Caroline White at the office of the Hearing Voices Network in Holyoke, Mass. The program relies on members supporting one another, does not use the words “patient” or “treatment”

HOLYOKE, Mass. — Some of the voices inside Caroline White’s head have been a lifelong comfort, as protective as a favorite aunt. It was the others — “you’re nothing, they’re out to get you, to kill you” — that led her down a rabbit hole of failed treatments and over a decade of hospitalizations, therapy and medications, all aimed at silencing those internal threats.  Read the rest of this article at The New York Times… Image by Sasha Maslov