Practical information for family, friends and mental health workers
Last updated 11/06/2007
To assist voice hearers it is important for mental health professionals to examine in detail the frames of reference and coping strategies that seem to be the most useful to the voice hearer. By doing so voice hearers can be supported more effectively in their attempts to deal with their experiences.
The steps in this process are as follows:
Self determination and self knowledge are the keywords.
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I have a son who hears voices and i would like to meet others and share our experiences. Thank you sogovia
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Look up the list of Hearing voices groups on this site, you may find one in your country you can join.
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We have been coping well for a long time now. My son would be unable to take a reglar job, but is not idle. One of the troubles is that he works like a dervish and then needs to rest. This doesn't fit in with an empoyer. So his elder brother and I give him jobs to do. He is very capable, but has to do things at his own pace and in his own time. He attended a sheltered workshop which was a follow up to the mental Hospital where he had been sectioned on about 3 occasions. It was a good one, with plenty of ground for patients to wander, do gardening, or attend a print shop. My son attended the print shop regularly before his discharge. After that he attended the sheltered workshop with a large group. They all got on well and some were accepted at the Tate St.Ives in the workshop there as artists. Unfortunately the sheltered workshop closed, as it was being run on funds which had been left for the purpose, and they an out of money. The Hospital site was turned into a small generla hospial, with excess land being sold off, and the land where the workshop was was also sold off. We h ave now moved to be near his elder brother who has taken over Power of Atorney from me, as I am no spring chicken. The help we had at the outset of my son's illness from our g.P., the Psychiatrist and the nursing staff was excellent. I think that for a majority of people who suffer from severe and enduring mental illness it is wrong and cruel to expect them to take open employment, although they need occupation. Yet the government appears to be closing down everything to do with the mentally ill, except prisons, where they should not be.