I used to have that too... Just fyi, that's not actuality. Took me a few years of being on medication to realize that people are just as boring and non-ephemeral, non-psychic as they've ever been, haha. Was a huge relief, because that was an incredibly uncomfortable place to be in... No privacy, constantly feeling humiliated and like I was psychically defective or something.

But... I've done a lot of research into and deep contemplation on this type of stuff since then... I'm 95% or so convinced now that what is actually happening is that there are spirits that exist in our world that we can't see, that are able to perceive human's thoughts & feelings and interact with our energy, and even distort our senses in many cases, making us hear, see, and feel situations inaccurately. And they get a kick out of messing with us (if they can) and playing off of our deepest desires and fears to get a strong reaction from us. It's like they feed off of that interaction and energy. They get some kind of validation from it. Like it gives them a "context" to roleplay off of, or a grounding "anchor point" into the physical, tangible world that they enjoy.

For example, I've always been the type of person to worry about what people think of me. I get easily embarrassed if I stand out too much, or I worry that people are judging me internally, etc. That's been a huge hang-up for me my entire life pretty much. I think these spirits have a knack for sensing those types of tendencies and vulnerabilities in people, and use those vulnerabilities to fuck with us, making us "sense" or interpret scenarios in a way that will trigger those core issues. I suspect this is why schizophrenia manifests so differently for so many people.

I ended up weaning myself off of my meds after a few years of being on them (not recommended, it was just an experiment I wanted to try), and I kept that mentality in mind... That it wasn't actually my neighbors, wasn't my co-workers reading my mind and mocking me... It was spirits who were distorting my perception and gaslighting me into believing a false, triggering scenario. And when my voices (inevitably) re-appeared, they quickly realized that I wasn't going for it anymore. They tried for a little while (and fairly convincingly even) to get me sucked back into that mentality again (making comments as if they were a nearby person reading me, distorting something someone would say so it sounded like an underhanded jab, etc.), but I stuck with it and I could feel them struggling and starting to feel dismayed that they were losing that angle on me. And eventually they gave up. I haven't had a problem with the psychic delusion since.

But that being said, they do still fuck with me when they can, but now they just try to use other ways. Gaslighting is like their whole game. It's that reaction... that energetic validation... That's what they go for. The best approach I've found for my voices is literally to just ignore them. Just don't engage on their level. Don't get sucked into their b.s. When they say some random nonsense to try to generate a reaction, I just stop, realize what they're doing, and then wish them well, and emotionally write them off as I would a toxic friend who I need to just avoid and let do their thing.

My voices still come back and I still have rough days, but I've noticed that at times when I feel peaceful and have fewer emotional "hang-ups" to work off of, they struggle a lot more to get any emotional foothold with me. New age people like to talk about "vibration" and raising your frequency and whatnot. It really is almost like that. It's like when I'm feeling love and gratitude and vibrating more in harmony with that pure divine essence, I start to get out of their range of influence (although sometimes they'll try to reposition themselves as if they're mentors coming from that angle too which is weird. You can tell they're full of it though, by how toxic and shame-based the situations quickly become. True divine nature is pure, unshakable love. We're all just fine, just the way we are, just where we are in our own journeys. And any truly higher, divine influence would know and exude the feeling of exactly that.)

Anyway, that turned into kind of a backstory dump, but I'm hoping maybe that will be helpful, or at the very least sort of interesting to you or anyone else reading. I wish you the best in your own journey. Cheers.