Pathological : the true story of six misdiagnoses / Sarah Fay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fay, Sarah, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fay, Sarah--Mental health.

Fay, Sarah.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

Mentally ill--United States--Biography.

Mentally ill.

Mental illness--Diagnosis.

Mental illness.

Mental health.

United States.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

310 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022

Summary:

"Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses--anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder. Pathological is the gripping story of what it was like to live with those diagnoses, and the crippling impact each had on her life. It is also a rigorous investigation into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)--psychiatry's "bible," the manual from which all mental illness diagnoses come"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I

1. The Weight of a Comma

2. Consider the Colon

3. Suspension Points

II

4. Un-joined

5. Ask Your Doctor

6. Cracked

7. Doctor's Orders

8. Treatment/Options

9. Becoming Bipolar

10. When the Happy Pill Ends

11. On Suicidal Ideation

III

12. "Sick"

13. On Solitude (and Isolation and Loneliness [and Brackets])

14. On Stigma (and Disclosure).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780063068681

0063068680

OCLC:

1305300092