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While some will frame Eleanor Longden’s story, told in her awesome TED video (which has now been viewed about 1/2 million times!), as the triumph of an individual struggling against “mental illness,” I believe the story might better be seen as a refutation of the whole “illness of the mind” metaphor, and as an indication of a desperate need for a new paradigm. ....
Neurofeedback was wonderful at first. But what I didn’t know was how it would affect my brain later. Because it did affect my brain later, profoundly. ....
Eleanor Longden's TED Talk "Why I Thank the Voices in My Head" has been viewed half a million times, and has now inspired this weekend's Huffington Post ....
Last fall, I was invited by Psychiatric Times to write an article from a mother's perspective about what is needed to "fix a broken health system." As part of my essay, I told the story of my son Jake, who was robbed of all hope by the mental health system and died a homeless man. I also told the story of his cousin Kimmy, who escaped from the mental health system and is now doing well. Psychiatric Times declined to publish my essay. ....