Im not sure yet if i am suffereing a hearing loss or not :)) I keep my mind and ears open for new voices and hope to hear some soon... Theres a quote from mystery writer meg chittenden who is a really nice lady about how writers are like people who hear voices and how they both stay locked up in a room all day( i presume she meant a mental institution and a writer locking themselves up alone to work on a book) Well, the funny part of that quote is that since they cleared out a lot of state institutions years ago, the people who really have auditory hallucinations( KNOWING the voices heard are not theirs vs. most writers who are at least technically not "insane" more or less), more writers are probably "locked up" by themselves than there are mentally challenged people locked away in some institution. Another interesting thing is that with the new meds for schizophrenia, most of the patients with that problem ( severe auditory hallucinatins or delusions or both)are forced out into the world at least 4 hours a day, even if they are lucky enough to be being taken care of in a good state run or nowadays mostly private run program. I know a person who has problems like this and even on medication,( which a lot seem to hate to take, making the whole problem even worse), there are still delusions. There is no way to try to explain to them that these are delusions...so you just listen to them and realize the brain is really complex and move on to some other topic. Anyway, I think of hearing voices as my mind speaking to me in different ways...and I think that is ok still :):)
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That's sweet... like the voice is the heart speaking❤
thanks <3
Are you hearing more voices yet?
Im not sure yet if i am suffereing a hearing loss or not :)) I keep my mind and ears open for new voices and hope to hear some soon...
Theres a quote from mystery writer meg chittenden who is a really nice lady about how writers are like people who hear voices and how they both stay locked up in a room all day( i presume she meant a mental institution and a writer locking themselves up alone to work on a book)
Well, the funny part of that quote is that since they cleared out a lot of state institutions years ago, the people who really have auditory hallucinations( KNOWING the voices heard are not theirs vs. most writers who are at least technically not "insane" more or less), more writers are probably "locked up" by themselves than there are mentally challenged people locked away in some institution. Another interesting thing is that with the new meds for schizophrenia, most of the patients with that problem ( severe auditory hallucinatins or delusions or both)are forced out into the world at least 4 hours a day, even if they are lucky enough to be being taken care of in a good state run or nowadays mostly private run program. I know a person who has problems like this and even on medication,( which a lot seem to hate to take, making the whole problem even worse), there are still delusions. There is no way to try to explain to them that these are delusions...so you just listen to them and realize the brain is really complex and move on to some other topic.
Anyway, I think of hearing voices as my mind speaking to me in different ways...and I think that is ok still :):)
I just talk to myself... and answer too;~) I know its alright.
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