Hearing voices that others do not hear is often considered a symptom of mental illness. The American Psychological Association defines an auditory hallucination as “the perception of sound in the ...

Many people live with a secret that feels almost impossible to describe. They hear speech or whispers that nobody else ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among teens in a new study from Ireland, those who reported hearing voices were at greatly elevated risk of attempting suicide within the year compared to their peers with ...

When Ca'Sonya Thomas was 45 years-old, she started hearing voices. It was a few weeks after one of the most traumatic events of her life in 2016 — her husband jumped off a bridge in Austin. After ...

Auditory verbal hallucinations – hearing voices that aren’t there – are one of the most common and distressing symptoms of schizophrenia. Around 60–80% of people with the condition experience them at ...

A mom was in tears earlier this week as she learned her 12-year-old daughter, Mia Lucas, who died in a psychiatric unit in ...

The President of the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria, Prof Taiwo Obindo, has cautioned Nigerians against attributing mental health symptoms such as hearing voices or seeing visions to ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature in schizophrenia. Up to 80 percent of people with the disease experience auditory hallucinations—hearing voices or other sounds when there ...

Trial Co-ordinator and Research Therapist, Swinburne University of Technology Dr Imogen Bell has received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council for research mentioned in this ...

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