Hearing Voices Network Cymru

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Welcome to the Hearing Voices Network Cymru Website.

If you hear voices we can help - we are committed to helping people who hear voices. Our reputation is growing as the limitations of a solely medical approach to voices becomes better known.

Psychiatry refers to hearing voices as 'auditory hallucinations' but research shows that there are many explanations for hearing voices. Many people begin to hear voices as a result of extreme stress or trauma.

We offer information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them.

The aims of the Hearing Voices Network Cymru are five-fold:

• to support a Welsh network of people who hear voices and their allies to better understand the experience alongside workers, families and friends;
• to set up self-help groups of voice hearers to share experiences and discuss strategies for coping with voices;
• to raise awareness of society about the meaning of voices to reduce ignorance and stigma;
• to develop a range of non-medical ways of assisting people to cope with their voices;
• to share the experience of voice hearers who have not been in contact with psychiatric services with those who have.

If you would like your Hearing Voices self help group to be listed on this website, please contact us.

Hearing Voices Network Cymru is a member of INTERVOICE www.intervoiceonline.org, the international organisation representing hearing voices networks in 22 countries across the world.