July 17, 2021
When we go into severe mental health crisis, it can feel like a civil war inside, with various voices, demons, or other entities engaged in battle […]
April 18, 2020
While the experience of psychosis can be highly distressing, many who recover report that the treatment was often worse than the psychosis itself. What is it […]
February 27, 2020
When people are told they have “psychosis,” it’s usually because they are experiencing one or both of the following: “hallucinations,” defined as sensations that don’t seem […]
January 20, 2020
Since the beginning of recorded history, humans have reported having experiences in their minds (not tied to sensory perception of what others see as physical reality) […]
June 2, 2019
“Don’t React – Choose How to Relate to Distressing Voices!” is the subject of a webinar that was presented by Dr. Mark Hayward on 6/20/19. (See […]
April 24, 2019
When people have problems with voices, the most common recommendation they are given is to try to avoid them – to take drugs to make them […]
September 7, 2018
My colleague John Herold has an interesting image he uses to communicate the conventional mental health approach to disturbing mental states: it is that of a […]
May 14, 2018
Stories organize us, and “bad stories” organize us in destructive ways. In this post I will address one example: the story told about how skilled mental […]
September 9, 2017
The Hearing Voices Congress of 2017 is over, but it’s not too late to listen to some of the key talks that happened there! Other […]