The Challenges (and Opportunities) That Come With Mental Health Diagnoses | Sarah Fay

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Dr. Michael Gervais

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Sarah Fay, an award-winning author and mental health advocate working to improve how we think and talk about our mental health.

Sarah’s experience of being diagnosed with six different mental health disorders over the course of 30 years and finding no relief led her to write her best-selling journalistic memoir Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses.

As part of her continued devotion to changing the conversation around mental health, Sarah also founded Pathological: The Movement, a public awareness campaign dedicated to empowering people to make informed decisions about their mental health.

In this conversation, Sarah opens up about how she came to inhabit her diagnoses, how we can improve the diagnosis process, and her inspiring journey to recovery.

With almost one in five citizens (47.1 million people) in the U.S. alone having been diagnosed with a mental health condition, there’s no doubt that a majority of us have been touched by this issue – I hope this conversation gives you a new framework for navigating the complexities of mental health, and a deep knowing that no one is in it alone.

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0:00.0	I live for 25 years. I mean, my, you know, mental state deteriorated for 25 years. And I have to
0:06.8	be very respectful of that. It doesn't mean I have bipolar lurking in me waiting to come out.
0:13.1	It doesn't mean I have major depressive disorder. It means I've been through hell.
0:17.0	And it means that I have to take care of myself.
0:19.2	Okay, welcome back. Or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I am your host, Dr. Michael
0:34.2	Jervé, by trade in training a high performance psychologist. And I'm excited to have a conversation
0:40.5	with Sarah Faye. So Sarah is an award-winning author and mental health advocate working to improve
0:46.5	how we think and talk about our mental health. She's currently on the faculty of the English
0:51.7	Department at Northwestern University and to Paul University and is the founder of pathological,
0:57.6	the movement. So that focus is on empowering people to make informed decisions about their mental
1:03.2	health. Now her experience of being diagnosed with six different mental health disorders and
1:09.9	finding no relief, letter to write the best-selling journalistic memoir pathological, the true
1:16.1	story of six misdiagnoses. Sarah, thank you so much for coming on and talking about a really
1:24.0	challenging topic. So what I thought we do is we'd start with some context about why you decided
1:29.4	to write your book. Can I read you a quote from the book? Yeah, please. Okay, so here's one that
1:34.4	just grabbed us. I wrote it to try to save people from going through what I went through. Pathological
1:40.9	is dedicated to everyone who's been diagnosed and misdiagnosed and overdiagnosed. It's everything I
1:48.6	wish I'd known about the mental health system. All right, so how do you respond to that? Well, I
1:56.7	mentioned that I love that you chose this quotation. It's really the core of the book. It's really
2:01.8	my motivation for writing it and it's so important because when we start to criticize psychiatry
2:07.7	or we start to criticize diagnoses or even put them under a microscope, people assume anti-psychiatry
2:14.8	and I'm not at all and I wanted to be sure, you know, that quote really says it. I see a psychiatrist
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