46. Living with bipolar disorder is not the headline for Joshua Walters

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Walters uses his writing and creativity to talk about his experiences living with bipolar disorder, and it is a diagnosis that our host Kimi Culp happens to share. In this unique conversation, Joshua and Kimi speak openly as peers about how mental illness impacts their life, work and creative process. They share their commonalities, healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms, the value of comedy when discussing painful subjects, and the usefulness (or not) of mental health labels.

Episode benefiting Mad One Media

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0:56.0	When I woke, I was in a hair of hospital, a place for young psychonics.
1:03.0	A crazy place, you might say.
1:06.0	A place where everyone is doing their own one-man show.
1:16.4	Only it's not a soul down night at the march.
1:20.9	To validate their experience, they're just rehearsing.
1:27.5	I am Kimmy Kulp, and this is All the Wiser.
1:31.1	That was today's guest, Joshua Walters,
1:34.5	performing at one of his sold-out one-man shows in San Francisco.
1:39.7	Joshua is well known for using his stories of his diagnosis and life with bipolar disorder in his writing, stand-up comedy, and hip-hop lyrics.
1:51.4	After hearing his TED talk, I was interested in speaking with him about our shared diagnosis.
1:57.9	When we jumped on the phone for my standard all the wiser pre-interview, I realized it was
2:04.4	the first time I had ever had a conversation with someone my age who also has bipolar. Because I had
2:12.6	kept it a secret for so long, I never had the opportunity to talk to somebody who had that in common. I may have
2:20.2	very well been sitting next to many people at dinners or flights or wherever I was in the world,
2:27.3	but you simply can't connect with the things you are obsessed with hiding from people. So today,
2:34.1	I decided to mix it up, and this is something we will rarely do,
2:39.0	because I love the traditional interviews we do,
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