Sarah Fay: ...recovery is possible and mental illness is not proven to be chronic

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Mental health conditions are diagnosed in roughly one in five people. But, how accurate are those diagnoses? Our guest on this episode, activist and author Sarah Fay, has been diagnosed—or rather, misdiagnosed—with six mental illnesses over the last 30 years. She writes about her experience and raises important mental health questions for all of us in her book, "Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses". Her website is https://sarahfay.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:11.5	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:13.7	More than 47 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with a mental illness.
0:19.6	And that means that nationwide, almost one in
0:22.1	five people are living with the mental health condition. Our guest on this episode,
0:26.5	activist and author Sarah Fay, is one of those who've been diagnosed with the mental illness.
0:31.4	In fact, Sarah Fay has been diagnosed or rather misdiagnosed with six mental illnesses
0:36.5	over the last 30 years. She writes about her
0:39.7	experience and raises important mental health questions for all of us in the new book,
0:45.1	Pathological, the true story of six misdiagnoses. Zara, thank you so much for joining us.
0:51.8	Thank you both for having me. It's great to be here.
0:54.7	Tell us why you decided to write this book, why you felt it was really necessary.
1:00.4	Well, as you mentioned, I was diagnosed with six different disorders, and it started when
1:05.3	I was 12.
1:05.9	So anorexia, generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, then ADHD, OCD, and then bipolar disorder.
1:14.8	So I spent 25, 30 years in total in the mental health system, and I still wasn't getting
1:21.8	well. And I, you know, I couldn't understand why have I been given six different diagnoses and still I'm not
1:28.3	any better. And so when I was in crisis, actually, and I had, I was without a psychiatrist
1:36.6	and I was suicidal at the time. And my sister swept in. Anyone who's been through this
1:43.9	knows that the families are the heroes of these
1:46.2	stories. Certainly my family is the hero of mine. They've been amazing. But she swept in. She found me a
1:51.5	psychiatrist and I went to see him. And we had our 30 minute consultation. And at the end, I waited for
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