Some of the voices inside Caroline White's head have been a lifelong comfort, as protective as a favorite aunt. It was the others — “you're nothing, they're out to get you, to kill you” — that led her down a rabbit hole of failed treatments and over a decade of hospitalizations, therapy and medications, all aimed at silencing those internal threats.
At a support group here for so-called voice-hearers, however, she tried something radically different. She allowed other members of the group to address the voice, directly:
What is it you want?
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