Welcome to Back from the Abyss.

This is a place for stories of hope and healing, recovery, and redemption.

I'm Dr. Craig Hecock.

If you love what we are doing here on Back from the Abyss, there are three ways you can support us.

First, you can share an episode with a friend or loved one.

Second, you can write us a review on your favorite podcast platform.

And third, and this is a new one, you can help us pay for the production costs.

Now, as you all know, this podcast is a labor of love for me, and I put in countless hours

each year to bring you these stories.

However, I also end up spending quite a bit of money out-of-pocket

each season, and I've been thinking that it would be a lovely expression of support and gratitude

if listeners would be willing to help contribute to pay some of these out-of-pocket expenses.

All you do, just click on the support-the-show link and the show notes, and that will take you to

our support page. I'd really appreciate it. Today's story is a mirror, a mirror to Elizabeth's

story from Season 1, Episode 1. In fact, as you will hear, today's storyteller Sarah was so moved

by Elizabeth's story that it helped

her to trust my recommendation to take a pretty scary medication, the extremely powerful

antipsychotic and mood stabilizer called clausapine. So why tell this story again? As they say,

history doesn't repeat itself, but it does often rhyme. And I think

Sarah's story rhymes beautifully with Elizabeth's. Both had severe and treatment-resistant

bipolar one disorder, formerly known as manic depression. Both tried all the meds, did all the

things, then eventually reached a point of utter hopelessness and despair.

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