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Mental Health Support

olddots

(10,237 posts) Tue Jul 9, 2013, 12:52 PM Jul 2013

I need some help [View all]

I'll make this short ....I talk to myself more and more and have been caught by my daughters and wife ,this disturbs them because they bought the crap about people that talk to themselves are crazy ..........I'll stop the message here because I just typed a few pages of dreck that helped ..... I use this place as a journal as most of us do --a journal that talks back sometimes in it's cyber space way cutting thru the machine to humanness .

The thinking out loud or talking to myself is troublesome but it beats having a complete melt down .

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I need some help [View all] olddots Jul 2013 OP

So? You verbalize what I feel probably many of us do silently. I "talk" to snappyturtle Jul 2013 #1

I do the same sadarthefirst Jul 2013 #2

I do that sometimes to make sure I can still talk Downwinder Jul 2013 #3

Have your family members commented on this? postatomic Jul 2013 #4

Most of the people I know, especially people at work, do talk to themselves. Still Blue in PDX Jul 2013 #5

I was going to write the same thing about people at work Politicub Jul 2013 #7

A lot of people talk to themselves out loud, means nothing about mental health. Denninmi Jul 2013 #6

My husband was concerned about talking to himself Politicub Jul 2013 #8

I think outloud sometimes libodem Jul 2013 #9

I imagine my wife and daughters talk to themselves olddots Jul 2013 #10

the problem is when you start answering yourself fizzgig Jul 2013 #11

My boyfriend carries on complete conversations with himself 2theleft Jul 2013 #12

I believe everyone is compulsive and obsesses about things olddots Jul 2013 #13

I talk to myself all the time jeffrey_pdx Jul 2013 #14