Inner monologues are useless. I talk to myself out loud
Same. My dog probably thinks I’m crazy. She might be right 🤔
I sometimes think I may have something similar to tourettes. It’s not involuntary, I can stop it when I’m around people for the most part. But I’ve always had moments of stammering and often move from inner monologue to speaking to myself out loud without realising. It’s caused multiple awkward moments with people I encounter. One woman was so scared as she was getting out of her car with me speaking to myself on the street next to her that she immediately got back in and drove away.
I moved from that to making random and mostly obscene statements when I’m on my own a few years ago.
I put it down to living alone for the last 14 years.
For behavioralists, inner conversations can reveal repressed emotions, good or self-deprecating, that were stirred by a phone call or triggered by an event or encounter. Like the self-admonishing, “Oh, I sounded so stupid!” Or the self-affirming, “I always feel valued when she and I work together.”
What. Who would ever talk to themself like that? Maybe my inner monologue is just naturally mean, always bringing up exactly what I don’t want to talk about, but I can tell you it has never said anything along the lines of, “I always feel valued when she and I work together.”
