How do yo deal with talking to yourself?

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I just try to make sure I'm alone when I talk to myself. I know my family thinks I'm nuts, but they thought that before and by now they're use to it.

Same here. I just do it, though my mum often notices and jokingly says I'm mad

Hehe, I talk to pets too, but in my household at home talking to yourself isn't weird. My mum talks to herself to practice lectures and when my cat was alive she would have whole conversations with her, to the point where she would answer for the cat in a high-pitched mewling voice. Brilliant. My dad has conversations with himself when he's neurotic, even when he's out on the streets in braod daylight.

I am very bad at singing to myself too, and I do it really loud even when I think it's quiet. I also have cooing conversations with my stuffed Tony the Tiger in the same way as mum used to do with the cat but my chat is properly babyish e.g. "Hello Toneeeeee, how are you?" "Rrrrraaaaaaaawr, I love you mummy. I like your hugs mummy!". "And why is your nose so stripy Toneeeeeeee?" etc.

If I want to put myself in that special hell of oversensitive hearing, I turn it on.

I used to just do it, but then people would think I was insane, and that I was talking to voices I heard in my head. Sometimes I would be discussing things with myself, other times with characters in a book or show, and still others with my cat, or even an object. I still do, I just don't do it out loud.

Talking to myself is actually much better, as I don't get interrupted, rude comments, laughed at, and I actually listen. Well, my kitty does, too, as do characters and objects. It's rather hard to explain, but it's like...as though they're listening. Plus, they're intrested in what I have to say.

1. I've learned to check if others are around before being more vocal to myself.

2. I keep meaning to buy a cheap bluetooth earpiece so I can look like I'm on the phone with someone.

I talk a lot to inanimate objects and I can totally relate with whoever mentioned apologising to the coffee maker. I also talk to myself sometimes, but usually it's to objects or to other people who couldn't possibly hear me (walking across a busy street or a store entryway comes to mind - I'm always talking to the drivers who are trying to turn the corner or onto the street from a store, because I don't know whether I should go or let them go first so I have to talk myself through the ordeal.)

As far as dealing with it, if I find myself rambling on or else if I just get sick of hearing my voice, I just say "shh" or "stop" and my voice is quite obedient.

Someone else mentioned talking to yourself in your head. It made me think of the two layers of thought I have discovered that I have and I don't know if other people think like that. It's hard to describe but I have regular thoughts and then I can simultaneously have my voice in my head which is like when I'm talking to myself. Another way to describe it is that I can sing a song in the thought part of my mind while also having a conversation in the voice part of my mind. So it's like if I was talking out loud to myself but I can still have different thoughts going on in my head, only if I stop talking out loud I can just move that voice inside my head... yeah that doesn't even make sense to me anymore, perhaps I'm just crazy.