Thanks fish. I think that wording actually helps. It makes sense that people should learn to survive with them since meds arn't a guarantee. And I know this article wasn't meant to say that 'all voices are just misunderstood and are valuable, it just kinda felt that way to me. I can see how some voices could be interpreted as useful to learning more about oneself. I think I felt like this article was acting as if you could just learn from the voices and once your inner issues are resolved they'll just go away (I know it pretty much said the opposite, and that they'll still be there, just more tolerable). I guess learning to survive with my voice was benneficial, in that I know if meds arn't a long term solution, I can still survive and not harm or kill anyone. I feel like I already want to do a lot of the bad things the voice was talking about, it just made it all the harder to resist with it constantly there.