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[Neonivek]

So I talk to myself pretty much all the time. In order not to I have to make an effort not to.

I talked to myself since I was a young child, as a teen, and as an adult.

Yet people seem to find it annoying, embarrassing, and psychopathic.

So how crazy IS it to talk to yourself?

[Caz]

Super crazy. Book yourself into a padded cell ASAP.

[Xantalos]

I don't find it very much so - after all, thinking is basically talking to yourself silently.

[nenjin]

I've been listening to my mom do it for like 20 years. Still drives me a little crazy to hear her carry on a whispered conversation with herself.

[Neonivek]

I've been listening to my mom do it for like 20 years. Still drives me a little crazy to hear her carry on a whispered conversation with herself.

Whispered? O_O goodness...

Ok, now that would add a creep level even for me.

[nenjin]

She's usually vehemently arguing about something. It took me a while to realize it's a coping mechanism. When she's super ticked off about something or it's gnawing at her, she has to get the angst/anger/frustration out some way.

I've never quite understood it, but, I've got my own ways of coping that probably look a little crazy to everyone else.

[Starver]

So how crazy IS it to talk to yourself?

I was asking myself that very question, only the other day...

[Egan_BW]

I usually think by "writing" words in my head and then mentally speaking it to myself. I only actually speak to myself out loud when I have something particularly cool and pretentious to say and there's someone nearby to be mystified. 

[Frumple]

By itself, talking to yourself isn't crazy at all -- there's plenty of reasons to do so that don't involve mental abnormalities of any sort, after all. When I'm living alone, ferex, I pretty often talk to the air a lot just to keep my voice from getting rusty. There's a fair number of voice training/maintenance related things that benefit notably from the such practices. Vocalization can also help fairly substantially when studying or trying to puzzle stuff out -- varying up how you're processing things can be beneficial for many people. Plenty of things along such lines. Vocalization is an effective tool for a buncha' stuff, audience or not. Plus singing and bits of theatre and whatnot is usually quite fun, especially when there's no audience

It can definitely be a symptom of insanity, though. S'just not necessary or sufficient on its own, nor terribly indicative of anything in and of itself.

[RedKing]

I dunno, let me ask myself.

[Zangi]

There are degrees of craziness here.  Partially depends on how animated the 'talk' is, among other factors like are you responding back and forth with yourself and stuff.

[RedKing]

The worst thing now is that with very small and unobtrusive Bluetooth earpieces, someone talking loudly and animatedly to no one in particular is not a clear sign of mental illness.

Still creeps me out though, even if they do have an earpiece.

[Bauglir]

The worst thing now is that with very small and unobtrusive Bluetooth earpieces, someone talking loudly and animatedly to no one in particular is not a clear sign of mental illness.

Still creeps me out though, even if they do have an earpiece.

now ask yourself - "how many of them have actually turned on their earpieces?"

[andrea]

talking to yourself isn't crazy.
talking to yourself convinced that you are talking to another person may be another matter.

[Shadowlord]

El. Psy. Kongroo.