Family, Connection, and the Crisis in Mental Health: Daniel Bergner and Dawson Church in Conversation

Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of six books of nonfiction, including The Mind and the Moon, Sing for Your Life and God of the Rodeo. Daniel’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s, Mother Jones, Talk, and more.

Here Daniel and Dawson discuss:

• Daniels’s journey
• Daniel’s brother who was diagnosed with psychoses
• How fear locks into managing risk using medication
• Danie’s brother today: 40 years and he’s living a fruitful non medicated life
• The under researched phenomena of how we do often get better as we get older
• The premise that brains are organs; they just need the right chemical to correct
• The case history of Caroline who heard voices; some urging her to harm
• Caroline’s story and how now she works with the Hearing Voices Network and a suicide prevention hotline
• The third case history of David, wrestling with depression and anxiety
• David’s story and how he is a civil rights litigator who has argued in front of the Supreme Court
• Why the US is one of only 2 countries that allows drug companies to advertise to patients
• The use of medication in regard to mental health
• What about if rather than getting rid of the symptoms; we have more modest aims
• Why service is part of connecting, bringing people out of their darkest times
• Being rescued by rescuing someone else

For more information about Daniel and his books: http://www.danielbergner.com/

And more about host, Dr. Dawson Church: https://www.dawsongift.com/

 

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