Intrapersonal conflicts affect the psyche like a splinter under the skin on the body: if not removed, it will cause inflammation and pain. In my practice, there was a case when mental illness was a consequence of unresolved intrapersonal conflicts.
One of the tasks of the human psyche is to protect consciousness from what threatens it. We are not always aware of these threats; sometimes a person is simply afraid, sometimes he ignores what he does not like, trying to avoid events that provoke negative feelings or cause pain.
How do they manifest themselves?
The nature of the voices can be extremely different. The voice can be male or female, and maybe even incomprehensible to a person. There may be several voices in your head. They can talk about something of their own, and sometimes they discuss the patient. The discussions are also very diverse.
The voices in your head sometimes praise, and sometimes, on the contrary, they scold. They call you obscene language. Sometimes entire dialogues take place in your head. Voices force, order to do something. Often a person simply cannot resist their pressure, which entails socially dangerous actions. Voices in your head often tell you to hurt yourself or someone else. The patient's behavior becomes completely unpredictable. He perceives the voices that sound in a person’s head as real.
Due to a lack of understanding of the presence of severe mental symptoms in the form of voices in the head, a person is unlikely to seek help from a psychiatrist on his own, so it is necessary to be attentive to your loved ones.
Voices in the head - who might have them?
The causes of auditory hallucinations are not known to modern psychiatry. They talk about cold mothers and genetic predisposition. System-vector psychology by Yuri Burlan shows that if a person does not have a sound vector, then he will not hear voices in his head. Now we are talking about psychological reasons and do not take into account very rare cases associated with organic pathology. However, almost all of them happen to people with a sound vector.
Approximately 5% of children are born with a sound vector. It is they who, under unfavorable conditions of development and life, are at risk of having voices in their heads. As adults, they wonder: how to get rid of the voices in your head?
People with the sound vector are introverts by nature, focused on their own states and internal sensations. Even their gaze seems to be immersed in themselves from infancy. Their unconscious desire is to reveal what is hidden in the psyche.
Any development in nature takes place towards the opposite. Likewise, a sound child, focused on his own mental states, should potentially learn to focus on the psyches of other people and thereby understand himself through differences. In normal development, this is exactly what happens. Sound children strive to listen to sounds from the outside, the speech of others, and ask questions about the world around them, space, infinity, and purpose.
A person with a sound vector, from childhood, is inclined to analyze the reasons for the actions and behavior of people around him, the motives that prompted them to commit such actions, and an interest in mental patterns. This is a sign that he strives to fulfill his species role - to reveal the hidden mechanisms of what motivates people.
So, a baby is born with a sound vector. Then everything depends on the conditions in which he finds himself. Unfortunately, conditions are not always favorable. Here lies the answer to why a person may begin to hear voices in his head.
Reasons why a person may start hearing voices in their head
A sound child needs a sound ecology in the home. This means silence. After all, he is a person with exceptional hearing. Parents of sound children are required to know the rules of their upbringing. Listening on the other side of the eardrum, the sound engineer listens to the meanings of words - in order to later give ideas to humanity. Not just words, but meanings! Conductors of ideas, geniuses who turned the lives of all mankind upside down in all centuries, and those people who are inspired by the ideas of transforming society and technology - these are them, the sound engineers!
Sounds affect not only the sensor itself - the ear as an organ. The wave (sound) affects the psyche directly. And if a sound child is unpleasant about what he hears, he will naturally not strive to listen to the world around him. If at home there are constant scandals, screams, showdowns over the crib of a baby - who, it would seem, does not understand anything yet - this affects him negatively. The defenseless baby has nowhere to go. He closes himself off from the painful, noisy outside world, trying to protect himself. The child withdraws into himself, loses contact with the outside world, and becomes as if he were himself.
A situation arises when the mother reports: “I’m telling him, but he doesn’t seem to hear.”
If the baby hears offensive meanings, then at an early age the neural connections responsible for learning are damaged. If the child’s sound vector is traumatized by loud sounds outside (at home or at school) and, especially, offensive meanings in the words of the mother or other emotionally significant adults, there will always be consequences, one way or another.
Mom is the closest person to a child. She ensures his survival. Moreover, until approximately 6 years of age, the child is connected to the mother by a psychological umbilical cord and transmits all her states, both good and bad.
When the mother herself has a difficult life, when she herself is under constant stress, it is no wonder that she can begin to take out her negative emotions on the child. “It would be better if you died little one!” You’re nothing but problems!”, “Why did I give birth to you, an extra mouth in the family!” That is, in the meaning it is said to him: “It would be better if you had not been born.” This is a direct blow to the child’s psyche, devaluing his life. As a result, he loses his sense of security and safety and can no longer develop normally.
