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PARTICIPANT: ______________________________________________
INTERVIEWER: ______________________________________________
In a hospital ________________________________
Other ________________________________
If no, have you ever had such an experience in the past? YES / NO /UNCLEAR
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I________________I________________I________________I
Thoughts Voices
Do you hear things that are not actual voices: sounds or YES / NO / UNCLEAR
8.
music playing?
I________________I________________I________________I
Internal External
Please, describe.
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Please, describe.
I________________I________________I________________I
Quiet Very loud
non-human voices (If yes, can you describe them?) YES / NO / UNCLEAR
YES / NO / UNCLEAR
If yes, do you address them by their names?
Instruction for interviewer: It is useful to get examples of the precise words / sentences the
voices use most frequently, and not just generalisations. This can be challenging for the
voice hearer, because they may be shameful, intimate or vulgar.
21. Do they ever command you or forbid you to do something? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
YES / NO / UNCLEAR
certain situations?
Do the voices speak in a particular way, e.g.: have specific YES / NO / UNCLEAR
24. accents, tone, language?
25. Do the voices use the same words or phrases? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
26. Do they talk about the same theme most of the time? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
29. How many minutes / hours a day are they active? ____________
30. If the voices are not active, can you feel their presence? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
31. Do the voices speak directly to you (second person)? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
34. Do the voices have their individual goals, likes and dislikes? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
36. Do they seem to have their own character or personality? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
Please describe.
39. Do they have any opinion about this interview? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
41. Was it any of the voices you hear now? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
Can you tell me when each of the listed voices appeared for YES / NO / UNCLEAR
42. the first time?
1.________________ , 2. ________________,
3.________________, 4.________________
in the beginning
in the present
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YES / NO / UNCLEAR
If no, have you ever tried?
If you haven’t tried, why not?
54. Are you able to influence the voices in any way? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
55. Are you able to call the voices (request that they appear)? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
56. If you receive orders from the voices, can you refuse them? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
If no, can you remember last time when the voice was activated YES / NO / UNCLEAR
and describe the situation and your emotional state?
Do the voices keep talking while you are engaged in YES / NO / UNCLEAR
58. a conversation with another person?
Have you observed that different triggers activate different YES / NO / UNCLEAR
59.
voices?
1.________________ , 2. ________________,
3.________________, 4.________________
If you know what activates the voices, do you then avoid YES / NO / UNCLEAR
60.
these triggers?
1. ____________________________ a b c d
2. ____________________________ a b c d
3. ____________________________ a b c d
4. ____________________________ a b c d
If you have any effective coping strategies, is there anything YES / NO / UNCLEAR
64. which prevents you from using them regularly?
Can you tell me about those with whom you have a personal
65. relationship do they know about the voices, are they willing
to talk about them, are they supportive in that respect?
YES / NO / UNCLEAR
If yes: Is it someone you know?
If yes: Who?
If no: Have you got any ideas about who could that YES / NO / UNCLEAR
be?
72. Do you think the voices are coming from a deceased person? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
YES / NO / UNCLEAR
If yes: Is it someone you know?
If yes: Who?
If no: Have you got any ideas about who could that YES / NO / UNCLEAR
be?
73. Do you think the voices are a symptom of an illness? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
Do you think that hearing voices may be connected with YES / NO / UNCLEAR
74. using alcohol or drugs?
76. Do you think the voices are your guide? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
78. Do you think they belong to an evil spirit or a devil? YES / NO / UNCLEAR
Do you think the voices are supernatural beings and only YES / NO / UNCLEAR
79.
you can hear / sense them?
Do you think the voices are the result of the pain of other YES / NO / UNCLEAR
81. people around you?
Do you experience anything that other people would regard YES / NO / UNCLEAR
84.
exceptional or uncommon?
Do you think sometimes that other people deliberately try to YES / NO / UNCLEAR
85. upset you?
Do you think that other people laugh at you or speak YES / NO / UNCLEAR
86.
critically about you behind your back?
Do you think that other people communicate about you in YES / NO / UNCLEAR
87.
subtle ways?
Have you ever had an idea that there are coded messages YES / NO / UNCLEAR
88. about you in press, TV, radio or Internet?
Have you ever felt observed by other people or that there YES / NO / UNCLEAR
89. are cameras or bugs in your house or workplace?
Have you ever felt that you have a special spiritual or YES / NO / UNCLEAR
90.
religious meaning?
Have you ever felt that people can read your mind or that YES / NO / UNCLEAR
91. you know what is going on in their heads without them
telling you?
Have you ever found yourself in some place but did not YES / NO / UNCLEAR
92. remember how you got there (not under the influence of
substances)?
Do you find evidence for doing something (e.g. shopping, YES / NO / UNCLEAR
94. making notes, socializing etc.) but having no memory of
that (not under the influence of substances)?
If yes, please describe.
Have you ever had the experience that you do not recognize YES / NO / UNCLEAR
96. your own house or street (other than if you were under the
influence of substances)?
If yes, please describe.
Do you think any of these experiences are connected in any YES / NO / UNCLEAR
97. way with hearing voices?
E. Did you have an impression that some of the voices spoke YES / NO / UNCLEAR
through the participant (e.g. when the participant was
contacting or listening to a voice, he/she started to talk in a
way that the voice usually talk)?
H. Was there any other observation during the interview that YES / NO / UNCLEAR
you consider relevant to note?