I think the difference between my voices (non-psychotic voices) and psychotic voices is that I'm aware that my voices aren't real although last Christmas I was convinced what I was hearing was real and I had to be admitted so I suppose that was psychosis... I don't know. I think the main thing is though that I am aware that they are voices and I call them voices. I suppose if it was psychosis I wouldn't call them voices as I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between real voices and these voices. Sorry I'm probably not explaining that very well!
It has made me feel a lot better knowing that these types of voices are related to BPD. I have an inital assessment for DBT next Wednesday so maybe I will ask them about it.
Distracting is hard I find and I tend to carry out what the voices are telling me e.g. self-harming (this makes me think there is a fine line between these voices and psychotic voices...) But I am addicted to my iPOD and that's the only thing that helps really, although that is no good when I am trying to get to sleep!
Like you Auror, it tends to happen when I'm really stressed or not sleeping well... At least we know there are others out there with the same problem now.
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