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Sometimes hearing voices is a good thing.
Hear that? It's the sound of liver cells regenerating.
Last summer when I went for a minor psychiatric evaluation, one of the questions they asked was if I heard voices. I answered “No” forgetting the two times, thank goodness, there truly were voices in my head.
The first time was when I was two months sober. I was having a huge amount of drama with my family who live in another state. When I got off the phone with my parents, I was so upset that I decided the only answer was to go let myself in a friend’s apartment down the hall and drink her brandy.
I knew she wasn’t home, so let myself in with a key she had given me,... Login to read more
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