Wednesday 11 December 2013

RTE Hearing Voices Documentary

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


Listen here.

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