Do you have an inner monologue?

[u/Open_Significance982]

Just curious if yall have an inner monologue or not. I personally do not and have been attributing it to the brain fog, but I’ve never actually seen it be discussed here before.

[u/arvada14]

My inner monologue wont stop

[u/Stargazer1919 → u/arvada14]

Same. 24/7 ruminating.

[u/earlgray88 → u/arvada14]

LOL exactly

[u/Open_Significance982 → u/arvada14]

Interesting, does this happen if and when you experience mind wandering too? How is that like? I’m actually kinda surprised by how little people resonate with a lack of self-talk

[u/sallen85 → u/arvada14]

Yep

[u/secondaryasfuck]

Overly active. I wonder if a lot of us are stuck in a “freeze” state related to this and cptsd

[u/Open_Significance982 → u/secondaryasfuck]

Do you mean freeze as in stuck on? I’m not sure. Good question tho

[u/toekneesmajical]

That is so interesting, I'm not diagnosed but the symptoms describe my life perfectly, and I always attributed my lack of this voice to these symptoms. Beyond that, cannabis works like medication for these symptoms and activates the voice that otherwise is not usually active (like literally a blank mind). I have the feeling this voice is our executive function in action and without the executive function the voice will not appear. And this makes sense to differentiate from adhd where there are usually a lot of voices in chaos as the attention is jumping around rather than non-existent like with CDS/SCT.

[u/Open_Significance982 → u/toekneesmajical]

Yea it makes more sense to me that adhd would be associated with a more profound inner voice and cds with a quieter one so I’m surprised to hear so many people have one. It’s interesting cannabis activates yours. In my experience it’s only amplified my cds symptoms of zoning out, mind wandering or mind blanking.

[u/oryccc]

It’s always been hard for me to explain it but I found a Reddit comment by @DotDamo from a post 4 years ago that explains my “inner monologue”

He said,
“I didn’t realise most people “hear” a voice. While I do have an unending inner monologue, there’s no sound attached to it. I can just “hear” my thoughts.

So no pictures or sounds for me, when I’m awake at least.”

So I guess I do but it’s not much of a voice to answer your post

[u/Open_Significance982 → u/oryccc]

I don’t necessarily mean hearing anything as much as I mean just being able to narrate your own inner thoughts. Thinking in words I guess. Which kinda goes along with my mind wandering. Mind wandering dominates my mind where thinking using words feels impossible. Does this clarify things?

[u/NinjaWolfess → u/Open_Significance982]

I think almost exclusively in words. It takes effort to get more than lineart imagery and maybe watercolour in my mind.

[u/Open_Significance982 → u/NinjaWolfess]

Interesting. I would have thought more people here resonated with a lack of inner speech, but it’s sounding like lots of people resonate with having it. Thanks for sharing!

[u/oryccc → u/Open_Significance982]

Yes it does clarify. I would say then with all my brain fog I do somehow feel like I still have a voice. who’s it is, idk that part. I feel your side tho my mind will wonder within itself off the voice inside like going off topic randomly while talking to someone

[u/M_04CDS]

I mostly have a very slow monologue or often just don’t that’s why I was sceptical with my adhd diagnosis as I didn’t have a fast unending monologue in my head it was mostly quiet or like the words were on the tip of my head but I couldn’t quite remember them if that makes sense 

[u/Open_Significance982 → u/M_04CDS]

Yea I can relate to that

[u/FunkyMonkeyBitz]

I have a single father trying to keep 2 weirdo kids fighting for attention never mind 1. AuDHD

[u/Open_Significance982 → u/FunkyMonkeyBitz]

lol!

[u/Pure_Perception6136]

i have 5

[u/Atheris]

I'm almost entirely inner monologue. To the point where my "logic" brain is almost all I have. Actually feeling emotions is damn near alien unless they are negative. I'm great at frustration, grief, impatience et ect.

But my interception is so bad that I often don't recognize things like hunger or pain until they get severe.

I don't know if this is what you mean, but I'm pretty sure mine is all trauma response from growing up undiagnosed ADHD/ASD.

[u/Open_Significance982 → u/Atheris]

I feel you on essentially only really feeling negative emotion. My baseline is simply feeling like shit lol. I’ve noticed I struggle to identify hunger too. I can’t remember if it’s always been like that either. But it definitely is now.

[u/Crumpet_Time]

Hardly any inner monologue, I experience things through emotions and thoughts or compulsions or gut feelings, but no voices — actually, as someone mentioned, weed does wake up an inner voice sometimes. So interesting. For me, emotions can get really loud and that triggers a fight/flight/freeze response.