How to Manage Auditory Hallucinations

Many psychologists now view auditory hallucination as a symptom of stress. Medications are not always effective, leading doctors to advocate stress management, self-calming or self-care management techniques. Daniel Smith, writer for the New York Times, states "according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the so-called bible of psychiatry, auditory hallucinations are only a potential symptom of mental illness--they must appear with other symptoms, persist for a specified length of time and impede day-to-day functioning in order to become part of a diagnosable syndrome".

Instructions

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  Auditory hallucination is only damaging if the voices are negative.

  Perform some field research. Consider compelling sources such as the article Auditory Hallucinations - Can You Live With the Voices in your Head, by New York Times writer, Daniel Smith. Broaden your knowledge of international approaches in order to learn about this and other emerging works in England known as HVN or the Hearing Voices Network. Study the network promotion of meaningful information obtained by exploring the content of voices being heard, and the results of others who have done this. Receive support from the information distributed by this organization which includes self-care and anxiety-reduction techniques while promoting reduced use of medications for treatment.

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  Study increases confidence and helps inform about what is working for voice-hearing people, and what is not.

  Find a hearing-voices support group near you. Receive meaningful support from those in your situation and become an advocate for these groups. Use the National Institute of Health's on-line medical library to help guide your self-care study and to avoid being prescribed medications that can be harmful to higher functioning activities.

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  Use stress management techniques to reduce your instances of voice-hearing. Learn to think positively about your gift of hearing valuable information and positive clairaudiant influences. Work to allow only positive voices to come through you. Practice with supportive friends and family who reward your successes.

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  Yogis and other stress-relief experts suggest using the OM chant while emmersed in water to help shift mental vibrations.

  Find meaningful and valuable uses for your gift of hearing voices. Learn to frame this experience as positive, looking for reasons to progress successfully in order to help others who suffer. Manage the negative invasions by toning them out of your head by mentally chanting "OM", creating a vibration that chases the thoughts out and re-calibrates the sounds into more positive mental vibrations.

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  Use the spiritual vibration-shifting techniques of yoga as many chants and mantras are very beneficial to those with thinking disorders. Re-train your mind to think positive thoughts by being diligent about chanting any time negative sounds or voices cause anxiety. Only accept medications that definitely improve your experience of daily life.