First sign of madness?

[Pootle]

I talk to myself...alot. It started about 6 years ago with insignificant mutterings like, "think I'll have something to eat" and has steadily escalated into full blown dialogue. For instance, if I am at home alone, I will quite happily talk out loud about whatever it is I am thinking about. It could be about an incident at work and how I feel about it, or plans for the weekend or whatever. What is a little scary is that when I am talking out loud, I often chuckle to myself or laugh as I'm recounting a funny incident to myself. If somebody were to overhear, they would think there was somebody else in the room and I was relaying a story to them. They would also think me quite insane. Furthermore, I've recently had to stop myself from "reflecting" out loud in public. Basically, I am vocal with my thoughts. But this can't be normal behavoir, am I going mad?

[copippin]

How refreshing to find someone else who talks to his/herself;of course the proverbial "they" say that it is only intelligent people who do it anyway.You are obviously in good company judgeing by all the answers,there is a lot of it about!!Carry on the good work and if you are going potty then there is a lot of us who will join you!!

[Buenchico]

WoWo: It's good to know I'm not alone!

Chris

[jno]

I talk to myself. A lot of it is rehearsing things, discussing how I feel about things, practising how I might respond to things, carrying on my side of an imaginary conversation - which sometimes I then repeat in real-life conversations. (I often think through sentences before posting them on AB, for instance.)

Perhaps this sort of ties in with what Buenchico says. I haven't grieved much over deaths of people I know, because I've rehearsed them, planned for them, already felt what I'm going to feel. This may well seem cold and unemotional; but I just look on it as thinking ahead. I don't have any fears for my mental health, though; it's just another, not uncommon, way of doing things.

[funnywebsite]

We all do it. It must be normal. I have had embarrassing times when I have remembered something funny walking down the street and started laughing to myself. Once I was on the tube and saw the front of someones newspaper and read the headlines and couldn't help laughing and somebody opposite started laughing too, it must of been catching. Don't worry, it is normally only really old people that talk to themselves out loud that look mad.