You’re Not Alone If You’re Hearing Voices
Hearing voices? You’re not alone.
From the little voice telling us we’re no good to the one offering advice, the experience of hearing voices is more common than you might think. It is estimated that 13.2% of the adult general population are subject to it, yet this experience still carries much stigma. Whom can you turn to when you’re no longer alone in your head?
For several decades now, the international Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) has been campaigning to improve the way this condition is perceived. Two recent studies conducted at the University of Lorraine in eastern France have assessed how its support groups have impacted the French health care system.
Changing textbooks
You’re hearing voices and in one fell swoop, the gavel falls: you’re mad. How could it be otherwise? You don’t...
