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Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2022 15:53:59 GMT
Researchers interested in understanding varying experiences between people who hear voices recently published their findings in the Schizophrenia Bulletin. The research team, led by Peter Moseley from Northumbria University in the UK, identified significant differences in the experiences of spiritual voice hearers and people who attribute their voices to psychosis. The authors write: “As well as supporting previous findings regarding low levels of distress and increased control and multimodality in non-clinical groups, we also provided novel evidence of other more subtle differences, including a lower likelihood of experiencing voices coming from perceptual boundaries and increased integration of modalities into one entity.” How Does Spiritual Voice Hearing Compare to Psychosis? Researchers compared the experiences of people who understand their voice-hearing to be spiritual and those who experience psychosis. www.madinamerica.com/2022/07/spiritual-voice-hearing-compare-psychosis/Voice-Hearing Across The Continuum: A Phenomenology of Spiritual Voices Peter Moseley, Adam Powell, Angela Woods, Charles Fernyhough, Ben Alderson-Day Schizophrenia Bulletin, sbac054, doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac054Published: 23 June 2022 academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/advance-article/doi/10.1093/schbul/sbac054/6613458
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Post by flyingcarpet46 on Jul 20, 2022 15:30:20 GMT
Interesting and seemingly thorough research.
I rarely hear voices - more sudden insight, heightened sensory perception, and messages. But there is an aspect that I have regarded as 'psychotic,', more usually labelled delusions.
I can see that this research probably aimed to give validity to any voice hearing. For me,the experiences were real but gradually I realised some of my thinking, my explanations were mistaken (though not without cause).
Following my initial crisis, I developed what today would probably be diagnosed as Major Depressive Disorder with some psychosis (MDD).(note. Not Bipolar).
My issues arent then relevant to voice hearing but are to 'Psychosis' . These have been how to get through each day, a slow search for meaningful explanation; how best to manage the 'spiritual', the heightened sensory experiences, and times of being unable to function personally/socially.
I have never been satisfied with an explanation of 'being out of touch with reality'.
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2022 16:43:26 GMT
Interesting and seemingly thorough research. I rarely hear voices - more sudden insight, heightened sensory perception, and messages. But there is an aspect that I have regarded as 'psychotic,', more usually labelled delusions. I can see that this research probably aimed to give validity to any voice hearing. For me,the experiences were real but gradually I realised some of my thinking, my explanations were mistaken (though not without cause). Following my initial crisis, I developed what today would probably be diagnosed as Major Depressive Disorder with some psychosis (MDD).(note. Not Bipolar). My issues arent then relevant to voice hearing but are to 'Psychosis' . These have been how to get through each day, a slow search for meaningful explanation; how best to manage the 'spiritual', the heightened sensory experiences, and times of being unable to function personally/socially. I have never been satisfied with an explanation of 'being out of touch with reality'. Are there universalities to what comes under psychosis? Or is it all highly individual. Part of what i have experienced is in line with certain conspiracy areas - mainly involving an 'Alien Matrix Control System' - www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7oVwGIAYeUHowever there has also been episodes of very severe illness. i have always wondered how much is more psychological / spiritual crisis / emergence - how much environmental - & how much biological illness?
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