Sarah Fay - Cured: A Memoir

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week on the Mad in America podcast, we are joined by Sarah Fay. Sarah is an author, an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, a freelance writer at The New York Times and elsewhere, a certified mental health peer recovery support specialist, and a mental health keynote speaker who’s spoken to audiences across the country about recovery from mental illness.

We have previously spoken with Sarah about her book, Pathological: A True Story of Six Misdiagnoses, which told the story of her twenty-five years spent in the mental health system.

For her follow-up work, Cured: A Memoir, Sarah writes about her recovery from mental illness. She says, “During the twenty-five years I spent in the mental health system, not one clinician mentioned the word recovery. I ended up one of those “hopeless” cases—diagnosed with bipolar disorder, chronically suicidal, and unable to live independently. Yet I recovered. Not remission. Full recovery.”

In this interview, we discuss why "cured" is such a seldom-used word in psychiatry. We talk about the power of finding hope, the peer recovery movement, and much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.
0:12.1	Our podcasts are made possible in part by a grant from the Thomas Job Fund.
0:20.8	Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast. And this week we are Job Fund.
0:23.4	Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast.
0:26.7	And this week we are joined by Sarah Faye.
0:32.8	Sarah is an author, an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, a freelance writer at the New York Times and elsewhere, a certified mental health peer recovery support
0:36.8	specialist, and a mental health peer recovery support specialist and a mental
0:38.4	health keynote speaker who's spoken to audiences across the country about recovery from mental
0:43.9	illness. We have previously spoken with Sarah about her book, Pathological, A True Story of Sixth
0:50.3	Misdiagnoses, which told the story of her 25 years spent in the mental health system.
0:55.9	For her follow-up work, cured a memoir, Sarah writes about her recovery from mental illness.
1:02.3	She says, during the 25 years I spent in the mental health system, not one clinician mentioned
1:08.0	the word recovery. I ended up one of those hopeless cases, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, chronically suicidal and unable to live independently.
1:17.5	Yet I recovered, not remission, full recovery.
1:21.6	In this interview, we discuss why cured is such a seldom used word in psychiatry.
1:26.4	We talk about the power of finding hope,
1:28.9	the peer recovery movement, and much more. Sarah, welcome. Thank you so much for joining me today
1:36.4	for the Mad at America podcast. I'm delighted that we can get to talk. Thank you so much for having me
1:42.1	back. And as I said, I'm just so grateful to be on here and be able to talk about mental health recovery.
1:48.9	We're here today to talk about your latest book, which is entitled Cured, a Memoir. And it's kind of a sequel to your 22 book, Pathological, The True Story of Six Missdiagnoses. And listeners might recall that you were on
2:03.3	the podcast last year, actually, with Alan Horwitz and Robert Whitaker to talk a little bit about
2:07.8	that book, but also about other things, the DSM and other things besides. And, you know, I have to say,
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