It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by Teleport
I can't remember when this exactly started. But whatever it is it's getting worse and I don't know where to go from here. I am afraid to talk to my friends and family about it because they either won't believe me or just not care for me anymore.
When I was about 8 I had this imaginary friend that would tell me to do certain acts or rituals or else it would hurt me. So I did everything it wanted.
Now 3-4 years ago in my senior year of high school I got loaded up on alcohol and booze and that's where like all this began.
I had smoked pot and had a really bad reaction. I don't know if it was laced or if it was a mix of zoloft with the drugs and booze but I basically started tripping and hallucinating. Then every so often from that day on until the present I have had dissociative feelings where I suddenly feel like I am a robot or in a dream, different place, or not in control. It feels like a flashback. It feels like I'm hallucinating again, only not. Not really.
Then some really weird "explicitly censored* started happening. I don't know if it was a hallucination or what but I started having these things I call "thought voices". Basically they're voices how you hear in your head when you think out loud. Like it doesn't feel as though someone is right there talking to me, but more like the thoughts are telepathically placed in my head. The only problem is I can't differentiate if they are real or not. They are sent by my old imaginary friend I think or what could be multiple entities. I feel like I need to listen to them or else bad things will happen. But here's what made me believe in them more, which I know is only going to make problems worse although I am not suicidal and would not hurt a fly, I am just scared. But what I think will make things worse is that the "thought voices" started giving me information I would have no way of knowing. One time I was on the computer doing some work (and this is when the thought voices seem to come out the most, and under anxiety) and suddenly the voice starts talking to me about some *explicitly censored* movie called Bull Durham or something. I've never even seen the movie and I don't even know why the thought voice would bring it up since I barely remember the name. Anyway it goes on about how Susan Serandon and Kevin Costner are in the movie. I didn't think much about it at the time. But then low and behold for the first time ever I see some movie called Bull Durham come on the tele. So I watch some with my mom and sure enough Susan Serandon and Kevin Costner are in the movie. Prior to this I only heard the name Susan Serandon once and I never even cared for Kevin Costner. I can't emphasize enough how impossible it would be for me to know this information. I never even saw the movie, it was before my time anyway. There's also been a prediction from this imaginary friend which I'm not going to name, for personal reasons. The prediction came and went so it's not like I have anything to prove what is happening to me. Nor does it really matter since either you'll see me as a liar or mentally insane. Either way I get nothing out of it.
So I'm talking about this for the first time ever on this forum wondering what exactly is going on. I realize it's nuts and I'm most likely just crazy. But if it wasn't for the things these thought voices say I would just assume I'm crazy.
The only other reason I think it might be something other than schizophrenia is the voices don't sound like real voices, they sound like thoughts, and I already had a minor experience like this for awhile when I was little. I've suffered from depression and anxiety disorders for a good potion of my life but this is the first time I feel like I am actually losing it. It's really frustrating. I'm not low affect and I can think perfectly fine.
Just wondering what you think? Regardless I am going to tell a psychiatrist about this on Thursday....I just hope I have the balls. I hate being seen as weak.