When I was a kid I had a stepmother who used to beat me. She'd hit with wire hangers, she'd burn me and give me cruel punishments. I was six years old when this started. Also, I started seeing things and hearing one voice that scared me so bad. It occured for a short time and eventually never happened again til I was thirteen and has been happening ever since. Voices that no one else can hear and I see things no on else can see. I never talk back to the voice I just ignore it but the more I do that it becomes more distracting. It took guts for me to tell my dad but, he never took it seriously. I often think people are trying to hurt me or somehow plotting things against me. I sometimes don't have any interest in people or sometimes feel like they don't exist. I really don't know what to make of all this. I even had the same dreams I used to have when I was six. Somehow they stuck with me and I always remember them. I wonder if anyone has ever had the same things happen?