"Talking out loud helps us make sense of situations," one expert says.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edoneil/Getty Images I’ve been talking to myself out loud since I was a young girl—at home, on the playground, at the grocery ...

Almost everyone keeps up some type of dialogue with themselves. It’s completely natural. Per WebMD, for about 25% of people, this dialogue occurs out loud. Many people have a negative view of people ...

An old professor of mine once demonstrated to me that if I described a headache out loud—its color and shape, what substance it was made of, what it would say if it were a 6-year-old—it would often ...

As a child, I realized that one person I enjoyed talking to was myself. This behavior was not encouraged, and I didn’t witness others doing it, so I assumed talking to myself was eccentric and ...