I hear voices in my head, but I’m fine - Eleanor Longden | Comment is Free

Eleanor Longden started hearing voices when she was 18. She was drugged and hospitalised, then told she was schizophrenic.
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A psychiatrist even told her she would have been better off with cancer, because it would have been easier to cure. Most people assume mental illness is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. But, she argues, mental illness is not random, it is a response to traumas we have been through in the past.
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[@PennyDreadful1]

PTSD can also cause voice hearing in some cases.

[@einstakeholder1950]

Secret services cause the disease psychosis / schizophrenia in many (more precisely: in all) cases. In Germany, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution [Verfassungsschutz in Cologne] causes thousands of cases of psychosis.

[@carstrucks9641]

@@einstakeholder1950 what?

[@Jussaynoh]

Brilliant. Psychiatry has been an outright disaster for so many of us.

[@thijsjong]

The volume is low. With the volume turned uo I could barely hear it. Onto the topic. Schizofrenia is a condition with multiple possible symptoms. What I take from this story is that she was hearing voices and that caused a lot of fear and anxiety. This anxiety causes the condition to spin out of control unless you get a grip on it. This isnt simple. First you have to accept the situation as it is. The voices are not going to go away just because you want them to. The more you fight them the more disturbing they get. And then other symptoms come up such as delusions, paranoia etc. Fear and stigma dont help. I wish more people like her would step up with recovery and coping stories. And be more elaborate about what helped them to deal with it. I dont have voices myself but I know some people who do.

[@snaketooth0943]

Really?

[@gradingterminal807]

set them free (?) ... yeah... must b a reason for or why the control phobia not respond welL to exposure therapy ;'); satire

[@lucysmith2623]

Schizophrenia

[@keithfan5499]

Its voice too skull

[@FintanMcNamee]

She may hear voices, But I can't hear her, Volume is way too low.

[@bibolehabib]

What did you say ?

[@jason-h-Poet]

I no longer take medication and find writing poetry helpful as well as other things. I also think Eleanor Londgen is an inspiration. I think people that hear voices are still mis understood i also believe that voice hearing can occur for many different reason.

[@MoneyMadeMagic]

I love hearing this Eleanor. Thank you for your continued input into the world of mental health.

[@scottward9976]

As one who also experienced the torments of psych meds to address the whispered support systems in my head. Thank you, thank you.

[@jaggass]

Least you will never get lonely.

[@Previousaccount]

I'd rather be lonely than to hear these stupid, annoying voices in my head

[@SaccidanandaSadasiva]

7 years of schizophrenia and counting...

[@scarletpeoni9347]

What is the actual definition of 'voices in your head' When I was younger I would often hear my name being called when nobody had called it. I would hear strange voices falling asleep and was told it was normal and some people have this at night. That stopped. I went on courses to learn to speak telepathically to animals(yes its a real thing called animal communication) you don't 'hear' voices but your certainly process words and images. When these things are proven to not be the imagination ie. Photo of a dog in the USA is handed to animal communication student in the UK and the student is asked to communicate with the dog to find out where he has injured himself(photo pre injury) and 'hears' information. Student feeds this back to the owner, owner agrees. Descriptive factual things like ' He injured his paw' ' He hates water' NOT ' your dog loves you' So I do wonder with people diagnosed with these things, what the Eleanor is describing is what many people would call their 'higher self' or 'spirit guide' unless the person is causing harm to themselves or others, why is it even recognised as an 'illness'. Just because there is one standard way of processing information, does not make it the only way, just the only way known on a mass level.

[@mykindofsongsmykindofsongs1748]

@scarlet peoni can you please help to disconnect telepathy from someone who is continuously misusing it on me ? I hear voices too

[@jong8876]

The noises you here before you fall asleep are called hypnagogic hallucinations

[@kevinstj3798]

Its strange to see someone dealing with the exact same thing as I 😨. I wish I could turn of these annoying voice's too😥

[@TheNigel01]

The volume is low.

[@snaketooth0943]

Agreed.

