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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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Georgie_PaulikSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:17 pm AEST

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

Thanks @Maggie for sharing. I'm sorry to hear it's so constant.

Thank you @Smashpea for sharing also. That is a really good question. Why so late in life? Did you find there were stressors going on for you when they first started? Did what they say make sense in that context? The WHEN part of voice hearing is often something that baffels me too

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SmashpeaContributor15 May 2018, 7:18 pm AEST

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

I hear 2 voices - both middle aged men neither of which are familiar. They don't have names or faces but I see them in the back of my head as 2 black circles. As they get louder and nastier/destructive the circles start merging together

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Georgie_PaulikSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:20 pm AEST

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

Thanks @Bunniekins. Wow, those dreams sounds really important. A way of saying good bye and letting go I imagine.

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SmashpeaContributor15 May 2018, 7:21 pm AEST

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

Hmmm, nothing really worse than usual. I've had mental health issues since my teens and I was still getting treatment for those when the voices started. I dont recall anything in particular that might have triggered them

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lanae976Casual Contributor15 May 2018, 7:22 pm AEST

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

My voices started when i was bullied at school around age 10. I had noone i could confide in or trust so it seems my first two voices, who were both a very positive influence evolved to fill that need. 9 years later some very negative events happened and the positive voices left and negative voices replaced them. Sometimes my treating team use the term "pseudohallucinations" because my main voices seem to be connected to me in terms of they will express thoughts or feelings I have difficulty accepting as mine. I do have 2 foreign voices however (that i can't translate!) and i hear all 5 externally.

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BunniekinsSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:22 pm AEST

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

@Georgie_Paulik Yes I like to think that. It is very comforting. 🙂

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QueenieSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:23 pm AEST

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

Evening everyone, sorry for my tardiness, it's been one of those days I'm afraid!

I heard 4 disembodied voices, two of which are female and two of which are male. Only the male voices have told me how they like to referred to... there's Asher (the ringleader) he never has anything good to say about anything, especially me. There's also the Red Man who only tells me to harm myself over and over again.

The two female voices like to interact with the male voices and commentate of on whatever it is I am doing at the time.

It can get pretty messy indeed! I refer to them all collectively as the Shitty Committee, as in general I find them quite a negative experience.

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TasharoseContributor15 May 2018, 7:25 pm AEST

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

Hi I'm Tasharose, I have been hearing voice for most of my life, all my voices bar one are negative. I would like to learn how to co-exist with them and not be at war within myself every day. I am very interested in this topic.

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Georgie_PaulikSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:26 pm AEST

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

Sorry @BlueBay, I missed your earlier message. Thanks for sharing and I'm sorry that your first experience was so negtive. I hope you have started having more positive experiences with disclosing your voices since.

@lanae976, that is a common story. It sounds likely they were initially there to protect you and keep you company. Sweet. Not so sweet about the more recent distressing voice though. and fascinating about the foreign voices!

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BunniekinsSenior Contributor15 May 2018, 7:28 pm AEST

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

@Georgie_Paulik@Tasharose I have one which I really like who I would like to keep around but when he is around I go crazy ... how can I keep him and not lose my mind?

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