Article 6TVCN The radical new treatment helping people with psychosis – podcast

The radical new treatment helping people with psychosis – podcast

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Jenny Kleeman reports on a new therapy where patients who suffer from psychosis create a digital avatar of the voices they hear

Claire was 10 years old when she started hearing voices. They would torment her, call her names and tell her to self-harm.

She tells Helen Pidd about her experience of psychosis, where reality is disturbed by hallucinations and delusions. For decades, she struggled to get effective treatment until she joined a digital avatar therapy trial.

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