Our colleagues from Australia (including Peter and Indigo) were recently featured in a documentary on The Project. It shows a pragmatic approach to working with people who hear voices can really help change lives. The Hearing Voices approach encourages people who hear voices to share their experiences, find a way of making sense of them and take back control of their lives. In this clip, Peter shares how this approach has helped him go from being overwhelmed by his experiences to working to support others.
Whilst some key messages have been edited out (including the fact that many people who have previously been diagnosed with schizophrenia can – and do – safely withdraw from their medication once they have made sense of their experiences and found ways of dealing with them), this is a great thing to get on national TV in Australia.
Well done everyone!
To see The Project’s website and comment on the show, click here
I have gone though this and still am I’ve tried to kill myself quite a few times they tell me to not may people understand and my mental heath provider has given up on me so I’m dealing with it on my own its very hard as it just happens whenever I can feel it coming on like my brain just goes weird how can I keep going when no one wants to know.?.
for 2 yr. the voices I heard badgered me relentlessly. They commented “she’s angry” and other annoying things. They stopped about 4 mo. ago but I sense thier presence and still hear ever so quiet the voices. It’s like I’m under a microscope every waking moment observed. I feel as tho I’m worse since they got quieter. I’m having a hard time coping. I feel the experience traumatized me as if I wasn’t traumatized already! I lost faith in psyciatrists. I want to get off the medications. Nothing helps! I never talk about this to family or anyone. I isolate and would rather be dead than to be affected like this. The voices weren’t nice they were very mean and abusive.
My daughter recently confided in me that she has being hearing voices and having some visual ‘hallucinations’ as well. i’m so glad she could trust me with this information because, with organizations such as yours, she can now begin the journey towards regaining her serenity and rejoin the ‘others’. Thank you.
I hope things are going ok for you, it’s a really terrible time which so many ppl don’t understand. I feel I’m getting over the worst of it, after 20 yrs :/, mostly trying to cope now with depression and isolation. I have some good voices I talk to, angels etc, that help me cope with the negative ones, take care 🙂