Talking to oneself.....almost all the time

My daughtet, 20 yr old, a university student has been talking loudly to her ownself. When i ask her what is it. She says, she thinks about past things, generally mistakes. I am not sure what is it. This has been going on for past two yrs or so but recently it has increased a lot

Hello Zubi: I see this is your first post here on PC. So... welcome to Psych Central. One forum in particular, here on PC, that may be of interest to you would be the Partners of People & Caregivers Support forum. Here's a link:

https://psychcentralforums.com/partn...ivers-support/

We here on PC cannot offer mental health diagnoses. Plus I'm not a mental health professional. So I can't suggest to you what may be going on with your daughter. For this she would need to see a mental health professional... perhaps a psychologist or a mental health therapist. (I see you list yourself as being in Zimbabwe. I don't know what kinds of mental health services would be available to your daughter there.) Since your daughter is a university student, if there is a student counseling center at her school, perhaps that might be a place for her to start should she wish to.

Based on what you wrote, one possibility I suppose might be your daughter is struggling with high levels of anxiety. College can certainly be a stressful time in a person's life. So here are links to 7 articles, from Psych Central's archives that may be of some help:

Anxiety Disorders: Symptoms, Types & Treatments | Psych Central

How to Help Someone with Anxiety (According to Mental Health Experts)

How to Support a Person with Panic Attacks or Anxiety Attacks: | Mental Health Awareness

Do You Know What to Say When Someone Has an Anxiety or Panic Attack?

https://psychcentral.com/lib/depress...tudents/?all=1

https://psychcentral.com/blog/mental...lege-students/

https://psychcentral.com/blog/how-to...essional-help/

I hope you find PC to be of benefit.

I just logged in to say I do this a lot. I talk to myself and whisper to myself all the time. When I was hospitalized once after having a very severe (and unfortunately very public) panic attack, I had to constantly tell the psychiatric nurses I wasn’t hearing voices I just always do this.

its completely normal for people to talk tot heir self, children are taught to talk inside and aloud to their self almost from the moment that they start to form words and realize that those words mean things. even in elementary, jr hi and high school they teach this skill of thinking things out, brain storm, talk your self through something, use your imaginations, hold a dialogue with yourself, those that enter therapy will also recognize these tools of thinking talking to yourself, using self talk and sometimes saying a thought or memory aloud will put it more in perspective. even while reading this I bet if you check in with yourself you will find that you have been keeping a running dialogue with yourself, when you are going about your day take time to check in with whats going on in your thoughts and you may find that you have been having a completely normal conversation with yourself... "I have to remember to do this or that, don't forget this, remember when that happened, I had such a good time with so and so last time I saw them..." its completely normal and how the brain naturally works. we as a species have a thinking brain that never stops having thoughts and dialogues with our self.

going on what you posted my opinion is that your daughter is like my T tells me many times... just having a beautiful conversation with a very important person... herself. Some how she has learned to be comfortable with herself enough to think aloud about her self and her past.