Co-Occurring PTSD and Bipolar Disorder: Everything You Need to Know
What’s it like to have PTSD and bipolar disorder? Many people know that mental health conditions, like anxiety and depression, frequently co-occur. Having bipolar disorder doesn’t preclude you from ot...
1 Aug 202232min
Ruminations and Repeating Thoughts with Bipolar Disorder
Do you ever get stuck on a particular thought, worry, or fear? It just goes around and around and around in your brain: You can’t stop thinking about it, and you can’t focus on anything else until wha...
25 Jul 202231min
Returning to Work After an Absence Caused by Bipolar Disorder
People expect you to take time off work for things like surgery and recovery, as well as pregnancy. But if you have bipolar disorder and a period of acute sickness led you to take time off work, the p...
18 Jul 202229min
Workplace Disclosure of Bipolar Disorder
How do you disclose bipolar disorder at work? Should you disclose it at all? If you are going to disclose, how do you tell your boss, colleagues, and human resources that you have bipolar disorder? Wh...
11 Jul 202232min
Things That Annoy Your Psychiatrist (That They’ll Never Tell You)
We all like to think that our psychiatrists are perfect paragons of virtue and that we are their only patients. But, deep down, we all know that isn’t really true. Psychiatrists see multiple patients,...
4 Jul 202237min
Disclosing Bipolar to Friends and Colleagues
Everyone wants to have relationships with people – even if it is to just say hi and bye to our neighbors or get along with our colleagues at work. But when you have bipolar disorder, making new friend...
27 Jun 202230min
Medication Noncompliance in Bipolar Disorder
Whenever medication is discussed as it relates to bipolar disorder, someone will bring up medication compliance. Generally, it’s posed as a question, “Why aren’t people with bipolar disorder med compl...
20 Jun 202231min
Why Is There a Type 1 and 2 in Bipolar Disorder?
Do you have bipolar I or bipolar II? What are the differences and does it matter? Does debating which one is worse actually distract all of us from getting better? In this episode, Dr. Nicole Washingt...
13 Jun 202230min
