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Auditory hallucination anxiety6/24/2023 ![]() Are there some people who go untreated who do suffer from schizophrenia? Yes- but this is true for every mental health disorder. Even in movies they portray people who hear voices as total nut jobs, roaming the streets and talking to themselves. People automatically think if you hear voices you have schizophrenia. Our society has given a negative stigma to those who hear voices. It’s actions like this that add to the stigmas surrounding mental illness. ![]() People are automatically said to have schizophrenia or jokingly compared to the kid in the movies who said, “I see dead people”. Hearing voices is treated sometimes like a dirty word, whispered when talking about it to a friend, as if they don’t want anyone to hear them say the words, “they hear voices”. In America, there is a lot of support in the mental health fields for people who hear voices, but not so much support in general society. But in cultures such as with those who have mental health disorders, hearing voices can be a negative trait and one to avoid. In some cultures, such as religious cultures, hearing voices may be God or another higher power speaking to them. There are many people who hear voices and emotional states can play a huge role in the type of voices they hear. ![]() Hearing voices does not automatically give you a diagnosis of schizophrenia. That’s right, you may be more normal than you thought. In fact, 1 in 10 people claim to hear voices that other people do not hear. Just because you hear voices does not mean you have a mental health disorder. There are many instances in which you can hear voices but you can’t distinguish between the voices you hear.īefore you start to panic, hear this. Maybe you hear a choir singing or a baby crying or Jesus speaking or your late grandfather reaching out. Maybe you’ve heard a couple of voices having a discussion about you, good or bad. ![]() Maybe you’ve heard a voice telling you to do something good or bad. ![]()
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