Interesting article. Moreso for me as this is perhaps the one topic around here i have some first hand experience with.<p>That feeling is really really odd though. There&#x27;s a moment when you go &quot;wait, that&#x27;s an apparently fully functioning consciousness that is capable of responding to my every thought, my brain&#x2F;reality can DO THAT?&quot;. For me it took a long time to play off the many different possible solutions to that puzzle, and at the end of the day i settled for a mix of &quot;currently unknown exactly how that is done&quot; (sort of like consciousness itself, i guess) to &quot;wow, reality sure does have some extra layers of &quot;fun&quot; i hadn&#x27;t really been informed about.<p>If the voice(es) in any way confined themselves to the spectrum of being&#x2F;knowledge that i as an individual acknowledged that i was in posession of, that would be one thing, but the world becomes a weird place when they go outside your acknowledged &quot;knowns&quot;.<p>Now, i was lucky enough to have a very supportive and patient family that viewed it as something that could be managed outside of the realm of antipsychotic therapy. I&#x27;m not saying that handling it with prescribed drugs is necessarily a bad idea, if it works for you then i hope it continues to do so.<p>Sorry for the rant, but i was just reminded of how weird all of that stuff was to go through. Its been a while since i thought about it.