I have found that with psychoses we will often find a two trauma mechanism. An initial trauma often early in life, often before the age of 2. There becomes the growing abscess of the mind and later, often in late adolescence or early adulthood a subsequent trauma arises and everything is unleashed, the positive and negative symptoms. Voice hearing often takes on the form of the trauma one has experienced, the voices can be fragments of a shattered self, it may be words given to the pain, they may represent fears or actual persons who did harm. Just more recently a fellow told me he had been experiencing voices for many years and it was like shrieks and mumbling but he could not identify them. As he thought about this two trauma mechanism he stated he experienced parental separation in infancy and in later life was incarcerated where he was for a time in solitary confinement and heard voices, muttering and shrieks through the vents. He said whenever under alot of stress he would have voice hearing and he now knows from where they came. I have noticed that both the positive and negative symptoms lessen when there is created an environment of sanctuary where one can find solace and healthy connection.
Dan L. Edmunds, Ed.D.