- They know your emotional insecurities in & out. So they know exactly how to hit you where it hurts.
- They make you doubt alot.
I said I hadn't heard voices myself, but as I sit here it seems that's not entirely correct. I have an active inner dialog, and that dialog is as if I had said the words myself. Sometimes I actually do say them out loud.
I could imagine that if there's a disconnect such that my inner dialog did not feel like it was me talking to myself, it would perhaps be like hearing a voice that isn't there.
There's a striking similarity in your and mpol's response though, in how these voices play on fear and insecurities in a negative way. It's a theme that seems highly correlated, based on casual observations.
I guess it's possible others have it in the opposite way, but that doesn't manifest in a "problematic" way so we don't hear about it much.
Again, thanks for sharing.