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While Black

My Life, My Struggle, My Success Part 2 w/ Dawn Montgomery

While Black

REVOLT

Education, Self-improvement

4.11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

THIS IS PART 2 OF DAWN'S AMAZING JOURNEY - IF YOU HAVE NOT LISTENED, PLEASE GO BACK AND LISTEN TO LAST WEEK'S PART 1 EPISODE FIRST. Dawns story is heartbreakingly sad in places, but at the same time the joy she holds inside is infectious. Her story is one of trauma and confusion but it is also filled with support, community, and love. Dawn suffers from bipolar disorder and just like so many of our brothers and sisters it is a battle that is fought daily. Tune in to learn what the struggle can look like. Take from her story the lessons that support you and your betterment. Join our Patreon community - we are working on a behind-the-podcast episode focused on mental health and wellness. I already know how impactful it will be. The content and information shared in the community is there to make us all better. (Patreon.com/whileblack). Don't forget to get social with While Black IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: [email protected] Recorded @ drsatl.com Theme song Produced by Wahid Gomes and licensed through Verde Music Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And so at that time, I tried to reach my therapist that particular day, she was unavailable.

0:05.5

I then get home and I'm getting ready to try to prepare a lunch for the kids.

0:11.0

And something, it was like a voice where it was like, you'll never be enough.

0:15.8

Literally, I heard that.

0:17.6

You'll never be enough.

0:19.4

And in so many ways, we had those voices of doubt and just negativity that it's always

0:25.8

louder than everything else that we hear.

0:28.2

And when I heard that you'll never be enough, I said, oh, let me get these kids.

0:31.5

Let me call my aunt.

0:32.5

Let me take myself to the hospital and let me admit myself until 72 hour hold.

0:38.4

It was that series, like I need a break.

0:40.9

Like, what black woman do you know is driving her kids to a hospital emergency room and

0:46.4

saying, excuse me, I live a bipolar disorder.

0:49.9

I've been suicidal before.

0:51.7

I need to be placed on a 72 hour hold or else I'm going to harm myself.

0:55.5

I'm on my soul, my soul, my soul, my soul, my soul, my soul, my soul, my soul.

1:05.6

Well, welcome to wow, black, a seriously opinionated podcast bringing you the real and

1:12.8

wrong on anything happening in wow, black.

1:16.2

If black culture is there and we are there.

1:19.3

If you're pissed or empowered, then let's talk about it.

1:23.1

right with us on this all black everything.

1:30.0

Once I finished my summer after my senior year,

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