Summary of Sarah Fay's Pathological

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I began to sweat as we walked slower. The buildings seemed distant and dislocated, and the voices of doctors and nurses sounded like they were coming from far away.
#2 I went to a good university, and may or may not have shown promise. I wasn’t a professional mental patient, but I was a willing participant in the psychiatric industrial complex, embracing six diagnoses.
#3 The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is the book that psychiatrists and psychologists use to diagnose patients, is completely unproven and does not have any validity. It’s a book that has become socially sanctioned, and many, many people believe it’s a scientifically proven medical manual.
#4 The DSM is an attempt to help others understand the truth about the diagnoses they or their loved ones might receive. It is an attempt to loosen criteria, add specifiers, and shift symptoms.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• Testing
• Assessment
• Measurement
• Psychology
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669396895
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Sarah Fay's Pathological
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I began to sweat as we walked slower. The buildings seemed distant and dislocated, and the voices of doctors and nurses sounded like they were coming from far away.

#2

I went to a good university, and may or may not have shown promise. I wasn’t a professional mental patient, but I was a willing participant in the psychiatric industrial complex, embracing six diagnoses.

#3

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is the book that psychiatrists and psychologists use to diagnose patients, is completely unproven and does not have any validity. It’s a book that has become socially sanctioned, and many, many people believe it’s a scientifically proven medical manual.

#4

The DSM is an attempt to help others understand the truth about the diagnoses they or their loved ones might receive. It is an attempt to loosen criteria, add specifiers, and shift symptoms.

#5

Punctuation is the basis for communication. It’s how we form thoughts, and it’s the mechanism behind our digital and written interactions. Punctuation clarifies.

#6

I was on my sixth diagnosis: bipolar disorder. I had started to become bipolar. Each emotion, every thought, and all my behaviors were signs and symptoms of my mental illness. I was admitted to the psychiatric ward at the hospital.

#7

I was in high school when I began to experience hunger pains. I was on an eighth-grade class trip at Indiana University when I began to feel light-headed and sick. The next day, I was waiting for my mom in the car, when she asked me what I was doing.

#8

I was 12 when I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. I’d never been allowed to eat in the living room before, and my dad had never given me a sandwich in the kitchen. I was scared of the word anorexia, but I knew I had to get better.

#9

The 1980s were the Anorexia Age. Articles on the dangers of dieting appeared in magazines like Seventeen. The term anorexia was coined by the English physician William Gull and the French neuropsychiatrist Ernst-Charles Lasègue in the nineteenth century.

#10

I went to a therapist. His office was dimly lit, and the air-conditioning was always on high. I didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to upset the murky pit in my stomach, and I did eat a little.

#11

I had been starving the murky pit for months, and it had finally gone away. But the pit returned when I was in high school, and I began starving it again. I was starving it for the attention of my teacher, Mr. Baker, who was the first wheelchair user I knew.

#12

The Best Little Girl in the World is the anorexia urtext. It was written by a therapist who’d written a novel called The Best Little Girl in the World, which had been named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association.

#13

I studied Kessa, and she taught me how to think. My flesh was revolting, my ribs had to jut out, and food was the enemy.

#14

I began counting calories, and I weighed myself every day. I was nimble in my ability to shift food around my plate to make it seem half-full, even though I was starving. I had friends, but Kessa was my true companion.

#15

Anorexia is from the Greek for the negation of appetite, but calorie restriction and a preoccupation with weight are only a small part of it. Body dysmorphia, or an obsession with a perceived bodily flaw, is its core.

#16

I was admitted to the eating disorders unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. I was told that only my lab results would keep me out of the hospital. My potassium, electrolyte levels, and blood pressure had to remain stable.

#17

Self-denial can be difficult. It can be about patience, control, or renunciation. It can be about faith or spiritual reflection. It can be about asceticism or a monkish devotion to abstinence.

#18

I began to see my psychologist, Laura, as a game. I would answer her questions about my anorectic behavior by treating them like homework assignments. I was not eating, and my energy was sapped from not eating. I was failing in school.

#19

The DSM-III era was when Laura would have been diagnosed with anorexia. It is a physical condition, and it is very visible: my skeletal body, my sharp cheekbones, the peach fuzz covering my abdomen.

#20

I struggled with my tenth-grade term paper. I couldn’t even make it through the assigned text: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. I was afraid to look at the computer screen, which was a jumble of words and punctuation.

#21

I was told I could rewrite the paper, but it had to be good. I reread Crime and Punishment, and I ate little bits at a time. My stomach cramped and ached from being stretched.

#22

The comma is an important tool in the writing process, but it was also an important tool in my recovery. It separated items in the list of ways I was falling apart: dry skin, brittle nails, difficulty concentrating, exhaustion.

#23

I was given a kitten as a reward for turning in my paper. I named the kitten Cappy, and she slept in the crook of my neck where she could feel my heartbeat.

#24

The Best Little Girl in the World is a book about anorexia, and how it was able to take over the life of a girl named Kessa. It offers no real solutions or ways to recover, other than just opening up to your therapist about your feelings.

#25

I had become a Women’s Studies major in college, and I wrote essays on the male gaze and the patriarchy. I learned how the patriarchy and big business make women believe they were put on this earth to buy uncomfortable lingerie and trap men into marriage.

#26

I read Joan Jacobs Brumberg’s Fasting Girls, and my relationship with food and my body shifted. I no longer believed I had anorexia, and I stopped manipulating food the way I had. I began to see food as a source of devotion for Chris, who cooked healthy meals and stopped when he was full.

#27

I had never had anyone give of themselves the way Chris did. He was genuine and cool, and I loved him. I was cured.

#28

The word cure is actually very deceiving. It is commonly used to describe the process of healing from a disease, but in reality, most diagnoses are chronic. People can experience relief, but they can’t be cured.