Hearing voices

[Laird]

There seem to be three basic categories of "voice hearers":

1. On the positive side, mediums, who experience the voices of those who have passed on, and who (generally) connect those passed spirits with their living relatives.
   
2. On the negative side, those who have been - or are liable to being - diagnosed with "psychosis", "schizophrenia", or a similar mental health condition, who generally find the voices distressing and debilitating.
   
3. In between, those who are not liable to being diagnosed with a "mental illness" but who also don't consider themselves to be mediums; these people simply live with the experience of hearing voices.
   

I intend this to be a thread where we mostly explore the latter two scenarios, but where their relationship to the former can also be explored. I intend for us to do this especially through sharing resources such as videos, podcasts, and essays, but also through discussion/debate amongst us.

To be clear, I have an ongoing experience which fits into the second category.

To kick things off, here are a couple of resources:

1. Psychosis365, a project which intended to provide a daily one-minute video for a year from people who had a connection to voice hearing / psychosis and who were willing to share what that experience means to them. It didn't last for the full year, but there are still a bunch of great videos that you can watch on Facebook here.
   
2. Louisa D Pearce's video, Hearing Voices: A Deeper Understanding. I discovered Louisa via the Psychois365 project above, and I really value and love her sensitive, compassionate, and wise approach to this whole subject area.