Changing Social Contacts through Ignoring and Justifying
Voice Hearing with Lay Practices. Many participants were
trying to ignore the strange new social experience particular
at the early stage of voice hearing. The voices were so
frightening, and the experience was so unfamiliar that they
might retreat to their nut shell so as to reduce confusion. Ten
participants of this study were admitted to mental hospitals
as a result of the confusion caused by auditory hallucinations.
They described the onset of the auditory hallucinations as
being quite sudden, startling, and anxiety-provoking. Participant
Alfred, for example, was admitted to a mental hospital
as he was frightened by the voices