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Sarah Fay on The Challenges of Mental Health Diagnoses


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Sarah Fay is an author and activist.  Her writing appears in many publications, including The New York TimesThe AtlanticTime Magazine, The New RepublicLongreadsThe Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, The MillionsMcSweeney’s, The Believer, and The Paris Review, where she served as an advisory editor.  She is currently on the faculty of the English departments at Northwestern University and DePaul University. 

In this episode, Eric and Sarah discuss her book: Pathological: A True Story of Six Misdiagnoses 

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Sarah Fay and I Discuss the Challenges of Mental Health Diagnoses and…

  • Her book, Pathological: A True Story of Six Misdiagnoses 
  • Defining mental illness and how mental health diagnoses come from the book, “Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM).  
  • Her many diagnoses of mental health disorders in her lifetime
  • How DSM diagnoses lack validity and reliability 
  • How chemical imbalance theory has been debunked and cannot be proven
  • The problems with primary care physicians diagnosing psychiatric conditions and overprescribing
  • How mental illness diagnoses can often become our identity
  • The different schools of thought on treating mental health conditions with medication
  • Emotions are vibrations in our bodies and responses to our thoughts
  • Pathological: The Movement and the three important questions to ask yourself


    Sarah Fay Links:

    Sarah’s Website

    Pathological: The Movement

    Instagram

    Facebook

    If you enjoyed this conversation with Sarah Fay you might also enjoy these other episodes:

    Rethinking Mental Health with Eric Maisel

    Gabe Howard on Mental Health

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