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Default Feb 21, 2012 at 10:33 PM
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I was thinking of having a survival mode thingy I can depend on if the voices get back (start accusing me again) So far i've come up with

1. Use whatever you can.

2. Escape

What do you think?

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Default Feb 22, 2012 at 09:34 AM
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What do you think?
Good idea. Do you tend to remember what you can use or how to escape when you find yourself confronted with negative voices? Maybe you could list specific things you can use, like white noise or distraction, whatever has helped you in the past. Maybe you could make a second list of strategies that other people have found helpful for them that you'd like to try if the voices come back.

I seem to remember reading something within the last couple of days about two ways that people deal with voices that tend to make them worse. I think it was alternating between ignoring them and attending to them too closely. I can't remember where I saw it. Maybe Ron Unger's blog?

I've seen a list of ways of dealing with voices somewhere - maybe the National Empowerment Center. Compiled by Pat Deegan I believe.
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I've seen a list of ways of dealing with voices somewhere - maybe the National Empowerment Center. Compiled by Pat Deegan I believe.
Maybe you can find some ideas here:

http://www.power2u.org/articles/selfhelp/voices.html

http://www.power2u.org/articles/selfhelp/voices_2.html
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I seem to remember reading something within the last couple of days about two ways that people deal with voices that tend to make them worse. I think it was alternating between ignoring them and attending to them too closely. I can't remember where I saw it. Maybe Ron Unger's blog?
Ok, here's what I remember reading. It was at Ron Unger's site. You might want to read it at his site - http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org...schizophrenia/ - because there is some interesting stuff in the comments to the article.

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An iPhone app for “schizophrenia”

by Ron Unger on February 12, 2012

One interest of mine is how people can learn skills so that they can better handle experiences like hearing voices. One key problem with voices is that people often alternate between either trying too hard to get rid of them, or listening to them too much. (There is a “bipolarity” to this, which I think connects with how the mental and emotional problems that get called “schizophrenia” and “bipolar” are not distinctly different.)

Anyway, the article below talks about skills people can learn to get over the side of the problem which is listening too much to the voices. If one can learn to avoid listening too much to the voices, then the fact that they exist at all is not so much of a problem, which naturally might also help a person become less obsessed with getting rid of them. And maybe help the mental health system get less obsessed with getting rid of them?

This article is available at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120203092031.htm
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