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The Game Changer Podcast
The Game Changer Podcast explores the intersection of health, purpose, and performance—spotlighting leaders, clinicians, and creators who turn adversity into growth. Hosted by Air Force veteran, former firefighter, and PTSD nonprofit founder Michelle Dutro, each episode blends candid conversations with science-backed tools for stress mastery, mental fitness, and resilience. With over two decades in biofeedback and wellness, Michelle brings a trauma-aware, compassion-forward approach that helps listeners elevate their physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing while living with clarity, courage, and purpose.
The Game Changer Podcast
168: You Are Not Your Diagnosis: A Psychiatrist's Warning, with Dr. Fred Moss
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After 40 years as a psychiatrist, Dr. Fred Moss is challenging everything we know about mental health and medication. What if your diagnosis isn't a life sentence, but a misunderstanding?
Summary:
In this provocative episode of The Game Changer Podcast, host Michelle Dutro sits down with Dr. Fred Moss to explore a radical approach to mental health that prioritizes human connection over prescriptions. They dive deep into the trap of "alphabet soup" diagnoses, why believing you are "broken" is the biggest obstacle to healing, and how true recovery often starts with honest conversation rather than a pill. Dr. Moss reveals why creative self-expression might be the most underutilized antidepressant available and challenges you to ask: "What if there’s nothing actually wrong with me?"
Chapters:
00:01 – Intro: Dr. Fred Moss + healing through conversation
01:22 – His origin story: why communication became the “medicine”
05:30 – Mental hospital work + why he rejected mainstream psychiatry
08:00 – Becoming a psychiatrist to change the system from within
10:55 – 2006: taking hundreds off meds (with consent) + what happened
12:10 – “Welcome to Humanity”: suffering ≠ something wrong with you
13:37 – When diagnosis becomes identity (alphabet soup labels)
20:45 – Taking back the reins: choice, agency, and human connection
22:00 – The elephant metaphor: how labels can create cages
26:07 – Prozac + the shift to “biological psychiatry” (1987)
33:30 – Creative Eight: creativity as self-expression and relief
38:50 – The core message: healing through human connection
40:30 – Where to find him: drfred360.com + The Undoctor Reset
44:10 – Final question + answer: “There’s nothing wrong with you.”
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