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talking to myself

There are days that I talk aloud at work when formulating diagnoses and treatment plans. I don't carry on conversations with myself. More like a verbal checklist. Patients don't seem to mind. Most seem to understand or say they do the same thing. Sometimes I will say my disclaimer yes I am aware that I am talking aloud and I am not crazy. There are days when I have so many things going to at once that it is easier to talk it out.
 
Um, yeah.... i talk to myself. Mostly when I'm not sure of things and I want to hear them out loud, it's kind of like a way of reasoning out my options i suppose...
 
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I tend to talk to myself only at hour 5+ of stimulants. :)
I have no AD(H)D tendencies, and I'm a prototypical INTP.
mmm...I tend to have a single verbal stream in my head, but I always have that verbal stream...

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i always talk to myself, ive been doing it all my life.sometimes i use different voices just to fuck with myself, and my cat. talking to yourself is a good thing. i think theres even a classification called self talk, i think im not to sure.
 
my grandfather used to say that the best thing about talking to yourself is at least one person's listening. :)

i don't really talk aloud to myself very often. tbh, i'm not an extremely vocal person.
 
my immigrant maternal grandmother maintained that people in the streets talking to themselves ''had money in the bank'' - surely as bunk as the other primitive remarks that she had to categorize behavior that she found ''daft''.
 
a woman on the bus i used to catch used to have pretty much conversations with herself and for like 3 weeks i thought she had a bluetooth or something but im pretty sure she's schizo or smthing

but sometimes i talk to myself if its late at night and ill be like "OOHH F**** THAT" , or curse at people under my breath "f****** b*****"

but thats pretty rare
 
I talk out loud to myself, and I argue with myself. It's not really me arguing with myself it's just being able to look at two distinct points of view and try to decide which makes more sense for the situation at hand.

It's not even remotely a sign of insanity to talk to yourself, even if you talk back to yourself.
Seriously what the hell do the class clowns in highschool know about anything, let alone another person's sanity?
 
CoffeeDrinker said:
It's not even remotely a sign of insanity to talk to yourself, even if you talk back to yourself.
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While I think that is clinically correct, my boyfriend talks to himself and I have to say it disturbs me 8o

When he's working in Sydney and therefore living at home, i.e. with me, i.e. with other human company, he doesn't do it very much. But this whole year he's been working away from home for 4 week periods at a time, and his rate of talking to himself has dramatically increased!!

I've probably posted this already in this thread but I have never ever talked to myself out loud. So for me, to listen to my boyfriend in the other room emphatically chatting away with no-one else in the room, is yeah a little bit disturbing for me :D

But hey, maybe I'm the weird one for not talking to myself?
 
I normally only talk to myself out loud when I'm driving in the car alone. I talk myself through problems or situations and generally just think out loud which works and can be therapeutic.

Otherwise, I'm forever conversing with myself internally but you would never know. It's just thinking in my own voice is all. Completely normal.

I've always thought that you talk to other people to get to know them and to get things to done so why not talk to yourself.
 
I imagine this thread would get a fair bit more interesting responses in TDS.

I also talk to myself while driving alone. I'll often have heated discussions with thin air, and as new thoughts pop into my head I'll exclaim, "Exactly!" or I'll rebut with, "See, that's where you're wrong!"

But I realize it's just me actively thinking/arguing with myself over issues, in lieu of an actual person to talk to. To be honest, I'd much rather be having these discussions with someone else, but it's often tough to find people to argue with in real life.
 
I hate it when I try and trick myself - It never works though as Im always one step ahead of myself.

I find it really strange when I tell myself a joke that Ive never heard before, always catches me off guard and has me laughing out loud.
 
I find that more often that I write to myself than talk out loud to myself. same concept, right?
 
Oh God, I talk to myself a *lot*. I try to avoid it when I'm around others, but my mind literally never stops running a series of "home movies" and lectures to myself, so I get caught from time to time.
 
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