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 […]
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 […]
She Was Like A Personal Coach
An account of hearing voices as a child By David Batty, Friday November 16 2001, SocietyGuardian.co.uk Janneke, from Heerhugowaard in northern Holland, began to hear five male voices in January 1993. They pestered and threatened her, giving her strange commands. They’d say if I didn’t count trees – and I hate maths – my parents […]
