transcranial magnetic stimulation (using a magnetic coil to influence the brain’s natural electrical activity), could help regulate brain activity and potentially silence the voices in patients who don’t respond to medication.
This was mentioned in the article as an alternative treatment to meds
I was thinking this exact idea some months ago, but I am sure this is also a slap-to-the-face, I-told-you-so moment to other people with this disease as well.
Sigh, the pain of never being listened to gets larger every day…
I wonder if social isolation can cause the auditory hallucinations, and therefore act as a predictor in adolescent development, before the disease ever takes place with psychosis.
Wouldn’t it be nice if science tried to find the cause rather than being busy making money treating the effects instead?
I am sure the cancer crowd has some experience with that particular frustration.
I’m can’t imagine how shitty voices are to deal with. I’m definitely not trying to diminish that but I gotta say. This disease is still pretty awful without them
good thing about my mental illness is that i dont hear voices
I remember hearing voices during adolescence just thought the big guy upstairs was talking to me.
I don’t hear voices either, but I can hear changes in the tone/voice/speaker of my conscious voice, even though it is still mostly in my own control.
And I have noticed that my symptoms got better when I could hear my own voice clearly when I spoke out-loud, which is exactly what this article goes on about. I would actually use that as a reference to know when I was getting better.
I am not a religious person, so I actually took your words literally at first. I was like thinking: Your father or brother in the upstairs room?
God, apologies I am thinking slow this morning.
Anyway, I know it is also possible for people to have no conscious voice at all, so perhaps for them to possibly ‘gain’ or develop a voice later on in life might freak them out as much as it does for us to have abnormal ones. Imagine a silent and empty room is no longer silent and empty, and that room is your head.
I am sure we are not the only ones with bizarre experiences by similar phenomenon.
I have heard voices for over a decade.
Somewhere my own voice disappeared.
My internal voices got replaced by outer voices.
