Voices & Visions in The News
Help us write a booklet about antipsychotic medication!
Making decisions about medication such as antipsychotics can feel confusing at times, that’s why at Voice Collective we want to write a booklet to support young people to make the decisions that are right for them. We’re looking for young people who have experience of taking, or thinking about taking, antipsychotic medication to help us […]
Free Stop-Motion Animation Workshops
Voice Collective has teamed up with Holborn Community Association to offer under-19s an opportunity to create your own stop-motion animation about what it’s like to live with voices, visions or other sensory experiences. For more info, download this flyer: VC Stop-Motion Animation Workshops Or visit the Eventbrite page: http://voice-collective-animation.eventbrite.co.uk
New videos for parents, carers, teachers & healthcare practitioners
Voice Collective has been working in partnership with the Young Voices Study and Science Animated to produce three videos aimed at adults who are supporting a child or young person who hears voices. The Young Voices Study is a research project at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester. The study has found that […]
BBC2’s Victoria Derbyshire programme does a feature on young people who hear voices
BBC2’s Victoria Derbyshire programme showed a 15-minute piece today about young people who hear voices. You can watch it here – the piece begins at minute 14: https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/b0b5hh…/victoria-derbyshire-08062018 In it, two young people, Tia and Laura, talk about their experiences of hearing voices. There are also interviews with three adults, too, who talk about ways […]
Nikki talking about Hearing Voices on Sky News
Nikki, a participant in our recent artistic collaboration with Wellcome Collection, courageously shared some of her own experiences of hearing voices that other people can’t on Sky News. Talking out about voices and visions is no easy feat, but Nikki shows that it is possible to overcome difficult experiences and express them. We hope that seeing […]
Learning to Live with the Voices in Your Head
Some experts think the problem is how doctors and society treat people who hear things, not the voices themselves. Roc Morin in The Atlantic, 5 November 2014 “The first time that I heard this voice, I was very much frightened,” the prisoner testified. “When I heard it for the third time, I recognized that it was the […]
Voice Collective on BBC London
In the run up to the 2011 BBC Children In Need appeal, Voice Collective was featured on BBC London News. ‘Ashley’ one of the young people who use our group and her mother share their experiences of voices, accessing Voice Collective and attending the group at Anna Freud Centre. Rachel, the project manager, gives a […]
Many Children ‘Hear Voices’; Most Aren’t Bothered
Nearly 1 in 10 seven- to eight-year-olds hears voices that aren’t really there, according to a new study By Reuters Health, Monday 25th January, 2010, http://tinyurl.com/reutersvoices But most children who hear voices don’t find them troubling or disruptive to their thinking, the study team found. “These voices in general have a limited impact in daily life,” […]
A First Class Recovery: From hopeless case to graduate
Eleanor Longden was a diagnosed schizophrenic and heard menacing voices in her head for 10 years. Now, she has fought back and has graduated with a brilliant honours degree in psychology. By Nina Lakhani, The Independent, Sunday 25th October, 2009 Eleanor Longden was revising for her final university exams in May when she was interrupted by […]
Listening Cure
Hearing voices is a relatively common – and taboo – phenomenon in children and can trigger educational difficulties, but this could change with the publication of a groundbreaking study in Holland. By David Batty, The Guardian, Friday 16 November, 2001 Harry squinted at his friends’ darkened faces. “Do you think I should have told them […]
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