
Episode 507: Rachel Aviv
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What Was It Like Writing Strangers to Ourselves
Mental health is often framed as an epidemic of mental illness, but it's actually just all these people responding to this horrible thing that has happened. And so it's natural to like find everyone in the state of feeling totally alone and distressed. So I'm going to read the quote as a quote from the book. It says, there are stories that save us and stories that trap us. In the midst of an illness, it can be very hard to know which is which.
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