Fiance hearing internal voices

[DarkAtoli]

Hi,

Recently my fiance has been taking anti-psychotic pills for his depression, because he's having a really hard time with it. I should note this is the first time he's taken anything for his depression. An effect of these pills he's on is that it calms his brain. My fiance recently disclosed to me that how his brain usually works is that he hears multiple voices, that all sound like his voice, inside his head, and they talk to each other when he's thinking about stuff. These anti-psychotic pills take away all these voices except for one, and my fiance feels really uncomfortable with that. He feels like he no longer knows anything, and that he can't think properly with all the voices gone.

I want to know if anyone else has had a similar experience with multiple internal voices, with medications, or any advice. He's really unhappy with the side effect of the voices being gone, even though he knows it is helping him to be more content overall.

Thanks!

[paul m]

Hello Dark Atoli. Anti-psychotics medications are designed to eliminate voices in a persons head and getting rid of the voices is not a side effect. Also anti psychotics are not usually used as a first line defence against depression, although it does happen from time to time.

I've had a number of hallucinations and I would suggest that both you and hlm talk with his doctor to find out exactly what the doctor is treating him for. Take Care. paul m

[Stenacron Man]

There are different types of hearing voices i hear a voice its my own and when I am depressed it pushes me to thinking really ugly. Typically hearing multiple voices suggests two possible conditions that needs to be looked at. the first is commonly called / split brain ( schizophrenia ). in that condition the voices are fighting with each other and offering no reasonable comfort or control. The next is (split personality disorder) were multiple mental internal voices that represent a personality other than the host, are in competition for control over the host and are more like protectors of the host. This condition usually derives from serious childhood neglect and or abuse.

It is very unlikely that any human can have a mental illness and not have some degree of true independent depression. The most well rounded anti-psychotic is Quetiapine or known in the depressive world as seroquel. When Astrazenica engineered that medication it was to have two primary functions. in dose 25-150 mg it is very effective for mild-moderate depression as a antidepression, and anxiety. from 150-1200 mg it is a very capable low side effect "mood stabilizer" . My guess is he is talking Quetiapine. Quetiapine is commonly used in the treatment schizophrenia as it does reduce the voices. The key is do the voices put him or anyone else in harms way ?

Now when I am doing my science work and deeply hypothesizing about something undiscovered i do get multiple levels of my own brain talking not in a harmful way but in an active healthy way. I call them my voices of reasoning they help my develop multi levels of thinking at the same time. It can be overwhelming at times but I solve very complex stuff like E=mc2 in months rather than years.

From what you wrote I don't see him as having either of the 2 conditions. His voices appear to be the voices of reason and help him do things. its his personal guide to sorting out and fixing things. My guess is; he is very very smart naturally, very gifted, can make anything happen, and his brain runs at high speed all the time, or what we call racing-brain. You could also reduce the med till the voices return to a comfortable level. then add other medications to what ever else is going on.



Buddy Mack.