#718 Bipolar 1 & Mortality - Ruby Cohen Love
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Ruby Cohen Love shares her experience of living with Bipolar I, including extreme mania, hospitalization, and how she takes care of herself now. She also talks about the death cafe movement and her own company, Cafe Mortel, which provides community and conversation relating to mortality.
More about Ruby and Cafe Mortel: Café Mortel is a creative platform and production company that reimagines how we think about life, death, and legacy through art, design, and luxury. Visit the website to sign up and stay updated on her upcoming talk show, unique events, and exclusive product launches. Visit www.cafemortel.world
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 718 with my guest Ruby Cohen Love. If you're new, I hope you find this to be a place for honesty about all the battles in your head from, |
| 0:12.8 | recover things from medically diagnosed conditions, |
| 0:15.7 | past traumas, and sexual dysfunction |
| 0:18.3 | to everyday compulsive negative thinking, |
| 0:20.7 | yeah, the show can get pretty dark sometimes, depending on the episode. |
| 0:27.0 | Generally, the surveys are the darkest part. |
| 0:31.0 | And I try to save the heavier ones towards the end of the show. |
| 0:35.0 | I guess what I'm saying is this show is a gigantic trigger warning. |
| 0:40.0 | So proceed at your own risk. |
| 0:44.5 | But that's one of the reasons why I started the podcast |
| 0:47.1 | was I wanted a place where we could talk about anything |
| 0:49.8 | and everything. |
| 0:51.3 | And I think people find that to be the case and enjoy that. |
| 0:58.0 | We've been going, what do we start in 2011, so what's that? |
| 1:04.3 | 13 years. |
| 1:05.6 | Anyway, enough of the history lesson. |
| 1:10.6 | This is an email I got from Brett, who is an awesome human being. |
| 1:17.0 | Brett is part of the Saturday, Sunday afternoon, U support group hang out, whatever you want to call it, via |
| 1:29.6 | Patreon she's Patriot owner and big part of our Sunday Hangout and this is an email that she sent. |
| 1:40.0 | She writes, hi Paul, I heard this survey that mentioned having feelings about not pursuing their |
| 1:44.2 | singing career. |
| 1:45.7 | I felt that way too at a slightly younger age and now at 29 I've been in a choir for six years |
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