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...Cosmo Hallstrom, a fellow at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London, says hallucinations are usually symptoms of illness, particularly schizophrenia. He says that people who need psychiatric treatment don't always know it, and worries that support groups like HVN could impede efforts to "combat the scourge of mental illness." Still, he adds that "more than one approach may be valid" and that the real danger may not be hearing voices, but hearing them without some form of support - psychiatric or otherwise...
...Bullimore, he's convinced that challenging his voices has put his life back on track. He now trains mental-health professionals working with voice hearers, runs a support group and has entered a long-term relationship. Positive voices have appeared, too, he says, waking him at night and reminding him to write down ideas that have become the basis for his first children's book. By listening to what the demons in his past have to say, Bullimore has learned to do more than talk back to the voices: he's managed to find...
...Alexander of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, a museum of automata that brings its showcase of 10 British artists, including Paul Spooner, to the Phaeno. The inspiration for Spooner's witty, handcranked wooden tableaux can be an artistic masterpiece - as in his saucy version of Manet's Olympia - or the odd mental image of a man eating the bathtub of spaghetti in which he's sitting. "It's the challenge of getting the thing to work that makes them get up in the morning and go to their sheds," says Alexander...
...students? If you are as intellectually motivated as you should be, instead of shelling out seven dollars for a poorly conceived dhall party, you can now spend your weekend nights increasing your mental repertoire... And for free! (Don’t try to pretend this doesn’t excite you). Science article aficionado John S. Liu ’11, for one, agrees: “Friday, Saturday night, I can’t go to the library, but the Internet’s always on!” Word...
...stopped taking his medication three weeks prior to Thursday’s attacks. Although this cannot be causally linked to the attack, it is a factor that shouldn’t be ignored. Our best defense against random attacks like this one is to make sure that the mental health of the university community is a priority. Accessible and sufficient mental health resources are as crucial to a healthy campus as a sophisticated text-message alert system. When it seems like there are no answers to a situation like this one, perhaps the best protection is to make sure...