15 year old talking to themselves

I think a busy, internal dialogue can be a sign that someone is imaginative. I’m always going off into day dreams and flights of fancy, which sometimes involve lots of spoken words, although I usually manage to keep them inside my head rather than saying them out loud! It’s just like a child playing, really. No one has ever suggested I’ve got schizophrenia and I’m in my mid 50s so I don’t think it’s very likely to happen now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrapersonal_communication#:~:text=Because%20of%20its%20many%20functions,positive%20and%20negative%20self%2Dtalk.

just keep an eye that it is positive and not delusional. DD talks herself through her day and chats about her ideas for the future and where this or that should go or her work etc all positive and finds it soothing. I do the same. I also like reading the instructions on bottles and find that soothing.

I talk to myself quietly all the time. Theres nothing wrong with me. Echoing PP I’m often being “interviewed” on my verrrrrry important opinions.

I've found my people! I talk to myself a lot, might be muttering about a task whilst working or I've had conversations in the bathroom mirror when thinking about how a conversation might go.

DD has full on imaginary conversations with herself about all sorts of stuff. She was worried and asked me about it and I said I do it too. It helps me manage emotions and expectations etc DD is academic and looked it up - it has a name a medical term. I’ll ask her about it later but it is perfectly normal.

i do this, mine’s a cooking show

Absolutely brilliant

Working alone for 15 years means that I often say thoughts out loud!

At 15 is she reciting Shakespeare, practicing the words to a song. I'm a big Chuck berry fan. He was basically writing rap music in 1955! To learn the words I often spoke them as in Nadine he uses likes like, " I saw my future wife walking down the street, she turned and doubled back and got in a coffee coloured Cadillac " or Johnny b Goode "deep down in Louisiana, across from New Orleans,way back in the woods among the evergreens" sung faster than talking pace.

And she sounds like she enjoys oral arguments, debates from what you say. She sounds lovely.

Id wonder could she be role playing some conversation she's thinking of having with someone... Id do that myself on occasion.. Especially as it was in bathroom with fan so she'd have privacy maybe..

I do. I understand your concern, it makes sense now given your background. If you have no other reasons to be concerned I really wouldn’t give it any more thought.

I often talk to myself too. Not much now my dds are adults 😆

I talk to myself all the time. I think out loud. I go over stuff. I have planned conversations. I am 0% bothered or ashamed.

I do this 😂

I know a lot of posters are saying they talk to themselves, and so do I. We all do sometimes. But I think a teenager is somewhat different. If it were me, I'd try to hear the "conversation". I have a son with psycosis who talks to himself but the things he says are irrational and often frightening. It isn't "normal" role play or fantasy or even mundane stuff. It's hard to explain really.

Just read this. I work in this field, someone talking to themselves would not indicate psychotic illness - there would need to be a broader picture of concern which you haven’t provided here, apart from your own fears and anxieties. Would you seek support for that? This sounds an exhausting way to live and you are risking pathologising someone unnecessarily, and negatively impacting your relationships by doing so. I understand what you mean about your traumatic history and desire to protect your children, that make sense and says so much positively about you as a mother. It can be beneficial to unpack our own trauma in order to gain a better understanding of ourselves and a clearer sense of others too, if trauma is unprocessed we can view things through a kaleidoscope of threat and danger which can be unhelpful. All the best to you OP.

I talk out loud a lot to rehearse conversations. It would sound like one side of a conversation. Kind of thing might be if I have a difficult meeting at work, I'll find myself often in the bathroom saying out loud what I might say in response to a question. It wouldn't though sound like a conversation with myself back and forth, or like I was responding in the moment to something I was hearing. I think you'd know though if she experiencing significant mental health symptoms.

This seems like quite a disproportionate response from you. If I was to overhear a family member talking to themselves, I wouldn’t think anything of it, let alone try to listen again!

Thought verbalising is the term. My mum does it incessantly; she always has, she doesn’t have a psychiatric diagnosis.

Is there a backstory here?

Some will be doing “tutorials” like they watch on tik tok…

But you have reason to be concerned … perhaps open with
were you doing a hair /make up/ skincare tutorial ?!

Judge response …

Might be maladaptive daydreaming. I've done this since I was a child and didn't realise it was a thing until I saw a tictok on it! I live an entirely seperate life in my head, as someone else. When I was younger and having a conversation in my head in my other life sometimes I'd speak it out loud without even realising. I tick alot of boxes for adhd and think it developed as a way to focus my mind on something. I've done it my whole life.

Sometimes talking to yourself is the only way to get a sensible answer, as my DF always said.

Do they??