Jacqui Dillon hears voices. In her head. Lots of them.Voices that
sound as real as you or me. Voices that wake her up. Voices that tell
her to go to sleep. Voices that disagree with her, and voices that
encourage her. And the voices have been there for as long as she can
remember.So
Twenty
years ago Jaqqui's experience of her voices drove her to psychiatric
services.... and that's where the story really begins because it was
when she was told that the voices weren't real, and that she was lying
about her past that she really began to get mad. And that's when Jacqui
realised she had to learn to live with her voices and understand why
they were there.
This is a story about hearing voices and about
learning to live with them. A story about how your past shapes your
future until you start to understand it .
Jacqui Dillon is the national Chair of the
Hearing Voices Network in England. She is Honorary Lecturer in Clinical
Psychology at the University of East London.
Narrated and produced by Leeanne O'Donnell
Production Supervision by Liam O'Brien
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