Ms Lowe is an excellent spokesperson for such a complex topic. Her own experience with bi-polar disorder combined with her intelligence makes her both credible and interesting.I also listened to her This American LIfe podcast where she discusses her sexual assault as a 13-year old by a stranger with a knife in an alley while walking to the school bus. I am eager to read her book and hope her future as a writer or journalist continues to be successful.

I read her book & loved it.

Do you have a friend who lives with bipolar disorder? Hidden within your friends exists a few of us who struggle each day with the illness. We live behind smiles and frowns, our minds flooded with ideas, thoughts and emotions. Many of us persevere despite the nature of bipolar disorder. Brilliant, successful and beautiful people hiding their difficulties because of social stigma. I want to break the stigma of mental illness. I'm tired of pretending to be like most. I'm very different from you. I cry more than you. I laugh more than you. I have to take antipsychotics and mood stabilizers to remain sane. There are days and months of pure bliss and happiness then times of great despair and fear. Coping is mandatory for successful people with bipolar. Overcoming stigma remains the most challenging task. Let's work together to break the stigma of mental illness. My best regards to you and have a positive New Year! Regards, Chris Anderson

Thanks for this a very courageous women.

Thank you for this ❤

This was Amazing! so please to share with friends.

Good story! Get help and get better.

Is this the Jamie with officer Hastings in Portland?

I’m on lithium now. Can relate to this woman

As a sufferer of atypical mood disorder, a subset of bipolar, I found jaime’s account just so moving. I haven’t been really manic in years, but she made me think of the way it sneaks up on you. 🖖🏾🖖🏾🖖🏾

I wonder what is the name of the place in Bolivia she went to with the Lithium pools?

I wish this interview was longer

"I am what I am like Popeye" that made me laugh, but yeah I've been to those depths before it gets wild.....

As someone with Bipolar, I relate completely

“Everyone has a brain and it plays a pivotal roll in mental illness” that is some good writing

Jamie Lowe really could’ve used a Part 2 for the web audience. All the same, 🤘🏻

I have been taking lithum for sevral years and I'm trying to get off of it now becuase of my good mental heath but also becuase I want to loose weight and I cant while on lithium

Me Too

Lithoum Carbonate or Lithium Orotate?

Wow, look at all the mental health experts that showed up to comment! lol

Volunteering at a foster center helps calm the mind and develops the heart.

*Psychoanalysis* is the best cure & protection for human mental pathologies. Drugs never work and only make your mental pathology worse.

I guess it was just me but I felt like she struggled to answer the basic questions asked of her. At one point Amy had to ask her the same question again because she went on a (what felt like) 20 minute tangent. I was not a fan of the interview.

Ok. So she's on depakote?

and???? this type of story is everywhere ... talk to megamedicine and bigpharma ...

Is there treatment for vocal fry?

Ahhh A karen

Man, She was seriously on the crazy train when she went off on the convoluted riff confusing the ELEMENT Lithium with the drug, its in everything mannn... your cell phone battery is mind control..., oh god...

"Everyone has a brain." Way to state the obvious.

I so wanted to listen to her story. But couldn't finish listening to her because of the forced vocal fry talking. What makes people go from their natural way of talking, to purposefully talking in a different way that is annoying?

I can't concentrate on this story because of this woman's huge eyebrows

This is not manic depression. What she describes is personality disorder and/ or schizophrenia. Mania is not hallucinating or talking to dead people. Life long manic person and it’s what happens when physiological hormones meets brain neurotransmitters. It is severe exhaustion and severe energy spikes. Any voices, and crazy out there episodes are definitely not bipolar. That’s schizophrenia. You can tell this woman has a personality complex. This isn’t bipolar.