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People who hear voices in their heads are being encouraged to talk back

The enemy within: People who hear voices in their heads are being encouraged to talk back One night, during her first year at the University of Sheffield, Rachel Waddingham struggled to fall asleep. She could hear three middle-aged men she didn’t know talking about her downstairs. “They were saying, ‘She’s stupid, she’s ugly, I wish she would kill herself’,” she remembers. “I was angry and went down to challenge them, but no one was there. They kept laughing and saying, ‘She’ll never find us.’” The voices became a recurring presence, providing an aggressive, unsettling commentary on her life. Waddingham came… View Article