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482: Sarah Fay on The Challenges of Mental Health Diagnoses

March 15, 2022
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Sarah Fay is an author and activist.  Her writing appears in many publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, The New Republic, Longreads, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, The Millions, McSweeney’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  But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! 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 lifetimeHow DSM diagnoses lack validity and reliability How chemical imbalance theory has been debunked and cannot be provenThe problems with primary care physicians diagnosing psychiatric conditions and overprescribingHow mental illness diagnoses can often become our identityThe different schools of thought on treating mental health conditions with medicationEmotions are vibrations in our bodies and responses to our thoughtsPathological: 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.