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Hearing voices after quitting Meth
| imlostinky |
Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
How
many of you heard voices after quitting meth? How are you today?
I have a friend that is experiencing this and is pretty scared
right now.
Any advice to help her through? |
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eyes
open83 |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
i
experienced this...i started hearing voices, hearing noises and
see things that weren't there when i was using...
when i got clean, I continued to hear things and see things, but
in a different way to when i was using...
i continued to hear things and see things for the first 3 months
of my recovery...
today i don't hear things and i don't see things...
i really don't know of any advice to give unfortunately... |
| paul4fun |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
imlostinky
I think you already know I've heard voices for the last 2 years
while i was using and still hear them 8 weeks clean now....my
voices for the most part have been good to me telling em to stop
using...but they have kept me up many nights when i was using
and wore me out at times... I believe meth makes u more
sensitive to the spirit world and i believe i have a spirit of a
little boy that wants me to play with him 24/7 lol... they are
harmless if u don't let them get to you... im sure your friend
will be fine if she gives the meth a break the voices will start
to fade if she needs to chat i would love to talk to him/her if
u think that would help.... I wud love to help out any way i
can... love ya... |
| Rancid1 |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
I
had two voices. I heard them for about 3 months in the end of my
using. Very clear and distinct voices. They talked to me, and
talked to each other. But 99% of the time they were taunting me
and laughing with each other because I was crazy.
Extremely tiring, very terrifying. They wouldn't go away or even
quiet down for a second no matter what. The more I told them to
shut up and the more I begged for them to go away the more they
laughed at me because I was insane.
For me the only way to find some comfort was talking to someone
else. I couldn't hear them as much when I was talking to someone
else. And get out of the environment you are normally in. The
voices were strongest in my room. Since I was always alone
there, and that's where I spent most of my time.
When they got really bad I would have to get up and walk around
the house because I couldn't hear them as well when I wasn't in
my room.
When I couldn't sleep because I thought I was going to die, then
I needed drugs to calm me down. But that was anxiety I guess not
really the voices. Though the reason I thought I was going to
die was because the voices were telling me that I was going to
die.
Anyway. Hope that helps in some way.
Oh, and for me the voices went away within the first week of
sobriety. I prayed a LOT during that first week. |
| le grumps |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
Ugh,
what a horrible experience.
I have a friend who still hears voices a year and a half after
she quit using. They say very degrading things to her and insult
her and tell her she should kill herself.
She knows they aren't real, and what I try to do is just remind
her that the voices are full of sh** i
When I was involved in NA I also helped a couple people out who
were still hearing voices. Sometimes, it simply takes a person
to gently, patiently remind you that their hallucinations are
not real.
I needed that, and it really helped. We know it's not real, then
we forget. We know, then we get sucked in, then we forget. We
aren't sure, so we get scared. We don't know what to believe
anymore.
When we get reminded, again, that the scary things aren't real,
we can try to find our footing again. There are no monsters
under the bed, we can sleep now.
Hope this helps. |
| pisces |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
"look at that, your neighbor
left the keys in her car, she won't notice if it's gone for a
bit"
"how could you possibly think that for one second that is a
remotely good idea?!"
"hey, there's that lawn mowing kid again, grab that brick and
chuck it at his head, no one will miss him"
"what we need to do is start a CMA meeting, right here in this
very neighborhood... Lord knows it is full of dope heads"
"better yet, tie him to the lawnmower and set fire to it, then i
can watch him burn"
"ok, I'm back, what did i miss?"
"we are discussing starting a CMA meeting here..."
"no, we are going to set fire to that kid and we are going to
bar-b-q over the flames"
"oh, well, i was just thinking maybe we should get some dope,
since we are so tired lately"
"absolutely not.. unacceptable"
Basically, yeah, i have these friggin voices too.. and it drives
me nuts... as for what your friend should do, she should seek
out help.... wherever she can find it.... i would suggest a
professional...... that's what i did.... they put me on
Risperdal.. and it works like magic..... i am suffering from the
voices right now because i had to stop all meds in order to
complete a sleep study... but in 2 weeks, i will be back to
normal again.. |
| imlostinky |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
Thank you all for your help. I
am sure knowing she is not the only one will help a great deal.
