BBC Radio 4 – Today, 11/03/2015, Woman with schizophrenia hears 13 voices in her head

BBC Radio 4 – Today, 11/03/2015, Woman with schizophrenia hears 13 voices in her head.

Rachel Waddingham is a training consultant and a trustee of the National Hearing Voices network – she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and lives with hearing 13 voices, without medication.

Voices in people’s heads are more varied and complex than previously thought, according to research by Durham and Stanford universities, published in The Lancet Psychiatry on 11 March.

Mad studies brings a voice of sanity to psychiatry | Peter Beresford | Society | The Guardian

“Recovery” was meant to be the bright new idea of mental health policy. For many service users, however, it has become code for cutting support and trying to push people off benefits and into employment. The rhetoric of “user involvement” carries less conviction as the sector is reshaped more by a push to privatisation than by the appeal for parity of esteem with physical health policy….

Mad studies brings a voice of sanity to psychiatry | Peter Beresford | Society | The Guardian.

Deconstructing schizophrenia among Australia’s First People

In places where an increase in the incidence of schizophrenia has been reported, these can be attributed mainly to substance abuse (eg Drug Induced Psychosis). However, there are additional explanations for psychosis differential diagnoses. The most important of these is stress, and especially complex or traumatic stress – presenting as depressive psychosis in both its unipolar and bipolar forms.

INTERVOICE Networks and Groups

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Hearing Voices groups are places for people to explore the meaning of their voices not as products of a diseased brain.  http://v.gd/304XlC

The Voice-Hearer

Thanks Angela Woods for this great summary of progress normalising  the experience of hearing voices. Asking if the voices are real is like asking if dreams are real…

The Voice-Hearer.

Afternoons: What causes auditory hallucinations? by 612 ABC Brisbane on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds

Asking if ‘voices’ are real is like asking if dreams are real… So don’t call them auditory hallucinations. We need to validate and normalise these experiences. So talk about Voices, please!

Afternoons: What causes auditory hallucinations? by 612 ABC Brisbane on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds.

I am amazed by the strength of the human spirit and never give up hope | Healthcare Professionals Network | The Guardian

It’s often quite easy to see why someone might be low in mood, or panicky, or hearing voices telling them they are worthless. Sometimes the reasons are less obvious, and we arrange to meet again once we know the client better…

A typical person might have been bullied, neglected or abused as a child; subjected to domestic violence as an adult; and now be on benefits and struggling to feed and clothe their children.

I am amazed by the strength of the human spirit and never give up hope | Healthcare Professionals Network | The Guardian.

Home – Hearing Voices Network USA

Help for people who understand that one key to recovery is understanding the meaning voices have in the context of lived experience, and that as suppressing voices  with medication only works for some, other ways, more ethical of working are crucial in modern mental health work.

Home – Hearing Voices Network USA.

Hearing voices allowed Charles Dickens to create extraordinary fictional worlds | Books | The Guardian

Hearing voices allowed Charles Dickens to create extraordinary fictional worlds | Books | The Guardian. “The novelist said he did not invent, but merely recorded what he heard and saw. This prompts questions about the act of writing.”

19th ISPS International Congress in New York City | ISPS NY 2015

Abstract submission now open

March 18 – 22, 2015 at The Cooper Union in New York City

19th ISPS International Congress in New York City | ISPS NY 2015.