Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting Voices

Posted on January 26, 2012 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Another piece highlighted by INTERVOICE’s media watch…
From NY Times, Aug 2011
view the short video -click on the image below to  [2.5mins] to read the article click the link below…
Lives Restored

Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting Voices

Damon Winter/The New York Times

Living With Voices: Joe Holt, a computer consultant and entrepreneur who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia, describes how he’s learned to manage the voices in his head.

            Published: August 6, 2011
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — The job was gone, the gun was loaded, and a voice was saying, “You’re a waste, give up now, do it now.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/health/07lives.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&smid=fb-share

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8 Responses to Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting Voices

  1. Mark says:
    January 31, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    Amazing article
    Liked the coping mechanisms- taking time out to respond to voices, music, audio books

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  2. bmacd1 says:
    January 29, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    I’d just like to add now that I was originally just commenting on the written article. I thought the video was much better at getting across a message of empowerment. It’s great to have the work being done here gathered for people to come to terms with how mental illness is covered in media like this.

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  3. bmacd1 says:
    January 28, 2012 at 4:50 pm

    I echo the sentiment that Joe’s story is powerful, but I still see things in the presentation of the story that concern me. An example, “perhaps half the people with schizophrenia have no such self-awareness, researchers say”. It strikes me as problematic that this type of narrative intrusion is deemed necessary. Not to take anything away from this man and his wife’s inspiring example.

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    • recoverynetwork:oronto says:
      January 30, 2012 at 12:52 pm

      Hi bmacd1
      I think the journalist is trying to offer balance – if he didn’t there’d likely be a stream of folks dismissing the article so if having it there means more folks read and learn, tis a good thing..
      I’m with you the video seems to offer a more direct access to Joe Holt’s experience and his spirit -but then my own bias is for video and especially first person voices.

      For me, Benedict Carey did a good job : I think the article is pretty good, and that it even exists- and in the NY Times, is very good indeed.

      k

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    • bmacd1 says:
      January 30, 2012 at 3:31 pm

      I agree wholeheartedly. We walk before we run. I come at this sometimes from too close a reading because I am interested in all the language involved.
      -Bruce

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  4. curiousanalyst says:
    January 26, 2012 at 11:03 pm

    So moving and inspiring – have to put it on Facebook!

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  5. Earla says:
    January 26, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    Powerful story. I am learning more about Hearing Voices from all that I am reading her. Also, that sometimes we do not have to be on med’s.

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