Dr. Margaret Chisolm: ...psychiatric illness is like any other illness

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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If you've suffered from anxiety, depression, stress or despair, you're not alone! Our guest on this episode, psychiatrist Dr. Margaret Chisolm says mental illness need not define people nor consign them to a life on the margins. Dr. Chisolm is a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the author of the book, "From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness". Her website is https://margaretchisolmmd.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.1	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.6	The pandemic has brought about an increase in new or worsening mental health issues for many anxiety, depression,
0:22.7	stress, despair, and loneliness have spiked, and experts believe will continue to feel
0:27.6	the mental health impact of the pandemic for a long time to come.
0:31.2	Our guest on this episode, psychiatrist Margaret Chisholm, is a professor at Johns Hopkins
0:36.5	University School of Medicine, and she contends
0:39.4	that mental illness need not define people nor consign them to a life on the margins.
0:46.1	Dr. Chisholm offers her insights in her new book entitled From Survive to Thrive, Living Your Best
0:53.0	Life with Mental Illness. Dr. Chisholm, we thank you so much for joining
0:56.6	us. Oh, thank you. I'm happy to be here. Well, your new book is described as an interactive
1:02.2	guidebook for patients and their family members or just about anyone searching for a path
1:08.0	toward greater well-being. Why did you decide to write it?
1:12.2	I've been a practicing psychiatrist for over 30 years, and the first question that patients
1:16.9	ask me is, you know, what's your approach? What's your theoretical background? Are you a
1:22.8	biological psychiatrist or psychoanalyst? And it takes a while for me to explain that at Hopkins,
1:28.3	all the psychiatrists are trained to look at patients from multiple perspectives. We don't use
1:33.5	just a single approach. We consider the person in terms of their life story, who they are as a person
1:40.7	in terms of their personality, things that they might be doing. And if they have signs
1:45.5	or symptoms of a disease, we would consider them from that perspective as well. And that's a
1:51.0	long-winded answer. It's not what people expect. And so I thought it was important to be able to
1:56.5	have a resource for patients and family members that explains this relatively unique approach
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