Describing his own voices, an American matter-of-factly explained, Usually it’s like torturing people to take their eyes out with a fork, or cut off someone’s head and drink the blood, that kind of stuff. Other Americans spoke of war, as in, They want to take me to war with them, or their suicide voice asking, Why don’t you end your life? In Chennai, the commanding voices often instructed people to do domestic chores — to cook, clean, eat, bathe, to go to the kitchen, prepare food. To be sure, some Chennai patients reported disgusting commands — in one case, a woman heard the god Hanuman insist that she drink out of a toilet bowl.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 02:19:59 +0000