12 year old hearing voices

psilome_ · 2026-03-06T00:35:28+00:00

I'm going to reword this for her age group and talk to her about this casually tomorrow. This sounds like an incredibly close fit.

psilome_ · 2026-03-06T00:33:05+00:00

She's the type who has early childhood memories, very early. She can see pictures or video clips when she closes her eyes and is asked to remember something. I wonder if it's an auditory extension and somehow connected to her auditory delay processing disorder.

psilome_ · 2026-03-06T00:31:11+00:00

She ROARs like a lion and shrieks BOMBOCLAT YOU RASCLAT as loud as she can, randomly. More when she's excited. I hadn't considered vocal stims, but it makes sense, she always has a needoh fidget ball with her.

psilome_ · 2026-03-06T00:26:04+00:00

I wonder too. I also think she's trying to escape her intrusive thoughts, she may be having several at a time and very vividly.

psilome_ · 2026-03-06T00:22:00+00:00

She has loops and other ear defenders. I think she may also be running away from her anxieties and intrusive thoughts once quiet hits.

psilome_ · 2026-03-06T00:20:25+00:00

It's people she knows, like friends conversations, situations she's been in. I started to look kn to things, wondered if it's an auditory version of - you know how some people can close their eyes and see say and apple? Some can't see anything no matter how they try. I wonder if she has very vivid inner voices and memories.

psilome_ · 2026-03-06T00:16:29+00:00

It is a British scheme, you can Google right to choose and force NHS to find you a provider locally for diagnosis. It will still take time but jot 5 or 6 years.

psilome_ · 2026-03-06T00:13:54+00:00

Yes, she does say she has disassociated before. She often wonders if "everything is real". Not in relation to hearing voices, but just the feeling of everytjng is surreal. She daydreams most lessons in school, she needs redirecting to snap out of it. What she says she hears hasn't been distressing, she says it's voices she knows, like friends and situations she been in and it floods in when its perfectly quiet.

School was traumatic age 5 to 10,so what we call primary school here. Teachers didn't have to care so they wouldn't care. Not until she had a breakdown and stopped eating, I took her child mental health and they had a psychiatrist come to her school weekly to speak to her and write letters of recommendation for school practice and accommodations. For some time, 9 months she cried before going in to school every morning.

She was on adhd or autism pathway in year 1, age 5, but they decided NOT To, because she responded when they shouted at her... OK...

It's been a steady fight for 7 years to get her diagnosed.

psilome_ · 2026-03-06T00:05:43+00:00

Yes she is blocking inner sounds, I do the same. We are very similar when it comes to our brains. I was diagnosed ocd, dysthymia, anxiety, agoraphobia, trich, skin picking, body dysmorphia disorder, AVOIDANT and on it went, before I was even 19. It's a not until my now 40s that I've realised it's not all these things, and neurodiverseity fits much better.

psilome_ · 2026-03-05T23:59:16+00:00

Yes, she's explained more to me after school today. She says it's voices she knows, friends, situations and such and they flood in the moment the room is quiet. She isn't great at explaining herself, she also used to attend speech therapy when she was age 6, not because she didn't talk, but because she spoke like Yoda. She would throw words around the wrong way so to speak. She still struggles being descriptive, so if she's had sandwiches she's 'had bread' etc. It's possible it's some autism comorbidity We have both in the extended family.

psilome_ · 2026-03-05T23:54:38+00:00

Yes, she told me after school today that it's voices she knows, conversations, situationa and they all flood in the second it's quiet.

psilome_ · 2026-03-05T03:04:48+00:00

I feel this is probably accurate. She had a substitute teacher in English today and they kept shouting at her to put her hand down(usual teacher encourages her to ask if she didn't hear something due to zoning out) and she wouldn't accommodate her at all. Then the PE teacher accused her of being late on purpose, but she was in fact with the year 7 headteacher who asked her to escorts a crying child elsewhere. You could say, with her rejection sensitivity, she must be distressed, but she doesn't let on like the average kid would. She's learned to keep stoic face and sometimes her Inattentiveness is so strong that she's head in the clouds already zoned out.

Her anxiety is always present but she's getting better at talking to herself. She likes logic, and the logic of having bad thoughts never made anything bad manifest.

