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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