Hearing Voices: Just came across this TED video and though it interesting for discussion. [View all]

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Read the article attached to the video at the site. It makes sense. I am the daughter of a man who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia back in the day when thorazine was first introduced. My siblings and I endured the acting out demanded by his voices. All of my adult life I have sought to understand this illness of the mind which contributed to so much trauma and turmoil in my childhood. We know so much and yet so little of the mechanisms and chemistry of the brain. The idea that the "governor" of your thought processes can fritz out in such a spectacular fashion and destroy your mind in very consequential way makes such utter sense. This woman's articulation of her own experience and her proposal for a treatment process that allows the individual to ally with the "fragmented" bits of self represented by voices is interesting to me. Medication alone does not resolve all of the problems expereinced by those with this illness.

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/01/11/a-schizophrenic-women-reveals-wisdom-we-all-need-to-hear/

This is the organization she refers to toward the end of her speech.

http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/help-information/mental-health-a-z/H/hearing-voices/

I'm still reading but I was interested in the thoughts of others.