[Youtube Review][TED] The voices in my head | Eleanor Longden

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Playtime Comments : [TED] The voices in my head | Eleanor Longden

RI************:

8:03 searching for the metaphorical meaning of the voices

Ja*******:

The explanation she starts around 8:45 is absolutely incredible. This brings so much light and hope for those dealing with even the most stigmatized mental illnesses. Thank you for sharing!!

 

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Top Comments : [TED] The voices in my head | Eleanor Longden

Ph******:

"Don't mess with me, i've got a plastic fork, don'tcha know"

Da********:

Very inspiring.  This is EVERYONES story - the heroes journey personified.  No we don't all hear voices in our head but we all have something within us we try to hide and the more we do the more it grows.  Yet, once we learn to love it and come to terms with it - it becomes our greatest gift to the world.  Beautiful.

Mi*:

Im so lonely not even voices in my head talk to me.

To************:

I have schizo affective disorder, and when I recently went to my therapist and told him that I thought that I was incurable, that was when he showed me this video.  Thank you TED and Eleanor for giving me hope.

Aw******************:

Amazing talk. You are a inspiration!

ri*********:

I think she is one of the bravest people I have ever heard speak.Her confidence and intelligence is outstanding.Wonderful!!

AL*********:

BRAVO! Not only is this woman brilliant, she is one of the most courageous and strongest person Ive seen with such an insidious mental illness. Phenomenal.

Se******:

im 18 years dealing with schizophrenia and delusional disorder and i wish more non-psychotic people would show actual compassion to us..not find us 'interesting' or 'scary' to find any interested to hear out stories for their personal purpose

As*********:

I love the way she has dealt with the voices I am going through the same thing and I find that this brings me hope in my recovery process.thank you for your wonderful video and the way you have described this is spot on

Ka****:

“I would set boundaries with the voices and try to interact with them in a way that was assertive and respectful”

Incredible. She’s amazing and this is also great advice for battling negative thoughts!

Sk**:

Incredible story so eloquently told.

Si************:

this is both fascinating and beautiful. i am so moved and proud of her even though i dont know her :)

as*******:

i am so inspired by her strength, just shows that anybody going through a hard time right now has the strength to get through it.

An*******:

I hear voices occasionally, but I keep it to myself as in my experience neurotypical folks will ALWAYS act in their own fearful interests. I've learned to keep my own counsel.

di**********:

'A sane reaction to an insane situation.' THANK YOU

Ap**************************:

courtesy laughing is a dying art. Cmon ppl, some of her jokes were pretty funny and she's obviously been through a lot!!

Vo***:

Wait, if the voices know things she had forgotten, could that have helped her in a test? I wish my subconscious told me consciously forgotten facts in an exam.

Be**********:

THIS MEANS ALOT TO ME. I FELT THIS IN MY HEART AND SOUL.

Da*************:

she's very funny and it makes it easier to talk about these things

S*:

The human mind is such an amazing thing. It, very explicitly, clued Eleanor in on what had gone very wrong early on in her life, and that the way in which she responded to those traumatic events was not enough considering how badly those events affected her.
This means that no one is "insane" or "crazy". It means that everyone is human.

Ma*********:

Schizophrenia doesn't mean unfunctinel or sick. In the end you are only sick, if you suffer form it. And even then, in the end, suffering and pain have their uses.

Ye***********:

I stood up right here at home to applaud!! What a great and inspirational journey! God bless you always!

Mr**********:

Anyone else feel like Carl Jung may be on the right track with schizophrenia, if you applied some of his beliefs about dream analysis to schizophrenia. Very interesting video.

Sh*********:

She's gonna help so many people with this. Bless her, a strong, great woman. Strive and fight. Love the life you got to be a part of.

Be***********:

Tonnes of respect to this lady. She has gone through so fucking much and now that she could stand on the stage and talk in front of the crowd is just a miracle. She is the definition of a "strong" human.

Al*****:

I'm schizoaffective and (most of the time) have the voices very similar to the way she is describing, but most of them are rogue thoughts in my head. They kind of spiral out of control, overflow into my other senses on a bad day. My brain won't really make up sounds, but it will perceive many sounds to be threats. If I can't hear someone talking in the other room, I'll hear them whispering about me. Sometimes I think I know what people are thinking. I have some strange delusions as well that I'm not going to talk about. Even knowing they're stupid doesn't help. Life before college was extremely similar. This was really meaningful for me. Thank you.

