It’s still the correct phrasing, but the problem with asking about “hearing voices” or just psychosis in general is the person’s psychosis is telling their brain an explanation for the event that they might not interpret as “hearing voices”, even though it is
For example, a year-ish ago I was requested by police to speak to a young early 20’a paranoid white guy, who was seen wandering/loitering outside the police station and eventually went in and asked them for help
When I asked what was going on, he described needing to get to a hospital to have the device implanted in his brain by Russian mafia removed. He then described that the Mexican cartel were using the device to track him. I validated that it sounds he like you are describing feeling like people are following you, are you hearing voices that other people don’t? He said no. Then about 15 minutes later into the conversation he got despondent and was saying how the Mexican mafia are mocking him, saying they are going to kill him. I asked if people he sees are saying this and he said no, the Mexican cartel is saying it through the device implanted in his brain
I think the problem is that “hearing voices” has become so common and known, that people associate it with being “crazy”. And the problem with psychosis is that it is telling the person that these events are real, and providing an explanation for them. So they see it differently than “hearing voices”, and will still deny it even after describing hearing a voice
But like I said, it’s still the correct and best way to phrase it. “Hearing things others don’t” is a little more open ended, I tend to use them interchangeably
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