DESPITE WHAT THAT VOICE IN MY HEAD SAYS, I’M NOT CRAZY AFTER ALL

Psychological researchers from Manchester University in the UK now claim that hearing voices inside your head is far more common than previously thought and is not necessarily a sign of mental illness. The new research suggests that as many as one in 25 people regularly hear voices inside their heads and that for more than half of those people the voices actually have a positive impact on their lives. The researchers concluded that hearing voices is only disturbing to people who are struggling to overcome a trauma or who are suffering from extremely low self-esteem. On the other hand, the voices often serve to comfort and inspire otherwise “normal” and “psychologically healthy” people, (BBC)