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A former mental health patient says she hears 鈥渓oud, intrusive and scary鈥� voices in her head.

Iris Benson said medication and a variety of coping strategies helped her to live with her condition.

"I hear voices from my past, people who were really bad to me,鈥� said Benson. 鈥淭hey're still there all the time, day and night. They wake me.鈥�

鈥淚 can still be in one room and think they're shouting me from somewhere else - it can be very distressing but I manage because the help for people with mental illness is different now," she added.

This clip is originally from 5 live Daily Tuesday 11 August 2015.