This is very hard for me to write about because it’s about a subject that sort of isn’t talked about normally.

Since I was about 11 years old I have heard voices. Not the sort of voices of an inner monolog but voices like someone talking in the room. External voices that are impossible to block out.

I try and describe these voices as something like but not the 2 grumpy old guys who sit in the side box on the Muppet show and slag off everyone and everything. In my case they deliver a constant and none stop negative and nasty commentary on everything I do.

The effect of this over time is to undermine my very existence. Some would say it’s soul destroying.