Sarah Fay on Pathological: The Dangers of Overidentifying With a Mental Health Diagnosis EP 144
Sarah Fay discusses her new book Pathological and how, by researching her six misdiagnoses, she concluded that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is utterly inaccurate. | Brought to you by Masterworks (https://masterworks.io use code PASSION to start your journey). Sarah Fay (Ph.D., MFA) writes for many publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and The Paris Review. She's the recipient of the Hopwood Award for Literature and grants and fellowships from Yaddo, the Mellon Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. She's on the faculty at Northwestern University and the founder of Pathological: The Movement. She is the author of the new book Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses: https://amzn.to/3McFd7o (Amazon link). -- ► Click here for the entire show notes: https://passionstruck.com/sarah-fay-pathological/ --► Subscribe to My Channel Here: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnRMiles --► Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/passion-struck-with-john-r-miles/id1553279283 *Our Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/passionstruck. This episode of Passion Struck with John R. Miles is brought to you by Masterworks: * Masterworks - 66% of Billionaires Collect Art, so Why Aren't You? Low Minimums, Simple and Exciting. You Can Use Art as an Alternative Investment to Diversify Your Portfolio—blue-Chip Artwork. Go to https://www.masterworks.io/ and use code passion to start. What I discuss with Sarah Fay: Almost one in five people (47.1 million) in the US have been diagnosed with a mental health condition. That number increased by about 1.5 million from last year. More may follow with a mounting sense of isolation in our fragmented country. But is a mental diagnosis the path to healing or a self-fulfilling prophecy? Sarah suffered from six mental illness diagnoses for almost thirty years, all labeled because of the DSM. She realized the DSM is seriously flawed, even useless, but it's all we have through that process. Time Stamps
- 0:00 Intro and announcements
- 2:41 Introducing Sarah Fay
- 5:07 Why Anorexia and Bipolar illness were defining moments
- 8:29 Why Pathological is eloquently written through the use of punctuation
- 11:47 How her mental illness diagnosis impacted Sarah
- 19:08 Why the DSM is seriously flawed, even useless
- 29:20 Why the DSM has no scientific validity
- 35:12 Why do we desperately want an answer and relief from our suffering
- 38:28 Why chronic loneliness is so rampant in the world today
- 43:53 Why suffering, grief, and loneliness are part of the human experience
- 46:00 Why the DSM can't define dysfunction
- 51:14 How her whole world disappeared because of her diagnoses
- 56:45 Overcoming withdrawal from psychological drugs
- 1:00:27 Why when she stopped considering herself sick she no longer was
- 1:05:27 The Cautionary Tale of the Dangers of Over-Identifying With a Mental Health Diagnosis
- 1:06:57 Show Wrap Up and Synthesis
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