Maybe those people were sick
How do you tell the difference between "hearing voices" in context of being sick or "hearing voices" that are actually real but only you can hear?
So you're reaching pretty far to try and liken me to a mental case
I'm not reaching. I'm just saying: how would you tell the difference?
The vast majority of people that hear voices, are very convinced that they are real, you know?
This is exactly why it is typically difficult to treat... most of them don't want medication or treatment, because they don't think there is anything wrong with them.
So tell me, how do I, as a third party who is not hearing any voices, tell the difference between your claim of hearing voices and the same claim by someone who's psychotic or whatever?
Like any time anyone has ever said that they hear voices and they go kill someone...makes me a mental case because God spoke to me?
1. not all auditory hallucinations involve voices that command killing. In fact, most don't.
2. that these voices are from god, is just what you believe.
3. i know of no instance where it ever turned out "normal" or "actually real" that a person is hearing voices
You're trying awful hard to make me out to be a mental case
I'm not. I'm just saying: hearing voices isn't considered to be a good thing.
Once more: how do you tell the difference between hearing voices as a result of hallucination or hearing voices as a result of an actual undetectable entity speaking to you (and just you)?
I don't hear voices all the time. God spoke to me that one time. It never happened before that, it hasn't happened again after that. If I was a mental case then there would be other indicators.
Not necessarily. And I already explained that hallucinations of that type aren't necessarily connected to psychiatric disorders. There's a whole list of things that can cause such hallucinations. Even simple stress can cause it. A traumatic experience. Exhaustion. An infection in the wrong place. High fever. Drugs (or side-effects thereof).
Each and every one extremely more plausible then an actual undetectable, unsupportable supernatural entity actually talking to you (and just you).
Put yourself in our shoes for a second....
Here we are, knowing for a fact that the human brain is extremely prone to hallucination, with the knowledge of a whole list of things that could cause it..
And there you are, saying that you heared a voice.
What did you expect? That we would just believe you?
Hmm, let's see here. I've never been in trouble, never been to prison, I was married for 26 years to the same girl who has my only kids of anyone in the world, I've been self employed for myself since 1994, I've never been charged with any sort of violent crime, never had a DUI (ever), I've carried a concealed 45 automatic pistol for over thirty years and never had a weapons charge, never been in a fight which ended with cops showing up, never been to any sort of rehab or anything like that...and you think I'm a mental case?!
So, about the same as that person very close to me who all of a sudden ended up in full blown psychosis... Indeed, never hurt a fly etc. Also not while in the psychotic episode. The voices that were heared didn't command to do anything bad either.
It seems you have a very wrong idea about what it is that we are saying. It's also you who said "mental case" - I never said any such thing.
Not every psychiatric patient is a serial killer, you know. In fact, most aren't.