The child, a potential future genius, does not develop his abilities in concentrating outward, he goes inside himself so as not to hear painful sounds and meanings. So as not to feel this pain of the soul, which can be incommensurably more painful than physical pain. He closes himself off from everyone and becomes unsociable. His social adaptation and ability to create connections with other people are disrupted. From the outside, everything may be unnoticeable, because each child adapts, as far as possible and with his other vectors, to life in society - first in kindergarten, then at school. In reality, the situation can be very alarming. The inability to lose one's temper, loss of connection with the outside world - as a result of constant psychological trauma (shouting and insults) at home or at school - are often important factors in teenage suicide.
Causes
- Most often, voices in the head occur in schizophrenia and paranoid syndrome.
- However, voices can be a manifestation of an organic brain disease, a tumor.
- This symptom occurs when consuming certain groups of drugs.
- After a long load with exhaustion of the nervous system.
- Some drugs have side effects such as hallucinations.
- Sometimes voices in the head occur when a person wakes up or falls asleep (hypnopompic and hypnogogic). Such hallucinations are usually considered normal. They happen due to severe exhaustion of the nervous system or consumption of psychoactive substances.
As our practice shows, if hallucinations are diagnosed in time, the necessary effective treatment can be quickly prescribed, thus saving the person from the disease.
The beginning: when a person suddenly hears voices that were outside in his head
In a child who has suffered major psychological trauma, voices in the head most often appear during adolescence. Then the human psyche completes its formation, all possibilities for development are exhausted, and the psyche begins to manifest itself as it has developed. Everything that a child has managed to absorb and develop, he begins to implement in life.
Voices in the head often begin with shouts of name, but they are not given attention - “it seemed.” Further, it can already be a scolding, insulting voice, and even detailed dialogues. Most often, voices in the head are the sound of spoken words, meanings that have a traumatic effect.
People without a sound vector divide “the world inside” and “the world outside” as “there is me” and “there is the environment where I direct my actions.” And only a person with a sound vector is the only one whose world inside and the world outside are in him. The object of his attention is his own I (psyche, soul), which in sensations he perceives as separate from his body. The sound artist often talks to himself out loud or conducts an internal dialogue. If from childhood he was forced to hide from the painful world outside inside himself, then his perception is distorted. The ability to distinguish the voices outside from the dialogue inside is lost when one’s own thoughts begin to sound like strangers that do not belong to oneself.
The main desire of a sound artist, even if often not realized by him, is to reveal the psychic, unconscious, and spiritual. Recognize what is hidden behind the visible world, listening, thinking about the essence of things. Traumatized in childhood, he cannot realize himself, partially or completely loses the ability to hear the meaning of other people’s words and focuses even more on his internal mental states. A person with a sound vector, locked inside himself, experiences a splitting of internal dialogue - it turns into painful, haunting voices in his head.
A sound artist can mistake the voices in his head for his own dialogues - until it becomes impossible to control them, when they begin to torment him and he will not have the opportunity to “escape from his own head.”
Whose voices does he hear in his head?
If we are talking about a sounder with an anal vector, he often hears the mother’s voice. This voice is scolding, criticizing, threatening, penetrating everywhere. A person with an anal vector has a special relationship with his mother. The mother’s insulting words remain forever in the memory and are remembered in the mode of internal dialogue, which is not realized. He argues with her within himself, responds to her insults.
A sound artist with a skin vector may have voices in his head about material theft, destruction of his material assets, voices may talk about causing direct property damage, about pursuers, ill-wishers. Sometimes a severe beating, for example, becomes a psychotraumatic situation for a sound artist with a skin vector. Then voices may appear with the threat of harm from others, the fear that everyone wants to harm him. The fear of robbery, loss of property and health arises in the skin vector - suspicion appears, thoughts “I’m being robbed”, “they are planning evil for me.”
Treatment of voices in the head
Each patient experiences voices in their heads differently, and therefore we prescribe individual treatment. Therapy is primarily aimed at the underlying illness that is the cause of hallucinations.
Quite often the patient is overly excited, and then we recommend treatment in a hospital setting. The possibilities of medicine in this area are very great, and our doctors use them to the fullest. Therefore, in most cases you can count on the most favorable outcome of the disease.
We use tranquilizers and sedatives as drug therapy.
The sooner the patient’s relatives convince him of the need to seek qualified help, the more effective the treatment will be.
If you are faced with the problem of auditory hallucinations, contact our clinic for medical help. Appointments with a psychiatrist can be made by telephone
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How to stop the internal dialogue (shut up the voices in your head)?
Quite often, those who practice meditation are interested in the question: how to stop the internal dialogue?
At the same time, stopping the internal dialogue is of interest not only to those who meditate, but also to ordinary people, since the “mental stirrer” often interferes with enjoying sex and achieving orgasm: most often this problem affects women and many women refuse sex or They believe that they are not able to find pleasure in sex.
