Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Suzanne O’Sullivan (The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker) is a neurologist, clinical neuropsychologist, and award-winning writer. Suzanne joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why epilepsy is a very neglected area of medicine, that we can change the quality of our movements and how our body feels by our scrutiny of them, and how contagious collapse phenomena are a dime a dozen. Suzanne and Dax talk about the scientifically nonsensical myth of the sonic weapon, the psychosomatic wave of TikTok tics, and the real difference between hypochondria and psychosomatic impairment. Suzanne explains the sophisticated miracle of Kazakhstan sleeping sickness, the increased prevalence of masking in conditions like autism, and the argument for the benefit of supporting people without medicalizing them.

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0:18.3	Whoa, so many.
0:19.6	I'm caught in a loop still because we just did a personality test that seemed to be loop, a loop.
0:25.2	I feel like we answered the same five questions.
0:28.0	It's meant to throw you.
0:29.5	Yeah, did a good job.
0:30.4	Today we have, I guess, on a fascinating topic that I think a lot of us talk about all the time.
0:36.3	Oh, yeah.
0:37.1	Are we getting overdiagnosed?
0:39.3	Are we medicalizing everything?
0:41.3	Is everything a pathology?
0:42.3	This episode was really interesting because we talk a lot about overdiagnosis, but also about
0:47.3	kind of psychosomatic?
0:48.3	Psychosomatic contagions.
0:50.3	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
0:52.3	This is across the board fascinating because she's here to talk about her new book.
0:56.6	Well, first of all, Dr. Susan O'Sullivan.
0:59.2	She's an award-winning writer and neurologist.
1:01.3	And her new book, which we're going to talk about a lot, is the age of diagnoses,
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