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TED Talks: Season 2013

2013x158 Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head
TV-PG

  • 2013-08-08T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her head started talking. Initially innocuous, these internal narrators became increasingly antagonistic and dictatorial, turning her life into a living nightmare. 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.
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