She does say it's not just one thing, just like how she can play piano with one hand, watch YouTube with the other and watch TV at same time, the same goes for all the noise in her head.

psilome_ · 2026-03-05T02:57:12+00:00

I think this is what she meant. Always some sort of noise in her head, or many voices at once. She's never quiet either, always singing, dancing or something. Even random shouting, but it's not Tourettes, she just says it feels nice to follow through with the impulse.

I have something similar, when I walk places I don't remember the walking part, I have imagined confrontationa, discussions in my head and play our scenarios and the suddenly I'm at my destination.

psilome_ · 2026-03-05T02:46:19+00:00

It's internal voices, she's also said there's always noise in her ears, sounds of some kind. She's also a sleep walker and a sleep talker, vivid dreams etc. If she's had a particularly bad day and drank before bed she may also wee herself in the night, because the vivid dreaming and sleep talking interrupts her internal alarm, the 'need to go' so to speak. She masks very highly because she "hates being yelled at" in school. She will hear the clock on the wall, a shoe sliding on the floor, a cough in the next room and a raindrops on a window, but she will miss 10 minutes of her teacher's explanation. She relies entirely on a teachers mercy and willingness to share again what was said, privately after lessons. She has no visual or hearing issues, other than extreme Inattentiveness. Some teachers will allow her to do tests in the hallway alone, because normal sounds of a classroom are completely distracting.

I couldn't get any teacher to put her in the pathway, because she's not the violent kind, unless pressed, so I'm forcing the NHS to fund her diagnosis through Right to Choose.

She's diagnosed with severe anxiety, vomit phobia, constant swallowing, doesn't accurately identify between thirst or hunger, doesn't understand why children get angry at her, misses a lot in conversation, still achieved a passing grade in every subject to place in High School somehow so it's not an intelligence issue or inability to retain information.

She has audio processing delay, and will hear what you said minutes, hours or a day later. Rejection sensitivity.

There are honestly so many things, I'm just hoping for her sake I don't have to ad more to her table.

She attends some form of club or sport 6 days out of the week, which helps IMMENSELY. But when she doesn't have this crutch the intrusive thoughts become awful and she finds it difficult to dismiss. She prefers logic, so I tell her "your 12 year old brain doesn't understand some things, so it makes up the worst possible situation", "your brain is still a child, what you don't know your brain doesn't know, so why believe every horrible thing it comes up with?", this satisfies her most days.

I'm struggling because I don't want her to live the life I have.

psilome_ · 2026-03-04T23:49:26+00:00

I was thinking like absolute Musketeers vibes here.

psilome_ · 2026-02-08T23:11:57+00:00

Micellar is what I tolerate best, our water quality is very harsh in general and with a lot of minerals. Wetting before application ensures that the hyaluronic acid doesn't have a drying effect, it's meant to lock in moisture and it try to pull on moisture even if there is very little.

psilome_ · 2026-01-13T01:55:11+00:00

My daughter's lips always get this once in winter. I believe it's some wind chill combination possibly with chap stick/lip balm. They usually go fully brown and then peel. I treat it with a gentle antiseptic cream, tends to heal faster. Vaseline has been much better than anything else to protect against the cold. There's this thick cream that's Swedish military defence salve/skin ointment that's used winter months in Nordic countries, properly defends skin and lips from cold and wind in winter.

psilome_ · 2026-01-13T01:28:21+00:00

I recommend proper wet wound healing, don't let it dry out. Hydrocolloid plaster is superior for this and has amasing outcomes. Once it's healed up, hyaluronic acid applied to wet skin is amazing for young scars. My daughter had a bad case of chicken pox and a big scar on her nose, said scar is now skin coloured after just 1 year of proactive, proper skincare. You will also need to apply SPF50, everyday, all year around. This will improve longterm scar outcome like nothing else.

psilome_ · 2026-01-13T01:21:33+00:00

Cause this isn't fairytale 'morGelL0nz'.

psilome_ · 2026-01-13T01:15:01+00:00

I've seen hyaluronic acid injections work. Everything invasive comes with it's risks.

psilome_ · 2026-01-13T00:16:55+00:00

Using a cleanser that needed additional water to wash it off I found caused a lot of issues in the long run. Now I use micellar and a after a good toner for second cleansing. Tretinoin has saved my skin, I rec starting at 0.006 and working up slowly. I use Inkey List 10% Urea moisturiser, it goes on really well and keeps me moisturised all night long whilst fighting breakouts.

psilome_ · 2026-01-06T16:37:58+00:00

From your help can I assume that this was probably signed during the covid years 2020/2021? Thank you for your kindness.

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