Will My Son Inherit Bipolar?

How Did We Get Here?

Sony Music

Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Lara was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder 8 years ago. She wants to know whether she has passed this on to her son. If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode please see below for information about further support and advice. To find help via talking therapies you can either go to your GP or the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) bacp.co.uk or bps.org.uk - they should be HCPC registered. Other helpful organisations: - MIND - www.mind.co.uk No Panic - www.nopanic.org.uk/contact-us SAMARITANS - www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan or call 116 123 WELLDOING - www.welldoing.org NICE - www.nice.org.uk/guidance Bipolar UK - www.bipolaruk.org Anxiety UK - www.anxietyuk.org.uk NHS - www.nhs.uk/conditions/bipolar-disorder/living-with You will find the transcript for episode 2 here: https://somethin-else.github.io/transcripts/hdwgh/episode2.txt How Did We Get Here? is a Somethin' Else Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Please note there are some very emotional and distressing scenes within this podcast that
0:13.6	may not be suitable for everyone.
0:17.1	You know, I'm not ever going to be the person I want to be.
0:22.8	I'm just heartbreaking.
0:24.3	Me and that I've just got to accept that.
0:27.7	Hello and welcome to How Did We Get Here?
0:30.2	The podcast, where me, Claudia Winkelman and Professor Tanya Byron, my great friend and
0:35.6	clinical psychologist, address struggles faced by real-life parents and their family members
0:40.7	in a special counselling session.
0:43.5	It's a conversation.
0:45.2	In each episode I listen in from another room, of course, whilst Tarn talks one on one
0:50.1	with someone facing problems.
0:53.0	Laura works in a school.
0:54.6	She has a loving husband and three children.
0:57.4	She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder eight years ago and wants to know whether her
1:01.4	elder son will, who is 14, hasn't herited it.
1:06.2	He just say the worst day of his life was when I went in hospital.
1:09.9	Laura's father had bouts of depression and she's been suffering with mental health issues
1:14.4	since she was about 14.
1:16.3	She believes that postnatal depression, which she experienced twice in short succession
1:20.6	many years on, escalated her condition.
1:24.3	What you're about to hear is the key parts of a one-time unscripted session with a real
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