The STARR Auditory Hallucination Simulation

Exercise Debrief Discussion and Survey

After the experience, it is common to feel anxiety, confusion, frustration, or exhaustion.

Please take a few minutes to identify exactly how you are both physically and emotionally, then answer the following questions:

Were you able to complete all of the tasks in the exercise?

Yes

No

Maybe

Which task did you have the most difficulty with?

Job Application

Reading the Therapeutic Note

Answering the Therapeutic Note Questions

Balancing the checkbook

Writing out the Pledge of Allegiance

Were you able to concentrate and focus on the tasks?

Not at all!

Sort of, but it wasn't easy.

Yes, I was able to block the noise and focus on the tasks.

Please jot down how this experience made you feel. Frustrated? Anxious? Angry?

Did this exercise give you better understanding and more empathy for those living with auditory hallucinations?

Yes

No

What was the best thing about this empathy exercise?

What was the worst thing about this empathy exercise?

Feel free to provide any additional comments.

Please provide your name:

Optional.

Please provide your email:

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It is nearly impossible to comprehend continually living with auditory hallucinations.

These auditory hallucinations may have been distracting or even a little scary, but you went into the experience knowing that it was a short exercise — you could take off your headphones any time. You knew it would stop.

You also knew that the voices that you were hearing were not real.

Imagine not being able to take the headphones off — hearing voices around you, being intrusive, negative, mean, and disorienting. For someone with schizophrenia, it can sometimes be hard to distinguish between the voices and reality – they say your coffee is poisoned and you believe it.

The STARR Auditory Hallucination Simulation (AHS) program was created and is wholly owned by The STARR Coalition, a nonprofit organization working with thought-leaders throughout the research industry and advocacy to find ways to reduce stigma associated with mental health disorders and build relationships between clinical research sites and the advocacy groups within their community.