[@ShyanTheLegend]

guess what. i DONT hear voices. want to know why? because the volume is too damn low to hear anything

[@moonglow6639]

Lol no. That has nothing to do with it..

[@jong8876]

I agree with this woman i get intrusive images and music playing in my mind all day i got told it was OCD but after researching ocd for nearly a year i dont believe my symptoms match as i dont get anxiety at all.

[@HGR14007]

This is so encouraging

[@MobiusCoin]

I hear voices in my head! They council me, they understand, they talk to me.

[@crhiella6563]

🐍

[@jack25877]

guardian, please turn the video up

[@kerriscreations]

Thank you

[@Kys30388]

I feel you

[@cdmarkandu]

An amazing personal video!

[@Pascal79-p1r]

Check up: Gangstalking, voice2skull, electronical harassement, gaslighting, human trafficking, mind control, mkultra, etc. Maybe interesting topics for you all.

[@moonglow6639]

I cured my voices with psychedelics. Don't EVER take neuroleptics !

[@carstrucks9641]

what'd you use

[@Xslices]

I started hearing voices at 30. Now I'm feeling like I can read people thoughts. They keep me company. Cons: sometimes they won't stop talking.

[@Hithere-dc2qx]

You are so right. They are the worst and they do nothing in many instances. Giant laundry list of side effects too. Brain shrinkage, lowered life expectancy etc.

[@Hithere-dc2qx]

​@@Xslicesand that's exactly why you're hearing things still. You're believing your delusion. You need to stop. The voices are you. Schizophrenia is also called double mindedness. You need to mend your mind back together. The worst thing you can do is read crazy people's posts on reddit who think they are telepathic

[@Bubbalum]

why is the volume so low?

[@kathakdance1]

bad audio. i did not hear one word said in this video.

[@Thomas-cc9yv]

I've predicted things but I'm delusional, evidently?

[@StancePunk]

TRIGGERED

[@ogtriplet3311]

I feel really bad for a little Anakin now...

[@shamanahaboolist]

If the voices in people's heads sound like different people so that they are no longer monologue and feel like they are coming from elsewhere... who is to say they aren't correct about these impressions of the voices? In the olden days they believed it was brought about by "spirits"... consciousnesses of another form. I have yet to see any viable reason why we should just disregard this hypothesis and completely rule it out.

[@twistedxd]

+shamanahaboolist listen dude you and many others can hear me yelling or singing. stop with the denial.

[@skilltreebusybee]

i call them the observes and i thought they where remote viewers practicing there ability's. i have suffer with schizophrenia sense i was a kid mildly but now for a year its out of control i lost jobs because i don't sleep well with there judgmental scrutinizes comets making me want to blow my head off more often then not !!!! even now they express concern that i talk of them online [shout out to the Maui gild] how ever remote viewing has bin going on for a long time sence the 60s and the ethical grey area surrounding remote viewing, being a Learned ability[any one could do it] wold makes sense to me that there anonymity would come first over an individuals creditable sanity . not to mention that more cases of this would pop up as time goes on 60 years of people picking this ability up ? do the math . after all the ability to be in an others mind well? witch hunts are in are history as a lesson. and i don't fear what i could learn to under stand. I care for the Gifted community and if outed that this sanearo is true the observed would sue in most cases... i would not but that's because if im right well...this is more existing then intrusive. scene i think i can train my photons to accelerate some ones cell tissue to heal. but people like us Eleanor are more likely to be labeled as a crazy the to be tooken searsly...#provocativeVewOnNUTs

[@timestamp2347]

Are you sure it's not remote nural monitoring, voice to skull?

[@hedzh1]

The voices are your ticket to power, peace, joy, and magick.

[@zackdarksky1208]

It could be a tulpa, but normally it takes a lot of conscious effort to develop one.

[@seeexy]

0:17 what was her visions? esp. if it were that Terrifying how come she looks like it was a piece of cake or more.. specifically, as if nothing serious has happened. 😒😒🙍 doubt that..

[@PhasmalForge]

please speak louder i thought i was deaf for a whole 2 minutes there but it was just you softly speaking

[@badensnaxx5804]

This explains feminism, lol.

