Participant One: N

“It was so hard raining. When the rain – it remind me suddenly I was at home first, later off in hospital, voices and rain was going together. When the rain started it was very strong and my brain, my voices were strong. And then when the rain stop, voices were stopping... they know when the rain stop and that’s how they talk with me and I’ll be hearing them like I was talking with the weather... rain stops and voices stop.”

“I feel safe in this room, with [name anonymised] … he’s really nice … he’s really open-minded, he never criticises us. He’s always helping us with our thoughts and voices. He’s really helpful. I’m getting better, I’m in the right hands, I am getting good help now, before I was alone I couldn’t understand much, sometimes I didn’t even know what my illness is, I was thinking they are experimental and the voices is a chip … then I go to this place and I wasn’t just a nobody. A big journey – that’s how I explain this. Now I am safe, I am getting good help, I am with the right people.”

“I am trying hard to reach to God but the voices are affecting it, but still I am trying my best to pray. I try so hard, really hard to pray, when I was hearing voices. It makes me feel hopelessness, hopeless. Really hopeless. I mean I was just, didn’t know what to do. Most of the time when the voices were bombarding me I was crying to God to help me… I was looking at the sky, I was saying I wish I could be like normal people, and I can reach to God and pray that I will. At least now I can pray because I don’t believe voices are real.”

“This says I’m better now. Yeah, I’m better and I can cope with the voices and the voices are not real and I am alive. That makes me really happy. And when it’s growing, every day you see it growing, you see life.”

“I say sometimes to my therapist I’m taking all day, tablets, tablets, tablets, and that’s what I wanted to show. I mean most of the day I’m taking tablets. I wanted to show that in the picture. It’s helping me, I’m not against medication and actually I like taking it. I don’t know what it’s going to cause at the end, people say it’s no good but I’m taking it.”