Thanks - and it is nice to know there is medication that can
treat this disorder.
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| JUSTCATS |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
OMG! I knew that a lot of
addicts heard voices. I had no idea, what kinds of scary things
they were telling them, though!!!
Question: Does anybody know why meth addicts still here voices after
quitting, even for longer period of time??? I am just curious.
Now, I can understand why my bf was so frickin crazy, mean and
moody! |
| sarah1652 |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
I hear them all the time..in the
car...when its loud..when things are quite....they tell me
things to do...bad things...Other times telling me how weak I
am..telling me how stupid I am; bad mom.........then
laughing...talking to one another is not all the time...but
real....Real to me........got to go to bed- Sarah |
forget
suzette |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
WHAT?!
...You gotta speak up, I can't hear you over all the voices in
my head!
You realize voices in your head are normal. ...right?
....for me.
heh!
yep, here it comes...
............this is what "LIFE 101" says about it...
Inner Voices
What the inner voice says Will not disappoint the hoping soul.
SCHILLER
1797
It doesn't take much inner listening to know that "in there"
there are many voices: speaking, singing, shouting, and
whispering. At times, I'm sure I have an entire Mormon
Tabernacle Choir.
Some of the "voices" speak; others flash images. Some
communicate by feelings, while others communicate through a
sense of "knowing." When I say "voices," I include all of
these--and any forms of communication I failed to mention.
These voices have information--all of it useful. Some you can
use by acting on; some you can use by doing precisely the
opposite. It's a matter of knowing whether or not a given voice
is on your side.
How do you know? Listen. Listen might not be the best word.
Perceive might be a better word, or look within, or be aware of
your inner process. I'll use listen, because it goes along with
the analogy of "voices," but know that when I say "listen" I
also mean watch, sense, perceive, and be aware of what's going
on inside.
Start by listening and keeping track of which voice says what.
You can assign them characters, if you like. Here are four of my
inner favorites:
The critic. I see this voice as a vulture. Pick, pick, pick,
nag, nag, nag. Nothing anyone does is good enough. (Except
occasionally when somebody else does something undeniably
outstanding, then the vulture says, "Well, you'll never do
anything that good." Doom and gloom fly with the vulture. It
feeds on unworthiness, and its droppings are the doubts, fears,
and judgments that keep us from moving toward our goals.
The praiser. The praiser I see as an eagle. It proudly tells us
all the wonderful things we are, have, and do. It generously
praises the being, accomplishments, and activities of others.
It's the one that lets us know we are worthy no matter what, and
that our worth does not need to be proven, earned, or defended.
We are worthy just because we are. All that we are is fine just
the way it is. It flies on the wings of grace and gratitude. It
nurtures our very soul.
The dummy. The dummy is a turkey. It's the one who answers
quickly and loudly, "I don't know," to almost any question. The
turkey is the one that keeps us doing all those stupid things we
do, and then say, "Darn! I knew better!" We may know better, but
no one told the turkey. Turkeys do not fly. If you leave them
out in the rain they will drown. They have nothing to be
thankful for on Thanksgiving.
The grower. The grower is like an egg. An egg? Yes, as W. S.
Gilbert said, "As innocent as a new-laid egg." That's one of the
attributes of growth--each moment is new, fresh, and innocent.
An egg also contains all the potential for future growth. As
Hans Christian Andersen pointed out, "His own image was no
longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and
offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does
not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg." Our
grower knows who we are and the kind of bird in the egg (HINT:
It's no vulture). It has sufficient self-love to keep itself
warm and cozy while gestating. It knows the hatching will take
place at precisely the right moment. It is content and divinely
patient until then. As Robert Burns wrote of his egg, "The voice
of Nature loudly cries, / And many a message from the skies, /
That something in us never dies."
It's a good idea to listen to what the voices say, not to how
they say it. As Lord Byron reminds us, "The Devil hath not, / in
all his quiver's choice, / An arrow for the heart like a sweet
voice." And Freud, a century later, wrote, "The voice of the
intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has
gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs,
it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be
optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it
signifies not a little."
If all these birds in our brains are too much for you, perhaps
you could use the metaphor of tuning a radio, or changing
channels on a television. Once you tune into your own network of
wisdom, you'll have guidance that's sure, clear, and direct.
