At the age of seventeen I was in my second year at sixth form and working a part time job at a local McDonald's. Life was good and could only get better. Then everything imploded with the first voice I heard at work, and the addition over the following months of hallucinations, delusions, paranoia...until nine months later I woke my mum in the early hours desperate to expose all to her of what had been happening. I'd been chosen, my voices had told me in the beginning, to be a God and a programmer of minds. I was told I had powers. As the months progressed I had many complex and varied psychotic episodes. I was visited by Jimi Hendrix, Bill Clinton, Ray Manzarek, famous people from television, my friends and tutors from sixth form. I saw demons, ghosts. I had training in leading my followers, how to have visions, insert thoughts and emotions into objects. When everything became horrid, when the voices turned, I spent months enduring intense suffering. Desperate to end everything, and being constantly told I must. I didn't speak to anyone about any of those frightening times until the last day of my A level exams. Then, hospitalisation and a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. This recounting of my onset of schizophrenia covers nine months from the first voice and includes my three months as a voluntary patient in a psychiatric ward in just over 75000 words.
At the age of seventeen I was in my second year at sixth form and working a part time job at a local McDonald's. Life was good and could only get better. Then everything imploded with the first voice I heard at work, and the addition over the following months of hallucinations, delusions, paranoia...until nine months later I woke my mum in the early hours desperate to expose all to her of what had been happening. I'd been chosen, my voices had told me in the beginning, to be a God and a programmer of minds. I was told I had powers. As the months progressed I had many complex and varied psychotic episodes. I was visited by Jimi Hendrix, Bill Clinton, Ray Manzarek, famous people from television, my friends and tutors from sixth form. I saw demons, ghosts. I had training in leading my followers, how to have visions, insert thoughts and emotions into objects. When everything became horrid, when the voices turned, I spent months enduring intense suffering. Desperate to end everything, and being constantly told I must. I didn't speak to anyone about any of those frightening times until the last day of my A level exams. Then, hospitalisation and a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. This recounting of my onset of schizophrenia covers nine months from the first voice and includes my three months as a voluntary patient in a psychiatric ward in just over 75000 words.
The End of Silence
The End of Silence
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940181528086 |
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| Publisher: | Andrew Edmonds |
| Publication date: | 05/21/2025 |
| Sold by: | Draft2Digital |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 400 KB |