Dr Martha Deiros Collado is a psychologist with more than 20 years of clinical and academic experience. She is the author of How To Be The Grown-Up (Transworld, £16.99). Got a question for Dr Martha? Email [email protected], with ‘Martha life’ in the subject line.
Is my child hearing imaginary voices?
Q I have a seven-year-old who says she can hear people ‘whispering to her’, but doesn’t know what they are saying. Is this playful imagination, or should we be concerned?
Many children hear, see, smell, and feel things that others don’t. This can be scary, but the fact your child has started to talk