{"id":23,"date":"2018-04-25T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2018-05-02T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:02:03","slug":"hearing-voices-movement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/index.php\/hearing-voices-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Voices Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hearing voices movement is a lived experience-led movement that regards hearing, seeing and sensing things others do not as meaningful experiences.<\/p>\n<p>It normalises these experiences by recognising they exist on a continuum, and that many non-psychiatric patients have these experiences. It recognises that we all have the potential to have unusual sensory experiences under certain circumstances (e.g. sleep deprivation, bereavement, hallucinogens).<\/p>\n<p>This understanding may provide reassurance and feel less stigmatising than some other approaches to understanding voices and visions.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing voices movement is critical of psychiatry\u2019s goal of eradicating voices as it is not reliably achieved through medication, not always desired by voice-hearers and it is seen as silencing not only the voices but also the voice-hearer\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-81\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arrangement-1536645_1920-1024x517.jpg\" alt=\"Talking Sense evening hearing voices group in London\" width=\"1024\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arrangement-1536645_1920-1024x517.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arrangement-1536645_1920-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arrangement-1536645_1920-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arrangement-1536645_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hearing voices movement is a lived experience-led movement that regards hearing, seeing and sensing things others do not as meaningful experiences. It normalises these experiences by recognising they exist on a continuum, and that many non-psychiatric patients have these experiences. It recognises that we all have the potential to have unusual sensory experiences under &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talking-sense.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}