Eleanor Longden, voice-hearer and activist, will present at the TED Talks in Long Beach, California on voice-hearing as “a sane reaction to insane circumstances.” The presentation will be on on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 5:00.
Eleanor Longden speaks at TED@London in 2012.
Eleanor,
You are wonderful! You are truly inspiring! Love the comment about your voices helping you with exams!
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It is wonderful that Eleanor will be on the TED roster. It’s been a while since I listened to her presentation and I thought it was truly TED worthy. My guess is that it will be one of the best presentations in a truly impressive line-up of speakers. BUT, the description of her platform for TED says that she overcame a “misdiagnosis” of schizophrenia. Quotation marks, my own. What will the audience think that means? That she was never “schizophrenic” but there are other people who truly are? When people ask me if my son was misdiagnosed, I say “no.” He got the diagnosis that psychiatrists routinely give out based on certain observable symptoms. So, he was not “misdiagnosed.” He was correctly “diagnosed.” It would be more informative if the TED team rewrote Eleanor’s bio to say she overcame a “diagnosis” of schizophrenia. Don’t let TED create the impression that there are two classes of people who hear voices and get the schizophrenia label – the truly sick and the merely misdiagnosed.
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