[ WP ] How did that voice get inside your/their head ?

Push that child. Just to make him stumble backwards a step. Now do it again. Ten or fifteen or twenty times a day. 
 
 Never give any warning, let him worry all day about it. 
 
 Keep doing this, every day for years. And years. And years. 
 
 How would you deal with it? You'd form a callous to the world. Bury yourself deep inside, shield yourself in books and rum and numbness. The real you is still in there, saying and thinking and feeling the same things it's always felt. The voice you use for the outside, the one that is n't scared, the one that does n't stumble when you push it, the one that's able to be brave, it slowly grows larger. It grows until you start to be unable to hear the real voice any more. 
 
 You're now a golem, a thing formed to protect, now alone and without direction. You're left with your purpose and a head full of fear, but no ability to understand the purpose or calm the fear. 
 
 You can try and bring the real voice back, to understand and to solve your problems, but the protecting voice likes it in there, and it does n't want to give you back.
