have a job and family and occasional setbacks. Maybe you just need to take some time out from work and relax and adjust your meds.>I told my Dr. about this & he was telling me that it doesn't always work, I think he was just scaring me away from doing it,well it work for now.
Your Dr. was right. My son tried to hang himself and it did not work. I was happy he survived and had only rope burns with no other damage.
Here is a book that was written just for you and others who feel they can't go on.
Choosing to Live: How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy.
Written by Thomas Ellis and Cory Newman
New Harbinger Publications Inc.I look forward to your future posts Kelly, so I can learn how you survived and coped with this set back.
My thoughts are with you
Take Care
Jade
Posted by noa on August 27, 2000, at 14:12:22
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP! » kellyR., posted by Jade on August 27, 2000, at 12:50:01
Kelly, around a year ago, and around 8 months ago, I felt that I was never going to get better. But I am getting better now.
I really thought then that it was impossible for things to improve. Going on seemed too painful.
What helped was I found this board, and I kind of put myself in my therapist's hands, and decided to suspend my own thinking about how my life is going, and to just commit to getting through day by day, alive, a commitment that I made to my therapist and to myself.
Without getting more help, I would not have been able to get to a point where I pursued more medical info and tried new med combos, until I finally started to feel better.
I know you really see the future as bleak. And, in a deep depression, it is almost impossible to see it otherwise. So, don't expect yourself to change the feelings. But, a good expectation is to get the help you need right now to stay safe and alive, to hold you until the depression can be treated sufficiently. I know it seems impossible to feel any hope, but there is hope. I know what it is like to not believe there is hope. But it is just that in the depths of depression, it is like not being able to SEE the hope, even though it is there.
Let others hold the hope for you until you can see it.
I cannot promise anything, but can tell you from my experience that it is possible to get to the other side of that horrible, bleak oppressive despair. I could not imagine getting past it myself, but here I am to report that I did get past it. I am here. I am alive. I am not as happy as I would like to be someday, but I am OK. I got out of that horrible storm, I survived it and can now get up every morning and actually enjoy some things. But just months ago I was in horrible despair, feeling I had no more options but to die.
Please, Kelly, please keep yourself safe. Please hold on. There are medications you have not tried yet, I think, that might work for the voices, and might be tolerable for you.
Posted by SC on August 29, 2000, at 14:03:23
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by noa on August 27, 2000, at 14:12:22
I dont know much to say to you but please hang in there and keep trying. Your post made me very worried for you.
Posted by judy1 on August 31, 2000, at 1:59:42
In reply to hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by kellyR. on August 17, 2000, at 19:30:35
Kelly,
I've experienced the same symptoms- hearing my name called and very negative comments- always when depressed. I started risperdal at 4mgs/day and within 3-4 days the voices completely stopped. I have had no side effects- it really did save my sanity. Take care.
Posted by kellyR. on September 1, 2000, at 20:57:09
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by judy1 on August 31, 2000, at 1:59:42
> Kelly,
> I've experienced the same symptoms- hearing my name called and very negative comments- always when depressed. I started risperdal at 4mgs/day and within 3-4 days the voices completely stopped. I have had no side effects- it really did save my sanity. Take care.I'll ask about it when i see him on the 17th of this month. thank you
Posted by noa on September 4, 2000, at 12:25:07
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP! » judy1, posted by kellyR. on September 1, 2000, at 20:57:09
> > Kelly,
Kelly, I am so glad you will consider this. Can it wait til the 17th, or do you need to contact the doctor sooner?Please keep us posted.
Posted by kellyR. on September 8, 2000, at 12:04:41
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP! » kellyR., posted by noa on September 4, 2000, at 12:25:07
> > > Kelly,
> Kelly, I am so glad you will consider this. Can it wait til the 17th, or do you need to contact the doctor sooner?
>
> Please keep us posted.Sorry my Dr. apointment not til 25th of sept,I did call & was told that he wasn't going to be back til the 25th, So I'll have to what.Little scared about taking Riserdal after seeing one of my patients on it & how out of it she is.But it might be real high,since she is very violent to other paintents & staff.
I just lost all the weight I gain when I was on zeprexa,Will I gain it all back going on this med?
