دانلود کتاب Listening to the Silences: In a World of Hearing Voices

Description:For twenty-eight years, I have been experiencing inner voices and physical presences in ways that would normally induce the label ‘schizophrenic’ – except that I have never been ill from this cause.This is how it all began:A ‘presence’ that I could not see, moved from the space in front of me, into me, and immediately my mind was charged with another ‘voice’ or provoker of thoughts, thoughts over which, then, I had no control, and which were not initiated by me. In my head began conversation as between two separate people, one of whom was me.I began to hear voices.This book is part autobiography, part DIY Manual, and so... ...if you are being engulfed in the quicksands of your mind, if you are calling for help in the silence of your mind, if you cannot silence the voices that invade your mind, dominate and torment you, if you are caring for someone who is struggling within the morass that their mind has become......if you are any of these, then I am writing for you.Goodreads review:This memoir by a psychiatric survivor, is definitely worth reading...On page 130 I gained a good understanding of how a person can put up with physically damaging things and society can deny the effects. This had to do with power cables and cancer. But I thought about it when I wanted to assert that the milk was stale in my coffee and a colleague said, 'Can't be, it's new.' I did take a second sip. Why? Same reason Roy Vincent's psychologist stayed in a building that eventually gave him cancer, along with most of his staff. Roy Vincent, however, felt uncomfortable in the psychologist's building, and didn't stay, blamed himself, then recognised the problem after many weeks, because he had worked in electrical engineering.There's many insights you might want to gain from this book. Roy Vincent also talks about the abuses of the psychiatric system, when he had what is now a recognised physical illness, but was diagnosed as being mentally disordered instead, which meant he lost his livelihood for many years of his life.