[@teenageriot123456]

+Bad Snaxx Fucking hell, you MRA dipshits try to awkwardly hamfist feminism into every topic and then you have the gall to complain endlessly about people bringing it up in media. *sigh*

[@xVancha]

+Callum Quinn By broadly painting every member of a diverse group with the same brush, you don't come off as any better than he does. You even bring up MRAs just as unnecessarily as he brought up feminism. You're as bad as each other.

[@badensnaxx5804]

Callum Quinn Aah, Sir Knight, welcome to the Tourney, the stables are out back. I can do that too, anyone can make blind assumptions, but you sir are an expert. You make me an MRA on three words & an acronym that usually means someone is having a joke. LMAO.

[@badensnaxx5804]

xVancha So, please tell me what I'm being bad at? I admit the joke wasn't that funny, but I can be way more offensive if you like.

[@teenageriot123456]

Bad Snaxx Who have the largest proverbial boner for the feminist ideology whose mere existence rely entirely on its discourse? Why the MRA's, "redpillers" and various other sexually inept circle jerks, of course. It's less of a "blind assumption", more of a educated guess. The whole "white knight" thing is also a massive "girls won't fuck me" flag and classic MRA response to criticism as far as I can tell.

[@dyrefate]

I also have schizophrenia and believe that my symptoms are meaningful messages. Like Eleanor, I don't take medication and still hear voices and have other symptoms but they are generally not debilitating. I'm able to work, go to school, have a social life, and pursue my interests.

[@km1dash6]

+

[@ciaramoran8314]

How do you get to the stage where they are not debilitating

[@SamuelHolt-j3w]

As nobody else replied: by working out what happened and how it has impacted you. Watch Eleanors longer TED talk on this topic. She had to do a lot of work related to her trauma and connect each voice to a part of her that was scared/damaged or threatened. @@ciaramoran8314

[@h.e.a311]

sorry to ask, but did you have un-official se*?

[@CalebLatnie-tp6jt]

I struggle with reading while hearing voices how do you deal with that I recently had to quit my job because I wasn't able to study for the tasks

[@manabouthouse]

A very interesting alternative perspective. My wife has Bipolar 1 with voices when in psychosis, she tells me the voices are from people she knows, some negative and some positive.

[@AndreaRodriguez-ix9il]

I hear voices in my head too. It is awful cause the are always attacking me in my head and outside on the street, at the bus, supermarket etc. They make you feel as there were a social mobbing with People around laughing about me or even saying bad things like slandering. At the same time I see some people that look at me as They could recognize me doing gestures with their hands or feet or legs. I don't know what they mean. I think this is reall happening and no hallucinations. Before hearing voices there was this old woman on the bus Laughing loud as she saw me and saying something like " she would be soon ashes". At the time I kept hearing bad things about a poor woman who has been filmed and exposed by others somewhere, people were just having fun with that all over the city of Salzburg....

[@Xslices]

I am not trying to be mean. I think your self esteem is very very low which is where mines is. All that traumatic trauma from people has affected you. Like me and you hear those nasty thoughts over and again taking on different people's voices. Which feels real. I'm so sorry this happened to you humans can be horrible to each other. So your mental health is at the bottom.

[@kevinstj3798]

I am dealing with exact same thing you talked about, but I don't think I am schizophrenic... You know telepathy is something real... It feels comforting knowing that I'm not the only one that deals with something similar😥

[@chasemichealbrown]

I have a loved one who is now in a condition nearly identical to the one this amazing woman found herself in. Her courage is truly inspiring. By turning perception on its head, I believe she may offer a solution to this hopeless & helpless situation, instead of depending on cold, overpaid, apathetic, condescending "doctors". If the voices are going to stay (its been almost 10 years now), it just may be best to see them as helpers, rather than things that must be hated & destroyed. Hope springs eternal.

[@pamelacook4896]

I got helpat trauma recovery institute! Alot of my voices left when i got better! But they wont ever leave completely!

