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203: Eric Maisel: Rethinking Mental Health

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Dr. Eric Maisel is a prolific writer, to say the least. His numerous publications span the human experience and explore how to interact with the various situations that one may encounter.  In this interview, he discusses a couple of his books and spends a great deal of time explaining how he thinks depression should be treated vs how it is currently being diagnosed and treated. It’s a different way of thinking about this subject and if it’s a topic you’re interested in, you owe yourself a listen.

This week we talk to Eric Maisel

Eric Maisel, Ph.D., is is the author of more than 40 books. His titles include, Why Smart People Hurt, Making Your Creative Mark,  The Van Gogh Blues,  Mastering Creative Anxiety, and Creativity for Life

In addition, Dr. Maisel is at the forefront of the movement to rethink mental health. He writes the Rethinking Psychology blog for Psychology Today and among his books in this area are Rethinking Depression and The Future of Mental Health.

His latest book is called Overcoming Your Difficult Family: 8 Skills for Thriving in Any Family Situation.

 In This Interview, Eric Maisel and I Discuss…

  • The Wolf Parable
  • His book, Overcoming Your Difficult Family: 8 Skills for Thriving in Any Family Situation
  • His book, The Future of Mental Health
  • The smartness to understand what’s going on with your family
  • The strength to make the changes that you need to make
  • The strength to be calm, or have a difficult conversation
  • Having clarity about what’s going on
  • Awareness of the situation
  • The courage to make change because change has consequences
  • The skill of presence
  • Being resilient – family members, especially siblings, don’t go away like other relationships
  • Visualizing the “calmness switch” within you
  • The importance of learning one anxiety management tool because you will have anxiety in life
  • How you name the problem often directs you to the situation
  • The importance of language
  • The importance of knowing the causes of things regarding your health
  • Living intentionally, identifying your life purposes and making meaning in your life
  • How thinking that all we are is matter, chemicals etc can lead people to feel less excited about living
  • Each person has to make the decision to opt to matter, to decide that you matter and that your decisions matter
  • The cultural trance of tv
  • www.madinamerica.com
  • Stigmatization of mental health
  • The three parts 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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Cindy Stulberg on Relationships

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Cindy Stulberg is an internationally respected psychologist and is the Director of The Institute of Interpersonal Psychotherapy which provides psychological assessment and counseling for individuals and couples, groups and families and has done so for the past 35 years. In this episode, Cindy and Eric discuss her book, Feeling Better: Beat Depression and Improve Your Relationships with Interpersonal Psychotherapy.

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In This Interview, Cindy Stulberg and I Discuss…

  • Her book, Feeling Better: Beat Depression and Improve Your Relationships with Interpersonal Psychotherapy 
  • That your relationships hold the key to your happiness
  • Interpersonal Psychotherapy
  • The areas of life that trigger a depressive episode
  • Drawing your social circle and asking questions about them
  • How to build your social circle
  • Conversation starters
  • The difference between feelings and moods
  • Questions for emotional enlightenment
  • Getting input from others when looking to do things differently for them to make things better
  • Paying attention to how you feel 
  • The question: What’s the best, worst and most likely outcome?
  • Linking rigid expectations to happiness
  • How you can’t expect 1 person to meet all your needs

Cindy Stulberg Links:

The Institute of Interpersonal Psychotherapy

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Dr. Ellen Hendriksen on Social Anxiety

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Dr. Ellen Hendriksen is a clinical psychologist who helps millions calm their anxiety and be their authentic selves through her award-winning podcast, The Savvy Psychologist, and in the clinic at Boston University’s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. In this episode, she and Eric discuss her debut book is, How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety. If you suffer from social anxiety, you will learn a lot of practical tools to use to help you overcome it and suffer less.

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In This Interview, Dr. Ellen Hendriksen and I Discuss…

  • Dr. Ellen Hendriksen’s book, How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety
  • The positive qualities that often accompany social anxiety in a person
  • That the opposite of social anxiety is actually psychopathy
  • The neuroscience of social anxiety
  • How if you face your fears you can change your brain
  • The problematic nature of avoidance when it comes to social anxiety 
  • Overt avoidance and covert avoidance
  • Thinking that the worst case scenario is a foregone conclusion
  • Avoidance means we never see what actually happens
  • The inner critic
  • The buckets that the Inner Critic likes to attack: Appearance, the Signs of Anxiety Themselves, Social Skills, One’s Entire Personality
  • Social Anxiety Mad Libs: When I ______, it will become obvious that I _______
  • The tool, Replace
  • Anxiety is vague – ask, what particular thing are you afraid of?
  • 4 Magic Questions: What’s the worst that can happen? How bad is that? What are the odds that the worst case scenario will actually happen? How will I cope?/What will I do?
  • The tool, Embrace
  • The role of mindfulness in anxiety
  • Having self compassion in addition to making your inner world a kinder, more hospitable environment
  • Creating structure in our social situations – giving yourself a mission to fulfill, a purpose, a goal

To learn more about Dr. Ellen Hendrisken, visit:

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