“I want my doctors to understand that I’m not unstable just because I have Bipolar disorder. I’m a yoga teacher, a wife, a dog mom, a grad student, etc. My illness doesn’t define me.”
Practitioners must always call out the biases they carry towards certain diagnosis. Thank you Jess, for sharing your story.
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