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swan
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Hi,]Does anyone else do this, I talk all my thoughts out loud, sometimes they are really angry thougts sometimes aboiut anxiety, manage to keep it under control at work or in socila stuations but then worse later, i find it really bwearing

Mon Feb 21 2011 13:13:00 #
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Yes, Teresa, I do this a great deal. I don't always manage to keep things in when in public, though. I don't go out very much, but in supermarkets I get stared at for talking out loud.

Mon Feb 21 2011 13:22:38 #
blueboy
Member

i talk out loud to myself all day, i got no one else to talk to.
i have had the kind of ocd where i want to say something to help imprint it in my memory, but it immediately vanishes from my memory and so i have repeated whatever it was over and over out loud

Mon Feb 21 2011 17:31:50 #
Truddles
Member

I frequently talk out loud to myself. I find that it's often the only way to get decent conversation

Mon Feb 21 2011 21:27:02 #
Jerama
Member

I do too but I wonder if it's worth it because I know what I am going to say in reply.

J

Mon Feb 21 2011 22:00:08 #
Truddles
Member

I'm not predictable or do I mean thick? As I don't always know what I'm going to say in reply

Mon Feb 21 2011 22:03:22 #
jo
Member

I reassure myself outloud, for some reason its more comforting that way.

Mon Feb 21 2011 22:30:30 #
Tess
Member

I was having my statutory OCD bath this morning and my husband came into the bathroom and said 'can anyone join in the conversation?' Oh dear, I was having a re-run of a rather embarrassing situation when I was talking to a nice young man in our local dicount store when a tiny bit of spit landed on his black jumper - I felt terrible, immediately apologised and he said 'it's alright, just a bad day'. And there I was 16 hours later in the bath telling myself out loud all about it .....

Tue Feb 22 2011 11:12:59 #
swan
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Tue Feb 22 2011 17:07:04 #
swan
Member

Hi,
Thanks to everyone but my talking out ;loud isn't a choice its a compulsion it sounds similar to tess and tricia.
Tess and tricia i can identify with you both. Tess your talking out loud is excatly the same as mine, sometimes it can go 0n for so many hours that i feel worn out.

Tue Feb 22 2011 17:07:04 #
swan
Member

Hi,
Thanks to everyone but my talking out ;loud isn't a choice its a compulsion it sounds similar to tess and tricia.
Tess and tricia i can identify with you both. Tess your talking out loud is excatly the same as mine, sometimes it can go 0n for so many hours that i feel worn out.

Tue Feb 22 2011 17:07:54 #
Tess
Member

Hi Teresa
I seem to do it when I'm embarrassed, anxious, going over and over a past conversation wondering if I said the wrong thing - I'm often not aware I'm doing it but I think it's a confidence thing and a sort of comfort, a bit like nail biting. I imagine it must be worse if you live alone.

Tue Feb 22 2011 18:42:13 #
Truddles
Member

I agree Tess, I too do it when I'm anxious or embarrassed and am often not aware that I'm doing it until someone comments. But if anyone stares or comments because I'm talking to myself the retort that I give is 'It's the only way to get a decent conversation.' It soon puts people in their place.

Tue Feb 22 2011 19:11:16 #
Tess
Member

As my husband tells me, if you talk to yourself you can be sure of two things - firstly that someone is going to be listening and secondly that you won't get into an argument.

Wed Feb 23 2011 11:23:36 #