128. Something We Need to Know About Mental Health with Sarah Fay, author of Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses

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Sarah Fay, author of Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses, shares with us her decades-long struggle with mental health, which started with her diagnosis of anorexia nervosa as a teen. With age, her list of diagnoses grew. Sarah shares with us what she experienced – her memoir of these years – and what she learned in her assumed role as an investigative journalist about the system that at least partially failed her. With mental illness diagnoses on the rise, this is a story we all need to hear.

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RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links)

SARAH FAY, PhD.

• Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses, Sarah Fay
• Pathological, The Movement (non-profit organization for public awareness and information)
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DMT-5-TR
• ICD-11 – WHO Website Link(NOTE: Increasingly, non-US countries are relying on the DSM)
• The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, Gary Greenberg
• Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma and the Medicalization of Normal Life, Allen Frances

If you need suicide or mental health-related crisis support, or are worried about someone else, please call or text 1-800-273-8255 or visit the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's chat to connect with a trained crisis counselor.

OTHER RESOURCES

• Heart Transplant Patient/Care Team Miscommunication
  • Amy Silverstein's Story on Voices in Bioethics Podcast
  • Sick Girl, Amy Silverstein
  • My Glory Was I Had Such Friends, Amy Silverstein
• Stew Leonards - The Customer is Always Right

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