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Old Jul 31, 2013, 03:21 PM
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I'm glad the voices have lessened slightly and that your daughter has both a T and a supportive parent to help her cope. Hopefully you can get in somewhere earlier than October. All the best

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Originally Posted by Gr3tta View Post
I know most people like and have success with the 'understand its not real' approach, but I always have more personal success when I treat voices as if they are real people. I.e.: if a real person told more a very convincing but far fetched and potentially harmful story, I would be free to choose not to believe it, if a real person told me to harm myself or another, I would be free to choose not to, to say no.
This doesn't help at all with making them any less unpleasant, but makes me feel more powerful and in control, and helps me take control over my own responses and reactions.
Interestingly Gr3tta, one of the recovery themes in the Romme & Escher Recovery Stories book I'm reading was to accept that the voices are real to you. I think it's important to find whatever works for each of us

*Willow*
Thanks for this!
Gr3tta