On a recent Ted Radio Hour broadcast on National Public Radio, Eleanor Longden told a fascinating story that began when she first started hearing voices while in her second semester at the University of Leeds in Britain. She was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and was told by her psychiatrist, “Eleanor, you'd be better off with cancer because cancer is easier to cure than schizophrenia.” Referring to her subsequent medical treatment, she said, “I'd been diagnosed, dru