Hearing Voices: support for voice hearers

About this episode

This episode discusses the Voices Vic program and the experience of hearing voices as a common human experience.

Send us Fan Mail Hearing voices is often assumed to be a symptom of a mental health condition. However this is not always the case and up to 1 in 10 people hear voices, making it not an uncommon human experience. The Voices Vic program is led by peers with lived and living experience in hearing voices, seeing visions or having other sensory experiences. This program offers recovery groups, mentoring and support across Victoria. Our guests for this episode are Janet Karagounis, Senior Pe...

People in this episode

Guest: Janet Karagounis

Topics covered

• hearing voices
• mental health
• peer support
• recovery

Keywords

• Voices Vic
• mental health condition
• sensory experiences

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Victoria

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