This week on Wellbeing we are talking with Natasha Tracy about her journey with bipolar type two disorder. This is our sixth instalment in our series on bipolar disorder meaning we are half way though our 12 part series. Natasha is a mental health thought leader and author on the subject of bipolar. She released her bipolar memoir Lost Marbles: Insights Into My Life with Depression & Bipolar in 2016 and she runs the podcast Snap Out of It! The Mental Illness in the Workplace Podcast. In this episode I discuss with Natasha her journey in living with bipolar type two disorder.

In this episode Natasha talks about her book "Lost Marbles", how bipolar impacted her while as a young person, why those with bipolar self-harm, how family members can best support those going though self-harm, the different type of mania those with bipolar type two go through, how well the medical field is doing with bipolar, the difficulty in finding the right medication, and how finding stability has improved her life. 

"The cornerstone of anyone starting to recover or in getting to a place of wholeness and balance, that cornerstone is medication for people. However, people with bipolar disorder all need to take different medication and so its very difficult to know what medication to put a person on initially."  - Natasha Tracy on this episode of Wellbeing

Tune in next week when we talk with Dave about his bipolar journey.

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