"VoiceBox - an NHS treasure."

I post as a catherine wheel, but today I could post as a success story.  Don't hold your breath, you won't be hearing "success" and the local "Mental Health System" in the same sentence from me very often. Most definitely not now I'm a woman in the Certain Ages - nothing to lose, everything to gain!

I'm located in the local mental health "services" City East, based at the Stonebridge Centre in Nottingham.  Now here's the success :

VOICEBOX

It's one of those group things held somewhere around here on Thursdays.  It's for people who have voice hearing experiences who would like to have a cracking good life, relate to people, go to places and events etc feeling a tad more ok about their voice hearing experiences.  Yes, we do still take our voices with us.  Oh well!!

VOICEBOX is about us lot getting together to share our suggestions of things to try, stuff we've read about, accounts of someone who knows someone who tried this, we pool our knowledges and skills and strategies, etc.  We do this in a safe group so we can pick up out the pool and work on and explore all our stuff so that we can for ourselves work out what we can put into place ourselves to have our cracking good times.  We share how we've got on, what tweaks we've made to get something to work for us.  Sometimes one of us does a strategy and shares: Never, oh, no, no, no, never again!  We're here for each other - a laugh, a celebration, a pick us up in our bad bits.  It's ours.  We call the shots. Go at our paces.  We can attend for as long as we want.  And we can leave when we think, yeah, I'm done here.

Yes, we do make mistakes, especially me!  And we make fantastic discoveries, and successes of things. And on the strength of all this my success story is: I've quit.  Yes, a couple of weeks or so ago, I quit VOICEBOX.   Whopping success. For VOICEBOX, for all persons VoiceBox, and for me. Because I feel it's the right time for me.  No, I've not learnt it all, no I can't use strategies and manage my voice hearing perfectly.  And most definitely not every single time!  But I've quit because VOICEBOX has got me here.  Because everyone at VOICEBOX is a success, because we don't make inflated claims and share falsehoods about what we can do.  I quit because I'm a success because VOICEBOX never sets anyone up to fail and hence become the victim of their voices.  

It's a facilitated closed group so if you're interested you would have to get in touch with a sorter outer.  Just ask around. It might not be the group for you.  But it's worth exploring.  I don't know what we gargle with at VOICEBOX but you know, you might find it tastes rather nice!  I reckon VOICEBOX is a NHS treasure.  Sorry all you other Trusts!   

Round here I reckon VOICEBOX steals all the gems in our local crown.  But don't think for one minute I'm letting our Trust get complacent.  Come on... what do you expect? It's the top gems and jewels in a sometimes tarnished local crown!  I'm in the Certain Ages now, remember!

So thanks everyone  VOICEBOX  all of you.  And I mean it!