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

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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There's been an increase in new or worsening mental health issues for many people during the pandemic. Anxiety, depression, stress, despair and loneliness have spiked and experts believe we’ll continue to feel the mental health impact of the pandemic for a long time to come.

Our guest on this episode, psychiatrist Dr. Margaret Chisolm, is a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She contends that mental illness need not define people nor consign them to a life on the margins. Dr. Chisolm offers her insights in her new book entitled, "From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness". Her website is margaretchisolmmd.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black. The pandemic has brought about an increase in new or worsening mental health issues for many anxiety, depression,
0:23.0	stress, despair, and loneliness have spiked, and experts believe will continue to feel the
0:28.1	mental health impact of the pandemic for a long time to come.
0:31.5	Our guest on this episode, psychiatrist Margaret Chisholm, is a professor at Johns Hopkins
0:36.8	University School of Medicine.
0:38.4	And she contends that mental illness need not define people nor consign them to a life on the
0:45.4	margins. Dr. Chisholm offers her insights in her new book entitled From Survive to Thrive,
0:52.0	Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness. Dr. Chisholm, we thank you so much for joining
0:56.9	us. Oh, thank you. I'm happy to be here. Well, your new book is described as an interactive
1:02.5	guidebook for patients and their family members or just about anyone searching for a path
1:08.3	toward greater well-being. Why did you decide to write it?
1:12.5	I've been a practicing psychiatrist for over 30 years, and the first question that patients
1:17.2	ask me is, you know, what's your approach?
1:20.6	What's your theoretical background?
1:22.7	Are you a biological psychiatrist or psychoanalyst?
1:25.8	And it takes a while for me to explain that at Hopkins,
1:29.1	all the psychiatrists are trained to look at patients from multiple perspectives. We don't use just a
1:34.2	single approach. We consider the person in terms of their life story, who they are as a person,
1:41.2	in terms of their personality, things that they might be doing. And if they have
1:45.5	signs or symptoms of a disease, we would consider them from that perspective as well. And that's a
1:51.2	long-winded answer. It's not what people expect. And so I thought it was important to be able to
1:56.8	have a resource for patients and family members that explains this relatively unique approach
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