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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