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Susannah Cahalan

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93 total appearances

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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

And I wanted to kind of assert my sanity in some way. Right. You know, we met at the New York Post tabloid news reporters. You want people to take you seriously? You know, so putting that book out was a way of saying, no, no, no, I'm good. I'm not mentally ill. I have this autoimmune disease and I'm back on solid ground.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

And I wanted to kind of assert my sanity in some way. Right. You know, we met at the New York Post tabloid news reporters. You want people to take you seriously? You know, so putting that book out was a way of saying, no, no, no, I'm good. I'm not mentally ill. I have this autoimmune disease and I'm back on solid ground.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

And then the year since I wrote another book about psychiatry and the limits there and the limits of medicine in general. I started becoming more and more open to, you know, a non-materialist, you know, this idea that there are things that we can't explain with the kind of rational world, that there are... kind of other realms and there are other ways of thinking and ways of being.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

And then the year since I wrote another book about psychiatry and the limits there and the limits of medicine in general. I started becoming more and more open to, you know, a non-materialist, you know, this idea that there are things that we can't explain with the kind of rational world, that there are... kind of other realms and there are other ways of thinking and ways of being.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

And then the year since I wrote another book about psychiatry and the limits there and the limits of medicine in general. I started becoming more and more open to, you know, a non-materialist, you know, this idea that there are things that we can't explain with the kind of rational world, that there are... kind of other realms and there are other ways of thinking and ways of being.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

And, you know, I, of course I like, I don't want my head to get, you know, I don't want my brain to fall out of my head by being too open. So I'm always careful not to go too far, but I think that you're, I think you're onto something. I think that experience changed me. And I think in that way of making me, you know, kind of touching down on this other, other possibilities out there.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

And, you know, I, of course I like, I don't want my head to get, you know, I don't want my brain to fall out of my head by being too open. So I'm always careful not to go too far, but I think that you're, I think you're onto something. I think that experience changed me. And I think in that way of making me, you know, kind of touching down on this other, other possibilities out there.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

And, you know, I, of course I like, I don't want my head to get, you know, I don't want my brain to fall out of my head by being too open. So I'm always careful not to go too far, but I think that you're, I think you're onto something. I think that experience changed me. And I think in that way of making me, you know, kind of touching down on this other, other possibilities out there.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

I think that that's undeniable for sure. Yeah.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

I think that that's undeniable for sure. Yeah.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

I think that that's undeniable for sure. Yeah.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

There's another part of the story. Remember what you found outside of your house?

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

There's another part of the story. Remember what you found outside of your house?

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

There's another part of the story. Remember what you found outside of your house?

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

Oh, yeah. You know, Rosemary was, she was born in 1935. And she was born in St. Louis. And at the age of eight, she had a kind of, I would say, a mystical experience. She had something that opened her up very young. And I think that that really set the course of her life. What happened then kind of opened her up to what would come next. She was a seeker, and she wanted to believe.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

Oh, yeah. You know, Rosemary was, she was born in 1935. And she was born in St. Louis. And at the age of eight, she had a kind of, I would say, a mystical experience. She had something that opened her up very young. And I think that that really set the course of her life. What happened then kind of opened her up to what would come next. She was a seeker, and she wanted to believe.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

Oh, yeah. You know, Rosemary was, she was born in 1935. And she was born in St. Louis. And at the age of eight, she had a kind of, I would say, a mystical experience. She had something that opened her up very young. And I think that that really set the course of her life. What happened then kind of opened her up to what would come next. She was a seeker, and she wanted to believe.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

I think she wanted to believe in herself as a great character. I think she wanted to see herself in history. She thought very highly of herself in a lot of ways, but what was available to her at the time was very limited.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

I think she wanted to believe in herself as a great character. I think she wanted to see herself in history. She thought very highly of herself in a lot of ways, but what was available to her at the time was very limited.

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner

I think she wanted to believe in herself as a great character. I think she wanted to see herself in history. She thought very highly of herself in a lot of ways, but what was available to her at the time was very limited.