Asking the voice how many girls they’re talking to, instantly made me laugh cause I just knew where they were going with this.

I almost spit out my drink at the "you just gotta get them to ghost you, most voices are fuckboys" I also had voices for several years and I legitimately thought they were real people. For me a combination of therapy and cutting back on the zaza helped me put a stop to it. Be careful when you smoke the grass because of how potent it is now an days you can easily get hallucinations even if you're not actively high

"Dust to ashes sounds a lot like till death do us part." Genius! 😂🤣😂🤣

I love the girlypop character, she is hilarious

I had 2 psych episodes out of the blue and the voices were so incredibly nice to me and loving. You always hear in media that voices are mean and tell you to unalive yourself, but mine turned out to be lovely.

"I voted for trump" "Better Help" LMFAOOOO 😂

I remember asking my doc what he meant by “do you hear voices” and I said yeah all the time but it’s me, and we had a very serious discussion, turns out they mean a different “not you” voice…

When the voice said you will perish, instead he meant you will go to Paris. Voice in head taking care of you and suggesting a trip to clear your mind.

Lack of sleep and overcaffinatiom combine to make auditory hallucinations. I know because it happened oops

LOVE that pink velour top.

I had a voice in my head sophomore year of high school. Her name was Claudia. She was pretty chill. She eventually went away after a couple of months.

I have visual hallucinations when in the depths of really bad episodes. It was jarring to see “major depression with psychotic features” as the official diagnosis and just as jarring when I learned how common it is to have hallucinations/psychotic features because I don’t ever hear it talked about. Thanks for making this!

I saw your show last night, and it was aaaaamazing. I’ve been following you for what feels like a decade. It was such a dream to watch your perform and absolutely kill it 🎉❤

Had it happen a few years back, and I was extra concerned because I was sleeping well and relatively stress free. Oh, and schizophrenia runs in my family, of course. Thank god the voices haven't returned. Most memorably, I had one lady voice whisper to the other voices, "Shh... he'll hear us...", and I had another lady voice who was unexpectedly sweet and tender in singing 'You Really Got A Hold On Me' to me.

Sometimes it's voices but mostly it is thoughts triggered by the surfacing of feelings which have been nagging at the background of my conscious since waking up on the previous morning

my auditory hallucinations were more like hearing my boyfriend calling me or Olivia Rodrigo playing in the next room

Hello Anna - I'd like to say that you're soo f'ing hilarious! Yes, I believe we all do hear voices more than we admit - even to ourself; and this voice could be anyone including ourself! I soo admire how you turn something dark/negative/sad/scary into a meaningful message specially delivered wrapped in humor! Please keep doing what you're doing! You DO good service to the community's mental health in a soo special way!!

Still worried about BetterHelp's data resale practices even if they should be a lot better about it now, but the sketch itself is hilarious!

Obligatory comment calling out the shady practices of betterhelp

I have PTSD and I suffered with severe horrible mood congruent auditory hallucinations for almost 7 years. In the past two years I discovered that simply journalling, long hand for three pages each day helped release them. If I stay regular with my journalling practice each morning I get to go through my day with no auditory hallucinations and a sense of clarity. I hope this helps anyone who needs to hear it. There is hope.

Thank you for talking about how common this can be. People believe really bad stereotypes of what it means to have auditory hallucinations.

You're awesome, Anna. Thank you for everything you do! ❤️

love youe channel and happy to see you have fun on tour!!

thank you anna for making this

Excellent topic and well executed. thank you for bringing this up and dealing with the hard stuff.

During the worst depths of my PTSD I used to hear distant voices calling my name. I always wondered what the heck that was. Thanks!

Great writing Anna!

Thanks Anna

Thanks for this

That's still scary AF

Anna is GOALS

Awesome stuff... Thank you

I've experienced it. It was my sister's voice and was comforting. Self-comforting, of course.

this so good

Girlie Anna is so awesome she should get a spinoff series.

I'm relieved to hear this actally, my PTSD was kicked off by an episode full of auditory hallucinations and it scared the living sh*t out of me. I have since been receiving great trauma care and are since very stable and healthy and it never happened again but hearing that it's more common kinda helped not stigmatising myself for my experience. Thank you. Seriously.

Omg this is brilliant.

Love your video's anna you're video's are always comforting and humourous you are awesome love your channel

Anna you're so funny and love your advice too, the best videos to watch!

Anna Akana is hilarious I had audio and visual hallucinations once after a medication reaction, it lasted about a day and I told it to stop and it actually just did. *Thankfully*

You’re awesome!

On rare occasions I hear voices, and they only say very supportive positive advice that I have learned to trust. So, that can happen too. Call me lucky or guided.

That was a good one.

I should do that supportive thing. thanks anna your voice is a good one

Thank you so much❤ nnow i cry

I generally do not acknowledge verbal messages since there is no formal arrangement who the author is, non-verbal intuition/empathy suits me better -- , you are doing a great job -- thank you!.. There is local source, divine source and True Source, all distortion begins at the divine and does not end until you return to True ... love back as always:)

I love Anna

This new character is hilarious. I'm lovin' these videos. 👍😁

you're the best Anna : )

I see the comedy is still strong with this one. Excellent. Also great kudos for admitting to having a problem. For most people that is the tough one.

Brilliant.

"It's a simple question sir!" 😂

Marvelous.

😂😂😂 I love this one. It is the best I've heard in so long. Please keep it up. 🙏 😂😂😂

All I hear is music. All day everyday my head is a nonstop radio station.

