How you do it says something about your state of mental health, but, on the surface, it seems like not all mental health professionals agree about how much negative self-talk is healthy. Even if it’s not literally “talk,” it’s still self-talk in the psychological sense in that we are communicating within ourselves. He says that we can broaden the definition of self-talk to include, imagery, sensations, and feelings. “Only a small portion of our thinking is in words and inner verbal dialogue,” explains Curtis Reisinger, an NYC-based psychologist and assistant professor at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University. And it is absolutely a predictor of how you view yourself, others, and the world.” Of the several psychology experts I consulted with about this topic, all agree with Irwin. “I think the term ‘internal monologue’ is an internet trend,” says Nancy Irwin, a California-based clinical psychologist. So the real question is: What does your self-talk say about your mental health?įirst of all, whether you call it self-talk or internal monologue or just simply thinking, everyone is doing it all the time. What psychologists know is that everyone has self-talk, even if it isn’t in the form of an internal monologue (a la Joe from Netflix’s You - sorry for the morbid example). The discussion, which has now reached the furthest reaches of the web, centers around the possibility that not all humans live with a constant inner voice over. Psychologists the world over were likely exchanging virtual knowing glances a couple of days ago when a thread about the universal existence of inner monologues popped off on Twitter.
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