Emily Morrison Talks About Bipolar 1 and Suicide Prevention

Flourish: To get to flourish, you start with learning how to care — for yourself, your work colleagues, your neighbour.

This episode marks our return to podcasting. Season 2 let’s call it. Beginning in February, I needed to take a break due to a family situation. If you want to learn more, I have written about it here.

Wild and Precious Conversations returns today, however, with a conversation that will fill you with tools, enthusiasm, and motivation to create a more caring world where we can all flourish.

We talk about how hard it is to talk about, the grief that happens with diagnosis and how hard that is to process while holding down a job. We talk about how everyone benefits when we make work places more human.

We talk about suicide prevention and how important it is to know how to QPR. We talk about how important it is to have agency in your recovery and diagnosis managment. In other words, there are lots of ways to manage your illness/disorder. You need to work with your psychiatrist to find what works best for you.

We talk. This conversation is close to my heart and I am in deep deep appreciation.

Notes:

* Emily Morrison on Instagram @iloveyouspoon

* Emily Morrison on Twitter @iloveyouspoon

* Basic Information on Bipolar — from NIH

* Knox County Suicide Prevention Coalition

* QPR — Suicide Prevention

* Mental Health First Aid

* Early Assessment and Support Alliance

* ROSC oriented system of care — This is specifically geared toward substance use but I felt like it was well laid out and easy to understand.

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Onward. As we flourish.

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