The Bipolar Filipina: Recent Episodes
Aina De la Cruz
The Bipolar Filipina aims to share with the Filipino community knowledge on mental illnesses, coping mechanisms to achieve mental health, and to destigmatize mental illnesses. This podcast also touches surrounding topics regarding mental health like school, family, and friends. The possibilities are endless.
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I really wanted to rant and let my feelings out, because I have been bottling up my feelings for quite a while now. I'm so tired of people invalidating me, my symptoms, and my diagnosis. If you do not wish to hear me rant, please feel free to skip listening to this.
Disclaimer: I may sound utterly mean in this episode.
Trigger Warnings: Self-harm, Suicidal Ideation, Death or its imagery, and Self-mutilation
A lot of times, I'm not really happy with how my days go by, so today I want to visualize for myself how my perfect day is going to be. In the end I ask you, too, how your perfect day goes. For this episode, I also challenged myself to be without script. It was actually the shortest recording session I had done. It usually takes me two to three hours because of editing and re-recording everything before I upload it. It was a very nice break from symptomatology of mental disorders. Episode 7 was supposed to be a breakdown of the differences of GAD, SAD, and Panic Disorder, but I think today's chitchat of sorts was a really good way to be a bit more relaxed and not too rigid. This is also me making up for the non-uploading for two weeks. I hope you enjoy today's episode!
I reuploaded the episode, because I took down the one I uploaded last week. I took it down because I didn't want people to listen to it as I thought it was very lacking. It felt very robotic, and it lacked substance. I hope this reupload would be a much better fit. If you want to read up on the article I read from the NIMH, here is the link: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/social-anxiety-disorder-more-than-just-shyness/index.shtml
Generalised anxiety disorder is an anxiety disorder which has an essential feature of excessive worry and anxiety about a number of events and activities. Did you know that 6.8 million adults in the US have GAD, but only 43.2% are receiving treatment (https://adaa.org/about-adaa/press-room/facts-statistics#:~:text=GAD%20affects%206.8%20million%20adults,co-occurs%20with%20major%20depression.)?
I talk about being lost and how I found myself in a maze. It's filled with thoughts on finding my purpose, and how it makes/made me happy. I actually put off uploading it for reasons I state in the end of this episode, and then the main thing being anxiety. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I had fun making it (exclude the uploading part where I get anxiety.)
In this episode, we briefly talk about MDEs in Bipolar 1 disorder and talking of the remaining criteria as well as my take on how I got my major depressive episodes starting from childhood to adolescence. The episode also talks of poor eating habits that may or may not be part of an eating disorder (was not diagnosed), self-harm, and suicidal ideation.
Here I talk about my experiences of being symptomatic in terms of major depressive episodes. It's split into parts because the topic can get long, and I want to say more things about it.
We're talking more on the subject of Manic Episodes as well as uncommon symptoms of Bipolar I Disorder.
This episodes reads out topics from the DSM-5 to give accuracy to symptomatology and NOT to give diagnosis to anyone. I also speak about my experiences with the listed symptoms same as to what I have said in previous psychiatric consultations. This episode reiterates that seeking professional help is best.
Here I talk about myself, my symptoms leading to my diagnosis, and why I created this podcast. Hope you enjoy!