A musician processes her bipolar diagnosis

All In The Mind

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Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

ARIA-nominated musician Parvyn knows what it's like to lose touch with reality.

Delusions, mania, psychosis — she's experienced it all, often while on tour.

Despite processing these experiences on her debut solo album 'Sa', she's never spoken publicly about her mental health — until now.

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0:00.0	This is an ABC podcast.
0:05.5	Tell me what you see.
0:11.8	Okay, so you're pretty used to talking about your music and interviews,
0:15.2	but I think this is the first time you're going to be talking about your mental health, right?
0:18.8	Yeah, absolutely.
0:20.0	Tell me what you see.
0:25.4	And so, like, I'm not nervous, but it just does feel a little bit different. And that's why I was
0:31.5	joking to Beth that I have a box of tissues ready because I'm just, like, a little bit emotional
0:36.2	about it. But it's good. It's a good thing. No, fair enough. I mean, I a little bit emotional about it. Yeah. It's good.
0:37.7	It's a good thing.
0:38.5	No, fair enough.
0:39.4	I mean, I was going to ask whether it feels nerve-wracking or freeing.
0:44.5	It's nerve-racking.
0:45.7	It's both.
0:48.0	Hey, this is all in the mind.
0:50.0	I'm Sana Khadar, and who you're hearing is Paven Korsing.
0:54.2	She's an aria-nominated musician,
0:56.4	formerly of the cult Melbourne's psychedelic band, The Bombay Royale,
1:00.3	and now a solo artist.
1:02.4	And people process their experiences in different ways, right?
1:06.5	We've had plenty of academics and researchers on the show
1:09.5	who've made their lived experience
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