Triple j hack hearing voices

Finally, Friday night is getting more party tunes in Dave Marchese and Avani Dias. Dee Salmin. Shantan Wantan Ichiban. Mel : Tara normally comes around about ish and I love it when Tara comes round, it gives me a little bit of relief. We just cuddle up on the lounge watching more music, and smoke. I don't think we're girly girls Mel : I do, which I worry about a lot, and Ron hates, hates.

I tell her all the time that I'm a burden on her. Tara : Yeah, I do. She's struggling and I just feel useless. I just wish, just something, anyone or even me could just do to make her a bit happy, just brighten up your day a little bit. Tom Tilley : As they sit outside having a smoke, Mel tells Tara that Ron's still giving her a really hard time for doing this interview. Tara gives her a hug. When I asked Mel last week why the voice got stronger at the age of 18, she didn't tell me anything.

Mel's dad Bruce then told me that the male captain of her high school committed suicide the day after the HSC. Now, it's so hard to ask questions of somebody that's so fragile, but after thinking about it carefully during the week, I've decided that it's important to ask Mel if this is what sent her voice out of control.

Tom Tilley : Talking with your dad last week he said you lost a close friend and that was a really hard thing for you? Tom Tilley : Do you think it was the thing that sent Ron out of control in your head? Tom Tilley : Do you wonder that it is something you need to work through to maybe get through this? Mel : I don't think so.

I don't think I know it's terrible, but I try not to think about it. It makes me want to be with him. It makes me want to be dead with him. I just Bruce : Well, obviously we don't give up hope. We know Melissa's an extremely strong girl.

We're sure that at some point in time and with God's help, she'll get better. Tom Tilley : Mel's dad Bruce is desperate for solutions. Bruce : I'm really hopeful that my daughter will get some value out of that when she's just a little bit more stable. Tom Tilley : There's now a group that meets in inner-city Sydney once a fortnight, and Bruce hopes to set one up in the southern suburbs, closer to home.

Mel : I just can't do it, but I'm really looking forward to when one opens in the Sutherland Shire because I'd love to get involved, 'cos I think it could help me. Mel : Never. It's been there for so long and that's why I just want to die, I just want it to end. It's too painful. Tom Tilley : Without having been to one of the meetings or really knowing it, Mel's already using one of the tactics that she might hear about.

Mel : Unplugged in New York I love depressing music. I can really relate to it and the whole Kurt Cobain situation just touched my heart. Tom Tilley : You also told me that you like Lily Allen. Why do you like her music? Mel : It sort of cheers me up a bit and I like the 'Fuck you' song. It's just the words, just, yeah 'Fuck you, Ron. Yeah, he doesn't like it much. Bruce : That's what mum tells Mel to say to Ron when he gets really bad, tell him to F-off.

Natasha Mitchell : And a big thanks to Mel and her parents Bruce and Faye, and also to Kat for letting us into their lives.

If it's been raw for you, that number again for Lifeline's hour free counselling service is Audio Player failed to load. Play Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Download Hearing Voices: stories from the coalface Duration: 30min 17sec Broadcast: Sat 17 Oct , pm. Mel year-old woman, based in New South Wales Australia. Bruce Mel's father. Faye Mel's mum. Tara Mel's friend. John Watkins Author and counsellor Former psychiatric nurse.

Transcript plus minus. Video Triple J Reporter Tom Tilley has prepared a special video feature about Mel's experiences, to accompany the audio feature broadcast on All in the Mind.

Let's join Tom as he arrives at Mel's home. Mel : Yes. His name is Ron and I see him sometimes as well. Tom Tilley : Who is Ron? Tom Tilley : What does he look like? Mel : I wouldn't say it was imagined at all. He's not imagined, he's real. Mel : Everything I do, everything I say, he's always there. Tom Tilley : Are you hearing a voice now? Mel : Yes, I am. Tom Tilley : And what's the voice saying? Tom Tilley : Do you say it out loud? Tom Tilley : Have you come close to killing yourself?

Mel : You don't want to know. Tom Tilley : Would I be afraid? Bruce : Devastating. Mel : I don't know. Professor Carr, why does this voice exist in Mel's head? Each state and territory run those. I have to influence state and territory governments to look at their practices and their laws.

Avani Dias And so what are you doing to address that? Obviously it is. It is state and territories which fund police. But doesn't this require federal leadership? Minister Wyatt The Constitution restricts the Commonwealth to certain areas, even the bushfires. The Prime Minister. Would not trample over the rights of the states that by getting agreement from the premiers and first ministers of each state and territory that were affected.

We then worked in partnership to tackle those elements. It's the same as floods and it's the same as Covid Avani Dias So, Minister, is is there any sort of federal policy in this area that you're committing to in order to reduce deaths in custody in Australia? Minister Wyatt Well, we can be contributing to Closing the Gap approach in which we will ask states to achieve the targets.

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