I thank you for your voices, thank you, Your most sweet voices.
SHAKESPEARE |
mystical
women69 |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
I had the same experiences as
rancid. My voices were of people i knew. It was like they were
in my head messing with me all the time. I began to believe that
people could read my mind. There were day's i honestly thought i
was loosing my mind. I would talk to the voices in my head in my
own head. I went through a period where i did not talk a lot
because i thought i was communicating through my head. But at
the time you could not pay my enough money in the world to make
me believe it was because of my drug use. I still hear voices.
But they have faded a lot. It took me a long time to realize
what was real and what was just the voices. It seemed to make it
easier that when they get real bad. I just try and relax and i
just keep telling myself it is just the voices. Hope it helps. |
forget
suzette |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
I have the same thing, but i
look at it differently than you guys.
I envision my mind as a hallway:
it's lined with doors...
...behind each door, is an individual I am very close too.
my mom
my dad
my uncle
my best friends
"society, and socially acceptable, appropriate, general public
majority type opinion" ....eddie haskel like.
then of course
SUZETTE
and the suzie monster - like, when I write things just to shake
up the thread? that's the "dennis the menace"
of Gods suz...
...I'm still a good girl, just "free spirited"
and at the end of the hall, behind the elaborate, finely
detailed, carved, ancient mahogany door...
...is "Gods suzie"
where the final decision is made on every issue.
....the buck stops here.
unless meth is our co pilot....
....and "gods suz" is benched and suzette comes up to bat.
so when something happens, upon finding out what occurred...
...the doors are opening and the "others" start yelling out
their different opinions.
my uncle
my mom
my friends
....and of course suzette loves the ruckus..
she's screaming METH!!
the whole time.
everyone calms down.
Im have the problem sitting in the middle of the hallway.
.....so we all can see it.
I walk all the way around it, so i can see it from every angle
....as I go to each room...entity tells me and shows me their
angle of the problem, and why it's true.
when I get to gods suzie.
...she knows already.
the question is...
....suzette screaming meth all the time...or it would be pretty
friendly in my head.
all the voices get like a daycare center sometimes...
....I can't keep em in their rooms.
and each one screaming a different thing.
....it bugs me after awhile.
....that's my ADD I guess. |
Ruby
y2zday |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
YES!
I hear the voices of the people that care about me.
That's new.
I had to tune them out before. |
forget
suzette |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
Tune em out? wow.
...hard work! I'd need to be a zen master to do that.
you know...the president has advisors, but he makes the final
decision
...............I use them like that.
I listen to each one.
....knowing it's all me, and what i learned from them.
except my late great uncle
sometimes....
.....I just feel him.
this will be at my commitment hearing I'm sure. |
| paul4fun |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
he
guys... just wanted to say the voices I hear are family and
friends all of them alive to.... love ya
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| imlostinky |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
I am
sure it would be very unnerving to say the least to have this
constant chaos busy-ness going on in your head.
I wonder though if it would be our own insecurities , our own
fears that are we are hearing?
Thinking out loud so to speak?
Sarah, do you have a doctor you see? can you get to a doctor?
I think if you could understand the whys behind the voices, they
would scare you anymore.
And if it is meds you are needing, then you could get your meds.
We are not BAD people trying to get good- we are GOOD people.
You all are the best ,really good people.
We are sick people trying to get well.
I wonder if we ever get to a place where we can truly forgive
ourselves if the voices will quiet?
If we can ever accept that just because we did bad things it
didn't make us bad people.
I think you all are wonderful beautiful souls, loving and worthy
of being loved.
I wonder when we believe that about ourselves, if peace will
come................. |
forget
suzette |
Re: Hearing voices after
quitting Meth
it's
natural to have these voices.
...that's why Meditation is so difficult, and achieving
nirvana is VERY difficult.
when I meditate
..I pretend I'm sitting on the ocean floor.
and each word that pops in my head, I put in a bubble and
watch it float to the top...
..I start with 1000 and can get down to about 5.
....... one time only 2 bubbles!
that was enlightening because only the super conscience
was talking.
"gods suz"
it's hard but it helps put em in perspective. |
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