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Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of more than 40 books, including Why Smart People Hurt, Making Your Creating Mark, The Future of Mental Health, The VanGogh Blues, Mastering Creative Anxiety, and Creativity for Life. Dr. Maisel is at the forefront of the movement to rethink mental health. He writes the Rethinking Psychology blog for Psychology Today.

Eric and Dr. Maisel discuss his books Overcoming Your Difficult Family:  8 Skills for Thriving in Any Family Situation and The Future of Mental Health

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Eric Maisel and I Discuss Why We Need to Rethink Mental Health and …

• His books, Overcoming Your Difficult Family:  8 Skills for Thriving in Any Family Situation and The Future of Mental Health
• Defining the skills needed to understand and deal with family dynamics
• Learning the best anxiety management tool for you, such as deep breathing or visualization
• The powerful device of visualizing the “calmness switch” within you
• Understanding that there is one of many possibilities to deal with challenges
• His book, Mastering Creative Anxiety
• Depression
• The importance of identifying what’s important to us and living our life purposefully 
• Stigmatization of mental health and how it promotes pharmaceutical 
• Understanding there is more help to treat depression than just medication and psychiatry
• His models of personality: Original Personality, Formed Personality, Available Personality

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Challenges of Mental Health Diagnoses with Sarah Fay

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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

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Rethinking Mental Health with Eric Maisel

Gabe Howard on Mental Health

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