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Eleanor Longden

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The United Kingdom

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http://www.ted.com/speakers/eleanor_longden.html

Genre

Psychology

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Eleanor Longden, psychologist, was in her first year of university when she started hearing voices. Initially she dismissed this experience as harmless, simply an expression of her own thoughts, triggered by the loneliness and pressures experienced by many students on starting university. However having confided in a friend and, later, a GP this led to a swift diagnosis of schizophrenia, a mental health condition considered by many as having little hope for recovery.

Eleanor spent some time lost and ignored by mental health services eager to provide heavy doses of medication and shut her away in inpatient care facilities, but uninterested in providing any form of emotional support. After struggling for some time and being bullied due to the ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 364 ratings · 30 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Learning from the Voices in My Head 4.28 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recovery: An Alien concept by Ron Coleman, Eleanor Longden (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Power Threat Meaning Framework: Towards the identification of patterns in emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled or troubling behaviour, as an alternative to functional psychiatric diagnosis by Lucy Johnstone (Lead Author), Mary Boyle (Lead Author), John Cromby (Contributing Author) 4.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Relating to Voices using Compassion Focused Therapy: A Self-help Companion by Charlie Heriot-Maitland, Eleanor Longden 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Relating to Voices using Compassion Focused Therapy: A Self-help Companion by Charlie Heriot-Maitland, Eleanor Longden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Relating to Voices using Compassion Focused Therapy: A Self-help Companion by Charlie Heriot-Maitland, Eleanor Longden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“An important question in mental health shouldn’t be “What’s wrong with you?” but, rather, “What’s happened to you?”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head

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“I decided that my mind, body, and spirit had worked together to craft the best they could with limited resources, and to see myself as a helpless victim of chronic “mental illness” was merely adding insult to injury.”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head

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“Optimism is the madness of insisting all is well when we are wretched. — Voltaire”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head

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