She Heard Voices
One of my first patients was a female college student who couldn’t sleep because of the voices that constantly talked to her. From what she was saying, I gathered that depending on the particular voice, she was either being cautioned about people or situations or outright pushed towards violent acts.
The voices started appearing when she was 16 if I remember correctly, and we met when she was 20. For four years of her life she believed that it was normal to have such voices in one’s head, because, as she explained, many people talk to themselves.
To some extent, she was right; but I had to explain to her that most people really talk with themselves and there are no other identities in them. There’s just an internal dialogue to resolve issues that bother them in their own privacy, so to speak. She was later diagnosed with schizophrenia. InhumanVoice