Talking to yourself.

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I used to talk to myself but am so much better off now that I've stopped. For me it was a habitual response to stress. I never liked the idea that I did it. I compare it to cigarette smoking or overeating. I began to wean myself off the habit after I started living on my own. Now I only whisper acknowledgments to myself from time to time. I feel much calmer and happier.

I talk to myself on occasion, usually if I'm embarrassed or if I am really anxious about something, I talk to myself while driving a lot. For example, if I make a wrong turn and I have to awkwardly turn around or if I run a light on accident I have to start talking to myself, maybe to calm myself I guess. I also talk to myself if I get angry at something. for example, this morning I was walking through my university's parking lot to class and someone took a very small, and very difficult to get into parking spot rather than take one that was totally open on either side because it was farther away and they would have to walk farther, a perfectly fit teenage girl did this, WHY, I see people do it all the time, damn laziness... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Okay, rage over =D

I talk out loud to myself all the time. I don't respond like I'm playing two parts of a conversation, but I do talk as though I'm having one, sort of. It just helps me to organize my thoughts. What tends to happen if I just think things instead of speaking them, is that only half of the thought occurs, and it repeats itself many times over because I keep somehow forgetting where I was going with my original thought. If I say it out loud, it's easier to keep track of it. I know people think I'm weird, for other things too, but whatever.