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Your problem is not the demonic voices but the fact that you cannot win if you fight to make them shut up. At least not through pure mental effort. The solution is to not fight against them. The slogan is, “what you resist persists”. It may be that there are some antipsychotic medications that would completely stop all those symptoms, but until then, you don’t have to drive yourself crazy in unsuccessfully trying to use mental effort to make them stop, go away, or be quiet. That drives you insane, and you don’t have to do it. Neither do you have to believe any crazy demonic voices you hear. So they’re evil, so it’s terrifying, so it tells you to do everything bad and eveil — that’s a strong thing to have coming from your own mind, and you can experience that and move on to something else. Stop feeding it the extra worry and attention. Just make the decision and commitment to only trust and follow thoughts and believes that you trust, that are wise and loving and good for both you and all other people involved.

And, the obvious, talk to your psychiatrist, but learn the important part of what is really insane here — it’s not the psychosis itself that is so bad, even though nobody should ever have to go through that, the problem is your relationship to it, in fear trying to make it all stop and go away.

I’m a worthless, horrible person

Hold onto this sentence while that’s all going on: “I love myself.”