Like many people, I hear voices.
I feel quite bad about it.
A lot of people who don’t know or understand about voices think of voice hearers as mad.
Every time you hear about a voice hearer who’s done something bad, it is always on the front of every newspaper or it is in the main story on the TV news.
Why should that be?
The media sometimes refer to voice hearers as "schizos", which isn’t a nice word.
The media would never refer to a black person as a darkie.
Neither would they refer to a gay person as a homo.
So why do they give voice hearers a label?
We "voice hearers", can lead a life as normal as anyone else ( who can say what normal really means?)
Medication, speaking to professionals or family members, attending self help groups and speaking to and listening to other voice hearers, can all help so much.
I would like to think the society out there would accept us like everyone else.
Please give us a chance ; We are as friendly and helpful as the next person..
I’m writing this in the hope that people can have a greater understanding of what voice hearing actually means.
Hopefully this will lead to a more tolerant attitude towards voice hearers.

E.

Song Lyrics

I'm interested in song lyrics that deal with themes of voice hearing and madness.
'Voices' by Russ Ballard seems to have some connection with my experiences;

If you could see my mind, if you really look deep,

Then maybe you'll find that somewhere there will be a place,

Hidden behind my comedian face

You will find somewhere there's a house,

And inside that house there's a room.

Locked in the room in the corner you see a voice is waiting for me, to set it free.

I got the key, I got the key voices, I hear voices

In my head the voice is waiting,

Waiting for me to set it free

I locked it inside my imagination,

But I'm the one who's got the combination

Some people didn't like what the voice did say

So I took the voice and I locked it away,

I got the key, I got the key

or this one by 70's heavy metal band Uriah Heep entitled 'I Hear Voices';

I feel the pressure

Pushing down on me

Can't face the world

Can't change the things I see

I got my hands in my pockets

Staring at the walls

Can nobody help me

To escape from it all

I hear voices in my head

They taunt me

Can't lock them out

Inside my thoughts

They breathe in me

I got my hands in my pockets

Screaming at the walls

Can nobody help me

To escape from it all

Mike

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