Eleanor was told by her psychiatrist that she would be better off with cancer than schizophrenia. She learned to reframe the voice and learn how to engage with it, which got her to a pretty great place now where she is able to complete her work in a PhD program. The experience of having hallucination is something that's on the face of it always dangerous or always negative. Or frankly, always noteworthy. And people really do need help when they're suffering that much.
Why do so many people think they can see and hear ghosts, and what does that say about our conscious experience of the world? This episode originally ran on October 27, 2021.
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