Is it normal to hear voices in my head?

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Hello everyone! I've noticed that for a long time, I've had little urging voices in my head. I've never been diagnosed with a mental illness, though. They're usually not harmful, but influence my choices, sometimes make me do weird things...
Examples:
"you HAVE to open this door with your left hand OR ELSE"
"If you put that item there, your parents will be mad at you today"
"You MUST walk to the right of that pole OR ELSE"
"You will catch the flu if you don't drink 3 sips of water right now"
"you cannot change your body position until..."
"If you send that text, your friends will all hate you"
"If you click on that app, you will not get that job you want"
"DO NOT use that fork. Or that one. Or that one. NO not that one. ONLY that one is okay."
"DO NOT sing along to certain words of this song or you will crash your car today"

These voices seem to be getting more often, and most of the time I listen to them, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I find myself sitting and contemplating whether to listen. Does this happen to everyone?

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  • B_E_Z_sweetie
    6 years ago

    Is your life really boring? Or do you have control over very little of your choices right now?
    I think the brain will sometimes do stuff like that to spice up your day...just to keep things interesting.

    If you're ever hearing a voice that IS NOT YOURS...or is telling you to DO HARM to something/someone.. That would be something to be concerned about.

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  • paramore93
    6 years ago

    It completely depends.
    Who do the voices belong to? Are they your inner voice, do they sound like friends or are they complete strangers?
    Is it causing you a lot of stress or encouraging you to do stupid things?
    Voices can happen for a huge variety of reasons and it doesn't always mean you have a mental health problem.

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  • Hotdogsaregross
    6 years ago

    Yep I have had this since I was 8 years old. Over the years it changes on the severity.
    I had it really bad as a child.
    I also had it really bad after I gave birth to my daughter.
    If I didn’t turn the bedroom light on and off 10 to 12 times my daughter would get severely sick.
    If I didn’t kiss my husband 4 times in a roll before he went to work he would die in a car accident on his way to work.
    It’s always even numbers. Odd numbers are bad luck to me.
    I still have it now.
    Just yeterday I turned the faucet on and off 4 times after washing my hands because if I didn’t something bad will happen to me really soon.
    I have avoided doing these rituals in the past by saying “this is stupid. Nothing bad is going to happen because you decided to not to turn the light on and off 8 times and sniff your nose 8 times while you do it”.
    It doesn’t always help though.

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  • IndieIsAwesome
    6 years ago

    Wow freaking absolutely reminds me of me when I was a few years younger its stopped now but sometimes I would get exactly the same voices and words "or else" in my head I would have these weird conversations with myself in my head saying "she cant enter your room or else he thinks your ugly" if my little sister came in my room when I was hoping she wouldnt, my crush would not like me and thinks that im ugly, it was like a good luck/ bad luck believeing thingamajig.

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  • Hateful1
    6 years ago

    I just can't resist.

    https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P-G6fBigJpM/UGUHyOq3iHI/AAAAAAAAA6k/7wlZnGVrkco/s1600/LOLCATS2.jpg

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