From The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care: The Hearing Voices Research and Development Fund has been awarded a $300,000 grant to expand their research efforts, offer more trainings, conduct outreach and raise awareness, and expand the Hearing Voices Network’s online support.
“For more than 25 years, the Hearing Voices Network â an international collaboration of professionals, voice hearers, and their families and friends â has been working to develop a peer-support based approach to help those coping with distressing voices, visions, and other anomalous experiences. It enables voice hearers â even those who have been chronically disabled â to come to terms with their voices or to silence them altogether. One in ten people will hear voices at some point in their lives, and for many, this experience can be terrifying and isolating. The most common treatment in the US is a long-term course of âantipsychoticâ drugs, which are often ineffective and can have unwanted side effects. Only now are real alternatives starting to become known here.”
