ANSWERS: 13
  • Yes, organized religion
  • I know severe bipolar does.
  • Not that it is an illness but my friend took to much speed the other day hasn't slept in some time and has started hearing voices. So did you eat a lot of speed? Or have you been neglecting sleep?
  • Hearing voices can be a very disturbing experience, both for the person who hears voices and family and friends. Until recently voices were regarded as a symptom of a mental illness and not talked about because they are regarded as a socially stigmatising experience. Hearing voices are still considered by clinical psychiatry as an auditory hallucination and as a symptom of conditions such as schizophrenic disorders, manic depression and psychosis. The usual treatment - major tranquillisers - are administered in order to reduce the delusions and hallucinations. However, not everyone responds to this type of treatment. Psychiatrists, nurses and other professionals have been taught that there is not a lot an individual can do for themselves to cope with the voices. Indeed, in the past professionals were taught not to engage voice hearers about the content of their voice experience as this was thought to be "buying in" to the patients' delusions and not helpful. Most often professionals sought to distract the voice hearer from their voices. Research has shown that there are many people who hear voices, some of whom cope with their voices well without psychiatric intervention, it has also been found that there are many people who hear voices who can cope with their voices and regard them as a positive part of their lives. Neither is it the case that voices have always been regarded as a negative experience. T Throughout history and even today there are people who hear voices who find their voices inspirational and comforting. These are facts that on the face of it are hard to square with the extremely negative way that the experience is regarded by psychiatry. The researchers, practitioners and involved voice hearers believe it is mistaken to regard voice hearing as part of a psychopathic disease syndrome. Rather, they consider it to be more akin to a variation in human experience - if you like, a faculty or differentiation. (Extract from mentalhealth.org)
  • Sometimes a vitamin deficiency will do it, too.
  • Psychosis Complex PTSD Insomnia There are loads more, but I can't think of the names off the top of my head. It's 2:15am, so I can be excused. :)
  • I had a roommate in college who had Borderline Personality disorder. She heard voices sometimes and eventually dropped out of school.
  • Maybe if one has extreme Paranoia..or if one is gravely ill, has a very high temperature..one might hear sounds/voices. That would be a very frightening experience, I think.
  • Yes, people with tinnitus often report hearing sounds like voices in their ear. Some have been mis-diagnosed as mental illness, before their physicians realize it is a physical cause.
  • YES! Mental illness isn't required. Sensory deprivation can cause this effect. People who are deprived of any sound, or people who go deaf late in life, find themselves visited by all kinds of auditory hallucinations, including voices, street noises and music, all of which are apparently so real that the person hearing the sounds can't always tell that they aren't real. The idea is that the brain becomes "starved" for sensory input, and in the absence of such input, the brain provides its own. For more on this topic see the book "Musicophilia" by renowned neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, upon whom the movie "Awakenings," starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams, was based. Awesome book, it goes through specific cases that Dr. Sacks worked on with patients who experience these and other types of auditory problems.
  • I hear voices said the little boy to Bruce Willis. I too hear voices and does that make me screw loose? We talk about the spiritual planes and converse with our Guru's and so on. But I don't think I am a case of schizo....!
  • Too add to what theicada anwered, I have tinitus and I always here some sound when there is none, sometimes ringing, sometimes it sounds like a rushing sound, sometimes I think that there is a radio playing that I can just pick up the faint edge of the sound and can't make out the words or the song, and then I look around the house and there is nothing going on but the noise is in my ear. It was caused by a lot of loud noise when I was younger (artillery cannons, heavy equipment, and ROCK AND ROLL.)
  • Working ears.

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