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Covid-19: How can we support each other (and ourselves)?

Covid-19: How can we support each other (and ourselves)?

April 9, 2020 | News | Share your views

We are living in strange and difficult times, with the partial lockdown of our society and many struggling with the illness named Covid-19 (and loved ones lost). I don’t know about you, but for me the last few weeks have been a blur. The words Covid-19 have gone from being a worrying feature of news […]

Tags: Coping Strategies, Covid-19, Hearing Voices, Mutual Support, Peer Support, Trauma

Participants Wanted: The Role of Adverse Experiences and Early Relationships in Psychosis

August 8, 2015 | News

Josie from Lancaster University has asked us to share this research request with you. She is looking for people who identity as having experiences related to psychosis to fill in an online survey. If you have any questions about the research, please contact Josie directly. Her details can be found on the study information page: https://lancasteruni.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0w8OfPUPqy3Ffmt […]

Tags: Psychosis, Research, Trauma

The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo

The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo

February 1, 2013 | News | Share your views

By Jacqui Dillon Please note: The following article was written by Jacqui Dillon for Mad In America (www.madinamerica.com) on January 10, 2013. I am thrilled to have been invited to write about the important and innovative work of the Hearing Voices Movement alongside so many eminent colleagues, critical thinkers and activists working together to bring […]

Tags: Critical Psychiatry, Hearing Voices Movement, Hope, Recovery, Trauma

Identifying & Working with Child Sexual Abuse

Identifying & Working with Child Sexual Abuse

November 22, 2012 | Events | Share your views

Survivors Helping Each Other & Asylum Associates present a one day conference Identifying and Working with Child Sexual Abuse Date: 21st February 2013, 9:00am – 4:30pm Venue: NCN Basford Hall College, Stockhill Lane, Nottingham, NG6 0NV Presenters: Samantha Warner, Jacqui Dillon, Bob Johnson, Maxine Robinson, Clare Shaw, Peter Bullimore, Kate Crawford & Vicky Baldwin

Tags: Conference, Healing, Nottingham, Recovery, Sexual Abuse, Trauma

Communicating With Voices: Part One

June 3, 2012 | Personal Experiences | 8 Comments

Contributed By Rachel Waddingham Over the last 12 years, I’ve been struggling to find ways of dealing with the voices I hear. For much of that time I’ve been taking enough neuroleptic medication to knock out a horse. Meds are a bit like putting a giant mattress over the voices – I find it dulled […]

Tags: Creativity, Dissociation, Hearing Voices, Talking With Voices, Trauma

A First Class Recovery: From hopeless case to graduate

June 3, 2012 | Personal Experiences | 6 Comments

Eleanor Longden was a diagnosed schizophrenic and heard menacing voices in her head for 10 years. Now, she has fought back and has graduated with a brilliant honours degree in psychology. By Nina Lakhani, The Independent, Sunday 25th October, 2009  Eleanor Longden was revising for her final university exams in May when she was interrupted […]

Tags: Eleanor Longden, Recovery, Testimony, Trauma

Understanding & Working with the Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse

June 1, 2012 | Events | Share your views

A 3 Day Conference Date: 8th, 9th & 10th November 2011 Venue: Center Parcs, Sherwood Forest, Nottingham NG22 9DN Asylum Associates and Manchester Metropolitan University are hosting a three day conference aimed at considering how experience of childhood abuse impacts on children and the adults they become, and identifying ways that help those who are […]

Tags: Conference, Recovery, Sexual Abuse, Trauma

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hvn_england HVN England @hvn_england ·
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Looking forward to this tomorrow - places still available :)

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@HVN_England's AGM and Member's Event is happening on 2 April from 2-4pm BST. We'll start with a screening of @DollyDollysen's short film 'INSIDE', followed by a Q&A with Dolly and then our AGM at 3pm.

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30 Oct 2021

Often, a helpful aid to #Talkingwithvoices, is to show a voice this feelings & needs sheet and ask them to choose words that best describe how they feel and what they need. It's also good for the voice hearers to do about their feelings & needs #NVC #hearingvoices #VoicedDialogue

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6 Aug 2021

Have you ever been labelled with schizophrenia and told that your experiences are 'resistant to treatment'?

Are you over 18 years old and living in the UK?

Contact me on u1945526@uel.ac.uk to discuss participation in my research. Thanks!

Website- https://u1945526.wixsite.com/my-site

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