[@1406-n7r]

are you sure they wont! because to believe such idea is to accept there's no way around!

[@Hithere-dc2qx]

​@@1406-n7rexactly I made mine stop rather abruptly. Now I just have to manage paranoia. The most powerful thing is to never even think about it, and let it be a past experience. Drugs did nothing but rot my brain and caused me to have suicidal ideation

[@j.z.6797]

You are me with more ambition, please continue sharing your story. You have conquered the naysayer's and manifested your authentic self. You matter to me and help me so much.

[@kaitlinwhite1816]

I give u all the props in the world for this!!- for identifying & SPEAKING on what the medical world around u is REALLY doing.., for coming on here & making a video about what happened to u. Something similar happened to me.. & I think you're very brave. & Should be very proud of yourself& know...YOU HAVE A HUUGE PURPOSE HERE IN THIS LIFETIME!- U R A NATURAL BORN ADVOCATE..& ADVISOR,.. FOR PPL WHO ARE VICTIMIZED OVER THE SAME STRUGGLES, UVE ENDURED AS WELL. I HAVE MUCH RESPECT FOR YOU& WHAT YOU'RE ALL ABOUT. PPL LISTEN TO U. SO SPEAK YOUR STORY..WHENEVER U CAN. U NEVER KNOW WHO U MIGHT HELP.. THANK U FOR BEING U. ✌👀🤔😨🤐🤷 ❤🌠✌⭐😉

[@Thinkgreatmanifestations]

I here voices ever since I opened my first eye and they tell me they love me so much and to meditate

[@magnacarta5261]

I love 💓💓💓her accent

[@eplives33]

It's a bradfordian accent

[@gilliandarling9239]

love her

[@youtubeicin4137]

but how about it is genetic to yourr next generation? if it is only happens to person because of their experiences it shouldnt appear at next generation?

[@Sectionmanifold]

Audio is almost inaudible.

[@moonglow6639]

You can modify the volume on your smartphone whatever kids stop whining please..

[@jazy3091]

This is very important issue and this woman speaks for many, so why didn't you make this video properly so we could hear her message? I hardly can hear what she's saying even after turning the volume to the full.

[@NightWatch707]

This line of thought assumes that environmental factors cannot cause chemical imbalances. Do you know what depression is or does?

[@seeexy]

wow the voice of this video is super Low. who edited this video?? a deaf old man??

[@Lovewood100]

Trauma caused mine too..

[@lightspeed4448]

It can happen because of autism as well

[@joeslifeproductions]

Noveto systems Sound-Beamer 1.0 coming out in 2021

[@steve-pp4ef]

I hear voices in my head they talk to me

[@Aaron-jh7re]

thats black magic. they read your mind and they shout in your head. do some research about hearing voices black magic

[@jayp123]

🐍

[@mohammadchowdhury722]

it seems weird listening voices in your head. but it's true. cause I have experienced. not only voices sometimes weird sound as well. the sounds that you never heard of.

[@lukedodge2754]

Wow... Someone else who has a similar story and experience such as myself!!! I wish I could talk to her...

[@singhbhai]

Randy Ortan

[@h.e.a311]

and why do those voices wanted to harm your family?? did you want to get married while you couldnot and they tried to give a deal like hurt your mother I marry you??

[@laurakelly631]

why is she whispering? I almost gave up...the volume is so low. Is this how her voices sound?

[@PoeLemic]

Why is the volume so low in this video? Something must be wrong with my TV.

[@scicero1]

fix the volume I have to blast my system to barley hear her

[@Nancy-ow9wy]

Even I hear voices

[@drillasbarbies]

Me everytime

[@anthonycarbonaro7890]

Your volume is much too low.

[@elcesar999]

I had my name Whisper 3 times in my lifetime and it was pretty weird. I can't only imagine on the regular

[@1406-n7r]

??? what do you even mean? what are the implications? this is amongst the emptiest comments i've ever replied to on youtube

[@ShyanTheLegend]

fix the audio

[@carliebeau5329]

We all have inner dialogue. I don't understand why they label it mental