Hearing voices and psychosis 🗯️

[Bunniekins]

@Ed1975   well you will love this years ago a prominent doctor from westmead childrens hospital called my sons visions as "weird and wonderfuls" he was totally dismissive of what was going on for my son.   my son's medications have not "cured" his schizophrenia he still hears things...

[StuF]

I will come back to this later @RiverSeal 

Thanks for the tag

[Ed1975]

@Bunniekins I saw the same child in my home growing up, for years. Nobody else could see him.

[Kim47]

My view is a lot of people hear voices but don’t admit to it. And they are real. It’s like an intuitive radio. I don’t believe voices should be seen as illness it’s really quite normal. Seeing things? Also normal, it’s intuitive impressions. Some people believe ghosts are real.

i really feel that society needs to broaden the spectrum of what gets called reality.

[Dimity]

The impact the voices or impressions or hallucinations have on the person experiencing them is important. Some people might be unfazed but for others it can be terrifying. 

[RiverSeal]

I have learned that there are many possible explanations in the hearing voices groups I have facilitated over the past 8 years. I understand there is no evidence to substantiate theories about why and how people hear voices. It can be an individual perspective often influenced by our life experiences and beliefs. 

The main reason people reach out for support is because of the distress and the relationship a person has with the voices, auditory hallucinations or their individual explanation for what they hear. We don't strive to stop the voices but change relationships with them and work towards living a meaningful and fulfilling life with or without these experiences..

[Eve7]

Thanks for the tag @RiverSeal  I can’t respond right now. I’m so sorry.

[Patches59]

@Ed1975 

Are some people about to see what others can’t?
yes, on more than one occasion I have heard or seen things that others can’t

I also have had other family members experience the same

[Taimoor]

Let me tell you my story....
when i was a kid i used to be a broad kid this makes alot of people jealous, i being bullied by my own people, cousins and friends.
later on when i grew up i felt very sad when i think about my past. this regret lead me to the hell of continous worrying and guilt. 
Now i am suffereing from severe anxiety and mood disorder.
Now taking SSRIs and SSNRIs nothing is helping me i wish i can bring the old days without worrying and guilt.

[Appleblossom]

I must be weirder than the weird @RiverSeal @Patches59 @Eve7 @Dimity @Kim47 

I wonder if it was that I was exposed to all these questions from such a young age that I developed a protection or open curiosity?  Consciously and unconsciously, I seem to have a life testing these things. I have always had a busy brain, and been proactive seeking understanding, through a range of lenses. I don’t identify particularly as a voice hearer, but sought my own transcendental experiences and reflected on my family’s experiences, from what I could make sense of from what I witnessed.

With both parents diagnosed with schizophrenia, I was struck by their differences. In the last 20 years I have collected many official files, and can see a range of errors in so called facts within them. I have 3 coroners reports, but am no longer so intimidated by their content. Nor am I as convinced of the medical model as I was when younger. 

We do tend put medicos on a pedestal, but maybe we shouldn’t over privilege their knowledge, and be open to other knowledges, including those with Lived Experience. I love the humility to be found in good science. Surely it has sufficient generosity to welcome a range of points of view…. Even if it is not easily categorised.

I dispute that being as high functioning necessarily means that recovery is complete. I think there are a few spectrums involved, and not just autism. Recovery can be partial, like with my mother, who found a socially acceptable path, and superficial social position but never worked through her “delusions “ or acknowledged serious life challenges for 4 of her kids. 

@Ed1975 i love your questioning… I agree…. There are circumstances that tend to make some people able to experience a more shamanic style or role… where others get pathologised, often those making decisions are not completely clear or honest about their own biases.