What’s the difference between an inner monolog or dialect, and having “voices” / skitzo?

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I’m having a hard time understanding when one turns into the other and becomes a “condition”.

I’m NOT trying to use info obtained to diagnose myself, but I’d like to understand the difference from a non-textbook-jargon-filled way lol.

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Inner monologue is like when you read a book, you hear the words in your mind, it’s your conscious mind interacting with itself.

Schizophrenia can have a wide range of how it affects people, a family member couldn’t get his meds for a while and described it “I know God isn’t really talking to me, but it FEELS as real as this conversation”