“I’m Sarah Fay. I’m the author of Pathological and Cured: The Memoir. I’m also a mental health advocate. I’m also a bestselling Substack writer. I’m also a Substack strategist helping people master the platform. I’m also on the creative writing faculty at Northwestern. And I’m also a lover of all things cats.“
Five Things I’ve Learned About America
- Americans really do care about each other.
“When the ambulance arrived, they said “How many people are injured?” – because so many people were gathered around my father, and so many people had called 911, that they thought there was some kind of mass injury.”
- Sometimes we don't care about each other enough.
“Our mental health system is broken. That’s not an overstatement.”
- The mental health system is broken, but it doesn't need to be.
“We can start by talking about mental health recovery, instead of just mental illness or mental disorders.”
- Americans like things to be black and white but sometimes things are grey. Mental health recovery is like that.
“There isn’t one way to recover, just like there isn’t one type of mental illness.”
- Americans are funny. We're resilient. And we're full of joy.
“My job, as far as I’m concerned when I leave the house, is to make somebody’s day a little bit better.”
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