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 69: When Labels Replace Lives: Reclaiming Choice, Curiosity, and Consent with Jenn Schmitz, MS, LPC
The Upside of Bipolar: Conversations on the Road to Wellness
1 hour 24 minutes
2 months ago
EP 69: When Labels Replace Lives: Reclaiming Choice, Curiosity, and Consent with Jenn Schmitz, MS, LPC
Send us a message! We challenge the reflex to medicate and the vacuum around de-prescribing by tracing Jen’s 25-year story with SSRIs, from teenage labels and muted emotions to neonatal withdrawal, metabolic fallout, and a hard-won hyperbolic taper. We share tools for safer tapering, building a support tribe, and reclaiming informed consent and agency. • prescribers trained to start meds, not de-prescribe • teen SSRIs without context of eating disorder or stress • labels and DSM coding shapi...
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...
