Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast. SONJA WASDEN: Suicide attempt, managing bipolar disorder and losing 100lbs
Sonja Wasden is a suicide survivor. She has managed the bipolar, OCD, and anxiety disorder for over 30 years. She has been interviewed on top media, including CBS This Morning and The Tamron Hall Show. Sonja’s award-winning memoir, An Impossible Life, is a lighthouse of hope. Her mental health advocacy work includes doing mental health book clubs in women’s prisons across the country, even Oprah Winfrey participated in one.
We discuss:
- managing bipolar disorder
- enabling vs helping
- how she lost 100lbs
- how dialectical behavioral therapy helps with suicidal thoughts
- receiving IV's of attivan
- how to allow and invite pain instead of suppressing it
- gastric bypass surgery
- how to ground yourself
- how to manage feelings of being a burden
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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
988
Teen Line (Los Angeles)
800-852-8336
The Trevor Project (LGBTQ Youth Hotline)
866-488-7386
National Domestic Violence Hotline
800-799-SAFE [800-799-7233]
Crisis Text Line
Text "Connect" to 741741 in the USA
Lifeline Chat
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/
International Suicide Hotlines:
http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
https://www.nowmattersnow.org/skills
https://sobermeditations.libsyn.com/