The Bipolar Now Podcast

When it comes to your plans and your life dreams, sometimes just keeping them alive becomes the hardest task. Today Mike and Francis talk about prioritizing.

*See note below before listening. This episode is rough. Self-harm is anything you do on purpose to injure yourself physically. Mike spends time today with this serious and delicate topic.

Editor's note: the way I chose to approach this episode topic does not land well with some people, especially the end where I encourage the listener who wrote in by making them a personal prayer.

If you are looking for actual coping techniques for self-harm, that is "not" what you'll get in this episode and we never covered it again explicitly in other shows.

I took a big risk sharing stories, strength and hope on a sensitive topic for which I have no personal lived experience. But after counseling with several people in our tribe who do, I am convinced that overall it was the only right message I could have given and I am glad I said something and not nothing to the person who wrote to the show. I'm choosing not to remove anything we've published to the podcast.

As an empath I feel what the people in this audience feel. And I've been told that it's gentle enough to share with a young person and not give them any ideas about how to self-harm in detail or to think that something is shameful about them when they do so.

In the end, the prayer triggers some people to anger, and for that my heart aches. But I'm leaving this episode up in case the person I made it for ever needs another listen.

Thank you for your interest in The Bipolar Now Podcast.

-MIKE

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