The Upside of Bipolar: Conversations on the Road to Wellness
Michelle Baughman Reittinger
74 episodes
3 weeks ago
Send us a message! We challenge the idea that a bipolar diagnosis explains your life and show how labels can block curiosity, fuel victimhood, and fuse to identity. We share the layered tools that helped Michelle heal: micronutrients, trauma work, mindfulness, and a Mood Cycle Survival Guide. • diagnosis as observation, not explanation • relief and fear at first diagnosis • victimhood mindset and its costs • when labels become identity • accountability after harm and repair work • layered he...
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Send us a message! We challenge the idea that a bipolar diagnosis explains your life and show how labels can block curiosity, fuel victimhood, and fuse to identity. We share the layered tools that helped Michelle heal: micronutrients, trauma work, mindfulness, and a Mood Cycle Survival Guide. • diagnosis as observation, not explanation • relief and fear at first diagnosis • victimhood mindset and its costs • when labels become identity • accountability after harm and repair work • layered he...
EP 66: Beyond the Label: Rethinking Bipolar Disorder
The Upside of Bipolar: Conversations on the Road to Wellness
36 minutes
3 months ago
EP 66: Beyond the Label: Rethinking Bipolar Disorder
Send us a message! Michelle shares her transformative realization that bipolar disorder isn't a disease but a cluster of symptoms, and how this understanding freed her from decades of believing she had an incurable condition. • The bipolar diagnosis ends curiosity about why symptoms occur because people believe they've been given a complete answer • Being told bipolar disorder is lifelong and incurable creates helplessness and a victim mindset • The chemical imbalance theory of mental illnes...
The Upside of Bipolar: Conversations on the Road to Wellness
Send us a message! We challenge the idea that a bipolar diagnosis explains your life and show how labels can block curiosity, fuel victimhood, and fuse to identity. We share the layered tools that helped Michelle heal: micronutrients, trauma work, mindfulness, and a Mood Cycle Survival Guide. • diagnosis as observation, not explanation • relief and fear at first diagnosis • victimhood mindset and its costs • when labels become identity • accountability after harm and repair work • layered he...
