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eaavendano

Joined: 11/24/2010

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I think I started hearing voices in 2007. I'm am certain of a few things.

I was working the graveyard shift at a 24hour store at the time for less than a year.
I started to hear insults from customers and strangers wherever I went. At first I thought people were just being rude to me. As a result I thought I was being followed by strangers so this delusion didn't form out of the blue and it took time.
After a major seizure I started taking a lot of supplements, including ginko, a 500mg dose I found and it made my head feel more normal again after the seizure; the seizure left me feeling like I couldn't concentrate afterwards.
A couple of hours before the seizure I cried like a baby for at least half an hour nonstop, I don't know exactly why. I felt like I couldn't stop myself, I don't think I've ever cried that hard in my whole life.
I really started hearing full blown voices almost exactly a year after the seizure in 2008. I think I remember taking a week break from work from the vacation time I had accumulated because I felt things were getting to me and because I completely stopped taking all the supplements I put myself on for a year.
My family took me to the hospital after a breakdown like a couple of weeks later or so. I was even hearing voices in the hospital from the staff and they were saying strange things about me and talking to me with their minds. By the way, all the time I thought strangers were following me around because of the auditory hallucinations; even while driving and I would look at passing cars I would hear voices coming from the hood of my car.
I only started getting better after I was on meds, the meds made me sleepy and I started sleeping a lot. This was after a couple of months because the phsyc doctor had a lot of patients and I had to wait.
About a couple of months before the full blown auditory hallucinations in 2008 I started taking caffeine tablets, a 250mg dose per tablet which I read it equals to about a cup of coffee to counteract fatigue. I had started to feel really tired and that made me feel more alert. Strange thing is I only remember taking about 1 or 2 tablets per day so I didn't abuse the caffeine right?

That is about as much as I can say I'm certain of.

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I have been hearing voices since 2007 or at least that's when I became aware of it. It's now 2010. Among the things that I hear from these unknown voices is to leave certain places like my city, the state or even the country because according to them "I'm in Hell...".

The thing that I can say about this is just ask the question, what does everyone think about constantly being bombarded with annoying, prankster-like, amateurish voices that you can't tell where they are coming from EVERYWHERE YOU GO, like being in the middle of a party you just crashed in which you weren't invited?

I tend to cope with this by either taking medication, which sedates me and makes me really tired, affecting my concentration or by being by myself without any outside interference like a loud TV or radio playing in the background because I also hear voices from those sources.

I believe that this is caused by changes in the brain and science can prove that, but I think that there is more to it than that.

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In 2007 I was working in a department store, so I started making eye contact with people as a habit. A few months later I had a huge seizure at home that knocked me out. I was left with feelings of hopelessness and anxiety attacks that lasted several months. I think that the habit of making casual eye contact at work eventually caused the seizure. I also started hearing voices and insulting slang words whenever I would look at anyone in public by something that I can't see and from strangers, which was shocking to me and it took a while to learn to deal with it.

I don't know if this illness came to me as a result of working with the public or from something within me that caused it.

I'm also ambidextrous and I notice that the voices get louder and more menacing whenever I use my left hand. I also had a one time confrontation at work with someone and a few months later the seizure and the voices that have persisted to this day, 2007 to 2010.

I was once casually asked by my doctor in the second meeting I had with him out of the blue if I had ever had a problem with anyone at work without me mentioning to him I once had, not sure why he would ask such a question or what does that have to do with me hearing voices.

Something I didn't tell my doctor was that everything I started hearing at work was work related and to do with my life at the point. Would like to hear from other people who are going through stuff like this and what they think caused it.

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Ervin

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