Posted by pullmarine on September 28, 2000, at 6:02:12
In reply to hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by kellyR. on August 17, 2000, at 19:30:35
kelly, ask your doc about risperdal, i've found it very helpful. I 've also known people who've gotten used to the voices and are quite happy to have them. So going on meds is ultimatly a personal issue.love,
john
JOhn
> When i was a teen i started to hear voices that would tell me to do bad things & kill myself,I was in the hospital for 6mos. they said i had schizoaffective disorder, The voices really never stopped they became like being in a crowed of people talking,couldn't really understand what they were saying.Now I'm starting to hear one voice sometimes calling my name,This causes problems at work when i think someone is calling me & my co-workers tell me nobody was calling for me. I'm a nurses aide & we have to responed if someone is calling you for help,But if it's just me hearing things It makes it hard to know if it's really someone calling me.I saw my Dr. today & he ask me if i wanted to go on meds to stop the voices,I told him that i was scared to take meds for that again.Saw he said when i see him again in sept. & it's not any better well start meds to stop the voices. He did say that i could call him if it's to mush for me to handle,but as i posted before i have a problem making phone calls(he knows),So I was hoping for some help if it's not a bother to anyone.thanks
Posted by kellyR. on September 28, 2000, at 20:23:54
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by pullmarine on September 28, 2000, at 6:02:12
>
> kelly, ask your doc about risperdal, i've found it very helpful. I 've also known people who've gotten used to the voices and are quite happy to have them. So going on meds is ultimatly a personal issue.
>
> love,
>
> john
>
> JOhn,I started taking Risperdol 0.5mg tonight for the first time,my DR. started me on a very low dose because i ask if we could.I was on zyprexa 2.5mg & it was knocking me out.If i wasn't working i could live w/ them but it makes working very hard.
kellyR.> > When i was a teen i started to hear voices that would tell me to do bad things & kill myself,I was in the hospital for 6mos. they said i had schizoaffective disorder, The voices really never stopped they became like being in a crowed of people talking,couldn't really understand what they were saying.Now I'm starting to hear one voice sometimes calling my name,This causes problems at work when i think someone is calling me & my co-workers tell me nobody was calling for me. I'm a nurses aide & we have to responed if someone is calling you for help,But if it's just me hearing things It makes it hard to know if it's really someone calling me.I saw my Dr. today & he ask me if i wanted to go on meds to stop the voices,I told him that i was scared to take meds for that again.Saw he said when i see him again in sept. & it's not any better well start meds to stop the voices. He did say that i could call him if it's to mush for me to handle,but as i posted before i have a problem making phone calls(he knows),So I was hoping for some help if it's not a bother to anyone.thanks
Posted by noa on October 2, 2000, at 10:04:23
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP! » pullmarine, posted by kellyR. on September 28, 2000, at 20:23:54
good luck, kelly, keep us posted.
Posted by worried on February 23, 2001, at 16:46:58
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP! » noa, posted by kellyR. on September 8, 2000, at 12:04:41
Hello,
I was reading this conversation (just happen to fall on it while searching on the web for Zeprexa). I do not have this problem, but my fiancé has it. He sometimes hears voice and is very paranoid! Last night, we were at a social function with colleagues from work... he told me that the only reason he came was to tell people the truth (ie: how we are being exploited, how we are pawns in government games, how the media is controling us,etc). He even made a seen after one of the presentations. This has only been going on for a couple months, but I find it very hard. For about a year, he was acting depresive (that is all it was until about a month ago).
I want to help him, but he wants me to mind my own business and does not want to admit that their is a problem. I love him very much, but I just don't know what to do or how to help him. Any suggestions???
Thank's :0)
Posted by Christina on March 2, 2001, at 7:39:00
In reply to Re: hearing voices again/HELP!, posted by worried on February 23, 2001, at 16:46:58
Sounds like your boyfriend may have bipolar disorder (manic depression).
> Hello,
> I was reading this conversation (just happen to fall on it while searching on the web for Zeprexa). I do not have this problem, but my fiancé has it. He sometimes hears voice and is very paranoid! Last night, we were at a social function with colleagues from work... he told me that the only reason he came was to tell people the truth (ie: how we are being exploited, how we are pawns in government games, how the media is controling us,etc). He even made a seen after one of the presentations. This has only been going on for a couple months, but I find it very hard. For about a year, he was acting depresive (that is all it was until about a month ago).
> I want to help him, but he wants me to mind my own business and does not want to admit that their is a problem. I love him very much, but I just don't know what to do or how to help him. Any suggestions???
> Thank's :0)
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