Online information and support for voice hearers



Page updated 10/03/2008




Here we list some useful websites and online discussion forums providing information and support for people who hear voices, family members and workers:




Communicube
The Communicube is a 21st century multipurpose communication tool. Its first use was in therapy with individuals who struggle with psychotic experiences but it soon became apparent that the method could be useful to other clients. Indeed the Communicube is being further developed as a method in therapeutic work with children, adolescents, couples, families, groups, and in team building, education and play; it has other potential uses that are being explored.




Coming Off Psychiatric Meds website
This website aims to give you up to date information about psychiatric medication, how it functions and the withdrawal process. It is put together by people who have been prescribed medication and withdrawn from it, and clinicians who have been involved in supporting this process.




Hearing Voices Movement From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hearing Voices Movement is a philosophical trend in how people who hear voices are viewed. They advocate an approach of using techniques employed by those who have successfully coped with their voices. This can include acceptance and negotiation with the voices.




hearvoices.org
www.hearvoices.org is a spiritual mission to hear and include all-through dreams, revelations and warm thoughts we chat with our friends, families, and things…”




Hearing Voices Movement From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hearing Voices Movement is a philosophical trend in how people who hear voices are viewed. They advocate an approach of using techniques employed by those who have successfully coped with their voices. This can include acceptance and negotiation with the voices.




Hearing Voices Fact sheet (aka auditory hallucinations)
What is it like to hear voices?
Are voices a symptom of illness or a variety of human experience?
Finding meaning in voices. Practical information for people who hear voices. Practical information for family, friends and mental health workers.




Hearing Voices Mailing List
This UK based online support group is for people who hear, or who have heard voices. You can share support, strategies for living with voices, and other ideas.




Informationen einer Stimmenhörerin für Betroffene, Angehörige und Interessierte
This is a website by an Austrian voice hearer. You can read texts she wrote about her own experiences with voices and about her aims within the voice hearing movement, find out about events in Austria, join a discussion forum,... it’s in German…





John Robinson - Hearing Voices.net
An impressive online resource about hearing voices, includes information about hearing voices; information for carers; and some of the information translated into seven languages (well is is London). Has a disussion board which looks lively and a useful links page too.




Julian Jaynes Society
Articles by Julian Jaynes on hearing voices and related issues




MadNOTBad – Website for sharing experiences & creativity
Telling it like it is – from the people who know. This site is the realm of the mental health ‘Service User’ and those close to them – the carer, family or friend. By collating examples of their experiences, opinions and creativity I am hoping to help illuminate the darkness that surrounds mental ill health. To foster the idea that being ‘mad’ doesn’t make you ‘bad’ and that it’s ok to talk about it. Let’s challenge the stigma.




Stemmen horen/Hearing Voices
Mainly Dutch online resource about hearing voices, includes information about hearing voices; information for professionals, publications and carers; and biographies of Marius Romme and Sandra Escher.




Pat Deegan PhD & Associates
“The sea rose teaches us about recovery. Hope for recovery emerges from darkness.
Join us in our conspiracy of hope.”

Pat Deegan & Associates, LLC is a consumer/survivor/ex-patient run organization. Their mission is to improve the personal, social, economic and cultural well being of people with psychiatric disabilities through ex-patient directed study and research.
They also sell the one-hour film “Understanding the Person Who Hears Distressing Voices: A Course for First Responders”.




Talking About Hearing Voices
Established by Paul Baker over six years ago, the purpose of this forum is to encourage discussion and debate about the meaning of the voice hearing experience (auditory hallucinations) and to consider the latest research into this phenomenon. Mainly American contributors.




Voice Supporters Mailing List
This UK based online support group is for people who hear voices, and those who support them either as carers, friends, family members or professionals. Discussions can take place around subjects such as how to cope with voices, or how best to support those who hear voices – what is helpful, what is not helpful etc. This group is open to anyone interested in the subject of hearing voices.




Voice Hearers Action Group
This group has been set up for members of the Hearing Voices Mailing List, who are also interested in being more active on the issue. Possibilities are planning a conference for voice-hearers, responding to both positive and negative media representation of voice-hearing issues, sharing your own story with others with a view to awareness-raising.






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  1. David FortinJune 21, 2007 @ 03:23 AM
    For about 5 years or so I've been getting "inside the head" auditory perceptions. It occurs exclusively when I am falling asleep, but have a distinctly different character than dreamstate. I can encourage the voices to continue once the phenomena has begun unbidden. What is curious about the voices I hear is that they are off the wall and spoken in varied of voices and characters - none of which I recognize. The phrases are like a "sound bite" out of a conversation. It might be as casual and unilluminating as, " BOY! The cat's REALLY out of the bag on that one!" The delivery is always specifically animated - in a particular voice - then gone. I have not written any of the phrases down, and though I might mention a particularly interesting occurrance to my sleepmate, the phenomena is fleeting by its very nature. I quickly forget what I've heard and I have no compulsion to make a study of it. I find it curious and amusing. The episodes persist, but are not disturbing to me. I believe they have a source outside of myself but I do NOT believe that I have been chosen as a recipient of some MESSAGE. I believe its more like an accidental "tuning in " to random psychic frequencies. Anyway, there's my two cents worth. My name is David Fortin I'm an Artist / Musician in So. Cal. Thanks for giving air to what is probably more common than one might think.
  2. AdrienneJune 23, 2007 @ 07:46 AM
    Hi David, That is "normal". Apparently it happens to 10% of the population. Some beleive it is bits the brain or mind have heard or seen during the day, and is played back, or is accessing a part of the mind closer to the dream state. Regards
  3. oluwakemi kadiriApril 08, 2008 @ 02:56 AM
    Good day, in 1997 i hear a ghost voice talking to me ,i give birth to child in year 2001.i seperated with my husband in 2004.then my ex partner reported to social worker that i am mental that they should not allow mw to lookafter my child. i believe that i have right to look after my child because i am not mental and the ghost have stop talking to me. please explain everything to me . Thank you kemi kadiri
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