If you require mental health crisis support, please contact your local mental health services, your GP, or telephone 111 or the emergency services.

Recovery is Possible

Recovery

For those that have particularly overwhelming experiences leading them into mental health services, recovery can feel like a distant dream. The good news is that people can, and do, find ways to deal with (and recover from) distressing voices. 

Perhaps more importantly, people can also recover from the situations that can make voices and visions so hard to deal with. Many people can continue to hear voices. Sometimes these voices may change during the recovery process (being an ally, rather than an attacker). Other times these voices become quieter, less intrusive and can disappear altogether. Others find that the voices may stay the same, but that they are no longer ruled or distressed by them.

This is why the relationship is important.

If an individual’s current relationship with their voices is distressing, a key aim of treatment is to help the person to change their relationship and reduce distress.

Consider more:

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