Calling for Volunteers interested in talking about their Voices
Page last updated 12/12/2008
Calling for Volunteers interested in talking about their Voices
Dear Community,
I am a 3rd year PhD student at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. I am also a Marriage and Family Therapist intern and am currently studying for my licensing exam.
I am currently working on my dissertation proposal and I am particularly interested in interviewing 5-6 people who match the following criteria:
I am interested in interviewing such individuals about their auditory hallucinations, and if they ever felt in their lives that their hallucinations were meaningful or insightful to them. I am hopeful that my dissertation will be a voice for all those people with a supposed "mental illness" or a "brain disease" to be heard and seen in a different light.
My school has an extremely thorough review committee called the Human Research and Review Committee (HRCC). This means that issues such as informed consent, confidentiality, providing therapy for subjects should they require it immediately following the interview, etc , will be included and discussed prior to the interview.
Unfortunately, there will be no compensation offered as this is an independent study. The co-researchers will essentially be volunteering their time and will have the opportunity to share their stories and have a voice to express themselves. I am hopeful that this will be enough incentive in itself.
If interested, or if you have any questions, please email me at rochelle9@gmail.com
In gratitude,
Rochelle Suri.
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Hi, I'm Iris, Asian, Male 31 years old and I hear voices. I would like to get involved with organizations and events but it seems that there is no such things here where I'm located. Maybe you can help me. I'm from the Philippines, and I hear voices for about 4 or 5 years now. It tells me a lot of things, mostly foolishness, so I don't take them seriously, but they are so irritating and I've been having trouble sleeping. I have a job and it affects it because I can't sleep well. I lost jobs before because of this illness. I also got into drinking because of this. What triggered this is that I got hooked into drugs years ago, and my psychiatrist told me that the dofamine level in my brain went up and thats the cause of the voices, but I've been totally off drugs for a year now and the voices remain. I took medications for the dofamine level to decrease but it seemed that it has no effect. I'm still scared of the voices (not so much as before though) because I thought they were real. I know now that they're not but I still afraid sometimes. Please give advices and tips on how to deal with the voices, or how to make them go away. It greatly affects my life and its tiring, depressing and scary. I feel like I can't do anything right as long as I have them.