could not do so... My mother got me a medical
appointment and then I was admitted to a mental
hospital.
Apart from medical treatment, some participants and
their family members believed that their voice hearing was
related to folk religion and thought that worshipping gods
in a temple could help cure the illness. Participant David
remarked:
My mother and I believed that the voices came
from ghosts and made me confused. I went to meet
a medium master who told me that the voices
were induced by evil spirits. He suggested that I
worshipped Chinese gods on the Mainland and
took the amulet tea prescribed by the temples...
The voices went away for a short time but returned
after a month. I was then brought by my brother to
seek medical treatment... I have been taking drugs
for over ten years. However, I still feel confused
about the causes of my voice-hearing in terms of
spirits and mental illness