As Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Stephen Hinshaw opens up in this episode with JK about his experience of growing up around mental illness and dedicating his life’s work to helping people and breaking the stigma surrounding mental health.

From a young age, his father would be gone for long periods of time and Stephen wouldn’t know where he was or why he was gone. He later found out that his father was severely bipolar. In Episode 10 of Open Minded, the renowned psychologist and expert on mental health and stigma shares his personal story with Sir John Kirwan. They dive into how it shaped his life and views on mental illness and the stigma surrounding it.

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