Understanding Bipolar
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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TW: We discuss suicide in this episode.
This week on Owning It I am joined by a former uni classmate of mine, Yvonne Keane (now an incredible photographer) who shares with me her experience of being diagnosed with bipolar. The anxiety and depression that preceded the diagnosis for Yvonne, what life with bipolar is like for her, a mother of one, the anxiety around getting such a diagnosis and how we can better support those in our lives who have been diagnosed with this illness (formerly referred to as 'manic depression'). I am very grateful to Yvonne for highlighting such an important topic, being so vulnerable and open with me and educating me on something that's not often talked about.
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| 1:03.3 | This week, I'm talking about a subject I've never really touched on before, and that is bipolar. |
| 1:09.2 | Anxiety can be a huge feature of bipolar, it could be a huge element |
| 1:12.5 | of being diagnosed with it, living with it, arriving at the point that you think you might be |
| 1:16.7 | experiencing it, and so on. To talk about bipolar, I am so grateful to be joined by Yvonne Keene, |
| 1:23.1 | a former classmate of mine, we were undergrads together in university. At the time I had no |
| 1:28.9 | idea about what Yvonne was going through and she had no idea of the anxiety I was dealing with |
| 1:32.9 | because at that time it was just not something you spoke about with there was no willingness to be |
| 1:36.9 | vulnerable. Since graduating and growing up and becoming parents, we have since reconnected on social |
| 1:42.4 | media and Yvonne is a long time listener |
| 1:45.2 | of owning it and she reached out to me and we got chatting about her experience and I just said, |
| 1:49.1 | would you consider coming on and talking about it? I know it's a really big ask for someone who's |
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