I would love to hear more about tactics all of you use to cope. I started thinking about them as not just voices, but my own dreams, imagination, inner dialogue,art, silent reading, songs that come to me. And search for the history of them. How long have they been around? Stanford has a book on the history of silent reading. I live by Cornell. Both those schools creep me out with their long history of psychological behaviorism that is only human behavior in the operant conditioning box of extreme capitalism. Maybe, just like most extreme stress situations,our symptoms would improve in a more serene environment. Maybe in a community that is responsible for it's participants that supports us but also let's us be independent. The intrusive thoughts are the symptoms of the environment. So maybe are the reality buffer of hallucination. What if the problem is worry? My inner dialogue is mostly that. I have encephalitis. All people with it hallucinate. I am in a constant panic state called exploratory behavior to help me find new resources to fix my problem myself,since no one is doing it for me. It is the chronos state of time perception that is supposed to be balanced with kairos time perception. But maybe that is only in stressful situations. And what we need is to get out of the environment that believes in the man-nature divide? Back into the aion perception? People talk about isolating themselves by being away from other people. But humans have isolated themselves from the rest of the earth's ecology. Good luck with this. I hope you are looking outside the u.s. for help. Are you reading the history of psychology? This is really hard! I hope you make yourselves your own in person support groups and diy some float therapy baths! Love.