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Jane Pauley is a broadcast journalist with a television career spanning more than 30 years. In 2001 she became "very sick" and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. For three weeks, she was a patient at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York City. "Some people say the high-energy phase of mania is almost worth the devil of depression that lurks behind it. I am living proof it's not." "In my journalism career, I don't know that I can say that I ever really changed a life, but I think in my mental health advocacy, I actually have."
Jane Pauley is a broadcast journalist with a television career spanning more than 30 years. In 2001 she became "very sick" and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. For three weeks, she was a patient at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York City. "Some people say the high-energy phase of mania is almost worth the devil of depression that lurks behind it. I am living proof it's not." "In my journalism career, I don't know that I can say that I ever really changed a life, but I think in my mental health advocacy, I actually have."