Letter To Anyone Struggling With Suicidal Thoughts
https://themighty.com/2016/12/letter-to-anyone-struggling-with-suicidal-thoughts/ Follow the link above for help and advice if you are suicidal. Please feel free to leave comments.
Spirituality
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.
Dark Matter: A Brief Chapbook of Poetry by Kerry Valkyrie Baldock Kelly
Dark Matter: A Brief Chapbook of Poetry by Kerry Valkyrie Baldock Kelly About the Author Kerry Valkyrie Baldock Kelly was born in Kent, England. She was diagnosed with severe ENT problems which included deafness. She had several operations and although she 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…
Interior locution
An interior locution is a mystical concept used by various religions, including the Roman Catholic Church. In an interior locution, a person reportedly receives a set of (usually auditory) ideas, thoughts, or imaginations from an outside spiritual source. Interior locutions 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…
INNER HEALTH SEMINAR
INNER HEALTH SEMINAR: Towards a balanced and empowered understanding of mental, emotional and spiritual health The Red Door, the Square, Newcastle West. Sunday 20th December Admission free: An invitation to take a break from pre- Christmas activity and learn something new… Session 1: Read More…
How I Discovered Lasting Relief From The Voices That I Hear And Their Physical Attacks.
How I Discovered Lasting Relief From The Voices That I Hear And Their Physical Attacks. I call myself justaguy, and I have suffered from hearing voices, and the severely painful physical attacks for over 10 years. My real name I 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
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…
Daniel Mackler Videos
Daniel Mackler has just released all his excellent documentaries onto you tube. This is from his website http://wildtruth.net/ My name is Daniel Mackler and I am a filmmaker, writer, and musician based in New York City. I also worked for ten years as a psychotherapist Read More…
Brian Hartnett (HVI) Interview on LCCR
Brian Hartnett founded Hearing Voices Ireland (HVI) in 2006. In this interview on Limerick City Community Radio (LCCR) Brian talks about HVI and his viewpoint on hearing voices. Listen HERE Brian also has a music show on LCCR every Saturday 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…
HVI & Shine Athlone Hearing Voices Workshop
HVI in partnership with Shine are running a series of workshops for voice hearers, supporters and workers around Ireland in 2014. See details below about the upcoming workshop in Athlone on March 13th. See here for poster ATHLONE HEARING VOICES WORKSHOP 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…
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…
Madness Radio Interview with Brian Hartnett
Madness Radio based in Portland, Oregon, USA. Will Hall interviews Brian Hartnett of HVI. Brian talks about growing up in Ireland, music, the rave scene, recreational drugs and spirituality. Listen HERE (50 mins)