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Cuts Both Ways

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How to Survive a Bipolar Life

"I see a psychiatrist two to three times a week for a 45-minute therapy session," he says. "Sleep is for me, certainly with bipolar ... sleep is a leading or a lagging indicator of mood" He has five different medications that he takes; one every day and the other four titrate up and down depending on where he is. 'How can we expect other people who don't have all those factors of privilege to endure this? We need to make mental health care fundamentally acceptable'

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