Updated 07/03/2008
We say: Accept that the voices are real and belong to you. Accept that the voices may have meaning (metaphoric or literal) based on your life experiences.
Whilst it is the case that some people define hearing voices as a symptom of medical illness, other voice hearers are able to live with their voices and consider them as a positive (or at least manageable) part of their lives.
In this section we provide lots of information about what it is like to hear voices, good and bad:
The experience of hearing voicesWhy call this experience “hearing voices”; What is it like to hear voices?; Practical information for family, friends and mental health workers; Three phases found among people who hear voices: Anxiety, impact, organisation and stabilisation; Bereavement and hearing voices, An exercise in how to replicate the experience of hearing voices, Hidden demons : A personal account of hearing voices Making Friends with Voices: hearing voices and dissociation
Understanding and coping with hearing voices
Finding meaning in voices; Making Sense of Voices; Talking with Voices; Voices and their relationship with the voice hearer; Hearing voices that are distressing: Self-help resources and strategies; Coping with voices strategies; Research into coping with hearing voices An Alternative Support Model to the Medical Model of Medication
The meaning of hearing voices
Are voices a symptom of illness or a variety of human experience?; Psychiatry and hearing voices; Hearing voices amongst “normal” people; Redefining hearing voices; Hearing voices and schizophrenia; Voice hearing in history and religion
Children and hearing voices
Silencing unwelcome voices in children; Most children hearing voices stop within three years; Children hearing voices study 1996 – 2001; ‘She was like a personal coach’: An account of hearing voices as a child; They would set her impossible tasks’: An account of hearing voices as a child; Conference for Children Who Hear Voices: A Report
Positive voices and Recovery stories
Recovering from voices by changing your relationship with them; “Thoughts on defragmentation and hearing voices“ by Sara Stanton; The mad doctor: The extraordinary story of Dr Rufus May, the former psychiatric patient; The recovery position; How I tamed the voices in my head; Jan Holloway & J. Thomas: Learning from voices; ‘I learned to live with voices’; Odi Oquosa: Artist and Shaman; Ron Coleman: Recovery an Alien Concept; Alessandra’s story; Research and related articles on recovering from overwhelming voices; Research and related articles on positive and pleasurable voices
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