Bipolar Bicoastal

CW: Internalized fatphobia

This week Maria teaches Anna how to change her thoughts, with some surprising results. What's not surprising is Anna ends up crying. We talk about body image and other things we're trying to manage our minds on. I (Anna) was super skeptical about this going in and it's been really cool so I hope y'all give it a listen!

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Podcasts Mentioned: 

Unf*ck Your Brain: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Zq2XDpVrtadTR1xOfzhzo?si=6e190e4b710447b3

51 1st Dates w/ Kara Lowentheil: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6EIgicR44UgWRkEJ2CXamJ?si=YC0Pn8DwS4272FJI2Mq7eg

Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back: https://open.spotify.com/show/0bxgpKsCXpiXpHwnY2lSvZ?si=b5926e69f3ca498a

Maintenance Phase: https://open.spotify.com/show/3rDR8CfpIEMpITG2UC3w5W?si=9c661c84d1ed405f

CBT Thought Record: https://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/docs/ThoughtRecordSheet7.pdf 

Content Warning: Attempted Suicide, Emetophobia

In this episode, Anna & Maria talk to Sami Cola, a intimate partner violence advocate, former sexual assault hotline manager, and the most thoughtful person we know. Topics include ADD, Bipolar II, Masking, Imposter Syndrome, and the Circus. 

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Hypersexuality noun: excessive preoccupation with sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors that is difficult to control, causes you distress, or negatively affects your health, job, relationships or other parts of your life. 

This week, we discuss what it means to have sex while bipolar. It takes a hard turn into consent and sexual health and we answer the age-old question "can men and women be friends?" Wait, no, we attempt to answer the age-old question "Are people good/bad?" And for hopefully the last time, Anna unhelpfully (but humanly) compares her life experiences to Maria's.

Welcome to season three! We'll see you next month! We're back bbs!

Thank you to Tarana Burke for the phrase "Me Too"

Links:

https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355

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End of season 2 bbys! Catch up on what we accomplished in the past year and hear all about our plans (or lack there of) for the next year. So much thank to all of you and we will see you in a few months!

Kara Lowentheil's podcast: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/podcasts/

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We discuss what we learned over the past months of ADD interviews and Anna gives an update on how her journey with ADHD medication, struggling through grad school while being unable to focus and how the diagnosis still doesn’t feel comfortable. 

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For the final interview in our ADHD series, we have on Olivia August, who blows our minds with her perspective on ADHD. We learn terms like "bioessentialism", why Olivia stopped taking stimulants, and what it means to have ADHD. 

Olivia's Instagram: @ogaugust 

Mentioned in Episode: @divergentdesignstudios

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Anna and Maria get into the who, what, where, when, and why of disclosing your bipolar diagnosis, with a brief detour into some not so hot Janis Joplin takes.

Welcome to anyone joining us from Mental Illness Happy Hour! This is a rebroadcast of our first episode and a good way for us to introduce ourselves! Enjoy, stick around for a while!

For our older listeners, go check out our interview on Mental Illness Happy Hour! We talk about the difficulties of being sisters going through bipolar crises and being the lord sister supporting the other through them, Paul is an incredible interviewer so hopefully we didn’t embarrass ourselves any more than we usually do! 

Anyone looking for support after today’s episode can reach out to:

NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Illness) available via hotline M-F from 10 AM - 6 PM at 800-950-NAMI or via their crisis text line by texting NAMI to 741741.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: a free, 24/7 resource that you can call at 1-800-273-8255 or via chat at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/

For therapist searches:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us 

https://www.goodtherapy.org/

Last week, we talked about being diagnosed as an adult with ADHD, this week we talk to Lilly Gaedhe about her childhood revelations and how it’s impacted her schooling and family. Oh and we talk about shame and capitalism, of course.

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In the first interview of our ADD series, Madeline Spolin aka Spo tells us how she realized she had ADD, why it took until her late 20's for someone to figure this out and what gender has to do with it. 

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Fun drinking game for this one: Take a shot every time you think Anna's crying! Turns out there's a lot of internalized shame around having ADD and we're so excited to take you on this episode's long journey educating ourselves and hearing other's stories living with ADD. Don't blame us if this drinking game gets you wasted!

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