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Creativity, Mental Health and Recovery with Sarah Fay

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"I received six diagnoses and my first one came when I was was 12 and a lot of [my memoir] Pathological is about that."
Author Sarah Fay adds, "I think this is is something we're seeing now with young people on TikTok and Instagram - self-diagnosing but also receiving diagnoses.
"My experience taught me to associate emotions like anxiety with pathologies and diagnoses like Generalized Anxiety Disorder."
She adds, "And no one explained to me that even with a diagnosis it doesn't go away. And so much of my life was spent hoping that the next diagnosis was going to be the explanation, was going to be the reason, and that it would make my life easier in some ways..."
This audio is an excerpt from her video conversation "Creativity, Mental Health, and Recovery" at the Anxiety Super Conference - free Replay Weekend (50+ expert speakers) Sept 28-30 (2024), and recording packages available.
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Hear longer audio excerpt in Creative Mind post with links to her book Pathological and to her Substack site, an excerpt from her book Cured: The Memoir, and more:
Creativity and Mental Health and Recovery - excerpt from interview with Sarah Fay
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"I received six diagnoses and my first one came when I was was 12 and a lot of [my memoir] Pathological is about that."
Author Sarah Fay adds, "I think this is is something we're seeing now with young people on TikTok and Instagram - self-diagnosing but also receiving diagnoses.
"My experience taught me to associate emotions like anxiety with pathologies and diagnoses like Generalized Anxiety Disorder."
She adds, "And no one explained to me that even with a diagnosis it doesn't go away. And so much of my life was spent hoping that the next diagnosis was going to be the explanation, was going to be the reason, and that it would make my life easier in some ways..."
This audio is an excerpt from her video conversation "Creativity, Mental Health, and Recovery" at the Anxiety Super Conference - free Replay Weekend (50+ expert speakers) Sept 28-30 (2024), and recording packages available.
~~~~
Hear longer audio excerpt in Creative Mind post with links to her book Pathological and to her Substack site, an excerpt from her book Cured: The Memoir, and more:
Creativity and Mental Health and Recovery - excerpt from interview with Sarah Fay
~~~

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