"I have heard voices since I was 41 years old (10 years ago). Sometimes they were clear, sometimes faint. They have given me very helpful guidance and although I have been reluctant to 'connect' (afraid I had a mental illness), I cope much better when I am in contact with the voices. Your website has been reassuring and I would like to thank you for the information."

I have been hearing music since May 2006 until now. I am 56 yrs. old. The music I hear changes from time to time from a soft mellow one to somewhat nerve breaking. The music keeps on during my waking hours. I get a few hours sleep due to this disturbances and keep on waking every 2 or 3 hours.

"I started to hear negative voices, have nightmares, and see things that were not so good. Where in the past it was always good experiences. When I look back, I see it was a spiritual crisis .... Everyones journey is different, but there are many similarities within those journeys. Try looking at each voice, and see if it can relate in anyway to the way you feel about something. Are they playing on your insecurities and fears about yourself, if so then set about overcoming them alittle at a time. Or accept them and move on. often when you realise what it is the energy seems to dissipate. If you see them as something evil and scary, that is the effect they will have on you. Change the way you see them, imagine them as children who are lost and surviving in the wilderness. I used to do that, imagine the voice as a child, and often it would diminish. I know it is a difficult journey,. Remember to be good to yourself. Always acknowledge your victories, know they cannot hurt you, and the only thing to Fear is fear itself. "

"Right at this moment, as I’m writing this, the voices are blaming me for not following their instructions months ago. Typical of them, they want me to fault myself for supposedly aborting an initiation I supposedly was going through. At other times they’ve told me that they hate me because I’m unattractive. This is but one example of their, mostly unsubstantiated, attempts at damaging my sense of self worth. There are several voices which I hear often that seem to belong to distinct personalities, but there’s one that is most predominant, a young female voice, talking to me almost all the time. Thankfully, both harshness and volume of the assaults have been gradually decreasing in the past weeks. I attribute this to my realizing the nature of the voices and learning to be unaffected by whatever they throw at me."

" ... I hear voices that tell me to take care of myself, reminding me to take medication that I take daily. My daughter, sister and her daughter hear and experience such things as glass breaking before it happens doorbells and phone ringing before they actually ring. I am also pre-cognative and will hear some things break, water running, such as this before it happens. I don't know how common that it is. My experiences do not frighten me anymore me as they have in the very beginning, they have actually helped me."

" ... I hear voices, more than one voice actually. I have always felt them to be benefecial to me throughout my life since early childhood, guides along life's pathway. I have never been directed to do anything harmful to myself or others, yet I have received a psychiatric diagnosis ."