What it’s like to hear voices
What it’s like to hear voices Sammee has been hearing voices for most of her life and she and her brother Shabs have, together, found ways to try and cope. Have you ever heard voices? One in ten of us Read More…
Schizophrenia
Look Beyond Regional Launch – Limerick
Look Beyond Regional Launch – Limerick Description See Change will hold a regional launch of their ‘Look Beyond’ photovoice research exhibition on Tuesday 21st November 2017 at 6pm, in the Hunt Museum, Limerick. ‘Look Beyond’ is an exhibition of photographs Read More…
Nicola Wall & Michelle Dalton | The Late Late Show
https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/the-late-late-show-extras-30003017/10785254/ Follow the link above to the RTE Player to hear two women who hear voices on the Late Late Show. Nicola Wall and Michelle Dalton both featured in the documentary, ‘Schizophrenia: The Voices in my Head’. They join Ryan Read More…
RTE Documentary on Schizophrenia and Voices
A new documentary from RTE on Schizophrenia and Voices is now available on the RTE player here https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/schizophrenia-the-voices-in-my-head-30004839/10777926/ Young people speak about what it’s like to live with such a severe mental health disorder, and struggle with delusional thoughts and the Read More…
Article on Hearing Voices from New Yorker Magazine
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/09/the-voices-in-our-heads Follow the link above for a very interesting article on hearing voices in the New Yorker Magazine.
Pathways to Being Well – Mental Health Guide for Ethnic Minorities in Ireland
Cairde has just published a Pathways to Being Well. Mental Health Guide for Ethnic Minorities in Ireland which includes contact details to Hearing Voices Ireland. We hope this guide could also be a useful tool in your work with ethnic Read More…
Story about the development of mental illness from Kerry Kelly
This is Kerry Valkyrie Baldock Kelly’s first story. Its called Equilibrium. The fog had started with a simple migraine, a pulsating pain thrusting outwards from behind her eyes. Studying mathematical physics at one of the best universities in Ireland was Read More…
Brian & Andrew On Voices
My good friend Andrew Muir guested on my show The Other Side Of The Tracks on Limerick City Community Radio www.lccr.ie This excerpt from the show is where we talk about our experience of hearing voices. You can here the entire Read More…
Brian Hartnett Founder Of HVI Explains His Experience Of Voice Hearing
Hi Brian Hartnett here founder of Hearing Voices Ireland. This video explains my experience of voice hearing. It is one of many views on the subject. I am happy to discuss further so please feel free to contact me at Read More…
Listening To Voices Project in conjunction with Hearing Voices Ireland (HVI)
Listening To Voices Project in conjunction with Hearing Voices Ireland (HVI) Listening to Voices: Creative Disruptions with the Hearing Voices Network is a research project that tries to understand how we can listen to voices that we find difficult, disruptive or Read More…
My Journey and experience with Paranoid Schizophrenia (Psychosis)
My Journey and experience with Paranoid Schizophrenia (Psychosis) I was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia (Psychosis) in February 2012 and hospitalised for the first time at just aged 18 because I went through a traumatic event when I was in college Read More…
Challenging the stigma for people who hear voices in their heads
Traditionally associated with serious mental illness, perceptions are changing for people who hear voices, writes James Fogarty in the Irish Examiner here http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/the-people-who-hear-voices-in-their-heads-323140.html
Understanding Psychosis And Schizophrenia
Understanding Psychosis And Schizophrenia Why people sometimes hear voices, believe things that others find strange, or appear out of touch with reality …and what can help. An overview of the current state of knowledge in the field, concluding that psychosis can be Read More…
HVI / Shine Voices Workshop Dublin April 2015
HEARING VOICES WORKSHOP DUBLIN 24TH APRIL 2015 BACKGROUND This hearing voices workshop run by Shine and Hearing Voices Ireland (HVI) came about as a result of initial research and development by Aoife Farrell of Shine in 2013 into the whole Read More…
