Sarah Fay on The Challenges of Mental Health Diagnoses

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

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

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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 lifetime
How DSM diagnoses lack validity and reliability
How chemical imbalance theory has been debunked and cannot be proven
The problems with primary care physicians diagnosing psychiatric conditions and overprescribing
How mental illness diagnoses can often become our identity
The different schools of thought on treating mental health conditions with medication
Emotions are vibrations in our bodies and responses to our thoughts
Pathological: 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

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0:09.4	the real problem, which is that de-esom diagnoses are too easy to receive and are being given
0:15.9	out too easily.
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0:42.5	add negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we
0:48.6	do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about
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