I thought that cat was a scraggly animatronic.....turns out it's a cat. Now it's adorable. 😅

Love your curlers Anna. 😆

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new girly character you introduced She's THE BEST❤

I used to hear voices as a child. I remember very clearly hearing voices calling my name on several occasions and turning around to see who was calling me, but there was nobody there. Wherever I told my mom about it she would literally try to gaslight me into believing I didn’t hear anything. Like straight up "no you didn’t hear that" 🥲 I always wondered why I stopped hearing them once I grew up, but if abuse, trauma, and stress are contributing factors, then it definitely makes sense that they would stop after I moved away from my mom 😬

I feel so much better now. So the people shouting at me in the middle of the night is normal.

Thank u uhelpt alot

This SENT MEEEEE 😂😂😂

I’ve heard a lot of anecdotal stories of the therapist on BetterHelp being awful

I love you.

yeah, auditory hallucinations are the most common hallucination.

That was both funny and informative, I really liked it. I believe it can also work with intrusive thoughts, right?

hahaha omg that voice, I love the "bestie" girl 😂❤

Hot-seating the voice by forcing a serious conversation about establishing relationship labels freaking sent me, hahahaha

I heard something tell me that Anna would meet me one day, read the script for my indie Time Travel Paranormal videogame and ended up doing some voice acting and character modeling for it. Her 'extra' chapter ended up being a real hit with fans. Way better than To The Moon or that anime Plastic Memories.

I have had auditory hallucinations once in my life. I am very relieved it was only once.

I love ur true laugh! 😂

Laughed out loud at just pretend to be republican 😂 needed that laugh today!

Woa, I have the combo 😮

A lot of my main support structures are online, so when I was having some bonus depression and our rural place was a few days without power... visual hallucinations. But the symptom I was rocking was total numbness, and the creepies were literally creepypasta images. Like... hand-drawn. So it wasn't terrifying, it was just... part of my brain trying REALLY hard to get any kind of reaction, but... yeah, not happening. I just needed to wait. And now, we have a couple generators. Which is great, because I have a CPAP, and would like to continue not having my body strangle me in my sleep.

I remember when I moved out from my parents. I kept thinking more than once than my mum was calling me from out of my studio apartment from the main stairs... honestly freaked me out. Had to remind myself for a short while, that there was no way she was there. Almost certain it was mild trauma from living at home because I have ASD and I always felt I had to be on guard because my mum would just come and barge into my room for whatever, whether it be to scold me for staying in my room too long or just to clean. Don't know if that's an auditory hallucination or not. But I think I was so used to hearing her that my body just automatically tensed and I kept thinking I heard her whenever I heard a noise. Thankfully it's not there anymore. I still get that feeling at home sometimes when I visit. But I got a lock on the door now so I feel more secure.

Funny. I can relate to the depression part. I was diagnosed with it several years ago.😬

this is so good lmaooo

Here with the DID. When the voices scream, you just gotta be understanding and love 'em to shreds.

I know I go into busy coffee shops and I hear voices constantly. It happens every time.

Most people actually need to talk out their thoughts in order to understand them... like conversation. In other words: most people need to talk to themselves. It's just organizing your thoughts; don't worry about it.

LOVES YOU ANNA.NOT ONLY YOUR A HOTTE,BEATIFUL&SMART.BUT YOUR VIDS ARE STILL FUNNY&STILL LEARN SOMETHING FROM THEM.

For me it’s less hearing voices and more talking with myself a lot.

Once my brother left home I was surprised my voice went away. I used to hear my family shouting my name when I was alone at home, this made me panic and lock me up in my room then notice no one arrived and then timidly getting out of my room. Now that my brother moved out when my mom or sister shout my name because they'd arrived I go to salute them the complete opposite. My voice was a mechanism of defense as a posttraumatic response, even if I was consciously relaxed singing and dancing my unconscious was always alert and knows my brother gets triggered at any moment and mostly when I'm more vulnerable so my unconscious found that hearing my family saying my name was enough to alert me. It sometimes had the opposite effect there were times I was so used to it I just completely ignored the screams but they were not always unconscious alarms, sometimes my mom really wanted me to go to her for something important and there I was doing whatever perhaps even just staring at the window while my mom was frustrated that I was ignoring her

I was waiting for the twist that she was alone the whole time. The version giving advice was just another voice in her head.

I had the exact face as the thumbnail when I read the title

I hear voices in butchers: eeat meeeeeeeeeee!!!

I've had one auditory hallucination in my life, and I thought I was going crazy. It was neither negative nor positive, I was dancing in front of a window, using it as a mirror, and it asked "Hey Cecil, what are you doing?" I then went looking for my mom and sister, but neither of them had spoken to me.

hahahaha threatening them with commitment, classic way to be left alone

Better help doesn’t make sure the counsellors offered are certified so do your own research on them. :)

Whatup Congress!

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Long after the hallucinations cease, the fear that they will return remains.

glad i dont have this problem that is terrible.

This can be caused by overcaffination and lack of sleep too. I drank 2 pots of coffee a day and barely slept during my undergrad at college. Never again.

Did you guys hear that? We're normal! They are pretty excited. :)

lol ashes to dust

it can happen due to hearing loss too :)

We can all hear our own thoughts and hear what we are typing and reading right? Asking for a friend.

Also listing to public or private radio otherwise television broadcasters?!

Hearing voices is not the problem it’s paying attention to them. That’s the issue.