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9/5/2006
9:09:01 pm EDT
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Sounding Out Those Voices That Nobody Else Can Hear
Author: Martin Johnston Source: New Zealand Herald (NZ)
Title: SOUNDING OUT THOSE VOICES THAT NOBODY ELSE CAN HEAR
Hearing voices when no one is there can be a symptom of mental illness, yet a study of the phenomenon found nearly half the people who heard voices said their hallucinations were mostly friendly or helpful.
Furthermore, some participants in the Auckland University study considered their voices a blessing - although others thought them a curse.
Hearing voices tends to be more accepted in some indigenous cultures than in modern Western society - but it still finds a place, even at top levels.
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| "Even In The Wizarding World.... | Sep 7th. at 12:17:01 am EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
hearing voices is a bad sign."
What I found funny, was the picture next to Harry, Proclaiming, "She's right, you know!"
I suppose it would depend on the voices and what they say to you. I just wish mine would stop speaking gibberish. At least then, I'd have a reason to be more interested in the conversation.
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| Rice Crispies | Sep 6th. at 10:35:03 pm EDT
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The Rev. Sparrowhawk (Yakima, Washington) - Email Me
I do whatever my Rice Crispies tell me to.
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| I Agree | Sep 6th. at 9:09:28 pm EDT
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Lady Alpha (Doniphan, Missouri) - Email Me
When I went for help with my depression years ago the doctor asked me if I heard or saw things that weren't there. I immeditatly said no. When I left I talked to my mother about it. She told me, they didn't mean that type of thing (meaning hearing spirits) , I told her it didn't matter..there was no way I was going to tell the woman yes. I know what it is that I am hearing, seeing, smelling, or sensing in whatever way. I don't need someone to analyize it or tell me that I'm crazy. If I start hearing something that tells me to harm myself or others, or start seeing bugs crawling on me, then I will seek help from a professional.
I also have the music play in my mind sometimes. I have found that if I turn on the radio the song will be playing. That usually ends the song in my mind.
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| Don't Ever Tell A Psychiatrist | Sep 6th. at 7:27:22 pm EDT
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Spotted Wolf (Columbus, Ohio) - Email Me
you hear voices. All they will want to talk about from then on is what the voices are telling you to do. They won't believe you if you say the voices aren't telling you to "do" anything. (I had been referred for help with chronic, incapacitating headache. Going was a mistake. Being open and honest was incredibly naive--which I figured out later.)
Hearing, seeing, or otherwise sensing *anything* that people around you don't is not a sign of mental illness. "Magical thinking" is not a sign of mental illness. The universe is more--much more--than the mundane world of sight, hearing, and touch. It is also much weirder than most people think (ask any physicist!)
Then there's the music. Disembodied music. I usually don't mind, except when it decides to be country music and I can't change the channel.
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| Not Crazy | Sep 6th. at 1:49:24 pm EDT
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Mysteries Child (Garfield, Arkansas) - Email Me
"Many participants wanted voice-hearing to be considered normal, to reduce the stigma they experienced."
I, personally, am sick and tired of being branded "crazy" because I hear voices.
I hear them all the time, with a great deal of variation. Days can go by without a word. Some days, they talk more than my little girl.
They tell me they love me. They tell me how to straighten myself out. They tell me how to weather tough times, fix problems, or keep things from getting messed up in the first place. They tell me when I'm truly needed, and what I should do.
They're not always clear, and they often speak in riddles. They encourage me to think about situations. When I do not listen, I almost invariably end up wishing I had.
Those voices-- which I believe to belong to my spirit guides-- do not make me crazy.
I used to ignore them. Write them off as a schizoid hallucination, and hope it never got bad enough for anyone else to have to find out.
I wish I'd started listening to the voices earlier. It would have saved me one cannabis addiction, thousands of dollars in therapy, quite a few bad "friends," and almost five years of perisuicidal depression.
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| I Agree With Her | Sep 6th. at 12:35:35 am EDT
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Hellas32 (Dacula, Georgia) - Email Me
I've been "troubled" by voices since I was a small child. For me, these "voices" would help me out with particular life situations. For the longest time, I was convinced my mind had gone on permenent vacation; so I ignored them. Eventually, they wore me down; and I started paying attention and following the advice. Since that day, I've trippled my income, experienced success at my job, found a great group of people to study and practice paganism with, and generally just screwed up my life a lot less than normal.
Are these the voices of Gods? My ancestors? Helpful spirits? I believe I know the answer, but what does it matter really? It works, and it improves my life and the lives of my friends and family.
Having had this treated as mental illness, I have experience with being around people who have problematic hallucinations. I don't experience what they experience. I don't live throught the horror that is their lives. I am otherwise healthy and rational where they are not.
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| Interesting | Sep 5th. at 11:19:02 pm EDT
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Lasombra (Columbus, Ohio) - Email Me
There is indeed a stigma that if you ever hear any voices (neg or pos) that you are mental.
Many in the pagan community too are quick to judge and assume that a person is mental.
Just another way our minds process things......like anything, this could become a disorder/mental illness.
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