The most rewarding thing for us at Healing Minds NOLA was hearing the stories of empathy and understanding that were achieved from this small seven minute exercise. One of the men he interviewed told Luke that the “voices” often told him jokes and were quite funny. He also learned, which was very surprising to many of our exercise participants, that the hallucinations aren’t always disturbing. From the interviews, he learned that the tone and intention of the voices was often environmental and changed depending on whom and what the sufferer was exposed to. Kramer created the simulation by interviewing individuals who are in treatment and managing schizoaffective disorders. While we expected that the exercise would touch people and grant them empathy by helping them experience how it feels to live with voices, we were less prepared for the outpouring of gratitude and humility from people who – many for the first time in their lives – were able to experience the difficulties their loved ones struggle with on a continual basis.Ĭreated by Luke Kramer, of The STARR Coalition, the Auditory Hallucination Simulation exercise closely mirrors the real life experience of people living with delusions and consists of several surveys and questionnaires that participants were asked to complete, while hearing voices. We were joined by a diverse group of participants including family members, service providers, attorneys and policy makers. Saturday, Octosaw our first “Living with Voices Challenge” co-hosted by New Orleans City Councilmember Jason Williams and facilitated by iDecisiongames.
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