Psychologist's Journey with Bipolar Disorder

Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, shares her personal experience with bipolar disorder and how her former clinical teacher, now her doctor, helped her confront the hard truths about her illness and life. He gave her hope that her illness was treatable and that she could get better with the help of lithium and psychotherapy. He made it clear that she would have to go through the pain of the past to heal and that trust in a psychotherapist is predicated on hard truths. She shares her advice to those who fear they will never get well, that it is hard, but it is possible to make it through.