Finding a path to recovery

In the second part of our series on mental health, Jennifer Hough meets a young woman who found a way to stop the voices in her head

MICHELLE DALTON first began hearing voices when she was about 12 years old. At first she thought it was normal, and tried to ignore them, but as she got older it became more and more difficult to push them to the back of her mind.

“It was not unusual to me that I heard voices so I didn’t tell anyone, but I was very self destructive — I had bad mood swings and finally after years not wanting to admit something was wrong, I erupted and realised I really needed to do something about it.”