Learning from the Voices in My Head Quotes

“An important question in mental health shouldn’t be “What’s wrong with you?” but, rather, “What’s happened to you?”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head

“I decided that my mind, body, and spirit had worked together to craft the best they could with limited resources, and to see myself as a helpless victim of chronic “mental illness” was merely adding insult to injury.”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head

“And, fundamentally, diagnoses can deflect attention away from underlying social and emotional problems, wherein branding a scientific name on someone’s distress is never guaranteed to effectively lessen their pain.”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head

“Optimism is the madness of insisting all is well when we are wretched. — Voltaire”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head

“Sometimes it snows as late as May, but summer always comes eventually.”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head

“Caffeine Use Disorder: Dependence on caffeine [This is not yet categorized as a formal disorder but is proposed for inclusion in Section III of DSM-5 as a condition requiring further research.27]”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head

“Correspondingly, despite many decades of expensive and exhaustive research, no specific biological markers or mechanisms have ever been reliably linked with diagnostic labels like schizophrenia or depression, a fact recently acknowledged in the United States by the National Institute of Mental Health.26 Indeed, NIMH announced its intention to “reorient” away from existing psychiatric diagnoses because of their invalidity, preferring to focus on classifications based on genetics and neurobiology (despite the acknowledgement that there is still insufficient data to develop such a system).”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head