Hi again and welcome back to the savvy psychologist. I'm Dr. Ellen Hendrickson and this

Friday like all others I'll help you meet life's challenges with evidence-based research, a sympathetic ear, and zero judgment.

And today we're lucky to have with us Dr. Gail Salts, who brings us a really interesting idea,

which can be summed up in the title of her new book, The Power of Different, The Link Between Disorder and Genius.

In the book, she looks at the flip side of Disorder and shows how many diagnoses from depression

to anxiety to ADHD can link to a hardwired strength.

Dr Salts is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital,

while Cornell School of Medicine.

She's a psychiatrist, columnist, best-selling author,

television commentator, and magazine contributor,

and has been featured on Oprah, Dateline, Fox News, Anderson Cooper, The Today Show, Good

Morning America, and many others.

Dr. Salts, welcome to the show.

So Dr. Salts, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

Absolutely.

So I'm excited to talk to you because in your book, you cover topics that are commonly

called by their diagnostic names like ADHD, anxiety, dyslexia, even bipolar disorder in schizophrenia.

But you have this different, empowering, and normalizing way to look at these phenomena. So specifically in the book you

introduce a new term, brain difference. So can you tell us what what is a brain

difference? So I tried to use this as a sort of global way of understanding that brains, you know, we tend to think of like, you have something going on so you must have something very broken, you know know and that's kind of our current

society's way of viewing things as if there's a some cutoff or line between you

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