Is it possible for a psychotic person to hear voices?
Someone who is hearing voices is not necessarily psychotic and not everyone who is psychotic is hearing voices. But generally, people who are prone to psychosis do hear voices more often than people without psychotic vulnerability. There is a worldwide network of voice hearers and care workers; the hearing voices movement.
What is the role of the voice in psychosis?
In psychosis, the voice the person hears does not appear to be part of the self, but rather seems to be an entity outside the psychological boundary of the self. According to Leudar et al (1997), voices in psychosis perform several functions.
What is it called when you hear voices in your head?
Hearing voices (i.e. auditory verbal hallucinations) is mainly known as part of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. However, hearing voices is a symptom that can occur in many psychiatric, neurological and general medical conditions.
What causes auditory verbal hallucinations in non-psychotic patients?
We present three cases of non-psychotic patients with auditory verbal hallucinations caused by different disorders. The first patient is a 74-year-old male with voices due to hearing loss, the second is a 20-year-old woman with voices due to traumatisation. The third patient is a 27-year-old woman with voices caused by temporal lobe epilepsy.
Is voice hearing a symptom of schizophrenia?
Even in cases where schizophrenia has not been diagnosed, voice hearing should be taken seriously as recent research has suggested that voice hearers who are not suffering from a psychotic illness are twice as likely to take their own life as those in the general population 17.
What is the treatment for people who hear voices?
People hearing voices who have learned to deal with them, experience the voices as far less bothersome. In the past, it was believed that people hearing voices had a mental illness. So the traditional treatment was to give them medications. Currently, treatment has become more and more focused on the personal life history of the voice hearer.