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By Grace Rubenstein Eleanor Longden’s new TED Book, Learning from the Voices in My Head, charts her harrowing journey from terrified young woman trembling in a psychiatric ward to a stable, successful doctoral candidate who has learned to live peacefully with her inner voices, medication-free.
Sep 9, 2015 · I hear voices in my head, but I’m fine - Eleanor Longden | Comment is Free - YouTube. The Guardian. 2.22M subscribers. Subscribed. 820. 51K views 8 years ago. Eleanor Longden...
Jul 5, 2012 · 119K views 11 years ago. At 17, Eleanor Longden had a promising future ahead of her; then she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After a lifelong battle with the voices in her head, today...
Jul 30, 2023 · May 12 , 2011. Eleanor Longden. News. How I tamed the voices in my head. When Eleanor Longden began hearing things, she soon found herself drugged, sectioned and labelled schizophrenic. Then a psychiatrist taught her how to talk back. By Kate Hilpern, Published: The Independent, 06 March 2007.
Aug 8, 2013 · Diagnosed with schizophrenia, hospitalized, drugged, Longden was discarded by a system that didn't know how to help her. Longden tells the moving tale of her years-long journey back to mental health, and makes the case that it was through learning to listen to her voices that she was able to survive.
Aug 8, 2013 · August 8, 2013 at 1:00 pm EDT. Eleanor Longden shares her experience of hearing voices at TED2013. Photo: James Duncan Davidson. Eleanor Longden’s riveting story — featured in today’s talk and more in depth in the new TED Book, Learning from the Voices in My Head — raises many provocative questions.
Mar 1, 2013 · The voices had turned terrifying, and her mental health status was a catalyst for verbal, even sexual assault. A doctor told her, “Eleanor, you’d be better off with cancer; it’s easier to cure than schizophrenia.”. She even attempted to drill a hole in her head to get rid of the voices.
