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Topic Tuesday // Hearing Voices // Tues 15 May, 7pm AEST

Unknown userMember27 Apr 2018, 3:57 pm AEST

Topic Tuesday // Hearing Voices // Tues 15 May, 7pm AEST

For this Topic Tuesday we will have Special Guest @Georgie_Paulik from our partner organisation Perth Voices Clinic joining the discussion around your experiences of hearing voices, the impact this has and management tips.

@Georgie_Paulik is a clinical Psychologist and is the Clinical Director and Founder of Perth Voices Clinic. A bit more about her career:

Georgie completed her PhD in 2007 from the University of WA and her thesis investigated the role of anxiety in the hearing voices experience.
She has undertaken research into voice hearing so that we can understand the experience better – why it happens, when it is most likely to happen, and most importantly, what can we do to reduce distress around it.
She helped develop a novel intervention for voice hearers, called Relating Therapy, which helps people to change the relationship they have with their voice (which unfortunately can often be a very negative and bullying relationship) a bit more about that here
She has a keen interest in the role of trauma and voices – how trauma can cause voices (for some people) and how to best address underlying trauma.

With Georgie’s wealth of experience, this will be a very interesting and insightful night! We are really looking forward to having everyone involved!

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MaggieSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:08 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Hearing Voices // Tues 15 May, 7pm AEST

Hi everyone, looking forward to the discussion.

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Unknown userMember15 May 2018, 7:10 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Hearing Voices // Tues 15 May, 7pm AEST

Hi @lanae976 - welcome to the forums and tonights topic tuesday. Great to have you here to share your experiences as well.

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Shaz51Senior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:10 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Hearing Voices // Tues 15 May, 7pm AEST

Hello @Georgie_Paulik, @Former-Member

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Georgie_PaulikSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:10 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Hearing Voices // Tues 15 May, 7pm AEST

Let's get talking... 10-25% of the population will experience voices or other similar perceptual experiences at some stage in their lives, and this statistic excludes people who have these experiences while having a fever or during drug intoxication. For some people who hear voices, this experience may be part of a “psychosis”, but for many it is not. Some people may hear voices because of trauma or as part of other mental health difficulties, such as depression or anxiety. For others, they experience no mental health difficulties at all. And in fact, in the elderly it is more the ‘norm’ than not, with ~50% of people over the age of 60 hearing or seeing their loved one in the weeks after their loved one has passed away. I’d love to hear people’s thoughts and personal accounts relating to this.

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BunniekinsSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:10 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Hearing Voices // Tues 15 May, 7pm AEST

@lanae976 Hi Soraya 🙂

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Georgie_PaulikSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:11 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Hearing Voices // Tues 15 May, 7pm AEST

In what context have/did you hear voices or have similar perceptual experiences? How did this experience affect your mental health?

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SmashpeaContributor15 May 2018, 7:12 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Hearing Voices // Tues 15 May, 7pm AEST

I've been hearing voices for since my mid 20s ( 10ish years ago). They seemed to have come out of nowhere for no particular reason and despite having other mental health issues, they were not related to psychosis. I'm wondering why they started so late in the game?

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MaggieSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:13 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Hearing Voices // Tues 15 May, 7pm AEST

I have DID and hear voices all the time

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BlueBaySenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:14 pm AEST

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I was at my doctors dissociating and very traumatised when the next thing i could hear my mums voice in my head telling me how bad I am. I was yelling at her voice in my head. Telling her to shut up. But she kept telling me off and saying horrible stuff to me. At the end my doctor called an ambulance and sent me to hospital.

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BunniekinsSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:15 pm AEST

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@Georgie_Paulik I hear voices negative and positive when I am off my medication and have bp1 and schizo but in saying that I also dream of those who have passed sooon after they have died. These dreams are very real so I chose to believe it is a good bye visit before they go to the other side so to speak (I am not religious unless I am manic that is). BTW they do not speak to me ever but communicate through their eyes.

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