If this problem is solved head-on, then it has no solution, because the more you try to stop the thoughts in your head, the stronger they become, since you strengthen them with your attention, and therefore with your energy, because where there is attention, there is energy.
In fact, to experience a state of inner silence, you need to apply the same principle that is used in Aikido: step aside. That is, instead of fighting the thoughts in your head, you just need to move into another ego state in which there is no internal dialogue, this is the so-called meditative state.
Each of us has different ego states, for example, most of us will be in different ego states when interacting with our friends, with our boss, or with a small child. An ego state is a set of thoughts, feelings, body condition, voice timbre, vocabulary used, etc.
Many people have only two sets of ego states: the first are those that we copied from our parents, and the second are those that we created as additional to each of our parents' ego states, for example, in response to the "terrible dad" "we could create the state of a "scared little girl or little boy." As a result, in this situation, both the ego-state of a “formidable dad” and the ego-state of a “frightened girl or boy” will remain inside us.
Both states have their own feelings and thoughts, that is, each of them has its own internal dialogue, so in order to move into an ego state in which there is no internal dialogue, we must first create such an ego state.
Usually we use two or three “favorite” ego states in our lives, between which we automatically switch in the same order and which make up the so-called racket circle.
The more often we are in one or another ego state, the “stronger” it becomes, that is, the easier it will be for us to move into it through an effort of will, it’s like with a foreign language: the more often you use it, the easier it is for you to remember a rarely used word , and if you completely stop using the language, then rare words from it slowly pass into “long-term memory”.
So, in addition to creating a new meditative ego state for us, we need to learn how to move into it by force of will, that is, train the so-called psychological muscle, which allows us to switch between ego states by force of will.
Body-energy practices usually consist of several parts: the first parts are aimed at increasing your energy level, for example, intensive breathing, shaking or special physical activity, as a result of which it becomes easier for you to switch between states through willpower. Next comes the meditative part, which is aimed at enabling the “out of mind” state, a state without thoughts.
At first, due to the underdevelopment of the psychological muscle and low energy level, thoughts from the ego states of your racket circle will prevent you from doing the practice, in this case I recommend telling them “later” or “come back in 5 seconds” if after some time they will come back again - you can again tell them “later” - that is, you don’t fight with them, don’t drive them away, but simply ask them to wait, if you can’t come to an agreement with them, then you can “think about” them and continue the practice, but with the next thoughts again try to suggest to them “to come in 5 seconds.” Due to the fact that your energy level increases in practice, each time it will be easier and easier for you to enter a meditative state “outside the mind.”
In addition, I recommend that you try to stay in a meditative state for as long as possible after practice and begin to induce it through willpower in situations outside of practice. As a result of your efforts, after some time, the meditative state will become so strong that you will be able to remain in it without making much effort, and only when your energy level decreases, for example, you are tired, will you be “knocked out” into one of the rackets states of your old racket circle, but as soon as you notice this, for example, with the help of the state of the inner observer, or the help of your teacher, then you can, through an effort of will, return back to this wonderful and pleasant state.
In the end, I would like to draw attention to one trap that, unfortunately, many practitioners fall into: increasing your energy level strengthens not only your meditative state and your willpower, but also the state of your racket circle, that is, the more energy you have, the more you get stuck in racketeering states (the higher the degree of your psychological games become, and the games of the highest degree lead to prison, death or the madness of one of the participants in the game).
Therefore, in this process, firstly, it is important to know all your racketeering states (including those that are pleasant for you) in order to recognize in time that you are again in a racketeering circle, which means that you are again playing psychological games, and secondly , it is necessary to train the psychological muscle so that when you notice that you are again in a racket state, you can get out of it as quickly as possible.
Hearing is good!
But the day came when I finally “matured”. I realized how much inconvenience I cause to my loved ones. In addition, I was involved in roofing work and was a foreman. I needed to understand customers and suppliers.
At first I decided that there would be only one hearing aid, but we’ll see. To say that the result surprised me is an understatement. It was so shockingly pleasant!
Firstly, the interlocutor’s speech began to sound clearer and more understandable, and not “through cotton wool”, as before. Secondly, I again heard the long-forgotten sounds of rushing water, pebbles rolling under my feet, birds singing, and the clicking sound of a car’s winter tires on the asphalt. One day at work I heard a distant bell ringing, the church was a couple of kilometers away. It just stunned me. But the most important thing is communication! Now I could talk calmly. Although I still couldn’t understand some words, I could hear most of the speech.
Around the same time, a daughter was born. How nice it was to realize that now I hear much of what was inaccessible seven years ago. I heard the first words, was able to communicate normally with her, it was wonderful.
A year later I put on the second device and the sound became surround. Now I not only heard the sounds, but also understood where they came from. I soon got used to hearing normally. And my “new old” ability no longer caused a storm of emotions. So six years passed.
