This week on Wellbeing we are talking with Lizzie Simon about her journey with bipolar. This is the 8th instalment in our series on bipolar disorder. Lizzie has worked in the creative industries since graduation from her ivy league school, but in her life was also bipolar disorder. As a theatre producer by the age of twenty-three she left this position to travel in search of finding people with similar mental conditions to learn what she could from their ways of managing their conditions. The trip she took resulted in her 2003 bipolar memoir: Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D. Today Lizzie is married with daughters and has been stable with her bipolar for years and today she shares her journey in reaching that stability.

In this episode Lizzie talks about her journey with bipolar disorder, how a manic episode feels, how mania impacts daily life, how her bipolar diagnosis impacted her as an 18 year old, how bipolar impacts friendships for young people, how family can support those with bipolar, why she took the journey she describes in her book, the understanding society has of bipolar disorder, and the role of medication in Lizzie's recovery. 

"I was diagnosed when I was 18 years old. I'm 46 years old now and I've been healthy now . . . for more of my life then when I wasn't." - Lizzie Simon on this episode of Wellbeing

Tune in next week when we talk with Melody Moezzi about her bipolar journey.

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