Ep. 1080: Sarah Fay Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Sarah Fay, an author and mental health advocate. Her devotion to changing the conversation around mental health led her to create Pathological: The Movement, a public awareness campaign devoted to empowering people to make knowledgeable decisions about their mental health.

The topic is her new book Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Fay’s six psychiatric conditions
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Psychiatric industrial system
One of the most common diagnoses is Major Depressive Disorder

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.5	My guest today is Sarah Faye, and we discuss her new book, Pathological.
0:39.0	This was an eye-opener for me, and I'm sure you're going to hear it in my voice.
0:45.6	But to hear Sarah break apart the DSM, which is the Bible for psychiatric conditions,
0:55.1	and in her case, she has been diagnosed six times in her life incorrectly.
1:03.1	And there's a whole process for how this can happen.
1:07.1	And the process for how it can happen, the foundation for how it can happen.
1:12.7	Trust me, this is frightening.
1:17.3	Her story is frightening.
1:19.7	But ultimately, the bigger picture lesson is the lack of the use of the scientific method.
1:28.1	All of these psychiatric conditions and no science.
1:33.3	An amazingly sad time for the modern world that we've been taken over by this system.
1:41.7	Sarah does a great job of bringing forward this tale and explaining. And I hope you
1:46.9	enjoy this very important conversation with Sarah Feng.
2:05.9	I'm imagining one of those situations you might see on a college campus.
2:13.2	Somebody sitting at one of those almost homemade lemonade stands, and there's a cardboard sign in front of him or her.
2:14.6	And it says something to the effect of the DSM is the worst thing to ever
2:20.9	happen to America. Prove me wrong. Sounds a little controversial. A lot of people don't even
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