Thanks so much for the welcome.

I was in hospital this past week due to suicide risk. The whole time I was there I was asked non stop about my voices so I took to blogging some of what they say. A lot of it is random gibberish but some is quite persecutory in a sense (ie they want me dead). I spoke in depth to the doctors for the first time about my voices. How one is particularly angry and aggressive, the other not so much; what they say, the context of the conversations. I have taken to speaking back to them when no-one is around even when I am reasonably well. When I am not well... thats a different story entirely, I will speak regardless of who is present.

My old case manager was quite unhelpful when I wanted help learning to cope with hearing voices. Her response and I quote "you are not the only one who hears voices". I never once claimed any special preference because of the fact I suffer auditory hallucinations, simply asked for strategies as coping mechanisms for such. She didn't do her job I fear... I was discharged from mental health and never got the help I requested.