Laura Delano joins Bridget for a riveting conversation about her book, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, which chronicles her haphazard diagnosis with bipolar disorder at the age of 14 and the 13 year saga of unending treatments, various diagnoses and a cornucopia of medications that she went through. When she’d reached her lowest point only one option remained, leaving behind the drugs and diagnoses, unlearning everything the experts had told her about herself and forging into the terrifying unknown of an unmedicated life. She and Bridget have a frank and fascinating conversation about their remarkably similar lives, they discuss being party girls, sobriety, rehab, why withdrawal from prescribed medication can be worse than kicking heroin, people who wear their diagnoses as badges of honor, the truth about the mental health system, why feeling your pain is important, the spiritual crisis of meaning in our culture, and why Laura wouldn’t change any of it.
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