Creative people who hear voices and their work
Truth Is . . . I Hear Voices: Author Stephanie Lessing
... the truth is . . . I hear voices. I can easily imagine how frightening that must sound to people who don’t. That’s why I typically keep that information to myself.
Nutter.tv
Is being ‘psychotic’ a distinct state? How thin and porous are the boundaries with ‘normal’ reality? Website recreates some of the experiences of being ‘psychotic’.
Poems by Carol Batton
Carol Batton, is described as the poet laureate of the mental health "survivors'" movement and is national poet for the Hearing Voices Network in England.
Crow Holbeche
Painter, visionary, teacher. Co-founder of the Exeter hearing voices group.
Dolly Sen
Dolly Sen Biog is a writer, director, artist, film-maker, poet, performer, raconteur, playright, mental health consultant, music-maker and public speaker.
Hearing Voices (Speaking in Tongues): A poetic performance
Michael Mack has found his voice, and he shares it with others in his feature-length solo show.
Voices and Visions. A Five Act Play by John Casson
Four people who hear voices (Ray, Sam, Jo and Terry) struggle to survive with the help of a British NHS psychiatric service. The play is based on 20 years of clinical experience and 6 years of PhD research into what people who hear voices find helpful or unhelpful in dramatherapy and psychodrama.
Aidan Shingler
Aidan Shingler has worked in the field of visual arts for 25 years. His work is imbued with signs, symbols, synchronicity and significance and is informed by his experience of ‘schizophrenia’.
Sara Maitland
"Sara Maitland, 56, is a prize-winning novelist and short-story writer, the author of several works of theology and gardening, and a teacher in creative writing. She has also, since her teens, suffered from visitations of mental disarray."
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I've know heard voices for 2 and a half years. That i know of i was told that i probably do not have schizaphrania. I notice that sculpture a realistic faces palm trees and playing intruments ,although i cant read mucic, is something that is theraputic to me. It is good to hear that it can work on peoples behalf in many cases. Thankyou.
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One night i had a very bad experience. There are just no words to explain this happening. And before i fell in to unconsciousness. I heard a voice, telling me not to be afraid. That every thing would be ok. This voice was so clear and strong. I became very calm and was no more Afraid! But there was no one. Only darkness. Since then i have not heard it anymore. And this trobles me. Maybe a one time experience. I will never know. Since then when ever something very bad happens and i am nearly to a end. I feel as if someone is trying to protect me. Well i have been searching for Answers along time untill i found this Page. When ever i have told anyone about this. They tell me it could only be the bad experience that i had. And i am happy to hear Experiences about Voices! One question. Does the voices help?
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Help is out there for all individuals who hear voices...... Medicine/science can help balance brain chemicals but what they don't understand is its far beyond any science project. Before I go on, ask yourself " Am I still hearing voices, even with medicine? Anyone who reads this must be open minded and listen.. It doesn't matter your religious beliefs for the voices are real and are not just with a certain type of individual. They can be Christians, Catholics, Jew's etc... Every person has a soul, a spirit, many Guardian Angels and even many other loving beings that create the energy in your body. Don't judge just read on...... All and I mean all souls have HAD many lives before you and in your brain whether you like to believe or not is place where your souls entire history is being stored (some what like your files on your computer) So what happens is sometimes a trauma (emotional) could have happened which allowed past life memory to open up for your soul, which you are now experiencing.... Depending on your souls history will depend on the voices you get. If you get angry, loud and mean voices, chances are you have picked up energy from other souls who your souls body did harm too and maybe 2000 years ago. Because the voices are not always spirits which people think are, they are other souls who's bodies have died and they are lost, confused and so agree to there own death.... These are earthbound souls who are on there way to the light but have a few days of a window before they are called to be cleansed , healed and brought into a new life..... IT IS NOT MENTAL ILLNESS, but it can feel as if the voices are causing you mental illness.... I am a christian woman and my church, said we don't deal or believe in this type of belief but let me pray for you. Did I feel horrible? Absolutley!!! This is my church and I believed that Jesus is my lord a savior but even with prayer and that of others my voices where still there. Many kind and loving and many rude, mean and bitter... For my own sanity, I needed to find clarity in who they were, what they were and why are they obsessed with me? Male and female voices. Wasn't just mine although if they sound like your own voice it's because you channeled then within what you hear. Let me explain( energy moves, fast when we listen the energy picks up the sound which is how we hear. There energy get's taken in to your hearing experience and this is why you hear them. Have you eve listen to music and then hear voices at the same time? Them shut off the music and everything stops? The best help to help remove and understand these energies is to remove why they are here.... You have to contact people who are healers, who work with clearing soul records and history.. Google "clearing soul records or Spiritual Response Therapy... These people have helped me in so many ways. It's an emotional process but one that you can understand..... Be strong, they are more afraid of you if you are stong. For those energies who tell you to hurt yourself, they are manipulating your emotional state. So, quick way to change that s to say " Hey, that's not very nice, I know you are feeling bitter, angry and mean but I know the creator of the universe made you out of pure love, so find it in your energy... DOn't have long conversations with them because they are very possessive but give them straight talk and they will leave. For even if you feel you have the same voice for years. Yo are mistaken for the universe will pull them in, you just keep getting new ones and you don't even know it..... I can go on and on, but I need my own rest... I still hear voices and working with healers and making great progress. Now I get more loving voices which is more comforting to me.... Teri
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Un día encontré este sitio al entrar me di cuenta que existen otras personas que les sucede lo mismo que a mi, que escuchan voces eso me hace sentirme bien porque pensé que estaba loco. Exhorto a todos a seguir adelante ya que si podemos vivir con ellas, el problema real para mi no es escucharlas, el problema es no poder oirlas claramente y saber que me dicen cosas verdaderas y no saber que hacer ese si es un problema, cualquier ayuda por favor avisarme, Bendiciones
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Un día encontré este sitio al entrar me di cuenta que existen otras personas que les sucede lo mismo que a mi, que escuchan voces eso me hace sentirme bien porque pensé que estaba loco. Exhorto a todos a seguir adelante ya que si podemos vivir con ellas, el problema real para mi no es escucharlas, el problema es no poder oirlas claramente y saber que me dicen cosas verdaderas y no saber que hacer ese si es un problema, cualquier ayuda por favor avisarme, Bendiciones erickbenitez7@yahoo.es
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Creatively I sing and find that the voices can be critical but this can be counterbalanced with feelings of joy at accomplishing top notes or learning songs. Avoidance is best overcome and although structure to a singing practice is difficult with psychosis due to negative voices and lack of concentration I believe that positive voices like that of the tutor can also spur you on and overcoming the initial discomfort of psychosis. I have a major affect disorder like a hierachy where by my support workers whom I see 3 times per week criticize me my social worker criticizes me, my uneducated friends.. the more elite or highly trained such as the psychiatric team , my psychologist, my friend with a degree dont and my brother whos a surgeon also dont to a larger extent although they can be patronizing and demeaning, they can also be positive as can my sister in law whos a barrister..so my affect disorder stems back to my childhood and my father and mother who are both professionals and aspire highly to oxbridge qualifications as of my rivals i.e. my brother and sister in law. A mean feat to achieve..achievement being the emphasis and emotional health the lesser of the two evils! Emotions dont have much of an outlet other than with the mental health team at my parents..so my escape is singing and photography! I have a friend whos also creative as a photographer and sees things so understands..with great relief I can discuss my interests and have a sounding board for my mental illness!