To********:

I like that she sees 'the voice' as a symptom, I like that Eleanor recognises that the voices are not the problem. She even pointed out the root causes of her own condition. There are many who are not able to put into words exactly how they feel, so they never get treated exactly. I like this TedTalk.

Le*********:

Crying because this is giving me a lot of hope for my own life. Thank you thank you thank you

Je*********:

Socrates had a daimonic voice in his head that gave him philosophic instructions..  Got him in trouble, too.

Lu********:

"I was diagnosed, drugged, and discarded" As someone with family members that have been through this, this really resonated with me.

Ba**************:

A wonderful message of raw truth and hope. Thank you for sharing this. You are an inspiration.

Ca********:

I could cry. This just made me feel so amazing and understood. I’ve heard voices since I was a child and I’ve always struggled to come to terms with them. I’ve been labeled insane, unstable, a schizo, among other things but it’s stuff like this that helps me remember what I truly am. Human.

Jo***:

What a well spoken, brave lady. Goes to show, schizophrenia is not a life sentence to misery and failure but can be at leastpartly resolved.

Ma***:

Such an inspiration. It's awesome that she was able to be compassionate with the voices and learn from them.

LC*********:

Absolutely brilliant. Just loved this talk and the speaker.

Ma***********:

As someone who has heard voices since they were a child, I can agree with her. My voices were RARELY aggressive with me...except when I was 8 and my mom told me that hearing voices wasn't "normal". I had a huge mental battle with myself but it ended when my main voice, Charlie, told me that they weren't there to harm me and that I was hurting them and myself out of my own fear.

After that, I stopped caring what people thought about my hearing voices. The voices are very encouraging, loving, supportive, and comforting to me. This is because I've built a friendship with them, which is (essentially) building a friendship with myself.

In order to truly save yourself from your voices, you have to understand that they are YOU! They are every element of your being that is merely presented to you in a different way than other people. It's an instinctual security tactic the brain uses to help you understand what's at your deepest centre from an external point of view.

Or***********:

Eleanor, I know you probably won't see this but I'll say it anyways. When I was a kid I used to, and still do, see/sense/hear/etc things that weren't 'there'. One day I asked my old doctor if this stuff was bad or not. He said "As long as they don't tell you to do bad things, there's nothing wrong with it."

In a ways, that was both the best & worst answer. For one, I didn't feel concerned by the voices/visions because afaik it was a common or accepted thing. Therefore they didn't spiral as easily into negativity because I wasn't as afraid or angry at them for making me 'different'.

On the other side, this lead into never being taken seriously or getting help when they did turn bad (not always, just on the worst days). Because of this I completely missed out on getting help for a schizophrenia diagnosis, or even being able to relate with others affected with schizophrenia because to be accepted in their groups I had to suffer exactly like them.

Thankfully, I had learned on my own how to keep the hallucinations in check (mostly), how to 'scold' them if they got out of line, and so on. I even draw them & ask for inspiration for my art. Lucid dreaming also helped a ton. I can meet these aspects of my personality, even play with or adventure with them in the dream world.

I also want to say I personally believe CFS & other fatigue/stress-related illnesses are tied in with schizophrenia, as it ties into an over-stressed brain triggering the hypnagogic/hypnopompic & other dream states.

Anywho, I just wanted to share. And if you ever read this (or anyone else who has similar outlook as me) please toss me a note!

Ka*****:

I don't have voices, but sometimes I have this thing that's usually associated with PTSD. They're mental images that sometimes cannot be shut off. It's like a song getting stuck in your head. There was once when I received a call from a coworker the morning after I closed for the night before. She was actually angry because she had to wash puke off the storefront, but what she did was lay into me with insults, supposed shortcomings and insisted everyone else at work agreed with her. Well after I hung up on her I called the store manager and he calmed me down some, but afterwards I was still pissed because when you logically know something it doesn't shut off that feeling. So for a little while I was imaging was I could kill her. Things like dowus her with cheap alcohol and set her on fire or sneak up behind her while she's doing something and garot her. And my sympathetic nervous system kicked in and I wasn't angry anymore... but the mental images wouldn't stop. Like a song in your head, I could force myself to think specific things, but as soon as I let go, there it was again. This when on for hours and all I could do was curl into a little ball on the couch, murmuring "I don't want it anymore" over and over, and attempt to focus on the TV. And that's how I ended up watching From Justin to Kelly.

 

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