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talking to myself

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at highschool, people used to joke that the first sign of madness was talking to oneself.

i've always been conscious of the fact that i talk to myself. a lot. my myers-briggs type is ESTJ. i've learned that extroverts do a lot of thinking externally and i expect the manifestation of this is a lot of thinking outloud.

so, do you talk to yourself? how?

or am i going mad?

:)

alasdair
 
haha if you're going mad then so am I ;)

I talk to myself constantly and out loud - people at work think I'm crazy, but they're used to it.

I have an over active mind that seems to get flooded with thoughts and ideas - singling these thoughts and concentrating on a particular one at times becomes quite difficult. I often find myself in thought over one thing and within seconds my mind has moved onto something completly differrent. Even when I'm reading I pretty much read out loud - if I don't, I'll be reading but my mind will be pre-occupied with other thoughts. Its quite a bizzare thing, I'll read a paragragh and stop and think - what the hell did I just read, I read the words but thought something else. In order to single out a thought and concentrate on it alone, I speak of it out load - its my way of bringing it to the fore and away from distraction.

I'm not sure if I've expressed it quite right, but this is a general idea of why I talk to myself. Is there something wrong with me - who knows hehe

I guess the line between thinking out load to help the creative and thought process and being mad is when it becomes incoherent jibberish ;)
 
Haste - not that I'm a doctor or anything, but you just described ADD. I should know, I have it. And all the flooding thoughts and having a hard time concentrating on one thing are part of it.

Alasdair - I used to talk out loud to myself a lot mostly as commentary on what I was thinking about or reading about. I think it's very common. And unless you were answering your own questions or thought you were two different people having a conversation I think you're sane. ;)
 
honEbee - wow, well there you have it, I honestly didn't know.
 
I asked someone why they talk to themselves one time, they said "sometimes it's the only way to get an intelligent conversation"

so that's how I look at it now :D
 
I talk to myself pretty often - especially when I'm home alone and I know no one else is going to hear.

:)
 
I talk to myself a lot, but I'm no extrovert... quite strange, when I'm by myself I can babble on and on for hours but with other people I'm mostly quiet. Maybe that's why I talk to myself- because I can't talk so easily to other people.

Funny (?) story:
One day I was taking a walk in my grandmother's garden, all alone. Then I spotted my grandmother tending some flowers. She was mumbling to herself.
"Nutty woman", I said aloud. "It's so creepy when she talks to herself..."
 
i live by myself, so i talk to myself quite a lot, or to my cat. if i'm going to be having an important conversation with someone or give a talk i practice what i'm going to say in my car....i also talk to myself all brainstorming like when i'm trying to figure out how to say something in a paper...i just think better if i can hear it out loud :)
 
I talk to myself all the time, if that is a sign of being insane, well all I can say, is that talking to myself keeps me sane, and i don't care if people think Im a weirdo because I talk to myself, let them think what they like I say!!!! =D
 
Well thank christ for that. I thought I was mad as a hatter. Well actually, I still think I am mad as a hatter, but at least I know I am not alone.

I basically live in my own mind. I talk to myself all the time; from reminding myself to hang out the clothes to practicing the verbal arse whooping I would dole out to George Dubbya Bush was I ever to meet him. Its fun, keeps me occupied and means that I allways have a well practiced humorous anicdote for virtually any occation (even if I am only bringing the anicdote up during one of my inspired rants to myself about the state of the universe... well hey at least I am garranteed to get a laugh from my audience).

My friends all think I am insane and I guess they are right, but they all need playstations, computers, mobile phones, movies and other people to constantly keep themselves entertained, while I need only my brain and a good topic of conversation. As I see it that is the best thing about being insane; its highly cost effective.

=D
 
I talk to myself quite a bit, in the shower, walking, before bed, ect. What might make me a bit... more off kilter than the rest of you is when I talk to myself, it is in a voice I can't duplicate when talking to other people. But its still two parts of the same me talking, dig?
 
ditto here.. I actually rationalize and organize my thoughts out loud all the time.. that is how I remember things...
 
Laura said:
lol wait... what do you mean by this? :)
Click to expand...

If you're having an active conversation with yourself as you would with another person ;)
 
Yeah I just meant that hopefully you wouldn't have multiple personalities and actually believe you were talking with a whole other person. ;)
 
Count me in as a crazy bastard. hahahahahaha

I hear that talking to yourself isn't a sign of being crazy. It is when you start answering yourself is the sign of truly losing your mind.

Either way I'm fucking lost then....
 
i talk to my self a decent amount. it helps sometimes to hear certain things out loud. even if i am the only one listening. i talk out loud to rehearse phone conversations and the like too. it helps me feel more confident when the actual conversation occurs. i also talk to myself when i am alone and get bored. my voice is much more amusing than silence.

sometimes i do answer my own questions. but i know its me answering them. like if i am making a big decision, i may "discuss" it with myself out loud. i'll weigh the pros and cons and ask out loud questions that arise from that. then think about the answers. it helps the situation seem real and forces me to think in logical processes. as opposed to thinking in my head where i can dream up pretty much anything as a solution.
 
I'm a bit lost myself, I talk to myself all the time. The WIERD thing is though, I sometimes find myself talking about some outrageous shit, and actually having semi-conversations with myself. Nothing full-on, but I sometimes will think of a question, and answer it out loud!

:/

Astaroth.
 
Cool thread people!
I have little conversations with myself sometimes and I guess it helps to get my thoughts in order. I have an overactive imagination and my mind is constantly racing so saying stuff out loud helps to grab on to important thoughts. I'm not insane I tells ya!!!!!8(
 
You are insane. Listen to the voices. Kill your neighbours dog!!!

Other than that, it's all good =D

--- G.

p.s. I talk to my self under the influence of drugts - and I am almost always under the influence of drugs - so yeah... I'm kinda nuts
 
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