TW: self-harm, bipolar disorder, psychosis, suicidal thoughts
Today Maryellen is joined by a special guest, bipolar advocate Tatyana Frost. Tatyana runs the popular Instagram account, @havingbipolar, and opens up to the OKAY-ISH community about her journey of acceptance and advocacy. The two discuss:
- Tatyana’s first experience talking about her diagnosis
- Starting her Instagram during quarantine
- How she felt when she was first diagnosed
- Her parent’s reaction to the diagnosis and their relationship
- How disorders such as depression, anxiety, and ADHD are widely accepted and discussed, but bipolar didn’t make it on the “acceptance train”
- How, while a lifelong condition, bipolar disorder is still treatable
- The importance of taking your medication when you have bipolar disorder
- How Tatyana keeps herself stable
- How the introduction of lithium changed the game for bipolar disorder
- What psychosis means and how it can manifest
- Advice for someone who was just diagnosed with bipolar disorder
- Advice for family members of someone who was just diagnosed with bipolar disorder
Be sure to follow Tatyana on Instagram @havingbipolar.
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