Post by @mattys_life@mastodon.au

2026-09-17 20:08 UTC

Another unusual development now the quetiapine feels as though it’s wearing off, and that I will need to bring up with my psychiatrist today is that I have started hearing voices in my mind. They’re random, like walking down the street and catching snippets of strangers’ conversations. They’re not constant but odd. Im guessing it’s a medication effect. Or maybe something more serious. I don’t know.

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@Richboy50@woof.group 2026-09-17 21:51

@mattys_life@mastodon.au That must be disconcerting.

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@tendegreesnorth@mastodon.au 2026-09-18 17:31

@mattys_life@mastodon.au Yup, bring up the hearing voices with the psych / nurses. I do get that sometimes. To me, it's like some people having a conversation just out of my reach, outside my windows, or around the corner. I can hear that they are having a conversation, but not what they are actually saying. If I concentrate to hear the words, it all goes away for the moment. For me, at no point do these voices become more than background noise, and if I'm concentrating on something, or talking with other people I don't hear them. For me hearing the voices was essentially harmless, though I'd occasionally call out to whoever else was in the house to ask if they were speaking to me. And if I heard them around sunset or at night, I'd get a bit creeped out and close / lock any open doors and windows. I've gotten the voices when taking meds, usually a lot of meds. But I've also gotten them when things are going well. Nowadays, I treat the voices as an early warning signal that something is off. If I hear them I ask myself - (a) Have my medications changed, or are the meds acting oddly - am I showing any other physical signs, (b) Am I going into a depression episode - am I showing any other signs of depression, (c) Am I going into a hypomanic episode - am I showing any other signs of that. Depending on the answers to my questions, I'd either take action or stay on the alert for other symptoms. If you're in bed at night and the voices become too much of a headache, go chat with the nurses at their station, even if it's two am. This is for voices you can't really hear. If you can start understanding the conversation, or if the voices start talking TO you, then that's a whole other thing, and requires immediate intervention (I haven't gotten this yet).

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