So many years ago I was listening to a Spanish-language broadcast of the shortwave radio station The Voice of America that transmits from Washington, D.C. In that same broadcast, a female announcer reported that according to a study from a number of mental-health professionals, it had been concluded that people who talk to themselves were not mentally ill because of it.
Nevertheless, as we live in a nation (The United States Of America) that has an infestation of self-appointed psychiatrists, there are individuals who still hold onto this same dogma that people who talk to themselves are mentally deranged. There are also rogue psychiatrists who continue to support such dogmas. We need to strip them of their medical licenses any way we can.
After I first moved to New York City, I had a boss whom I will refer to as Mr. Hopper for the sake of this article. He was one of those self-praising prom kings who got married and started a family at a young age. He had served in the Marine Corp. He was dead set on believing that anyone that talked to themselves was mentally ill, while he had no background in psychiatry that I knew of. He was a terrible boss, to say the least.
After working for Mr. Hopper for as long as I did, I came to the conclusion that this man was a sociopath. That is, he took no reluctance in slandering others in his mindset as a self-appointed psychiatrist, but he was incapable of finding any fault with himself. And he had a number of faults that made him unfit for management, many of which were related to his mental health. Unfortunately, he had all of his superiors fooled.
Here is my point. Probably nobody who talks to themselves ever goes to a psychiatrist for therapy. And why should they? There are probably more people that talk to themselves in this world than there are that don't talk to themselves, and most everyone cannot be crazy. Even people who preach that those who talk to themselves are crazy also talk to themselves, but they either don't notice it or they live in denial of it.
The problem is that no matter what experts have to say, old habits die hard, especially with self-appointed psychiatrists. Even if every textbook out there that has to do with mental health were to report that people who talk to themselves are not crazy, little minds are going to continue to believe that they are. These know-it-alls simply need to get a life and stop obsessing over this topic.
There was a woman that worked in my office back when I was doing paralegal work. Her name was Regina. She had a habit of talking to herself, and she acknowledged it in a shameless manner. I admit that sometimes it felt kind of scary for me whenever she did it excessively. However, did I have a problem with it from an overall standpoint? No, I didn't.
Did I believe that Regina was mentally unhinged? Yes, I did, but it wasn't because she talked to herself. It was because she sniffled chronically, and her nasal noises became a distraction from my work. At the same time, she was unapproachable about this filthy habit of hers. If you offered her a Kleenex, she would get on the defensive about it. Her boss eventually fired her for repetitive absenteeism. Of course, that's another article for another time.
Below is a video that talks about this same habit of people talking to themselves. It offers ample proof that most people that talk to themselves are poster children for sane mental health.
People Who Talk To Themselves Are No Crazier Than People That Don't Talk To Themselves
If you're one of those people that talk to themselves and you're thinking about murdering someone and using your habit to avoid prison on a plea of temporary insanity, don't do it. The court system will take facts into consideration over archaic dogma. If someone has accused you of being mentally ill for talking to yourself, you're better off slapping that person with a defamation lawsuit.
If you win a defamation lawsuit against someone who falsely accuses you of being crazy inasmuch as you talk to yourself, you won't enlighten that individual in any manner; but you will teach them a lesson that will encourage them to keep their intellectually bankrupt opinions to themselves. Sometimes these people need someone to ruffle their feathers and put them in their place.
You're probably wondering where this dogma comes from that brands people that talk to themselves as being mentally ill. Back in the fifteenth century, Joan of Arc claimed that she was able to speak with God, angels, and other heavenly bodies. People believed that she was mentally unhinged for doing so and that talking to herself was something demonic. Eventually, she was wrongfully executed.
If someone actively seeks to find out who talks to themselves merely for the thrill of accusing them of being crazy, chances are that such a busybody is a sociopath with very little going on in their own life. I would have to say that perhaps those people are the ones that need to be locked up in a mental institution rather than the people they persecute for talking to themselves. The psychiatric profession hasn't had a very good reputation lately either.
If you have a habit of talking to yourself, don't waste your time and money on getting psychotherapy that you don't need. If someone accuses you of being mentally unhinged after they find out that you do talk to yourself, don't allow them to pressure you into getting therapy. It's not as though they're going to pay for it.
If your employer is pressuring you into going to a psychiatrist inasmuch as they have discovered that you talk to yourself, get a lawyer. They have no right to force you into psychotherapy. Such employers belong behind bars for doing so. You know yourself better than any of these idiots do. These idiots are simply not grounded in reality, and they're not pushing you to see a shrink out of the kindness of their heart but rather to be derisive.
If you had a mental problem, I'm sure that you would notice it. It's very uncommon for someone to be mentally ill and not even know it, unless that person's ego is extremely inflated as my boss from New York City fitted that same description quite accurately.
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