Podcast - Mad in the UK
One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright
<p>This podcast and transcript was first published on Mad in America on November 6th 2024</p> <p>Rose Cartwright is a screenwriter and the author of Pure, a hugely successful memoir which was then turned into a series for Channel Four. She is also a writer and producer on Netflix’s 3 Body Problem. Pure portrayed Rose’s autobiographical account of finding that she had OCD, a “mental illness”, and the breakthrough that this medical framework provided her. This was short-lived. In her new book The Maps We Carry, she writes about the dawning realization that the “illness” story she had believed in and publ...

