Auditory Hallucination, Hearing VoicesHearing voices as a symptom for a mental illness.
To hear voices is a disturbing experience for both the voice hearer and dans friends and family. In the past, hearing voices were seen as symptoms for a lot of mental illnesses and as a taboo which was not talked about for fear of being socially stigmatized. Hearing voices are considered as an auditory hallucination by clinical psychiatry and as symptoms for schizophrenic disorders, bipolar disorder and psychosis. The common treatment, which involves tranquillisers, is administered to reduce the hallucinations and delusions.
Not everyone would respond well to this treatment. Nurses, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals were taught that people who hear voices cannot do much for themselves. In the past, professionals were not supposed to engage the voice hearers nor ask them of what they felt about the voices or the content of what the voices were telling them.
Professional health workers tend to distract the patients from the voices as they thought that engaging the patients meant that they believed in their accounts. Studies have found out that many people who hear voices are able to cope up without any psychiatric intervention. It was also found out that the people who hear voices who can cope up treated the voices as a positive part of their being. The voice hearers never regard the voices as negative aspects of their lives but yet will beleive it is a postive which always ends in failure.