Understanding Bipolar Disorder.

Welcome back psycho sista's and mista's!! It's our first episode of 2026 and our last episode for a little while.We’re pressing pause on a chapter that has meant more to us than words can capture.From vulnerable conversations and shared laughter, to deep reflections on healing, g ...  Show more

Our last poddy of 2025.As the year draws to a close, we’re slowing things down and reflecting, not with pressure, resolutions, or tidy endings, but with honesty, tenderness, and care.In this episode, we talk about what 2025 has asked of us, what we’re proud of, and what we’re gen ...  Show more

Confused about what medically constitutes “bipolar tendencies” or “bipolar adjacent symptoms”? Do you want to understand more about the diagnosis of cyclothymia? You're not alone! In this episode, Gabe Howard, who lives with bipolar disorder, and Dr. Nicole Washington, a board ce ...  Show more

Around 40 million people around the world have bipolar disorder, which involves cyclical swings between moods: from depression to mania. Kay Redfield Jamison is one of those people. She's also a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and has written exten ...  Show more

Psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Jarecki shares a powerful story of living with bipolar disorder - from spiralling into depression to being taken to hospital in handcuffs during mania. Dr. Jarecki reveals how her experience with bipolar I disorder turned her to psychiatry to help others i ...  Show more

Bipolar is one of the UK’s commonest long-term conditions with almost as many people living with bipolar as cancer. 1.3 million people in the UK have bipolar, that is one in fifty people. It takes an average 9.5 years to get a correct diagnosis of bipolar disorder and there is a ...  Show more