Psychology grad recounts 3-year struggle with mental illness acceptance
Is it possible for a person with mental health issues to pursue a medical degree in psychiatry? It turns out yes, and acceptance is key.
Is it possible for a person with mental health issues to pursue a medical degree in psychiatry? It turns out yes, and acceptance is key.
I’m a 32-year-old man who has been married for two years now. My wife and I have no children yet. She is 24 years old and was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Being beautifully bipolar can be messy sometimes—we do things we shouldn’t do, say things we shouldn’t say. In our depressions we push people away, try to save them from being engulfed in the darkness that has consumed us. This mood disorder causes us to do a whole lot of sh-t we shouldn’t do. If you are also beautifully bipolar, you understand.
If you could go back in time, what changes in life would you adopt? Or would it be the same all over again? Numerous questions have more than just one standard answer. There are options open to everyone. Ultimately, the choice is yours.
She has enchanted us as Anna in “The King and I”; made us cry buckets as the mom of a child sick with cancer in “Dani Girl”; and had us in stitches when she took on the role of theater actor Belinda Blair in the play-within-a-play “Noises Off.”
It’s pointless to assume what goes on inside a suicidal mind. To this day, the convergence of complex factors that ultimately drives a person to end his/her life eludes explanation, even by psychiatrists. Even the person him/herself who committed suicide may not have known.
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