Pathological : the true story of six misdiagnoses
(2022)
By:
Fay, Sarah
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/FAY,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
310 page s ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063068681, 0063068680 :, 0063068680, 9780063068681
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"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"--