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I don’t often talk about the voices. I thought everybody heard voices. I didn’t know that was abnormal because I’d grown up with voices all of my life.
For a long time I’ve identified as having a significant and serious mental health issue. Schizophrenia is an illness that is a psychotic illness, so people loose touch with reality on some occasions. You start to hear things that don’t exist. But there are other types of delusions that I’ve experienced. Sometimes see things that aren’t there. Taste things that aren’t there.
The first time I heard voices was when I was about three. Things became difficult for me when I went to high school. You know I’d come home after a torrid day of bullying, and …