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World Hearing Voices Day – 14 Sep 2012


Today is World Hearing Voices Day 14th September 2012 The International Community for Hearing Voices today celebrates a growing awareness that voice hearing is part of the diversity of human experience and that people can hear voices and be healthy. … Continue reading

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coping with psychosis – PsyCope


If you live in a westernized society and experience   “psychosis” – voices, visions; beliefs; altered states and other stuff  then you likely have discovered that if you talk about it with friends family and strangers, and especially people with stethoscopes, … Continue reading

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what’s that sound ?


“people don’t only hear voices but they often hear sounds and music as well voices sometimes say rude and inapropriate things they can also be very funny” http://soundcloud.com/nadagaz/whats-that-sound-hearing Come join us celebrating and encourage diversity within us and amongst us… … Continue reading

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I hear, I hear what you don’t hear [documentary] – Robin Timmers


Robin Timmers’ experience  with voice hearing. “I’m Robin Timmers and I hear voices – and I’m mentally healthy” A short [10 mins] documentary/ artistic interpretation of a common experience. Robin Timmers first hears voices after his mother passes away and he … Continue reading

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Living With Voices – T M Lurmann


Here’s a very well written article published in American Scholar magazine, written by TM Lurhmann [thankyou M ] about a “new” way to live with voices. In North America it’s called “new”:. Compared with the “New World”, which to some of … Continue reading

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A little insight


Here’s a short animated information film made by young people about the experience of hearing voices. The movie is the result of a project by Voice Collective in London and is a creative and simple  way of presenting different experiences insights … Continue reading

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spirit of suffrage speaks to Nancy Pelosi


Nancy Pelosi –  Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and  60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011;  the first woman to hold the office and, to date, the highest-ranking female politician in American history … Continue reading

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World Hearing Voices Day – Friday 14th September 2012


World Hearing Voices Day for updates, including programme for afternoon session click here World Hearing Voices Day, Friday, 14th September celebrates hearing voices as part of the diversity of human experience, increasing awareness of the fact that you can hear … Continue reading

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mars project – Jonathan Balazs and Khari “Conspiracy” Stewart


Help support  an important  local movie project about mental health, labelling people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and the right to choose  own explanations of our experiences. ‘A decade ago rapper Khari “Conspiracy” Stewart was diagnosed with a psychological disorder, but … Continue reading

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Hearing Voices: a normal human experience


This pamphlet accompanies the talk I gave in the workshop at the… Holistic Mental Health Conference Toronto, 21 June 2012. pamphlet available here as  pdf:   hearing voices- a normal human experience [25Jun2012] Related articles Holistic Mental Health Conference (recoverynetworktoronto.wordpress.com) Disturbed … Continue reading

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