The enemy within: People who hear voices in their heads are being encouraged to talk back
The enemy within: People who hear voices in their heads are being encouraged to talk back See full article in todays Independant by clicking HERE
Brian Hartnett founder of HVI interview on RTE TV
Brian Hartnett of Hearing Voices Ireland (HVI) interviewed by Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh as part of The Moment Of Truth TV series on RTE. Brian tells his story of how he developed a voice hearing experience as a result of experimenting Read More…
Limerick – Mental Health Week
As part of Mental Health Week (October 5th – 12th) Limerick Mental Health Association have invited Brian Hartnett, founder of Hearing Voices Ireland, to speak about hearing voices and schizophrenia at the Absolute Hotel, Sir Harry’s Mall, 7.30 – 9pm Read More…
The Shamanic View of Mental Illness
The Shamanic View of Mental Illness In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the Read More…
John K Personal Story
JOHN K: Hearing Voices – My story Everyone has a story, my story is just that – my story – different in that it is unique to me, the same in that everyone has a story to tell. I’m 53 Read More…
The Psychotic and Disorder Manual: A close look at disorders from the vantage point of personal experience
Owen Finnegan has gone through the mill so to speak and is now able to explain coherently and in great detail what it is like to suffer from a range of symptoms and disorders like Anxiety, Mild Depression, Severe Depression, Read More…
Owen Finnegan Personal Story & Book
On the first week of December 2006 I had my first bout of psychotic mania. I was super energetic and delusional, thinking to myself that I was a prophet of God, one of the two witnesses and I was to Read More…
Unravel: Greg Ralls Book
To Unwell and Back In his late 20s, Greg Ralls became mentally ill and experienced first-episode psychosis. He reported a suspected homicide to police and was straightjacketed and made an involuntary patient in a locked ward of Graylands Psychiatric Hospital. Read More…
Radio Show: Invisible intruders – the voices in my head
How do you deal with the voices in your head? We all have them to some extent – perhaps they’re just thoughts, comforting and easy to live with – but for some, they are menacingly real and reflect past trauma. We hear Read More…
Shine & HVI – Longford Hearing Voices Workshop
Shine & Hearing Voices Ireland Present HEARING VOICES WORKSHOP December 18th Longford Arms Hotel Longford Living with voices Working with people who hear voices Personal story Q&A session The workshop is open to voice hearers and people who support them, Read More…
Auditory hallucinations talk in UCC on 5th December
The School of Nursing and Midwifery and The School of Applied Social Studies University College Cork Thursday 5th December, 2013 2:00 – 4.00 pm Venue: G.04 Brookfield Health Sciences Complex Title: Hearing voices: The histories, causes and meanings of auditory verbal Read More…
Brian Hartnett Story
BRIAN HARTNETT – PERSONAL RECOVERY STORY — At a Schizophrenia Ireland (now Shine) conference in Dublin in 2004, Brian gave a presentation about his own recovery story to a large audience. Brian first started hearing voices in 1990. Since then Read More…
Will Hall Personal Story
WILL HALL PERSONAL STORY Since I was a child I’ve struggled with extreme emotions, voices, and powerful out of body experiences. I remember falling to the ground once in third grade, writhing in agony because I believed something was grabbing Read More…
My recovery journey by Hywel Davies
Transcript of the speech given by Hywel Davies at the “Recovery into Practice: A Whole Life – Whole Systems Approach”at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, Carmarthen, Thursday 20th June 2013 My Recovery Journey Hywel Davies I am a voice Read More…
Keynote addresses from Cork conference now available
MEANINGS OF MADNESS; CRITICAL AND CREATIVE PERSPECTIVES Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Links to keynote addresses given at all the Cork Critical Voices Network Ireland conferences from 2011 to 2013 are available on the CVNI website Read More…
Marius Romme: Recovery from Hearing Voices
Recovering from voices by changing your relationship with them by Professor Marius Romme Introduction The Roots of Hearing Voices What are the influences of the traditional psychiatric care? Accepting Your Voices and Accepting Yourself How Did These Voice Hearers Manage Read More…