I do this all the time! I think I only started doing this when I wasn't getting the emotional support I needed from family and friends and felt lonely and disconnected. I would make up scenarios or fantasies in my head and act them out talking aloud to myself. Some people in my family have heard me and commented but if I could talk to them in real life I would but I'm a much better listener and conversationalist and I understand me! I make up dramatic scenarios too and cry sometimes, I think it is a way of externalising feelings and working through emotions and relieving stress. If everyone around me wasn't so useless maybe I could talk to them but I prefer talking to myself. I started doing it occasionally but now its become a habit I find hard to get out of. I think it's normal though, it's a coping mechanism, as long as you know its not real and its help its fine.
Is it normal that I talk to myself as other people?
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I do this all the time! I think I only started doing this when I wasn't getting the emotional support I needed from family and friends and felt lonely and disconnected. I would make up scenarios or fantasies in my head and act them out talking aloud to myself. Some people in my family have heard me and commented but if I could talk to them in real life I would but I'm a much better listener and conversationalist and I understand me! I make up dramatic scenarios too and cry sometimes, I think it is a way of externalising feelings and working through emotions and relieving stress. If everyone around me wasn't so useless maybe I could talk to them but I prefer talking to myself. I started doing it occasionally but now its become a habit I find hard to get out of. I think it's normal though, it's a coping mechanism, as long as you know its not real and its help its fine.