{"id":274,"date":"2015-11-13T18:44:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/?p=274"},"modified":"2015-11-13T18:44:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T18:44:57","slug":"when-i-stopped-hearing-the-voices-in-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/en\/when-i-stopped-hearing-the-voices-in-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;When I stopped hearing the voices in my head&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Guardian there is a lovely short\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gu.com\/p\/4e76m\/sbl\">article<\/a>\u00a0by &#8216;Anonymous&#8217;\u00a0about what it is like to hear voices. \u00a0Well worth a read for those struggling with the same issues, or those trying to understand the experience of voice hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The author&#8217;s story is very familiar to me, the stress of going university seemingly bringing on a severe depression while\u00a0later, with the added stress of exams, the voices appear. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been told this story many times, often by people\u00a0who I interviewed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maudsley_Bipolar_Twin_Study\">Maudsley Bipolar Twin Study<\/a>, and then more recently by my clients. \u00a0My recollection is that the majority of those who&#8217;ve related this particular sequence of events were women, but perhaps this was random or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Recall_bias\">recall bias<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The author, via some combination of medication and therapy reports that she no longer hears voices, and that she has found a way to cultivate a supportive inner voice in their place. \u00a0No point in me saying more, read what she has to say!<\/p>\n<p>(I assumed the author was a woman from the photo, but it&#8217;s just a stock image, so who knows).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Guardian there is a lovely short\u00a0article\u00a0by &#8216;Anonymous&#8217;\u00a0about what it is like to hear voices. \u00a0Well worth a read for those struggling with the same issues, or those trying to understand the experience of voice hearing. 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