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The Sadness of Speed Reading
In graduate school, I tried speedreading to survive an impossible workload. It taught me how to process words—and how to stop feeling them.
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On Proving Ourselves and Letting Go
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What Will Really Matter on Your Deathbed
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Exclamation Points: A Redemption Story
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Pathological just made the USA TODAY bestseller list
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Jul 9, 2025
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Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
Powerful, mesmerizing, and unputdownable, Pathological sits alongside the other brave and inspiring classics of our time that explore a more…
Apr 13, 2025
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Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
AN APPLE BOOKS PICK OF THE MONTH | “Masterfully written, distinctively researched, deeply humane . . . Genius.”—ANTHONY SWOFFORD, author of Jarhead | “A…
Jun 30, 2023
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Apple chose Pathological as one of its Best Books
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Mar 6, 2022
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Feline Sonata: When Love Goes Wrong
Welcome to bestselling, award-winning author and Substack Growth Strategist Sarah Fay’s personal Substack.
Jun 2
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The Sadness of Speed Reading
In graduate school, I tried speedreading to survive an impossible workload. It taught me how to process words—and how to stop feeling them.
May 30
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Sarah Fay
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The Sameness Enthusiast’s Guide to "Downer" Books
Chihuahuas, sobbing for fictional characters, and the tragedy of Lily Bart
Apr 25
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On Proving Ourselves and Letting Go
My Paris Review Interview with Javier Marias
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5 Ways of Looking at Mental Health Recovery
My father stares pensively at his phone. We’re at our usual table in Starbucks. A water for me, ginger tea for him. I showed him how to download an app…
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The Solution to the Mental Health Crisis
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Educated by Anxiety = Educated by Possibility
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A Short History of How We've Failed People With Mental Illnesses
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Beyond Pathological
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A Pathological Conversation with Sarah Fay
The last post in Beyond Pathological (but there's more to come!)
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Pathological just made the USA TODAY bestseller list
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Jul 9, 2025
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Why We Love Neuromythology Even Though We Know It's Wrong
It's just so tempting...
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This has taken me too long to share...
When I announced the re-release of Pathological, a pit formed in my stomach.
Apr 12, 2025
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Is There a Mental Health Misinformation Effect?
You Are What You Read (and Scroll) Like social media today, some mental health memoirs, while groundbreaking for their time, didn’t empower readers with…
Jul 20, 2024
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How Can We Have a More Empathic View of Psychosis?
Answer: Learn from those who experience it. Schizophrenia and related disorders are the most stigmatized by the public, the media, and mental health…
Nov 17, 2022
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Is Every Post About Mental Health on Social Media Misleading and Damaging?
It’s fair to say that young people—whose brains haven’t fully formed—are most at risk of being misled on social media. Gen Z’s use TikTok the way the…
Nov 10, 2022
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What Do the Girl Scouts Have to Do With Our Mental Health?
Answer: Not much, but they have money and money has a lot to do with our mental health, the two are entwined on many levels. Then there’s the cyclical…
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Stories of Mental Health Recovery
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🎧 Stories of Healing: Kate Speer (and Waffle and Tugboat)
Listen to my interview with the amazing writer and mental health advocate Kate Speer. She shares her incredible story of mental health recovery with us…
Dec 14, 2023
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🎧 Interview: Tanya Frank, author of 'Zig-Zag Boy'
Listen to my exclusive interview with Tanya Frank, author of the amazing Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood. Zig-Zag Boy is the story of…
Dec 7, 2023
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Stories of Recovery: Lisa Guardiola
Please enjoy my interview with Lisa Guardiola. Lisa was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2004 and has been living with it for seventeen years. Listen as…
Dec 6, 2023
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🎧Stories of Healing: Nate Cannon
Nate trains in the areas of diversity and inclusion, as well as crisis intervention, specializing in mental health, dementia, disability justice, and…
Sep 30, 2023
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Mental Health Resources
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Resource: QPR Suicide Prevention course
Friends, family, and anyone who needs support and/or wants to learn more about being there for someone experiencing suicidal thoughts can take the QPR…
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Resource: Living Rooms
Living Rooms, sometimes called respite centers, offer an alternative to the emergency room for those experiencing suicidality, psychosis, and other…
Sep 14, 2023
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Resource: Nutritional Psychiatry and Mental Health Recovery
Nutritional psychiatry, a branch of medicine devoted to exploring how food and our eating habits affect our mental health.
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Resource: Helpline List
Today, I bring you a (somewhat) comprehensive list of mental health helplines in the U.S. There are so many we don’t hear enough about.
Jul 6, 2023
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